40 days and nights strikes me as the perfect amount of time to keep a vigil for a dead person: in the future, I'm going to use that. 40 days pops up several times in the Christian Bible as being significant, plus Lent is 40 days -- or technically 46, but whatever, close enough. My husband wasn't sure how he would process the death of his parents but it turned out he wasn't all that broken up upon it. He wasn't close with them though. I remember being closer to my grandmother than anyone else was. I don't think the rest of the family was as heartbroken when she died in my teens. She was happy to go though; she was ready.
The thing about modern Scientism (I have a hard time calling it science when it doesn't do anything even remotely similar to what science used to do) is that it is always forced into the Procrustean bed of whatever Scientism wants to believe. When I talk about speaking with the dead in some of my TikTok videos, I get trolls who try to shoot me down by demanding scientific evidence for what I believe in. What was fascinating on one of the posts about suicide were counter-trolls who dared the trolls to prove it to themselves LOL, and one who skewered Scientism by saying any compelling evidence I presented would be quickly dismissed and hidden because that's how "science" works these days.
Maybe your killer instinct (I don't think I ever had time to reply to that comment on my "I was a Scottish serial killer" essay, sorry) is from your time as a spy. Or maybe a leftover from one of the other lifetimes. I do notice that my childhood obsessions had their roots in past lives.
My husband is an atheist/agnostic and isn't sure what to think of past lives, but he has a weird affinity for (Eastern) Indian culture and people that I believe is from his past lives. If he had any talent for language -- he does not -- Hindi or Sanskrit would be his first and second choice.
I didn't know that about the Bible! Do you know of any specific books on that subject that talk about reincarnation myth being suppressed?
I'm guessing that the old Aztecs and Mayans thought if they built up enough "released" etheric plane energy via sacrifice, the offering would please the gods into parting the timeline so they could escape incarnation. Maybe it actually worked and that set of people diverged to a different timeline. I kind of doubt it though. I think people who do strategies of incarnation avoidance end up in worse shape than if they had just left well enough alone, much like drinking heavily to avoid your sorrows makes you into an alcoholic with the karma of an alcoholic, no matter how good you are at handling liquor.
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40 days and nights strikes me as the perfect amount of time to keep a vigil for a dead person: in the future, I'm going to use that. 40 days pops up several times in the Christian Bible as being significant, plus Lent is 40 days -- or technically 46, but whatever, close enough. My husband wasn't sure how he would process the death of his parents but it turned out he wasn't all that broken up upon it. He wasn't close with them though. I remember being closer to my grandmother than anyone else was. I don't think the rest of the family was as heartbroken when she died in my teens. She was happy to go though; she was ready.
The thing about modern Scientism (I have a hard time calling it science when it doesn't do anything even remotely similar to what science used to do) is that it is always forced into the Procrustean bed of whatever Scientism wants to believe. When I talk about speaking with the dead in some of my TikTok videos, I get trolls who try to shoot me down by demanding scientific evidence for what I believe in. What was fascinating on one of the posts about suicide were counter-trolls who dared the trolls to prove it to themselves LOL, and one who skewered Scientism by saying any compelling evidence I presented would be quickly dismissed and hidden because that's how "science" works these days.
Maybe your killer instinct (I don't think I ever had time to reply to that comment on my "I was a Scottish serial killer" essay, sorry) is from your time as a spy. Or maybe a leftover from one of the other lifetimes. I do notice that my childhood obsessions had their roots in past lives.
My husband is an atheist/agnostic and isn't sure what to think of past lives, but he has a weird affinity for (Eastern) Indian culture and people that I believe is from his past lives. If he had any talent for language -- he does not -- Hindi or Sanskrit would be his first and second choice.
I didn't know that about the Bible! Do you know of any specific books on that subject that talk about reincarnation myth being suppressed?
I'm guessing that the old Aztecs and Mayans thought if they built up enough "released" etheric plane energy via sacrifice, the offering would please the gods into parting the timeline so they could escape incarnation. Maybe it actually worked and that set of people diverged to a different timeline. I kind of doubt it though. I think people who do strategies of incarnation avoidance end up in worse shape than if they had just left well enough alone, much like drinking heavily to avoid your sorrows makes you into an alcoholic with the karma of an alcoholic, no matter how good you are at handling liquor.