Hearing the words 'New Scientist', I clicked on the link. Hmmm, sounds as if therecould be quite a fewjustifiable challenges to that test. Interesting, but too many flaws, I suspect and confirmation bias would be one of them I think.

Susan

Redwood1 Wrote:
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> past lifes is not who we are, they are just past
> actor reference points that we thought we were.
> not the real self these past actor roles. again
> why be bothered with the past when it was just
> another conditioning of who we were not.
> The ‘apparent’ time-honoured doctrine of karma
> and rebirth – one’s so-called
> ‘reincarnation’ as a higher human or
> “godling” if one has behaved admirably
> throughout life, as a lower human or higher animal
> if one has behaved badly, as a lower animal or
> demon if one has behaved appallingly? As humans,
> there’s nothing here that cannot be ascribed to
> clairvoyance or telepathy – for which there’s
> a great deal of evidence. So that when I imagine
> I’m remembering my experience as a Roman
> centurion, what I’m doing is picking up large
> areas of his experience. And witnessing to the
> fact that deep down we all merge. Indeed the
> trouble with reincarnation is that it doesn’t go
> nearly far enough. If it told me that ultimately
> all consciousness is my consciousness, or that
> consciousness is ultimately indivisible, I would
> have no quarrel with it. As for the claim that one
> can recall one’s subhuman lives, what’s to
> show this isn’t what it looks like – futile
> daydreaming? In fact this dogma of reincarnation
> (though in its time a brave and ingenious attempt
> to account for life’s injustices) makes no sense
> to me at all. Or, if it’s not necessary for
> memories to bridge the gaps between
> reincarnations, what else does so? And in what
> sense are they my reincarnations? Millions of
> intelligent people go on paying lip-service to
> this hallowed myth; clearly few take it seriously
> enough to go into it. The real solution of all
> such problems about one’s past and future lies
> in one’s present. Besides, one isn’t incarnate
> anyway – I as Awareness (the First Person
> Singular) isn’t in a body now – so what’s
> all this fuss about reincarnation? when it just
> another conditioning within the field of time.
>
> again what if these people are just picking up on
> information stored within the matrix a hive mind
> stores all information so it can be adapt evolve
> from information feedback
> loop.....[www.newscientist.com]
> 031993-400-three-people-had-their-brains-wired-tog
> ether-so-they-could-play-tetris/?utm_medium=NLC
>
> this does not mean that these individual lived
> these past lifes, they might be picking up
> information from past ancestors who stored the
> information into the matrix when they lived there
> life. just like recording onto tape the matrix
> stores all information.