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Do you believe in reincarnation?

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Budgie Rustler

Budgie Rustler Report 7 Dec 2013 11:52

If it is possible, and giving it some thought.... ;-)




I think...

Budgie Rustler

Budgie Rustler Report 7 Dec 2013 11:53

...
"In my next life I want to live my life backwards.
You start out dead and get that out of the way.
Then you wake up in an old people`s home feeling better every day.
You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect you pension and then when you start work, you get a gold watch and a party on your first day.
You work for 40 years until you`re young enough to enjoy your retirement.
You party, drink alcohol, and are generally promiscuous, then you are ready for high school.
You then go to primary school, you become a kid ,you play. You have no responsibilities, you become a baby until you are born.
And then you spend your last 9 months floating in luxurious spa-like conditions with central heating and room service on tap, larger quarters every day and then Voila! you finish off as an orgasm!"

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 7 Dec 2013 11:55

lol :-D :-D :-D

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 7 Dec 2013 12:21

Finally,


such a task, squeezing through that hole in the condom........

we are all the result of being the fittest, fastest sperm in the sac.......

PricklyHolly

PricklyHolly Report 7 Dec 2013 12:29

I'm off to get some arm bands cos i can't swim!

:-D :-D :-D

TessAkaBridgetTheFidget

TessAkaBridgetTheFidget Report 8 Dec 2013 13:25

I want to live life that way too!

Linda

Linda Report 8 Dec 2013 13:54

Would'nt that be fab to see your aches and pains disappear over months I want to live like too :-D :-D :-D

TessAkaBridgetTheFidget

TessAkaBridgetTheFidget Report 8 Dec 2013 15:33

I should add that I am not ready to leave this life yet. :-D

Dermot

Dermot Report 8 Dec 2013 15:42

We are all accidents of birth.

UzziAndHerDogs

UzziAndHerDogs Report 8 Dec 2013 19:42

Yes

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 8 Dec 2013 20:36

I once read a book on reincarnation - "Who was Anne Ockenden" by a hypnotherapist called Arnall Bloxham. He used to regress people under hypnotism and the results were amazing. He regressed one person back to York in the middle ages - a Roman Catholic, who, with others, was herded into a crypt under a church in York and they were all killed. The story was later verified when some builders discovered the crypt and found the remains - spooky!!!

He did some regressions on TV - it was HTV Wales at the time and on of the cameramen offered himself up for regression. He went back to when he was in the navy on a sailing ship in a battle and he used many nautical terms no one had heard of - eventually he was hit by a cannon ball and he had to be brought back immediately as he was likely to die. The terminology he used was later verified as correct by the Maritime Museum

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 8 Dec 2013 21:41

One of Bloxham's high-profile cases is that of Jane Evans. Jane's
regression into her past lives began in 1971 when she saw a poster that
reads: "Arnall Bloxham says rheumatism is psychological." Jane, a
32-year-old Welsh housewife who suffered from rheumatoid arthritis,
found the statement incredible, so she decided to get in touch with the
man responsible for this poster. Indeed she did, through a friend of
her husband. And ultimately got in touch with six of her past lives as
well. They were: as a tutor's wife in Roman times; as a Jew who was
massacred in the 12th century in York; as the servant of a French
medieval merchant prince; as a maid of honour to Catherine of Aragon;
as a poor servant in London during the reign of Queen Anne; and as a
nun in nineteenth-century America.



The story of Jane Evans and several other examples of reincarnation
were brought to light by BBC television producer, Jeffrey Iverson in
his book, "More Lives Than One?" In 1975, in pursuing verification of
the theory of reincarnation, Iverson asked Jane's permission to let
Bloxham hypnotize her again into regression, this time in the presence
of a BBC television camera and tape recorder. Iverson then set out to
uncover whether she did, in fact, have more lives than one.



Iverson researched the detail of these lives and verified that the
details of Jane Evans' recorded regressions were indeed founded on
fact. At the end of the book he considers that Bloxham's twenty years
of work signify strong support for the concept of reincarnation. He
also produced a BBC documentary film, called "The Bloxham Tapes" based
on all these materials.

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 8 Dec 2013 21:43

Skeptics have attributed this phenomenon to what mind detectives call
"cryptomnesia," a term that simply means remembering facts you forgot
you ever knew! If such a distant memory could be culled from a person's
mind, it might logically explain Jane Evan's supposed 'reincarnation.'



However, for Dr. Arthur Guirdham, Britain's other great authority on
reincarnation, this explanation cannot account for the cases he had
seen and heard. Dr. Arthur Guirdham relates these experiences in his
books, "We Are One Another," "The Cathars & Reincarnation" and his
autobiography, "A Foot in Both Worlds."

Dr Guirdham, a retired national health psychiatrist in the UK, heads a
small group of people who believe that they were Cathars in their past
lives, a heretical religious group which existed in the Languedoc area
of south-west France in the 13th century.



The incident that led to Dr Guirdham's reincarnation theory began in
Bath, 1962, in a hospital's outpatient department, where Dr Guirdham
worked as a psychiatrist. His last patient on one particular day was an
attractive, apparently normal young woman who had had a recurring
nightmare occasionally since her teens, but was now experiencing it two
or three times a week. In her dream she was lying on her back on the
floor while a man approached her from behind. She did not know what was
going to happen but was absolutely terrified.



Although Dr Guirdham remained calm and detached, he had to hide his
surprise while listening to his new patient for the woman was
describing the same nightmare that had plagued him, too, for more than
30 years. The doctor was intrigued but said nothing to his patient. She
never had the nightmare again and, as for Dr. Guirdham, his dream
stopped within a week of meeting this new patient.



Their meetings continued, though. Dr Guirdham was certain there was
nothing mentally wrong with his patient and her knowledge of the past
intrigued him. Later she gave him a list of names of people she said
had existed in the 13th century and described things that
happened to them. She also told Dr Guirdham that he, too, had been
alive then and was called Rogiet de Cruisot.



As a psychiatrist, Dr Guirdham had picked up some basic information
about the theory of reincarnation, but never had much interest in the
subject. Nevertheless, intrigued by this case, he decided to
investigate. He found that the names given to him by his patient were
indeed accurate, though only mentioned in fairly obscure history
records of the Middle Ages. Those records had been written in French
though, and had never been translated into English. The people Dr
Guirdham's patient described were all members of the Cathar sect, a
group that had flourished in southern France and northern Italy in the
Middle Ages. Among other things, the Cathars believed in reincarnation.
Over time, Dr Guirdham met more and more individuals, 11 in total, who
had memories of their past lives living together in a Cathar group.



None of the subjects were drugged or hypnotized; past names and
incidents simply appeared in their minds, said Dr Guirdham. Dr Guirdham
also produced one of the most remarkable pieces of evidence he had. It
was the sketchpad of a seven-year-old girl, containing drawings of a
bygone era. The sketchpad also includes many members' names of the
Cathar sect. Amazed, Dr Guirdham said, "It's beyond me how a
seven-year-old child could know these names when I shouldn't think
there was an expert in medieval history in England at the time who knew
them."



The sheer amount of memories, names and contacts convinced the doctor
that he and his group had all lived together, not just once, but
several lifetimes before. He said, "With 40 years of experience in
medicine, it is either that I know the difference between a
clairvoyant's experience and a schizophrenic one or I am psychotic
myself. None of the people in my group is mad in any way - and none of
my colleagues have found me psychotic."

Nolls from Harrogate

Nolls from Harrogate Report 8 Dec 2013 23:17

Budgie I love your idea think it's a smashing one and when I arrive --up there I shall put it to those in charge that a change would be as good as a rest ....so fingers crossed!
On another note I live near York a lovely town which we love going to but before you reach the centre there is a "gateway" you go through ...this "gateway fills me with fear I feel sick at the thought of going through it and would turn back if I was by myself and I'm fine after we get into the centre , the funny thing is I'm a Scot and never knew York physically before we came to stay in Yorkshire ... Funny though anyone any ideas :-S

Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond

Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond Report 9 Dec 2013 07:47

Fascinating. I believe in reincarnation and would love to be regressed.

Lizx

Merlin

Merlin Report 9 Dec 2013 14:32

I hope not , :-D My Late MIL,Might return :-( and she w3as a B nightmare when she was alive. :-(

Budgie Rustler

Budgie Rustler Report 9 Dec 2013 15:31

Think that would be called resurrection Merlin matey,but I`m with ya 100% on that . :-D :-D :-D :-D

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 9 Dec 2013 16:33

same here Merlin - mine was a nightmare - father in law too!!! In fact, all the outlaws were a nightmare :-D

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 10 Dec 2013 00:11

But what if you were reincarnated as a slug?