Originally Posted by Abra
Can a person not have a past life from the future? If so, why not?
We must differentiate between the two.
The past is done, free-will choices were made that actualized a number of probabilities that existed.
The future exist as probabilities, as unactualized events that can become actualized by free-will choices. The unactualized probabilities will go into an unactualized historical database when the choice is made that goes along the path of only one of many that were available that that time.
In short, there are three general databases.
The future probable database, the actualized historical database (everything that happened) and the unactualized historical database (everything that didn't happen, but could happen).
One could actually misinterpret having a past life in the future, if one access the future probably database and interpret it as something real and actualized. Though that is very unlikely as such experience is generally not as optimal for growth as this experience (current life) is.
Precognitive dreams are also logically explained; getting a data stream from the future probable database. What about those that "doesn't happen"? Let me remind you that it's a future probable database, for the first, one could get the data stream for a very unlikely future event, but still probable, or free-will choices leading up to the future event changed the probability of that happening. And thus it goes into the unactualized historical database.
Not all dreams of future events are precognitive, they can be purely made up.
My stance on the matter, is that past lives are acquired when kids watch television (or, hear a story, or see a photograph or painting), and incorporate what's happening in the show into real episodic memory. When you're 3~4, your mind is just starting to adapt to constructing lasting memories of your life (and this can and will lead to some odd memories, as your mind makes mistakes and learns from them). Past lives, reports of being a downed WWII pilot, knowing specific details and remembering specific names, are perhaps merely a product of the brain sorting the memories of a History Channel special as your own life.
This explanation probably isn't applicable to all cases. *shrug*
Yes, that is a reasonable possibility, though not always, as you say in the last sentence.
There are evidence in some cases where the conclusion is quite clear. As Captain Sleepalot mentions there have been done some excellent studies done, also in book-format.
Even though this evidence have some good weight, one should still use personal experience to confirm the big picture thinking.
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