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Yeah, Wil, do think the little ones can pick up all sorts of stuff that we adults seem unable to. Kim, as to the tale I posted, while of course this side of the "veil" we see dimly and can be sure of little, I tend to hypothesize too that whoever/whatever that little one had interacted with was...

The biology and physics of life is in its own way mysterious. But, well beyond those levels I do think reality is far more mysterious than we can know.:) earl

As some of you may know, I'm pretty convinced that very young children often have a natural psychic awareness that in most cases fades with age. So, I can easily entertain the notion that not all of what they claim to see that adults do not is necessarily "only in their imagination." A...

Paladin, guess you could say in keeping with that Taoist principle that, as long as there is a "self," we alternate between attempting to micromanage from the position of a self and perhaps believing there is a micromanaging "God." When we have moved beyond "self," there is no micromanager at...

a very warm welcome to our gathering. Nobody here knows much for sure but it does keep us talking.;):D earl

Well, greymare, am thinking my mind's going to beat my body out the door.:p I've been meaning to ask about how it is you've moved from Oz to the US. earl

I tend to get myself in trouble occasionally when I attempt to point out to Buddhists that relative to the notion of alaya vijnana in Tibetan Buddhism there is a rough parallel to the Western notion of "soul." Here's brief summary of a talk David Gray-a Tibetan Buddhist scholar gave at an Esalen...

For a totally different view of soul from the Jungian perspective, there's this long essay explicating that view: Netscape Search Bottom line of the essay seems to be they know it when they see it but they don't know what it is.:D My view of soul is rather along the lines of Path's but yet...

I've been around long enough to recall this guy and his proposition.:D He was 1 of the early New Agers to jump on the so-called Mayan prophecies bandwagon, publishing some books on the subject. Did he do it for a bit of fame & $ or was he just a pollyana-who knows? Guess cheerful dubious...

Happy birthday P of 1, you youngin' you.:p earl

Guess you could consider the New Agers expecting 2012 to mark a New Eden of spiritual insight in humanity as the cheerier antithesis of the fundamentalistic Christian notion of Apocalyptic times.:D Sometimes I see this camp referring to that new epoch as occurring due to a "thinning of the veil"...

Welcome. As this is an interfaith discussion board, I suspect you'll find a bit more open attitude toward a non-dogmatic view of Christianity than you apparently experienced elsewhere though some discussions here have tended to get a tad heated in the past.:) earl

Jenn, I see you're interested in Jungian thought. Perhaps you're familiar with the Jungian analyst, Roger Woolger, whose first published book over 20 years ago was about past lives-"Other Lives, Other Selves." He's continued to work with past lives with his more recent work encompassing Tibetan...

Welcome K. I sometimes refer to myself as a "New Ager," too for lack of a better descriptor. Though saying you're a New Ager is about as precise as saying you're a male given it seems that term can encompass so many belief systems as to defy an accurate depiction of an individual's particular...

Interesting notions, Jenn. Perhaps we are just individualized nodes of consciousness and part of the One Mind with memory stored throughout the Mind holographically.:) Fun to speculate but as you said, who knows? Maybe when we are in ordinary states of consciousness, we view time linearly...

Welcome Jenn. Judging from your remarks on that thread involving reincarnation recently, we may have some similar views. And yet you say you're not very "New Agey.";) But, then, what the heck does that term even mean?:) earl

CZ, as the following from an Australian Buddhist abbot shows, Buddhists do indeed interpret such comments as I've noted as clearly speaking of past lives: Netscape Search This also makes mention of contemporary Buddhist monks and nuns having occasional remembrance of previous lives, something...

CZ, it's an oft told tale that the Buddha in the course of obtaining enlightenment spontaneously recalled all of his many past lives: Netscape Search earl

That sounds like the essentially Buddhist view of karma and future rebirth of the mindstream ala Vajrayana Buddhism CZ with which I at least partially. As to memory formation being entirely contingent upon a functional brain, maybe not. That, of course, is what is interesting about near death...

Happy birthday SL. So you're a Christmas Eve babe. Any virgin births in your family?;) earl