In My Dreams

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@"Spirit Scribe" 
Reincarnation is Very Real,,,, Just ask one of My Ancestors.
Three I know of have not returned because,,,, they say it's just not time yet or they like watching out for me and my family and helping me with some of my patients.
Burt then again, I'm a Buddhist and believe in the Afterlife and Karma and Being Chinese, I have a very strong belief in Ancestral Worship.

So, It's JMHO.

I've been back and forth about it, but after I found a conversation in the Bible about it (in an offhand way) I can't rule it out completely. I think it's one of those topics that may have been almost completely removed by changes over the centuries, and there's a lot more to it. The name of Elias mentioned below appears to be interchangeable with Elijah, the older form of the word. He was one of the major prophets who lived around the 9th century B.C according to my research, which would be around 900 years before Jesus. Elias/Elijah was "taken up" to heaven, he didn't die and get buried according to the Bible. Even then, how could people be confusing him with Jesus? I believe this is a very subtle way of saying the concept of reincarnation was alive and well at the time Jesus lived.

Jeremiah was also in the Old Testament, years before Jesus was born. John the Baptist was of course alive for at least part of Jesus' life, because he was the one who baptized him with water. 

[Matthew 16:13-20King James Version (KJV)
13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
20 Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.]




Also, I should say that my brother taught me to shoot a .22 pistol when I was four, and at five I could out shoot him (he was 17 at that time). How could a five year old have that kind of hand/eye coordination? Also about that time I distinctly remember having other mothers and being in other places, one memory I'm particularly attached to is of being a black man in the army. I was aware of a mental picture I had of myself, sitting in front of two flags, looking off to my left a bit. I'm wearing green camouflage and wearing a camouflage helmet. Maybe that's where my marksmanship came from!

My husband just said the Marines started using Camouflage helmets covers in late WWII and it wasn't until the late 50's the US Army adopted the use.