The Kick Start To A Reincarnation Belief System

The Golden Bough by Jeroen van Valkenburg
I believe in reincarnation. It seems the only logical explanation - when aligned with karma - to explain the injustices that happen to some people, karma being carried over from life to life. There is always a price to pay or maybe a gift to receive.

However, as I wrote in my post on Wednesday, we are all in a flux of change so I may end up with a different view of life in a few years time - or maybe even tomorrow.

It's strange how our beliefs come about. The American clairvoyant Edgar Cayce, for example, was brought up with standard Christian beliefs and carried these forward into his adult life. One day, back in 1923, a small boy climbed onto his lap, looked in his eyes and said, "We were hungry together at the river."

This stuck in Cayce's mind as he remembered a vivid dream of fleeing from Indians on the Ohio river and being killed. Only his immediate family knew anything of this dream. When discussing this with a friend, Arthur Lammers, it was agreed that when using a trance state - as he did for his clairvoyance - he would investigate the possibilities of any past lives.

Cayce remained skeptical at first but, after discovering he was a High Priest in ancient Egypt, an apothecary in the Trojan War and a British soldier during the colonisation of America, he began to believe in reincarnation.

Cayce claimed that his readings of past lives were obtained from the Akashic records, which houses the complete records of everything said or done since time began.

It's often a 'coincidence' that can kick start a new belief system. What we believe now, no matter how strongly, may be something quite different in the future. I mean, we all believed in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy once upon a time.

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Paranormal Experience From Touching A Ship Figurehead

A paranormal experience today from a 67 Not Out reader who wishes to remain anonymous. Did she slip through some sort of time gateway or did she pick up sensations from the object she touched?

"I don't know what to make of some of my experiences, which I feel are paranormal. Friends tell me that it is only imagination, or even low/high blood pressure!

Here is an example and this happened in Cornwall. I was at a museum in Bude and found it all very interesting, especially about the old shipwrecks and the smugglers of olden times.

I walked past the figurehead of an old sailing boat and felt compelled to touch it. As I did so I felt a cold shiver and then a feeling of dizziness came over me. My head began to almost pulsate and my vision clouded over.

I felt nauseous and it was if I was being submerged into something. I felt it hard to breath. I had a sensation of being trapped and frightened.

My husband, who had been looking at something else, noticed how pale I looked and came over to me. By now I was sweating slightly. He asked me if I was okay, but I didn't hear him ask this.

He gently moved me away from where I was standing and as I let go of the figurehead it was as if I'd been saved, though I wasn't sure from what. My breathing normalised and I felt so much better almost immediately, though I still had a slightly sick feeling in my tummy.

We went for a coffee and I then felt fine again.

On the way out of the museum we got started talking to one of the staff. Much to my husband's embarrassment I told him about my 'wobbly' moment.

He explained that the figurehead belonged to an old trading ship which sunk in the nearby bay and all of the crew were lost. He also said that the museum was known to be haunted.

If I went back through time and on to the ship I can't say for sure but something happened, and it certainly wasn't low or high blood pressure. I believe I had the sensation of someone on the ship as it was sinking."

The Coincidence Of The Mumbai Meeting

The coincidence experience of Khushwant Singh.

A few years back Mr.Singh was staying at the Hotel President in Mumbai (previously Bombay) and was lucky enough to get a room on the top floor. From here he had a magnificent view of the coastline and surrounding area.

In the afternoon he set off to go to the hotel's bookshop, which is on the ground floor. As he did so he met two elderly European women outside of his room.

He asked them if he could help in any way. They said they were looking for stairs to the roof so that they could take in the view. As he didn't know if there were any such stairs he invited them into his room so they could see the coastline.

After they had taken in the view they got chatting to each other. This is how Mr.Singh said the conversation went:

"Where are you from?" he asked.

"England," they answered.

"Where in England?"

"In Hertfordshire."

"Where in Hertfordshire?"

"A new town named Welwyn Garden City. Have you heard of it?"

"I'll be damned," he exploded, "I lived there for three years when studying law in London."

"Were you a member of the Delcott Tennis Club?"

"I was," he answered, "I spent most of my summer evenings playing tennis there."

"Would your name be Mr Singh?" they asked

"Yes, how do you know?"

"I played tennis with you many evenings," one of the ladies answered.

Mr. Singh wrote in the Deccan Herald: "It was more than a coincidence that they should have been in the same hotel and in the corridor outside my door just at the time I came out of my room. I can’t help feeling that there must be a hidden hand which wanted me to know that there is more behind such encounters than we know."

Don't think I can argue with what Mr.Singh writes.

The Law Of Change

I'm not the man I was, but there again you aren't the person you were either. All of nature is in a state of change - and we are included within this law.

Without change nothing could exist and progress would be impossible. There is a constant development and evolvement, a tearing down and building up. Even that which is decomposing is actually something that is becoming anew. Everything, and that includes us, is in the process of becoming something else. Even our bodies are altering constantly.

Ages of some of our body parts: Intestines 2-3 days old; Heart 20 years old; Liver 5 months old; Lungs 2-3 weeks; Nails 6-10 months; Skin 30 days; Stomach lining 4 days and so on. Various media sources may give different ages but it's the concept that is important.

Our minds, attitudes and beliefs are also changing. We are constantly becoming something or someone else. We are completely different to what we were ten years ago. If we've had a rough time in the past - though hopefully it's been good - such as shattered dreams and misfortune, this can be used as the base for a new birth and becoming something else.

We are bound by the same laws as say matter but there is one big difference. We have the power of choice. We can decide to change our way of thinking and how we use out available energy. We can build upon the platforms of our past with new thought forms and higher ambitions. We can choose to become not simply something else but something better.

Maybe one of our purposes in life is to refine our nature and expand our consciousness. In doing so we may just discover who we are and our real spirituality.

Who or what we become in the future is up to us. We are going to change anyway, so we might as well make it for the better.

Torrential Rain Coincidence Memories

A 67 Not Out Readers Coincidence Story today. My thanks to Angelina. If you have an interesting coincidence story suitable for publication please use the contact button at the top of the blog page.

"I was driving home from a friend's house and there was a downpour of rain. It was torrential and it made me nervous as the windscreen wipers were barely clearing the windscreen.I was concentrating hard but out of the blue I remembered when, as a child of about ten, I fell off my bike in the rain after a schoolfriend, Tracy T, skidded into my front wheel. I grazed my leg quite badly and since then have always blamed Tracy for a small scar I have on my knee.

I'm now in my mid thirties and had never seen Tracy T since leaving school.

The next day I had to give my mother a lift to the hospital for an appointment and on the way she said, "I never liked that Tracy T, the one who knocked you off your bike." I asked her why she remembered that incident and she said she had no idea why, it just came into her mind.

The following day I was in my car again and there she was. A bedraggled Tracy T was standing at a bus stop and it was raining. I pulled up and shouted out to her but a bus stopped behind me and she got on. I don't know if she had heard me or not. She may not have done because of the rain and the bus engine.

I mentioned this to my mother when I next saw her. She then told me that she had heard from a neighbour that Tracy T had been in town for a couple of days visiting family. As I showered that evening I noticed the scar on my knee and it was quite red. I've no idea why there was a connection with Tracy T over several days. The scar has now once again returned to it's normal colour and can hardly be seen."

Corfe Castle Where West And East Are In The Same Direction

Someone emailed and asked if I knew anything about Corfe Castle and 'by coincidence' I had been there recently and had taken a few photos. So, hope this helps Adrian!

Corfe Castle is in Dorset on the south coast of England and there is evidence of the first civilisation settling in the area 6000 years ago. The village nestles in the Purbeck Hills, with the castle ruins high above the houses.

Corfe Castle village is a confusing place because both East and West are in the same direction - as can be seen by the signpost below!


It's thought that there has been some sort of castle since Roman times, though the first castles would have been built of wood. The Purbeck local stone building was built by William the Conqueror back in the 11th Century and was often frequented by Kings and Queens for the next 600 years. Queen Elizabeth I owned the castle for a while but sold it in 1572 to Sir Christopher Hatton. In 1646 the Parliamentarians destroyed most of the castle - as they weren't too fond of Kings and Queens!


The village houses and cottages are made from the local Purbeck stone. The road through the houses has, unfortunately, been updated and yellow lines (no parking) are in abundance.


The photo below shows, what was, the local blacksmiths dwelling.



The Greyhound pub is shown in the top photo of this post but the oldest pub, dating back to circa 1568, is The Fox (below and above), a much smaller place to find a pint of beer


There are traditional thatched cottages in the village ...


... and some of the cottages have very small windows almost in the roof.


But if you want something grander the impressive thatched cottage below is up for sale - or at least it was when we visited Corfe Castle.


Corfe Castle is an interesting place to visit and is like stepping back in time - if it wasn't for those yellow lines on the roads and the set of traffic lights near the Greyhound pub (see photo at top of post). Otherwise it's well preserved, and there is lots of great scenery nearby.






Photos: © Mike Perry 2011

Attention Seeking Funny Animal Pictures

It's always annoying when you are trying to take the perfect photo and there is some clown in the background making funny faces, or maybe just getting in the way generally. But it's not only us humans that are attention seekers, some animals can be just as bad (or maybe as good or funny, depending on your view point). Here's some funny animal pictures to show what I mean.







And the cat above shows his best side.

Photo sources: Photo 1 - Photo 2 - Photo 3 - Photo 4 - Photo 5 Pubic Domain - Photo 6 - Photo 7