[Glorantha] "Natural bonds of Families" vs. Teshnos Inheritance

[CJ]

Mike Dawson wrote:
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> Conversely, everyone would want to solicit the favor of the Somash 
> Endi Varo judges to be certain that in their next life, they don't end 
> up in a pox-scarred, club-footed cleft-palate body. Save those for the 
> Solfites.
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> If new vessels DO generally come from one's own family, then when you 
> transfer to a new vessel, there's a good chance your mother becomes 
> your wife, or your uncle becomes your husband, or stranger still, your 
> great aunt could become your daughter!
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Mike,

I was just thinking of reading this of Prof. Ian Stephenson's classic 
work "Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation" which looks in at 
reincarnation cases in India, Pakistan and the Middle East.  He 
discusses cases of children who "remember" having been someone else in a 
previous life, and often want to return to their former families 
(usually of a different caste and geographically distant), avenge their 
deaths, and live with their "wives" and "children".   These memories are 
strongest in very young children, and fade by the gae of five or six 
usually, but some do adopt their "true" families, are recognised as the 
deceased individual, and become part of the family.  While I am sure the 
literature of reincarnation is familiar to you, I suggest this 
particular parapsychological study because it provides detailed case 
studies, with detail easily used in your game, and is so famous that 
googling should provide plenty of interesting extracts and reviews online.

I'm completely sceptical about the experiece, but then my on family 
"reonised" me as a deceased relative, owing tomy precocious and soon 
forgotten knowledge of danish!

cj x