ancestral stories, animal-human bond, chinese traditions, chinese villages, community stories, cultural tales, eastern philosophy, family bonds, folk stories, horse tales, life after death, mystical experiences, reincarnation, reincarnation stories, traditional narratives, village life

The Incredible Story of a Horse’s Debt Repayment

In the quiet village of Hanmutou Gou, nestled in Damao Township, Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province, about 40 households thrived, mostly bearing the surname Li. Among them was Li Cheng, the respected head of a household whose family’s fortunes rose through the transportation of cloth and grains from Inner Mongolia to Chifeng. Their journey from being ...

Mikel Davis

Palomino horse trotting in a meadow at sunset.

Near-Death Experience: The Realm Between Life and Death

A near-death experience can leave a lasting impact on a person’s life. But, even if you’ve never experienced a close brush with death, you’ve probably seen or read about it in popular media.  In movies, we usually see a scene where the star is bleeding out or lost at sea or in a desert. Then ...

Nathan Machoka

Large doors opening to the heavens.

Afterlife: Science or Religion?

The afterlife is an existence in which an individual’s stream of consciousness continues to live after the death of their physical body. Physiological proposals for the origin of a belief in an afterlife include cognitive disposition, cultural learning, and religious ideas. The AWARE study AWARE (Awareness during Resuscitation) was a study conducted in 2008 by ...

Katrina Hicks

A sunset with clouds.

Does Reincarnation Exist?

The concept of reincarnation is an open-ended topic. While many in the East believe in reincarnation, it is not a widely accepted phenomenon in the West. Reincarnation challenges one’s knowledge based on science. If you limit knowledge to what “science” allows you to see, then you are restricting yourself to a single dimension of reality. ...

Armin Auctor

Statue of a Lord Shiva.

Reincarnation: The Case of Luke Ruehlman

How are we to view reincarnation? Children have a wild imagination and can be very creative when telling stories to describe their perception of things or events in their worlds. But what if the stories they sometimes tell weren’t made up? What if some children could somehow access their soul’s memory and remember scenes from ...

Hermann Rohr

Three heavenly figures.