Guest guest Posted January 28, 2001 Report Share Posted January 28, 2001 Om Namo Narayanaya Be speculative, but be open. The key to the future lies in the past. Best wishes, Visti. - Christopher Kevill <ckevill <gjlist> Sunday, January 28, 2001 4:18 PM [gjlist] Reincarnation/Alex > Alex: > > Good to hear from you. > > > > >Why I am interested in this particular jyotishi's ability to predict > >past lives is because the calculations used by him are Parashar's. > >The other techniques that he used from Parashar allowed him to > >predict with astounding accuracy, and he was incredibly well read, > >and knew much of Parashar's rules that are not in the surviving > >text. > > The fact that some techniques available in Parashara predict past lives > doesn't prove their efficacy. How would we know they were correct? There > is no means to verify, unlike predictions made pertaining to people's > current lives. I remember seeing an episode of the TV show Unsolved > Mysteries a few years ago that dealt with one man's claim to have been > another man in a previous life. He was an ordinary 40 year old man from > Maine, USA (or somewhere like that) and claimed to have been born in > Pennsylvania and fought in the US army in WW2 and died in battle (actually > I don't remember the circumstances of his death). The way he made his > claims more compelling was to provide information about his past life > incarnation that *no one but a very close intimate or family member could > have known*. And he seemed to do this, recalling family events from > childhood, etc. His information was verified by the surviving brothers > and sisters of his WW2 soldier incarnation. > > One can never be sure about these things, since any program on television > is automatically suspect (the profit motive and sensationalism going > hand-in-hand) and the brothers and sisters could be lieing, or just > agreeing with whatever he said out of respect/love of the memory of their > long lost brother. And yet, to me, this is the only satisfactory *way* to > go about looking into reincarnation cases. What's the evidence? After > all, isn't that how we figure out if we're on the right track when we do > *this*-life astrology? Without adequate means to verify claims, I think > astrological analyses of reincarnation will remain a speculative venture. > > yours in the material world, > > Chris > > > gjlist- > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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