If reincarnation is real, are you reborn as a person, or an animal?
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It depends, I guess. In some religions, for example, if you are wicked in this life time, you would be reborn into a lesser organism, like an insect.\nIf you were good in this life time, you would be reborn into a higher life. A more 'fortunate' life.\n  Some monks refuse to eat meat, and are incredibly good to animals because they believe that those animals are their ancestors(you wouldn't want to eat your dad's reincarnation, would you?)\n    A great example is the Rat Temple in Deshnoke, India.
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uh oh, after reading these answers I am concerend becuase I am Christian, I am saved, I accept the Lord as my Savior....and I beleive in reincarnation. I know my soul is old becuase I have memories of past lives WAY too accurate on details and I have NEVER had history on them.  I beleive we are sent back to settle things, finish things and to learn.
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look my man, your question #1 makes the ASSUMPTION that someone gets reincarnated. Theres no proff than anyone does so that basically invalidates your question. Anyone with an over active imagination or mental disorder can IMAGINE whatever they want. CAll it regression, but it is ALL creative imagination, nothing more. Why dont you just ask can anyone remember life before they were made from cookie dough? You have to first prove we were made from cookie dough. THis question is just silly.
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Reincarnation is a componant part of the Vedic religion, the only way to understand it, 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.\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 either gross or subtle, perfectly suited to the mentality that we have developed whilst being in the human form of life, there are many living entities that remain in their subtle or astral forms, due to attachments to relatives and places during their last 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\nReincarnation is supported by many well known texts such as the Bhagavad Gita and the wisdom of the Buddah, however it is largely rejected in Western religious thought, which has a preference for a faith only system of salvation that abdicates responsibility for evil onto a personality known as the devil and responsibility for sin to be absorbed by the victim of an act of barbaric murder 2000 years ago.
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I believe in immortality through ascension of planes and dimensions of reality in which we constantly evolve, are always aware, an the closer you get to reaching your ultimate form the more talents and abilities and knowledge and wisdom you'll have in this current life. It's not quite reincarnation because that entails dying and being born again new. What i believe is you never die, and are never renewed.
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it's just you. this is such a beautiful planet we live on, with such wonderful, facinating creatures. what is there not to love about life. i hope there is reincarnation, because i want to do it all over again
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If I had to pick one of your options it would be 5=> God is present in our own self and enjoying his creation through us.\n\nWhile I am very uncomfortable with a personification of God, I do believe that there is divine energy that runs through each of us and everything in this existence.  I believe that our consious mind is tapped into that energy and that we can direct it as we navigate through this life.  \n\nI think that when we die we will return to source as it were and be reunited with this energy source.  I believe this energy source is commonly called god and the reuniting is more commonly called heaven.  I think after a brief rest at home (heaven) we will set back out to learn more things using a new lifetime to learn new lessons.
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I believe in reincarnation.  I do attend church sometimes because my Hindu temple is far from me and I don't get to go there often.  And I do find some good things about Church.  I like the sermons that our pastor gives, and the singing and stuff. \n\nThe subject of reincarnation does not usually come up, but if it did, I'd probably just remain quiet.  I don't go there to cause a stir or bring dissension.
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I think I have always been since God has always been. I see myself as a piece of God. After this life I will go and evaluate what I have learned and what I still need to learn for my own enlightenment. Then when I am ready I will choose to be born again or maybe I will choose to help other souls that are in human bodies. I don't believe in heaven and hell either. I don't go in for the whole sin concept. Just learning lessons.
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have you been to another a place you have never been before but seem familiar and feels that you have been here before?the best explanation is you were there in your past life.Death is only a transition from one form to another,just like discarding a torn shirt and changing a new one,reincarnation is very true and natural,it is the law of nature.\nYour life today is the result of your Attitude and Choice of the Past\nYour life tomorrow is the result of your Attitude and Choice you made Today
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The scientific acceptance of the idea of rebirth is largely about the exact definition of rebirth. While it's quite obvious that the human body is gone after the death, and cannot be recycled, proving a rebirth into a different body would be quite complicated, since you'd need some detailed evidence of things happening to people in previous life. Modern science or not, there has not been enough evidence yet of anyone living remembering vivid facts from their previous lives.
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I have a friend who's into quasi Hindu/American Guru philosophy, and he likes to say, " This world is all simply an illusion, and the true reality lies beyond your perception".  Well I have a simple theory of reality, it's kind of like the duck theory?  "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like duck, then it must be a duck".   My theory is, "Reality is who you are, when you are, and where you are".   So, do you know who you are?  Do you know when you are?  Do you know where you are?  That is reality, and everything else is imagination, an illusion, or perhaps even a delusion.
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There are two destinations, One is reincarnation and second one after completing all ur births, u go to sweet home of all souls, its where god dwells.\n\nYou were. You will be! \nKnow this while you are. \nReincarnation is the natural \nprocess of recycling human energy through \nbirth, growth, decay and death. \nEach rebirth is a link in one's eternal chain \nof latent impressions, thoughts, desires and actions. \nThe soul in its new body is given the opportunity \nto learn from the past, to live the present and to prepare for the future. \nReincarnation: Why Believe?Once I have begun to base my sense of ‘who I am’ on perceiving myself as a soul rather than on perceiving only my temporary costume, the body, I deeply realize that, as a being of spiritual energy giving life to the body, I am immortal. I begin to understand that I change bodily costumes just as a snake sheds its skin, but I – the eternal soul – can never die.\nDeath and Rebirth\nAt the moment of physical death, the soul withdraws its energy from the organs of the body and vacates its seat in the middle of the forehead. It takes with it the impressions accumulated in that life and enters into the body of an unborn baby, while that new body is still being formed in its mother’s womb. This normally happens between the fourth and fifth month of pregnancy. A human soul only enters a human body. The type of body the soul enters and the conditions of birth are determined by the past actions of the soul in its previous life or lives, and the cumulative account of give and take that it has built up with other souls. Without proper understanding of this process, the leaving of one body and the taking of another is often an experience of great fear and anguish; but the details of the old life are soon obliterated by new experiences so that the soul is not overwhelmed and confused by past memories.\n\nWhere Have I Come From?\n\nWhere have I come from? And whence shall I return?\nBeyond this world, the stars, the sun\nThere is a land called Paramdham.\nIt is a world of peace, \nA world of light,\nA world all souls once knew as Home.\nWe journeyed here to play our parts\nWe soon forgot\nWhere we had started from.\nWeary souls now long for Home once more.
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I believe reincarnation is possible, although I'm not sure how's you'd "prove" it. I've heard stories of past life regression in which someone is hypnotized and travles back to one of their previous lives. My aunt had this done, and in a previous life she was a cow! She described it as a very blissful life.\nPersonally, I think cockroaches are reincarnated back into the same body from which they died.
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for the record i like cows, they're nice.\n\nseveral religions believe in reincarnation. how you recognize people is different than you might think. some believe you carry similar physical traits in each life. some people are lucky enough to carry glimpses of their past lives, and they figure it out. it's not like you see someone and go "hey charlie where you been buddy?!"..it's more of a recognition on a deeper level. think about someone you've just met and instantly clicked with, and you can't quite put your finger on why. it's possible that you knew them/were related to them in a previous life. i've had that happen with several friends/boyfriends.
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I am human.  What is yours?
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You're a funny girl. As you probably well know, born again means in a spiritual, not physical sense. Also, I bet there are quite a few people who call themselves Christians that believe in reincarnation.