It may be Mormon doctrine but also based on 'regression analysis' by Michael Newton and others. We are not humans --- just use human bodies to advance. Advancement means we develop 'characteristics' of our 'source/God' to become 'one' again with him ---- we all progress as this God appears to progress some as we progress. I can't prove that 'regressions' really work so you can keep your '
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I like reading books about Spiritualism/Spiritism. I agree with spiritist that you need to browse books to find authors who resonate with you. In normal times, you would ideally head to the bookstore or library and spend some time flipping through various books. I've enjoyed reading books, and watching TV shows written by and about mediums for many years now. After my mom died, I got a lot of
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REVELATION News Flash! I just finished reading all three of Garnet Schulhauser's books in rapid succession after seeing him on a YouTube video: Dancing on a Stamp: Startling Revelations from the Other Side – September 2012 Dancing Forever with Spirit: Astonishing Insights from Heaven – March 2015 Dance of Heavenly Bliss: Divine Inspiration for Humanity – March 2016 Here is an
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I have read a couple of interesting books dealing with this topic. I can't recall the titles but they are written by Michael Newton, PhD. I found them fascinating, especially the case studies of people he has done past life regressions on.
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Personally, I tell people if you need religion then be cautious what you decide to join. Church's are a lot like car dealerships. They always tell you the best parts of their product and everyone else sucks. Everyone else is part of the dark side. My awakening started with realizing it was all bullshit. Ok, at least their story was however there are good parts which are generally in comm
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Congrats and chin up. It will get better if you believe it will get better. One of the things I've been telling people lately. "Power resides where people believe it resides" To me that means you have all the power. It's totally up to you if you allow people, a church, whatever to have power over you. Spoiler Alert! They don't have any power or say. It just doesn't e
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Many people (very old, very sick, in a lot of pain, losing capabilities, etc. etc.) desire death when it comes so it is premature to worry about death until you are closer. If you are in that situation you will feel great and new freedom ---- relieved of pain, free from a worthless body, fully alive, etc. when you 'die' (leave your physical body). I finally got Michael Newton's "Journey
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I downloaded a sample of the book from Amazon and at once was reminded of Michael Newton and his so-called "case studies". And BOTH of these guys remind me a lot of Joseph Smith himself, who wrote (or co-wrote) a book that taught his own philosophy by creating a whole fictional story around it, and passing it off as if it all actually happened. I would call all of them PARABLE WRI
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I'm sorry for your losses, SusieQ#1 ... so close together. I can't imagine dealing with that ... I am so glad you received some comforting communication you cannot deny. Michael Newton included a couple of LBL sessions in his books where he received detailed reports of the creativity that a newly departed entity can go through to make contact with a surviving loved one and give them a sense of
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Amyjo, if you are open to new-to-you ideas about us and the Nature of our existence, I think you will find Michael Newton to offer a beyond-exciting adventure into a Spirit Realm never before described in so much detail. I'd be interested to hear again from you after your MN experience.
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Gone girl, I feel heartened that you invested time and energy to read Michael Newton. I experienced him (through his writing) as an honest reporter of remarkable information. The picture he painted of the Spirit Realm between lives is not based on onsey twosey NDE reports, but on 7,000+ reports of people who mostly did not know know each other. Sure, some had read MN's books, but zero had read hi
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I read both books 'journey of souls' 'destiny of souls' because of the recommendations I found on rfm. I am not sure if it was you or not. These books have given me much to ponder. I found them interesting. I don't know the author, dr. Newton, and have no idea if he is credible, but his information was very comforting after the loss of someone close to me. I cannot accept this existence doesn
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There seems to be a widespread misconception that the only place to find a venue supporting a 'life after death' belief is Religion. That's not true at all .... and very fortunately so. All religions are man-made entities and unavoidably develop an institutional self-preservation instinct compelling the leadership to seek money, power and control ... to perpetuate the money and power. It's not
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Thanks for your comments, which I appreciate. As stated elsewhere, I will not be satisfied with imaginative auto-morphing of fuzzy sensations into desired information. If that's all that happens, I will presume I am generating it myself and declare FAILURE. Michael Newton recorded thousands of cases of very specific and detailed conversations and visualizations allegedly through his clients
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Thanks for that very thoughtful perspective, torturednevermo. Everything you said made good, logical, pragmatic sense. I am looking for this 'healing' to not be purely symbolic and only affecting my self-image, self-talk, self-limiting beliefs, etc. The findings of Michael Newton (with which I presume Howard generally aligns) indicate that a human being is a complex commingling of a pure
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Sorry for my delay in Returning and Reporting. My first priority was to report to family and close friends, which is done. I will report here on RfM in a few serial installment posts. (Hopefully if admin needs to delete something, they can delete the offending post and not delete this entire thread.) There is bad news and good news. First . . . the bad news. The bottom line is this: Despite
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To the OP: Thanks for posting. I look forward to reading the report of your regression. I learned about Michael Newton and "Journey of the Soul" some years ago from this RfM website. I read his books and then went on to read Brian Weiss' books. I find them quite fascinating. After the extraordinarily cruel joke that was Mormonism, I am skeptical of anything having to do with r
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Hi, munchkin, I just happened to watch a 2009 Michael Newton internet radio interview this evening I had never seen before. At timestamp 31:20 a caller named Patricia from Knoxville said she had done a regression with someone else and said, "I felt like I was guessing and imagining things" and did not have the very specific, detailed experience MN wrote about in his books. MN comment
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To the OP, I saw your post a couple of months ago about Michael Newton and watched some of the YouTube videos. Then I watched others about reincarnation. I find it interesting and I was curious as well. A couple of weeks ago I had a past life regression hypnosis, which also included contact with my "higher self." They tell you it will feel like you're making it up and they are
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saucie wrote: Why do you feel that this topic is germane to leaving the mormon church? Just wondering. My Rev B post was also deleted by admin, but here is my response to you: Fair question, saucie. People leaving Mormonism have a smorgasbord of 'belief system' options from which to choose. These include: > Some other flavor of Mormonism (NOM, cultural, fundie, etc.) > Smi
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beyondashadow Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ... and adopted ME a year and a half ago. Best > relationship of my life so far. > > Every night around midnight or later I take him > for a walk around the neighborhood when there's no > traffic. He follows or runs ahead and acts like a > dog a lot of the time ... sniffing bushes, car &g
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... and adopted ME a year and a half ago. Best relationship of my life so far. Every night around midnight or later I take him for a walk around the neighborhood when there's no traffic. He follows or runs ahead and acts like a dog a lot of the time ... sniffing bushes, car tires and bumpers, "reading the mail" and "catching up on the news." When I'm on the computer, he cur
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One could get the impression that the following are the only options for new ex-Mormons: 1. Dump Joseph Smith and Mormon scriptures; keep Jesus; maybe find a Christian church to join. 2. Dump Joseph Smith and Jesus; become Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, etc. 3. Dump Joseph Smith and suspect Jesus; become Agnostic 4. Dump Joseph Smith and Jesus and all other Gods; become Athiest I will to
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Put the mushrooms down Kolobian and back slowly away. Seriously, there is great amount of wisdom in "be quiet and you'll see." It is impossible to absorb or to intuit or to observe when one has motormouth and is out to prove one's intelligence. Bearing one's testimony is in fact the act of cutting off those three keys to connection:to absorb, to intuit, and to observe. I do feel
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Short answer: It's complicated, and also tempting to cite horrible atrocities committed by humans and wonder how it could possibly make sense to be on the giving or receiving end of horrific mayhem "on purpose". Souls occupying bodies who commit violence against others clearly have some learning and character building work ahead of them. Souls occupying bodies who are hacked up to be
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Michael Newton writes that we have two non-imaginary, non-physical sources of guidance, comfort and inspiration ... having nothing to do with any God or religion. One source is our very own immortal soul currently in residence within our physical bodies. It's a separate ego from our human brain/mind ego. The two egos intertwine together to generate our human personality. The soul ego is not
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According to Michael Newton, or what I think I understood from reading 2-1/2 of his books, souls in the Spirit World don't even know what God is. At times they feel some kind of light and loving energy shining down on them from somewhere, but nobody is close enough to know with specificity who or what that light and energy is coming from. In other words, the expectation to "meet God"
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Good call! Michael Newton reports that reincarnating souls choose the same gender body ~75% of the time. When a soul chooses the opposite gender body, there is a higher likelihood of same sex attraction. I'll add my own thought that trans-gender behavior maybe could happen as well. The troubling thing about MN's theories/explanations is that they mostly make rational sense to explain what
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My inclination to take Michael Newton's "observations" seriously is based on the following: 1. I have read 2-1/2 of his books. He appears to guard against bullshit stories from his subjects, aka stuff made up by the conscious mind. He asks himself all the questions a skeptic/doubter would ask, and then answers the questions to the best of his ability/knowledge/experience. Sometimes h
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bentleye Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There was one billion people alive in 1804. There > six billion people by 1999. If there is such > thing as reincarnation, most people haven't > participated. Do animals also reincarnate. I > wonder why. I also wonder how. What is a soul > separate from a body? I don't think there is one. I
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