Theos-Talk Archives (November 1999 Message tl00168)

Nov 15th

More notes below, please,
Dal

Dallas
dalval@nwc.net=A0

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> From: hesse600 [mailto:hesse600@tem.nhl.nl]
> Date: Monday, November 15, 1999 2:39 AM
> Subject: reincarnatie

"W. Dallas TenBroeck" wrote:

> REINCARNATION
>
> 1. 	Has logic and persuasion in it, if one considers that the
> Soul (Mind) of a Human being is immortal and eternal.  If that
is
> denied, then it is useless to proceed.  It is agreed that the
> "embodied mind" of the present personality is destroyed with
the
> body at death.
I agree, but...
> 2. 	However there are many accounts of Seances and other
> experiences that would seem to imply a survival of the personal
> soul/mind at least for a while after physical death.  If those
> are discarded then the question of reincarnation might be still
> "sub judice."

Well, even if those are not discarded, they can be
explained quite nicely by assuming those gosts (to use a
western word, shells is also a good one for me) will also
die, but simply have not done so yet. So this is not making
reincarnation a neccessity yet.

DTB	Agreed.  But the necessity lies in karma.  Any thought or
feeling or deed of ours leaves an impress on the many monads,
(skandhas) "little lives," life-atoms,"  -  many names for the
same things.
The impress may be for "good," or "bad" but since it is there it
has to be adjusted eventually in a just fair, and living
Universe/World.

> 3.	NDEs (Accounts of NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES) and reports of
> children and adults who remember "past lives" abound.  Are
these
> to be discarded or is the matter to be held "sub judice?"

Alan can answer this one better than I, because I do tend
to explain this by reincarnation. But one might postulate a
universal memory and those souls have tuned in for some
reason to that aspect: remembering that past live.

DTB	Well, as one desires to think, and as things are, may be two
different things.  Why not read the KEY TO THEOSOPHY  and see how
HPB dealt with this most difficult subject and its many
ramifications.  It may save some time and effort.

Best wishes,

Dallas

Katinka
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NHL Leeuwarden
hesse600@tem.nhl.nl

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