Nuttybebeh,
It's great that you can be open with most people about your apostasy. Many folk feel they can't. With regards you views on reincarnation, a friendly warning: most of the members of this forum have escaped religion and belief based systems of thought. Whilst I should hope and think that everyone here would wholly support your right to your beliefs, you may struggle to find much respect for them unless they can be supported by evidence. Personal experience can be incredibly powerful at confirming in our own mind that which we would like to be true. If others were to experience what you describe, they may rationalise that these are messages from Jesus Christ, or a special insight into the inner workings of the universe, which may indicate that they are some form of higher being or prophet. The problem is, that the evidence for each of these explanations is equivalent: none. One should always consider, what is the simplest, most plausible explanation. There is no physical mechanism arising from our current knowledge that would support your assertions, but are there psychological phenomena that do? Yes. Would that not be a most sensible conclusion to draw?
I would suggest, as Islame has above, that a crucial first step would be to devise an experiment, in order that the experiences you have had can be subjected to sceptical enquiry. Involve some third party volunteers (I am sure you will find some on here), to whom you could notify of your thoughts as soon as they occur. These third parties can then judge whether or not the thoughts hold any predictive capability by the calculation of an accuracy rate. When compared to some control subjects (we have some very imaginative minds on this forum who I am sure would love to make predictions of the future), this would give you an idea at least of whether there is a phenomenon worthy of further thought and theorising. How would you feel about doing this? If you genuinely feel that you have discovered a feature of our existence that violates much of what we think we know about the universe, it would be prudent to investigate further, don't you think?
Cracking post mate. Great advice.
And it makes me ashamed of taking the piss, instead of offering something helpful.
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