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Comment: Did Abraham Lincoln reincarnate as Charles Lindbergh?
A great master of yoga stated that Abraham Lincoln had been a Himalayan yogi in a past life, and that he reincarnated as Charles Lindbergh. Intrigued, I researched their histories and found more than 500 significant connections between Lincoln, Lindbergh, and the ancient science of yoga.
I published my findings in my book, Soul Journey from Lincoln to Lindbergh, which demonstrates, through parallel passages from the lives of these two famous men, how past lives affect us all on a daily basis.
You can find out more about my book via this news release:
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Well, maybe his journey through the netherworld cured his fear of flying.
You're being shortsighted, snopes.
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As far as I can see, he never gives us a glimpse of what those significant connections may be... probably because the most impressive is "both of their last names begin with L".
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quote:I researched their histories and found more than 500 significant connections between Lincoln, Lindbergh
Ah, yes. I recall reading how Lincoln was heavily criticized for keeping America out of the Civil War for the first two years, and how tragic it was when the Lincoln baby was kidnapped and killed by a Confederate agent. And who could forget all those wonderful books Mary Lincoln wrote!
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And then there's the whole Lindbergh assassination at the theater.
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Hate to break this to you, but _I_ was Abe Lincoln! Before that I was Emperor Trajan and Atilla the Hun. But I was never, NEVER Charles Lindbergh!!! And btw, in my next life I'm gonna be Shirley MacLaine.
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Using the techniques outlined in Richard Salva's book, I despaired to discover that I was a mere clerk in a candle warehouse, while my cat was Napoleon.
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"I was Alexander the Great's Chief Eunuch!"
past life regression is an amusing concept to me Everyone is always someone important. you'd think you'd have you were a pharoh's slave who helped build the pyramids. there were many more slaves than big named people.
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The cynic would say that is because no one is going to keep coming back to the pyscic (or buying the books) to find out they were a slave in 13th Centruy Mesopotamia who died of the flu.
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Not to mention that today's psychics probably know more about great leaders in history than the life of the average pleb in any specific time.
Easy enough to find details that match great leader lives than the mundaneness of everyday peasant life.
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I rummaged around to see what I could find for various reviews and reader comments. Didn't find too much..
F'rinstance
quote:Lincoln’s Ann Rutledge, who died before they could be married, and Lindbergh’s Anne Morrow: each was a delicate beauty with dark hair and blue eyes, each petite at five foot-two, each woman twenty-two to the suitor’s twenty-six. Salva discusses how the disappointment of Rutledge’s death, and the following, less-than-happy marriage to the emotionally unstable Mary Todd Lincoln, might have found its fulfillment in the happier, more stable marriage of Lindbergh and Ann Morrow.
"Among some of the most fascinating [anecdotes] are the fact that both had persistent nightmares about falling from a high place and both lacked racial prejudice. Lincoln and Lindberg were widely loved and admired yet both exhibited humility anchored by a strong spiritual nature."
"What I did like was the way Salva has included some episodes from each life that are probably less known and written about in formal biographies. I loved the description of both men as practical jokers- something you would little suspect from the sober faced photographs of Lincoln we are familiar with.".
The author of the book turned up on a lot of unrelated message boards and book review sites where his book was being discussed, so I would not be surprised to see him here. His responses, always polite, are variositos of this
quote:I appreciate your objections. While working on this book, I had similar reservations. How was it possible to reconcile Lindbergh’s activities prior to WW II with what we know of Abraham Lincoln? I knew that until I had answered that question to my satisfaction, I could never publish my book.
However, a return to the history books unearthed facts of Lincoln’s life that seemed to intersect perfectly with my questions about Lindbergh, like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Every point that people object to about Lindbergh was not only connected to something that happened in Lincoln’s life, but explained by it! Suddenly, the Lindbergh riddles that had so many historians and biographers scratching their heads made perfect sense. It was extraordinary.
The question you are raising is an ethical, a moral, a spiritual one. How could the Great Emancipator (the salt of the earth) be reborn as someone suspected of being a Nazi Sympathizer (the scum of the earth)?
In the second half of my book, I dive into the daily habits of Lincoln and Lindbergh and show how both men demonstrate a past-life familiarity with the ethical and spiritual teachings of the ancient path of yoga. In that section it becomes clear that, looking at the standard of one’s daily actions and habits (and how else shall we be judged?), surprisingly, Lindbergh matches up very well with Lincoln. In fact, judging by that standard, they were almost the same. People even described them using almost the same words.
P. S. the author's most recent assertion is that Thanksgiving has Hindu roots because of Lincoln's previous experience as a yogi
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quote:Originally posted by Kathy B: P. S. the author's most recent assertion is that Thanksgiving has Hindu roots because of Lincoln's previous experience as a yogi
That yielded an interesting mental picture.
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If it's any consolation, my brother went to a shrink once, and became convinced for a while that in a past life, he was a nobody who had done some sort of crime and was hanged.
Not surprisingly, he stopped going to that shrink.
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quote:Originally posted by Kathy B:
quote:Lincoln’s Ann Rutledge, who died before they could be married, and Lindbergh’s Anne Morrow: each was a delicate beauty with dark hair and blue eyes, each petite at five foot-two, each woman twenty-two to the suitor’s twenty-six. Salva discusses how the disappointment of Rutledge’s death, and the following, less-than-happy marriage to the emotionally unstable Mary Todd Lincoln, might have found its fulfillment in the happier, more stable marriage of Lindbergh and Ann Morrow.
So the parts of their lives that were similar are evidence, and so are the parts of their lives that were different?
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quote:Lincoln’s Ann Rutledge, who died before they could be married, and Lindbergh’s Anne Morrow: each was a delicate beauty with dark hair and blue eyes, each petite at five foot-two, each woman twenty-two to the suitor’s twenty-six. Salva discusses how the disappointment of Rutledge’s death, and the following, less-than-happy marriage to the emotionally unstable Mary Todd Lincoln, might have found its fulfillment in the happier, more stable marriage of Lindbergh and Ann Morrow.
Which might actually be interesting if the story of Lincoln's involvement with Ann Rutledge were something more than myth.
quote:Among some of the most fascinating [anecdotes] are the fact that both had persistent nightmares about falling from a high place and both lacked racial prejudice.
quote:I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, [applause]-that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.
This is from the National Part Service's collection of Lincoln-Douglas debates, so I would hope it is a legitimate quote.
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Cobra, what proof are you talking about that Egyptian slaves did not build the pyramids? Who did, in that case? There is evidence that it was not Jewish slaves that built the pyramids, but I don't know of any evidence that suggests that no slaves built them.
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quote:Originally posted by geminilee: Cobra, what proof are you talking about that Egyptian slaves did not build the pyramids? Who did, in that case? There is evidence that it was not Jewish slaves that built the pyramids, but I don't know of any evidence that suggests that no slaves built them.
According to a Greek historian ( I forget which one) the pyramids were built by egyptian people, working different shifts around the year.
And, from what I read one time- there are graves near the pyramids- People with signs of back strain so it is logical to assume they were moving some pretty heavy blocks.
The graves in question were neat, maintained- someone loved these people. This is not the kind of thing that you would do if they were just slaves; throw away people.
So, I have to say, there probably were at least some slaves helping with the pyramids, but not everyone was on "the chain gang".
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Actually, Halliburton built the pyramids and overcharged for them.
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