Do you believe in past lives?

[Chloefairydust]

Just been watching a series called ‘ghost inside my child’. Basically about children who appear to have vivid memories of past lives, including details they couldn’t possibly know otherwise.

Im quite open minded about things like this and paranormal stuff too. And I’m just fascinated by this phenomenon. Apparently children (especially when they are very young) can sometimes remember past lives, however as they grow older the memories fade away.

Just wondered if anyone here believes in past lives or has ever had their child say anything strange that might indicate a past life memory?

No! It's utter nonsense.

I absolutely do.

And I believe that babies can be a brand new or an old soul. Was definitely the case with my two boys.

DS1 came out angry at the injustice of being born! Had no idea what the fuck he was doing.

DS2 was placed on my chest, looked up at me and around wide eyed and sighed. The first thing I said was that he'd been here before.

From an early age, DS2 seems to have an understanding of the world around him, and how to interact with people on a fundamental level. He understood nuance at an early age, and just seemed so much more emotionally "level" than DS1 who is incredibly Ernest.

This comment literally gave me goosebumps, how creepy… 😮

It is a subject I do find fascinating. Do I actually believe it though? The answer there is that I neither fully believe nor fully disbelieve because I think it is on of those things that can be neither proven nor disproven.

There are many things in this world that we cannot explain.

I'm not sure I do believe or not.

I was with my DNephew about a year or so ago in Bath (he was about 3) and he said something about the graveyard which is next to the playground there. Can't recall if he'd seen kids or something. He could've been messing around though.

As Mulder would say, I want to believe

I think the thing that fascinates me most about this topic is when children have knowledge of a past they couldn’t possibly know about, especially when they are very young… I’m a bit more sceptical of things life past life regression for some reason.

I'm fascinated by the idea of this and there have been loads of reports of this phenomenon for it, in my mind, not to be possible.

My mum, who is very firmly in the Yes camp for all things spiritual/paranormal, is convinced of it. She is very nervous of being on or over water - she can't be on a pier at the seaside for example and see the water swirling through the slats, and would never go on a large ship like a cruise ship. She can't even watch Titanic. She thinks she might have drowned in a former life.

Echoing several other posts, my first thought when I saw my newborn nephew was you’ve been here before. I’ve remarked on it a number of times over the years, it was such a strong, unexpected feeling. He had such a contented, knowing look on his face. He’s 18 next month and has the sensitivity and wisdom perfectly befitting of an old soul!

I believe that there are billions of people who lived in the past, yes.

The idea that they have some sort of soul or essence that then inhabits another body is ridiculous, though.

No.
You get one life & you should live it as best you can, because you don't get another go.

I absolutely believe. Too much evidence. Or should I say, too many ACCOUNTS of it, or someone will be saying 'post evidence' ;-)
I remember bits of some of mine. My eldest DD is in her final life down here. She's quite evolved & will be going back home to Heaven after this one.

@TugboatAnnie I think it was you who posted about the little boy going to Barra? I found that quite upsetting. His little face.. he obviously expected his previous family to be just where he'd left them, didn't he? :-(

By that measure you must also be convinced that Elvis is alive and that we are regularly visited by aliens and that teenaged girls can become pregnant despite never having had sexual contact with a boy or man then.

And in an interesting thread there's always one that comes along to sneer. I'm just amazed it took this long.

Got a kick out of your post have you?

No.

So why do some souls choose to be born to parents who neglect them, beat them, torture them, abuse them, rape them, kill them?

There was a documentary about a reincarnation convention in California that held a come-as-you-were party.
Two people turned up as Napoleon.

This is a good point , I hadn’t thought of this …🤔

I was about 4 when I told my mum I’d lived before.
I gave lots of details that a 4 year old wouldn’t know.
I stand by my beliefs.

I totally understand others will disagree.
That’s ok.

Before my DD was 2 we realised she could read, then we'd ask her to find words (we'd write them on cards) and she could read words she couldn't say. We came to the conclusion that someone had forgotten to wipe the hard drive.

Well with IVF it is perfectly possible for a teenage girl to become pregnant even if she's never met a male let alone had sexual contact with one. If Robert Winston and his colleagues can do it I can't see why God couldn't. Obviously if you don't believe in God it is more challenging.

Actually thinking about it you don't even need something as complicated as IVF, the old turkey baster method could do the trick.

I can't imagine reading anything that would make me believe a baby would choose to be born to Rose West or in a famine area. Why would you if you could choose someone nice with a standard of living that would at least provide the basics, like enough food to keep you alive.

So you can’t counter the point and instead just choose to be unpleasant. That sounds about right.

So much misunderstanding of science! I blame the awful education system in this country.

I like the idea, but like others I struggle to understand why a child would opt for a difficult childhood, reincarnation and such like just seems to be a way to justify the unjustifiable. For e.g. abused children were abusers in a previous life and similar.
There's so much suffering in the world and it just doesn't sit right with me to dismiss it as the person(s) are somehow opting to experience it, or deserve it because of their actions in a previous life.