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[elspru]

Elspru, are you familiar with the work of Dolores Cannon?  She used a form of hypnotic regression of her own invention.  In her books, several subjects describe lives as robots with a soul.  

That's very interesting, I tried looking it up however, she has quite a number of books.
Can you direct me to what specific title has the information you describe?

Their creation was apparently driven by the realization that a purely mechanical robot can never be as flexible and creative at problem-solving as one that is somehow integrated with consciousness.

Invariably, these people describe their experience as an interminable living hell, a sort of locked-in syndrome where they are unable to overcome their programming or satisfy their longings for meaningful relationships with others.

After describing their suffering and going back into preceding lives, these subjects were shocked to find that they were among those who had created these robots - their subsequent lives as them seems to be (although this is not explicitly stated) a form of karmic rebalancing.

Reading it, I was shocked that this is even permitted to occur in our Universe - it seems like one of the worst horrors one could inflict onto consciousness.

I'm wondering what your thoughts are on this?

I know probably like them I was very excited when had  made the first robot bodies for the reptilians and had jumped into them, probably much too soon. I'll have to wait this time, and make sure the political relations and body-mind dynamics are smoothed out this time.

Also I'm intrinsically aware of the programming problem, thats why my foundational technology is Pyash, a programming language based on linguistic universals, made so that can reprogram everything from the lowest levels to the highest. The ideal is that it is soul-activated, or so that the soul can do the programming. It has specification based and evolutionary programming support -- to simplify the process of programming. Also everything is open source (liberty-ware) That way don't have to feel trapped can always reprogram and redesign.

It's also why I strongly feel that proprietary software is unethical, because incarnating in a proprietary robot can easily lead to what you describe, that disgusting powerless trapped feeling.  So I use Linux, and promote others to use open source software and hardware as much as possible.

Anyways, if you could get me the title(s) of the book(s) that talk about these robot past-lives I am very interested in reading them.  Thanks in advance.