Memories? Let's Go Even Further Back...

I absolutely believe in reincarnation! I dream often of a shoot out in the old west.

High noon, I'm watching from the window as two men draw. The man to my right has the quick draw, and wins the duel. I rush down the rickety wooden staircase, and into the street to stop the bleeding of the shot man. I know him, and I hope he is ok. J. a wound to the shoulder, I take him into the building, and up to the room I was previously in.

This dream never changes, and it is soooooo real! I think its a memory. Call M. crazy, but you'd believe it too, if it happened to you!

One of my earliest memories is of a dream I had where I was in heaven with God, and he was telling M. of all the families that were getting ready to have babies, and helping M. decide which one I should join. Basically, what I understood from the dream, is that each soul has multiple chances to be a better person in each life, and eventually you get your Gahndi's and Mother Theresa's, and they end up getting to go to Heaven when they die. My mom was shocked when I woke up and told her about the dream, and proceded to tell M. about reincarnation. So, basically, I believe in both reincarnation, and Heaven, you J. have to keep trying to live a better, more fulfilling life each time.

I do believe in reincarnation, and yes I think memories can exist from a previous life. I don't think you can learn all there is to learn one time around. I also believe you continue to learn "on the other side."

I'll bite! There is a bridge outside of St Louis which totally freaks M.. Every single time I cross that bridge, I flashback....I'm in a convertible, a scarf tied around my head, & I die as I go over the edge of the bridge & hit the water.

I have shared this story with my DH & sons. They tease M. incessantly about it.....on each trip over the bridge. But, either I have a vivid imagination, a death wish, or....... Where the Heck is this coming from? :)

I absolutely believe in reincarnation -although I am open to the possibility that perhaps on the time-space continuum we are living all of our lives at the same time (that makes my head hurt). Since I was first introduced to reincarnation as a child, it has seemed the absolute right, most believable thing I've ever heard regarding spirituality or religious philosophy.

I think certain gut reactions and feelings we get about certain people we encounter -good or bad -can come from reincarnation. I think certain gifts people seem to be born with can carry over from other lives. Ultimately I do believe our souls have a "memory" of sorts -and that goes into our being in each life, so as we accumulate experience, we achieve higher levels of thinking and understanding until we reach Nirvana/Heaven -whatever you want to call it. I am open to the possibility as well that perhaps some people do have some memories -or dreams that come from a past life. Some people use more areas or have tapped into more areas of their mind than others.

First of all... I LOVE THESE QUESTIONS!

I do believe in reincarnation. I believe we live many lives. Each time we are brought back to learn different lessons on a road to knowledge and enlightenment.

With that being said, I do also believe in a higher being (What many people call God).

I don't believe in reincarnation the way you're talking about. I am Christian and I believe that this mortal body is a one-time-only offer, but I'm ok with that because the next life will be so amazing...

my mom says I used to completely freak her out as a little one. she said i would talk about things that i could not possibly have any knowledge of. when she'd ask M. how i knew something, i'd say i knew it in my other life. things like moments in history, people, places that I wouldn't have known. I wasn't even in school yet and there was no such thing as cable. who knows where that came from, but my mom was convinced i was reincarnated. I don't remember any of that now. It reminds M. of the Polar Express - I can't hear the sleigh bell anymore!

I've always believed in reincarnation - especially when I was very young - I recall thinking it was "J. what happened when you died" long before I was even old enough to think about death.

As an adult - I'm not sure - but I have a hard time believing this is all there is.

I'll admit, I've heard some very strange stories that made M. wonder. But I am Catholic, so no, I don't believe in reincarnation.

I believe there are familiar spirits that have been around from the beginning. They are good at making us think that we are reincarnated or that they are spirits from the past. They do this to distract us and confuse us and keep us away from God of the bible. Because these spirits do know the details of the past, they can give us dreams and feed us information.

When I was teaching the 5 & 6 grade sunday school class, one of the kids asked about reincarnation. I know what I believe but since I was teaching the class I felt I needed to see where the church stood on it. Our minister said this "It doesn't mention it anywhere in the bible so we don't, as the church, concider it although it could be in some of the books that wasn't put into the bible. God promises everlasting life in Heaven when a person dies so that doesn't mesh with reincarnation and it is in the Bible." That doesn't explain how we seem to know places we never been before and how we meet people and we seem to know them forever which is why people usually believe in recarnation. Then one day I was waiting on a man who has 2 grandsons who were at the time, ages 2 and 3. He said while playing with match box cars one day, 3 year old Will looked at his 2 year old cousin and said "Michael remember when we played like this together when we were angels in heaven?" Michael answered "yes" and they went back to playing. I began to wonder if those people we seem to know forever is souls we knew when we were in Heaven before we came to our earthly bodies and our souls recongize each other even though our conscience minds do not. As for those places where we have those moments and places we seem to know, perhaps we are shown our lives in whole before we are ever sent down. This also would explain how people know they won't live past a certain age. Before my son died, he had told his wife in a conversation about car insurance going down when he turns 25, that he didn't think he will ever live to see 25. He also had been one who had trouble getting things in order but when he died he had it set up that his car insurance would pay off the loan for his pickup, he had his rent and electricity bills paid up a month ahead and a few other things that made us wonder if he knew he was going to die including a conversation with M. on his faith and how he reinsurred M. that he was indeed a Christian. He died in an accident where he had fallen alseep at the wheel on his way home from working out of town J. 3 days before his 23rd birthday. I have felt him around, his daughter who was 3 when he died talks about his talking with her when she sleeps and the house is all quiet. These are things many mothers on the grieving mother site I go to say happens in their lives also. So no, I don't believe in recarnation, not the way of going from one body to the next as much as I believed in it before. I think it would be hard to think of my son's soul is now in someone else's child's body.