Theos-Talk Archives (November 1999 Message tl00124)

----- Original Message -----
> From: W. Dallas TenBroeck <dalval@nwc.net>
> Date: Friday, November 12, 1999 2:08 PM
> Subject: RE: more gradual/sudden path/ Re: sentimentality

> Nov 12
>
> Dallas offers:
>
> Taking reincarnation into account and the progressive learning
> process implied in the cumulative experience of many births
> directed at acquiring a wisdom (meaning a complete knowledge of
> Self and self, as well a the laws and purposes of the Universe)
> Would not the "sudden" realization in any one life be the result
> of the striving for that end in perhaps many previous lives?

As I find the case for reincarnation "not proven" then the above becomes
speculation on a hypothesis.
>
> There has to be (logically) a point in any one life when the past
> is made available and usable.
>
Why?  (The above statement, interestingly, could be made with or without
the use of the reincarnation model.)

Alan

http://www.soft.net.uk/ambain/