The Boy From Mars

True Weird Stuff

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🗓️ 10 February 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Today's True Weird Stuff - The Boy From Mars

James Leininger said he used to be a Navy Pilot whose plane was shot down during WWII. Ryan Hammons remembered his life as former actor Marty Martyn. Boriska Kipriyanovich claimed he was a Martian who was reborn as a human. Researchers have spent decades studying the one thing they have in common: all three believe their soul was reincarnated and could describe their past lives in great detail.

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0:00.0	Hey true weirdos, at the end of this episode, stick around if you want for a little bonus content and conversation.
0:08.3	Little kids tell the wildest stories. The world hasn't beaten them down yet. It hasn't made them self-conscious or embarrassed.
0:16.9	Because when you don't yet know the rules, you don't realize you're breaking them.
0:27.2	You don't get that what feels completely ordinary and true to your little self might be a reality-bending, mind-blowing revelation to the adults around you.
0:34.0	Lots and lots of young children, more than you know know tell stories about who they used to be
0:40.7	where they used to live what they used to do in the life they lived before this one you can dismiss
0:49.6	it call it all just a big imagination but what if the story a child is telling you isn't a story at all?
0:59.6	What if instead it's a memory?
1:02.5	And they got a small beam of light against the mirror.
1:10.3	Wow.
1:10.7	What are you? Real weird. Weird. Weird. Stuff.
1:36.0	Reincarnation. The belief that our souls are immortal, born and reborn over and over again,
1:42.7	living lifetime after lifetime, a cycle of existence that transcends physical death.
1:49.2	In some belief systems, that cycle ends only when the soul has been so perfected by earthly suffering that achieves a state of oneness with the Creator.
1:54.2	Think of it like the flicker of a single candle finally returning to the source,
2:04.9	to the Creator, to the one eternal flame.
2:12.9	No one knows where the philosophy of reincarnation began, though it's been with humanity for as far back as our histories can trace.
2:18.1	Ancient India, ancient Greece, even the Celtic druids embrace the idea.
2:28.4	Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, all share a belief in an eternal soul engaged in the cycle of near endless rebirth.
2:36.2	But that doesn't mean that there aren't also ancient texts that describe the life of the soul in terms that might seem a little closer to what you learned in Sunday school, as in earthly life, followed
2:42.2	by an eternal afterlife in either heaven for the righteous or hell for the wicked.
2:49.1	The very earliest Vedic texts, the Rig Vita, describes something a lot
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