Today's discussion question

[Joseph Tracy]

People have also had false childhood memories under hypnosis. Hypnosis is clearly a very suggestible and unreliable tool for getting at the past. 
On Aug 15, 2013, at 6:53 PM, David Morris wrote:

> The concept of reincarnation long predates the advent of Buddhism in India.
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> I don't find it useful, since access to lessons learned in a previous lives isn't common nor plausible when through hypnosis people recall being Napoleon or Cleopatra. If there is a kernel of truth in the concept of reincarnation it seems to me useful as a way to understand inherent knowledge, instincts, in every living being, passed on via eons of evolution. Collective Conciousness?
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> David Morris
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> On Thursday, August 15, 2013, wrote:
> It's not remotely plausible.  Where would you suggest this "knowledge" comes from?
> The idea that the Tibetans 
> know something in regard to reincarnation that we don't seems perfectly 
> plausible.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
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> Subject: Re: Today's discussion question
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> Unless it is true. This idea has been around for a long time and has had some 
> non bubble headed proponents who may perceive things unseen by a certain kind of 
> logic. I am agnostic on all questions that seek to definitively describe other 
> dimensions of experience, but some of my own experiences have kept me from 
> closing the door on this and I do not find that leaving the question open 
> induces any more bubble headedness than watching TV. The idea that the Tibetans 
> know something in regard to reincarnation that we don't seems perfectly 
> plausible.
> On Aug 14, 2013, at 6:18 PM, David Morris wrote:
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> > But you're right about my attitudes; the idea that the DL is a reincarnated 
> spirit is as bubble-headed as any other religious myth.
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