Steven Carr

When you think that there are over 6 billion people in the world, a significant number of devout Buddhists must have been reincarnated as Catholics.

How does that work exactly?

newtype_alpha

Paying off some bad karma, methinks. Is there anything in recent Chinese or Indian history--say, the last 200 years or so--that would indicate a large number of buddhists doing bad things?

FarmMama

Off to NARP we go

David B

Yeah - all the evidence suggests that there is no reincarnation, or any sort of Akashic Record that keeps tabs on Karma, but, just pretending, I'd definitely see moving from Catholic to Buddhist as promotion, and vice versa. As a general rule. Perhaps some buddhist bodhisattva might elect to be reborn a catholic, in order to rise in their ranks and reform them to the point that thir doctrines bear some sort of resemblance to reality.:rolling:

David B

Gawen

I don't know...but it makes me wonder if a long dead Pope is now a Yogi....:huh:

Chili

Common sense tells me that if I am the incarnate son of my parents I am also the re-incarnate son of my grandparents. Now if we add up to a Thousand Years of lineage to our heritage to stabilize our true nature it is easy to see how and why we can have dejavu's from way back and actually can become the sage "who can speak of both the old and the new."

David B

Not, I believe, in the way that reincarnation is normally understood. But OK, yeah, go back far enough, and by your account you become the reincarnation of a self replicating molecule.

As for the dejavus, I prsyme you are talking about something like wahr happened in Dune, where Paul could remember his parents lives. It doesn't seem that DNA works quite like that outside the pages of fiction.

David B

Magic Primate

Observe your dejavus carefully. You should notice that it is a sense of familiary as something is happening rather than a memory which actually gives you information you wouldn't otherwise have had. The current thinking on dejavu experiences is that the sense of familiarity is triggered when it shouldn't be, leading people to feel that they have been there before. I think that makes a lot of sense.

Chili

Not really because that is far beyond one thousand years. I hold that the ancients reported their age for up to one thousand years because that is how far back they could journey back inside their own subconscious mind and recall evidence. It is therefore also called the Thousand Year Reign wherein we have eternal life while we are alive on this earth but now in the new heaven and new earth. IOW, eternity only takes us back for up to a thousand years (and I think that 500 years is far enough to call home).

Also notice that Jesus's linage in Luke was given after the descend of the HS to say that it was an inspired account instead of a written account as in Matthew. Naturally, the Wedding in Cana is where he *met* these people.

I think hardy has a poem on this as well (Voices from the Graveyard).

Chili

I don't have any dejavu's or dreams, but yes, they can lie to us and I even think that they have a name for such error today. But I forgot what it is.