Most past-life 'memories' are based simply on one's experience, which are then accepted as true (by some) without applying much in the way of critical thinking. However, false memories are lies, even if they are comforting and come from a 'spirit guide.' The danger in engaging with spirit guides is that it opens us up to demonic entities, who will steer us far from the Lord. Melissa Dougherty explains reincarnation, a popular idea of the New Age moment while showing that, logically, these 'memories' are highly suspicious.
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I described my great grandmother's house and hunting there with my father in the snow, it was all accurate but i wasn't even conceived yet. I've never once been to her house as she died before i was born. She looked me in my eye and held my gaze. But it was only a dream because the alternative is too weird.
@vaughnslavin9784 Says:
Merry Christmas Melissa!
@john4elohim Says:
Indian Christian here from a Hindu background. Also a former Siddha Kundalini Yoga practitioner (I used to seek enlightenment, Sabikalpa Samadhi (self-realization)); and was a ardent reader of Hindu works of devotion. The demonic deception in Hindu teachings (often tied with heart-moving moral values), Yoga or otherwise, runs extremely deep. Trust me, it's NOT an easy pit to escape once you're in there. It was only by the strong hand of the LORD was I able to spot the lies and finally turn my back to Hinduism for good.
@LolaC123 Says:
Okay I get it I get it you don't believe....
@LolaC123 Says:
Yes I understand there's many ways to say people are just imagining it. Thank you for confirming that
@LolaC123 Says:
Tell me about my past with the sea creature thing in the ocean. That helped me better understand why I had such a dreadful fear of it now. I still get nervous with it. Because no matter how you place it. That can still happen
@LolaC123 Says:
I have an extreme fear of the deepest part of the ocean. I couldn't figure out for a long time why. Until I had a past life vision. It showed me as a sailor at sea back in the time where all the ships were wooden. I died in the ocean I was killed I was ate alive by sea creatures.
@LolaC123 Says:
Is to get advice from your past self. To see struggles or solutions to a problem
@LolaC123 Says:
Evidence is hard to find sometimes. Mom was doing the 15th century and it is really hard to find.
@LolaC123 Says:
I just want to know because I'm curious not because I want to live in the past
@holydiscernment Says:
What is the reason past lives inherently contradict Christian Faith?
@Dario1456-h5w Says:
There are many people who claim to remember choosing their parents and being in the womb. Their storyes are very similar. Can someone explain this to me, please.
@andrewhronich8543 Says:
Tell me u’ve read Norman Geisler’s “apologetical” arguments on reincarnation without telling me u’ve read Norman Geisler’s “apologetical” arguments on reincarnation…
@jvt_redbaronspeaks4831 Says:
How about all those NDE's? We use them as evidence that there is soul/life after death...but it seems as if almost a third of them involve someone going to heaven and being told they chose this life or they can chose differently next time. If their experience is real, then it challenges Christian church claims.
If the experience isn't real, just hallucination then bye bye evidence for afterlife.
"Embraced by the light" is the the classic example. It's strange because she claims it was Jesus who told her she chose her own path in this life.
@colincrisp1592 Says:
Soul trap endless. Rencarnations. Have been proven. Scientifically investigate it. Come on.
@Aslan-cometh Says:
The problem is, an equally sophisticated Buddhist, could easily debate this, and answer the questions. I struggled with Buddhism and Christianity for years, and am now trying to come back to Christ. But, this is easily debated, unfortunately.
@rc4134 Says:
Nice and the best I have heard. Only thing I can't explain is claim of small children who accurately describe their past life, remembering & giving vivid Details of places they have not visited in this life, having birth scar marks of injury in exact place of injury which can be confirmed by historical records.
@cybirddude Says:
1: Your ideas of reincarnation is based on new-age religion which modified from Indian religions. For example, New Age believes that humans only reincarnate as other humans, while Indian religions maintain that any living creature can reincarnate as any other living create, such as a tree reincarnating as a wolf, that later reincarnates as a deva, which later reincarnates as a human, which later reincarnates as another human, etc.
2: Stories of people being reincarnated from famous people are generally viewed with skepticism from communities that believe in reincarnation. Also, not all past life memories are from famous people or from humans.
@Titil3223 Says:
I am a Christian myself but have been recently plagued with questions I cannot get a satisfactory answer to. It's something I cannot ignore. As Christians, we believe stories and testimonies of demons and angels, heaven and hell. We never question the validity of the statements. We never claim that children were coaxed into saying these things, or that the adults simply want attention. Why is it that we disregard every other human experience as "demonic influence"? How egocentric is it to believe only Christian experiences are correct, and every other human experience that doesn't corroborate with the Bible is false? There are over 8 billion people in this world and 4,000 documented religions, and you're saying only one set of experiences can be true? If something compromises your beliefs, you shove it away in a box and ignore it, try to explain it away, or try to claim children were coaxed by their parents or the media.
Aj Ayer was an athiest philosopher. He had an NDE while his heart stopped for 4 minutes. He described seeing a bright red light he claims was responsible for the universe. He met two figures and was trying to help them fix "space time" since it was slightly out of joint. He was ignored by these figures but he suddenly wakes up. He remained an athiest until his death.
"The Boy Who Knew Too Much" was a book written by Christian mother Cathy Byrd. It documents her sons life after he makes claims he is the famous baseball player Lou Gehrig. He also claims Cathy was Lou's mother in their previous life as well. She thought she was crazy, until she recounted memories that were later confirmed to be true by Lou's family. Theses experiences were never made public, so there is no way she could have known.
Eight Muslim CPR survivors were interviewed about their NDEs. They all claim to have experienced a bright light and a pleasure beyond human imagination. One man remembers hearing his uncle reciting the Quran.
I've also read 23 Minutes in Hell by Bill Weise. Although he was a Christian when it happened, God had put him through the torments of hell. There are also books like 90 Minutes in Heaven and Heaven is for Real.
I cant help but notice a pattern here when I research these types of events. Our afterlife seems to be influenced by our beliefs on earth. How can Muslims report feeling pleasure and seeing a white light, and even hearing the Quran being recited? Shouldn't they have experienced demonic entities and hellfire, or feelings of dread and terror? In many reported NDEs, people have no attachment to God, yet their experience is pleasurable and full of light, or they witness seeing loved ones.
I'm not saying all experiences are pleasurable, some are downright terrifying. But if EVEN ONE, just a single one, of these millions of past life and NDE experiences, either past or present, are true, it completey contradicts everything we stand for and believe as Christians.
@KM-zn3lx Says:
Graham Hancock is believing in past lives in Atlantis.
@markmessie5427 Says:
Those are inspired by devils, of course.
@baybie8628 Says:
when I was really little I had a “past life” memory. I woke up one morning in my house and it was like all my memories were gone I did not know where I was and I remember walking around the house very confused and in my house going along the staircase were pictures of all of my family. So as I was walking up the steps looking at these pictures I was very confused and I couldn’t recognize anybody. And I recalled having this memory of my family dying in a fire. So when my mother woke up and asked me what I was doing sitting on the staircase looking confused I told her that she wasn’t my real mom and my real mom and family died in a fire. so for a long time while growing up I truly did believe that I was reincarnated and that I had a previous life. that was the only memory/experience that I ever had but it was very profound for me because it was so jarring in the way that I just completely forgot who I was and thought that I was someone else. Now as I’m older that experience is not as exciting or cool as I thought it was. I do believe that there was some type of entity that was trying to plant certain ideals inside of me because as a child I was very deeply involved in my faith I had an encounter with God in the church so I think that it was trying to destroy that really strong connection that I had. And I think it did work for a while, I became barely heavily Interested in reincarnation and Buddhism and I thought that every religion had a little negative truth in a lot of New Age ideals essentially. but once Jesus has touched your heart he cannot be removed. in recent times my faith has grown stronger than it ever has before and I just have to continuously give my praise to Jesus my Lord for yanking me out of very dangerous situations and revealing himself to me and the ways that he’s always been in my life. I no longer believe that I was reincarnated and I know that we only have one chance at life and you can either spend that life in an eternity with Jesus or an eternity in the abyss.
@collinparker2674 Says:
Life after death exists as a global phenomenon, that is If the concept of an eternally inflating multiverse is correct, then sooner or later an exact copy of yourself will randomly be created from scratch and will be realised in some future bubble universe with it's own separate big bang event and subsequent evolution somewhere else in the eternally inflating multiverse. The rate that new bubble universes would form would increases exponentially with time. Once bubble universes form they expand, but the space in between them expands even faster continuously creating room for more and more bubble universes to form because once inflation starts it can sustain the production of new bubble universes forever. An exact copy of you is NOT you because they have no link to you but they have an exact copy of your brain, consciousness and soul as the particles that came together to make their brain, consciousness and soul randomly came together in the exact same way that made your brain, consciousness and soul. Over the course of eternity you exact life you have lived so far and every other possible variation of your life will ultimately be lived an infinite number of times by other exact copies of you living on other exact copies of this Earth in other exact copies of our observable universe in other bubble universes elsewhere in the eternally inflating multiverse. Sorry life after (your) death does NOT exist because there is no way for the soul to survive death and there is no way for the information stored in your brain to persist after you die. Near death and out of body experiences are just the brain going haywire and hallucinating when it is nearly dead as there is NOT enough oxygen getting to the brain when it is shutting down. If they are NOT revived their brain, consciousness and soul will no longer function and they will go kaput. An exact copy of you is NOT you but is compatible with you. It is made from the same template or mould as you, it is the only relationship it has of being you, nothing else. The total energy of the multiverse would be exactly zero because matter is positive energy and gravity is negative energy. The space between existing bubble universes would be expanding exponentially with time and in those regions of exponentially expanding space between existing bubble universes new bubble universes continuously form and this process will go on forever. The rate that new bubble universes form increases by a factor of 2 (doubling) every 0.00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 0001 seconds, so insanely fast. In an eternally inflating multiverse anything that is physically possible and that is allowed within the laws of physics will ultimately happen an infinite number of times. .
@MJLJP-z9m Says:
like a spirit communicating through dna instead of waves
@MJLJP-z9m Says:
they might be...it might be related to gene expression in some way. theres definitely something nano about us
@Malakarlynyahuyasharal Says:
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@thoughtform21 Says:
The belief in karma is a sub-set of past life belief, but it is not representative of the whole when it comes to reincarnation. Reincarnation outstrips even Eastern religions as it is adhered to by many polytheist faiths in the West, such as Heathenry, Hellenism, Celtic polytheism, etc. Even philosophical systems like Platonism give rigorous arguments for it, and do so without karma as a driving engine.
It actually makes a lot of sense that people do not often remember their past lives at all, and that only a few details come through. I would be horrified beyond belief to discover that a five year old remembered the act required to become a mother or father in a past life, and the effect that would have on their development as they aged. I would also be just as horrified if a murderer remembered every detail of their crimes before they had an ounce of self-control provided by growing up.
When it comes to "karma", it sets up not just the reincarnation, but events in the individuals life that will provide them an understanding of what they had done wrong previously. This isn't something for the small, incidental ego that accrues to them through one life, but is instead a lesson that informs who they really are beyond the egoic self, an issue you do not go into any detail to discuss in the video.
So far as it goes for crypto-amnesia and confirmation bias, this is a valid point, but there have been in-depth studies done on past-life memories where it does not seem to be an applicable explanation.
So far as it goes for the spiritual element of implanted memories, this largely takes our ability to trust our first-person perception of the world and throws it out to be replaced by "brains-in-a-vat" nonsense. Further, the claim that there is spiritual motivation to affirm that reincarnation is true cannot be falsified, since if Christianity is true demons will have an incentive to promote it, and if Christianity is NOT true then reincarnation itself may be true, and spiritual forces would of course promote it in that occasion as well.
In short, this is a very poorly done argument and I wish you had treated it seriously.
@Jeffreyk7 Says:
Hi Melissa, How about birthmarks, scars and photographic evidence? Some of the strongest evidence ever brought forth on the reality of reincarnation (without the use of hypnosis). A Civil War general's reincarnation, plus a great story of a young boy, 9/11 and the reincarnation of a New York City firefighter who perished in one of the Twin Towers. The full story as told by the boy's mother on (and off) a popular Reincarnation Forum starting in 2007 up to the present day. Title; Fire in the Soul: Reincarnation from Antietam to Ground Zero.
@neu1113 Says:
I've met my people from my past life and we always been connected again but not that closed. we were separated and I couldnt save her.
@Frogijump999 Says:
This isnt logical because where do souls come from if not from some source, why do people share the same character, couldnt the bible be wrong on this point?
@asellusskind Says:
Thank you so much for this video!
@proverbs2522 Says:
I'm not a new ager, however I was a crazy teen and I took some shrooms a couple times. My 1st experience was beyond insane. I and my cousin did very much meet an entity that messed with us both for several hours. It kept us from getting away and leaving our upstairs area. It taunted and said things we didn't know at the time. We were both seeing and hearing the same things which is completely impossible if it was just our imaginations. Asking it questions and our minds answering them with the same responses is not possible. Being that we were still young, it took 2 more goes of this for me to figure out it was very much real and I was no longer interested. Finding out your mind is not the only thing causing these experiences is frightening.
@zipzorp8858 Says:
Most of what she's saying are the source of where people derive their past life experiences or memories from, are ambiguous at best. The idea that it's a "demonic projection" is simply assertion. Either way, she provides zero references for anything she's saying. Just like peoples experiences with God/Jesus, we have 100% nothing to verify these claims, other than their word. And so it is with past life experiences, or NDE's. Christians, I encourage you, if you don't know the answer to something, it's ok to say you don't know.
@nampundu19 Says:
I don't know that mine are from a past life. I have memories or visions of being very well dressed in a palace. Aristocrat kind of life with workers and a feeling of being very much loved and respected. I am dressed in suits with little hats and sometimes in gloves. In a palace or a beautiful garden but they are so random. I don't believe in re-incarnation. I am a child of GOD. Total child of GOD. I don't even know that I believe them but they are there....In these memories, I am instructing them, sometimes having tea. This is disturbing for me though.....I don't do Psychic things neither do I follow them. Can you help?
@jedimasterham2 Says:
Why even engage them in this? Most do not actually believe in reincarnation. Best to just focus on -and relay- what Jesus said.
@CuzOfTheDog Says:
I believe we reap what we sow. I do not agree with “karma.”
@manuellujan5625 Says:
Like I said in other comments. We don't know anything...instead of talking about what you don't know about ,talk about what you do know about and what IS in the Bible.
Other things like physics, phones, airplanes, Planets millions of stars aren't in the Bible but they exist. We don't know what any of this actually is...the Bible is a guide for us to not stray from our creator but get closer to HE....but that does not mean everything else does not exist just because it isn't talked about in the Bible.
If God wants past life's memories or reincarnation to exist they will...nothing you can say or do about it He has the ability to change the rules at any given second. Basically by saying this and that do not exist you are saying God cannot make that possible which in reality He can make anything possible at a snap of a finger whenever He decides it.
@josiahgarrison647 Says:
I have met 2 women that have told me they remember being delivered to their mom from an angel….how do I make sense of that?
@bobs4429 Says:
Very good treatment of the issues surrounding past lives memories. While different in details, there are equally good and very analogous arguments against near death experiences, which some use as proof of heaven.
@Jonas-gl9ke Says:
Given we currently have no known mechanism for identifying or confirming supernatural existence or supernatural causation, this entire video is laughable. We might as well be discussing midi-chlorian counts in different Jedi or arguing about whether Iron Man would beat Thor in a fight.
@Jonas-gl9ke Says:
MD: I don’t believe in anecdotal reincarnation experience.
Also MD: You should believe in the Holy Spirit because of anecdotal experience.
@robensmonteau161 Says:
Yeah, never had any of these "past lives". When I started my spiritual journey, turns out I was using what God gave us all without even knowing it. Saying it was "my power".
But, now that I've accepted God as my lord and savior, I can say it's my *God given* power, or gift.
Side note, my ability to Express these gifts properly were greatly diminished because I skipped leg day.
Make sure to work on your foundation, and remember that there is no *one way* the holy spirit helps people.
@anabelgheorghe4822 Says:
I know someone who, while on drugs, would become a different person (split personality). This other person claimed to be someone from the past who had murdered many people.
One day, he was glaring at me and said, "I'm looking at you like this because I hate Christians"
I wasn't even christian at the time!
Looking back, I know it was a demonic spirit. Crazy
@thatonechristian4050 Says:
6:19
Yes yes yes very much so! Jerimiah 17:9 states that the heart is deceitful above all things; who can understand it? We must learn to turn our trust and thoughts towards God, because He knows everything and guides us into His straight paths, not our hearts.
@shandinalani32 Says:
For the most part I like this video. And coming from a Christian worldview, I understand her 1000%. But coming from a non Christian perspective, it’s disappointing to a degree. For people who have had near death experiences or literally DO recall nonstop a past life, it’s always Christians who say we misunderstood our experiences, or our experiences were wrong, OR it was an evil spirit behind it all in our mind. We definitely don’t feel heard. Our experiences are real. They are definitely not misunderstood. But the average Christian doesn’t want to hear it and pushes it off as demonic from the “get go”.
@JD-ml7cg Says:
Those are just demons/ dead people that dwell in people's bodies
@froyaw7239 Says:
I used to have a past life, and the bible confirms this?
1 Corinthians 13:11
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things!
@Losttoanyreason Says:
The belief in ghosts and past lives is the work of demons. The first is to convince people there is life after death apart from any need for salvation by God through his son Jesus Christ. When one is dead they are either stuck in the bad side of Sheol until the Great White Throne Judgement if they died unsaved or they are in the presence of the Lord if they were saved and one of Christ's. The second is to reinforce the belief in reincarnation which also denies the need for a savior.
It's easy for demons, who are immortal and know every language, custom, etc as they have lived through them all and know many things about you, your loved ones, and friends as they hover and watch constantly around us all seeking to destroy lives. They not only know every dirty little secret of your life but also the dirty little secrets of your parents, grandparents, etc. lives as well. The real Christian has the protection of the Holy Spirit to prevent possession. We only need to deal with the fiery darts of temptation trying to get us to sin and ruin or witness making us less useful to Christ. Not so the unsaved. They belong to Satan their father as Christ described them. Giving an unsaved person a false past life or lives is easy enough for demons who can just recall someone they hovered about in the past and pass on enough info to the victim to make it believable. Especially easy to influence those, that engage in occultic practices and eastern style meditation, leaving the barn door of their mind wide open and defenseless. Fully open to demonic influence and worse yet possession.
@KirelRed Says:
As a person who has been a Christian for most of his life. I've never thought or felt that I knew anybody from a past life. That being said, I have met a few people and there is something about them that draws me in, that makes me think I have known them before. I am currently "best friends" with a person, 30 years younger than me. And it's completely confusing. There is absolutely a connection that is not normal. The idea of past lives and connection via that mechanism is alluring, because it seems to answer the unasked question. How do I know this person? Again, I do not believe in reincarnation or anything like that. But I do wonder. Why is it that a person seems to know me and I know them without any physical connection previous to the point of initial contact?
@amazingvideo2869 Says:
These are satanic lies all of these past life stuff. great video. It's appointed to people to die once and then the judgement.
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