Reincarnation, what are your beliefs? Study may shock you!

I would like to say something related to this and also the birth marks. In India, we have a famous system of Astrology called Nadi Astrology. This form of astrology is at least, more than 4,000 years old. The most ancient rishis or seers of India had cast horoscopes through their intuitive powers, for all those souls who would be reincarnating in future. They wrote predictions of their lives, not just for one birth, but for successive births, with all details, whom they would marry, what profession they would follow. You would be surprised, they even cast the names, of the person, their parents and how many siblings and children they would have etc. It's so much in detail, that even I had a shocking experience with it. In this astrology, they even sometimes talk about particular marks of the body, and if it has been caused due to some incident of a past life. The most shocking thing is, 4,000 years back, they knew there would be aeroplanes, and computers and motor vehicles. For my father, in the palm leaf, it was clearly stated he would work in a locomotive company, and my friend, it was given she would be an airhostess. And for me, it said I would be an artist and my path would be of a yogi, which I am now. So, nadi astrology is one way of proving reincarnation exists.

That is pretty interesting I think I will see if I can dig into finding out more about nadi astrology, got any sources you care to point out that I might be able to find on the web?

Thank you for the reply Andrew. Yes I seen that movie a long time ago. I think you are correct it was just simply a work of fiction as far as I know also and was based on a book by the same name. I had heard the thing about the birth marks also from my mothers side of the family but had just considered it an old wives tale.

Thank you for the reply. Science would say kids are born with defects due to genetic abnormalities. Science would also say that someones temperament is caused by their upbringing and what their parents did. Anyways there is always at least two explanations but like I said this book can really make you question some of it.

That was never my point. The question is, why are fortunes, instincts, features etc. so drastically different?

I don't agree with you. I have had past life experiences through meditation also. But its not necessary that psychiatrists try to throw anything. There are many past life regression therapies happening successfully.

Thanks for the reply. The thing that made this book different than other stories is it didnt require any hypnosis. A lot of psychologist will throw anything out that has to do with hypnosis because the human mind is so susceptible to the slightest thing while under hypnosis.

Thank you for the reply. I enjoyed this book because it offered the pros and cons on how it could be true or false. But in the stretch to explain it away rationally some of the stories were more rational than the explanation to deny them.

Well you've gotten my curiosity up now. I think as soon as I finish the book that I'm currently reading then I'm going to the library and look this book out. It really does sound like a very good read. I'm sure I'll enjoy it. Thanks evan!

Thank you for the reply. Look at the post above this one and you will see a scientific theory that I recently found. I have to admit the stories were pretty compelling in this book and it does raise my curiosity to find out exactly how they knew some of the things they did.

The actual purpose of karma is corrective in nature. We are made in the image of God. So we need to imbibe those very characteristics- pure, unmixed, and no-expectations-in-return kind of Love, impartiality, and so on which are Divine Qualities, that distinguish God from Man. Till such time we need to incarnate. As man/woman grows over several lifetimes- for it is next to impossible that someone who has begun his journey to "know it all" in one lifetime-- a pretty small "interval" to get anywhere near God's Great Qualities! That serves as the basis for more than one lifetime, which in turn implies rebirth, so everything fits in place. The problem really is, we do not have in our conscious mind any memories of our "past". This is explained away in the Classical Texts saying that, this forgetfulness is in fact a "blessing" for otherwise if only every man prepared and unprepared would know what was his past and what is expected of him in this lifetime, he/she might be so debilitated as to not do anything at all and get into a fatalistic mood! The "memories" are you are wont to calling them,the Hindu books use the term Samskaras,which translates into impressions or imprints and tendencies all three rolled in one that go to define a personality in this lifetime. On this subject even many Hindus are not as clear, as they tend to connect the just-previous lifetime for all the happenings of this lifetime.This cannot be. It is here that Edgar Cayce - The Sleeping Prophet of Virginia Beach was very appropriate. The bundling of "karmic+ and "saamskaric" elements that we bring to a particular lifetime are chosen out of several of our previous lifetimes. All said and done, conducting a brutally honest enquiry into one's past lifetimes, needs lost of personal courage on the part of the candidate and professional honesty and scientific detachment on the part of the therapist. Yes it does fix some phobia problems.

Thank you for the reply. Listening to you talk brings up another topic I recently started that asked the question is this planet a prison for souls. You view it as a place of learning but others say we are kept here in the physical form as if we were prisoners.

Thanks for the reply. Of course people who are skeptic aren't going to do much research. I used to have a theory that these cases might be like ancestral memories somehow buried into our DNA code but the cases shown in this book kind of make that hard to believe considering most aren't related.

Thank you for the reply.

Thank you for the reply. So than what happens to the beggar who becomes king is he over stepping his place in the universe?

Thank you for the reply.

Thank you for the reply. Yes i know of a few people with very western beliefs who are open to the idea of reincarnation.

Thank you for the reply. Maybe one day science will be able to measure the soul until than I guess all we have is faith.