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The song 'Parabola' by Tool has obvious references to reincarnation. Here are the lyrics in question: Also 'Inland Sea' by '...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead' alludes to it, too:

Interesting. I did actually start a thread like this some time ago, but it was pulled and I got my wrist slapped for it. :confused: Perhaps the rules on this sort of topic have changed.... Anyway, I also have to disagree with the OP on this. From what I've read on NDEs, I've not...

I can see the sense in that. With regard to the girls, in the documentary, you get the impression that they are very close(!) and they obviously have no choice but to rely on one another for everything they do. Not only that, but their personalities are very different, it's as though they are...

Just an interesting question based on something that occurred to me when thinking about conjoined twins. A good case in point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_and_Brittany_Hensel As with cases like the above, you essentially have two souls sharing one body. Now, everyone here has...

I also used to be sceptical of a lot of stories until I read more books on the topic. One book in particular (I cannot remember the name off the top of my head because I'm at work at the moment) had cases presented by a Jungian psychologist who regressed people and healed them of various...

I'm of the understanding that these "hangovers" represent unresolved issues; unfinished business we need to work through for our own development. Saying that, the kid who returned maimed suggests that there are other forces at play. I do recall reading something somewhere once about certain...

I've mentioned this before in another thread, but since I was a small child, my parents always remarked at my aptitude for music. The first time I played a piano, I took to it straight away, and even though I was doing piano lessons, I used to make up my own compositions independent of the...

Just to add my 2 cents to the tangent about Apop's lyrics (which I also thought were pretty sharp, surprisingly so if I'm being honest). I also make music; I do solo stuff now for the most part, but used to play in a band, for which I wrote half the songs and lyrics (the guitarist wrote the...

I'm quite familiar with NDEs as well, though I've not read anything that suggests suicide victims are required or made to reincarnate immediately after death. If the reports I've read are anything to go by, people who do this usually have to view the consequence of their actions from the...

This succinctly sums up my view of that notion.

Here's one: If you reincarnate at any point in time and, like the person in the story, were to reincarnate to an earlier time post death, then it stands to reason that your soul would have memories of a "past" life in the future. Thus, if you were to be regressed, would you see things such as...

Thanks for sharing that, Nighttrain. It is certainly an interesting way of looking at it but yes, ultimately we are all connected. :)

In that last pic, you actually look a lot like Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth in his younger days (IMO, anyway). He's still with us though!

I completely agree with you. As I alluded to overpage, there was a lot of things, I never questioned while growing up because one was not "supposed" to, but nonetheless, the questions remained. And it wasn't until I got older, became disillusioned with christianity altogether and walked away...

If you'll forgive the unintended pun, I think we're all singing from the same hymn sheet essentially, which is to say, we all agree on this. Like you, I believed/known/whatever that I had been here before from a very young age, but it got drowned by the religious beliefs of my upbringing, and...

Just to breathe a bit more life into this thread and very interesting discussion, your paragraph here reminds me of a few other things that are somewhat unclear within christianity. Firstly, you mention somebody dying young needing to be baptised in order to be "saved", however many christians...

I'm not sure I believe that souls have a preference for a particular gender, but then again, it's not unreasonable to think so. To refer to an analogy I've used before, the whole process of "choosing bodies" pre-incarnation reminds me of choosing a character to play in a video game. Thus, in...

Another great thread. I'll contribute more tomorrow (it's 00:30 and I need to go to bed!), but the following article sums up the way I see it, and is similar to many of the ideas articulated here: http://www.near-death.com/science/pmh-atwater.html

I see your point, Nighttrain but the reason I believe the writer of that article was being dishonest is by virtue of its subjectivity. To me, it read as if it was written specifically to demonise Jung in the eyes of certain christians who, having read this, I imagine would not try to explore...

Re: Article posted by Nighttrain. That was an interesting article, though it reeked of sophistry, IMO. The writer seemed to be cherry-picking aspects of Jung's beliefs and sayings and deliberately presenting them in a way that would work fundamentalist christians into a froth (which isn't...