Rapaire, you said of people who say they remember past lives or are channeling someone from the past: "This is usually a Prince of Atlantis or the Empress of Mu or some other unprovable member of the nobility. Nobody says, "I'm channeling a peasant girl from the 8th century -- I was gang raped at age 10 and left to die in ditch by a bunch of mercenary soldiers that had just burned my parents hovel and them in it."

On the contrary!!!!!!!! I've met a lot of people with some insight into past lives (including myself) and the vast majority of them remembered quite ordinary lives...not the lives of anyone famous. Uh-uh. Sorry to disappoint you, but most of us "past life" people seem to have had lives that did not cause a single dot or exclamation point in the history books. Just like now. ;-)

Channeling as well very frequently seems to tune in ordinary people from the past...but that doesn't sell as many books as tuning in someone really important or famous, does it? So maybe the bestselling books you've heard about in the media are real channeling...and maybe they're not.

You (and many other people) may have only noticed those people who said they were channeling Cleopatra or Mark Antony or John Kennedy because it made a good story, I think.

Like the "little green men" bullshit that is endlessly blathered by sceptics to attack the credibility of people who've had possible alien sightings, your view of past life stuff and channeling seems to have been colored by some of the more lurid reporting in the sensationalist media rather than by actual experience.

I've heard a ton of past life stories. Hundreds of them. Among those hundreds, there were, I think, about 2 or 3 people who had the notion that they'd been famous or had been among the nobility in some past life. Same goes for channeling. It's usually someone that nobody alive now ever heard of that comes through...a farmer (or farmer's wife), a trader, a merchant, an artisan, a scribe, a peasant, a soldier, a householder, a servant girl...all types right across the board.

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Voice of Truth - Can't find anything to argue about in what you said there. Sounds reasonable to me. The problem with that upper class and the source of their callousness is that they are motivated by the "money game". They want more. That's how you "win" the game, you make more money. Nothing becomes more obsessive than playing a game...it takes over a person's thinking and they forget all else. The money game, unfortunately, is a game that most people on this planet lose, and that the planet and all of Nature loses as well. Such a game leads to disaster, and our money isn't even real. It's a made-up thing, a fiction that people concocted. Now they serve it like it was a god.

I share your disgust with what is going on and your revolutionary fervor about the situation 100%.