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《隔世之謎》 節錄自：尚未出版的《出世必要心得》

我們每個人都有前世，也許是好人也許是壞人，甚至也許當過餓鬼畜生，只是不記得而已。因為投胎前喝了「孟婆湯」忘記了一切，但也有人記得。

 瑞士一位大學女教授法蘭茜絲．史貝克(Frances Speck)。與先生艾米爾-史貝克(Emil Speck)非常恩愛。不幸的在她49歲那年，丈夫心臟病發作突然去世。

女教授非常思念丈夫。艾米爾去逝後六個星期，法蘭茜絲．史貝克決定買一隻鸚鵡陪伴。她用郵購的方式下訂，不久鸚鵡就寄過來了。

教授驚奇的發現，文件中寫的鸚鵡出生日期剛巧是丈夫去世的那一天。「那隻鸚鵡十分昂貴，而賣給我的寵物商店保證，牠長大後一定會講話。」

史貝克博士說：「當我第一次教牠說話時，便察覺到有些特別。我決定給它起名叫做伊維斯(Yves)，並教它說出這個名字。但它不聽，卻自顧自的大叫「艾米爾、艾米爾」(她先生的名字)。

史貝克博士說：「我不曾在牠面前說過丈夫的名字。」後來當這個鸚鵡學會更多人類的詞彙時，它就能夠自己組織一些語言來講話，就講自己是女教授的丈夫。以前的婚姻生活、家庭生活，都能夠講出來，連他們倆結婚的日子，紀念日是5月25日都能夠講出來。後來，史貝克的同事們起初都認為她瘋了。

但是，幾位超自然專家對這隻鸚鵡進行調查，多次的測試後，證明這隻鸚鵡就是她丈夫轉世而來的。「當他們親耳聽過鸚鵡(我丈夫)說話後，他們才相信真有此事。」

一位研究超自然事物的專家最初也懷疑是否真有其事。他說：「我起初以為一定是史貝克博士故意教她的鸚鵡這樣做，但在我親自問過那隻鸚鵡後，我再也不能不信牠就是艾米爾的化身。牠對於艾米爾的事情，知道的一清二楚。除了是他本人外，再沒有其他可以解釋了。」

這一段故事正如「出世必要」所說：

『有因果就有生死，有生死就有善惡之報。無因果，不能成做父子；無因果，不能成做夫妻兒女。』

以現在的社會來看，無因果甚至做不成寵物、主人的關係。所以我們身邊的一切都是因原所致，我們都要珍惜這難得的因緣，無論善緣惡緣。善緣一定要善了，惡緣也要善了，否則未來仍將繼續追討。

『親愛歡喜是因果，冤家煩惱亦是因果，不是天地定的，不是閻羅王強派的，仍然是人自造自受。』

 這隻鸚鵡之所以成為鸚鵡，是為了回到所愛的人身邊，雖然感人至深，然而也是因為這個執著，自己選擇了投胎當一隻鳥。所以「出世必要」說：親愛歡喜、冤家煩惱都是因果，不是天地定的、不是閻王強迫的，是我們自作自受。

 如果今生今世沒有求道修道，沒有修行，無法放下執著，也許我們為了所愛人，自願投胎當家中的寵物，再續前緣。

以下是美國雜誌Weekly World News(世界新聞周報) 1988/7/5的報導：

wife's dramatic proof of reincarnation.

My dead hubby came back as a parrot

By RAGAN DUNN

A Swiss college professor says her dead husband has been reincarnated as a parrot!

“My colleagues thought I was crazy until they heard the bird－my husband－speak for himself,” Dr. Frances Speck, 49, told reporters in Bern.

“Now they are as dumbfounded as I am. They’re calling this the best proof of reincarnation yet.”

Dr. Speck said she bought the bird from a mail order firm six weeks after husband Emil Speck had a fatal heart attack at their home south of Bern.

She didn't realize it at the time, but the bird's papers showed that it hatched the day after her husband died.

“The bird was quite expensive and the breeders offered a guarantee that he would talk,” said Dr. Speck.

 “But I knew something was different about him the first time he began to speak. I decided to call him Yves and tried to teach him to say it.

“But he just kept screeching Emil, Emil”－ even though I never mentioned my dead husband in his presence.

As time passed the bird actually began to act like the dead man, said Dr. Speck. And as its vocabulary improved, she added, it even started to reminisce about their life as a married couple.

“The bird's brain capacity is limited so I have to fill in some blanks,” said Dr. Speck. “When he says May 25, for example, I know he's referring to our wedding day.

“Then I'll go get our wedding album and we'll flip through the pages together.

Paranormal researcher Tim Kristobal originally doubted that the bird was Dr. Speck's husband.

“I thought she taught the bird to act and talk like Mr. Speck,” he told reporters. But after interviewing the bird myself, I am convinced that it possesses the man's knowledge and memories.

Dr.Speck said: “I am thrilled that Emil has returned to be with me.”