I believe that you have far more potential memories stored in your mind than you can ever consciously put words to. With only a little manipulation many people can be made to swear they saw things that are impossible (like seeing footage of the El Al plane crashing into the block of flats in Amsterdam in 1994 - no such footage exists, but just asking people to remember the night they saw it many people come up with details, how they watched the news and what they had eaten that evening etc). Also, there is quite a lot of evidence that people can retrieve things they've only seen once, heard fleetingly and make that into a memory. I believe peoples minds like stories, given prompting, however small, one makes up a tale around it.
I share you emotional resistance against the idea of reincarnation. I don't know why. Or maybe I do, all types of afterlife rub me the wrong way.
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Date: 2008-02-10 10:27 pm (UTC)Also, there is quite a lot of evidence that people can retrieve things they've only seen once, heard fleetingly and make that into a memory.
I believe peoples minds like stories, given prompting, however small, one makes up a tale around it.
I share you emotional resistance against the idea of reincarnation. I don't know why. Or maybe I do, all types of afterlife rub me the wrong way.