Autism and Reincarnation

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If you want something to run wild with, to even get to a point where your past life experiences are even remotely your business (or anyone else for that matter) pick up a copy of Franz Bardon's Initiation Into Hermetics, do the exercises, get through the ten steps, and grab Rawn Clark's Bardon Companion pdf online to get further details where it gets fuzzy. That and if the four elements seem vague Franz Bardon's Universal Master Key has more elucidation on their internal consistencies. If Bardon's not your flavor try out Tab and Chick Cicero's Self Initiation into the Golden Dawn and the exercises and ritual self-initations provided therein (Israel Regardie's Golden Dawn is available as a pdf online, about 800 pages of their philosophy, and at the very least it gives an incredibly detailed overview of what it's about).

Having not claimed that there's a shred of empirical evidence that occurred in a lab and can't be passed off as anecote, or rigged per sponsors as Adamantium aptly pointed out, I'm of the same opinion I've ever been - this stuff has to be experienced to believed. Unfortunately to experience and believe, or rather know, won't be fun - at least around here - because the...err...'facts'....won't be on your side.

As I said - you can have all these experiences and you'll ironically become one of the people who are all about what you were parading against, lots of misery to be had there and I'd hope the silver lining of self-discovery is worth the trade-off.

Not so sure about the "reincarnated Holocaust victims" theory, but it's certainly interesting to think about. Would this even be plausible, considering the number of Autism cases vs. number of Holocaust victims?

The paragraph about "trains" I think is the most interesting, because I've always found it strange that something so uninteresting could be such a common special interest for people on the spectrum. Dinosaurs, I can certainly understand, but trains?? I just don't get it.

A separate thought I've had is that since autism is so firmly tied into our personalities, how strange it would be to be reincarnated as someone who isn't on the spectrum, if we would be anything like who we used to be.

Who's to say what's "not quite right", nobody ever said that the supernatural made any sense

Also, keep in mind that all of these numbers are solely based on the planet Earth...although I've never heard of anyone recalling a "past lives" story on other planets.



Obviously, this is just my own baseless speculation, since nobody knows what truly goes on in the hereafter, or what a soul is, but I could imagine a few possibilities.

The first one that always comes to mind, is how can one assume that every single person on this planet actually possesses a soul? I know how introverted or selfish it sounds, but I've done enough people watching in my life to seriously wonder if describing someone as a "soulless robot" might not be so far from the truth...the kind of people that, in my head, I always compare to being extras in a film. My biggest "if I wasn't on the spectrum" fantasy is that I would be super outgoing and I would approach these "extras" and find out what their stories are. Sorry, going a little off topic.

The second idea, and the one I've had the longest, is that as a spirit, you choose your own afterlife. I know this goes against almost every religion out there (or perhaps unifies them a bit), but Ian Anderson had the same idea when he wrote A Passion Play. In it, Ronnie first dies, is judged, and is allowed in Heaven. He finds it boring there, as everyone spends their time looking down on Earth, and decides to try Hell. He doesn't like it there much either, and asks to be reincarnated. I've always had a hard time, growing up Christian, imagining an "eternity in Heaven"...I feel like after hanging out for a while, getting as much enjoyment out of it as I can, I would politely ask if I could just blank out my memory and start over again. Richard Matheson's What Dreams May Come had a similar concept, also.

A third idea, most recently introduced to me, and which contradicts the first idea, is that souls are an energy which is everywhere, in everything, and can be positive, negative, or neutral. Like drops of water, they can make up huge oceans, tiny ponds, evaporate into the air, fall down as snow, etc. God was described as a huge ocean, with souls coming and going, and groups of them forging together inside of a human (or otherwise) body. It kind of sounds like an idea for a videogame, if you ask me. I immediately imagined a scenario where the population on Earth is booming, and spirit energy is spread so thin that God has very little left for himself. I also imagined how some people could be super enlightened, with many spirits inside of them, and some people could have very little, or negative, energy.



There was a very interesting discussion on Reddit where parents described the past life stories that their young children told them. There was at least one where their daughter remembered being a cat.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comme ... est_thing/

It starts off pretty slow, but the topic quickly changes to past life stories.

Now that I think about it, regarding my "second idea", I remember reading a lot of children mentioning that they chose their new family.

Bumping-up discussion thread; as both Dr. Ian Stevenson's and Dr. Jim Tucker's studies remains as perhaps the most through efforts regarding research of children who seem to remember past-lives to this day.

Does anybody want to add discussions on have specific childhood "deja-vu like" memories of possible past-lives? One area of Drs. Stevenson's and Tucker's finding also suggested how childhood play may reflect past-life occupations.

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^^^^^^
Don't hold your breath waiting for an answer from him!

He posted that two and a half years ago!

And that poster made his last post only a couple months after that, and stopped being an active member since.

In my past life I believe I was a British mod, which would put my birth sometime in the early 40s. Even if I was born in a concentration camp I'd be a bit too young to remember the stuff going on in spite of how horrible it was.

However, I do have a special interest in Judaism. I have never connected this to a belief that I might have been a victim of violent antisemitism in a past life (in the Holocaust or any other antisemitic event). I believe it stems from genetic memory as opposed to past life memories- I found out I had some Jewish heritage years after the interest started, having been raised in a Christian family, and I have no memory of being a practicing Jew in a previous life.

So I'm willing to listen to your theory, but personally don't believe I was in the Holocaust.

Lucky! I was going to respond to red robin and tell him the third eye = pineal gland

Long-term memories can be a trait of the Autism-spectrum; an advantage in remembering possible past-lives.

For example, long-term memories can yield decades-old memories from childhood; hence memories from childhood of strong deja-vu like experiences of interest to possible (out of conjecture) past-life memories.

I suspect that I was a silversmith in a previous life, as it came (back?) to me so easily, and I'm so delighted by the power polishing machines, yet inept with rotary cutters. I'm also feeling like being a hermit comes naturally.

I did want to comment on the OP's thesis. "The" holocaust was very average in both size and percentage of population affected. What makes it remarkable is that it was perpetrated by one group of fanatical record keepers upon another, and that the memory, and its status as a presumed anomaly has continued to affect history. The largest single group death in the last century came when Chiang Kai Shek blew the Yalu river dikes as a battle tactic. One million people drowned, and then thirty million starved. So, if someone is traumatized by a past life, it could be anything from a house fire to a flood to a war. Murder victims also show up in the better documented accounts of reincarnation.

You asked for feedback on your belief that we autistics are reincarnated Holocaust victims. So here’s som3 feedback on your assertion that:

No, aspirin was invented in 1897 and marketed around the world in 1899: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aspirinhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aspirin
Can you fit your theory around that fact?