How many people in your family "believe"

[Rainmaker]

Unfortunately My answer would be only me who believes in reincarnation, not only that, even my friends don’t believe in it that’s why I am keeping it a secret and don’t talk about it much.


I became interested in reincarnation since I was about 11 and then a believer when I was in college.


Once I was chatting with my mother, and we brought the subject of reincarnation, she is not a believer but she seems to know lots of information.

 

[Nightrain]

Alas, I fear -- My good wife has discovered my secret! :butbut:


Of course, who wouldn't have noticed; the two of us sitting in the living room adjacent to each other for countless hours, as I sit furiously burning my finger prints into the keyboard and asking questions like:


"Hon? Did the boys ever say anything that caused you to wonder..."


"Hon? Did the boys ever become excited when..."


"Hon? Did you ever have strange dreams before the boys were born that might indicate..."


"Hon?..."


NOW, she's interested, and I'm going to have to admit that I'm not really working, when she asks, "What are you typing this time?". :freak:


Oh, well... :laugh:


-Nightrain

 

[Lady2]

An interesting old poll. I voted "Various members - but not all". My mom & brother, and a few friends - but not everyone.

 

[argonne1918]

Same here.

 

[Tinkerman]

Funny I've never answered this... Most of my family knows about my deep and solid belief in it. I make no secret about it. I have always spoken very openly with my kids about it since my own awakening. I want them to see, what for me is, one of the most obvious mysteries of our existence. I actually think my 85 year old Dad may just have some understanding of it. Most of the people in this very rural part of America who know me, know I have a different way of looking at things. and you would be surprised at how many folks want to talk about it. I do not stand on a soap box, nor flaunt my beliefs, but I'm available and most happy to talk about it...


Tman

 

[Edelweiss]

I voted only a select few and friends. Only my Husband and a select few of friends are aware.

 

[usetawuz]

An interesting old poll. I voted "Various members - but not all". My mom & brother, and a few friends - but not everyone.

Me too...mom asks questions when I discuss new ideas and evidence while dad listens and reads my books. My sister doesn't discuss things she cannot use here and now and apparently feels she can't use it! My wife is terrified of anything she won't take the time to understand...and besides "it's so weird!" sayeth that cultural catholic. My kids are familiar with it and both have had views and memories of past lives. They are both aware of some events from our previous lives together. I once held the boy to the left up to the bathroom sink to enable him to wash his hands and he said in an exasperated voice "I wish I was tall again!" Of course, all I could say through the welling up of emotion I felt was "You will be soon enough, son."

 

[Aelfgyva]

A mental illness???


When I was very young it was my grandmother who told me about fantastic adventures of far away lands and even far away worlds! She said they were her very own adventures...ofcourse I believed every word! She said our souls never die and that learning never stops. When I got older we talked together of reincarnation and because as a teen I already had a very strong "pull" to Europe, she was the only one who understood what I was feeling. I wish she could have been with me in Bayeux, when I found my bear on the tapestry ...but she probably was When I tried talking to my sister about all of this, she was very quiet and after a few seconds asked if I were schizophrenic!!! Geeeezzz!!!.....needless to say, we don't talk about it any more!

 

[Spatz]

Neat older thread! I hope some others have something to add.


Well, I lucked out big time and ended up in a family where both parents were not only open-minded spiritually, but also have had their own past life experiences. As a kid my friends were pretty diverse religiously speaking, and I looked around and learned from a few different faiths, but reincarnation always made a sort of 'sense' to me. So it was just a belief of mine from pretty early on, but it took some time and some more experience and research of mine before I could really feel 'confirmed' in it. Child past lives aren't always easy, and my parents did support me all the way through the 'teenager past life' phase too, which I'm infinitely grateful for.


Beyond my parents, I think at least an uncle or two are privy to the idea as well, but I haven't really talked to either of them at any length about it.

 

[famgrin]

0 lol

 

[famgrin]

0 :laugh:

 

[Dawn o the Shed]

I had no idea I hadn't voted on this before!


For myself, by the age of 2 or 3 I remember knowing I had been here before and being annoyed because I was a child again and couldn't remember who I used to be, just a huge sense of loss. (my earliest memory is 11 months old).


I have two older brothers and two younger, but between the two older brothers there had been another, he died at 11 days old. When my younger brother was born (I was 4 at the time), My Mum believed he was her lost baby coming back to her, and told anyone who'd listen at the time. That was probably the point where I realised how it worked.


She'd dreamed of me before I was born, visualised me with red hair, blue eyes and dark lashes (hers were blonde and she hated them) and I came out exactly as she imagined, but only when my younger brother arrived did she feel completed, she had her lost son back.


My Dad was open to all kinds of beliefs, he was born into a Spiritualist household in the 1920s, his Dad was a transfigurationalist Medium and they held séances in the front room at the weekend! I talked with Dad about every weird notion that came into my head, but I lost him to cancer when I was 16 and really cannot remember what we discussed about reincarnation, I'm sure we did, but I was distraught when he died.. Mum outlived him by 11 years and I'm sure she looked at each grandchild as they were born, wondering if it was him, hoping it wasn't because she still sorta wanted to be with him on the other side.

 

[Bees]

My twin sister and I believe in reincarnation, but none of our other five older siblings believe. I don't think any of our extended family believe - nothing has been mentioned in general conversation.


We don't talk to our siblings about our belief in reincarnation but have spoken about our premonitions which have come to pass.


Our late mother said her grand aunts read tea leaves, but that is the only connection to 'spiritual' practices in my family.


I am so glad that I can talk to my twin about our past life experiences/memories.