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Seizures & a window into the afterlife???

Tue, 07/17/2007 - 21:24
Hi, I don't know where to post this so I thought I'd try here to see if any of this craziness rings a bell with anyone. I have heard about people who have seizures may have religious experiences or have some other understanding about reality that other people don't have. My daughter (age 4.5) believes she is my son (who died in 2001) reincarnated. I have never put this thought into her head, she started asking me questions last year about what's that thing called when you come back as another person? I said "Uhhhh, you mean reincarnation?" freaked out laughing too that I was having this conversation with a 4 yr old! She asks if this world is real or if there is someone reading a book about us somewhere that is making it happen. Things like that, things you would not expect a 4 yr old to be able to think about, that I believe can't be traced back to a book or movie she's seen. Now, after her recent diagnosis with partial seizures with rapid secondary generalization and probably generalized seizures too, hundreds a day, I am wondering if it is related. Anyone have any thougts or experience with this? Who knows, maybe she is just my son reincarnated but usually, if that's true, you don't remember when you come back, right, LOL! She is highly creative and I think pretty smart. Thanks. s

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Re: Re: Seizures & a window into the afterlife???

Submitted by sugarsue on Wed, 2007-07-18 - 20:53
Thank you, very interesting video and comments. I don't think she has temporal lobe seizures but our MRI will hopefully tell us more. It helps give me a glimpse though in what might be going on in her head. Thanks.

Re: Seizures & a window into the afterlife???

Submitted by pgd on Wed, 2007-07-18 - 20:17
http://www.ellenwhite.org/seizures.htm

Re: Re: Seizures & a window into the afterlife???

Submitted by sugarsue on Wed, 2007-07-18 - 20:54
Another interesting link, thank you. I was having trouble with my searches to pull anything like this up (not such a great searcher maybe?). s

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