Is reincarnation a delusion or a fact that how can we regress a conscious memory of a prior life?
If reincarnation is real among people, how come most don't have conscious memories of a previous life? How can we regress the foot steps of that? Some say it is biblical so is that a fact? Anyone who believes in this subject, plz give a specific answers. Thanks
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- How come you don't have conscious memory of the last week before your birth ? Is that proof that before delivery you didn't exist ? Think of a better way to ask what you want to know.
- If there is one thing I've learned from my past lives, it's that reincarnation is a delusion. Torg
- It is a delusion. it is not Biblical. The Bible says "It is appointed unto man once to die, and after this judgment." (Hebrews 9:27) It is sometimes reinforced in people who have demons, which recall memories from the lives of former hosts - people they indwelt in the past, leaving them with the impression that is who they were at a former time, but this is a deception. I once knew a witch who had a vivid dream of being a man in a former life, being taken out, humiliated, tormented and then executed. She recalled the most painful part was knowing the body that he (really the demon) dwelt in, was dead, and now the demon had to find a new "home".
- No, sorry reincarnation is a wrong teaching. The truth is you have one life time and then Judgment. The Bible does not speak of reincarnation, it does speak of us returning with Jesus but that is the same life with a glorified body rather than being reborn and living again.
- Ok, first things first, i do not believe in reincarnation. I am basing this on my studies. Reincarnation is an evolutionary process, of the genre Cosmic Humanist, for a human being to reach a higher state of inner consciousness. Through cosmic evolution and time, all humans will be perfect once they have an inner Christ consciousness as they put it. Memories of the previous life is found in the art of zen, tapping into their inner consciousness. This is how humans can remember how their previous lives were like. Their consciousness never fades away. Perfection is reached through the art of zen, due to the tapping into the consciousness. However, there is no biblical reference to back this theory up. They do take a concept from the bible, i.e. Christ consciousness. There are many flaws in this theory.
- Regression can work but often does not. "Memories" recalled in the presence of a psychic may be inaccurate because the subject can feel pressured to perform and often will fantasize rather than actually remember. The only person who knows your past-life history is you, and you do have these memories in your subconscious mind (which is connected to your brain but not your brain, like your TV is not the program you're watching, but the means by which you are aware of it). Between lives, you aren't bound by a physical brain and your consciousness is free; you can see eternity in all directions and all at once know everything about you. But here in the physical realm, you have a limited capability to recall anything consciously through your human brain. All of us here suffer from continuous amnesia, unable to remember 99.99999% of the life we're living. We are constantly distracted and forgetful. There are ways to explore your own past lives, however, if you really want to: self-hypnosis, meditation and learning how to interact with your dreaming mind are the best ways. Biblically speaking: Judaism has traditionally accepted reincarnation as fact: "Behold, all these things does God do -- twice, even three times with a man -- to bring his soul back from the pit that he may be enlightened with the light of the living." (Job 33:29) In other words, Judaism teaches God will allow a person to come back to the world "of the living" from "the pit" (Gehenna, the Jewish version of "purgatory" -- there is no "Hell" in Judaism) a second, third, or a multitude of times. Read Proverbs 8:22-31 which is Solomon's celebration of eternal life through reincarnation. And Psalms 90:3-6 is another clear reference: "Thou turnest man back to the dust, and sayest, 'Turn back, O children of men!' For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night. Thou dost sweep men away; they are like a dream, like grass which is renewed in the morning: in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers. So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom." Reincarnation was simply taken for granted as true by Jesus and his followers. The Gentiles were the ones who couldn't comprehend it, who reinterpreted and distorted what they could not understand. The Gentiles are the ones who founded Christianity as we know it. Numerous NT refs. Besides the most obvious ('TRULY, LITERALLY, you must be BORN AGAIN... no one goes up to heaven but he who came down from heaven' ... how could that be any clearer?), there is "Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" According to the bible Jesus answered that the man was born blind so that Jesus could heal him. Figuring out that Jesus' answer applied only to the blind who were healed by Jesus (and not to all blind men) doesn't require a genius intellect. The nonsense about "it is appointed that man dies once and then face judgment" that the unaware always trot out at every question about reincarnation is just that: nonsense. What do the critics think *survives death* to "face judgment" after "the man" dies? The soul of course: the spiritual energy of the person who died. And it is the soul that reincarnates, not "the man." This judgment is Gehenna (Gehinnom), the Jewish scripture's teaching about the after-death residence of souls, where the soul of the individual faces and contemplates his past life, the mistakes he made, the good things he did, the things he achieved and did not achieve. It is a judgment, a soul searching, which is completed before the individual moves on to his next existence. There is no "hell" in Judaism, and Jesus would not have believed in or taught the existence of hell. Hell is purely of pagan (Gentile) origin. "Be ye therefore perfect even as your father in heaven is perfect," Jesus instructed his followers. He didn't say 'hey, do your best,' or 'if you just believe I existed that's enough...' He said BE AS PERFECT AS GOD IS. Jesus indicated, according to the bible, that absolute perfection (or "completion" as some call it) is within the reach of every human when he made the statement, YE ARE GODS. Anyone with a functioning mind should be able to comprehend that perfection and godliness cannot be attained in a single lifetime.
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