Have you ever been to a place that you know you've never been to before, but strangely everything seems to be familiar? You start seeing things that you recognize, and people that you've never met tend to mysteriously come out of nowhere, only to give you the answer to very personal problems that you've never discussed with anyone, then disappear just as strangly as they came?

I know that this sounds very strange and far fetched, but for some reason, this is how I felt when I lived in Germany back in the 1980's. Can anyone here relate to this with a sensible explanation for it?

Dunkirk, I do not know if it has anything to do with reincarnation but I have had people I never had known walk up to me and tell me something(out of the clear blue sky) that pertained to my life.
I do not mean in generalities, but facts to fit my paticular circumstances.

I think Dunkirk your just wanting to think thats the reason. There are a ton of reasons why you may feel this way. You may have heard or seen something on it way long ago that you dont even seem to remember, and the memory is triggered when you look at the certain thing.

Listen to Coast to Coast AM much?

Originally posted by jerejerebinks
I think Dunkirk your just wanting to think thats the reason. There are a ton of reasons why you may feel this way. You may have heard or seen something on it way long ago that you dont even seem to remember, and the memory is triggered when you look at the certain thing.

Thats very possible.. but still rather strange :eek:

Yeah, that feeling is strange, but not necessarily one to make me thing I had lived the same thing before, lol.

Reincarnation: Socrates to Salinger

For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, and primeval He is not slain when the body is slain.

Bhagavad-gita 2.20

Does life begin with birth and end with death? Have we lived before? Such questions are normally identified with religions of the East, where the life of man is known to endure not only from the cradle to the grave, but through millions of ages, and acceptance of the idea of rebirth is nearly universal. As Arthur Schopenhauer, the great nineteenth-century German philosopher, once observed, "Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into life."

Indeed, the dominant ideology of the West, material science, has for several centuries stifled any serious or widespread interest in the preexistence and survival of consciousness beyond the present body. But throughout Western history, there have always been thinkers who have understood and affirmed the immortality of consciousness and transmigration of the soul. And a multitude of philosophers, authors, artists, scientists, and politicians have given the idea thoughtful consideration.

General Patton claimed to have lived many lives as different military leaders.

I had a friend that told of visiting a mystic or something and he put my friend into a trance and took him back to mediavel Europe and on back to unrecorded history. He believed he had really been there. He also told me of seeing the spirit of a man leaving a body that had just been killed.



old Reb

Reb, I believe the Eastern beliefs are closer to the truth than most of the religions that originated in the Middle East.

example of this is the case of Bridey Murphy, which burst upon the scene in 1956 with the publication of a book by hypnotist Morey Bernstein called The Search for Bridey Murphy. In it Bernstein tells the tale of one Virginia Tighe (she was given the pseudonym Ruth Simmons in the book), a young housewife from Pueblo, Colorado whom Bernstein had found to be unusually susceptible to hypnosis. During an attempt to "regress" the patient back to her childhood, a common hypnotic technique, Bernstein decided to go for the gusto and asked Mrs. Tighe to "go back" until she found herself "in some other scene, in some other place, in some other time." The agreeable Mrs. Tighe thereupon began describing herself as a child scratching the paint off her metal bed as revenge for being spanked. As she spoke, her voice started to assume an Irish brogue, and when Bernstein asked her her name, she said "Friday [later clarified as 'Bridey'] Murphy."

In subsequent sessions, "Bridey" claimed she had been born in 1798, the daughter of Kathleen and Duncan Murphy. The family lived outside of Cork, in Ireland; her father was a barrister. Though a Protestant, at 20 she married a Catholic named Brian MacCarthy, also a barrister. They moved to Belfast, where they remained until Bridey's death at the age of 66 following a fall downstairs. Various clues convinced hypnotist Bernstein that Bridey's story was authentic: she used several genuine bits of Irish dialect, she claimed to have patronized a grocer named Carrigan, who had actually had a shop near the neighborhood where she supposedly lived; and so on.

Yes, I remember reading the book in the 60's.