how can you determine if you have experinced past lives ?

Hello, Hannah,

I agree with him.
Not to mention the matter of existence of many planets & some Suns.
Where do the souls & spirits of those world goes when their time is up?

[girlsearching]

Originally Posted by hannah

Reincarnation is a tenet of many beliefs, in fact it seems to be the norm rather than the exception- the soul follows the cyclic pattern of birth to death to birth of all matter in existence, constantly cycling from one form to another, but never made or destroyed.

The main problem with reincarnation that I have is this:
At present there are 7 billion people on the planet. The number of humans, ever living, since we evolved ~200,000yrs ago, is no more than I think 8 billion. This means that assuming only one life per person, there are 6bn people at present living for the first time.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

Possible explanations-1) as in the belief of Pythagoras and the Celts, the soul can live as anything, living or non-living- a rock, a star, a word in a letter, etc, and most have never lived before as a human.
2) Can a soul split, so two or more people will have lived the exact same past life? Possibly through genetic links?
3) Are many souls being created anew? Perhaps the ones who are spiritually advanced or have a belief in reincarnation are the ones who have indeed lived before, and all those who do not believe are newly created?
What does anyone think?

Hannah do you belive that the majority of people will reincarnate in the next life. ?

[hannah]

I generally believe that souls are on a journey, that when they reach the high state of purity / achieve their life(s) purpose, they can then escape from the cycle become one with the infinite higher plane of existence. I don't believe that incarnations are limited to human lives, - all things in existence were created as equal and as such contain and equal amount of spirit/ soul.

The idea of living in parallel universes was not something I had considered before- thank you for that. It does seem to make sense.

I believe that after death the soul/ energy unites with the universal energy that infuses everything, in this universe or even in all universes. Then some or all of it enters a new conscious being for a new existence.

If our soul energy becomes a part of everything, then we are simultaneously a part of everyone and everything for that time, everyone's conscious contains a part of everyone else's, maybe what we believe are our incarnations are just other people's memories and lives that we experience for a short time, you could say we have lived as everyone else on the planet, past and present.....
The argument deepens...