Do you consider that people have past lives?

Like in past life regression.

most definitely.  I have had several that I am very aware of.  I have been a wife and mother in several past lives.  These I have found out through self hypnosis.

And if you find a good regressionist (?), you can explore them.
Janet

Yup, big believer in reincarnation here.
Seeing as everything in nature is re-used and re-cycled, I'd think it logical for souls to go the same route.

I believe that I've "recovered" a lot of memories of my own past lives, even one which I believe was my first life, where in I was not human.
The first memory I recovered was emotional, painful, and rather... horrible, and I wouldn't suggest going about rummaging in the past to most people because the chances are you'll find something you don't want to know.

I do however, also have a hard time believing in most forms of past life regression because there's just so much evidence of people recovering false memories through it.

I dunno. Sometimes I wonder if some of my more weirder hang ups and phobias are from a past life. However, I'm not exactly comfortable with the idea of having a past I don't know about.

i personally think it's all nonsense, utter balls. The soul is not separate to the body.

But it's an interesting fantasy, i like to think i am all the people i admire, though most of them are contemporaneous with each other.

nope

I don't actually believe in it, but I went to a psychic to ask her if Hypatia and would ever get together (it took forever for it to happen). The psychic asked if I was open to past life impressions. I sort of hedged in answering. She said she brought it up because she got a sense that Hypatia and I had been together in a past life.  That's romantic enough for me to be intrigued by the idea.

Definitely a firm believer in reincarnation. One interesting thing about my transition is I thought well if I don't deal with it in this lifetime I definitely will in the next.
Myles

Of course classic theories about reincarnation would say that the reason your life sucks now is that you are paying for the damage you did before. 

Quote from: tekla on April 24, 2009, 09:26:15 PM
Of course classic theories about reincarnation would say that the reason your life sucks now is that you are paying for the damage you did before.

Which is one of the prime reasons I don't believe in it.

The concept of original sin and that paying for what one did in a past life is really distasteful... Thank God we have none of that in Islam

No I don't believe in it.
One go and you are gone. wish I could come back but then I wouldn't know who I've been, and that does'nt help the hurt. I have no idea where I read this, and please no one take offence.

Wishes are dishes for the poor


I think we get what our genes and society make us. But there are plenty of people around who disagree. I think regession therapy to be totally fraud.
Same as alternatives to cancer cures.

Don't get me started

Cindy James

It is a nice sounding fairy tale, but no.

There was a short lived medical program about a neurosurgeon who was very matter of fact and regarded life as just "wires in a box".  I feel that is too true.

I'm not saying that there isn't a spiritual component to life and there there is more than meets the eye, but to me, it does not directly imply that there is any sort of corporeal after-life.  No "See you on the other side".

Just here, just now.  That's all.

Otherwise, I could have waited to that post-life review and found out why I had this stone around my neck and that "Next time I would get it right!", or express my true female side as a female spirit.

-Sandy

no. there's no evidence to suggest it.  in fact, the human desire to believe in reincarnation seems to be another aspect of the desire for there to be something more or something more meaningful than a human life. we were all marie antoinette in a past life, and we'll all be dancing with "jesus" (unless we're a member of a religion that forbids dancing) in the hereafter.

just because people like the idea doesn't make it true. indeed, often liking an idea means you should approach it with extra scrutiny. 

I don't know about it. I do beleive in deja vue.

I do believe in reincarnation. Not with the karma aspect attached, though.  Just plain reincarnation.  I have seen sufficient evidence to convince me, and I tend to scrutinize my beliefs pretty damn well.

From Hamlet: There are more things on Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of by your P0hilosophy.  By philosophy, Shakespeare was referring to science by the term it was then known.

That's what I believe.  Some things that science would say do not exist, do indeed exist.  Ghosts, vampires, reincarnation, afterlife, God, space aliens, bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster... I don't know which one(s), but I acknowledge any of them could.

Reincarnation seems more likely than some, since it is believed by so many major religeons, including Judiasm and Native American, which are my ancestral religeons.

There is "evidence" to support theories of reincarnation.

Evidence? I dunno but I saw a very interesting, compelling account televised on BBC News. It was about a boy who at the age of 2 and 3 began verbalising information about a pilot who died in WWII. There's no apparent way the boy could have known some of the facts he was describing without first hand knowledge.  Wicked!

There are also cases of children speaking in languages they've never heard. For example, a four year-old raised in an English-speaking household suddenly speaking in Gaelic when neither parent is Irish, ever been to Ireland, etc.

And there's many stories along the same lines of what Pia mentioned.  I remember one where a housewife started talking about her life as a peasant woman centuries ago, but there was no way she could have had any real knowledge about the time period or place she was talking about, certainly not in the kind of detail she was providing- and historians checked around, found old census records, and confirmed her stories.

I also read an article [of semi-questionable veracity, granted] about a little boy who suddenly developed a strong shooting pain in his arm.  Nothing any doctor did ever helped.  Finally his parents were desperate and had heard of past life regression, so they went.  Apparently in the boy's past life, he had been killed via a shot to the arm that became infected.  After this visit, the boy's arm pain disappeared.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation_research <= There's been a couple papers released where the phenomena (children recounting information they should not have) has been clearly documented.