Exactly. She had been on fire...in another existence, in another place and time.

You can't destroy energy. Life is a form of organized energy, and some of us call that energy "the mind" or "the emotions" or "the nervous system" while others call it "the soul"...we call it all of those, and it is all of those. That energy builds a body, following conception, one cell at a time inside the womb or the egg (or from a seed, etc.) until it has a fully developed body through which it is capable of living a physical life. It then is a living, physical being of the many types we are all familiar with...such as a human, an animal, an insect, a plant, a lichen, etc. More highly developed energy intelligences build more highly developed bodies. Obviously a human being or a chimpanzee are operating at a higher level of awareness and independence than a geranium, for example.

But a body is subject to injury, illness, aging and death. The intelligent energy that built that body and makes it alive is NOT subject to injury, illness, aging, and death. When a body is injured beyond repair or worn out the energy leaves it and the body rapidly decays. The body is literally built in the image of the intelligent energy (soul-mind) that informs it, permeates it, and surrounds it...but when the body becomes useless as a vehicle, then the energy departs from it. There is some scientific evidence to support that...in that there is a small, measurable decrease in body weight at the time of death which has been observed and recorded quite accurately. Why there would be such a change in weight I don't know (not knowing the exact nature of the mechanism involved), but it indicates the departure of the energy-soul-mind at that time.

You can SEE the energy-soul-mind leave something when it dies...and then you just have an inert body lying there, devoid of life. What left it? Life, personality, emotion, thought, mind, will, desire, love, affection, reaction, passion....ALL those things we identify with life itself...and all those things are the soul which does not die. It's a highly organized, highly intelligent and purposeful energy, and it will build a new body as soon as it is ready to.

People who are vehemently disbelieving in such things are so...not because they're being scientific or particularly rational about it...but merely because they're holding to an established set of beliefs and opinions that they are already comfortable and familiar with. Period.

Everyone naturally defends the beliefs they are already holding against beliefs which contradict or add to those. It's human nature.

Cruiser, not only do I believe in reincarnation, but it's as obvious to me at this point as the fact that sidewalks are normally made out of concrete or that frogs hop. That's because I'm familiar with the concept and accustomed to it. Your reaction is because you're not, I would assume.

- LH