JTurk, it's not so much that I 'believe' in it.
Think of it like this. Say one day I went to a zoo. I saw elephants and whales and lions, then came back home and told you about it. You'd never seen a zoo, never seen any of those animals, didn't have any proof that any existed, and I had no cameras with me, no money to buy souveniers with.
And I couldn't take you with me. You'd have to go on your own, and only if you really, really wanted to.
There wouldn't be any way I could prove to you that there is a zoo, that these wild animals do exist. You'd just sort of look at me like I was 7 different layers of crazy.
Or, a better example. A platypus. You know how totally nuts this animal sounds? Part duck, part beaver, is warm blooded, AND it lays eggs?!
Even today some people question if this animal is really totally for real. However, if you go to a zoo or to it's natural living habitat, you'll see for yourself it's real.
For lots of people, that's what the subject of reincarnation / past lives is like. It sounds like it's totally nuts until you start nudging, until you start looking into it for yourself and start getting feelings and memories from another life.
For me, the real clincher is when I've been in the presence of someone. We were just chatting, and then the topic of conversation would change. One of us would mention a specific time or place. The other person would say something, talking about a very specific event, people, places. Then, at the same time, I was recalling the same thing. The explaination the other person started, I was able to cut off and finish, describing very specific details. Details you can't guess at. They are ones only someone who'd been at that exact time and place would know.
Then he or she'd start remembering things, both of us remembering the same events, remembering two different bodies, but knowing one another.
There's no way we could've known about these things. We'd never travelled there in our present lives. We had no proof of who and when we were, but the things we were recalling were as crystal clear as what I had to eat for breakfast this morning.
Times like those are thrilling and exciting and, for me, confirmation beyond all doubt, that this other person and I knew one another in another life, in another time.
It's extremely easy to say 'oh, psh, you're lying. Your just making this up. You're imagining things' from someone who's never had one of these moments happen for them. And, even for me, some of the lives I've remembered have made me stop in my tracks and go 'SERIOUSLY!!?'. (And, sad to say, more than once I've read someone talk about a past life they've had in this body or that form and I can't help but to go '... are you serious?? I mean. . .
really!?'. That is, until, later on, I get a past life bubble back up into my conscious mind, putting me in my place, and making me having to lol yet again, expand my mind more, stop being so restrictive with what I "think" I "know" and what I "think" "really exists".)
I suppose it's one of those situations where, until you've walked a mile in someone else's shoes, until you've recalled a past life of your own and know what it's like, it's extremely easy to sit back, be judgemental, and shoot people down. (And I mean it is WAY too easy to do that ~*sadly speaking from experience there*~)
We can really talk about this til we're blue in the face, but it won't change a thing.
Those that believe in past lives will believe in them.
Those that don't believe in past lives won't.
And those that have recalled past lives simply know. (Just like we know water is wet. The sun can blind you if you look at it too long. The desert is hot and sandy.)
For me, I will continue to show respect for other people's opinions, whether or not I agree with them. No one here is here to badger or berate someone else about what might or might not be. What is, simply is. What isn't, isn't. Everyone has a right to think what they like about any subject.
However, the universe, the many dimensions, even the simple little physical life we're living right now, there is way more to it than we can even begin to realize (lol just starting to realize that for myself now! Talk about mind blowing!) and I've learned time and again, it's not my place to limit myself or anyone else by going 'no this doesn't exist, no you're wrong, no bla bla bla' just because I haven't experienced or encountered it myself or just because I talk about something that someone else has yet to experience for themself doesn't make it any less real or any less a part of existence as a whole.
I'm just a humble, tiny student. My place is not to argue or berate, but to learn and show compassion and respect. I can only hope my path is full of like-minded and similar-hearted people.
~*gets off soapbox and goes to eat some bacon*~
just wanted to add that to the discussion.
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