Reincarnation makes perfect sense from the standpoint of human learning. We need “do overs” to get it right. Most of us in the West (modern world), have a “one and done” view of life. We are born, grow up, grow old, and die. Then we (our souls) go either to heaven or hell, depending, or we just cease to exist. Throughout history, most people have rejected the concept of simply ceasing to exist. They want something more, so they establish religions and rituals that they think will give them a wonderful “afterlife” if they follow the right rules of behavior . . . → Read More: Reincarnation
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 Comments are closed  Blog  afterlife, belief, cards, death, energy, Energy Medicine, God, healing touch, heaven, Hell, heroes of our own life, human learning, John Keats, Life, old souls, one-and-done, past lives, poker, Reiki, reincarnation, seeing through a glass darkly, seeing through the glass darkly, seven deadly sins, sheep and goats, St. Paul, vale of soul-making On a cold and frosty late-December morning, when I lived in a previous neighborhood, I was out walking my dog. It was so long ago that in the years between then and now, not only has that dog died of old age, but my next two dogs have also died of old age. Even so, on that late-December morning I said something that still haunts me. A boy who lived in a nearby house, ran up to me holding up a new pair of gloves, saying excitedly, “See what I got! New gloves!” My reply: “They are really neat. Did . . . → Read More: What Did You Get for Christmas? Comments are closed Blog agnostic, ancestors, athiest, begats, Bible, Bible as metaphor, Big Enders, Buddhism, business communication, Cherokee, Christmas, Civil Rights, culture, English, ethnocentric, ethnocentrism, European invaders, fundamentalist, G.I. Bill, Georgia, go and sin no more, Hanukkah, heaven, Imagine, India, John Lennon, Jonathan Swift, King James, Little Enders, Midwest, Mother Theresa, National Day of Mourning, Native American, Norwegian, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, parents, Quaker, spiritual force, spirituality, the holidays, Trail of Tears, U.S. Army, Vietnam War, Western Michigan University, Western Tribes, WWII According to a top Saudi cleric, driving damages women’s ovaries. Does the fact (reality) that some people believe that make it true, if only for them? What—exactly—is the relationship between reality and what we believe? You may know people who believe that their beliefs accurately reflect reality. If you’ve been reading this blog for very long, you know that one of my recurrent themes is the need for an evidence procedure that allows individuals to base their beliefs on reality to the degree that it’s possible. It was, for example, perfectly logical for our ancient ancestors to believe that . . . → Read More: The Reality of Beliefs Comments are closed Blog ancestors, ancient, atheism, atmosphere, babies, beliefs, border, Byron Katie, Catholic, cleric, CO2, driving, earth, fossil fuels, geography, global climate change, global warming, heaven, Hell, humans, Imagine, Islam, John Lennon, microscopes, mountain, Mr. Everest, Muslim, oceans, ovaries, Protestant, reality, river, Saudi, Shia, Sunni, technologies, technology, telescopes, war, women |
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