Recollection Is Real

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“For seeking and learning are in fact nothing but recollection.” (Socrates)
Humans are smart beings. From the first day that they came to this planet till now they explored and learned a lot about it while the spiritual world was a mystery to them all the time. Nobody experimented or at least didn’t remember it, although like the air that we can't see it, but we know it exists, spiritual world is the same. Just because nobody knows about it, doesn’t mean that it’s not real. It could be possible that we lived 1000 years in another world, another life without remembering it and now we’re just recollecting the knowledge that we learned back then. Personally, I have never been a big fan of reincarnation however, it’s really interesting that how
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It doesn’t matter if a doctor open someone’s brain and look at it, they will never understand what was in someone’s memory or dreams. Just like dreams that we forget most of them after we woke up, we could simply just don’t remember our past life too. It’s possible that we lived this life before, but we just don’t remember it. Nobody knows what’s going to happen to us after we die. It could be possible that we just come back again and be given this chance to live our life one more time, so maybe we can do something different about it, improve it or reach the goals that we couldn’t reach last …show more content…
It knows how to stay crumpled so it could fit inside the womb. Nobody teaches that to the baby, but still baby knows it. What other explanation could be other than recollection? The baby probably knew from before how to act. Other example is when the baby is born nobody teaches the baby to crawl, but still the baby starts crawling after a certain point. These all could prove how we recollect the information that we had from before without anybody teaches us. Every piece of information could be recollected too. Maybe when we’re four years old we don’t know what geometry is and how the physics formulas work, but after we go to the school and the teacher teaches us we recollect the information that we had, so everything makes sense for us and we learn

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