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Neopagan Afterlives

To: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.pagan,alt.religion.wicca,alt.wicca,alt.traditional.witchcraft,talk.religion.misc
From: Shez 
Subject: Re: Neopagan Afterlives
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 00:29:34 +0000

In article , lorax666
 writes

snip for space only.
># than my own personal ideas of the afterlife, 
># and I do beleive in reincarnation... but nothing to say
># you cant have a break between one life and the next.
>
>I like to fantasize about being welcomed into the 
>Underworld and becoming the newest anarchistic leader
>amongst throngs of exhuberant shades. 

Well good luck in your endeavour it would bore me silly, but everyone is
different. 
>
>however, since I see no evidence that experience extends
>beyond the bodily integrity, I don't believe in the bit
>about post-mortem experiences and wonder why some do.

Some do because they have died, and have experienced something. 
I have myself.
>
>so what are some of the thousands of Summerlands beliefs
>of which you are aware, in brief? is yours one of them? 
>what convinces you of the value of belief in reincarnation?
>why isn't it just more religious hogwash better left 
>behind like so many Christs and crosses and priests?

Well I do remember another life, not a great and important one, I
remember being on an estate, I was roman lady, on a balcony, looking out
over fields animals and workers. It was a lovely day, 
I was very old, and thinking how lucky I was that the horror that had
happened in the Empire had not touched myself my husband or my family,
they were all fine and healthy. 
I felt so blessed because of that, as if we had lived a charmed life, 
I know the person I was had bad things happen, and good things, but
above all she had loved her life, and her family. And was at that moment
celebrating that fact. 


I remember that when I first experience it, I thought I was going quite
mad, but it happened again several times, when I was young, and less as
I got older, I think the times when I become that woman for a better
word, are the times when her and my lives are close together. 

I have a few other odd memory's but that one was always so strong that I
have never doubted the fact that I lived before. 
>
>blessed beast!
>
>lorax666

-- 
Shez               shez@oldcity.f2s.com

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