Wednesday, September 4, 2013

My reincarnation matches P-Z

I make no special claims to insight or training.  I feel for myself that reincarnation is a fact, through my experiences in this life.  I do not expect anyone else to accept that as fact.  There are a number of people working in this field at present, who use very different approaches.  Some use hypnotherapy and regression, so use their abilities to access the akashic records.  Some use mediumship.

Names pop into my head.  I do not claim to have special powers - it is possible that I am simply remembering a physical resemblence I am not aware of knowing.  But theses are links that I have not taken from other researchers, and have proposed for myself.

If reincarnation is a real phenomenon, and I am right to link these people, I hope to learn from these links.

PARSONS, Jim


Jim Parsons, actor, and Faranelli, (1705-1782) singer

Jim Parsons famously plays the asexual, slightly autistic physics geek Sheldon Cooper in the Big Bang Theory. 

Farinelli was the most famous castrato of his time, a singer who achieved near world fame at a time when communications took weeks to get from one town to another.

SCRIABIN, Alexander

See KENNEDY, Nigel

My reincarnation matches H-O

I make no special claims to insight or training.  I feel for myself that reincarnation is a fact, through my experiences in this life.  I do not expect anyone else to accept that as fact.  There are a number of people working in this field at present, who use very different approaches.  Some use hypnotherapy and regression, so use their abilities to access the akashic records.  Some use mediumship.

Names pop into my head.  I do not claim to have special powers - it is possible that I am simply remembering a physical resemblence I am not aware of knowing.  But theses are links that I have not taken from other researchers, and have proposed for myself.

If reincarnation is a real phenomenon, and I am right to link these people, I hope to learn from these links. 

KENNEDY, Nigel






Nigel Kennedy, violinist and Alexander Scriabin, (1872-1915) composer


I think Nigel Kennedy was the second time I experienced a name suddenly popping into my head when I looked at a photograph.  I studied music at A level, and so I cannot discount the fact that I may have seen a photograph of Scriabin at some time and simply made the connection that their appearance is similar, even though I wasn't conscious of that knowledge.  I was pretty astonished when I found the photograph of Scriabin.

Nigel Kennedy was a child prodigy, something which some people have postulated may be associated with reincarnation.

NAYLER, James

Please see GOUGH, Stephen

My reincarnation matches A-G

I make no special claims to insight or training.  I feel for myself that reincarnation is a fact, through my experiences in this life.  I do not expect anyone else to accept that as fact.  There are a number of people working in this field at present, who use very different approaches.  Some use hypnotherapy and regression, so use their abilities to access the akashic records.  Some use mediumship.

Names pop into my head.  I do not claim to have special powers - it is possible that I am simply remembering a physical resemblence I am not aware of knowing.  But theses are links that I have not taken from other researchers, and have proposed for myself. 

If reincarnation is a real phenomenon, and I am right to link these people, I hope to learn from these links. 

GOUGH, Stephen




Stephen Gough, the naked rambler and James Nayler, Quaker.

Stephen Gough has been arrested many times for breaches of the peace, as he rambles naked in Scotland and England.  He has spent many years in prison, often in solitary confinement because of his insistence on being naked.  He is currently in prison for defying an anti-social behaviour order, for refusing to put on clothes after being ordered to do so by the court. 

James Nayler was a Quaker in the seventeenth century.  It was fairly easy to get arrested and thrown into prison if you were a Quaker at the time.  Many of the Quakers in my home town of Uxbridge were arrested simply for holding meetings for worship.  James Nayler did a number of things that caught the attention of his contemporary authorities, including riding into Bristol on a donkey, which they held to be a blasphemous act, parodying Christ's entry into Jerusalem.

Some early Quakers went naked, something which was mentioned in Nayler's writings but was edited out by editors who doctored his writings before publication.  Licia Kuenning, a modern editor of Nayler's works writes that George Whitehead in the 18th century, altered some of Nayler's words significantly:  "The most startling one that I have found occurs in the Woe Against Kendal (see pp. 211-12) where Nayler writes that "the Lord hath caused some of his servants to go naked along your streets in Kendal and Kirkby Stephen, as signs of his wrath to come," and Whitehead omits the word "naked." Whitehead's prudishness here - which obscures the meaning and purpose of the tract - is odd, as it was not a secret that some of the early Quakers had gone naked for a sign: George Fox had mentioned the practice sympathetically at least 4 times in his Journal, as well as in The Great Mystery and in his doctrinal writings, a collection of which had been published only ten years earlier with Whitehead's signature leading the list of endorsers."



Monday, September 2, 2013

My reincarnation matches introduction

It seems to me that there are some things which are scientifically knowable... although my confidence that this is so becomes ever weaker as I learn about Quantum physics, given that the premise of Quantum physics is that the act of observation changes the result of an experiment.  In our normal lives it doesn't appear to work that way... most people's experience is fairly constant - hot water burns you, plates break if you drop them on a tiled floor, gravity works.  Whether you are watching or not.

As I say, there are some things which appear to be knowable and constant, like adding a mento to coke, the same thing happens over and over, it is repeatable and the result is the same.  The only way to change the result is for someone to interfere with the process... paint the mentos with nail varnish or replace coke with cold tea.

There are other things it isn't possible to know in the same way.  You can theorize about the reasons why people behave in certain ways, or why one person is helped by a medication and another is not, but it is pretty hard to iron out all the confounding factors.  Sometimes, all you can do is gather as much evidence as possible and then see whether you can explain the results.  I feel it is that way with reincarnation.

I don't know that anything in the idea of reincarnation is anti-scientific, except that it requires the transfer of consciousness from one person to another, and no one has yet been able to explain consciousness or how it works in one person, let alone how it might be transferable.  Scientists differ in their opinions about whether the brain is your personality and consciousness, or if the essence of a person resides somewhere else.

When I look at pictures of people, sometimes a name will pop into my head.  I do not know where the information comes from.  Maybe all that is happening is that I am recalling some superficial resemblance between one and another, from something I once read or saw.  I do not claim any particular expertise, and I do not have training in this.  The odd thing is... that often when I check and compare a photograph of the person whose name came into my head and the photograph of the person I was reading about, they have similar facial features.  Sometimes they seem very alike, and sometimes there is just some element of their appearance which seems similar.

I am now keeping notes when this happens, because I am trying to see a pattern, or understand how reincarnation works if it is a real thing, as I believe it is.   It seems that sometimes, people have continued with an interest they have had in a previous life, and sometimes they have done something completely dfferent.  That doesn't really help, except that it seems interesting to me when someone looks very similar AND engages in very similar activity.

I will divide up my matches into three batches, A-G, H-O, P-Z, using the surname in each case.




Resources

I am planning to update this page frequently, to list people involved in reincarnation research, blogs, and website resources.  I am not a programmer or website designer, and so will do this in the most basic way possible - and alphabetical list in each category and links to their websites etc.  I already have a lot of these links embedded in the articles on this blog, but wanted a place to gather them all together.

I will start another page on the site which will list cases of reincarnation identified by all researchers.  I plan to do this without commentary about whether they are right or wrong, and providing duplicate links if one person is identified as different people by different researchers.

Reincarnation researchers

Todd Murphy Website
Todd Murphy Video

Michael Newton and his life between lives regressions
Michael Newton videos

Website with details of Ian Stevenson's research
Ian Stevenson research video 

Brian Weiss Website
Brian Weiss guided meditation video
Brian Weiss Videos

TV shows

BBC programme about reincarnation

Radio shows

Coast to coast with M.J. Rose

Blogs and websites related to reincarnation

 Tsem Rimpoche's site has links to videos and a lot more

Websites including reincarnation cases

Brian Stalin's website
Walter Semkiw and Kevin Ryerson

Websites about reincarnation as a process