Were we all someone else in the past?

Question

This has to do with reincarnation. Were we all someone else before? I mean, with different name, physical appearance, etc.

Answer 1

There's no evidence to suggest that.  However, there are a lot of people making up stories like that to defraud their 'old family'.

Answer 2

Once a girl died in a fire and one day a little girl said she was the girl and she explained everything that happened perfectly so yes i do believe we were someone else at one point in history.

Answer 3

I don't think so because there are more people on the planet currently than at any other time in history. Thus, previous souls could not make up the entire current population.

That said I don't dismiss the idea of past lives being possible.

The best research to date was done by Dr. Stevenson

http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/int...

Michael John Weaver, M.S.

Answer 4

it is quite possible that many of us were someone else, but i dont think all of us were someone else

Answer 5

anything in this world is possible and reincarnation is one of those things that we cannot prove and we cannot disprove - there are reports of children who have remembered information like name, rank and serial number and have been able to tell people how to fly a plane. there are reports of past life regression - where in hypnosis people have remembered aspects of a past life or several past lives. My friend always wanted to go to this particular scottish village and when this person got there - they knew streets that had existed but were not available now and names of street - they had never been there before!

People have an affiliation to something - social work or medicine or a gift to music - its thought they may have had that gift in a past life. The saying "he/she has an old soul stand to sya that souls can come back.

Answer 6

Good question.  This is the soul's journey.  Or a record of energy manifesting itself where and how it can.  What if I reincarnated as a whisper of wind.  Thoughts of being here before could be genetic memory.  Perhaps we are just pure energy experiencing what befalls us.....

Answer 7

I believe so, as I have experienced flashbacks (for lack of a better word) to past lives. In response to the answer concerning people doing this to defraud families, I have never heard of it. In my case I do not have enough information from my flashbacks to even find the families, much less attempt to defraud them.

Answer 8

Any conjecture on that kind of thing is just that, conjecture. Much like religious precepts, the idea of past lives must be taken on faith. There is nothing in the way of scientific evidence which lends credence to the concept.

Answer 9

There is no evidence for reincarnation. Along with life-after-death it is a common belief of what happens when you die. Both are superstitions. When you die, that is the end of it. You did not exist before you were born and you will not exist after you die.

Answer 10

Well, not ALL of us, I don't think. Most people were. I was (I actually have very vivid memories of two lives before this one, and some still make me shudder). But I know a few beings that have never reincarnated before (though they will in the future, of course).

But most people have been something before... it just isn't usually important. It's different for everyone, but if you don't need to know, then you won't, and if you do need to remember, than you'll remember what you need to. It all depends on what you need to know for this life.

Answer 11

hmmmm....I just recently read something that everything in the universe is a form of energy...you can't create it or get rid of it...It's always existed...so if people are energy...what happens when you die? The energy has to go somewhere, but it will stay in the universe. (something to think about)

Answer 12

Yes we reincarnate birth after birth. The soul has a particular nature of eternity. It never dies. Based on the actions you perform in your lifetime, you accumulate reactions both positive and negative. The actions mold your consciousness and at the time of your death your consciousness and the collective reactions from your actions decide the kind of body you will get in your next birth. As such, it is not guaranteed that you will get a human body in your next birth. You can be born as an animal if you mold your consciousness like that of an animal. A lot of people do not want to accept this fact as it makes them accountable for their suferings.

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Answer 13

Of course there is no evidence for reincarnation. Using hypnosis to do past life regression really only produces imaginary fantasies. As a Christian I strongly believe that reincarnation is a bunch of c**p. You will have to decide for youself.

Here are some things to think about.

If you believe Ghosts of dead people roam the earth, then reincartion doesnt exist as ghosts would be sent to unborn babies bodies to be reborn.

If you believe in the Christian God and that the Bible is the word of God then reincarnation is ruled out, as this goes against what the Bible says.

Anyone can only tell you what they believe, noone can give you a cement answer on this one.