XPost: alt.pagan, alt.paranormal, alt.paranormal.reincarnation   
   XPost: alt.religion.afterlife   
   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   In article <15fed2f2-08dc-4484-805e-b13dbc6006a7@googlegroups.com>,   
    Will Dockery  wrote on alt.pagan :   
      
   > No offense intended but this "History repeats itself until the lesson is   
   > learned" concept always reminds me so clearly of a reincarnation discussion   
   > with a hippe Buddhist type friend of a couple years back. I had noticed that   
   > one of the big deals of re-incarnation was that once a person lives a perfect   
   > life, he/she goes to Nirvana and never returns. So I said I'd have to keep   
   > making mistakes because I like it HERE! This old world may not be perfect,   
   > but there's a slight chance it may be all we have.   
      
   I have a theory of afterlife and beyond afterlife.  There can   
   be reincarnation from the afterlife but not from the beyond   
   afterlife.   The afterlife then can be considered similar to   
   Christian purgatory or Hindu or Buddhist afterlife and   
   the beyond afterlife can be considered similar to the   
   Christian heaven and Buddhist nirvana.   But I also think   
   that in the beyond afterlife it might be possible to   
   try out various "virtual" realities.   
      
   (I have added the groups alt.paranormal, alt.paranormal.reincarnation,   
   alt.religion.afterlife, talk.religion.newage to this followup   
   to WIll Dockery's post to alt.pagan .)   
      
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