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Remembering past lives. Yes, apparently it's a thing.
- Thread starter Jayhawker Soule
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We Never Know
No Slack
Not clicking your link because it looks odd.
However you can answer your own question with the definition of reincarnation
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Precisely, particularly when false memories in people are well documented. Our brains are incapable of possessing that kind of retention.
I'm not aware of people remembering every aspect of their infancy and childhood with any real precision to be said for it.
The brain just creates memories that don't exist when people recollect the distant past that has since degraded and fills in the gaps.
The article focuses on the ongoing research being done in a university setting. A key point from the article is that often there's not enough specificity to do more than indicate "one more" but without the ability to follow up. There are cases where a young child remember sufficient detail so that a researcher can track down the person the child claims to have been and try to validate the data provided.
A few excerpts from that story:
If a child’s recollections are detailed enough to potentially identify a particular individual, DOPS opens an investigation, and the case is entered into the database.
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Other times, parents can be too intrigued — which can muddle potential evidence. If parents ask leading questions, or if children learn that certain statements are met with dramatic or enthusiastic responses, it can be difficult to discern whether a child is just trying to please their parents.
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Later, when I call Tucker to ask him what he thought of Aija’s story, he says that he found the family’s account compelling that but there was not enough specific detail to continue an investigation. “It basically becomes one more unverified American case,” he says.
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she ultimately confirmed many of Ryan’s statements about Marty Martyn, including some she hadn’t realized were correct. She didn’t know that her father had driven a green car, or that he had a younger sister, but it turned out both claims were accurate. Marty Martyn’s death certificate cited his age as 59, but Ryan insisted he had died at 61; Tucker found census records and marriage listings that confirmed this, as did Martyn’s daughter.
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A few excerpts from that story:
If a child’s recollections are detailed enough to potentially identify a particular individual, DOPS opens an investigation, and the case is entered into the database.
...
Other times, parents can be too intrigued — which can muddle potential evidence. If parents ask leading questions, or if children learn that certain statements are met with dramatic or enthusiastic responses, it can be difficult to discern whether a child is just trying to please their parents.
...
Later, when I call Tucker to ask him what he thought of Aija’s story, he says that he found the family’s account compelling that but there was not enough specific detail to continue an investigation. “It basically becomes one more unverified American case,” he says.
...
she ultimately confirmed many of Ryan’s statements about Marty Martyn, including some she hadn’t realized were correct. She didn’t know that her father had driven a green car, or that he had a younger sister, but it turned out both claims were accurate. Marty Martyn’s death certificate cited his age as 59, but Ryan insisted he had died at 61; Tucker found census records and marriage listings that confirmed this, as did Martyn’s daughter.
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McBell
Unbound
Clicking the link would reveal your requested definition is irrelevant.
The link looks funny because it is to an actual science article.
Not to someone's interpretation of it.
If you ignore the evidence that in some cases the memories can be validated you are not taking a neutral view.
What has transgenerational epigenetic kinetics have to do with this thread which has nothing to do with epigenetics.
McBell
Unbound
What do souls have to do with it?
Of course, that was the point.
A claim was made that souls were required.
I asked why and presented an explanation for the phenomena that does not require souls or spirits or god or anything else supernatural, spiritual, etc.
There are many documented cases where there is zero family linkage between the young child's memories and the past life. So my point stands that your explanation does not fit the situation at all.
Whether souls are needed is, from a science perspective, a non-falsifiable explanation of the evidence.
We Never Know
No Slack
Ok lol.
Reincarnation:
noun
a: the action of reincarnating : the state of being reincarnated
b: rebirth in new bodies or forms of life
especially : a rebirth of a soul in a new human body
Definitions from Oxford Languages · Learn more
noun
- the rebirth of a soul in a new body.
idea
Question Everything
Things like:
Life is tough but so are worms—thanks to mom
Heritage- DNA, more than looks, our brain seems to know things from parents, grandparents - is that similar to past life, what is given from past generations?
Life is tough but so are worms—thanks to mom
Heritage- DNA, more than looks, our brain seems to know things from parents, grandparents - is that similar to past life, what is given from past generations?
Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
I really believe that there's more to genetic memory than reincarnation.
idea
Question Everything
Yes, wish it wasn't with my family tree lol.
RestlessSoul
Well-Known Member
Care to offer your interpretation of it anyway?
I've never understood that theory. Are you saying that that the actual hovel, mountain, grandma are stored with details in your gene?
I believe in reincarnation memories myself, but it includes a reincarnating soul.
McBell
Unbound
We Never Know
No Slack
No problem. Most of us have been guilty of the same
Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
Genetic Memory: How We Know Things We Never Learned
I met my first savant 52 years ago and have been intrigued with that remarkable condition ever since. One of the most striking and consistent things in the many savants I have seen is that that they clearly know things they never learned.
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