M.J. Rose

The A-Team Reunites To Contact George Peppard (Starpulse News Blog)

In an extremely silly sounding reality TV program, the former stars of 1980s action series The A-Team will reunite in an attempt to contact their deceased co-star George Peppard (Colonel John ‘Hannibal’ Smith) who passed away from pneumonia in 1994.
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Continuing in the silly vein today, why not find out what form you will take in your next life at the Reincarnation Station…
…it’s possible you could incarnate as a horse next time.

…the Greeks!

The ancient Greeks were big on reincarnation. In fact, reincarnation was a doctrine closely associated with the followers of the philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras. Pythagoras believed that the soul survives physical death and that after a series of soul-cleansing reincarnations the soul has the opportunity to become free from the cycle of birth and death. (This sounds strikingly similar to Buddhist teachings. See: Buddhist Wheel of Life).

Speaking of famous Greeks and philosophy, an ancient manuscript was recently discovered to contain early undiscovered commentary on Aristotle’s Categories, one of the foundations of Western studies of logic!

New Layer of Ancient Greek Writings Detected in Medieval Book
April 26, 2007
Kate Ravilious for National Geographic News

“At first glance, the manuscript appears to be a medieval Christian prayer book.

But on the same pages as the prayers, experts using a high-tech imaging system have discovered commentary likely written in the third century A.D. on a work written around 350 B.C. by the Greek philosopher Aristotle.”

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Crytomnesia

Many in the scientific community suspect that most cases of past life recall is in fact a phenomenon known as cryptomnesia. This is an instance of abnormal or extraordinary memory. In these cases a person, usually under hypnosis, is able to recall with astonishing detail something he or she has read, seen or heard for even the briefest of moments. It’s as if the brain has taken a photograph of that moment and stored it in the subconscious. In one documented case, a psychiatrist’s patient was amazed when his hypnotized patient began writing a passage in an old form of Latin. An investigation revealed that the patient had overseen the passage in a book that someone sitting next to him in a library was reading. (About.com)