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hoopmatch

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I came by my belief in reincarnation in a strange way. Traditional religion never did anything for me even though I had plenty of exposure to Christianity in my youth. I tried twice to get “saved” as a pre-teen but felt no different and figured it didn’t work.

Even during my 40s when I started going to Sunday school regularly and read Christian books in an attempt to get religion it didn’t work. Indeed, my research led me to a college course on CD about the New Testament that convinced me that the God of the Bible likely doesn’t exist.

Then in my mid 50s I was paired on eHarmony with a woman living in Turkey who said she had been reincarnated many times and remembered past lives. I have had zero similar experiences, but the concept of reincarnation made more sense to me than Christianity. So I became a believer not because I had an “aha” moment, but for practical considerations.

Believing in reincarnation means my spirit is in this particular body so I can learn or experience something. This makes it easier to accept that I made mistakes in life and have not lived up to my potential. Knowing I may never have close friends or a woman in my life is easier to accept if I believe in reincarnation. “Maybe this is what I was meant to experience,” I tell myself.

The only thing I can point to in my life that could be interpreted as evidence of a past life is a lifelong interest in World War II military history. (Along with other military history, but mostly WW2.)

It makes me wonder if I was a soldier, sailor or airman during World War II, possibly one who died in action.

Indeed, my mother’s oldest brother (whom I’m named after) died after jumping out of a B-26 Marauder over France in 1944.

I recently typed Uncle Ralph’s letters from the war into my computer and shared them with family. Most of us never knew him, and this was a great way for us to get to know him a little. Could he have been me in a past life?

I have no idea. It’s probably too pat an answer to be true. From the stories I’ve heard about Uncle Ralph, he was much more outgoing and naturally cheerful than I am.

Nevertheless, I continue through this life trying to remain open to whatever epiphanies might come my way. I just don’t think I’m much good at sensing or recognizing them.
 
I came by my belief in reincarnation in a strange way. Traditional religion never did anything for me even though I had plenty of exposure to Christianity in my youth. I tried twice to get “saved” as a pre-teen but felt no different and figured it didn’t work.

Even during my 40s when I started going to Sunday school regularly and read Christian books in an attempt to get religion it didn’t work. Indeed, my research led me to a college course on CD about the New Testament that convinced me that the God of the Bible likely doesn’t exist.

Then in my mid 50s I was paired on eHarmony with a woman living in Turkey who said she had been reincarnated many times and remembered past lives. I have had zero similar experiences, but the concept of reincarnation made more sense to me than Christianity. So I became a believer not because I had an “aha” moment, but for practical considerations.

Believing in reincarnation means my spirit is in this particular body so I can learn or experience something. This makes it easier to accept that I made mistakes in life and have not lived up to my potential. Knowing I may never have close friends or a woman in my life is easier to accept if I believe in reincarnation. “Maybe this is what I was meant to experience,” I tell myself.

The only thing I can point to in my life that could be interpreted as evidence of a past life is a lifelong interest in World War II military history. (Along with other military history, but mostly WW2.)

It makes me wonder if I was a soldier, sailor or airman during World War II, possibly one who died in action.

Indeed, my mother’s oldest brother (whom I’m named after) died after jumping out of a B-26 Marauder over France in 1944.

I recently typed Uncle Ralph’s letters from the war into my computer and shared them with family. Most of us never knew him, and this was a great way for us to get to know him a little. Could he have been me in a past life?

I have no idea. It’s probably too pat an answer to be true. From the stories I’ve heard about Uncle Ralph, he was much more outgoing and naturally cheerful than I am.

Nevertheless, I continue through this life trying to remain open to whatever epiphanies might come my way. I just don’t think I’m much good at sensing or recognizing them.
Hi, welcome!
there are some proof out there that at one point Christianity believed in reincarnation, so one does not have to leave out the other. If you think you have had a pl experiencing during war there are many on this forum that has this too, just be sure to protect yourself with white light and don't push through "closed doors" during meditation, from my understanding it can be overwhelming then.

Best Wishes

Li La
 
Welcome hoopmatch, here is a link to what Li La mentioned. As I mentioned previously - a message said by a Chaplan, "The longest journey that you will ever take is the short distance from your Head to your Heart" which sounds like what you are doing.
 
I came by my belief in reincarnation in a strange way. Traditional religion never did anything for me even though I had plenty of exposure to Christianity in my youth. I tried twice to get “saved” as a pre-teen but felt no different and figured it didn’t work.

Even during my 40s when I started going to Sunday school regularly and read Christian books in an attempt to get religion it didn’t work. Indeed, my research led me to a college course on CD about the New Testament that convinced me that the God of the Bible likely doesn’t exist.

Then in my mid 50s I was paired on eHarmony with a woman living in Turkey who said she had been reincarnated many times and remembered past lives. I have had zero similar experiences, but the concept of reincarnation made more sense to me than Christianity. So I became a believer not because I had an “aha” moment, but for practical considerations.

Believing in reincarnation means my spirit is in this particular body so I can learn or experience something. This makes it easier to accept that I made mistakes in life and have not lived up to my potential. Knowing I may never have close friends or a woman in my life is easier to accept if I believe in reincarnation. “Maybe this is what I was meant to experience,” I tell myself.

The only thing I can point to in my life that could be interpreted as evidence of a past life is a lifelong interest in World War II military history. (Along with other military history, but mostly WW2.)

It makes me wonder if I was a soldier, sailor or airman during World War II, possibly one who died in action.

Indeed, my mother’s oldest brother (whom I’m named after) died after jumping out of a B-26 Marauder over France in 1944.

I recently typed Uncle Ralph’s letters from the war into my computer and shared them with family. Most of us never knew him, and this was a great way for us to get to know him a little. Could he have been me in a past life?

I have no idea. It’s probably too pat an answer to be true. From the stories I’ve heard about Uncle Ralph, he was much more outgoing and naturally cheerful than I am.

Nevertheless, I continue through this life trying to remain open to whatever epiphanies might come my way. I just don’t think I’m much good at sensing or recognizing them.
In the book "Jesus My Autobiography" the author, Jeshua, speaks of reincarnation matter of factly. I guess it is a very big leap for "Bible believers" to see that he is alive and well and serving in the present day, dictating books and being channeled, sometimes live, online. He is very busy and is not so darned intimidating as the churches had led me to believe.
 
In the book "Jesus My Autobiography" the author, Jeshua, speaks of reincarnation matter of factly. I guess it is a very big leap for "Bible believers" to see that he is alive and well and serving in the present day, dictating books and being channeled, sometimes live, online. He is very busy and is not so darned intimidating as the churches had led me to believe.
Welcome!

The book you are citing must be very interesting. Am I understanding you correctly if I say that the book's author , Jeshua, is intended as Jesus Christ? Reincarnation is vaguely, and indirectly mentioned in the the New Testament, but hardly mentioned by Christian authorities. That I'm aware, all major official Christian institutions reject reincarnation outright. And although the human soul is at the heart of Christianity, it is but one physical life and one afterlife that church authorities all preach and teach.

As far as Jesus Christ and reincarnation, I was not aware that Jesus had incarnated prior to the one physically described and told about in the New Testament. And it was a total surprise to me when I read Edgar Cayce describe prior incarnations by Jesus. Cayce stated that Jesus had been Adam, the first sinner of the Garden of Eden, among other personages of the Old Testament, such as Joshua, etc. I had read Cayce's several books over 20 years ago, and I'm going by memory, since the books must be laying somewhere in my attic collecting dust. Needless to say, I had a hard time believing Cayce on Jesus' multiple reincarnations. And although the NT has Jesus mentioning "born again", there is no self admission by Jesus where He explicitly mentions and further elaborates reincarnation, nor does he mention his own previous reincarnations. I'm pretty much set on reincarnation being a truth to about 99%, but I don't buy into the idea that anyone has ever hit upon the scope as to why we reincarnate. And I'm of opinion that souls are never born, if we are immortal. Therefore I don't buy into the idea of old or young souls. We must be all the same age, eternal. Eternity has no place for TIME. And young and old implies time. Since Jesus's message in the NT is all about the eternal afterlife, and the soul, which we all already possess, I deduce that we all came from the eternal realm (astral world to some) to earth. But as far as why we do that, it is anyone's guess. Certainly it's not to learn anything. If we are immortal (eternal) we have always existed, and therefore already know everything.

But getting back to Jeshua and reincarnation, We have had a few people claim to have been Jesus reincarnate. I take all of them to be frauds. However, for a while, I entertained the idea that one of them may have been telling the truth. I'm referring to Meher Baba, this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meher_Baba Meher Baba talked about reincarnation, but his reincarnation explanation is hard to swallow, because it's like trying to swallow a large stone. Literally, Meher Baba stated that we reincarnate through rocks, stones, pebbles and just about everything else physical, before we come into human form. In other words, what I understand Baba to mean is that the soul evolves, cycles through a stage of having been everything physical. I think that he claimed that the purpose of this evolution of the soul is to reach godhood, something that each soul (each of us) is striving to achieve. Some ancient philosophers would say that, we humans should try to be as godlike as humanly possible.

I just wanted you, David, to understand a little bit about how I take reincarnation and Jesus to be related, before I told you that I don't believe Jesus Christ is in any way in contact with anyone of us in the physical world, at this time. But I'm certain that reading such books as you referenced to be entertaining. Again, welcome aboard! We all share our opinions and beliefs here.
 
And I'm of opinion that souls are never born, if we are immortal. Therefore I don't buy into the idea of old or young souls.
I feel this also.

Literally, Meher Baba stated that we reincarnate through rocks, stones, pebbles and just about everything else physical, before we come into human form.
This also feels possible to me.

To address your statement that we have experienced everything, if we have then there would be no reason for us to be here - a circular thought perhaps.
 
I feel this also.


This also feels possible to me.

To address your statement that we have experienced everything, if we have then there would be no reason for us to be here - a circular thought perhaps.
Is not everything cyclic, when it comes to logic? If we are eternal beings we have experienced everything. The reason we are here is to get second helpings. We have eternity that is cyclical, both circular and linear. We intentionally forget, so that we can again experience what we previously experienced, but with a little twist. The twist is that if we forget it, it will seem like the first time. It's like going to see a movie for the second time, because we liked it so much. But for us it's a whole lot better, because we chose to forget the movie, or nearly so (deja vu) before going to see it again. Reincarnation is reliving what we have already lived. Who knows just how many times we have done the same things over and over, and perhaps there is not a number large enough to express it. And to a forgetful soul, it's always nearly as good as the first time, but never as good. There is a song which expresses my feeling on what I believe, and have just expressed. Sade - Never As Good As The First Time
 
Welcome!

The book you are citing must be very interesting. Am I understanding you correctly if I say that the book's author , Jeshua, is intended as Jesus Christ? Reincarnation is vaguely, and indirectly mentioned in the the New Testament, but hardly mentioned by Christian authorities. That I'm aware, all major official Christian institutions reject reincarnation outright. And although the human soul is at the heart of Christianity, it is but one physical life and one afterlife that church authorities all preach and teach.

As far as Jesus Christ and reincarnation, I was not aware that Jesus had incarnated prior to the one physically described and told about in the New Testament. And it was a total surprise to me when I read Edgar Cayce describe prior incarnations by Jesus. Cayce stated that Jesus had been Adam, the first sinner of the Garden of Eden, among other personages of the Old Testament, such as Joshua, etc. I had read Cayce's several books over 20 years ago, and I'm going by memory, since the books must be laying somewhere in my attic collecting dust. Needless to say, I had a hard time believing Cayce on Jesus' multiple reincarnations. And although the NT has Jesus mentioning "born again", there is no self admission by Jesus where He explicitly mentions and further elaborates reincarnation, nor does he mention his own previous reincarnations. I'm pretty much set on reincarnation being a truth to about 99%, but I don't buy into the idea that anyone has ever hit upon the scope as to why we reincarnate. And I'm of opinion that souls are never born, if we are immortal. Therefore I don't buy into the idea of old or young souls. We must be all the same age, eternal. Eternity has no place for TIME. And young and old implies time. Since Jesus's message in the NT is all about the eternal afterlife, and the soul, which we all already possess, I deduce that we all came from the eternal realm (astral world to some) to earth. But as far as why we do that, it is anyone's guess. Certainly it's not to learn anything. If we are immortal (eternal) we have always existed, and therefore already know everything.

But getting back to Jeshua and reincarnation, We have had a few people claim to have been Jesus reincarnate. I take all of them to be frauds. However, for a while, I entertained the idea that one of them may have been telling the truth. I'm referring to Meher Baba, this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meher_Baba Meher Baba talked about reincarnation, but his reincarnation explanation is hard to swallow, because it's like trying to swallow a large stone. Literally, Meher Baba stated that we reincarnate through rocks, stones, pebbles and just about everything else physical, before we come into human form. In other words, what I understand Baba to mean is that the soul evolves, cycles through a stage of having been everything physical. I think that he claimed that the purpose of this evolution of the soul is to reach godhood, something that each soul (each of us) is striving to achieve. Some ancient philosophers would say that, we humans should try to be as godlike as humanly possible.

I just wanted you, David, to understand a little bit about how I take reincarnation and Jesus to be related, before I told you that I don't believe Jesus Christ is in any way in contact with anyone of us in the physical world, at this time. But I'm certain that reading such books as you referenced to be entertaining. Again, welcome aboard! We all share our opinions and beliefs here.

Hi Native Son. Yes, I do mean to indicate Jesus Christ when I say 'Jeshua'. In sources I refer to, use, read and hear and appreciate, he has mentioned occasionally that he was called Jeshua when here in the middle east as the teacher that he was. I do not capitalize the "he" in remembrance of the fact that we are, to him, as brothers and sisters, and that he never taught or declared that he was the " only son of God". Christianity is not what I am about at all. I know someone who has seen him in a church environment! She and four others witnessed his visit there while the rest of their choir-in-practice saw nothing. I also saw him once in Toronto, briefly and very much "for real". If he is the author of the book I mentioned, and you read it, would it not be an example of his being in touch with human beings in these days? In an attempt to say where I am coming from, I would suggest that you consider that he wa a human being who accomplished what you say that Meyer baba pointed out. The term I have adopted from some who "know" is that he became " self-realized" and Awakened. My referencing his talking about reincarnation was not to say that he only was referring to himself as having been reincarnated. He was speaking of us all, in that regard. To become awakened or enlightened (I am learning) means that an understanding and vital awareness, "realization" of the All is achieved, so that " how it (All) works" is evident and becomes familiar or at least evidenced. An aspect of what I have come to believe is that everyone of us is a living extension of God. In the absence of God-recognition, I would have no beliefs at all. Incarnation, and reincarnation, afford us the opportunity to live as if we were/are separate from The Whole, the All that Is. We can identify with or as a body. Someone points to my body when I am one year old, and they say "you" as if they could point to "me" . Many, most people seem to think they are a body, live accordingly to an extent. 'Here' in the physical we can actually believe that we keep ourselves alive, as if independently (without reference to God/Spirit): we can believe that we " live by bread alone". It seems to me, though, that we, the soul/spirit, animate our physiology, move our fingers, pass consciousness through our brains and nervous systems, see what we see "through our eyes" (which without spirit consciousness would see nothing. We, the soul, is not ( I am told) not confined within a body but is larger than the body, and it is more accurate to say that the body exists within the soul of self. Anyway, it may be the case, since his various works in literature are widely available online, via Amazon etc and that unless someone has reason to believe that he is alive and well and active they will not read his messages and will continue to suppose he is of little consequence. One might say that it is paradoxical that the reason so many doubt his legitimacy is due to the churches and what they have done with his name. The Jeshua I mean to be referring to is not the church 'production'. If anyone looks for the actual soul, self, identity of the Christed One he is happy to be found. In my very definite opinion, adopting church theology etc is NOT the way to do it. One better way would be to say " real Jesus, Jeshua, are you there, at all?" The churches advocate that you and I may be 'saved' if we believe what they tell us to believe, and "confess" it openly. This is not his teaching as I have encountered it. I cannot say in a few words what his teaching is- he does it so much better for himself, but he uses thousands of pages to clarify it. It is not 'magical' - it is practical, and is what he himself gathered and practiced from those who communicated to him.
 
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