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Reincarnation: Anne Frank and Me
Some years back I read a book with the title, And the Wolves Howled: Fragments of Two Lifetimes. The author was Barbro Karlen, a Swedish woman who claims to be the reincarnation of Anne Frank. Anne was the Jewish Dutch … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", Amsterdam, Anne Frank, Anne Frank and Reincarnation, Anne Frank commemoration, Barbro Karlen, Barbro Karlen's objectivity, Cain and Abel, combating anti-semitism, commemorating Anne Frank, confirming incidents of past life, credible calumny, defamations believed, emblematic innocence, evidence for reincarnation, evil rationalized, evil remembered, fading past life memories, famous victims, fratricide, global anti-semitism, hidden diary, hiding from Nazis, Holocaust victim, identifying with wrongdoers, innocence and persecution, insight from the afterlife, Karlen's And the Wolves Howled, machinery of evil, Nazism, oldest hatred, optimism, past life memory, past-life and belief, past-life and personal identity, persecution in work situations, persecution of Jews, pro-Nazi betrayal, pseudo-science, reincarnation, reincarnation and personal identity, reincarnation and probative memory, remembering your death, resistance to evil, seeing extensiveness of anti-semitism, status of Jews, sympathy with bad guys, vastness of anti-semitism
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Political Innocence
Political Innocence If each of us were sure we were right, we would never quarrel with anyone – much less break with friends – over politics. The politically-triggered quarrels, friendship breakages, civil-society breakdowns, result from our insecurity over what we … Continue reading →
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