Past lives?

[hermdog]

There can be peace with less thought.
But we are also capable of not bombarding ourselves with negative thoughts, too.
Love begins at not beating yourself up about who you are and instead building yourself up into who you could be.
When the difference in an individual's thought patterns are brought into a more positive and honest place of self worth, you can begin to understand what you want in life more.
With that, happiness of meeting goals and dreams bring you to a rarely shaken demeanor. Where you learn to see judgement of others personal freedoms as both a waste of your energy, and the nightmare to another human beings dreams in life.

Isn't the worst imaginable nightmare in life to pass away before getting to do and see what you wanted?
We consistently do this to each other, without realising it's so much harder to live in peace when someone is calling you out for being yourself.

 

[hermdog]

The only thing that ever really becomes new about the world, aside natural changes is everything a man is willing to take into his mind and then accomplish.
This is free will.
One man can meditate on killing millions, another of travel through the solar system.
Do you really say that thoughts of destroying ourselves is inevitable, or do you think more along the line of, It seems humanity is stubborn, and actually wants to connect and live forever in some capacity, by growing our population and exploring beyond the Earth we presently fight over, but also seem to make amazing new discoveries everyday?

You can't teach an old dog new tricks, but we're the gods down here.
The moment you decide to believe in yourself and begin seeing optimising manifest goodness in your life.
You'll understand when you turn your back on God, you face one another as dogs.

 

[SuperWeed]

hermdog, You read a lot of Alan Watts?

 

[hermdog]

I never have read his work.

 

[hermdog]

I like McKenna, Hancock, people willing to think as freely as they like just to see where their thoughts go.
I don't read a lot of philosophy, just living life has filled me with the thoughts I share.
I haven't watched television in years, and maybe average five movies a year in my adult life, I stay busy and I try stay happy so I can spread the love.
Also I've been through four countries and good number of American states.
Norwegian culture I got to enjoy visiting wasn't as spiritually, or religiously driven, through the small populations have a better sense of community.
You know how the Germans always had the trains running on time?
That was the good part of progress.
The First biplane, gave way to the first bomber less than 20 years later.
The first long range missiles rained destruction upon London, Paris, and Amsterdam.
The next rockets take us to new planets.

Unplug from the perpetual nationalism and understand oneness, without each other it would only be, so...what would you take if it was only you on a desert island?

 

[hermdog]

Rupert Sheldrake seems a learned man to me.
His theories of energies fit well into my lifetime of otherwise unexplainable phenomenon.

 

[Weird]

I think Frank L. Herbert got it right in dune. Genetic memory. The father becomes the son, and the son, the father. Rupert Sheldrake calls it "morphic resonance".

In this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZklRSn92ek4

Joe mentions Judo and his kids. I have experienced exactly this situation (hearing him tell the story was a dejavu of sorts).

I believe our children are basically carrying every memory we have, right up until the time of conception. It makes the most sense scientifically and would explain why we feel like we've been there before...

they are still discovering the capabilities the storage capacities of DNA and there have been some interesting advancements since sheldrake wrote the science delusion

I don't agree with all his hypothesis but I think his reasoning about the paradigm of belief undermining science to be very accurate

 

[Weird]

I wonder of plants and other non human animals have past lives.

I doubt it, but still wonder.

they do and they don't

every organism comes from another organism

it is a biological relay race, where one form passes on the same distinction to a new instance of itself that if the process goes correctly will be more suited to the newly changed world (a constant process) than the last

life refreshes and renews itself and the universe changes

past lives can refer to the life forms that heralded the one we posses now as we are a sum total of all that went before us

knowledge of past lives is accepting this understanding

does our dna have greater memory of our past stored that on rare occasion people access for accurate information about humanities past through the lens of an ancient ancestor?

doesn't seem so far out when you look at how much data can be stored and how advanced that storage algorithm might be

 

[hermdog]

The simplest way of looking at past lives is if a man, his forefathers, a woman, her mothers past and present. All the possible variables available are passed down the branches of the family tree, it's up to proceeding generations to lead from the lives and habits of their previous ancestors in their section of their family tree, and better their ways in the places parents yet had not.

Plant breeding is much alike, consistent environment, and plant health and then each generation has advantage of producing a more desirable expression or phenotype the farther the generations continue on, widening the best aspects of the gene pool.

It's sort of like F1 breeders versus those who take more time on a specific cross until it's an IBL.
Taking time to perfect certain aspects of being, just like plant breeding, the more attention and focus given to any part of a lifeform makes it more stable in coming generations.

These thoughts in my own personal life has lead me to not desiring children of my own until I can manage the issues which held myself back that my parents displayed.
In being able to learn and care for one's parents, you learn about the possible shortcomings passed on to yourself.
But, when your parents and grandparents are alive, it's as if you have three generations growing at once, when open they can learn from one another how to better themselves throughout with the like genetics within any given family.

Comes back to the plant and gardener analogy.
Because we care for our own self as a person, it's up to the individual to reel in poor expressions available in their genes as well as to excell and further blossom the gifts within a person's family.

It's why so often being a fisherman is passed down, or the know how of a great chef, or why when one man is a great humorist, his offspring likely are funny as well.

 

[hermdog]

In a way, if all of life is experienced through a lens, then everyday we each have a duty to clear debris, and then clean and polish our collective lenses that we view life through.

 

[hermdog]

It's not Shakespeare's "to be or not to be?".
It's what to do within being so that there are no doubts among us that life is meant to enjoy and not suffer through.

 

[Genghis Kush]

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[hermdog]

The simplest fact in life and healing is, anyone of us could be born with mental or physical defects in our genetics.
If the able bodied and minded man chooses to open his mind and heart to the realities of those that are in more pain and have less in life, then with his intellect and knowledge of resources can figure out how to make every life as comfortable as his with out dimensioning any aspect of his own life.

 

[hermdog]

The water reflects
God
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god

The mirrors we look into reflect the present as it ever gives way to future.

Like Mr.Hendrix said, if 6 was 9.

If the white side of the yin-yang manages to consume it's own darkness it can help it's other side to rid itself of darkness, too.

Understand dominion over the Earth and all that which lives is under us and for us.
We dictate the health of humanity and the earth.
The Earth and the animals do not dictate what we do, it all belongs to us from God and we have forever been meant to care for the gifts around us in life.

 

[hermdog]

The phrase, don't come at me sideways.
Don't approach one another in the way a dog may a stranger, but how a child of the most high would approach one another in the presence of God.

 

[Genghis Kush]

Enough preaching about your God.

This thread is about "past lives" , not you and the manifestation of your Ego.

 

[hermdog]

Past lives go back in time, so far back they lead to why we are here to begin with.
I can't make you believe you are here for a reason, you have to do that.

 

[BlueBlazer]

I had a dream last night that I was a Tyrannosaurus Rex. It was pretty cool, except I was running all around trying to find somebody to scratch my back. My stubby little arms were too short and I kept dropping the back scratcher . . .

I think I was remembering a past life.

 

[hermdog]

Did you ever end up getting that itch scratched?

 

[BlueBlazer]

Depends on which itch you mean . . .