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Arthur Flowerdew

CaptainWacky

CaptainWacky

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Flowerdew

Sounds like an interesting case. As you know I'm PRETTY MUCH an atheist and believe that all belief in the afterlife is wishful thinking BUT of all the life after death type data out there the past life regression stuff is the stuff that could possibly have something to it and definitely deserves more investigation (though of course 99% of cases can be dismissed as just the brain constructing false "memories" based on subconscious information.)
 
Someday I'm gonna get hypnotized so I can see if I remember anything.
 
Interesting stuff without a doubt. The only thing that makes me raise an eyebrow is how he watched the documentary and that's how he placed his visions. It seems like quite a coincidence that the lost city he grew up in another life was the subject of a BBC documentary that he was watching. Since he was born in 1906 by the time he watched the documentary, let's say 30 or 40 years later, there would not have been a huge amount of this type of programming like we get today with channels like Discovery.

Still, his clear knowledge of the place is interesting. But certainly not proof positive of reincarnation.
 
Mentalist said:
Interesting stuff without a doubt. The only thing that makes me raise an eyebrow is how he watched the documentary and that's how he placed his visions. It seems like quite a coincidence that the lost city he grew up in another life was the subject of a BBC documentary that he was watching. Since he was born in 1906 by the time he watched the documentary, let's say 30 or 40 years later, there would not have been a huge amount of this type of programming like we get today with channels like Discovery.

Still, his clear knowledge of the place is interesting. But certainly not proof positive of reincarnation.
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It's the cases where there seems to be no way they could pick up the information that are the most interesting. There was one about a young boy who could remember details and geography of a place (a scottish island I think) he seemingly couldn't possibly know about, and he went there (with a tv documentary crew of course!) and most of the details seemed to match (details about his old family as well were quite accurate)...but who knows.

Did you see the video of Russell Brand being regressed where everything he said seemed to be taken from Blackadder?
 
My fear of being hypnotized is that the person could make it to where if I heard the word stage all the sudden I would start licking my palms and panting like a dog.
 
Interesting, but then I am a big "hoper" when it comes to unexplained phenomena. I wouldn't call myself a "believer", since I'm a cynic at heart, and believe that 99% of unexplained phenomena are hoaxes. But I defintely want for there to be a Loch Ness Monster, UFO's, Alien construction of the Pyramids, etc.

Wacky, what prompted the search for Arthur Flowerdew?
 
There's a show on ITV where they get celebs to have past life regression and while it's quite intriguing, it doesn't turn up anything conclusive. I remember John Barrowman was a clown. They went to places he mentioned and dug up info on the period, but the details he remembered were mostly things you could make educated guesses about.

I remember that documentary about the boy as well. His knowledge did seem beyond coincidence and I can believe that he was never there before, but it's always possible he heard someone else talk about it or saw another tv show about it at an impressionable age and just absorbed the information and recalled it as events that happened to him and places he'd been.

It's very easy to end up with false memories, just think of any time you remembered doing something only to realise it was something you saw in a dream or a movie, or a story someone else related to you and not something from your life.

Very interesting idea, though. I prefer the idea of reincarnation over boring ideas of an afterlife.
 
Paul Merton got past life hypnosis in India on his show last night, that's why I started reading about it again (I've always been interested in the subject.) Though in his case it was pretty obvious he wasn't remembering a past life, the hypnotherapist was just asking questions like "are you wearing old fashioned clothes?" and he would answer "yes" and his mind would create the scenario for him.

Also, I used to think I was the reincarnation of Jesus.
 
But if you think you have been reincarnated, should you look for someone that died on the day you were born, or the day you were conceived?

Bit of a tenous link, but while looking for people that might have died on my birthday, I discovered the beatles released "get back" on the same day.
 
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