{"id":1951,"date":"2011-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2011\/01\/12\/is-reincarnation-real-and-has-christianity-stopped-us-from-believing\/"},"modified":"2011-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"is-reincarnation-real-and-has-christianity-stopped-us-from-believing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2011\/01\/12\/is-reincarnation-real-and-has-christianity-stopped-us-from-believing\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Reincarnation Real and Has Christianity Stopped us from Believing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Territory: My aim is to look at modern day writers who focus their studies on the concept of past lives; mainly focusing on Dr Brian Weiss M. D., who claims to have aided over four thousand patients through their mental and physical pains through past life regression. I shall also be comparing the findings from Weiss\u2019 work to beliefs which are rooted in Buddhism and trying to discover whether the work studied by Weiss allows people \u2018a gateway to the spiritual peace\u2019 which Buddhism claims we can develop through meditation. I have also looked at writers such as Shakti Gawain who describes the concept of \u2018creative visualization\u2019 to help me understand the power of positive thought and will.   <\/p>\n<p>Concepts: I shall focus on Nietzsche\u2019s work in \u2018The Antichrist,\u2019 where Nietzsche\u2019s negative attitude towards Christianity implies that the religion is stopping people from \u2018truly living\u2019 and where he argues that Christianity makes people \u2018weak\u2019 as we no longer are willed to do what is right but we merely obey forces with more power than ourselves.    <\/p>\n<p>Using Nietzsche and Weiss I shall compare Christianity and Buddhism and find the positives and negatives of each contrasting religion or belief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie Beecroft, 2011, Stage 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580,22,128],"tags":[6,581,74],"class_list":["post-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-580","category-abstracts","category-stage-2-abstracts","tag-nietzsche","tag-reincarnation","tag-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}