Tom Cruise and All His Past Lives
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Kevin
Tom Cruise thinks he was Shakespeare — among others — in past lives:
“I was much happier in previous existences when I wrote plays, composed music, conquered nations, discovered continents, and developed cures for diseases,” said Tom Cruise.
Cruise said he became aware that he “had been here before,” when he read the complete works of Shakespeare in a month, despite being dyslexic, not long after dropping out of high school.
“Shakespeare was deja vu for me,” said Tom Cruise. “It was so cool. I felt as if I had seen his words already, knew them all by heart. Then, after I began studying Scientology, I realized the words had come from my heart in a previous life. That’s why I say that as glorious and enviable as my present life is, making “War of the Worlds” and all those other great movies can’t compare to writing “Romeo and Juliet” or the sonnets.
Two things. First, Cruise is a Scientologist, so he believes that the souls of billions of dead thetans killed by nuclear weapons 75 million years ago cling to our bodies. Past lives might be a step up on the sanity ladder.
Second, why is it that people who “remember” past lives always remember being a princess or famous artist or genius? Didn’t anyone ever shovel sh*t in the past?
Deja Vu
Kevin, at Lean Left, has a funny little post up about Tom Cruise and his past lives (which include being Shakespeare). Funny, not because of what Cruise had to say about his other lives, but because of Kevin’s comment.
Two things. First,…
Trackback 8/27/2005
Two things. First, Cruise is a Scientologist, so he believes that the souls of billions of dead thetans killed by nuclear weapons 75 million years ago cling to our bodies. Past lives might be a step up on the sanity ladder.
Minor point: past lives are also canonical scientology doctrine. The bizarre science fiction volcano stuff actually stems from Hubbard’s more wild excursions into past life regression through hypnosis.
Comment 8/28/2005
Not everybody has such glorious past lives:
RIMMER: I had lived a past life in Macedonia. That palace was my home. Because, believe it or not, Lister, he told me that, in a past incarnation, I was Alexander the Great’s chief eunuch.
Of course, he is a fictional character, so that might not count.
Comment 8/29/2005