Dr. Peebles on the other side speaks out forcibly against the error of "R"

"Do not become hypnotized in any way by dogma, creed, or belief [which supports reincarnation], but find God within yourself and be free. Ask to hear, to see, to feel, and to know God, then your eyes will be opened to spiritual things and [then] you will not want to come back to this earth life again."

READ MORE concerning how to access the God-life within.

True spirituality is gained only by accessing the 'inner life'. Spirituality is about burgeoning life, blossoming life, unfolding life, and this life comes only from God; life comes only from life. Experience can prune, scintillate, and offer choices, but it cannot impart life. This is the crux of the error concerning 'R'.

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Restatement

What is the real issue here?

Experience, per se, cannot change and evolve us. Only a perception of the life within, of what we've had all the time, the “inner soul-riches,” can advance us.

What does this mean?

It means that we do not need to gain something from "out there" but only to realize what was "factory installed."

The dysfunctional ego is led by systemic fears of “I don’t have enough” because “I am not enough.” It’s a poisonous, debilitating, gnawing feeling of “lack” on the deep inside.

We can have a world of experience from “out there,” or 10,000 lives of doing everything under the sun, but, without something more, one’s inner existential uneasiness will not subside.

This is the core problem with ”R” and why it cannot help people.

the poisonous feeling deep within will not go away just by experiencing more

Only when we access the life within, the “true self,” are we granted release from the poisonous sensations of "not enough".

This perception of “inner life,” when it comes, comes in "no time," comes in one timeless eternal moment of cosmic clarity.

In receipt of this mystical gift, we are jettisoned into a higher level of consciousness, and we’re changed from the inside out.

And the change is permanent.

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In a world of competing voices, how shall we discern the truth concerning reincarnation?

Let us condense and summarize, one more time, this entire contentious issue.

On this page we might review 90 articles presenting views, and counter-views, regarding the question of “R.” Each side offers its testimonies, arguments, philosophies, and experiences.

They debate this even on the other side!

However, we also know that if we go looking for evidence to support a pre-conceived conclusion, we shall surely find it. It’s easy, and quite self-deceiving, to paint a bulls-eye around an arrow in the wall.

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James Webster spoke to the Leininger family, the parents of the young boy, offering better answers

Saturday, 23 November 2013, James Webster:

'Soul Survivor' - The Reincarnation of  a World War II Fighter Pilot set the pace for what was to become a seemingly perfect example to support the case for reincarnation and to prove 'past lives'. Those following the doctrine and those desperate to have a case to quote which would prove the theory and be impossible not to rebuke, were ecstatic as it became very clear from the international coverage in the media following the publication of the book.

My first book 'Life Is Forever' was about my research and personal experiences of my own psychic awareness and mediumship from a child and the many happenings and experiences that proved for me personally that there was no death, just continuation and progression of living.

Then I knew I had to write the second book entirely about the Reincarnation issue which was causing so much misunderstanding and confusion and much argument between the pro and the anti camps. And so my next book was 'The Case Against Reincarnation: A Rational Explanation'.

As soon as I heard about the 'Soul Survivor' case, in August 2009, and started following the news reports, articles, discussions, video, obtaining and reading the book etc, I knew what this really was and what it certainly was NOT! My heart sank realising that the 'hell and torment' which the two principal characters, James Leininger the child and son of Bruce and Andrea Leininger, and James Huston the fighter pilot (and their families) were put through, could have been prevented if only the right knowledgeable and understanding people had been there to advise and take charge of the situation in the beginning when the problems started to happen. An experienced 'spirit rescue team' could have nipped it in the bud and communicated with the pilot James Huston to get him to realise and understand what had happened to him and set him free from his earthbound/bondage condition and the overshadowing and obsession of the child giving him the false belief that he had reincarnated into the body of James L. At the same time young James L was encouraged to believe that he was the reincarnation of the pilot James H.

The brilliant work and services which Dr Carl Wickland MD and the fine mediumship of his wife Anna did in these such cases (early 20th Century) is essential reading ... ref the classic books: 'Thirty Years Among The Dead' and 'The Gateway of Understanding'.

It is tragic that this case was taken over, or allowed to be, by people who had no idea what was involved. They just wanted to show it up as reincarnation which it had all outside appearances of being  ..... and popular with a ready huge market audience ... just needed the media to get to work with the interviews and cameras etc. Another big mistake was to allow the Foreword to the book to be written by Carol Bowman, a devout reincarnationist and author of books concerning Children's Past Lives.

Excellent confirmation came when I was led to having a personal valuable communication with the Leininger family (authors of the book) during the past year. They were in agreement with me and stated that:

"Reincarnation is a term that does not really describe what we have witnessed. Our book does not ascribe to it nor advocate it. The terminology in the title was used to provide some genre of the story."

I cannot state too much here as some of it was confidential, but there will be more to come out when the time is right. I can say that the young boy James Leininger is now a teenager and his own person with his own earthly parents and family around him. James Huston (the pilot) is his own person in the etheric world and his own family are aware of that. The families never thought of JL as JH.

James W.

The following is spoken by Tim, in the afterlife, channeled information, as he communicated with his mortal friend, August Goforth, a New York psychiatrist; documented in the book, "The Risen."

no such thing as 'past lives'

“The experience of remembering past lives may be from the projection of character elements of an earth-bound spirit onto the ego-mind of a receptive embodied person. Those who are convinced they have lived a previous life are actually recalling memories of those who have gone before them… The word gets around fast [on the lower spirit levels] where there are willing Earthers who desire to [attempt] a ‘reincarnation experience.’ Earth-bound spirits will seek them out to try to relive their own previous Earth life to relieve certain discomforts… There is a noticeable parallel here between those on Earth who mentally or emotionally cannot or will not move on through difficult life challenges, and those on the lower Astral planes who cannot or will not accept the change and move on with their transition…

“Children, who have a minimum of life experience, are especially open and vulnerable to invasive Earth-bound spirits, and easily confused and led to believe they have lived a previous life. The misconception becomes more solidified when adults actively promote and push the child to continue the … fear-based beliefs in reincarnation...

because this one life is eternal, it will always be more than enough

"The evidence strongly indicates that we cannot be re- individuated again…my observation is that there is never any need to go back to do it again, for the universe is infinite and never-ending and will provide me with unceasing opportunities, always new, fresh, and alive, to explore, learn, and expand my self-awareness on a continual basis. I don’t need to claim more than one life because my one life is enough. Because this one life is eternal it will always be more than enough, which is the core meaning of ‘abundance.’

Editor's note: yes, one's eternal life will always be more than enough; think of this - when we have lived a million years, or a billion, or 100 billion, there will always be an infinity of time stretching before us; one eternal life, to explore veritable unlimited classrooms out there, will always be enough.

no real limit to anything

"Clearly, we are reborn upon our transition, but this rebirth is always into a new world and a unique state of existence, not back into the old one. The old one no longer exists - life is experienced in the continual now. We develop and carry forward the template for our new life. We are the template, and a new world will simultaneously arise from us as we arise from it, as a direct result of how we lived our lives on earth or from wherever we are continuously transitioning. The more brilliantly we live, that is, the more light-filled, the more spectacular will our lives manifest as we transmute ever onward. There are no limits to brilliance except as self-imposed. But even that is an illusion, for there is no real limit to anything."

Two Years In Heaven, Dr. C.H. Carson, from his wife Rose, her experiences in the afterlife:

"My mind is filled with plans of what I hope to do. How glorious it will be to enter into active work and to realize that whatever I set out to do I shall be able to accomplish through the efforts I make! It seems good to be alive; to feel so well and strong that one’s whole being vibrates with new and wonderful life…

"Every moment of the time I spent in spirit life was occupied with something helpful and instructive… [to] furnish me with some helpful idea that I could impart to others to aid them in their progress toward higher, grander, and better things...

"My soul is alive and vibrant with plans for the future, and I am happy and more glad of life as each day passes, not for myself alone, but for those who are to follow after me and whom my influence is to lead heavenward... The consciousness that I have attained tells me this great truth: The soul aspiring for progress never retrogrades; it goes on and on, throughout all eternity, toward greater achievements and higher realizations."

Editor's note: I love this writing - so positive, so encouraging. And we thank Rose for the clear statements: no retrograding, no going backwards.

How infectious is the joy and enthusiasm of this lady - her "soul ... alive and vibrant with plans for the future." Is this not the mind-set of The Great Teacher, as expressed in Mark 11?

'mountain moving' talk at its best

And look at her supreme confidence: "whatever I set out to do I shall be able to accomplish." Is this not "mountain-moving" talk at its best? How "good" she says, "to be alive." What a wonderful example of "embrace this God-life, really embrace it."

READ MORE in the Mark 11 article.

Editor’s note: Professor Steven Goldman in his lectures “What Scientists Know and How They Know It” speaks of a certain fallacious form of reasoning which infects modern science. This error of logic was well known to philosophers and scientists of the past, but it’s ignored today as if we were immune from the consequences of bad thinking. In common parlance, the problem can be defined as “if the experiment works, then the theory must be true.” And this fallacy also invades the doctrine of reincarnation. See the discussion below.

the sun comes up in the east every morning, it's so obvious that the sun is circling the earth, we can even see it crossing the sky all day long, and we can predict that the sun will rise again in the east tomorrow morning, we’ve never been wrong yet in these predictions, so we know we're right

“It’s a simple matter of cause-and-effect,” the chanticleer chuckles to himself. “Anyone can see that my crowing causes the sun to rise. It happens every morning at my call, and has done so for thousands of years. What could be more convincing?”

‘if A is true, then B is also true’ – but, not so fast

Professor Steven Goldman of Lehigh University teaches a course, What Scientists Know and How They Know It. He says that just because an idea “works” as predicted doesn’t mean it’s true. There could be many other reasons why it “worked,” and maybe the popular reason isn’t the real reason at all. The fallacy is codified in ‘if A is true, then B is also true.’

modern science is based upon the following flawed experimental method

Professor Goldman, near the end of lecture two, asserts:

“There is a serious intellectual problem [extant today] that Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes were well aware of, and so were Galileo, Newton, and Leibnitz. [The problem arises in the] attempt to argue that a scientific theory is true because it makes correct experimental predictions… There is [in this a fallacious] form of reasoning [going back to the universities of the Middle Ages and their courses on logic] which is called ‘Affirming the Consequent.’ This is how it works:

"Let’s suppose we know that the following sentence is true:

If my theory is true, then, as a logical consequence, X should turn red.

"Well, [as it happens] X does turn red.

Therefore, my theory is true.

"This form of reasoning is a deductive logical fallacy – because there could be other reasons why X turns red.

[We can formulate this error with]

If A is true, then B is also true

"And if B, in fact, turns out to be true, this does not tell you that A is true.

“All of modern science is based upon [flawed] experimental prediction of this sort. So, this means that, built into modern science, is a flaw [of logical procedure, making it prone to error]… There is [in modern science] a kind of fracture zone that precludes certainty. We can never be certain that just because a theory ‘works’ [or gives us a predicted response] that it is true [in a universal sense].

many theories in the history of science 'worked' but they were still very wrong

"As we will see in this course of lectures, there were many theories [in the history of science] thought to be correct [as a final answer] because they ‘worked,’ but were subsequently [overturned] and declared to be false. Newtonian mechanics being one example of this [overturning], once we hit relativity theory.

swept under the rug

"We will talk about this [problem] with respect to Newton and Leibnitz [who were well aware of this pitfall in logical reasoning], but then, [after these two great scientists passed from the scene] this awareness [of the logical fallacy] disappears [in the history of science], as if it could be swept under the rug.

"Nevertheless, it is a fact that a deductively fallacious reasoning is a fundamental feature of modern science."

‘if A is true, then B is also true’ – but, 'if B, in fact, turns out to be true, this does not tell you that A is true'

And this is the fallacious argument for reincarnation – that is, if "past lives" or certain NDE testimonies or particular channeled afterlife reports supporting reincarnation have occured, this does not mean that reincarnation has been substantiated.

As Professor Goldman points out, there could be other reasons why we find what appears to be "past lives" or supportive NDE testimony or the seemingly affirming channeled report.

On this page, you will find a great cache, scores of writings, concerning evidence explaining why "B" in fact does not exist, that is, why the apparent support for reincarnation melts away under a torrid rebuttal of closer examination, a full review of the facts, better views and explanations.

The sun coming up in the morning is not "proof" that the rooster has power over our nearest star; further, though it appears, with millions of eye-witnesses, that the sun rises in the east and travels across the sky all day long to find its nocturnal repose in the west, this is not proof that the sun orbits the earth.

Science is a process of piercing through shadows of "obvious" reality all the way to an undergirding of greater mystery, complexity, and wonder. The surface-meaning is rarely the final answer. Study quantum mechanics to find out just how true this statement is.

giving solidity to wind

The many points of rebuttal against "R" on this page are often ignored, "swept under the rug," as Professor Goldman intimated, made out to be non-existent. It is only this blinding of the eyes to a full treatment of the facts, however, that allows reincarnation to parade itself as legitimate. It is, in reality, a gigantic fraud, a hoax, it doesn't happen, is a product of one-sided investigation, of "painting the bulls-eye around the arrow," of sloppy reasoning and cultish dogma posing as knowledge; just an attempt to give solidity to wind - and as convincing as the chanticleer's proudful sunrise anthem.

Some who support “R”, and attempt to present it as “scientific evidence of the afterlife,” like to speak of “repeatable experiments,” as if this were the dispositive factor in determining truth. If one seeks for evidence within a narrow area concerning those who believe in “R,” or in areas where the immature tend to reside, then, yes, you will receive confirming testimony from “repeatable experiments” – but the sampling is tainted and not representative of the truthful whole.

Professor Goldman spends considerable time eviscerating this fallacious use of what can be a smug hiding behind “we use repeatable experiments.” Allow me to quote from the notes from his lecture:

the collective as self-fulfilling prophecy

In addition to Thomas Hobbes' criticism of [Boyle and Hooke's] scientific machines [the just-invented air-pump], Hobbes had sharp words for the newly-organized Royal Society. What did he have against it (other than their rejection of him as a member)? Hobbes had some good objections: He thought, because the Royal Society was an exclusive group, self-selected, and the fact that experiments were done for them, by invitation only, that, in effect, these people were reinforcing their own prejudices. The discoveries they were announcing were of the sort they were already committed to.

I submit to you that the lauded "repeatable experiments" seemingly propping up "R" constitute nothing more than a "reinforcement of the prejudices" of an "exclusive group," those who accept "R" as a kind of religious dogma irrespective of a necessary wider treatment of the facts.

For further reading on Professor Goldman’s instruction, see the articles “Knowledge, Part II,” “Hume’s Causation and Induction,” and “Evolution: Not Enough Time, Part III.”

The following testimony from Summerland, a tape-recorded account, was facilitated by the direct-voice mediumship of Leslie Flint. His work was featured in the article “500 tape-recorded messages from the other side.”

the belief in reincarnation takes its place as just one more religion of the world, something to discard and grow out of when one crosses over

A Mr. Briggs communicated from the other side:

'My name is Briggs. I was for many years, when on your side, a member of the Christadelphians" [an American sect believing that they, and hardly anyone else, will be raised from the dead and return to Earth when Christ returns to subdue the world from Jerusalem].

“In my own narrow way, when I was on your side, I sincerely believed at the time that only those who accepted and believed as I did would inherit the kingdom of God. I know this is a fallacy now - that all peoples inherit the Kingdom of God because it is a natural law. When a man dies his spirit inherits the spiritual realms which are all around and about your earth world. It is inescapable.

“There is no one left out, and man inherits according to his nature and his achievement, or lack of achievement going to a lesser condition or place. In other words man receives exactly what he himself has created in his life, his outlook, and his way of life. Religion in itself cannot save a man. Religion cannot necessarily make a man a better person. This is something that can only come when man realizes that he is already in embryo a spiritual being.”

He went on to tell the story of his arrival on the other side.

happiness and confidence in a fool's paradise

“My mind was closed to truth. When I first came here, I found myself in an environment which for me was very satisfactory and very happy. I was in paradise. But I realize now I was in a fool's paradise. A condition of life which consisted entirely of people of like mind. People who had believed as I had believed, who had accepted as I had accepted what I thought was the complete and absolute truth. We were content with our meetings and our singing of hymns, and our prayers, and we would talk of the time when we should be brought back to Earth to be resurrected as we had been told, and we would enter into our physical bodies and becomes earthly people living in an earthly paradise.”

Neville Randall, reviewer of Leslie Flint’s work, comments: “His re-education came slowly. It began when he started to feel uneasy. Then, curious to him, he became aware that other people, not of his own sect, who seemed to have got to Heaven too.

everyone is damned, except, so conveniently - me

"They started to talk to him. One of them, a man called Bernard, took him for a long walk and told him that he'd been a Roman Catholic priest. Briggs was horrified. Catholics and Spiritualists, he'd been taught, were equally damned! Not to worry, said Bernard. They had both held strong views. And they had both been wrong.

“Their journey took them through a series of small, isolated communities still dressing and living as they'd done three or four hundred years ago on Earth. And it ended in a beautiful city where everyone seemed uninhibited and loving.

a prison for the mind, finally opened

Briggs: “And here, I found that peace which I feel I want to give to the whole world. I want to tell everyone there is no barrier at all to man once his mind is unshackled, once he is free to think for himself.”

each one believes him- or herself to be part of the 'one true' group of God

Editor’s note: Briggs, a Christadelphian, had he sent a psychic message immediately upon crossing over, would have offered sincere affirmation that the next world is set up to honor the beliefs of Christadelphians. And if a Catholic were to communicate, he or she would offer testimony that “heaven” is oriented toward the teachings of the RCC. So it would be for true-believer Baptist, Muslim, Buddhist or any other fundamentalist.

fake-news reports from the philosophical ghetto

And so it is with the believers in reincarnation, members of one more religion of this deluded world. If they communicate with the Earth, they will attest to the veridical nature of “R.” It’s what they know, it’s what they see, from the perspective of the philosophical ghetto in which they live. But they, along with all fundamentalists, will be growing out of these narrow views.

A communicator named “Pierre” spoke via Flint on September 1, 1963:

"There are far too many selfish people, even among the Spiritualists, who are only concerned with what they are going to get from it. They are not concerned with spiritual truths. That is why they ask such mundane, material questions...

'one truth' - but it is not reincarnation, nor any other fraudulent religion of the world

"There are many, many different religions in your world ... many confusing, conflicting ideas and thoughts. But there is one truth, and it is the truth of everlasting life; that, all who die, live...

the truth is not meant to mirror one's fears and prejudices

"We are grateful because you [of the Flint group] have, like so few have, the true spirit, the true realization. Your minds are free and open to receive. There are no prejudices. There are no stumbling blocks that we find with so many who want to tie truth, which must always be free, to their own particular brand of religion. They want to try, if they can, to bring this great truth down to a certain level which only they can understand and appreciate, because it must be in the confines of their own particular religion or belief or dogma.

"We have no dogmas. We have no religion in the sense that you understand religion. We have a freedom of expression, and a freedom of thought, and a freedom of spirit which is far beyond the confines of Man and his pettiness and his foolishness. We are free to speak the truth and it is because of this that we are happy to come and be able to give it to you.

ask, seek, knock - but knock like you mean it, or have you already decided what you want to find

"Knock, it has been said, and it shall be opened unto you. But how few people in your world truly knock. There are some who gently tap the door and are surprised because no one hears them. There are those who strive to turn the handle, but it will not open. And there are those who put their whole weight against the door and it flies open..."

you can have it all laid out in front of you, but it won't make you think 

Concert for George
Royal Albert Hall
November 29, 2002 

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