Read it in a book on reincarnation.  The author just assumed that the reader knew what he was talking about.  I didn't, although I think I've heard it referred to before.  If you have sources (web sites, etc.) that I can read more about it I would appreciate it greatly.
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It's the idea that the entire universe is inside the body of one person, or that the universe can be metaphorically mapped to a human body.  Its also sometimes called the Atman or Adam Kadmon.
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I have the book.  I've read the book.  It is non-fiction.  It is a book about serious spiritual warfare.  I have no reason to disbelieve any of it.  I believe Rebecca's experiences are so "severe," because she had dabbled in the occult before she became a Christian.  In other words, she opened herself up to the troubles she has faced.\n\nI do not believe what you will read in this book will be a typical representation of what most Christians will face, spiritual-warfare-speaking, in their lifetimes.  But those who've been involved in witchcraft, the occult, etc. prior to becoming a Christian already have Satan's full attention.  And he does NOT like to lose a good servant.  So he tries to get them back any way he can.  Rebecca is one of those people.\n\nBe prepared for nightmares if you read the book.
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Reincarnation is a componant part of Vedic knowledge the only way to understand this, is to understand your real identity as an eternal spirit soul, rather then the material body. Vedic understanding must be learned in its entirity to gain knowledge of the science of reincarnation and release from the cycle of the repetition of birth and death.\n\nWith this in mind, there is no question that reincarnation is a reality, we, as individual spirit souls are reincarnating within these very bodies, the material body is composed of gross molecules and atomic particles,that are constantly changing, every seven years each cell is completely replaced, so the body we had seven years ago is different to the body we have now, this is reincarnation, even within this life.\n\nAt the end of this life when the gross material body is no longer operational, being simply a temporary biological machine, then the subtle material mind replays the events of one's life, those events in one's life that are most prominant propel the spirit soul, the real self, to the next destination, the basis for this to happen is by the activities that we perform and the desires that are most prominant, man proposes and God disposes, so we are creating the next body through the desires and activities performed in this life.\n\nIf we live a spiritual life, with activities and desires to please the Supreme, then the original spiritual body is revived and we can return home, back to Godhead, however if the desires are more worldly then we will attain another material body perfectly suited to the mentality that we have developed whilst being in the human form of life, therefore the knowledge of the science of reincarnation is of paramount importance to understand.\n\nThe early Christian church also taught reincarnation, up untill the 6th century A.D., in 553 A D when the Roman empire started to collapse, the emperor Justinian at the 5th Ecumenical council at Constantinople removed and altered the teachings of Jesus to gain more social control over the uneducated masses, by establishing the "scare tactic" of a singular life, as anyone who opposed these types of alterations was considered a heretic, it is not difficult to understand how these gross misconceptions came to be accepted.\n\nGenerally the memories of previous lives are eradicated when the soul leaves the previous body, otherwise it would be very difficult to function in this life with the attachments and memories of the last, the burden of these memories would be unbearable. The memories we carry around from just one life are sometimes sorely distressing. Multiply such memories manyfold, and they would surpass our ability to deal with them.\n\nThe primary purpose of the human form of life however is to revive or in Christian terms, ressurect, the original spiritual body that is covered over by the gross material elements and subtle conditioned mind, therefore it is vital to approach a bona-fide spiritual master to receive the knowledge by which the living entity can transcend the cycle of the repetition of birth and death and return home, back to Godhead.
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i have found such to be true...  but that the soul doesn't have to just jump right back in to another body.  it can live in the astral realms for a time first, if it so wishes.\n\nmost religions will explain this with philosophical statements and questions rather than cold, scientific facts.  truly, this is a quest you must follow for yourself.  if you need help, i suggest checking out some of the teachings of buddhism.  you don't have to believe in them if you don't want to, but comparing texts often gives you a fine base from which you can draw your own personal conclusions.\n\ni frequent the y-messenger chat rooms under the name Suhrim, and only that name.  i wrote a paper on my personal theories regarding this (too long to cut and paste into here).  if you want, you can find me in the paganism rooms.. usually the higher numbers.. about once a week.  if you wish, i can then cut and paste that paper into the pm window.  :)
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Hi Brenda--let's put it this way: "Most" people who haven't got it don't believe in it.  I've no choice since I've got it.  Sometimes I wish that I didn't. There are various "categories"--one that is often painful to me, is the non-intellectual floating senses about someone, often at great distances, of "concern." I'm always COMPELLED to find this person; for some reason that seems almost serendipity, I do, & discover (without exception) either that they have died, or are in a very tenuous health/emotional situation. In the latter case I do "help" by simply listening, or being able to provide suggestions. I find this quite draining, however. Precognition is different in that I've prevented potentially fatal incidents, or been able to "warn" someone & direct them in ways that preclude what would have been a disaster. Not always! but often. I'll also feel a good "energy" & discover that all my friends are experiencing positive things & gaining insights. My "night" dreams, (there are many different kinds of dreams also), have given me profound messages. I do not have the single psychic ability my mother had. She knew the instant of someone's death. I'll never forget her running out into the freezing Wisconsin Winter night because she heard her brother calling her. We lived in a very rural area, no phone. The following day, my aunt drove out from the city to tell her he had died, & it was at the precise time she heard him. (She had many more experiences like this.) I've had many, many more, but shan't belabour them here. People who know me well have relied on me for the things that I "see" & sense.  Some people will scoff at the very idea of psychic abilities, just as they do about astrology, (I can perceive the 3 major signs in a stranger the moment I meet them, although I can't always be specific of "how" I do this). To the few people who "hassle" me--the disbelievers--I simply say that they aren't "required" to believe, & will NEVER get into a debate with them. I KNOW that I'm psychic, & just used these few rather general examples. I hope no one "jokes" about your question, yet I rather think that SOMEONE will. YOU know what you are, & that's truly all that counts, isn't it?\n\n*** Just looked at your answers. "Amy" must know something about you that I don't; your question asked what others believed, not to tell you if you are. But ThatLady made me aware I hadn't mentioned that I'm only a "receiver." No further comments needed....
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just coz u'r missing many pieces of the puzzle doesn't mean the end picture doesn't exist. \n\nsome people do remember their past lives and other people have used hypnosis to call these memories up. and others still who walk the peaceful path, like me, spending our hours learning to listen to our own hearts, we do learn to remember bits. i don't remember details of my past lives but i believe i came into this life already knowing things that others are learning for the first time or, in many cases, things that others are not even ready to learn yet. but i'm not an advanced soul, maybe not even intermediate. i've been thinking of undergoing past life regression, especially in my low days, but i'll keep putting it off until i can find a good enough reason to coz we're meant to figure it out for ourselves, that's why we're here in the first place. \n\nof course i asked the same question of the amnesia, who doesn't? the answer i received was that it's necessary so that we enter each new life with a clean slate. but even so it's only part amnesia. the soul retains everything through all the lives and in fact there are some people who suffer from injuries or traumas sustained from a previous life.
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http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/astralplane/a/afterlife.htm
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Buddhist talk about rebirth and not reincarnation.There are many realms of existence...human,animal,deva,peta,etc...Beings from one realm can be reborn into another realm!So,you see,there are trillions of possibilities!Buddha says:to be born a human the chances is very minute!So human we must count our blessing!
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Seriously kid, you need to start reading some real material by impartial authors rather than simply accepting religious dogma.\n\n\n>>>how can my soul come from an amoebe? \n\nAs soon as you present any evidence that the soul even exists science will give that due consideration. Since we have n more evidence for the existence of the soul than for the existence of leprechauns it simply isn’t an issue.\n\nAs far as anyone can tell there is no such thing as a soul.\n\n>>>>u cant go from barely anythin to something far better \n\nWell of course you can you silly girl. Have you never grown salt crystals from warm slaty water? Are you suggesting that a crystal isn’t far better than a random scattering of suspended ions?\n\nIn the real world order comes from chaotic systems all the time.\n\n>>>>and even if the big bang theory or somethin like that was\n>>> true...\n\nWhat exactly does the BB have to do with evolution? You appear be ingnorant, as are most fundamentalists, that these are two totally unconnected fields of science.\n\n>>>> what started evreything?\n\nRandom fluctuations within the quantum foam. That is what started everything.\nBut once again I ask, what exactly does the BB have to do with evolution?\n\n>>>humans havent thought of any theory that hasnt had to have a cause... a greater being\n\nAnd what caused the “greater being” my child? \n\nA “greater being” has to have a cause as well, so what caused that cause that caused the greater being? It’s turtles all the way down. At some point you need to admit that either something came form nothing, or there was no previous point and time itself came into existence.\n\nVague handwaving at some “greater being” doesn’t resolve the basic problem, all it does is violate Ockham’s razor and makes your position logically untenable.
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I'm trying to understand how you could be at one time "born again" and then "unborn". Please explain. Either you are a backslidden Christian or you never believed to begin with. If it's the first scenario, we don't have to beg God...He takes us back willingly, He LONGS to have fellowship with us again, so I would reexamine my heart if I were you...something doesn't sound right....the only good book you need is the Bible!
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well humans can "draw down" god's & goddesses into them.  It is a process known as "trance possession" whereby your body is "ridden" by a god, goddess, spirit, ancestor, etc...a milder form of this is  performed by trance mediums during "seances"... It is also known in some circles as "aspecting" where the deity aspects within the human who opens up the appropriate channels to allow the spirit to enter the body... the persons body is still a human body, but the spirit within the mortal shell is that of a god, goddess, spirit, ancestor etc... this is more prevalant in voodoo, santaria, candoble etc, but some wiccans and other neopagans practice it as well...I have had sex with "god" who had been aspected into my husband during a midsummer rite... and i have to say... it was different... not like the normal rustling of the sheets on your average friday night...but much more intense...it was not my husband in there...you could see it in his eyes...his actions were unprdictable, we have been together for 15 yrs...and i know how he is... and how we do things... but this was wild, primal & different...but as for banging Yngwie Frey during my last session of gnosis... if i could be so lucky...that has yet to happen... when i am experinceing the gods in that capacity it is more on an intellectual level, then on a purely physical level...(not that i wouldn't jump at the chance... FREY IS HAWT!!!)
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No one knows where it really comes from.  Many people have hypotheses, but nothing definitive & irrefutable.  I have heard it myself & don't care to ever again.  It was creepy.
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In the 13 years of Psychic school, I have had many chances to ask my Spirit Guides about this subject. After you settle in on the other side of life, you can make your suroundings whatever you want pretty much in your spare time. Some like forests, some like gardens, some like music, some like subdivisions, some like a heavenly atmosphere. There definately isn't a heaven or hell choice when you die. That was made up by religion to scare people. The truth I have spoken, the truth you have read, they ain't goin to like it...lol
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Do you understand that this is the SCIENCE section? Where we deal in facts?\n\nDo you understand that you are discussing MYTHOLOGY/FANTASY? That this is has no factual basis?\n\nTry posting this over in the RELIGION or PHILOSOPHy or ARTS secton. You will get a better reposnse.
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Thank you...I don't remember the question you refer to, but I will research it.  I think if you click on my name, you can go to my 360 blog.\n\nMy theory is really universal knowledge, that we all share, as one.  I have studied A Course In Miracles for years, and it has transformed my life...and many other teachings (all teachings actually teach the same thing).  \n\nThanks again.
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keep reading, that sounds like Scientology. Christians don't think like that, rather it is not what is taught, where did you read this anyway?
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If you would truly like to read some about this, there are many books available from the internet and Ebay.  I have read several about the life of Edgar Cayce.  I don't intend to indoctrinate anyone.  You would have to decide for yourself, and have the right to reject it.  In India, this subject is not even discussed.  It is like knowing that babies are born, and that everybody will die at sometime.  Those two facts cannot be disputed, and there are no arguments about whether birth and death is true or not.  Reincarnation falls into that category.  They don't argue about it or discuss it.\n\nRecently a couple from Louisana with a 5 years old boy revealed their true experience.  When their son was approximatel 1 year, he began to have frequent nightmares,  Parents did the natural thing.  This went on until he was approximately 2-3.  The boy loved airplanes and had every sort and description.  One day, his mother bought him a model of a WWII aircraft.  She began to explain the parts and under each wing there was a cylinder.  She explained to her son that these were missles.  The boy replied, those aren't missiles, they're extra fuel tanks.  She passed it off, but felt a curosity about his knowledge of WWII aircraft.  Finally one day, his father decided to ask his son questions about his dreams.  The boy began to explain that the plane was on fire and going down.  This was the basis of the nightmares which were ignored in the past.  His father asked what happened.  The boy said it had been shot down.   Father asked, who shot it down?  The boy, with astonishment said, "Well, the Japanese, of course."  Father asked where tihs happened.  In the Pacific, he answered.  On further questioning, the boy, mind you, 2-3, told him that he was stationed on a carrier and gave his father the name of the carrier.  He also gave his father the name of a friend on the ship.  With much difficulty. his father learned that the carrier was a small one and had indeed served in the S. Pacific.  The father then tried to find the pilot by the name his son had given to him.  The pilot is alive, or was recently, and was found in Arkansas.  He verified all that the boy had spoken of.  The plane in the dreams crashed in flames and the pilot never found.\n\nThis has been documented by other sources, not me.