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Post by SharonArnold on Apr 16, 2014 16:39:13 GMT -5
Interesting Sharon. My daughter used to tell me she used to be my mom. This was when she was around 4 or 5 Did it for a couple of years then quit. I think she still thinks it privately though lol. Because she still bosses me around like a mom. Of course the nice part is I don't have to listen... or I can choose to. Who knows where kids get these ideas from. I had never talked about more than one life around her because I hadn't been interested in studying different religions at that point in my life. That came later so she must have heard it somewhere else? Now THAT'S interesting. Proves nothing, but does give rise to some interesting speculation... I enjoy mysteries - and often don't need the answers - because the answers might be less fun than the mystery...
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Post by SharonArnold on Apr 16, 2014 17:16:15 GMT -5
I have a friend whose granddaughter spoke of "seeing angels" from the time she could first talk, until she was 4 or 5 years old. These angels "lived" in their house with them, and this little girl spoke of them often, and very matter-of-factly. It would be easy to simply put this in the realm of a little kid's imaginary friends except for one thing: One day when the little girl was out of the house, her mom (not an angel believer at that point at least) decided to speak to them. She said "C'mon, you are freaking me out, would you please just leave?" When the little girl came home the first thing she said was "Mom, why are all the angels flying around outside the house?" This girl is now 14 or 15 years old. She no longer sees angels, and I'm not sure if she even remembers that she once did. This raises a lot of questions concerning the veracity of the reports. The glaring one is that if the mother did not believe in angels why would she even have thought of trying to speak to them? And why when the child was out of the house? Where would a toddler even learn the word 'angel' if not from some adult? Kids like pretend. And some adults play along. I have been known to build a fairy house or two! But at one point when I was describing the house and how faeries would live in it my granddaughter looked at me and asked "You know there really aren't any faeries, don't you?". I said I did but it was fun to pretend and we continued to embellish the house! All true. I should mention that I know these people very well. They did not speak of this, except to close friends and family. They are nominal Catholics, so do not really have an agenda to promote. I would think "angel" is in a lot of little kids vocabularies, particularly when most people have Christmas tree angels, and particularly ~ 15 years ago when the angel image/stories were so popular. The grandparents on the other side are 2X2 (this is a small world - I met my friend in a completely different context), who normally do not have a fixation on angels. The mother "asked" them to leave when the daughter was not present (and I do not know if this was verbally or non-verbally), because she did not want to encourage her daughter in that direction. (Her daughter was so definite and so persistent, that it made her mom begin to doubt everything she thought she knew.) I agree that imagination is delightful, and how nice to engage it in building a fairy house or two! (That will be good memories for her.) I would think that a number of the major advances in both the arts and sciences have come about as a result of imagination. (But then, I am a person who is totally open to the possibility that our entire existence here is nothing but the product of our imagination.)
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Post by rational on Apr 16, 2014 17:33:31 GMT -5
I would think that a number of the major advances in both the arts and sciences have come about as a result of imagination. (But then, I am a person who is totally open to the possibility that our entire existence here is nothing but the product of our imagination.) Imagination/dreams - talk to August Kekulé about that!
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