What's interesting is that the memories disappear for kids once they begin to have more complex reasoning skills through their own experiences. With most kids completely forgetting the even had these memories or talked about them.

Bumping this thread because of something I saw this morning on Instagram. I follow this little boy, Max, who is 8 now and started designing dresses when he was 4. His mom posted a video of him at 5, talking about how Italy and how he felt like Gucci. When she asked his first name, he said, Gucci. She laughed and said “Gucci Gucci?” But Gucci’s first name was Guccio. Max also said he had four children (his wife also had one he adopted and another child died). And then he said he designed bags before he designed dresses, which she thought was odd because Max had never designed a bag.

Anyway, it made me think of this thread.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else find this concept both fascinating and a little depressing? Like, it’s cool to think that just maybe death isn’t really truly the end, but on the other hand if for all intents and purposes your soul is reborn as another person and except for a glitch of sorts where you remember s few snippets as a young child you’ll never know of your prior life.

It sort of makes me think if there’s reincarnation it sort of doesn’t even matter. Does anyone see what I mean?

I think it’s likely we are just embodied souls and the bodies are temporary, obviously. The souls are eternal. Bodies allow souls to develop, learn, develop empathy etc. Reincarnation allows the souls to experience multiple lives and interactions. PP mention Journey of Souls by Michael Newton. I’d also recommend Destiny of Souls.

I think it's more complex than that and even I can't pretend to understand. But I think there is a universal consciousness. You can call it a God but God has too much baggage and historical definitions. This universal consciousness probably exists outside of the realm of time and the material world. We are part of it but during our lives on earth was are apart from it. When we die, our existence returns to it and what you call a soul gets mixed into something bigger.
I think these reincarnated memories are former people that did not reintegration back into this God/other existence/universal consciousness. They may have wanted to go back to earth to reexperience life or complete something they felt was unfinished or maybe another reason I can't think of.

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else find this concept both fascinating and a little depressing? Like, it’s cool to think that just maybe death isn’t really truly the end, but on the other hand if for all intents and purposes your soul is reborn as another person and except for a glitch of sorts where you remember s few snippets as a young child you’ll never know of your prior life.

It sort of makes me think if there’s reincarnation it sort of doesn’t even matter. Does anyone see what I mean?

I think it’s likely we are just embodied souls and the bodies are temporary, obviously. The souls are eternal. Bodies allow souls to develop, learn, develop empathy etc. Reincarnation allows the souls to experience multiple lives and interactions. PP mention Journey of Souls by Michael Newton. I’d also recommend Destiny of Souls.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know what to think. It’s weird and creepy and also kind of profound all at the same time. This is the UVA institute mentioned in the article: https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/ We like to think we know everything but we don’t. The universe is truly a mystery if you really stop to think about it. I’m Christian and I’m not sure how to integrate possible reincarnation into my worldview, but if anything it makes me even more confident in my spirituality.

+1 I firmly believe there is something beyond what we see here.

I don't understand people who 100% rule it out just because it can't be scientifically proven right now. If you'd told people a thousand years ago that their illnesses were caused by tiny creatures in their bodies (bacteria, viruses) they'd have thought you were insane. But it was true, just not something you could observe, measure, conceptualize back then.

NP. This is absolutely a fair point. But the reason I don’t believe this stuff is because of the fabricators and embellishers I’ve known in my life. People who are the exact type to say that they experienced this sort of thing, or their child did, when I know it is 100% made-up bullshit. The same as people who are talented at “cold reading” and pretend to be psychics. So that’s the lens I’m viewing this through.

Understood but, by the same token, there have always been snake oil salesman and bogus faith healers, which doesn't discount what we now know to be true about germs and such.

Does anyone else find this concept both fascinating and a little depressing? Like, it’s cool to think that just maybe death isn’t really truly the end, but on the other hand if for all intents and purposes your soul is reborn as another person and except for a glitch of sorts where you remember s few snippets as a young child you’ll never know of your prior life.

It sort of makes me think if there’s reincarnation it sort of doesn’t even matter. Does anyone see what I mean?

Anonymous wrote:When I was a young child, I thought I remembered a past life. I thought I remembered being a soldier in WWI (I'm female, btw) and running across an open muddy field wearing heavy shoes and scratchy clothing and getting shot down the back, which is how I died.

This stands out because it sounds like most past lives are the same gender.

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When he was 4 or 5, he told me he remembered being on the Titanic.

Has he ever tried to climb onto a floating door?

My son was bizarrely obsessed with the Titanic as a young child. He is also big into sailing, cruising, and being on the water. When he was around 3, we were on a ship that had old black and white pictures of well to do people all dressed up. Looked like the early 1900s. My son was drawn to them and said something along the lines of, “Oh, I remember the days when we dressed up everyday and went all out when traveling. Everyone is just so slovenly now.”

It was weird.

When he was 4 or 5, he told me he remembered being on the Titanic.

Anonymous wrote:When my DC was very young (barely talking), he would take many of his hot wheels cars and line them up in a group. He would proceed to "auction" them using very specific terminology and voice inflections. There was absolutely no way he had seen something like this before, nor could use words like that otherwise.

The strange thing is that my great grandfather (who I never met) and who shares a name with my DC (total coincidence, just liked the name) owned a car dealership and I have been told went to car auctions.

Sometimes I think there must be memory in DNA and some talents are passed down which can't be pinpointed on chromosomes.

My grandmother was convinced I had lived a prior life based on things I shared with her and my parents when I was ages 3-4. I've read a lot about UVA's work and think it's fascinating. It's the height of ego/hubris to believe we only know what we can see in front of us.

Has anyone read Journey of Souls? It draws the same conclusions from hypnotized people.

Anonymous wrote:Simulation hypothesis
5th dimension
Indigo children
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What is an indigo child?