The Indo-European belief in REINCARNATION

Do you believe we are reincarnated?

My nephew, 33 years old, made his transition about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, less than a month after being diagnosed with mesothelioma sarcoma. My family is strongly Roman Catholic, though we're also wicked smart and curious about varied beliefs around the world, so this is particularly well-timed. Thank you for helping me think about things in new ways-- it helps with the grief process.

I had a neae death experience and in it had an intense visionary experience I can't fully put into words. I was in water, but on a boat. The boat was both under water and above other deeper "layers" of water. My perspective was multiple in that I was both on the boat interacting with the "captain" who was seeing if I wanted to die or not and below the boat in the lower waters where my perspective was at the same time split up again seeing infinite possible worlds. I had to pull my perspective back together and hold onto electricity, bolts of lightning in the water, which pulled me up further and futher back to the paramedics who had shocked my heart back into my physical body. Before I came back I didn't remember dying and felt like I had always been in this water world and world of infinite possibilities, it was so familiar at the time and felt entirely natural. In retrospect I think my brain was shutting down and I no longer had the ability to place myself in space-time and thus since time is relative truly was in a literal sense beginning to see all of time and space. Without a body and brain consciousness seems to dissolve into all-time past(s), present(s) and future(s). I can sympathize with the story of the story of the person who lived a whole life with a wife and kids during a car accident... time becomes meaningless near death. Who knows even this reality now could well be a dream of a dying me or a dying someone else. It changes little. Just savour existence regardless if its a dream or "real" is my 2 cents.

When I was 15 years old, I was in a car that was struck head-on by a drunk driver on the highway. I shattered the windshield with the top of my head--not the best idea ever, though I didn't have much choice in the matter. During the weeks I was comatose, no one could predict that I would finish college or even high school, or ever be able to function at anything resembling an age-appropriate level, all of which happened. During the last days of my coma, I kept dreaming that I was asleep and couldn't wake up. "They" wouldn't allow it. Every time I got close, They would "push me back under" and tell me I couldn't wake up. Finally, I got tired of it, decided that They couldn't decide that for me, and fought really hard to wake up despite Them. Not exactly a death vision, though its analogous. Thank you for providing a frame of reference!

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I do believe in reincarnation, I believe it now and I believed in it in my previous life. Great channel.

Brilliant. Plus his voice is incredibly easy to listen to. Bravo.

"A man only dies when they are forgotten" One Piece. Just seriously look into how deep with myth and legends the author of One piece goes. His house is books on books on reference material. Thanks love what you do

As a science nerd the fact matter simply transfers forms I suppose reincarnation, or a repurpose of the matter creating me, is inevitable.

Nice to know I will never die and will just get recycled. Makes me feel connected to "Mother Nature". As the early Indo-Europeans cultures were located on the Euroasian steppe, I wonder if the cyclical Nature of this environment shaped beliefs. Thank you for an excellent deep dive into creation myrhs. Lots to think about.

Liked and subbed 😊 I love your voice, and the topic of ancient history and literature is great, I'm looking forward to seeing your channel grow

I love the twin sacrifice myth. Sacrifice for himself to himself. And the cows are so sacred for sacrifices. Such sweet songs to sing for mankind.

Brilliant video. This is quickly becoming my favourite channel on YouTube. Thank you!

So rich in meaning, a lot to unpack. I had a moment of feeling close to my mother, long gone into the Mystery, but felt her wisdoms when the shade of a mother gave instructions to recreate humanity from the bones of the earth. It's a mythic truth of course, and my mother's visionary wisdom was profound, with so much wisdom about healing plants and ancestral truths hard to describe in the times we are in, although this gives inspiration and a renewal of peace in this endless journey, x:I:x

This video is giving me a new pov to think about all the talk of sacrifice in so many religions. I have tended not to want to think think about it, but I need to go back and watch your video on sacrifice, the only one I've skipped, bc I haven't liked to think about it. As an aside, I recently listened to a storytelling audio podcast with some of the stories from the Edda and I realized how much I've learned, recognizing several motifs you've discussed, as well as recognizing that they are motifs and knowing what a motif is. Lol. Thanks for the education.

I definitely want to hear more about how eating builds our body and how that is an ancient aspect of the destruction of the cosmos being used to create human. I have been thinking about this a lot being pregnant (with twins no less!) and how spiritual this idea of universal creation and destruction can be!

Well, this was particularly fascinating. What really struck me was a somewhat peripheral comment to the topic, which you made at the beginning of the video. This is that the Charon/Boatman myth did not originate with the Greeks, but is actually 30,000 years old. I was astonished by this, as I've always associated this myth exclusively with the Greeks. With regard to reincarnation, I hope it is not an actual representation of what happens to us at death, since reincarnation would just be a different version of Hell for me, personally. Thank goodness for Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics!

interestingly, the word we use in germanic languages, "soul" is not IE in origin and is related to the word "sea". this is more obvious in German "Seele" and "See". So the pre-IE inhabitants of the baltic and northern sea didn't think as air or breath being the essence of life, but water.

Thank you for sharing another great lesson; once again, really enjoyed your presentation, resurch, and preparation. Looking forward to your next one! Have a great day! 😊

I was raised in a family that believes in a mix of catholicism and kardecism. Kardecism is a religion that started in France, and they believe in reincarnation.