How to recognise our previous incarnations.

[Tony]

How to recognise our previous incarnations

It's quite simple and logical: all we need to do is read our own tendencies.
We don't need to feel guilty, as we have been everything, and we have been around for ever!

If we look closely and objectively, we will see how we are. We might not like what we see,
but there again it might be a relief! Either way, it's a useful tool.

All our reactions come from the past - some from the recent past and some from the distant past.
There are two aspects to our tendencies - nature and nurture.
Our upbringing has had a great effect on us, but what of nature? Where did that come from?

Karma is the result of previous actions and reactions, which leave an imprint in the mind:
all we have to do is observe our actions and reactions. Whatever we are doing now,
we have done it all before, but maybe not in the form in which we are now.

If you cannot make up your mind, and follow others...you could have been part of a herd!
If you are weary of life....you could have been a spiritual practitioner!
If you feel you are in the wrong type of body....you could have been the opposite gender!
If you find you like to eat vegetables...you could have been something furry!
If you like to eat meat...you could have been something with sharp teeth!
If you feel you come from the planet Zog B...you could have a tendency to fantasise…!*:ufo:

It doesn't matter what we were – it's what we are now. And what we are now is merely an
expression of ignorance of our true nature.

There are all sorts of tendencies, or feelings. Recognising this, we can develop empathy and
compassion for others, because we know how it feels to do something or to be a certain way,
without knowing why.

Unfortunately, we may have beneficial tendencies and destructive tendencies.
We may have tendencies but do not meet the right opportunity for these to develop in this lifetime,
maybe because we were half hearted in our previous existence.
Perhaps we have a mixture of tendencies that seemingly contradict one another: perhaps we were
good at something, but were mean as well.

There's no point in obsessing about any of this.
All we can do is stop reacting! Reacting is merely giving in to our own acquired programming.
Our karma is programming left over from previous incarnations.
Therefore, we cannot blame anyone else (although this world is full of distractions).
Neither can we feel guilty. We make the choices at every moment,
but only if we know we have a choice.

There are excellent opportunities, here and now, to sow seeds for a better incarnation.
We cannot assume we will automatically have favourable conditions next time around.
The moment of death is very important, as it sows the seeds for the next incarnation,
but that moment of death is dependant on how we spent our life...

Our innate natural tendencies are truth and love.
Our acquired tendencies are 'Me first' and 'What I think'.

Deep down, we want to know the truth and to be happy.
We also want this for everyone else.



Tony




* Of course there are aliens, we are all aliens.

[ghostrider]

I followed my interest , ancient writings, the desire to visit scotland , a feeling to visit St. Andrews , I'm an obsessed golfer ( scotland is the birthplace of golf) , I despise the money system ... It led me to find out in a previous life I was King James of Scotland the third , I googled it and found a picture that looks just like me ...I already knew the lighhouse on the coast with the castle on the left, and a garden and my father didn't like ships coming in around the garden , he made them go around the other side of the lighthouse ... upon further investigation , I found the exact picture I had in my mind/dreams , a castle with a lighhouse and a garden on the left , right on the coast ... My father was killed in a rebel uprising and I became King by default at a young age of 16 ...I carry the photo in my cellphone and my co-workers say it looks just like me only in a different hat ...lol I was a terrible leader because of my dis-like of money , our economy suffered because of it , I never wanted the throne ... still don't ... pineal is right , the signs are there if you know what to look for , previous lives are imprinted deep in the mind , you just have to draw them out ... example if you like art , you could have lived around Rome , of you love animals , you could have lived near africa or australia , if you love to feed people (concern for their health/well being ) you could have been a doctor or nurse in China , if you love to create things you could have lived near Sumeria , if you love magic and merlin etc , you could have lived in Atlantis , if you are drawn to space , you could have been one of the original ET's that came to earth 289,000 years ago ...

[buckminster fuller]

Tendencies are constructs of the mind. Cultural and psychological. Focus on what you want to be, not what you think (or wish) you are. Tendencies are physiologically based routines, not karma. Karma is our unique way of experiencing consciousness.

Empathy and love are not tendencies, it is how we are. Our first, reflexive answer to any situation involving others. It is a tool given by nature so that we can survive as a specie. The only programming I see is of cultural nature.

There is an old saying from Ali ibn Abi Talib that says :

"Detachment is not that you should own nothing, but that nothing should own you."

I feel I'm on earth, a conscious being, who's mission is to experience. Not emptiness. Not giving up. Not letting go... (I'll do that at the appropriate moment of my death time) I enjoy living in reality, as harsh as it is. I wanna take part in finding and implementing solutions for the betterment of human conditions of life, and I wish more and more will take matters in hand. It is up to us, as we are, to stand up for our kids and generations to come. I put my empathy and focus there. Knowing my past lifes, if such a thing has a reality, I'd tend to see as an ego trip.

[Chip]

Great!
I'm certain I was from planet zog B. Perhaps I was a great fantasizer
Lol

[loungelizard]

I have read that karma is seen in our impulses, which is what you are saying here, Pie'n'eal. The impulse arises from the habit of previously repeated behaviour.

We have the choice whether to act on these impulses or not. The future is not prewritten in tablets of stone with predetermined outcomes precisely because we have this choice. That's not what is meant by karma - it's not fatalistic.

For example, in an argument, we might feel the impulse - the tendency - to say something truly hurtful and we have the choice, even in the heat of anger, to act that out - or not :tape:

Maybe it's this ability to be able to see, be mindful of and thus choose to modify our impulses that is one of the things that makes a human existence so special.

[Tony]

Tendencies are constructs of the mind. Cultural and psychological. Focus on what you want to be, not what you think (or wish) you are. Tendencies are physiologically based routines, not karma. Karma is our unique way of experiencing consciousness.

Empathy and love are not tendencies, it is how we are. Our first, reflexive answer to any situation involving others. It is a tool given by nature so that we can survive as a specie. The only programming I see is of cultural nature.

There is an old saying from Ali ibn Abi Talib that says :

"Detachment is not that you should own nothing, but that nothing should own you."

I feel I'm on earth, a conscious being, who's mission is to experience. Not emptiness. Not giving up. Not letting go... (I'll do that at the appropriate moment of my death time) I enjoy living in reality, as harsh as it is. I wanna take part in finding and implementing solutions for the betterment of human conditions of life, and I wish more and more will take matters in hand. It is up to us, as we are, to stand up for our kids and generations to come. I put my empathy and focus there. Knowing my past lifes, if such a thing has a reality, I'd tend to see as an ego trip.



Hello, buckminster fuller,
For generations there has been discussions about whether we are
bio electro chemical intelligent machines, or spiritual beings.
It all depends on which way one tends to lean.

My brother thinks that at death we totally die
and that we live on in our children
(he even named his son after himself ;)).
I do not think this way, and we come from the same family.

What is meant by "Emptiness" is pure uncontaminated consciousness.
Empathy and compassion is what we are, however in the ordinary
run of things, we are more concerned with how "I am".

When talking about tendencies, we are talking about out relative existence,
our psychological make up.
Focusing on what we want to be, is different to focusing on what we are.

The question is: "What is doing the focusing?"

Yes, Karma is our unique way of experiencing consciousness the same old way
…again..and again...and again.


Old saying from Tony:
"When we let go of all grasping, we are free".
This means that there is no 'I' (mental construct) for anything or anyone to own us.



Tony




Tony

[ceetee9]

My father was killed in a rebel uprising and I became King by default at a young age of 16 ...Ghostrider, I don't mean to quibble, but I was curious about your belief that you were King James III of Scotland so I did a quick Google search (http://www.britroyals.com/scots.asp?id=james3_scot) and it claims that you (King James III) became King at age 8. Are you sure about your facts (i.e., is this article wrong)? Just curious.

[Soul Safari]

pineal is right , the signs are there if you know what to look for , previous lives are imprinted deep in the mind , you just have to draw them out ... example if you like art , you could have lived around Rome , of you love animals , you could have lived near africa or australia , if you love to feed people (concern for their health/well being ) you could have been a doctor or nurse in China , if you love to create things you could have lived near Sumeria , if you love magic and merlin etc , you could have lived in Atlantis , if you are drawn to space , you could have been one of the original ET's that came to earth 289,000 years ago ...

Im into all of these - Now where the heck do I come from? lololol:confused:;)

[Tony]

Much depends on our motivation and intention.

The past is dead. We merely have a residue of it in the present.

People talk about "timelines": if we keep reacting, we remain in a fixed groove. If we can pause, and allow space in a situation, without re-enacting the ideas in our mind, new possibilities are available to us. You could say a new "timeline".

What seems to be happening is that, instead of resorting to our surface thoughts, we open up the library of a deeper consciousness. The more the clarity and purity (and I don't say this lightly), the more inspiration and blessing we receive. From a Buddhist point of view, this is part of devotion, where the individual self melts - but I understand that this is not to everyone's taste.

It's a bit like being in the present moment and not knowing anything. There is merely a knowing. The nearest I can come to explaining this is the difference between vertical thinking ("We do this, because we do this and then we do this" - which is a sound way to work) and lateral thinking (opening up the question completely - this is hard to explain as it's more abstract and approaches a problem from many angles at once).

It could be that divine intelligence inspires individuals with certain abilities eg music, art, language, depending on their openness: there are many examples of inspired beings in history.

And this is open to all of us! I think inspired activity is an expression of love - as long as we don't claim it.

[Violet]

Much depends on our motivation and intention.

The past is dead. We merely have a residue of it in the present.

People talk about "timelines": if we keep reacting, we remain in a fixed groove. If we can pause, and allow space in a situation, without re-enacting the ideas in our mind, new possibilities are available to us. You could say a new "timeline".

What seems to be happening is that, instead of resorting to our surface thoughts, we open up the library of a deeper consciousness. The more the clarity and purity (and I don't say this lightly), the more inspiration and blessing we receive. From a Buddhist point of view, this is part of devotion, where the individual self melts - but I understand that this is not to everyone's taste.

It's a bit like being in the present moment and not knowing anything. There is merely a knowing. The nearest I can come to explaining this is the difference between vertical thinking ("We do this, because we do this and then we do this" - which is a sound way to work) and lateral thinking (opening up the question completely - this is hard to explain as it's more abstract and approaches a problem from many angles at once).

It could be that divine intelligence inspires individuals with certain abilities eg music, art, language, depending on their openness: there are many examples of inspired beings in history.

And this is open to all of us! I think inspired activity is an expression of love - as long as we don't claim it.

Indeed, immediate action is not always required and not acting does not always equal not having done anything.

That's a lotta nots...:cool:

[TigaHawk]

I've never understood why I have a fear of elevators. few floor's are fine. 10+ and I get squirmy. most I've been to is abut the 23rd floor and that was for work. I was clinging to the siderail all the way up and the second the doors open I was out before you could blink.

Never been stuck in an elevator, or had anything bad happen in them before. Unsure if that fear is something from a past life?



Where could I have been from if I love helping people, and pulling things apart (mechanical and electronic, to see how they work) and I swear if there was a job that focused purely around improvising thing's - that'd be what I'd have a PHD in :D


I believe it's quite obvious that all the "junk" dna they cant understand is thoughts, feelings and experiences that we've accumulated each generation. Another interesting one is when you look at heart transplant patients, many get odd thoughts/memories/feelings that they've never had before but have all been things the previous heart's owner would have done.

[Sunny-side-up]

Interesting post pie'n'eal giving it a try.
Came up with this standard unspectacular list but with one result that really surprised me? (Near bottom of post)

I feel that I've been around a long time now and brought a great deal of and physical pains with me, I feel very battered; yet my inner core is still fresh and light.

I haven't names for any possible past lives except for the one I found about 20 years ago, I meditated on the subject and got Abram Bishra.

I'm no good with languages or maths being mainly Artistically/craft based

I feel I was a blacksmith in one early life and a Sword Smith in another time, making compound metal swords like the Japanese, but I was doing it in a Nordic area!
I very much respect blades but never have one because I know they have no loyalty, so I think I might have come to grief with one of my own once.

I am a natural Archer and marksman. No training, I can just instantly know the angle to fire from to hit the target, both bow and gun, point, fire and forget!
I have a great spatial awareness. I could look around a corner then with a pistol put it around the corner and hit a target! all from memory of the image and angles!

I have a very Taoist/monk like respect for martial arts and the natural way to move in orbits and circles. Again no training just inner knowledge feelings.

I'm not very happy with heights but feel I should be able to fly unaided, feels like something simple is stopping me Doh


Natural driver, first driving lesson the instructor told me afterwards that she had just put me through an entire test and I would have passed! same with first attempt at flying a glider, just felt at home.

All interesting to me but nothing extra ordinary ha!

But then this:
Now this is the part which made me won't to post because it surprised me!
After putting together all the above observations of myself I suddenly saw and felt this image, it seemed quite a cosy and real memory:
I feel I've been in space in the distant past but not around here!
I seem to feel I was once a being in a very strange planetary environment. This strange sort of system had 4 planets, 2 large and 2 slightly smaller but what was very strange was that the larger planets each had one of the smaller planets orbiting it? I don't remember a sun though? The planets seem to orbit a black area? Maybe a black sun, Black hole or just some sort of black dense area?
I was from one of the larger planets and we could move from one to the other in ships! Thing is though we didn't have to travel far, mainly waited in space for the required planet to come near!
Now I don't normally have feelings or images relating to myself like this?

As a young kid I sat for hour after hour drawing triangles, then sub dividing them into smaller triangles. Then I would colour one and depending on the colour I would do another but not randomly, it would be placed with respect to the first, so on and so on. Now this memory seems different to me now after the planet system memory! the coloured triangles seem to feel like they represented some sort of control panels where touching one would be followed by another colour and triangle to achieve something!


So here and now this time around up until now I seem to have been an observer, being good at most things and understanding all things to some level or an other but 'Observer' like I'm a cataloguer but with a poor recall memory for names and facts :(

The planet system memory (?) well I am going to try focus on it tonight while asleep.

[ghostrider]

My father was killed in a rebel uprising and I became King by default at a young age of 16 ...Ghostrider, I don't mean to quibble, but I was curious about your belief that you were King James III of Scotland so I did a quick Google search (http://www.britroyals.com/scots.asp?id=james3_scot) and it claims that you (King James III) became King at age 8. Are you sure about your facts (i.e., is this article wrong)? Just curious.

the age is up in the air , I know it was when I was too young and not ready for a throne ... but most of the memories are exact , the garden , the lighthouse , even the lighthouse's placement near the coastline and the color of the rocks , the photo I looked at right off the bat on google was exactly what I pictured in my memories ... I did a past life recall with Dr. Brian Weiss , and down the rabbit hole I went , sooo many things made sense after that ... I wish I could post the picture , a young man wearing an orange striped kind of jester shirt and a floppy black hat , clean shaven , it looks exactly like my facebook photo ...

[ghostrider]

I've been digging , I may have been a monk in the year 984, and died at the age of 27 ... in the past five most recent lifetimes I only lived to be around 40 to 45 years old ... I am always connected to nature , animals , and being a soldier that becomes a person of faith ... I have noticed a pattern I have done since the year 984 , and my names were mostly james , or john , mostly around scotland or rome ... strange enough , I was a soldier from 1986 to 1990 , that left the army in april 1990 to become a lay minister , if I would have stayed in the army they had orders to send me to Italy , I didn't want to leave my family anymore so I got out ...

[Shannow]

Do people here believe that one person, one soul, one incarnation timeline ?

Or returning to the source, we are diluted and shared ?

Funny, I used to hear that if two people said that they were Jesus, at least one of them was wrong, but accepted that many people currently incarnate could have been Cleopatra of Napoleon...Now I'm questioning the former, but more accepting of the latter than I was.

[Tony]

There is stuff we all know, and recognise it when we see it.
We re-cognise!



Tony

[obaefun]

Violet are you saying that there is no souch a thing as inaction? If this is the case then I agree with your coment, thanks.

[Tony]

The only thing pure being ever does is recognise its own nature and radiate compassion.
The only thing contaminated being ever does is recognise a self and radiates a self.


Tony