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Do you believe we have past lives??

223 replies

RevolvingPivot · 06/06/2021 19:42

Inspired by my other thread....

Places you have visited with a strange vibe http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/amiibeingunreasonable/4260839-places-you-have-visited-with-a-strange-vibe

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OVienna · 07/06/2021 07:30

I was that "creepy child". We were visiting the town where my grandmother grew up when I was about 4 and I gave her directions somewhere. I told them I'd been there before. I most certainly hadnt been - she and her family hadn't lived there for 40+ years. Couple of other things I've since forgotten along the same lines. The thing is I am adopted and I have wondered if I was returned to my "real" family somehow.

tunainatin · 07/06/2021 07:30
tunainatin · 07/06/2021 07:30

This documentary is fascinating. The boys mum is lovely and very down to earth.

Arbadacarba · 07/06/2021 07:39

I was going to suggest 'The Boy Who Lived Before'.

It's an interesting documentary but I do think the mum is too quick to discount some of the alternative explanations. E.g. she says her son couldn't possibly have seen images of Barra on TV - but that's the kind of thing (with the iconic scene of planes landing on the beach) that might have popped up in any number of documentaries, or on the news.

I found a discussion on sceptics board that had unearthed a news story from around the time the documentary had been filmed about a boy from Barra who'd been seriously injured in a road accident and had been airlifted to a specialist hospital unit in Glasgow and the sceptics' view was that this had been the source of Cameron's 'memories'.

He's very convincing, though!

baroqueandblue · 07/06/2021 08:22

Yes, inherent math in the universe - you use math, others formulated it and based it on their observations of phenomena. All this occurs in the universe we inhabit. Therefore...

Reloxa · 07/06/2021 08:31

I've switched from completely believing that once we're dead we are completely gone, to reluctantly believing in reincarnation. Reluctantly, because I don't like the thought of going on and on.

I believe that we die and go back to a spiritual plane where we came from. We consider the lessons learned from this life, and then choose a new form to reincarnate into, depending on the lessons we feel we still need to learn. Not sure if this is just human forms or animal and plant as well.

We are all one consciousness, and as PP said upthread, we are spiritual forms having a human experience.

Psychedelics led me to that conclusion, I'm not going to even attempt to justify it on scientific / mathematical grounds!

BreakingtheIce · 07/06/2021 08:36

If you read the books I mentioned you will find that is the view of the authors.

winched · 07/06/2021 09:26

I used to believe when we were dead, that was it. Nothingness.

But now I'm not so sure.

I got a reading once and went into it thinking it was purely entertainment. I was one of those people who thought they throw spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks.

But this woman was spot on about so many things. Not vague things, she told me my family always worked in X industry until the war (100% true from my own research) and that I had 3 connections to Z industry now (again true, my brother, husband, and FIL). She told me so many other specific things that I had shivers running down my spine.

Then she said how I always have a thing about doors being open. And this was true, ever since I was a child I needed the doors to be open. If i was sitting down comfortable and the door was closed, I'd get up just to open it. Something always always felt off about a closed door. Even when I read you should close doors for fire safety at night I'd reluctantly close my child's door but the rest were left open. I had arguments with partners about it in the past etc.

She told me all this and then explained it was because "your grandma's mother, Margaret, who died just before you were born, would watch you, and you never wanted doors closed in case she felt shut out." But she said not to worry about it anymore because the baby I was having would be her next life.

I was pregnant at the time but only about 7 weeks and only my husband knew, and he wasn't there. But she somehow knew, and she knew my great-grandmother would be reincarnated into her?

She also knew my great-grandmother's name and that she died just before I was born. I found out it she died on my due date (I was late).

It was honestly SO weird. I have no idea wether to believe it or not but the one thing I will say is my DD has always, always, been obsessed with my grandmother, more so than her sister or any of the other grandchildren. Could it be because she was her mother in a past life? My brain hurts just thinking about it.

And closed doors don't bother me anymore BUT I obviously accept that if I never had the reading and didn't "know", then they would still bother me.

I have no idea. I find it quite a comforting thought though.

But up until that point I would have been on threads like this dismissing it as being unlikely ConfusedBlush

boobot1 · 07/06/2021 09:31

@AgeLikeWine

No, because there is zero scientific evidence of any possible mechanism for this to happen. Everything we know indicates that humans like all other vertebrates are born, we live our lives, we die and that’s it.

I’m completely open minded so if & when such evidence emerges I will change my view. I’m not holding my breath, though...

Problem with this, is our scientific knowledge is still in it's infancy. I have no doubt that eventually science will be able to explain all these things and lots of other things that are considered woo now.
supermum87 · 07/06/2021 09:45

I like this idea but it makes me sad to think I could come back again and not be in the same "life" with my children that I have now.

jetadore · 07/06/2021 10:00

No.

Or yes but only in the sense that the atoms you’re made out of will have been (and will go on to be) a part of innumerable different things over the course of the universe.

DynamoKev · 07/06/2021 10:01

No

wed8pril · 07/06/2021 10:11

@baroqueandblue

Yes, inherent math in the universe - you use math, others formulated it and based it on their observations of phenomena. All this occurs in the universe we inhabit. Therefore...
What maths proves the existence of past lives?
ChainJane · 07/06/2021 10:11

No but clearly it can't be disproved either. There is much we don't know and it would not shock me if experiences from previous generations are somehow passed down, on some level and in some cases.

There is only a finite amount of matter in the universe so effectively we are all made of recycled material. Instincts get passed on in other animals, why should it not be the same with humans?

languagelover96 · 07/06/2021 10:15

Yes and this thread makes you think.

Rayn · 07/06/2021 10:16

Love this thread. I read a new earth by Eckhart Tolle and it has completely blown my mind about our consciousness. I think our consciousness goes on. When someone dies they get a rush of Serotonin and the electrical activity goes on in the brain for a short while even when the body is dead.
I listened to a podcast about WW11 pilots who became unconscious due to the g force in the plane. They all reported similar circumstances in that they could see themselves from a distance. One even reported been in a supermarket and when he went to put his hands out to the trolley there was no body.
Sam Parma - a cardiologist has studied what happens when people are resuscitated after their heart stops. It's a fascinating study! Worth a google.

CandidaAlbicans2 · 07/06/2021 10:29

No, but I believe in recycling. That when I die I’ll decompose, be eaten by microbes, go through the digestive system of worms, become part of the soil and consequently plants and animals. I don’t believe I’ll come back as as anything, especially another person though, and I don't feel as though I've had a previous life.

When my Mum died I scattered her ashes around my garden, and it’s occurred to me that what’s left of her is now part of the soil in which I’m growing vegetables. So I’ll be eating the remains of my Mum in radish form, which I find quite amusing! 😆

jennytheonionslayer · 07/06/2021 11:10

No

Frenchdoors1 · 07/06/2021 22:15

@Rayn Can you please tell me what the name of the podcast is about WWII pilots?

HurryUpBetelgeuse · 07/06/2021 22:36

Sam Parnia's research link here:

"New Studies Explore End-of-Life Cognitive Thought & Improved Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Methods | NYU Langone News" nyulangone.org/news/new-studies-explore-end-life-cognitive-thought-improved-cardiopulmonary-resuscitation-methods

blameitonthecaffeine · 07/06/2021 22:43

No, I don't. I'm a Christian so I do believe in eternal life but not on this earth and not as other people.

I do rather love the idea of reincarnation though. But only if we could remember our past lives. It would be like having one reallllllly long, multi cultural, highly eclectic, interesting life with so many people in it to know and love. Or it could just be really shit. I don't know.

My mind is slightly open - mainly due to really spooky, hard to explain stories like winched told - amazing!

Justcallmebebes · 07/06/2021 22:47

48Duchess379

Yes. I was clearly a horrid tyrant in my last life & as a result I'm being punished in this one.

😂😂 I think this a lot too

notthemum · 07/06/2021 22:49

No.

PandemicAtTheDisco · 08/06/2021 02:12

I'm not sure what I believe. I've had a few weird experiences as an adult but much more as a child.

I had some strong, strange memories when I was a young child. I don't know if I just had a very strong imagination or I was remembering dreams or something I'd seen on television. I was seriously ill twice when I was young so perhaps I remember hallucinations.

I remember being an old lady, speaking a different language, playing a musical instrument, having no shoes, being able to swim, - these are not true yet I absolutely believed two opposing things to be both true at the same time.

I was ill again when I was older and I've 'remembered' things when I've been half asleep. It seems more like lots of little glimpses of many lives.

RevolvingPivot · 08/06/2021 07:43

I wonder whether I was a jet setter and never home in a previous life.

Because I've never wanted to leave home. I'm
always home even before corona. I do want to want to go out. Maybe I was a criminal and now I'm "imprisoned" we will never know will we.

I wish we knew if / what happened to our loved ones once they are gone.

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