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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Jun 10, 2018, Julian wrote   
   (in article ):   
      
   > David Dalton wrote:   
   > > I claim to be the latest in a long line of avatar types of many different   
   > > religions, ethnicities, and nationalities.   
   >   
   > Why do people only reincarnate of "special" or famous people?   
   >   
   > I'd have more respect for someone who admitted to be   
   > the reincarnation of some ordinary poor sod who no one   
   > had heard of.   
      
   You misunderstand me. I am not claiming to be the reincarnation   
   of any past avatar type, but the next in a series of avatar types.   
   I believe that each avatar type does not reincarnate but moves   
   from a regular afterlife from which there can be reincarnation   
   to what I call the beyond afterlife, which perhaps is equivalent   
   to nirvana or to the Christian heaven, and from which there   
   can be no reincarnation. And I use the term avatar type   
   instead of avatar since I am not Hindu, and also do not believe   
   that I am the incarnation of any deity, though I believe that I   
   do have the power to align my soul at least temporarily with the   
   soul of any other someone, including any deity, which might   
   prove useful in rituals.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “In the merry month of June, from me home I started   
   Left the girls of Tuam nearly broken hearted" (traditional)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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