Observable within a person, yes. A physical object that is transfered from
person to person like property, no.
I likened it to the same spiritual force in Buddhism that gets reborn into
new forms, without control of society, without known pattern.
Again, where does this assertion of yours come from?
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_tNuyl-nOjjLo4hEQnrGQsL2ZCXBZnB2GBUFMrXkIWEm-SZ_7s-zUbGPssNvbzIgfYcQB1SOk2xxDIOP2RLLSM9TJNQ.yahoo.invalidz
> wrote:
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> Todd Gardiner wrote:
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> > It certainly is weird. For example, someone has to hold onto that
> property
> > while they wait for you to mature. If, as Peter says, they don't
> determine
> > your past lives until adult initiation, that's 11-15 years for your
> > (potential) property to moulder or grow.
>
> Why wait 11-15 years? What's wrong with taking the nearest unmarked
> child waiting to undergo initiation and putting your life-flame into him
> or her? The life-flame is all that matters for spiritual identity not
> the fact that some infant was born when you died.
>
>
> > Also, how do you train someone for their adult role, when you don't know
> > what position in life they are going to hold?
>
> You have a funeral and the life-flame is taken from your pyre. Who is
> the life-flame going to be placed in? The unmarked kid attending your
> funeral. What background is he is she most likely to be from?
>
> --Peter Metcalfe
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