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Apple Brown Betty came to my mind when I read this. It's an autumn dessert, a sort of fruit cobbler. According to Wikipedia it was first mentioned in 1864. It was popular with the pioneers - and it was Ronald Reagan's favorite dessert.

It's so interesting to read about your experience because the same thing happened to me over 30 years ago when I was participating in a psychic awareness class! I've never heard of anyone else disappearing but I can confirm that the same thing happened to me in a class of about 6-8 people. I...

I suspect that he's referring to WWII because the "Rosie the Riveter" mass movement of women into the work force did not happen in WWI. When he says "the first war" he may be taking Korea, Vietnam, or the Gulf War into the equation.

This is a really great way to sum it up! It feels right to me.

I think that ghosts come in all different varieties and hang around for different reasons, many of which have already been discussed. But I think that free will enters the picture more than is commonly believed or understood. Once we die, we can pass into the light - or we can hang around. I...

Ruth Montgomery wrote about Walk-in's in the late 1970's. I find the idea a bit scary.

I was referring to the spiritual friends. Very interesting experiences you've had! I have to re-read what you've written and give it some thought in order to process it. I believe that there are as many realities as there are souls, so while I may not agree with your friends, I understand...

Is that all they were doing? Just waiting in limbo? That sounds a bit boring. I'm planning to visit family and friends - and places. I'm going to be that proverbial fly on the wall! I disagree with your friends. I believe that we have absolute control over when we die, and how, but I don't...

There are some wonderful and thought-provoking replies in this thread! For me, reincarnation was always front and center in my life, though I didn't fully realize it until I was in my late teens or early 20's. I grew up in a large US Irish-Catholic family and we were all very different...

Thanks everyone, for the input! I am going to try to get a bit more detail from her first chance I get. I thought it was odd that today I logged on to the news to read that a 15-year-old girl was killed on a fair ride - I can't remember right now if it was actually a roller coaster...

I hurt my arm a few days ago when I was installing a shower curtain - I think I pulled a muscle - and I was lying down yesterday after work because it hurt. We have custody of two very young granddaughters and the 4-year-old came in to chat. She has made one-off comments in the past about...

A soul may have volunteered to be a genocide victim [or survivor] for any number of reasons. A few I can think of, in terms of learning-growth-teaching: Help another soul by providing an opportunity to grow The importance of compassion and love for one's fellow man The value of familial...

I'm reading the archives and I'm bumping up this thread because it's so interesting. All my life I had dreams about living in poverty in 19th century London, specifically the East End. My best friend and I wrote and illustrated books about it when we were in grade school. I believe we shared...

I don't know how to explain racism, sexism, homophobia, extreme nationalism, etc. When you believe in the soul's greater purpose and you understand the whole concept of reincarnation, you get that these sorts of biases are just downright ridiculous. As far as I can tell, souls have no gender...

I think that we choose our gender as well as our sexual orientation before we incarnate. I don't believe that we have a specific gender on the soul-level, though we may feel a closer kinship to a particular gender. If someone chooses to reincarnate with specific lessons to tackle, it seems to...

I think that everything we know, or think we know, is based entirely upon the human/physical experience. Scientists go forward from this point, just as mediums and psychics do. We are all living in Flatland. What bothers me about scientists is that too many of them refuse to consider that...

I had a second cousin who died in 9/11. He was a firefighter - and he was Irish-Catholic. I noticed the green hat in the photo. Was your son's firefighter of Irish descent? Has he given you any info about his name or which fire department he worked for?

You're right. I forgot about that! I'm not sure that explains the millions of victims. It seems likely to me that they must have known what they were in for, which means that it was planned - at least to some extent. Just a hunch.

It's that "everything is NOW" thingie again. When I visualize the afterlife and a soul looking at past-present-future lives, I visualize a series of ribbons, all in motion - running in all possible directions around the core (the soul) and creating a 3-D ball of sorts. If you pick a spot on a...

It certainly sounds like a past-life experience. Do you feel like you were the soldier, or someone who was impacted tremendously by his death?