TRUTH OF OUR LORD GOD
TRUTH OF OUR LORD GOD
THE TEN MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS AF ALL TIMES
ELTHICS STANDARDS PHILOSOPHY DIVINE AUTHORITY
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http://biblia.com/bible/niv2011/1cor13.1-13
http://www.catholicplanet.com/catholic/our.htm
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CHICO XAVIER – AMAR SEMPRE.
Francisco Candido Xavier (Chico Xavier) AMAR SEMPRE (E A TODO INSTANTE)
Esta é a melhor mensagem deixada por Francisco Candido Xavier em todos os tempos. AMAR SEMPRE (E A TODO INSTANTE).
DO NOT CONFOUND FRATERNITY WITH ALMS,
ALMS ARE NOT FRATERNITY.
PHILANTROPY IS NOT FRATERNITY.
(Portuguese) NAO CONFUNDIR FRATERNIDADE COM ESMOLA,
ESMOLAS NAO SAO FRATERNIDADE.
FILANTROPIA NAO É FRATERNIDADE.
(PORTUGUESE) POR QUE OS ESPIRITAS NAO PRATICAM A FRATERNIDADE ?
WHY THE SPIRITISTS DONT PRACTICE THE FRATERNITY ?
THE NECESSARY CONDITIONS TO BE DISCIPLES OF OUR ROYAL LORD JESUS CHRIST
SEE GOSPEL OF SAINT LUKE CHAPTER 14 (FOURTEEN) WHAT FRATERNITY IS
(PORTUGUESE) CONDICOES NECESSARIAS PARA SER DISCIPULO DO NOSSO REAL SENHOR JESUS CRISTO
VER EVANGELHO DE SAO LUCAS, CAPITULO 14 (QUATORZE) O QUE E FRATERNIDADE
HAVE DISCIPLINE IS TO PRACTICE THE FRATERNITY (CHARITY, LOVE)
TER DISCIPLINA É PRATICAR A FRATERNIDADE (CARIDADE, AMOR)
http://oakridgechurch.com/riggs/canpries.htm
(Portuguese) Podem os Sacerdotes Perdoar Pecados ???
http://www.holinessandperfection.org/thewillofgod.html
FRATERNITY IS GIVE OUR LIFE TO OTHERS (Luke 14)
(PORTUGUESE) FRATERNIDADE É DAR A VIDA PELO OUTRO (Lucas cap.14)
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SPIRITISM IS OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST HOLY SPIRIT REVELATION
SPIRITISM
A Religion for “The Spiritual But Not Religous”
Allan Kardec, French Scientist and Professor (1804-1869).
Source and references: http://www.angelfire.com/planet/mazdaznan/
SPIRITISM is a new religion founded by the Professor (a.k.a. Allan Kardec) in the 1850s in France. It is a religion for “the spiritual but not religious”. It is for people who do not believe in any formal organized religion. It is for people who are “spiritual but not religious”.
Spiritism is for people who are “turned off” by the organized religion, but who still believe in God and want to know how to live their lives according to His Will.
Spiritism teaches that God has communicated to us via three Ages:
*The Age of the Father
*The Age of the Son
*The Age of the Spirit
In the Age of the Father, God revealed Himself as a stern but loving Father, such as Jehovah, or Brahma. In the Age of the Son, God revealed Himself as the Son of God, Jesus Christ. But in the Age of the Spirit, God reveals Himself via the Spirit of Truth. We can “tap in” to that Spirit via a process called “Mediumship”.
The Age of the Father began with the Revelation of God to Zoroaster, the ancient Prophet of Persia, who lived about 4,000 B.C.
ZoroasterIn the Age of the Father, the Father communicated to mankind via “prophets” and “wise men”. Among these are the Hebrew prophets, the Zoroastrian Magians, the Hindu Rishis (“Seers”) and many others.
The Age of the Son, of course, began with the birth of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
The Age of the Spirit began in the year 1260 A.D. when the Holy Spirit began to communicate directly with men and women known as “Seers”.
There have been many Seers of the Spirit. One such Seer was Nostradamus. There have been many such Seer, some Japanese, some in India, some in America, some in Europe. These were not people who channelled the dead, but those who channeled the Spirit of Truth.
Of coure, the uninspired leaders of religion always reject the newest Revelation. The leaders of Judaism rejected Jesus Christ. The leaders of Christendom rejected the Seers, even though what the Seers revealed was pure truth.
Spiritism was founded in the 19th century by the Frenchman known to us today as Alan Kardec. He claimed to be in contract with “The Spirit of Truth”; the same Spirit Jesus mentions in the Gospels as the “Comforter” that would teach His disciples “all things”.
Kardec taught that the Spirit of Truth could be contacted via Mediums; hyper-sensitive spiritual people who have the ability to read minds, and to contact the Astral World. He taught that Jesus Christ wanted His disciples to receive divine guidence via The Spirit of Truth in this manner (Mediumship), but that the early Christians soon rejected this form of communication, and, because of it, were left with only fallible human leaders to guide them.
The Spirit-Revelations
Kardec claimed to be a Medium for the Spirit of Truth who communicated to him via questions and answers. Kardec produced five books of Revelation from the Spirit of Truth which form the basis of Spiritism.
Spiritists believe that these five books form the basis for their beliefs.
Collectively these are known as The Spirit-Revelations. These are NOT revelations from dead people, or from demons, but Revelations from the Spirit of Truth that Jesus said would “teach us all things” (John 16:20)
In addition to the Five Books, Spiritists also accept the Messages of Mediums as divine revelation. Such Message can be to a person (get this job, don’t get that job), or to a local Spiritist community, or to a Spiritist Federation (over a country), or to the International Spiritist Council.
In addition to The Spirit-Revelations and the Messages, Spiritists can also get information from other Spirit-Mediums, such as Edgar Cayse, or the works of Martin Jensen of Denmark, or the writings of Dr. Dahesh: the miracle-working Spirit-Medium of Lebanon. These are known as New Spirit-Revelations.
Belief in The Spirit-Revelations are mandatory for all members of Spiritist societies. Acceptance of the Messages and New Revelations are optional for Spiritists.
For Spiritists, the Bible is NOT a “Revelation” but rather a collection of historical books some of which were written by Prophets (who were Spirit-Mediums of Israel). The books of the Bible have various authors, who were inspired to various degrees, and they are considered inspired books, but are not our Guidebooks for the Age of the Spirit.
For example, the Bible, in the Old Testment, commands the death penalty for the following offenses:
*Adultery (women only)
*Homosexuality (men only)
*Blashemy
*Using God’s name is vain (swearing)
*Eating pork
*Eating shell-fish
*Working on a Sabbath day
If the Bible is our “Guidebook” for today, why aren’t Christians enforcing these rules and laws?
They have no answer. There is none.
We live in the Age of the Spirit, and Spiritists are those who are guided by the Spirit of Truth (via Spirit-Mediums). We are not guided by old religions or old Revelations that are no longer relevant for us today.
Spiritist Teachings
Spiritism teaches:
*God exists as a Intelligence Force throughout the Cosmos, with a Light and Dark side.
*Organized religion was necessary because most people could not read, and had to have the Law of God taught to them. But today, because of literary and modern communication, organized religion is no longer necessary.
*We all live many lifetimes, on this planet and other planets (reincarnation).
*Christianity is true, but Christendom (the Christian churches) are dead without the Spirit, and the Spirit of Truth has communicated with Seers, and we can read those Communications for ourselves, to guide our lives.
*Judism and Christianity are not the only true Revelations from God. The Spirit has communicated with many Prophets, Sages, and Seers throughout the history of human beings, many whose names we know and many whose names we do not know.
*We do not need pastors or priests in the Age of the Spirit. If we can read, we can read the Spirit-Revelations ourselves. If we cannot read, then those who can read can read the Spirit-Revelations to us. We do not need a Priest to forgive our sins, or a Pastor to tell us what God’s Will is for us.
*The Law of Karma is operative upon all things: whatever a man soeth so shall he reap.
*When we die we go to the Astral World to await our next incarnation.
*We existed on other planets before this one, and we will have lives on other planets after this one.
Spiritism address many subjects that are not clearly addressed in the Bible, such as the Afterlife, abortion, euthanasia, killing in war (sin or no sin?), homosexuality, suicide, etc.
Spiritism is not Spiritualism
Do not confuse Spiritism with “Spiritualism”. They are not the same. Spiritism is a religion based upon the Spirit-Revelations; divine communication between Seers and the Spirit of Truth. “Spiritualism” is the belief and practice that we can communicate with the dead.
Spiritism is not about communicating with the dead! A “Spirit-ist” means “a follower of THE SPIRIT”; meaning the Spirit of Truth.
Spiritists agree with Spiritualists, that communication with the dead is possible, but Spiritism is about the Spirit of Truth guiding us; not about getting communication from the dead humans.
Who is the Spirit of Truth?
The Spirit of Truth is the Holy Spirit. It is the same Spirit that entered Jesus Christ at His baptism, and spoke through Him. Jesus was “possessed” by the Spirit of Truth for three and one half years. The Spirit of Truth left Jesus on the Cross, and this is why Jesus shouted:
“My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
The Holy Spirit left Jesus on the Cross simply because its “mission” was completed. The Spirit had spoken through Jesus, and had no reason to dwell in Him to the moment of His death, so It left.The Spirit of Truth communicated with various Spirit-Mediums, including Alan Kardec, who founded Spiritism in the 1840s.
The Spirit-Revelations in Judaism
There have been a few Mediums of the Spirit of Truth in Judaism. They were the authors of the Kaballah (Hebrew: “Tradition”), the mystical aspect of Judaism. One such Medium was Ba’al Shem Tov; otherwise known as Besht. His real name was Israel ben Elizer. He was born in the 1700s in Poland, and worked many miracles, and taught gilgul (reincarnation). His revelations agree with those of the Spirit-Revelations.
Spiritism and the Afterlife
The Old Testament does not address the subject of the Afterlife. The God of the Old Testament (Jehovah) offers no promise of Heaven, no punishment of Hell-fire in the Afterlife. This is because “Jehovah” is the God of the Living, as Jesus said:
“God is the God of the living, not of the dead.”
The New Testament only says that the righteous dead will be with Jesus in some place called “Paradise” and that the unrighteous will go to a place called “Gehenna”; a place of fire and sulfur.Most Christians believe that they will go to “Heaven” at death, to join a Heavenly Choir where they will sing songs for all eternity, while the Damned will go to Hell; there to be tortured, burning for all eternity.
The Spirit-Revelations explain the meanings of “Heaven” and “Hell” as not literal, but symbolic. For example, we live on a world where the rays of the Sun burn our skins. Our skins get old, wear out, and we die. In life we suffer. We experience pain and death. We are in Hell now.
When Jesus was on the Cross, a thief said, “Master, remember me when you come into your kingdom!” Jesus said, “Truly, I say into you, Today you shall be with me in Pardes”.
The word Pardes (translated “Paradise” in English Bibles) is not a Hebrew or Greek word. It is not Aramaic (the language Jesus spoke). It is a Persian word. It is specifically a Zoroastrian word. It means simply: “Garden”.
Jesus belonged to a sect of Jewish Zoroastrians called the “Nazarenes”. Their village was called “Nazareth” (place of the Nazarenes). They believed in “The Teacher of Righteousness” whom we known today as Zoroaster, the Persian Prophet.
According to the Spirit-Revelations of Dr. Dahesh (1909-1984), the miracle-working Spirit-Medium of Lebanon, “Paradise” refers to the Paradise-planets, literal planets that exist in the Core of the Galaxy. It is upon these planets that the souls of the righteous rest until their next incarnation.
The Spirit-Revelations explain many things in the Bible that are obscure, or whose meaning is unclear.
The purpose of The Spirit-Revelations is to guide our lives so that we may find greater happiness in this life as well as a good incarnation on our next life.
Organized Religion
Spiritism teaches that at one time organized religion was necessary; when most people were illiterate. Since most people could not read, and there were no printing presses to mass-produce literature, the Revelation had to be read or taught to the common people, via teachers. Teachers had to be trained and organized into orders and churches, with rules of discipline, and hierarchies. Jesus had to form His “Church” with apostles, prophets, evangelicals, pastors, and teachers, because the common people could not read, and, even if they could, there were no printing presses. The Gospels had to be copied by hand.
Today, there is no “need” for various ranks of “teachers” because The Spirit-Revelations can be mass-produced, on the Internet, and in inexpensive book form, in multiple languages, and we can read them for ourselves.
But today, times have changed. Most people are literate and can read for themselves. Literary and the printing press allows us to read The Spirit-Revelations ourselves.
What we need is to read and study The Spirit-Revelations for ourselves. They are very clear in what they say. Once we have read these Revelations, then we shall know for ourselves what the Spirit of Truth wants us to do.
Today, one sees the thousands of different religions and thousands of different sects within each of the religions. This is because mankind follows the Spirit of Error instead of the Spirit of Truth. The Spirit of Error is the “OVER-SOUL”; the collective “Self” of humanity.
All religious people, except for the Spiritists, follow the Spirit of Error. For example, over 1 billion people today follow the Roman Catholic Popes. These men used to teach the world is flat, that people who kill others for the Catholic Church are saved, while those people who kill themselves will burn in Hell forever. Former popes used to teach that all Protestants will burn in Hell forever. But more recent popes teach the opposite; that Protestants are “separated bretrhen” and are saved as well.
Protestants are divided as well, each group following this man, or that man, or that woman, all saying, “Lo, here is Christ!”. All believe he/she is following the right path of God.
A hundred years ago all Protestants believed that the Papacy was the Anti-Christ and Muhammad the “false prophet” of Revelations. Today, very few belief either. A hundred and fifty years ago Southern Baptists believed that slavery was of God, and that women can have abortions and that was not a crime. Now, they believe just the opposite on both issues!
Obviously, the varioius religions of the modern world are NOT following the Spirit of Truth. They are following the opinions and beliefs on uninspired men (and sometimes women) who are equally as ignorant; relying on other human guides.
Spiritism and Yoga
The term “Yoga” means “union”. It means “union” with God. All organized religions have “Yoga”. When Evangelicals uplift their hands and shout “Praise the Lord” and sing sons of praise to Jesus, that is a form of “Yoga” (although they would not admit this). There are hundreds of forms of Yoga. Meditation is a form of Yoga.
The Spirit-Revelations teach a form of Yoga which is reading the Spirit-Revelations. This produces a calming of the mind, and in “unites” one with the Holy Spirit. For those who cannot read, for whatever reason, The Spirit-Revelations can be read to them by a Spiritist-Worker (a Spiritist who volunteers to help another without pay or thought of something in return).
Most Christians think that Jesus wanted His followers to sing songs of praise to Him continuously, but Jesus never told His followers to sing praises to Him. Rather, He told His followers to do the following:
PURE RELIGION
Spiritist Yoga consists of Reading the Spirit-Revelations and in doing unselfish service for others. That is the form of Yoga we practice.Yoga helps us to be more “spiritual” and the more spiritual we are, the more “good” we do, and the more “good” we think-say-do, the less bad Karma we collect, and less we must suffer in this life and the next to “burn” awa that negative Karma.
Spiritism from the Devil?
Many Evangelical Christians and Catholics will claim that “Spiritism is of the Devil”. This is no surprise. When Jesus appeared, the orthodox ministers of His day claimed He (Jesus) was of the Devil, and did miracles via co-operation with demons. Jesus said, “Can a house be divided against itself?” In other words, was Jesus teaching good or evil? Were the miracles that Jesus produced “good” or “evil”? How can something teaching us to do “good” be of the evil one?
The same is true of Spiritism. Does it preach good or evil? If it preaches evil, it is of the Devil. If it preaches good, then it is of the Spirit.
The Bible As Our Only Guide?
Many Christians will say, “The Bible alone is our only Guide!” Yet, did Jesus say:
“I shall go away, but I shall inspire men to write the Bible, and the Bible shall guide you and be your only guide!”
NO! He said that the Comforter, the Spirit of Truth, would guide His disciples. The Bible is simply a “record”; a history of God’s dealings with the Jews and Jewish Christians. It was never meant to be a “guidebook”.The New Testament was not written and compiled until about 350 A.D. What guided the Christians before that? Before the New Testament the early Christians were guided by Spirit-Mediums called “Prophets”. Jesus’ Church included Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors, and Teachers. The Prophets were Mediums between Christian communities and the Spirit of Truth. What happened to them? Why are they not still guiding Christian churches today?
Simple answer. There was a group of Christians who rejected the Christian “prophets” and raised up “bishops” instead, who were not in communication with the Spirit of Truth. These “bishops” later organized into the Catholic Church.
The Bible was never supposed to be the ONLY GUIDE for Christians! The Bible is a collection of “historical books”; not guide-books!
The Spirit-Revelations, on the other hand, are Guidebooks; that is what they are meant for. They are not “history” books like the Bible. They are Guidebooks to guide those who follow the Spirit of Truth.
Guardian Angels/Spirit-Guides
Spiritism teaches that all humans have one or more “Guardian Angels”. These angels look out for us. We can communicate with these guardians via Spirit-Mediums. These personal messages to us are called Spirit-Messages. Our Guardian Angels, or Spirit-Guides, want only what is best for us. Sometimes they can communicate with us in dreams, but these dreams will, more often than not, be vague and unclear. But, via Spirit-Mediums, we can get direct verbal communication with our Guardian-Angels.
The Spirit-Mediums
There is a sharp difference bewtween “channeler” and “Spirit-Medium”. A “channeler” claims to be in contact with spirits of the dead, such as the magician Houdini, or Napolean, or the dead relative of a person of a loved-one. In Spiritism, a “Medium” (also called “Spirit-Medium”) is spiritually-sensitive person who communicates messages from the Guardian Angel of person to that person. Certain individuals are born Spirit-Mediums. They have the natural ability to communicate with the Spirit-World. Every Spiritist Society has at least one or more Mediums. These are the same as the “Prophets” of the early Christian communities. They receive messages for others, and answer questions such as:
*Will I get married?
*Will I be rich?
*Who should I marry?
*What career should I work in?
*Should I move or stay here?
Mediums are conduits to the Spirit of Truth. None of the Spirit-Mediums are paid; these would lead to deception and charlatanism. All Mediums who are Spiritists volunteer their services. None of them do this “for a living”. All have normal jobs, and assist others in giving them “Readings” not for money, but because these are “good deeds” which help burn away bad karma.
Spiritist Organizations
Even though Spiritism preaches against an organized “Church” with priests and rituals, there are Spiritist societies. Brazil has more than 2 million Spiritists, all of whom who honor Allan Kardec and believe his books are Spirit-Revelations.
There are Spiritist organizations in about 20 countries at the current time. They are all members of the International Spiritist Council which acts as the umbrella orgranzation. This is democratic council, like the “United Nations” for Spiritists. In no way is it a “top-down” organization like the Roman Catholic Church; where the Pope commands a heirarcy of Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops, and Priests. On the contary, the ISC is the “UN” for Spiritist organizations worldwide. It produces a magazine called The Spiritist Review, which has editions in different languages:
Spiritists are led by the Spirit of Truth via Mediums, who are conduits for such divine communications. Each Spiritist Center has one or more Mediums. The International Spiritist Council has a number of Mediums, who receive “messages” from the Spirit of Truth.Spiritists are organized as follows:
1* Spiritist Group (an unorganized group of Spiritists with no Medium in a particular area who gather occassionally for fellowship)
2* Spiritist Assembly (an organized group with at least one Medium but is not a legal entity who meet for Readings and fellowship).
3* Spiritist Society (an organized group in one jurisdiction, such as a city, township, or county, that has at least one Medium and who is legally incorporated as a non-profit society in that jurisdiction)
3*Spiritist Council (an organization which includes all Spiritists Groups and Societies within a certain juridiction such as a province or state)
4* Spiritist Federation (an organization which includes all Spiritist Councils within a country or several countries)
5* International Spiritist Council (the international council of Spiritist organizations worldwide)
All of the various “Spiritist Federations” in the various countries are Members of the International Spiritist Council which in headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Spiritism does NOT require that Spiritists become members of any “society” even a Spiritist society. But, because humans want to fellowship with those who think as they do, societies have been created.
Also….wouldn’t you like to get direct verbal Message from your Guardian Angel? This can happen via the Mediums who belong to Spiritist societies.
Many people go to Spiritualist Mediums who charge money for “Readings”. These are called “Money-Mediums”. Some of these people are true Mediums. Others are con-men or con-women who want to take your money. How can you tell which is which? You can’t!
Not all Money-Mediums are con-men and con-women! Many Money-Mediums are true Mediums. Others are self-deluded. Some are charlatans.
Spiritist Societies are necessary to help Spiritists avoid false Mediums. Charging money for mediumship attracts too many charlatans and self-deluded types. Since paid-mediumship is forbidden in Spiritist societies, this is one way for Spiritists to avoid charlatans (phoney mediums) who are con-men and con-women who want to take their money, who are in fact not Mediums at all and will give people phoney readings
Spiritist Temples
Spiritism has no churches nor temples, and, futhermore, wants none. The only “temples” that Spiritists want to build are hospitals for children, hospices for the dying, and orphanages, as Jesus said:
PURE RELIGION
Spiritist Groups meet in the homes of other Spiritists; either once per week, or once per month. When they become an Assembly (at least 20 active adults) they can begin to rent halls, like Masonic Halls, for Fellowship Meetings.Spiritists believe that building glorious and expensive churches and temples are from the Over-soul; these are ways to flatter our egos. Rather, we seek to build hosptitals for the poor, orphanages, and hospices to care for the dying. These are are temples and churches and synagogues.
Spiritist Practice
All Spiritists subscribe to “the Spiritist Practice” which reads as follows:
All Spiritist practices are gratuitous, following the orientation of the moral principle found in the Gospel: “Give for free what you receive for free.”Spiritism is practiced with simplicity, without any external forms of worship, within the Christian principle that God should be worshipped in spirit and in truth.
Spiritism has no clergy, nor does it adopt or use at any of its meetings or during its practices the following: altars, images, candles, processions, sacraments, concession of indulgences, paraments, alcoholic or hallucinogenic beverages, incense, tobacco, talismans, amulets, horoscopes, cartomancy, pyramids, crystals, or any other objects, rituals or external forms of worship.
Spiritism does not impose its principles. It invites those interested in knowing it to submit its teachings to the test of reason before accepting them.
Mediumship, which allows the Spirits to communicate with Human Beings, is a faculty which many individuals bring with them at birth, independent of whatever religion or beliefs they may come to adopt.
Spiritist mediumship practice is solely that which is exercised based on the principles of the Spiritist Doctrine and within the Christian morality.
Spiritism respects all religions and doctrines; values all efforts towards the practice of goodness; works towards peace and fellowship between all nations and all peoples, regardless of race, color, nationality, creed, cultural or social standing. It also recognizes that the truly good person is one who complies with the laws of justice, love, and charity in their highest degree of purity.
(INTERNATIONAL SPIRITIST COUNCIL, Preparation of Workers for Spiritist Activities Oct. 1999)
Source: http://www.angelfire.com/planet/mazdaznan/
In Brazil, dead people write books. Not only do they write books, they sell them. Many fly off the shelves.The process is called psicografía or psychography, also known in English as automatic writing: mediums go into trance, channel the spirits of the deceased, and record their words. Sometimes mediums channel the spirits of famous writers and poets such as Victor Hugo and Humberto de Campos, the renowned Brazilian poet and journalist whose family sued the medium-author of several collections of his supposedly posthumous poems and essays—not because they objected on principle but because they wanted a share of the profits. Sometimes mediums channel historical figures, such as nineteenth-century politician Bezerra de Menezes, and sometimes they channel unknowns.
Brazil’s most prolific and beloved medium was Francisco Cândido Xavier. Known fondly as Chico Xavier, he published more than 400 books from 1932 until his death at age ninety-two in 2002. At least 25 million copies of his books have been sold, likely more. They have been translated into many languages, including Greek, Japanese, and Braille. His Nosso Lar, a sort of spiritual memoir first published in 1944, is probably the biggest psychographic hit ever. More than sixty Brazilian editions have been printed and nearly 2 million copies sold.
In addition to publishing books, Xavier used his psychographic ability to record more than ten thousand letters from dead people to their families. Most often it was grieving mothers who traveled from all over Brazil to visit Xavier in the city of Uberaba, Minas Gerais, hoping he would channel messages from their children. In these letters the disincarnate spirits typically assured loved ones that there was no need to worry, that they were safe and happy, and that they still loved their families very much. Sometimes the writing was backwards, and sometimes it was in a language Xavier did not speak. Skeptics who questioned the letters’ authenticity were usually convinced by the handwriting and the inclusion of intimate details only the deceased could know.
Xavier’s powers were so widely recognized that, a few times, these letters were accepted as evidence in courts of law. The most famous occasion was in 1979, when teenager José Divino Nunes was tried for the murder of his best friend, Mauricio Garcês. The two boys had been playing with a gun that went off in Divino’s hands, killing Garcês. While criminal proceedings were underway, Garcês’s grieving parents went to see Xavier, hoping a letter from their son might bring them comfort. It took a while, but eventually a message arrived from Garcês declaring that his death had been an accident. “Neither José Divino nor anyone else is guilty,” the letter said, and “if anyone should ask for forgiveness it’s me, because I shouldn’t have been playing around instead of studying.” It concludes, as many such messages do, with an assurance: “I am alive.”
Garcês’s parents submitted the letter to the presiding judge, who accepted it as witness testimony. An analysis of the letter’s signature confirmed that it was exactly the same as Garcês’s. The judge admitted the psychographed letter as evidence and moved to acquit Divino. A jury agreed, six votes to one.
By the time of the Divino trial, Xavier was famous throughout Brazil. In 1971 three-quarters of Brazil’s televisions tuned into a special live interview with Xavier on the show Pinga-Fogo (roughly, On the Firing Line). It was the largest television audience in Brazilian history. Rather than the planned hour, the broadcast lasted nearly three. The audience response was so extraordinary that Xavier was invited to do a follow-up interview later that year. It lasted four hours and was watched by an estimated 20 million people.
Of course, not all Brazilians who watched were convinced that Xavier could communicate with spirits, but few were willing to disregard him entirely. Over the years, he came to be widely respected for his humility and generosity. He donated all of the proceeds from his books to charity and charged nothing for the letters. More than two million people signed a petition nominating him for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1981. In 2000 two and a half million voted to elect him the Mineiro (a person from Minas Gerais) of the century.
Spiritists are not Holy Rollers or New Agers. They are the intelligentsia.
When Xavier died in 2002, three thousand people passed by his coffin each hour of his two-day wake, after waiting in a line that stretched for two and a half miles. More than 30,000 fans and onlookers accompanied the funeral procession on foot. At the cemetery, a police helicopter dropped rose petals on the casket. The governor of Minas Gerais announced three official days of mourning. The country’s president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, described Xavier as “a great spiritual leader who was loved and admired throughout Brazil” and “left his mark on the hearts of all Brazilians.”
This was not hyperbole. The truth of Cardoso’s statement has only been confirmed since Xavier’s death. In 2006, when a national magazine polled its readers to select the greatest Brazilian in history, Xavier won handily with 36 percent of the vote, nearly twice that received by the runner-up, racecar driver Ayrton Senna. In 2012, he won a similar television competition, with 71 percent of voters agreeing he was the greatest Brazilian of all time. This came a year after Xavier had been honored in Rio de Janeiro’s carnival parade, with a samba school dedicating their final float to him. It showed his torso clothed in a light suit, head topped with trademark shiny toupee, eyes behind dark sunglasses. He was posed in his iconic spirit-channeling position: head resting in left hand, pencil grasped in right, forehead furrowed in concentration, and eyes closed.
Xavier was not some fringe kook. He was and remains a central and beloved figure, one of the most important in Brazilian cultural history. That such a man could be taken seriously—revered, even—reflects fundamental conditions of Brazilian spirituality. Not just anywhere could Spiritism, Xavier’s practice, find a home in the mainstream. The popularity of Spiritism in Brazil, where it is far more than an idle fascination, forces us to reconsider what religion can be.
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You may never have heard of Spiritism, but in Brazil it is a household word. It is a particular kind of spiritualism, which is something you probably haveheard of, or will recognize in description. Think séances and ouija boards in candlelit, Victorian drawing rooms. Spiritualism is the umbrella term for beliefs and practices centered on communicating with the dead.
Spiritualism’s beginnings are usually traced to the Fox sisters of Hydesville, New York, who gained fame in 1848 after claiming to communicate with spirits by clapping and knocking on the walls of their home. The sisters became a sensation, giving talks and holding public séances across the northeastern United States from the 1850s through the 1880s. News of their performances spread across the Atlantic, and spiritualism soon attracted attention in Britain and France.
It was a French intellectual and teacher, Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail, writing under the pen name Allan Kardec, who formulated the particular kind of spiritualism known as Spiritism. By applying ideas from positivism, evolution, and empiricism to spiritualism, Kardec codified a system of beliefs that he considered to be equal parts philosophy, science, and religion. Indeed, Kardec saw no real distinction between religion and science. Spiritism was meant to be, as he wrote in The Gospel According to Spiritism (1864), “the new science that would reveal to men, by means of irrefutable proofs, the existence and nature of the spiritual world and its relationship with the material world.” He believed that strategies of scientific inquiry could reveal metaphysical truths.
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Biblical References to Reincarnation |
The concept of reincarnation has been taught throughout the ages. The greatest philosophers of the Western world such as Socrates, Plato, Plotinus, Pythagoras, St. Augustine St. Clement, Origen and Jesus accepted and taught its understandings.
Many cultures base their beliefs upon the existence of the non-physical and its constant interaction with the physical. It is taught in and by Hinduism, Brahmanism, Vedic scriptures, Krishna, Jewish Qaballah, Buddhism, Ancient Egyptians, Gnostics, Zoroastrians, Mystery Schools, Chaldeans and the Essenes of Palestine. Jesus was an Essene initiate.
Society is dominated by Christian dogma, and the Bible is the book of writings accepted by Christians as Gospel. The following citations from the Bible must be considered when referenced in the context of reincarnation.
The reference citations are:
Matthew 11
12] And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
[13] For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
[14] And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.
[15] He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.Matthew 14
[1] At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus,
[2] And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.Matthew16
[13] When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
[14] And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
[15] He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
[16] And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.Matthew 17
[10] And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?
[11] And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.
[12] But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.
[13] Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.John 3
[3] Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
[4] Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?
[5] Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
[6] That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
[7] Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
[8] The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
[9] Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
[10] Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
[11] Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
[12] If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
[13] And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.John 8
[56] Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.
[57] Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
[58] Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.John 9
[1] And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
[2] And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
[3] Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.John 14
[1] Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
[2] In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
[3] And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.Jeremiah 1
[5] Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
[6] Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.—————————–
2 Kings
[11] And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.Malachi 4
[5] Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
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[13] But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.
[14] And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.
[15] For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb.
[16] And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.
[17] And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.Luke 9
[7] Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him: and he was perplexed, because that it was said of some, that John was risen from the dead;
[8] And of some, that Elias had appeared; and of others, that one of the old prophets was risen again.Revelations 3
[10] Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
[12] Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem,Proverbs 8
[22] The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
[23] I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
[24] When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
[25] Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
[26] While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
[27] When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
[28] When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
[29] When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
[30] Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
[31] Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.Heb 2
[2] For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
[3] How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;Romans 9
[10] And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
[11] (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
[12] It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
[13] As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
[14] What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.Obadiah 1
[15] For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.
Catholicism’s Second Council of Church Fathers, in Constantinople in 553 A.D., deleted many direct references to reincarnation from the Bible. The dogma of Christianity conflicted with its principles concerning the following:
(a) Pre-existence of the soul before physical birth.
(b) Eternal damnation, blood salvation, and vicarious atonement.
(c) Resurrection of the physical body.
(d) Christ as a personal savior .
(e) Grace and Atonement.
(f) Original sin and being born a sinner .
(g) God is separate, and all action is outside of self .
(h) God should control all. God’s will is paramount.
(i) Good works are not enough, for man is boastful.
(j) Only through faith can man be saved.
(k) Only Jesus Christ can pardon sins.
(1) Satan is a constant harassment.After the council it became sacrilegious to question of the Lord’s business or inquire as to where we have come from or to where we are going.
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Could a Little Boy Be Proof of Reincarnation?
ABC News
April 15, 2004
Nearly six decades ago, a 21-year-old Navy fighter pilot on a mission over the Pacific was shot down by Japanese artillery. His name might have been forgotten, were it not for 6-year-old James Leininger. Quite a few people — including those who knew the fighter pilot — think James is the pilot, reincarnated. James’ parents, Andrea and Bruce, a highly educated, modern couple, say they are “probably the people least likely to have a scenario like this pop up in their lives.” But over time, they have become convinced their little son has had a former life.
From an early age, James would play with nothing else but planes, his parents say. But when he was 2, they said the planes their son loved began to give him regular nightmares. “I’d wake him up and he’d be screaming,” Andrea told ABCNEWS’ Chris Cuomo. She said when she asked her son what he was dreaming about, he would say, “Airplane crash on fire, little man can’t get out.”
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pauses for a picture sometime in 1944, the year before he was shot down. Source
Reality Check
Andrea says her mom was the first to suggest James was remembering a past life. At first, Andrea says she was doubtful. James was only watching kids’ shows, his parents say, and they weren’t watching World War II documentaries or conversing about military history. But as time went by, Andrea began to wonder what to believe. In one video of James at age 3, he goes over a plane as if he’s doing a preflight check. Another time, Andrea said, she bought him a toy plane, and pointed out what appeared to be a bomb on its underside. She says James corrected her, and told her it was a drop tank. “I’d never heard of a drop tank,” she said. “I didn’t know what a drop tank was.” Then James’ violent nightmares got worse, occurring three and four times a week. Andrea’s mother suggested she look into the work of counselor and therapist Carol Bowman, who believes that the dead sometimes can be reborn. With guidance from Bowman, they began to encourage James to share his memories — and immediately, Andrea says, the nightmares started become less frequent. James was also becoming more articulate about his apparent past, she said. Bowman said James was at the age when former lives are most easily recalled. “They haven’t had the cultural conditioning, the layering over the experience in this life so the memories can percolate up more easily,” she said.
F4U Corsair
Trail of Mysteries
Over time, James’ parents say he revealed extraordinary details about the life of a former fighter pilot — mostly at bedtime, when he was drowsy. They say James told them his plane had been hit by the Japanese and crashed. Andrea says James told his father he flew a Corsair, and then told her, “They used to get flat tires all the time.” In fact, historians and pilots agree that the plane’s tires took a lot of punishment on landing. But that’s a fact that could easily be found in books or on television. Andrea says James also told his father the name of the boat he took off from — Natoma — and the name of someone he flew with — “Jack Larson.” After some research, Bruce discovered both the Natoma and Jack Larson were real. The Natoma Bay was a small aircraft carrier in the Pacific. And Larson is living in Arkansas. “It was like, holy mackerel,” Bruce said. “You could have poured my brains out of my ears. I just couldn’t believe it.
USS Natoma Bay
James 2 = James M. Huston Jr.?
Bruce became obsessed, searching the Internet, combing through military records and interviewing men who served aboard the Natoma Bay. He said James told him he had been shot down at Iwo Jima. James had also begun signing his crayon drawings “James 3.” Bruce soon learned that the only pilot from the squadron killed at Iwo Jima was James M. Huston Jr. Bruce says James also told him his plane had sustained a direct hit on the engine. Ralph Clarbour, a rear gunner on a U.S. airplane that flew off the Natoma Bay, says his plane was right next to one flown by James M. Huston Jr. during a raid near Iwo Jima on March 3, 1945. Clarbour said he saw Huston’s plane struck by anti-aircraft fire. “I would say he was hit head on, right in the middle of the engine,” he said.
Treasured Mementos
Bruce says he now believes his son had a past life in which he was James M. Huston Jr. “He came back because he wasn’t finished with something.” The Leiningers wrote a letter to Huston’s sister, Anne Barron, about their little boy. And now she believes it as well. “The child was so convincing in coming up with all the things that there is no way on the world he could know,” she said. But Professor Paul Kurtz of the State University of New York at Buffalo, who heads an organization that investigates claims of the paranormal, says he thinks the parents are “self-deceived.” “They’re fascinated by the mysterious and they built up a fairy tale,” he said. James’ vivid, alleged recollections are starting to fade as he gets older — but among his prized possessions remain two haunting presents sent to him by Barron: a bust of George Washington and a model of a Corsair aircraft. They were among the personal effects of James Huston sent home after the war. “He appears to have experienced something that I don’t think is unique, but the way it’s been revealed is quite astounding,” Bruce said. Asked if the idea that James may have been someone else changes his or his wife’s feeling about their son, Bruce said: “It doesn’t change how we think. I don’t look at him and say, ‘That’s not my boy.’ That’s my boy.”
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This story appeared on ABC’s TV show Primetime. Here is the link to their printed version on the website (It’s the same as above except I added a few more pictures):
Could a Little Boy Be Proof of Reincarnation? http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/primetime/us/reincarnation_040415.html
There is also a Real Player video link related to this story but you have to subscribe to this ABC feature.
Second Link: Here is another news story on the same subject, from Daily Courier\PittsburghLive, By Judy Kroeger:
About past lives … Uniontown WW II flyer’s memories in Louisiana boy http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/dailycourier/news/s_189477.html
More at Ian Lawton’s site:
The Past Life Memories of James Leininger
Editor’s note from Reverse Spins:
Apparently they mentioned on the show that the boy’s memory of his past life is fading. This is not surprising and no refutation of reincarnation. For those who say there is no reincarnation because we can’t remember past lives, I challenge you to remember your childhood. Most of us can only remember isolated events. If we can’t remember most of our childhood how are we supposed to remember past lives? We have enough problems dealing with this life. Imagine trying to cope with the problems and traumas of past lives all at the same time. God in His infinite mercy casts a veil over memories. Some do remember but it is not necessarily the right course of action to seek one’s former lives, for once you discover them, you take on more karma all at once for that embodiment. Normally it would be stretched out over time. The boys nightmares are a perfect illustration of this phenomena and demonstration of cosmic law.
Although I do not remember my last embodiment and do not wish to pursue it, this story really resonates with me for two reasons. I absolutely love that plane and have for a long, long time. I also spent a year in Japan in this life. I was born five years after WW II ended, a resonable amount of time between embodiments. Maybe I hated the Japanese too much and had to balance that karma. I now love many aspects of Japanese culture. I don’t know if I was ever one of Mr. Huston’s wing men, in any event, God bless this former F4U pilot for remembering his past and all those who brought it to our attention.
Update 9/7/09
The story of James Leininger has made its way to England:
Is James Leininger reincarnation of Second World War fighter pilot?-9/1 Telegraph (UK), James Leininger, an 11-year-old American boy, could be the reincarnation of a Second World War fighter pilot, according to a new book.– He is said to have lived before as Lt James Huston Jnr, who was shot down by the Japanese in 1945. A book about him, Soul Survivor, is a best-seller in the US and tells how he began to have dreams about the war as a two-year-old. His parents Bruce, 59, and Andrea, 47, were initially sceptical about the idea of reincarnation but have now traced the relatives of the dead pilot who were impressed by James’s apparent memories of the war. Mrs Leininger told the Mirror: “In the throes of his nightmares you couldn’t work out what he was saying. But two or three months in, I was walking down the hall and I heard him saying, ‘Airplane crash, plane on fire, little man can’t get out.’ “It chilled me to my bone hearing this. “I asked him what happened to his plane and he said, ‘It crashed on fire.’ I asked how it crashed and he said the Japanese shot his plane.” …
Reincarnated! Our son is a World War II pilot come back to life-9/2 Daily Mail (UK), By Zoe Brennan– It sounds totally beyond belief. But read the tantalising evidence from this boy’s family and you may start to wonder…The agonised screams pierced the air. ‘Plane on fire! Airplane crash.’ In the dark, a two-year-old boy was just visible, writhing on his bed in the grip of horror. ‘He was lying there on his back, kicking and clawing at the covers like he was trying to kick his way out of a coffin,’ remembers the boy’s father. ‘I thought, this looks like The Exorcist. I half expected his head to spin around like that little girl in the movie. But then I heard what James was saying.’ Over and over again, the tiny child screamed: ‘Plane on fire! Little man can’t get out.’ …
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=reversespins-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0446509337&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr Editor’s Review: I could not put this book down. I already knew quite a lot about the story so I was expecting it to be somewhat pedantic. Nothing could be further from the truth. I read it, off and on, in about 24 hours. The authors did a masterful job of unfolding the astonishing things that came out of little James Leininger’s mouth. I even enjoyed the reluctant opening of consciouness of the parents, although the dad’s strict interpretation of the Bible became somewhat exasperating. He was a trooper though, vowing to get to the bottom of this mystery. This is an important book because to prove reincarnation, the individual has to remember an embodiment that is not in the least bit famous. In other words, there is no way he could know about it. On the other hand, there has to be enough evidence of the past life so it can be tracked down. Enough facts and knowledge of the past life has to be revealed as well to show it’s not a coincidence. All these conditions were met in this case. Another book that met these prerequisites is Looking for Carroll Beckwith: The True Story of a Detective’s Search for His Past Life which you can find on my Karma, Reincarnation and NDE page. Once one accepts the notion of reincarnation, the next question should be: Why do we reincarnate and how do we graduate? But for now, I recommend this book as a gift to anyone who needs an introduction to reincarnation.
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Follow-up story: 11 year old boy reincarnated FOX 8 News
Child’s Nightmares and Memories Prove Reincarnation-6/1 Fox8 TV, It is being called the most documented case of reincarnation ever. A little boy is able to recall over 50 memories from someone else’s life. A World War II Pilot’s family believes it is their reincarnated brother based on the child’s memories. The boy’s story is so compelling, it has been published in a new book called “Soul Survivor.” Fox 8’s Suzanne Stratford spoke exclusively to the child and his family. .. A very nice follow up video on this story. Editor
Another follow-up story:
Boy to tell of pilot’s experiences-7/25
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, By Patti Dobranski and Bob StilesJames Leininger’s parents want their 8-year-old son to have a great life — his own life. But for the past 5 1/2 years, the Louisiana boy has been reliving pieces of the life of another James — Lt. James McCready Huston, a World War II fighter pilot from Uniontown who was killed near Iwo Jima more than 50 years before James was born.
At 2 1/2 years old, James began expressing aviation knowledge that surpassed not just a typical toddler’s ability, but that of his parents. The child began reciting a collection of information and had recurring nightmares about being shot down by a Japanese plane with a red sun on it. James’ parents, Bruce and Andrea, eventually realized their son’s assertions were accurate and that something beyond the tangible was occurring.
Their lives have not been the same. Beginning in 2004, James made a couple of TV appearances for ABC News and on the Montel Williams Show. Tuesday morning, James will tell his story live on ABC’s “Good Morning, America,” during a segment set to air between 8 and 8:30 a.m. Bruce Leininger said although there are no new, earth-shattering revelations from James, he’s glad to see his son’s experiences help keep the memories and sacrifices of soldiers like Huston alive. “I am writing a book about these men as a tribute to the men of the Natoma Bay — the ship Lieutenant Huston was stationed on. That’s the way I’ve eternalized it. We shouldn’t forget. We need to remember and realize all of our spirits are on a journey. That’s what this is all about,” he said in a telephone interview from his Lafayette home. Huston’s sister, Anne Barron, 87, of Los Gatos, Calif., said she believes the boy’s accounts. “It’s very hard to describe, but I just can’t help but say it has to be true,” she said. “He knows too many things. For some reason, he knows these things.”
Huston’s sister, Anne Barron, 87, of Los Gatos, Calif., said she believes the boy’s accounts. “It’s very hard to describe, but I just can’t help but say it has to be true,” she said. “He knows too many things. For some reason, he knows these things.” Huston’s cousin, Bob Huston, 74, of Franklin Township, Fayette County, agrees. “To me, it’s amazing,” he said. “The way the boy explained how (Huston) got shot down, that’s what the people told my mother and his father.” Barron said her brother wanted to fly since he was a child, and he enlisted in the U.S. Navy after one year in college.
Huston was shot down March 3, 1945, while on his 50th mission. The mission was to be his last before coming home in April, Barron said. James’ nightmares, which began shortly after his father took him to visit a Dallas flight museum when the boy was 18 months old, center on a plane crash. “They were terrible, terrible,” Andrea Leininger told the Tribune-Review News Service in 2004. “He would scream, ‘airplane crash, on fire, little man can’t get out!’ He’d be kicking, with his hands pointing up at the ceiling.” Andrea Leininger believes her son is the reincarnation of Huston. Neither Bob Huston nor Barron know exactly what to think. “I don’t think when we die we just stop,” Barron said. “I don’t think I’ll know until I go there myself.”
Bruce Leininger said James’ recollections have been fewer as he’s gotten older. And that’s a good thing. “He feels kind of special that he attracts this type of attention, but we don’t try to dwell on it,” he said. “We want him to be who he is and have his own life. He used to be interested in airplanes, but now he’s into Star Wars, so that’s a development.”
Still, in some ways, James remains an old soul. “He uses some dated expressions that we have never used. He has interests in seeing historical things, rather than just wanting to go to Disney World,” his father said. In September 2004, when James was 6, his father took him to a reunion of veterans who served on the Natoma. James was able to recognize one of Huston’s former shipmates after 60 years. “His comment was, ‘They’re all so old,'” he said. Foods sometimes spark memories. “I hadn’t made meatloaf in 10 years, so James had never had it,” Andrea Leininger told the Tribune-Review News Service in 2004. “When he sat down, he said, ‘Meatloaf! I haven’t had that since I was on the Natoma.’ When we were getting ice cream one day, he told me that they could have ice cream every day on the Natoma.” Bruce Leininger said he is considering penning a book about their experiences with their son. “I know I’m doing what I’m supposed to do,” he said. Bob Huston and Barron plan to be tuned in when James appears on television. “I just have to see it,” Barron said. “I’ve met the Leiningers and they’re such nice people. And they’re honest people. I’m going to watch it.” end. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribunereview/news/fayette/s_463146.html
Update:
This story is generating a lot of interest. I’m getting many hits from searches.
I emailed the story to some friends, with some interesting results.
One friend’s Dad is an agnostic. He emailed him the story. Turns out he had seen the show and was interested in the subject maybe even open to the possibility of reincarnation. He had been a flyer in WW II as well, flying suppplies from India to China over the Himalayas. You never know what keys will touch the soul.
Another good friend and I use to talk about the Corsair. I emailed him the story. He revealed some things he hadn’t told me before. He remembers flying the plane in WW II. He was shot down and tortured by the Japanese. The first time he visited Japan he felt a wave of hatred pass through him but it soon passed.
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Here’s another great story about a boy in England who remembered a detailed past life:
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