thanks for the answers. i don't think i'd like the hindu version. i do not
think i'd like to think i'd possible come back as a bug or something like
that.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trisha Cummings [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 2:29 PM
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> Subject:      Re: Morning Wood
>
> Hi Ken,
>
> > in reincarnation, what would be the chances of having cp again if you
> came
> > back as a human? i am certainly not well versed in the belief.
>
>         Reincarnation and rebirth have several different lines of thought
> depending on which tradition you follow - Hindu's come back as anything,
> I
> beleive. Another line of thinking is we chose the life, before we are born
> and we know what's going to happen once in our bodies we forget tho. In
> face
> of eternity our lives a brief flares much like a match. With eternal life
> each such earthly visitation is like a "vacation" or going to work each
> day.
> I don't regret anything that has happened and would it all over again -
> because to change anything might change having Amber. You may well have
> chosen this life and the CP - We are here to do something, more than
> likely
> many somethings. I had a near death experience 30 years ago, and began the
> journey to the "Light". I was not allowed to stay, I must have had
> something
> to do here - I am patiently waiting to go back again. NDE'r seem to be the
> only people who don't fear death - I guess because we know at least a
> portion of what's to come.There are some who say the "Light" is being
> reborn
> into the next body" - I guess the light must be a shock to babies after
> the
> dark warmth of Mommy tummy. Either way I was in  the presence of a being
>  no gender) who had  unconditional love for me. It was 25 years before I
> would find others with similiar experiences and its amazing we feel the
> same. I also know that in those really dark in life - I reach back for
> that
> moment to keep me going. The criteria that makes a belief sytem a belief
> system is having a creation story, a code of life (rules for behavior) and
> an afterlife place. No matter which one you follow the unvarnished truth
> its
> all conjecture. And has been since the dawn of thinking people. As I have
> faith in something I reached out and touched - you have faith in words in
> a
> book.
>                                 Brightest Blessings
>                                       Trisha