Hello, I am so happy to find this forum. Lately I’ve been questioning is it possible for my deceased mother ( over 40 years) to come back as my granddaughter?
I lost my mother over 40 years to domestic violence, she was nine months pregnant, and I was nine years old. I now have two grandchildren the youngest is one. I love both grandkids with all my heart, but I must say there is something different about the one year old. My first time holding her when she was 3 weeks old, she stared at me and winked one of her eyes at me. My son and I both were shocked and laughed about it. However to be a baby, her learning skills seem incredibly sharp, it’s like she’s been here before, She also hums when she eats. My mother use to hum when she ate nobody knows that but me. She now looks a lot like my mother, she even has long hair like my mother. She has always given direct eye contact to me since 3 weeks old and now she gravitates toward me, and she seems so happy to see me whenever I visit. Is it possible for reincarnation or does she have some of the same characteristics as my mother.
I lost my mother over 40 years to domestic violence, she was nine months pregnant, and I was nine years old. I now have two grandchildren the youngest is one. I love both grandkids with all my heart, but I must say there is something different about the one year old. My first time holding her when she was 3 weeks old, she stared at me and winked one of her eyes at me. My son and I both were shocked and laughed about it. However to be a baby, her learning skills seem incredibly sharp, it’s like she’s been here before, She also hums when she eats. My mother use to hum when she ate nobody knows that but me. She now looks a lot like my mother, she even has long hair like my mother. She has always given direct eye contact to me since 3 weeks old and now she gravitates toward me, and she seems so happy to see me whenever I visit. Is it possible for reincarnation or does she have some of the same characteristics as my mother.
but . . . . hey, just trying to think of some kind of basis for Skyline's position (even if very limited). 
It was directed at Skyline, but now have deleted it since she wasn't the one who posted it. It must have been seeing it on the cell phone that caused me to see it incorrectly. I'm not sure why, though, I strangely saw the reply as directed to me. I must have thought since I got a notifcation about a reply in the thread, it was a reply for me, like what occurs at Disqus, not a notification that another post had been made. I haven't been a regular here in a long time. No more cell phone replies! Sorry for the mistake. You and I have appear to have compatible beliefs here.
Yes, I would like to know if Skyline finds the idea of incarnating into a family other than her own to be distasteful or distressing? If so, why? I've read of individuals who like to believe they are born back into the same religion or ethnic group, but I think at times that may be rooted in prejudices or pretentiousness. Or maybe they really love their current religion or ethnic group. Maybe there are those who really love their current families, and can't stand the thought of ever being separated from them.
I can see some possibilities for bloodline reincarnation, or at least can't totally discount it. However, I can only remember hearing it proposed by one other person in the past. But in the model he proposed (which I will call model 1), the bloodline would start with the first incarnation, allowing reincarnation thereafter in any of the lines of descent derived therefrom. Thus, in "model 1" the pool of available possibilities would normatively expand with each successive generation. In your model (which I will refer to as model 2) it appears that successive incarnations are normatively restricted to direct lineal descendants, and can only take place in a collateral line where they are absent, so what you are proposing appears to be a much more restricted version of model 1. However, I may be misunderstanding you on this. In either case, I still would like to know the answer to my questions above. (I never had a chance to follow up with with the person who proposed model 1, so I don't want to miss the chance now).