{"id":2073,"date":"2025-05-01T15:57:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T15:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/i-used-to-believe-in-former-lives-id-been-a-cave-dweller-an-english-lord-and-a-hindu-monk\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T15:57:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T15:57:54","slug":"i-used-to-believe-in-former-lives-id-been-a-cave-dweller-an-english-lord-and-a-hindu-monk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/i-used-to-believe-in-former-lives-id-been-a-cave-dweller-an-english-lord-and-a-hindu-monk\/","title":{"rendered":"i used to believe in former lives i&#8217;d been a cave dweller an english lord and a hindu monk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i used to believe in reincarnation<\/p>\n<p>but now i am not so sure<\/p>\n<p>i think my fanciful thinking began in my early twenties when i for unclear reasons <\/p>\n<p>thought i had been a cave dweller and an english lord in former lives<\/p>\n<p>then after a profound meditation initiation i felt i had come home and been a hindu monk in a former life <\/p>\n<p>that fanciful idea may have been closer to reality than the others<br>\nbecause i took to hindu meditation practices and philosophies with tremendous zeal<\/p>\n<p>and had experiences that seemed to bear that belief out<\/p>\n<p>but now i have my doubts about reincarnation being real contrary to claims of people who say they know they lived former lives<\/p>\n<p>and they might be right<\/p>\n<p>but i have no desire to return to this life<\/p>\n<p>i could return into a horrible world on the cusp of a nuclear holocaust or some other horrific happening<\/p>\n<p>and i once read that when you died you had a choice to advance<br>\nspiritually in the afterlife or return to the school for souls on earth<\/p>\n<p>i liked the idea of having a choice <\/p>\n<p>but odds are what i read about the choice was nonsense<\/p>\n<p>but getting back to the transmigration of souls<\/p>\n<p>romantic fool that i can be <\/p>\n<p>without hesitation i would come back to this life for a true and lasting love that somehow i knew was destined to be my forever soulmate<\/p>\n<p>and for her love i would willingly be born into a nuclear holocaust just to find her and be with her <\/p>\n<p>bob boyd    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i used to believe in reincarnation but now i am not so sure i think my fanciful thinking began in my early twenties when i for unclear reasons thought i had been a cave dweller and an english lord in former lives then after a profound meditation initiation i felt i had come home and&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/i-used-to-believe-in-former-lives-id-been-a-cave-dweller-an-english-lord-and-a-hindu-monk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}