posted July 01, 2019 10:39 AM            

I don't see how it would be stranger an idea than those who were born with past life memories and have a mark to show it (like a big mole where someone claims to have been shot or stabbed in the last life). That is an intriguing idea to me (in a scifi I'm writing, some alien xenotech that allows one to "switch souls" may cause many minor physical changes, say a combat veteran with an old injury put into a healthy body could manifest an "echo" of that injury even if it's not at all debilitating). And I suppose that's a reason why so many out of body experiences (including "near death") typically feature the same physical senses as the body, though there is no obvious reason why this should be so (if you don't have eyes then how can you see, and if you can see, then why not in the infrared and ultraviolet spectrums, or even energies not known to us at all?), which implies that the body itself has a marked presence on the soul...or given that people born blind have been able to see normally if they ever find themselves out of body then that the soul shapes the body. (I always did like the saying that the body is in the soul rather than the soul inside the body. Also the idea that the soul has layers like an onion, each a different vibration, though could also be of various lives--it shouldn't be limited to "either/or" or 3D limitations.)

Btw, interesting experience someone reported. A guy with a strong psychic ability (which he did not normally like to talk about and found it more debilitating than helpful for the most part, and has to avoid too much interaction with most people as a result) told me that when he was at a gym (exercise and the sauna also helped him to "detox" from all the psychic garbage he picked up) he was taking his shirt off when he felt an incredible (and bizarre) hatred for the guy who walked in. He looked at him to see he was having a similar reaction. So he asked at the front desk who he was and got a name which he researched to find he was a prison guard at a Supermax prison who had been in legal trouble for straight up vicious tortures of inmates. An idea that occurred to him is that "the soul around the body" is actually in another dimension which is based on the vibrations of ideals, and that bodies are meant to spread that vibration in order to harvest more souls for it. In this case, he was well attuned to a vibration that valued freedom, compassion, and human dignity, while the prison guard's soul was attuned to something that valued domination, brutality, and sadism. As a result their souls "connected" on some astral level as he passed him and the inimical hatred of their respective planes of existence or dimension reacted poorly and thus both were filled with hatred for the other.

Btw, another idea is that people choose to go to Hell. Not by rejecting God or whatever, but by believing that one's self matters above all, the cosmos is without mercy, and it takes strength (typically developed through conflict and social darwinism) to prevail, and so their soul is in a Hell dimension even as the body is alive (spreading the Hellish energy through their actions to reap more souls), and that they go to Hell in the hopes of achieving great personal power, even if it takes an eon or two of painfully being stripped of weaknesses, though they have to compete against countless kindred spirits which really does make it Hell. Such souls could see the Heavens of compassion and love as coddling the weak which will be their ultimate downfall, or even be unable to save the cosmos from entropy or other deadly forces that threaten them all equally, and thus derelict in their duty so to speak, seeing Heaven's grace and peace much the way many people see marijuana, as destroying motivation and breeding inner-weakness that brings down the rest of society (or the cosmos). (NOTE: I'm using Heaven and Hell in a generic sense that I hope is understood, not in a specific religious sense. I would also say that there are multiple Heavens and Hells, and in some cases one person's Heaven is another's Hell.)