But then, so does any local newspaper's Births, Deaths and Marriages column. So what's to say dear Edgar wasn't just quoting the Daily Woofle's freely available library copies for wherever he lived?
Reincarnation data & modelling
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Kaarjuus
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They refer to the three motivating factors in humans: body, will, and mind. Each having four primary functions. Surely you can figure them out?Huh?
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Conceptually? The heck with conceptually. I want to know what this supposed soul actually is.SirPhilip said:
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Maybe you can just give a link to somewhere.
And what about the other motivating factors?
Got a source for your first sentence? See, I teach psychology, and it would be nice to know these things.
"Will" and "mind" are both circularly inferred from behavior, unless you are the first to have evidence to the contrary. The "four primary functions" could be anything a theorist wanted to make up, given that she or he is starting with a blank slate.
Is a forum popularity contest supposed to influence me somehow?
People making the claim is reason enough. -Not to think it really exists, of course, but reason for investigation.
You must read different newspaper than I do. I've never read one that lists a newborn's or decedent's alleged previous lives
However, as far as Cayce relying on the local newspaper for information about alleged previous lives, that makes sense only if the previous lifetime(s) were in the local area.It seems to be the only thing that does influence you.
After all, you are impervious to reason, facts, and evidence.
On the other hand, you are the first to point to just how many people (especially if they are even remotely connected with science) share your views.
So, yes, it should influence you. If you are consistent, that is.
When I unplug my computer, it loses its "mind." I figure something similar happens with humans. There is certainly no evidence to support the notion of reincarnation. Recycling? Yeah, obviously. Growing up in the country, I saw the plain evidence of that all the time.
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What in the world are you talking about? Who are "they"? How are "will" and "mind" different? What are the four primary functions?
Please explain yourself or give some sort of link to somebody who can.
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According to the author of The Skeptic Tank Professor Ian Stevenson, formerly Head of the Psychiatry Dept. at the University of Virginia, spent over 30 years seriously investigating children between the ages of 2 and 4 years old who claimed to remember previous lives.
Apparently there is a PsycLIT database that he searched against, however all that I find are libraries offered through various different colleges, which I did not take the time to investigate. Or, you could always search on The American Psychological Association website.
As for me, I am a kitty cat reincarnate. Which explains my affinity for napping in sunny spots, the absolute pleasure I get from a full body stretch, and those occasional tickly coughs most likely from the memory of a fur ball.
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T'ai Chi,
If you develop a database of claimed cases of reincarnation, it should include those in the works of Ian Stevenson.
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But it was referring to you questioning, and making conclusions, about people who fire things off.
I'd say the best definition would be like a platonic solid. It's form having no intrinsic meaning, rather the configuration it assumes.
So it's a theoretical construct that need not have any correspondence with reality, in much the same way that a triangle as a planar solid can not be said to exist?
Can you at least describe this form? Platonic solids are notorious for being well defined.
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Are you ever going to explain what in the honking heck you're talking about?
Freudian Mysticism..
Technically, they aren't, but they are subjectively different. Will is ambiguous as the id, and what you actually make decisions from (assuming deeply held sentiments are the precursor to thoughts and actions). Mind is really a balance of thought and emotion and the gate of the five senses.
It's just a way I came up with to reduce a complex thing in freudian terms. I imagine it would make more sense as an illustration. It was mostly borne out of a need to cold read people in nightclubs here. I'm still in the process of making it concise in scope. But there appear to be twelve common interdependent factors, although I'm not sure what the common definition of each should be, due to constant interaction.