Mar 25, 2011 -- 6:41PM, Jeaninebuben wrote:

Real life is spiritual with no beginning and no end according to the sages.  Many have experienced NDEs and come back to tell us about entering into a new realm before they were suddenly brought back here.  My sense of reason and faith both tell me that life is a continuum of cycles and changes.

It seems that the only "new realm" that those who experience NDE's enter is one that is entirely generated by the brain in extremis. One can explain NDE experiences such as disembodied senses and lights as lack of oxygen and stimulus of the angular gyrus, which has recently been demonstrated experimentally

And while reason can verify that life is a continuum of changes - infancy, childhood, adolescent's, adulthood, etc -  and, in some sense, cycles (each generation following similar patterns as the one before), 'faith' is merely the transparent admission to wishful thinking. Faith is capable of believing anything, that pigs fly, that grass is red, etc.

Jan 31, 2011 -- 10:21AM, Donfreeman wrote:

I've read this topic on here for ages now.  All of these posts really get me thinking a lot.   I have a memory of a past life (whether or not anyone believes that). Well I think I have a memory, anyway. Seems like it.

If you're still looking in on this thread, Donfreeman, do come over to the Past Lives support board should you be curious about exploring the possibility that you do recall a past life.

community.beliefnet.com/go/forum/view/43...

You'll find a number of people there who can help you investigate whether or not you think your memory is of a past life and will get into what may be interesting discussions.

I know one name you'll certainly see there...yours truly. ;-)

Just an invitation that may change how you view yourself and your life...

We were alive within our parents before even they were created, so I guess Life before birth is possible.

About this question, I imagine this life is contained within our parents, we inherit fundamental parts of their bodies and spirits, we live to transfer the same, successively, and each fraction of those will have their destinies, their own evolution.

Thanks to the posts.  So many of them were deeply touching.\

I am struck by the Jeremiah quote. I am sure someone already posted it.

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."

There is something so powerful in those words.  Just imagine God's eyes as He says those words.  There is a loving God out there.  The quote would seem to point towards that there is something of "life" before we are born.  I don't see it as reincarnation but a deep "knowing" on God's part that we, as part of his creation, are/ have been/ will be.