Posted on 09/03/2009 11:05:48 AM PDT by machogirl
New Delhi: Did you know that Mahatma Gandhi has been reincarnated as Van Jones, the celebrated American civil rights and environmental activist who was named Time magazine's "environmental hero" in the US in 2008?
"Objective evidence that forms the basis of past life studies prove that Jones is the reincarnation of Gandhi," world's leading past life researcher and best-selling author from the US Walter Semkiw told IANS in an interview.
Jones' facial bone structure and features are the same as that of Gandhi's, Mr Semkiw said.
"His manners and body language are also similar to that of the Indian freedom fighter and he does the same things Gandhi did in Africa during the 1930s - campaign for civil rights.
Like Gandhi, who was named Time magazine man of the year in 1930, Jones figured in Time's list of most influential men in 2008 and in several other magazines," the researcher said.
Semkiw, the San Francisco-based author, reincarnation specialist and medical practitioner, who stormed the best-sellers' list in India with his book "Born Again" in 2006 that shed light on the past lives of Indian celebrities like Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and former president APJ Abdul Kalam is back with his second book, "Origin of the Soul: And the Purpose of Reincarnation".
The book was released by the writer at the Landmark, a retail store, in Delhi's suburb Gurgaon.
"It takes a deeper look into the theory of reincarnation and answers some long-standing questions like where do you come from? Why are we living this physical existence? And where are we going? It's about the evidence of our past lives in our brains," Mr Semkiw said.
The writer, who practises medicine in San Francisco, graduated in medicine from the University of Illinois in Chicago and trained in psychiatry at the University of Colorado in Denver.
He has been researching the topic of past lives since 1996.
"I pursue past lives as a scientist based on objective evidence like common personality traits between reincarnations, memories, similarities in facial features, events, patterns in life and writing styles that most people carry over lifetimes. They rarely change down the births," said Mr Semkiw said.
Most of Mr Semkiw's findings are based on independent research involving extensive library work and interviews with celebrities whose pasts Semkiw likes to probe. Mr Semkiw says he also has sessions with a famous spirit medium, Kevin Ryerson who guides him to a master spirit called Athun Re, an Egyptian high priest, who, according to the doctor, has not been "reincarnated for the past 3,000 years".
The "master priest" usually makes the "past lives matches instructing Semkiw where to look for possible reincarnations".
The sessions are followed by research and the matching of physical evidence, the doctor said.
"Some of my famous case studies include those of the prodigy and holocaust victim Anne Frank (of the Diary of Anne Frank fame), who has been reincarnated as Barbro Karlen, a Swedish Christian, US President Barack Husain Obama, who was Lyman Trumbull, a Senator in Abraham Lincoln's government," he said.
Mr Semkiw has interesting revelations about Indian celebrities as well.
Amitabh Bachchan, revealed the doctor, is the reincarnation of famous American actor Edward Booth and "displays all his characteristics", while former president APJ Abdul Kalam is the present-day avatar of Tipu Sultan, the first Indian ruler to have used rockets in battles.
"Shah Rukh Khan is the reincarnation of yester year Hindu actress-singer and dancer Sadhana Bose. Social worker Annie Besant has been born as Maneka Gandhi...."
"My interest in investigating past life is academic," said the researcher.
The writer, who claims to be the reincarnation of American president John Adams, started researching past life as a "spirit told him when he was studying medicine that he had a past life".
"Initially, I did not believe it. But after 12 years, I started researching," Mr Semkiw said.
For some reason, don’t know why, but I don’t think that Glenn Beck will have this author on the show. ;)
How Noetic!
Yeah, right, Gandhi was always calling people A-holes.
i don’t remember hearing that in the movie... ;)
Boy....we have come a long way. So....are we to look to the past to pick our politicians? I wonder who Robert E. Lee is today?
i’d like to know who Bill and Hill, and Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid, James Carville.... were in their previous lives.
Both Gandhi and Jones share activism, communism, being “people of color”,and both know how to impose a socialist debacle on their own cultures.
Gandhi is dead, but’ alas, Jones is alive and plotting nasty commie political wet dreams as I type this.
Fortunately, the alternate news is getting word to the public about commies like Jones.
Robert Byrd? or was he already living at the time of Robert E. Lee? (feeble attempt at humor alert)
Isn’t madonna too old?
Yep, that is why it is just to rich.......
weird messiah complex about both obama and some of the stuff i’ve read that has been written by the left, about “van” (it’s a cooler name) jones.
How does it feel to be the laughing stock of the world? We need to put a stop to this government.....NOW. Then figure out what is really going on and how we can bring our government back to what our Founding Fathers wanted it to be.
there are researchers here in the US that had some success with a study on this topic.
In many circles, the belief is that it has to happen within a certain time frame..I think it was five years.
If true, too much time went by.
There was a recent story about the boy who was a former pilot. I didn’t pay attention to the time span between the two.
well this shoots down the 5 year theory...
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/Technology/story?id=894217&page=1
I can’t imagine how they can continue this charade of an administration.
I know that there have been some cases, as in that little boy, where there appears to be no other explanation.
The time of death and rebirth in the pilot case was WWII and within the last decade (i believe)
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