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Episode 10 – Brian Foster – The Case for Reincarnation

A conversation with Brian Foster

In this episode we talked to Brian foster about spiritism and his book “The Case for Reincarnation” Spiritism is a spiritualistic doctrine codified in the 19th century by the French educator Allan Kardec,…

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January 23, 2015
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In this episode we talked to Brian foster about spiritism and his book “The Case for Reincarnation”

Episode source imageSpiritism is a spiritualistic doctrine codified in the 19th century by the French educator Allan Kardec, proposed to the study of “the nature, origin, and destiny of spirits, and their relation with the corporeal world”.

From his book “The Case for Reincarnation”:

“You have lived multiple lives. At times you have been rich, poor, a servant and a slave. Maybe even a King or a Queen, at the least a member of the minor nobility. Many famous people in the past have believed in reincarnation, such as Thomas Edison and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. They both believed in the spirit world and made attempts to communicate with the world beyond. There is a realm, a universe greater than ours and it is filled with intelligences that we can only wonder at. There are spirits around the earth who are actively helping and guiding us in our planning and during our actual incarnations.

There are too many unexplained phenomena for there to be nothing after death. How do some people have past life memories? Why do children remember past lives and then lose the ability after a certain age? How can some people know the future? And more importantly, why do you have premonitions that come true? How could you know what could happen with such certainty?
Reincarnation is a tenet in many religions, such as Hinduism and Buddhism, and is frequently mentioned as parts of varied sects of Christianity and Judaism. It is the concept whereby we have a spirit, in which we retain our central personalities and memories, while in the spirit world, but lose our memories while in a physical form.”

Find Brian’s work @: http://nwspiritism.com/

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  1. “In the spiritual model I follow, earthly life is less about acquiring technical information than about learning to regulate emotion, revise beliefs, and change attitudes. The spirit world is described as intellectually advanced, while incarnation supplies the friction through which moral and emotional development occurs. This is a faith framework, not a scientific finding.”
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  2. “The tradition teaches that less-developed spirits do not choose every reincarnation, while more-developed ones may decline to return but then cease progressing. Reincarnation is therefore framed not as punishment but as curriculum. People are free to doubt that cosmology; its ethical purpose is to portray growth as continuing beyond one lifetime.”
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  3. “My work maps a spirit world with different levels, purposes, and a proposed future for Earth. I believe that map answers questions people have asked throughout life. Skepticism remains entirely legitimate because the account depends on spiritual testimony rather than publicly repeatable evidence.”
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  4. “If consciousness is immortal, the horizon of self-development becomes larger than one career or one lifetime. Within that belief, do not surrender the person you hope to become. The practical message survives even without accepting reincarnation: a long view can keep a temporary failure from becoming a final identity.”
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  5. “At a spiritual center in a neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, I attended mediumship meetings and a healing session. I interpreted what happened through belief in spirits and experienced it as meaningful. Personal relief or amazement can justify further inquiry, but it cannot by itself establish the mechanism behind the experience.”
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Brian Foster

Episode source imageSpiritism is a spiritualistic doctrine codified in the 19th century by the French educator Allan Kardec, proposed to the study of “the nature, origin, and destiny of spirits, and their relation with the corporeal world”.

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