plastics and past lives

[Meg Portal]

In light of the articles on how damaging plastics are and the toxins they contain, and also the suggestion that was made that women who suffer sexual abuse in this life might have been male oppressors in previous lives, various things occurred to me:
1. I wondered why it should be that the sexual abuse issue should only
apply to women in this life - what, then, has happened to men who are
either abused in this life, or, I suppose, who are rapists? To answer this, I feel that it would be necessary to make a whole range of
outrageously judgemental assumptions, as it seems to me is also
happening in the suggestion that has already been made about women
who have suffered abuse in this life. I can say this without having
experienced anything of the kind myself. I do not, however, like to think
of homeopaths round the world developing this kind of over-simplistic
and damagingly judgemental approach, which I see as a way of
avoiding the pain I have seen in patients who have described what
they have been through in this way. Past lives are fine, as long as
assumptions about them are not used as a cop-out.

2. I wonder how all the toxins in plastics which we must all have been
affected by influences our ability to judge the importance of past lives -
or, perhaps, distorts present lives so that they no longer bear any
relation to past lives.....?

Meg Portal
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[Sheila Parks]

dear meg, thanks, i couldn't agree more about the past lives. in over
twenty years of listening to people talk of their past lives, those that do
have not healed their stuff in this life and look at past lives, i believe,
as a way of not doing so. and as far as the feminists being abusive men in
past lives, that was explicitly directed at me, i woulnd't give it the
dignity of an answer. best, sheila
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