Also otherwise known as our biological reflexes that in principle have nothing to do with memory
Maybe you were once very hungry as a kid and although you don't remember it, your subconscious did?
. Reading your story, it was reincarnation that actually came to my mind. Basically your soul in a previous body could have experienced starvation, hence it made an imprint on you, even if it has nothing to do with this life.
I agree with much of what you said. Reincarnation has always sense to me. We are *literally* beings of energy, and energy can neither be created or destroyed, it just is...my ex-husband said that to me when my dear Mom passed on. I was so distraught and in so much emotional pain, I couldn't eat, definitely couldn't sleep, and when he said that to me, it brought me comfort. My Mom was still around, just not in the form I was used to. "All energy is only borrowed, and one day you have to give it back."💙💙💙Also otherwise known as our biological reflexes that in principle have nothing to do with memory
Maybe you were once very hungry as a kid and although you don't remember it, your subconscious did?
This evolutionary ghost theory is something I have never heard before
I would say I am pretty neutral on this subject in general, but I have experienced things and heard stories that are hard to explain without considering reincarnation as a factor in them.
In particular, I have some very early memories (or memories of memories) of being left at day care as a 3 year old, where I had an irrational fear of being left behind by my mother, even though that was never actually going to happen considering my mother's personality. Then I have another memory from day care where, with the other children playing, I had at one point the irrational urge to protect myself and tore a support leg from this toy kitchen. I remember clearly that I thought this thing looked like some kind of gun that I could use. I took it and hid under a bed until the 'battle' was over. I should point out that I wasn't being harassed by the other children; rather none of them understood what I was doing, and afterwards I probably didn't understand it myself. I should also point out that at that time nobody had realized yet that I had relatively poor eyesight and couldn't really see what was happening around me, nor could I watch television properly, etc. So you let me ask you, how does a 3 year old, who has never seen a gun before, not in real life, not on television, who has such poor eyesight that he can't distinguish people's faces from more than a meter away, have an instinctive reaction to seeing the silhouette of an assault rifle and thinks that he is in some kind of battle?
To add to the above, I found out in later life that I am a pretty good marksman (with corrective glasses obviously) although I neither have real interest in it, nor have had any training. But still, somehow, I have talent for it. So I can't help but wonder if I was a soldier in a previous life.
Another story, which my parents told me, was that when I was very young, I often did not behave like a child. They had a friend who allegedly had a lot of spiritual insights. This person told them back then that I was apparently an 'old soul' that was confusing previous lives with this one.
Just curious, do you feel a spiritual connection to Avatar?
Yeah, it easily could be - but I think if it was solely instinctual at the basal level of the species it would be universal, whereas phobias seem much more random that that, which makes me wonder about some recessive distantly inherited quality locked away in an obscure part of our genome dismissed as redundant (about 75% of our total DNA is often dismissed as such)Also otherwise known as our biological reflexes that in principle have nothing to do with memory
Maybe you were once very hungry as a kid and although you don't remember it, your subconscious did?
This evolutionary ghost theory is something I have never heard before
Reincarnation and the idea that we are actually "energy beings" in a kind of never ending circle, makes the most sense to me as well to explain what happens after death.
Indeed, it could be genetics related, but that would be the results of many generations, I would expect, instead of one recent ancestor, like your grandmother, etc.
I am somewhat confused here. You say you are spiritual and that you pray and worship, but you don't really believe in a supernatural realm, nor in the idea of a soul. So is it nature that you pray to / worship?
My grandfather from my mother's side fought as a private in the "Police Actions" in 1949 against the independence movement of Indonesia, which was a Dutch colony at the time. He was conscripted into the army and didn't like it at all that he had to go there and fight. He remained silent about his experiences there until he died, so we never learned what exactly he had to face there. He died when I was 10 years old from a stomach ulcer that turned into cancer. My mother believes the fact that he never talked about his experiences and always carried them with him "in his stomach" was a factor in developing this ulcer. We later learned from one of his platoon members that he himself (but not my grandfather) was once chased by a guerilla fighter wielding a machete. He shot the person, who subsequently fled, but they never found the body. In turn, my grandfather's comrade had nightmares for years about this person running after him since they never found the body and he never knew if he had really killed him. So maybe that sheds some light on what they were facing there.
- I can imagine why he never wanted to talk about it, but still a horrible thing to have to take unspoken and unrelieved to the grave. That's a heck of a burden.
I love it that you have this little prayer that you say when you fish, snare, or spear something. I liken it to what Neytiri does with the viperwolf that she kills to protect Jake Sully in the 1st Avatar when she speaks "maway tsmukan" over the animal. I love that part so much, she is essentially performing last rights for the animal, and sending it's spirit off in peace. 💙💙💙
That's a sweet thought and def makes me feel better about myself! 💙- That said I really don't feel too bad about the cats... when you see what they do to the native birds it's just a case of "Nah, f*** them, murdering bastards." They are super effective at hunting.... way too effective for our birds that just don't know how to cope and adapt to them.
That is definitely interesting to read. Indeed one's upbringing does do a lot to shape one's worldview.
I need to clarify. I would say my definition of ghosts is spirits that were human once, while 'demons' (for a lack of better term) were never human and perhaps never will be. I don't know how I would categorize a spirit that would at a later time be incarnated as a human. I guess both terms could apply.
Your stories remind me of something. Like said before I don't consider myself to be spiritual, but several years ago I had a rather noteworthy experience that I can't ignore. Basically I was sitting on the couch watching TV, and something happened and forgive me for using technological comparisons to explain it, but I cannot otherwise find the right words. Basically I picked up some kind of energy. It was completely unexpected and I can't explain where it came from. Firstly I felt a lot of heavy emotions; not from myself but from some kind of group or collective. It was as if I had been tuned like a radio tuner to just the right frequency and then the volume knob was turned up to maximum.
I really much agree with what the both of you said , i have so much to say but i'm overthinking again and my thoughts are blurry meses , i'll come back and edit this when i'll feel better .
