Thanks, poan.

I started on my love story 2 years ago.  I think I am about a few thousand words but has been in the low priority list as of late.  I was thinking about including past life and reincarnation etc but still haven't made up my mind yet. 

Bong GoldenTreasure,

Thanks so much for providing furher informations on the concept of Reincarnation through your research. Thanks also for providing second accounts of it through your immediate family members. I remember you mentioned it in The Immortal Seeds. It is very intriguing for me.

You mentioned birth marks as one criteria. The incidence of dreams asking for shelter prior to rebirth is another, usually with family members. Also, the incidence of Khmer Rouge genocide of our race. Also mentioned is neighbors claiming their children are reincarnations of dead soldiers.

I am not sure if these are any significant, but I see a connection which may prompt further investigation for my behalf. I will look into your reference when time allotted.  

Speaking of dream...My aunt reported to say that she saw my grandfather (whom I had mentioned before) came to bid her farewell in a dream where he said he will take rebirth in Srok Khmer. She has no child, sadly enough.

Speaking of reincarnations of dead soldiers, through a perhaps quatro account, and I forgot which province it was (may get back to this later) Lok Ta Khleang Meurng's soldiers happened to be one of them. There was a seance session (jol roup) and a bunch of village kids swarmed the area.

Lok Ta Khleang Meurng, Khmer's legendary officer, assumed the body of the medium and saw the children and recognized them as his soldiers whom he bid to stay put (don't go anywhere for reincarnation), and whom disobeyed his orders and did. He said he will have to take them back. It is reported in that village (?), a high case of children deaths were noted.

Wow!!! Golden Treasure,

Your story is making me so shock when I read it...Thank ya so much!!!

That some point, I've a right to say this. The people within reincarnation those people are faith and believe in Religious Buddhist, and their belief that the soul reappears after death in another and difference bodily form, a doctrine held especiall. By certain oriental religion.

How about the people without Reincarnation, cuz they dont believe to whatever those people say this and that...So!!!

How do we supervise them to believe and faith of whatever we say???

Interesting tales from both SM and RS...

I think the information from past life is broadcast in a form of frequency [from after life station] same as television channels and only those people who remember their past lives have ability to accept their past life information at preset specific (individual) frequency [The sixth sense]…

Thanks for everyone's input. It makes my research and writing more interesting and fun.

Not everybody who believe in reincarnation are Buddhists and Asians. There are many people out there who believe in the spiritual world whom are thought to be crazy by nonbelievers.

There's a book I read which was written by a Medium and she talked about reincarnation. Sadly I didn't get to finish and skimmed it really quick but I find the things she talked about interesting.

She said that as you leave the spiritual world to reincarnate you aren't given everything you want. You get to choose what you want, like a la carte, but is only given the features or personalities needed to fit what you are destined to become. Then there are some of us who like a challenge and choose for a handicap, like having autism but is the fastest runner in the Special Olympics.

Also, you are recycle with your own family from past generations. Meaning the family you have now will be the same in many generations to come. So when you leave earth and reincarnate you can be born to your ancestors from lets say the angkor period. This is why people get the feeling that they've seen a person before but not sure where. But also it goes into talking about guardian angels who are also your ancestors. Example is, a friend of mine, one night woke up from her sleep and saw 2 spirits at the foot of her bed. She was half asleep but can still see the spirits; it was a figure of a man and woman dressed in ancient clothing. She wasn't scared by them but felt as if she knew them. She remember them standing there smiling at her and she smiling back at them and crouching down and "sapeah-ing" them as a sign of respect.

Going back to remembering past lives, the reason why some of us are born with remembering our past life is to fix what you did wrong in that life in the next. That is why you reincarnate over and over again. As someone mention above, it's to rid of "gam" but also fulfilling your destiny. Let's say you were destined to be a Doctor, to save lives, but somewhere in life things went wrong and instead of saving lives you kill people. So you die and therefore is reincarnated again to finish what you started.

Anyways I can go on and on but I think my post is getting too long. Let's just say TBC if there are any questions.

Wow! Thanks, Lucky_Star, for this wonderful information. It's very enlightening.

The concept of choosing is quite interesting. I believe, at some level you can choose to be what ever coming back in spite of the karma accrued.

Also, recycling of family---the concept of being born into the same family. That is perhaps a bit new to me, but not too far-fetched as there are cases I heard that mentioned of things like that. I believe there is to be a certain root of origin pertaining to similar karma, but it is within the realm of similarity as you mentioned.

Also unfinished business. That is a new concept, but not unheard of as I had seen depicted in various dramas. What you have provided are insightful informations. Thank you!

Hello Reksmay. When I talk about recycling families I meant from your own family to your ancestors but also the family you choose to marry into. I find the statement, "every khmer is related" and "if you're khmer, you're family" is pretty funny because in the spiritual world it's true.

Another story of coincidence -

A girl had a dream, possibily from her past life, about her soul mate. She dreamt that her soul mate is a man in uniform, possibly a soldier. Every dream she had he was away during some war. Few years later, she end up with a man in uniform but he's not in the military. But strange thing is he told her that he has a strange infactuation with anything military. He believed that his past life he must of been a soldier and in this lifetime he wanted to be in the military but due to health reasons he didn't qualify.

Thanks for the clarification. That is still very interesting.

As for the soulmate story, what a coincidence. What are the odds that that is happening, I wonder, as so many are haplessly searching--falling in and out of love more frequently than a fly's life's cycle? Are dreams really that fore-telling, I wonder?

There was a fascinating documentary thing on dream analysis on NOVA once upon a time last year. Researchers were questioning how dreams relate to learning, I think. I have a vague recollection of a documentary on TV much much before of dreams relating to a person's possible past. Like, something that person dreamed he/she had experienced but in a different time period and not related to how one's brain process/incorporate recent incidences into memory through learning. And, this documentary was not a case study on Asian. It was on Caucasion people as back then about 10 years ago, Western society was more aware of the phenomenon called reincarnation.

I believe there is some sort affinity when we are descended as a born to a certain family. But I am skeptical about the soul mate when it associates to past lives.

^That tell you not to sworn to be together with your present SO forever...

Ok, what I am interested in is the mechanic of how past life information is transferred?

From what I learned in Human anatomy and Physiology class the brain function as Command center and library, at birth very limited information is stored there, communication to the brain from all 5 senses are electrical, so electrical current also generates Electrical wave whereas amino acid molecules in the brain functions as hard drive to store information, if past life information is sent as radio wave more or less the recipients must have the sixth sense “The receiving channel” to accept and store that information...just a thought 

This actually happened to me a few times. Two women, white as porcelain, dressed in traditional Thai clothes, sitting on bended knees, watching me sleep and smiling at me bashfully. A man dressed in all black peasant clothes was also sitting on bended knees, watching me with a firm face. I struggled to get up and sit, but I couldn't.

In actuality, I was delusional because I was suffering from a heat stroke. I fought hard mentally and physically to get up only to find that my room was 80 degrees. 

Now a day, only during the winter time though, my delusion consists of a ghost or some kind of mean spirit. Just the other night, I found myself screaming and struggling to get up because a ghost was sitting on me and grabbing my ankles. It was scary.  

My parents told me to turn the heat down, but I get cold easily due to my anemia. 

I have never actually seen ghosts or spirits but I have been haunted on a few occasion in Asia. Back home I feel tranquil and yet to experience such thing. Maybe the spirits here are not mean as the Asian ones?

OH, I have to add something because of the coincidence factor.

Let me digress a little. I remember a friend of mine who doesn't like his fortune told. He said once you know your fortune, especially relationship wise, you start to go chasing for it to come true not knowingly.

So some people might say well maybe her dream made her go look for these types of guys. I mean who doesn't love a man in uniform but I'll give you this piece of information, how does 2 people come together without ever sharing any personal information about themselves? Also how did they come together when they both live in different states and have no friends in common? To my knowledge the 2 were talking to each other for about a month without talking about anything personal about themselves (i.e. jobs, family, friends, social life). After that month he asked her to be his gf. Not until after is when they started sharing personal information.

Another story about another dream. Different people from above. A girl met a guy on the internet and they started to talk. Keep in mind they both live in different states. One night she had a dream about him coming to see her on her graduation day. He surprised her with a bouquet of flowers. The next day they chatted on the internet and he told her how he had a dream of visiting her and surprising her with flowers. How do 2 people from different sides of the country dream about the same thing? Well a few days later, she had another dream. She was crying and she was walking toward a certain house. Suddenly he comes running out of the house to console her. The next day they chatted on the internet again and she told him of her dream. Turns out he had the same dream except from his point of view. He dreamt that he was watching a video tape of her. She was very distraught and said that she was coming over and told him to turn around. That was when he saw her outside crying and he ran out to console her.

I know this thread is named "Reincarnation" but since we're talking about dreams being a portal to past lives, how did 2 people who've just met share such a deep connection? Could they have known each other from the past? Just other things to think about...