The ‘Reincarnated WWII Fighter Pilot’
by Michael Robin Cooke on Jun.09, 2009, under Kitschchaos
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/Technology/Story?id=894217&page=1
Here’s an example of belief manifesting around a boy being the reincarnation of a young WW2 fighter pilot shot down by the Japanese.
It’s really a harmless phenomena. But reincarnation isn’t the only explanation. The concept of a collective unconscious is an alternative to reincarnation theory when it comes to explaining reincarnation like synchronicities.
I’ve mentioned my own life experience, where the adults commented on the idea I, as a very young child, had psychic abilities. This created a ‘space’ where I exhibited such abilities more aggressively and more often. When you create an expectation for a child, children being so extremely adaptable will tend to fulfil expectations (that are a function of belief, as opposed to a desire).
The adult I grew into is no ‘psychic’. Perhaps this boy, when he matures, will lose any sense of being a fighter pilot of a bygone era.
I’m very on the fence when it comes to reincarnation. It’s not that I feel it’s more likely that death is a final end for the spirit (not that I can falsify that idea for myself), but more that I’m unclear if a spirit would retain individuality or that the life experience on Earth is something a spirit is likely to return to (it seems there ought to be all kinds of places and ways to incarnate).
I’ll mention that faith in reincarnation can be used in terrible ways.
The horror of the Jewish (and homosexual, Gypsy..etc) Holocaust, relates to the idea of reincarnation believed by some (respected) Kabbalists: God is good, therefore a live lived in suffering is just retribution for evil acts of a past life. So beyond the horrors done to them, there was the horror that they somehow deserved this.
The Hindu cast system suggests reincarnation justifies class discrimination – if you are born to a low cast, it’s justified that you be poor and suffer. People that believe in reincarnation, Hindu or not, may find themselves losing compassion for the poor, who must have done something awful to have been born in such a way.
There’s another way to look at reincarnation though. Perhaps it’s the people that are wealthy that are the weakest – such spirits are not capable of surviving the trials of poverty. I personally had a tough childhood with abusive parents, it seems to me that if I had any say as a spirit, which family I would be born into – I chose the family I was born into as a function of bravado, to! show up the other spirits with my courage!
It’s kind of true what Nietzsche suggested – that which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. If reincarnation is true, perhaps the best of us were born into the hardest lives as a function of spiritual ambition!
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June 10th, 2009 on 7:29 am
I want to find good pop music. Help me please.
June 10th, 2009 on 11:00 pm
After coming home from World War 2, former soldiers boogied to hot pop hits like this one, from Perry Como:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOq2WqD_VAI
June 10th, 2009 on 10:55 pm
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June 15th, 2009 on 6:14 am
I didn't realize they allowed stuff like that on YouTube.
July 1st, 2009 on 10:56 am
I wrote a paper a couple of years ago, regarding race in medicine. Not only from the standpoint of research, but also in actual treatment, preconceived notions about race determined what was done how.
June 25th, 2010 on 9:48 am
Hey Dude,
I just caught wind of this you published. Really it’s a good stuff for those who are looking for WWII Airplanes.I would like to tweet on it and keep my eye behind at every moment you blogging.
August 9th, 2010 on 12:12 pm
Thank you for this helpful information. Recently I have had an epiphany and I tend to think that it fills the gaps of many problems in my life today.
When I was 23 I enlisted in the US Army the same day of the invasion of Iraq. I thought that I was motivated by the anti-war anti-military crowd so prominent in southern Arizona, where I was living at the time. But in fact, I had previously agreed with their side just the year before, when the discussion of war was made the cover feature in a May, 2002 number of TIME. But my views greatly oscillated when I started reading a book called Debacle by Emile Zola in the beginning of 2003. It was really this that changed my opinion. I felt like the discussion of the Franco Prussian War touched a chord with me in a bizarre way, as though I had participated in something like it.
I did not last four months in the military and did not complete training. I would often become catatonic and listless, but then in a burst would become very animated. I feel like two personalities were switching back and forth in an involuntary manner. This would often rouse the chain of command, particularly in one incident during a field training exercise. I had become listless during the day, but in the middle of the night when it started raining, in a very subtle way I came to life, evident in my expression and walk, and they would look at me bewildered. It is hard to explain, but I was not acting, and it is very strange.
The only flag in my house is the national flag of Yemen, which when turned upside down is the black, white and red of the German Empire during the European War–World War I. I cannot believe that if I had past life a century ago I did not serve in the military, either the Franco-Prussian War or WWI. Even when I was about age 10, I always thought that the discussion on World War II was unimportant and boring, and that there was not enough focus on its predessessor.
I have no contact with my immediate family at this point, and was always detached from them, and did not even tell them about my enlistment. I wonder that perhaps my past life is actually an ancestor. I have never visited Europe or Germany, but am flattered when people in Arizona or California ask me if I am directly from Germany because I fit the profile, unlike anyone in my immediate family.
When I was about 10 years my dog attacked a young bird and I literally cried all night and into the next morning. I once used insect spray on a cockroach, and felt heartbroken to see it die, so I threw out the spray. I cannot hurt a living thing. Then I became enlightened at reading about how the Nazis implemented stringent animal welfare laws, making it a crime to do so much as throw a rock at a bird, and though I may not have lived after the time of WWI in my past life, can now understand where my persuasions are coming from in understanding the attitudes of Germans a century ago.
Either my situation is one of cognitive or selective biases, or a multiple personality disorder, or schizophrenia, or possibly an inherited personality trait (as there is such a thing), or it is what I really think and hope it is: I am living someone else’s life.