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rational spirituality: how it has changedThe following are some of the major changes to the evidence and analysis making up Rational Spirituality that have arisen over the years. They provide a degree of audit trail to make sense of earlier books/papers, and also to illustrate the dynamism of RS and its responsiveness to new evidence or analysis. |
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Addition of several important veridical cases of both childrens' and adults' spontaneous past-life memories from the research of Frederick Lenz. |
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Revision of view about creating our own reality; restriction is not so much based on interaction with others because details can always be worked out one way or another; it is more that we can be thwarted if we have blockages in the form of usually unconscious emotions, attitudes and desires that actually conflict with the outcome we consciously think we want. |
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Significant increase in number of key, veridical, past-life regression cases, including proper analysis of unusual 'Bloxham Tapes' involving several lives of 'Jane Evans', one of which clearly involves cryptomnesia while another clearly does not. |
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Removal of Ian Stevenson's children with physical birthmarks or defects corresponding to past-life injuries as a main support for individual soul reincarnation. |
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Renaming of astral plane as intermediate plane to remove potential confusion. |
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Further switch of emphasis away from learning and towards experience and growth. |
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Removal of references to repetitive and progressive karma and stages, and switch to emphasis on learning, experience and growth, coupled with switch from describing souls as more or less advanced to more or less experienced. |
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Addition of the concept of the Holographic Soul. |
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Addition of emphasis on fluidity of interlife experience |
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Removal of quantum theory as primary support for spiritual worldview |