It is just an expression used all the time to indicate, as mentioned below, a change of career, job and/or mindset.

sangraal

: For John McCain,to use the phrase 'in another life' is
: perfectly ordinary in our modern lexicon. It is a sarcastic
: way of saying "in another profession" or "in
: another mindset". To suggest that there is something
: unholy or crazy about McCain's using this phrase is absurd.
: It is used with regularity in conversations every day.
: To throw the word 'occult' around, as often happens on this
: particular forum, as though it were a dirty dish rag just

: used to mop up the dog's vomit, is also a sign of ignorance
: and fear. The other day someone said it about Prince
: Charles. And I bit my tongue. But this is getting absurd.
: You are beginning to sound like those in charge of the
: Salem Witch trials and we all know how ignorant they were.
: When you do this, it colors your whole post and makes me
: suspect what might otherwise be very legitimate points.

: It seems to me that it would be very helpful if instead of
: using the word occult, you actually SAY what you mean. What
: SPECIFICALLY DID JOHN MCCAIN DO THAT UPSET YOU?

: THERE ARE A WHOLE HOST OF TRULY EXTRAORDINARY IDEAS WHICH ARE
: OFTEN LABELED OCCULT. Chief amongst them was the one taught
: by JESUS: 'THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU. Go find it.'

: Otherwise, I suspect that you are using the very negative
: occult/christian idea of perpetrating hate and discontent
: for its own sake. Such actions will get us nothing but more
: of the same. I don't know about you, but I'd like the world
: to HEAL itself and it will only do that when we all begin
: to measure our worth by what we INCLUDE instead of what we
: EXCLUDE. The politics of EXCLUSION is what continues to
: make some folks think they have the right to live while the
: rest of us die. It is the politics of the New World Order.

: Seems to me we can either be part of the problem or part of
: the solution...
: Esclarmonde