Possible evidence for Reincarnation/Brain as Filter Theory

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Possible evidence for Reincarnation/Brain as Filter Theory

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#21053291 - 01/01/15 05:32 PM (11 years, 8 months ago)

There is a strange phenomenon I have come across in which people incur some form of a head injury and it unleashes some new skill or ability, perhaps it is not a new skill but instead a very old one, so old it is from a previous life. The metaphysical position that is Idealism asserts that consciousness is fundamental to reality, it is the ground of existence and the real cause of the physical "matter" of which we experience. According to Idealism the brain is seen from a different perspective than the materialist position, it is not an creator of consciousness but is instead a sort of instrument of it, it is a tool that the consciousness utilizes in order to experience the world and itself, it organizes thought and experience and is an apparatus of the senses.

There is some evidence to support this viewpoint, here are a few very interesting cases.

"When Derek Amato crashed headfirst into the hard bottom of a pool, he was scared about what he might have done to his brain. But amazingly the fallout from that accident wasn’t all bad. Along with the headaches and other post-concussion symptoms, the accident brought Amato an unexpected gift: it turned him into a musical savant.

Although Amato had always loved music, he’d never been serious about playing any instrument before the head injury. Amato dabbled a bit with guitar before the accident but described his musical ability to TODAY as “on a scale of 1 to 10 . . . like a 2.5, close to 3.”

Amato now plays the piano like a virtuoso, making up melodies from the patterns of black and white blocks that stream across his brain in endless succession. He’s cut an album of original compositions and is currently at work on another."

The next two cases are people whom gain the ability to speak a language they had previously never been able to speak.

That man awake from a coma speaking mandarin, not only did he speak mandarin but it became is his first language and he was UNABLE To speak English.

Another case in which the man gets in a car accident and wakes up speaking perfect french.

I believe this to be evidence of reincarnation, it is simply the best explanation for the phenomenon. How else do you explain this phenomenon? The typical materialist scientific explanation is acquired savant syndrome but I do not find this very logical. It seems like a blind appeal to the "powers of the brain". How could rewiring of the brain make it possible for someone to instantly become a master piano player? There is only one way to learn to play the piano and that is through actual EXPERIENCE it is necessary to learn through doing, it is simply not logical to believe that someone can automatically know how to do something that takes practice and experience.

According to the spiritual master Meher Baba the brain actually prevents us from remembering our past lives, he states,

"When the soul changes its physical body it gets a new brain, and its normal waking consciousness functions in close association with the brain processes. Under ordinary circumstances, only the memories of the present life can appear in consciousness because the new brain acts as a hindrance to the release of the memories of those experiences which had to be gathered through the medium of other brains in past lives."

This phenomenon supports what Meher Baba states and is evidence for it. If the brain is a filter of consciousness than damaging it would change how it operates and disrupt its ability to filter out past life memory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenoglossy

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