Past-life personalities you recall

[kirolak]

I have really hesitated to share this, but am risking it now, even though it feels as if I am breaking a confidence, or exposing something very private that is not entirely my own - in an astral situation about a year ago, I was informed that I had been certain person in my immediate past life. (This was a man, but in this life I am in a female body)

I finally got around to doing some research about him, and have been quite shaken by what I discovered, & also what I am beginning to remember in flashes. His work & life was strangely enough not included in my education; he died on the day I was born & somehow was overlooked by my teachers, although I had heard his name in passing.

I've always been fascinated by his country of birth & was puzzled many years ago to find that I understood the language (don't want to give away too much as I don't want to feed my ego here) but as it is a romance language, it is not entirely incomprehensibly different from my "present" mother tongue.

In another astral experience, which actually took place on my last birthday, I was thanked by some beautiful gold, blue & silver Beings for "my past work in performing the music of Bach". This embarrassed me deeply - when I used to perform in my small way in "'this" life I avoided Bach entirely, & concentrated on later composers, although I obviously loved listening to Bach. . . . .

I have been thinking about all this, & am seriously conflicted by several considerations, as well as feeling deeply humbled & strangely upset. If I look too deeply into the matter, I begin to feel unpleasant physical symptoms including dizziness & nausea.

I have now "concluded" that this present personality that I wear could at best only have been part of an over- soul-group, which could possibly, I suppose, have included this great man; but am convinced that "I", personally, was not actually "him".

I do hope that my astral informants were not being cruel or mocking - they certainly seemed benevolent; but why would they tell me something like this? Neither they nor I gain anything from it; in fact I am ashamed & almost depressed to realize how far short I have come this time round if this is true.

I've had flashes over the years of several other of my "lives"; as a woman in a long brown dress who walked miles through cold fields each day, to work in a rich man's house; existences on other "planets" or dimensions; a pilot called Eduard who died in WWII - but nothing has truly touched me as deeply as this has done.

Has anyone else had similar experiences that they would be willing to share? How did you handle the "knowledge"?

[TrumanCash]

I have recovered the memories of many past lives as I am certain that other people on this forum have done. People are often mocked for stating that they remember a past life of a noteworthy personality. From my own experiences I do know that sometimes one can tap into a past life of another entity that has identified with oneself. There is also the possibility that a past life memory can be a false, (i.e., implanted) memory. Abducting ETs do this routinely.

However, the fact remains that someone had to be Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, JFK, Ghandi, Elvis, etc, etc. Therefore, if a famous personality or political figure reincarnates later on they could potentially tap into the memory of that past life.

I have had this experience. Not just because I undertook the challenge to uncover many past lives, but because I was manipulated for thousands of years by the ET groups that have been manipulating the inhabitants of this planet. I am not alone in this. Other people that we call "abductees" have also been followed from lifetime to lifetime and sometimes placed in important political/governmental positions, secrets societies and religions. This is not a natural reincarnation process but an enforced one.

When I first came upon my past life as pharaoh Ramses II, I was not initially entirely convinced that this was indeed one of my past lives. However, after uncovering a number of memories of that lifetime, including dates and the age of my death, I consulted historical references and found the dates were accurate and the incidents actually happened. This was surprising since I had never studied Egyptology. After recovering the memories I also consulted Zecharia Sitchin's books regarding Ramses II and found that two of my memories had been accurately documented by the Egyptians, thereby verifying the authenticity of my memories. I documented this lifetime in the first chapter of my book, THE EYE OF RA, and anyone can read it free of charge by clicking on the link below.

Truman

[Skyhaven]

Thanks for sharing kirolak. For me it is difficult to trace anything back to 'individuals', I often dream in detail about things that I can't connect to the conscious experiences that I had. They are oftentimes so vivid that I have difficulty switching back to my day to day life. Some things make sense, some other things I have a lot of questions about, but I don't really want to focus on it because I can't connect the dots, at least not yet.

[Selene]

While your experience, Kirolak, may be a new one for you, I want to assure you that it is perfectly normal and a natural part of your personal evolution. And yes, it is entirely possible that you’ve had a life as “someone recognizable”. Anyone might.

At this stage of your recollections, I would suggest – if I may - that you explore your own memories quietly by yourself, allowing them to arise naturally over time. Allow yourself to feel any emotions that may be connected with these images or senses, knowing that at all times you are safely “here” in your present body and this present lifetime. Explore in your own way and on your own time.

If I were you, I’d refrain from consulting anyone who may – with the best of intentions – purport to “confirm” or “identify” your past incarnations, as they may simply be picking up telepathically on your own ideas. You might some point want to work with a qualified past life therapist who can assist without leading you, but this is certainly not necessary.

And you are wise to refrain from identifying this prior personality here, if simply to avoid other well-intended members from inadvertently steering you in directions that may not be valid in terms of your own experience.

But hearing of your progress in these matters here is certainly most welcome.

For myself, I’m pretty sure I was never anyone famous, although I have certainly been at the royal courts of many well-known persons. (I seem to have a long-term assignment as an advisor or consultant to those in power, for unknown reasons. This aspect of my personality continues to this day in ways I find quite fascinating BTW.) It’s always a little uncanny for me to visit old palaces and castles and “know” where that corridor leads – or dammit – that they’ve changed something I fondly remember.

One of my strongest recollections is of being at the court of Henry VIII, as a junior lady-in-waiting, probably to Catherine of Aragon or possibly Anne Boleyn. I know I spent most of my days sitting in a particular gallery room at Hampton Court outside the queen’s chamber, doing fine needlework with the other ladies. At times we sat in considerable and silent tension, as the atmosphere surrounding the queen had become quite poisonous.

In this life, when I finally had the opportunity to visit Hampton Court, I sailed eagerly through the palace’s galleried courtyards, heading by radar to my old room with the view I remembered so well. As we walked into that courtyard, I looked around in dismay. Nothing was the same! The old Tudor building wasn’t there. Instead there stood a 17th century palace, which I toured somewhat dyspeptically, standing in the spot where I “knew” my old room had been, knowing the queen’s chamber was next door, but..... nothing looked right. I was disappointed.

But at the end of the tour, we entered a room with a scale model of the entire complex. One of the museum’s curators/enactors stood nearby, answering questions about the location of washrooms, etc. Rather intrepidly, I asked her if she could tell me anything about that wing. She launched into a well-rehearsed spiel. But, I ventured, was there ever an earlier Tudor structure on that site...?

She brightened. No one ever asked her that. Yes, in fact that had been Catherine of Aragon’s wing... old-fashioned building... torn down to build the new one under William & Mary...they did that sort of thing frequently in those days...no sense of history...

I know what I know. And so do you.

Regards,

Selene

[sheme]

I did a PLR once all I can remember now is a lot of REM this was weird a kind of waking dream followed then I had this picture of being a long headed Egyptian no hair 'shaved off I think' I was waiting to meet a Roman chap about some building work I/he was involved with, I remember coins with holes in them, I remember being cared for by a lady that was my mother but she was very reverential to me, I had a long head dress. Can't remember the name I had. if it was even me. I was a male. Interesting at the time but then I snapped out of it.

[Joe Akulis]

I have had this experience. Not just because I undertook the challenge to uncover many past lives, but because I was manipulated for thousands of years by the ET groups that have been manipulating the inhabitants of this planet.


I wonder if it's possible that you are from this race of ETs and they are working through you via your phyisical incarnations here. (Kinda like you're the only one of their group who had the guts to jump into a human form.)

The reason I ask is because you then state that you were Ramses II. And imprinting past lives of that significance can often be a sign that you are simply non-native and needed some experiences to shape a proper subconscious while you were here.

It's also possible that Ramses II was an ET, and that really was you.

You are certainly fascinating to me, regardless. :- )

Seeker

[Joe Akulis]

I have now "concluded" that this present personality that I wear could at best only have been part of an over- soul-group, which could possibly, I suppose, have included this great man; but am convinced that "I", personally, was not actually "him".


I wonder if what you're describing characterizes the difference between someone finishing one life, and remaining in 4th density, vs someone returning/reintegrating with their Higher Self first, before deciding to have another life.

In the first case, the usual scenario seems to be something like: After dying, a person reverts back to an "energy body" going through the typical routine of having a life review, and then resting, recovering from the life you just completed, and then eventually deciding to "go back in" and have another physical incarnation, and determining what the goals/purpose will be for the new life you are about to begin. All the while still believing in the afterlife that you are that persona of the life you last lived, right up until your next incarnation starts and you put on the forgetfulness of it all.

In the second example, perhaps some people upon death already are familliar with the act of reintegrating with their Higher Self, at a plane above 4th density, (perhaps 6th?). If you are aware of other lifetimes on other planets then this sounds quite possible to me, in your case.

Maybe when we start a new life by issuing from our HS, versus from the persona of the last person you were, who never left 4d and never shed that last persona, then the past life experiences have a completely different feel to them.

Fun to ponder.

Seeker.

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

I think empathic people have two general experiences in this regard: the experience of being influenced by powerful souls from the past in a time of public or private growth/crisis,
and the persistent coincidences/synchronicities that accompany a person actually having traveled in the physical channel of the past life.

i.e. you'll find souls that influence you from outside and then you'll find the soul(s) that influence you from the INSIDE. telling the difference can be really hard! especially if you have gifts like ESP or are sensitive to impulses from Beyond.

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[Robin]

I was thanked by some beautiful gold, blue & silver Beings for "my past work in performing the music of Bach".

Sure, if you feel that you were ol' Johann in a past life, then so be it. Why not? I believe it.

But keep in mind that although Johann was a composer, thousands of people "perform the music of Bach."

[kirolak]

Thank you, Truman - I have already had the pleasure of reading your very insightful books; I felt a deep resonance with what you shared publically, & am honoured that you responded to me personally - respect!! :wizard:

[kirolak]

Samwise, I was definitely not implying that I WAS Bach (or any of his many family members). I was, in the apparent past life, a performer of his compositions (as well as music by many other composers)/

[sdv]

Six previous lifetimes I have recalled through hypnosis. I do not get information such as an exact date or place, nor even a name. I just see scenes, in that life and in my death in that life, and in my crossing over to the world/dimension of spirit. I have to remember everything I saw and, from that, get an approximate guess about dates and places. Some themes have emerged:

I have always incarnated as a female (or if I have incarnated as a male, I have not remembered those lifetimes).

I was never anyone famous or connected to anyone famous and have no recollection of being part of a significant event in human history (I was always just another person in the background).

I have always incarnated because I was interested in experiencing something, rather than choosing a lifetime to learn lessons or work off bad karma or fulfill a chosen goal (other than to experience being human in a time when something was happening on Earth that I found very interesting, such as the development of hunting communities, an African tribe developing into a warmongering tribe, the huge growth of seafaring communities, the proliferation of printed books, or urbanisation ... there is one lifetime for which I cannot figure out what was the interest that drew me to incarnating!).

Every lifetime is a new experience and so being an old soul does not make me a wise human being. (Perhaps I should incarnate more frequently if I want to have wisdom and power as a human being on this Earth!)

In incarnating, I have always accepted that being human is risky (so in three lifetimes I did not live to adulthood simply because human incarnation is a very risky choice). From my recall of lifetimes, I have never had the feeling that death was pre-planned. I got the feeling that if you come to Earth, stuff happens and that is the risk you accept. I chose families and places that gave me the best likelihood of experiencing what I wanted to experience, but had no foreknowledge about or control over if I would survive a plague or not, experience drama because of my own foolish choices, and so on.

When I died, I was only met by someone connected to me in that lifetime who had died once. In all other deaths, I was met by 'angels' (shimmering, loving, caring, concerned beings of light). The more traumatic the death, the more 'angels' there were.

I do not believe that my experiences are a blueprint for everyone. There are endless, ever increasing possibilities in this creative universe. We are all unique individual creations in that universe and we all have unique experiences and make unique choices (even though there is a huge overlap in what we choose and what we experience, and everything we experience is interconnected with what everyone else experiences).

Were these past life recalls part of my imagination? I suspected so with one. There was no way that everything I saw could have existed in the same time period ... it just did not make sense to me and I wondered if I was creating a fantasy story. Then I did research and everything I saw fitted into a late Middle Ages time period. What I saw in the scenes did not match with anything I had seen in a movie or read in a book I had read (which is why I was skeptical), but when I did the research, what I saw in those scenes was realistic.

Lastly, in my physical body, in my interests, in my energy, in being a woman, in this lifetime, I carry echoes of other lifetimes. They feel like imprints that I did not deliberately choose but are a possibility that I accept. It feels like bravado ... I survived/overcame this once before so I am confident that I can do so again! (Famous last words ... Ha!)

[Jovian]

I appreciate the thoughtful and respectful replies here to your post. Obviously there are many others here who have personal experience accessing the multi-dimensionality of the soul, on some level.

Yes, kirolak, I empathize with you, having gone through apparently tapping into some 'famous' past lives myself, many years ago. I went through that state you are in--the ego being triggered, the sense of responsibility for that lifetime…. In one of the cases, it was for the consequences of this man’s actions, which would affect generations afterward. It takes time to process all those energies and eventually have it dissipate and not be so personal and potent and constant in your consciousness.

...When I first accessed those 'lives,' my mind almost schismed. It was so challenging. You wonder, what the heck is going on? What am I tapping into? I had previously had success accessing apparent other lifetimes, which had powerful emotional baggage that I needed to process in order to eliminate blind spots about my character that I had in this life. It became rather routine. Whenever I had any kind of block in this life, where I didn’t know why I had certain strong, “irrational” responses to certain situations--or even specific people--in my life, I could go into this kind of semi-conscious reverie and “press” into the emotion I was feeling, and be open to sense where it all “started.” And some flash of a scenario would come to me that triggered a strong emotional release. It was perhaps just a scene, as sdv mentions. Sometimes I’d have to dwell in that space for a few weeks, purging waves and waves of emotions, until it was all ‘deactivated.’

…But how could I trust this one? ...But, at the same time, I felt--yes, this personality really does really feel like 'me' and explains a lot of who I am now.

I made several attempts to have past life practitioners help me. Some part of me wanted someone outside of myself to validate this. Some kind of objective acknowledgment that it wasn't some ego-maniacal, desperate part of myself making this up. And perhaps it was equally about being able to present such supposed 'objective evidence' of a practitioner's validation to others, in my fear of their opinion. But I was not able to ever open up to allow access to my subconscious with a practitioner, as it seemed I had to process it myself. I had to be able to give up my ego attachment to this lifetime.

... One of these historical lifetimes finally made an appearance in a regression I undertook with a professional, about two years ago. ...I felt that was some indication that I was ready to let it go, when my ego stopped defending the persona. The regression featured me taking him through his feelings on his death bed. …It has taken many years of processing, and accepting those personae…and how they resonated in this current form, as well.

It is difficult to find an accepting outlet for sharing such lifetimes. ...When one shares an anonymous life of a common person, who is there to challenge what you recall? Recalling specific known lives of important figures can bring up all kinds of strong reactions in others. You are not allowed to just have your simple, emotional recollections without being challenged to answer for every action in that person's life. "Are you sure you aren't fantasizing to fulfill some desperate need?" "Were you obsessed with this person before?" "The details you give are different from the history books, and I'm an expert on that person." "Why did you do X, Y, and Z in that lifetime?"

Back then, about ten or twelve years ago, I briefly found an understanding place in sharing on Carol Bowman's past life forum. It was a strange point and place in time, of a confluence of many people apparently with famous past lives. However, it was apparently even too much for the administrators of that site, and the vast majority of those posts were eventually culled in a site overhaul. Amid the dross, much valuable and interesting information was also lost...even if it was just to observe how people handled themselves in this milieu. There were some strong personalities there, as people seemed to be channeling the energies of the personae of those previous lifetimes and this lifetime at the same time. But—wouldn’t it make sense that the powerful figures of the past have an inherent confidence about their own self-worth across time? …Yet, I’ve seen some people really grab onto the past persona and attempt to ‘be’ that person again; and this seems like truly a cruel and sad trick the ego is playing on them.

It is true that you can’t know what people are tapping into, as they make their claims, and you may feel doubtful about them. Some don’t seem to feel the same sense of responsibility and burden about the historical lifetime that I do. However, as sdv says, it seems there are quite varied ways of experiencing lives here. For me it seems a lot of emotional healing was called for now. It is usually not hard facts and images of period costume, etc, that I recall, though I have had senses of specific years sometimes. Also, other people who were in 'my' various lives I also encountered in this lifetime. Thus, a lot of the work was via dwelling on my relationships…the past dynamics often reflecting in the present. Parallels between past and present names, current-life situations, physical appearances, etc. did seem like an objective confirmation of my sense of things.

As well, as seeker suggested, there is the supposed phenomenon of being ‘imprinted’ with the memories of a famous lifetime. Dolores Cannon described in one of her books the idea of souls, perhaps inexperienced on earth, being able to have some kind of contextual understanding of the human experience by having access to the lifetimes of historical figures. Perhaps this explains those who have recollections yet don’t seem to carry the sense of personal responsibility for a lifetime that many of us do.

And Truman mentions the idea of souls having been strongly influenced by ET groups with certain agendas. In my case, they are lifetimes of playing a role as a figure in the Judeo-Christian drama, and I don’t doubt the possibility that the energies that were known as “Yahweh” or “Jehovah” or “Elohim” or whatever were something I was supposed to be an earthly instrument or intermediary for. I’d love to get to the bottom of that someday.

...And of course the phenomenon of famous lives brings up others who sense they 'were' that same persona. Thus, this can be a tool for us to understand better the nature of the 'soul.' As you say, we are made to consider the idea of us being part of an 'oversoul.' The idea as presented in the Michael Teachings does resonate with me—that we are part of ever-larger oversoul groups; with the smallest unit being the 'souls' closest to us. There is also some Eastern theory of the soul, I don't know the details, but it involved the idea that in future incarnations, separate individuals can carry the different 'parts' of a persona. One could carry the emotional being, one the mental, etc.

Also, the idea that souls can ‘split’ indefinitely, and that older souls utilize this to experience more and more as they evolve in order to “get on with it all;” would mean a past persona could exist in who knows how many incarnations now?

Kirolak, in my opinion, in some way you are meant to ‘claim’ this past persona as your own, from what you have shared here. You are entitled to process it however you are led to. (If you care to message me to share, please feel free. I understand the need to unburden oneself, for sure.) Perhaps part of the journey is an evolution of your ‘ego’ that you are to experience, as I felt in my case. To me that would seem a reasonable idea, when faced with a 'famous' life. It is a challenging trip, but one you are meant to take at this time.

This kind of statement—“in fact I am ashamed & almost depressed to realize how far short I have come this time round if this is true”—I certainly understand. (I feel for you! I’m glad I’m not in that space anymore.) But it is only because we are trying to fit this into a certain concept of soul that we have such a response. I find peace in the idea that the soul also needs lifetimes to process and assimilate. This certainly feels valid in my case. Lots of tying up of loose karmic ends, including relationships. I am certainly not drawn to any type of notoriety or grand publicly-recognized achievement in this life.

We have the potential with this phenomenon to advance our understanding of the nature of ‘soul.’ It is clearly not as simplistic as we keep trying to make it. Even the concept of ‘soul:’ what the heck are we even talking about? We pretend there is this ‘thing,’ but our current concept of it will only exist as long as we need it to.

I have continued to sense myself as part of an ever larger and larger ‘thing.’ The boundaries of the ‘self’ continue to fade, as we realize all that we have apparently ‘experienced’ across time and space. But in the end, will it matter what we are tapping into, if our hearts learn--or remember--that "we" are "them" and "they" are "us?"

Thank you for putting yourself out there, kirolak, and starting the topic. It has been good for me to be able to articulate my story, thus far, as well.

[Jovian]

Mmm. I like this that I found at Michael Teachings Q&A pages:

TIME

Q: Previously, it had been channeled by Michael students and through
other entities that time does not exist except on the physical plane
and that if we were to be aware of this while on the physical plane,
we would understand that all of our lives are occurring
simultaneously. The image presented was that of each life being
represented by a sheet of paper with all the lives being represented
by sheets of paper on a spindle. As that is the reality that has
been presented, and all these lives are in some way influencing the
others, is it possible to do energy work extending into all of those
lives, or selected lives, in both directions both past and future,
as a means of harmonizing the energy across all lives as expressed
and extending from the life from which the energy work is done,
thereby benefiting it as well as all the other lives? And what
other values are there to this exercise as well?

A: Of course there is a way, multiple ways, of both accessing and
influencing the lives lived simultaneously by any fragment. You do
this frequently, most fragments do, and there are often startling
results. Although the image you set forth is apt, there is one
piece missing, and that is of dimension. Each lifetime is not only
a two-dimensional flat piece of paper, represented by such, but is
also more or less a sphere with multiple other spheres laid onto it,
all occupying the same space. We give this example partly to
benefit the channel, so that our later words can come through with
the most clarity possible. We say, then, that all lives can and are
influenced by anything and everything you do right now, or at any
other point in any lifetime. Oh, the unending possibilities! <G>
Know, then, that each lifetime already or yet to be lived is not a
static thing, and indeed outcomes change with regularity. Details
we give of various lifetimes lived by various fragments change
almost as soon as the words are transmitted from us to the fragment
in question. Even the mere knowing of any tiny detail of a lifetime
is enough to create change. Think of the "butterfly effect" and you
get the idea. So why this seemingly fruitless exercise of
recounting countless lifetimes, reciting them almost by rote,
accessing the Akashic records (which are in a state of flux
constantly, if we are to be believed, instead of this rather dusty
library so many humans seem to picture), and so forth performed, let
alone in any way useful? The reason is this: there are trends,
energy chains, which occur and wend themselves through the tapestry,
the 3-D tapestry we might add, of a fragment's lifetime. There is
an imprint carried there that has repercussions not only on the past
but on the future as well. You already know this; this is not new
to you. But know too that ANYTHING done on the physical plane has
immediate and lasting effect on every lifetime lived by that
fragment, as well as every lifetime lived by any other fragment who
ever came in contact with the first fragment. Is this mind-bending
enough for you? So why go through this exercise at all, you may
ask, if everything changes at all times and nothing remains the
same? How are we to learn from this constant state of change? The
answer is: you don't. You learn from your responses to any given
set of data. It matters not that the data change at all times; the
responses are valid.

CHANNELED BY: Karen Murphy & Michael Toth

http://www.michaelteachings.com/channeling_general_abc-2.html#OLD_SOUL_TERROR

[Bill Ryan]

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This is a most fascinating subject, and my thanks to you for opening it up.

I do know the problem (and it is a problem!) of having been a historical personage, so to speak. I've been four in the last 2,000 years, if we take the definition that they can all be looked up on Wikipedia. :)

One was a moderately obscure (but still historically known) early Christian Gnostic theologian. Another, just 100 years ago, was a well-known English mountaineer. (With a truly dramatic story to tell, too!) The third was a Mayan king, and the fourth, far better known than any of these, was a very famous Tibetan teacher and poet; and that alone brings a few tears to my eyes, it really does.

All that pales in comparison with a good friend (also a forum member here), who was undoubtedly one of the most famous and significant people in history. Not my story to tell (except that I was peripherally involved both in helping to uncover/discover the story, and was also present as a supporter in that person's historical life) — but maybe it will be some day. If so, I'd venture to guess that everyone here would be more than enthralled.

I also have no doubt that many others here were quite significant historical figures. This is not a competition! :) But it is a problem, as one doesn't want these things to hook the ego.

The best response (and attitude) is probably that of David Wilcock, who was almost certainly Edgar Cayce. When asked about it (as he often is), he explains that it IS a problem, because it's not who he WAS, or may have been, that's of any significance (and that's correct, of course). It's who he is NOW. That's all that counts — rightly so.

[onawah]

I have read that many souls who think they were a particular (same) personage in a past life, and have many accurate memories of that personage's life, have actually only monitored that person's life because there were similar life lessons that they wanted to learn about.
Apparently this monitoring process can be witnessed from the inside out, that is, experienced as if one were actually the person whose life you are monitoring.
(BTW, Chris Thomas mentioned that the Velon have technology that they have employed which allow them to monitor human lives in this same fashion.)
How one can tell if they were actually that personage or whether they simply monitored that person and are recalling memories from that monitoring process, I cannot say.
But this would certainly explain why so many people seem to have memories from one particular lifetime that could only have been lived by one soul.
But there are other ways that can be helpful in determining whether you were that person or not, for example as in David Wilcock's case, where he has access to photographs of Edgar Cayce, who certainly does bear a strong resemblance to David, and the photos of a number of people who were friends of Cayce and who strongly resemble friends of David in his present life.
And people tend to reincarnate in groups, so you may recognize people in this lifetime as people you have known in past lives, which can give clues.
Individual soul groups tend to have common missions that can extend over many lifetimes, and that can afford clues as well.

[Daozen]

I think I was murdered a couple of times. To this day I can't stand anyone walking up to me from behind. I always sit with my back to the wall in restaurants. I think I was literally stabbed in the back. I have vague memories of Sichuan. I also see fleeting glimpses of being one of the good guys in the Vatican when the 'good pope' was elected.

I forget his name, the one who looked like Peter Sellers.

I remember the elation as 'our man' got in, and then the dread and hopelessness as we realized the dark team would not let him live. There was a sect of nuns, very powerful and relentlessly evil, that were especially frightening. They were called the sisters of sorrow, or sisterhood of mercy, or sisterhood of misericordia or something along those lines. I think a bunch of us were killed in that episode.

This could all be my vivid imagination, but I get these daydreams from time to time.

[sdv]

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This is a most fascinating subject, and my thanks to you for opening it up.

I do know the problem (and it is a problem!) of having been a historical personage, so to speak. I've been four in the last 2,000 years, if we take the definition that they can all be looked up on Wikipedia. :)

One was a moderately obscure (but still historically known) early Christian Gnostic theologian. Another, just 100 years ago, was a well-known English mountaineer. (With a truly dramatic story to tell, too!) The third was a Mayan king, and the fourth, far better known than any of these, was a very famous Tibetan teacher and poet; and that alone brings a few tears to my eyes, it really does.

All that pales in comparison with a good friend (also a forum member here), who was undoubtedly one of the most famous and significant people in history. Not my story to tell (except that I was peripherally involved both in helping to uncover/discover the story, and was also present as a supporter in that person's historical life) — but maybe it will be some day. If so, I'd venture to guess that everyone here would be more than enthralled.

I also have no doubt that many others here were quite significant historical figures. This is not a competition! :) But it is a problem, as one doesn't want these things to hook the ego.

The best response (and attitude) is probably that of David Wilcock, who was almost certainly Edgar Cayce. When asked about it (as he often is), he explains that it IS a problem, because it's not who he WAS, or may have been, that's of any significance (and that's correct, of course). It's who he is NOW. That's all that counts — rightly so.

I so admire those who have chosen power, position and wisdom to try to influence humanity in past lifetimes, and then have chosen to come back and try to do so again.

Look at history and how events repeat. Human beings seem to recreate the same old stuff in different ways, and I believe that we are living in a very dark age for humanity and there seems to be no will or desire to hear and commit to the messages of people such as Wade Frasier and so many others that we hear on this forum. I have become so disillusioned in this lifetime! But, a part of me know that curiosity will develop into interest and then a desire to experience and be a part of whatever is happening in humanity that created the spark of curiosity, and so, although I never want to come back, I probably will.

I do believe that we are each unique, connected to everything in the universe and thus being influenced by anything and everything, but remaining individuals in all that is and ever was and ever will be.

I do admire those who choose to live on Earth over and over again and to do so to change humanity into what humans can be rather than experiencing the same old stuff over and over again. So, to have been an important historical person in a past lifetime has a significance beyond ego. You chose to come back and try again, and again, and again! And you know how risky it is and how darned impossible human beings are! I admire rather than disbelieve or criticise those who remember being someone famous or important or powerful or wise (and so on) in a previous lifetime.

PS I ask for and welcome sharing from all those who do remember significant previous lifetimes.

Here is a very interesting NDE experience that I found ...

-lxJTWNy0g4

[Creedence]

Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud & James Douglas Morrison.

[sdv]

Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud & James Douglas Morrison.

Please tell us more about these past lifetimes. Please share the wisdom and learning and experiences of these lifetimes.

[Creedence]

Forgive me but I don't actually recall any actual memories from those lifetimes. I just know what I know. Sorry.

[bruno dante]

My personal feeling is that, due to the overwhelming number of incarnations that we've all had, it would be almost certain that at some point we've all been someone of note. Probability suggests it.

Probability also suggests we've all been a coward, thief, charlatan, murderer, tyrant, fool etc. If you ever find your ego growing in relation to someone you think you may have been, just remind yourself of this:)

It's been suggested to me that I have been a linguist, druid priestess, and a lama, amongst other things. It kind of feels right to me, but honestly, I have no idea if it's true. And I don't attach any real importance to it. But it is a lot of fun to consider and discuss.

Coincidentally, I'm currently reading a book called 'Your Soul's Plan', and the index includes the names of 3 mediums/psychics, one who can supposedly recreate conversations you had in the pre-birth state, verbatim, with regards to your life plan, goals etc. I was curious, so I looked into it. One session is close to $700. Maybe next lifetime...;)

[Jean-Marie]

Someone told me that I was one of the Grace's in Greek Mythology. Thalia whose name means blossoms, springtime greenery, Goddess of Festivity and Rich and Luxurious banquets.

I have no recollection, but there are some coincidences.....

My birthday is March 20th - First day of Spring. I did work a short while for a catering company. In the last few years, I throw the holiday parties for the volunteer organizations I belong to. I cook all the food! Some say I medicate people with food!

Somewhere I read that she had green eyes. My eyes are green..

Could Be!

-jean-marie

[Zampano]

Through my neighbour-she is a psychic person, I had the opportunity several times to try past life regression.
I did "mundane" things, like being a public official in ancient Egypt, a peat cuter in Ireland or Britain, a soldier dying young in WW 1 battle.
A broken heart woman in France during the 17th century living all alone, which was interested in herbs and healing.

Interesting it is, but there may be another hundreds lives in any shapes and forms-but does it make any difference for me now?
I think, no!
Since that I know it is possible to be in the Absolute-without thoughts, space and time, it is not relevant anymore.

[Omni]

Have to be careful with things like this because they can be implanted into ones experience via technology rather easily. It is a known(known by me at least) tactic that they fool people into believing they were some famous person, so they claim such publicly, and it largely takes away from their work, as it becomes the biggest subject..

That being said I have some past life recollections, that could be based on reality.

One memory is being underneath the Vatican, and being tortured. They cut open my stomach and started torturing my organs after they tortured my feet for a few days, eventually I died there... When I was little when my parents would cut my toenails I would have massive fear and big reactions to such. It was hard for them to do it. This could be due to my feet tortures for those few days. a decade or so ago, getting my feet tortured was one of my worst fears. I no longer have that fear, but I do wonder it's source...

I also have a recollection of being crucified. Like on an actual crucifix. I don't know who I was in that life, but I've always dislike the symbol of the crucifix. It also relates to one of my first telepathic encounters with reptilians... I was walking by a church talking telepathically. A reptile points out the crucifix, and says "Be too ambitious, end up there". I haven't allowed that encounter to make me less ambitious. My life is like a living crucifixion in ways. Maybe I'm already there...

I also have feelings of being killed because of my scientific background in a past life.

Christians and I haven't gotten along too well in this life or others it seems...

I'm not sure if any of my past life recollections are real. But they are interesting.

[sdv]

Forgive me but I don't actually recall any actual memories from those lifetimes. I just know what I know. Sorry.

No need to be sorry. I was just curious about what you can remember and share about recollections about these past lives as human.

From my experience, what we experience here on this earth as human does influence our decision about coming back and how and when and why. The more we share and discuss, the more information we have to take with us when we die and to inform our choices about coming back. We may have perfect and complete recall about our lifetimes on this earth as human in the spiritual dimensions, but our knowledge becomes so much more enhanced if we can hear about the experience of others,

This is what drives my curiosity. I am but a speck in the universe and the only way to know and experience beyond myself (other than to risk incarnation over and over again for hundreds of thousands of lifetimes) is to communicate with and receive the sharing of the experiences of other specks!

Whatever anyone can share adds to my store of information outside of experiences I have had, so thank you for sharing!

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Have to be careful with things like this because they can be implanted into ones experience via technology rather easily. It is a known(known by me at least) tactic that they fool people into believing they were some famous person, so they claim such publicly, and it largely takes away from their work, as it becomes the biggest subject..

That being said I have some past life recollections, that could be based on reality.

One memory is being underneath the Vatican, and being tortured. They cut open my stomach and started torturing my organs after they tortured my feet for a few days, eventually I died there... When I was little when my parents would cut my toenails I would have massive fear and big reactions to such. It was hard for them to do it. This could be due to my feet tortures for those few days. a decade or so ago, getting my feet tortured was one of my worst fears. I no longer have that fear, but I do wonder it's source...

I also have a recollection of being crucified. Like on an actual crucifix. I don't know who I was in that life, but I've always dislike the symbol of the crucifix. It also relates to one of my first telepathic encounters with reptilians... I was walking by a church talking telepathically. A reptile points out the crucifix, and says "Be too ambitious, end up there". I haven't allowed that encounter to make me less ambitious. My life is like a living crucifixion in ways. Maybe I'm already there...

I also have feelings of being killed because of my scientific background in a past life.

Christians and I haven't gotten along too well in this life or others it seems...

I'm not sure if any of my past life recollections are real. But they are interesting.

If you can imagine it, then it is real and worth sharing.

[sdv]

Through my neighbour-she is a psychic person, I had the opportunity several times to try past life regression.
I did "mundane" things, like being a public official in ancient Egypt, a peat cuter in Ireland or Britain, a soldier dying young in WW 1 battle.
A broken heart woman in France during the 17th century living all alone, which was interested in herbs and healing.

Interesting it is, but there may be another hundreds lives in any shapes and forms-but does it make any difference for me now?
I think, no!
Since that I know it is possible to be in the Absolute-without thoughts, space and time, it is not relevant anymore.

You are special and unique as you and in every lifetime you have ever experienced, so your history, your present and your future is relevant and does make a difference in that it is who YOU are. There will never be and never has been and is not another YOU. There is no other in the entire universe of being that can be YOU, past, present and future, ever.

Because the universe of creation is so vast, so eternal, we are all small specks that disappear in the bigger picture (who would miss a grain of sand removed from a beach?), but the universe only exists because of all the unique individuals that interconnect to create it.

Your past lives sound very interesting rather than mundane to me. Sounds to me like you dive back into human incarnation to experience every aspect of being human over and over again. Humanity is completely lost without souls choosing to experience this dimension. There would be no need for humans if souls did not want to experience being human.

I am rather cynical about humanity but I do cherish this wonderful planet and I do encounter surprising and wonderful experiences with strangers every day. So many people and at the end of my life I would not have encountered even 1% of beings on this planet!

This forum is an opportunity for you to shine brighter than those passing strangers that I encounter every day. I want to hear your stories and I find them fascinating rather than mundane. Thank you for sharing.

[Wind]

No, I can't recall who I exactly was, but I have had these flashes. If you find some place or culture familiar then you probably have been part of it before, after all we all have had so many different roles. We've all been saints and sinners, potato pickers too...

When I talk about flashes, I've seen myself as a monk in Tibet, nun, as a magician, as a man who followed Jesus of Nazareth when others turned their backs on him, many many other countries and places feel familiar to me and then there are of course ET lives, but that's almost another topic. Even though I've been born as a woman and a man before many times, I think that lives as a female before have made me understand more the beautiness and fragility of life and I can see the world more from that side emotionally. It's incomprehensible to me that the sacred feminine side of ourselves has been supressed for so long.

Men too need to find the sacred feminine part in themselves which has been forgotten, that's the biggest problem in this world. We need to find a way to balance our energies and heal the original wound (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bWYd4rHBb4).

[Omni]

I have always had a very strong dedication to the light. I think this is a theme in my incarnations if I can know myself to the degree of saying that. When I was around 15 I laid up one night and declared to any being listening to my thoughts, I am dedicating my life to humanity, and am declaring I am willing to die for a cause worthy enough. What I didn't know is I might be inviting suffering for a cause into my life too. Granted I don't think that is really how it fully works. But that may have been part of my situation....

Anyway I was gazing into the depths trying to figure out past lives of mine, and I got a glimpse that I may have killed a tyrant king(or something similar) or two in my day. After incarnating in a world since Atlantis(when I believe I started incarnating as earth-human, and most of the older human incarnating starseeds perhaps), being conditioned by a death filled world, I absolutely see myself slaying a tyrant or two.

I named my most recent song Tyrannicide. Which means slayer of a tyrant. I always resonated with that word. I actually bought tyrannicide.net some time back.. I'm not sure if I still own it. Haven't done anything with it in a long time. I don't want to appear violent in this lifetime... As I am surely not. Still, I'd cheer if a top Rothschild was assassinated, or any of the power broker heartless elite. Just wouldn't do it myself in this lifetime...

[araucaria]

I have a few disordered comments to make on this subject. The problem with past lives is that we don’t necessarily properly understand the mechanism of reincarnation or its consequences. Sometimes you find one entity reincarnating in similar roles; for example, as a string of generals since Hannibal, George Patton seems to have won almost every major battle we have ever seen. Others, like Bill, seem to have mixed it up a lot more. Imagine someone now appearing who has been Karl Marx then Groucho: could be interesting. So it would seem like some are feeding the cyclical component to history, while others are improvising new characters, for an overall effect similar to musical variations on a theme: same harmonics, different but related tunes.

Alternatively, to use a geographical analogy, take a bunch of European placenames and redistribute them in the US. In, say, upstate New York you get Syracuse (Sicily) between Rome (Italy), Rochester (England), Dunkirk (France) and Ithaca (Greece). Presumably these names were not chosen entirely randomly, so this new arrangement would make an interesting odyssey for a modern Ulysses, who as king of Ithaca may have visited all these coastal locations.

This analogy of shifting places brings me to another possibly major component of reincarnation: astrology. David Wilcock’s case for ‘having been’ Edgar Cayce relies on several ingredients. His lookalikeness is certainly striking, considerably more so than some of the other example he provides in The Synchronicity Key. Another is his astrological chart: very close to Cayce’s. To say this is a sign of a past life may be putting the cart before the horse: the driving force here could be the fact that similar horoscopes produce similar people. You have the phenomenon of ‘astrological twins’ whose lives can be as similar as real identical twins raised apart. This would mean two things: a) David Wilcock doubtless has astrological twins of his own with possibly an equal claim to be Cayce reincarnations (not so much as the public figure, but possibly more so in other ways); b) Cayce probably also had astrological twins, although fewer back then. So what I see here with this dilution of shared personality traits is the existence of a multiplicity (increasing with the population explosion) of uncannily close connections that go far beyond the one-to-one relationship we find with the conventional theory of reincarnation.

As one madman said about another: ‘He can’t be Napoleon: I am!’ Of course they were both mad for thinking they alone were Napoleon – a reflection of Napoleon’s own madness in thinking he could be Napoleon, i.e. one man in charge of everything. The trap of ego.

[annacherie]

Just a related tidbit..........My mother and father helped Morey Bernstein to conduct his past life regression work on Jenny Ty and later author the book (published in the 50s - a time when the concept of reincarnation was not mainstream...)"The Search for Bridey Murphy" where their picture is on the inside jacket cover. Curiously my husband (in his first marriage) had rented Jenny Tys' home in Pueblo, CO - a fact I randomly discovered 20+ years later.

[ulli]

The reincarnation theorists see time as linear, which I find a bit odd.
Personally, I have no clue who I may have been in a 'past' or parallel life.

With spirituality comes a questioning of linear time, and once this present dimension has been transcended,
one might want to adopt the idea of there being an eternal now.

Memories of past lives, which is what is used as proof of reincarnation, at least to oneself,
may not be more than a telepathic blending with the consciousnesses experienced.
Sort of an affinity; which would be confirmed by comparing astrological charts.

I once had a client who believed he was the reincarnation of the impressionist painter Claude Monet,
and he asked me if I would compare their charts, and sure enough, there were some astonishing correlations,
with both having planets of the same longitudes.
Similar cosmic energies manifesting in two different people can't be ruled out.
He is also a gifted painter himself.

But how the whole thing works in reality I won't know for sure until I pass to the other side.
Not keen right now on the idea of returning here at all, nor plunge into an unknown planet.
So who will decide for me what to do?
Some tribunal?

[Skyhaven]

I decided i'm going to stick with this idea:

I don't have memories of past lives, but I have the feelings and intuition of past lives, my true internal compass. The far past details; names, imagery, sounds etc can't help me much anyway, maybe that's why they are 'forgotten'?

[chocolate]

Greetings,

I cannot share any details of any 'past life', but thought I would join a few people by saying that this is a bit more complex than a straight forward process of being that person or the other person.
In reality, and that is my understanding which might be wrong partially or completely, past and future exist simultaneously in the present moment for each living being (here and now :) ).
Another aspect to have in mind is that we are not simply organic material with a soul thrown in to spice up the mix. There are other aspects of everyone that need to be taken under consideration when thinking about who we might have been in another life. Here I mean that we have an astral component, astral body, as a combination of separate 'layers' which also determines who we are and what we have done and will do, eventually.
I am not an expert on any of this subjects, and I would be happy to read what people who 'see' more than the normal human person does today, share some of what they have observed and know.

For me what is important is to stay aware that the other 'lives' of those different in time personalities that I have been, or will be, influence my present life with all of their 'memories'. Those may explain health problems, the tendency to have addictions, psychological issues, talents, etc.

I would also agree that what we think we know might come as a direct influence from a source outside of this world 'reality'. ( @Omniverse )

I found Rudolf Steiner's treatment of the life of Christ/Jesus truly enlightening to listen to.

[Maunagarjana]

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I do know the problem (and it is a problem!) of having been a historical personage, so to speak. I've been four in the last 2,000 years, if we take the definition that they can all be looked up on Wikipedia. :)

One was a moderately obscure (but still historically known) early Christian Gnostic theologian. Another, just 100 years ago, was a well-known English mountaineer. (With a truly dramatic story to tell, too!) The third was a Mayan king, and the fourth, far better known than any of these, was a very famous Tibetan teacher and poet; and that alone brings a few tears to my eyes, it really does.

Okay, I'll venture some guesses, just for fun. Cerdo, Andrew "Sandy" Irvine, Jasaw Chan K'awiil I, and Milarepa. ;)

Btw, If Wilcock was Cayce, that means he may have been Pythagoras as well, as Cayce said that was one of his past lives.

[araucaria]

The reincarnation theorists see time as linear, which I find a bit odd.
Personally, I have no clue who I may have been in a 'past' or parallel life.

Me neither. I am content to be the nameless convergence of many powerful influences. But I wonder why the reincarnation theorists see time as linear – they don’t have to, although it is true that you don’t see explorations of ‘reverse engineering’ so to speak; maybe they are too tied to the tradition of historical inquiry whereby it is more common to analyze say Maggie Thatcher as say a modern Elizabeth I than to look for Thatcherite traits in the old queen. Or if Bill was a Mayan king, did he for instance have anything remotely resembling an Avalon forum? I remember ‘Charles’ linked him to King Arthur, I don’t recall why, but at least Arthur had a Round Table. What other Ryanesque qualities did these people have? Etc.

However, I see this situation as a kind of analogy or metaphor. The whole point of an analogy is that it will usually take you further than your original thought, but there always comes a time when it ceases to be pertinent and you have to avoid flogging it to death.


Sort of an affinity; which would be confirmed by comparing astrological charts.


According to Wynn Free, quoting a professional astrologer called McNaughton, David Wilcock was born on the one and only day all four inner planets were in the same position as on Cayce’s chart. If the reincarnation theory were so sound and the evidence so seemingly conclusive, I am wondering why the Cayce Foundation would have nothing to do with the idea. Were they being dumb (acting against their own interests), or disingenuous (furthering their own interests, as opposed to Cayce’s), or were they simply being wise?


But how the whole thing works in reality I won't know for sure until I pass to the other side.

Then we won’t hold our breath waiting for you to tell us, dear Ulli.



Btw, If Wilcock was Cayce, that means he may have been Pythagoras as well, as Cayce said that was one of his past lives.

This is where the ego thing kicks in bigtime, because it also means he was Ra/Ra-Ta the pyramid builder. Wilcock’s messiah complex is partly fuelled by his sense of responsibility at being the cause of all our troubles in the first place. This gets much worse than thinking you’re Napoleon. After all, Bonaparte himself was freaked out after spending a night in the king’s chamber!

We don’t want reformed pyramid builders to bring down our pyramidal egos. They might help but they might want to linger over it. What we need is hundreds of mountaineer pyramid demolishers to do the job stone by stone. David is struggling to deal with this character trait of his, but he needs to understand he is not alone or in any way a major player in this. For example, he made a mountain out of the nine-foot stack of web transcripts he used to write an online book. That is actually a bit of a molehill when you consider that a history thesis can be based on 50 feet of files plus a library of books about the same length; but let’s be kind: he is a damn good researcher, but just doing his job like so many others.

I find this whole personality cult thing extremely tiresome. The use of a computer avatar for me is not so much to hide from the NSA as a personal statement on this issue – a somewhat ironic one as I claim to be no one’s avatar. :)
Rant over.

[TelosianEmbrace]

I have a recall of many past lives. I believe that we only recall those lives and events that will help us on our current journey through life. Subsequently, there will be many, many lives and experiences that are simply irrelevant to this life's purpose and are thus not recalled.

I have for some time been fascinated by the mind set of certain Eastern races, in particular their notions of honour which run completely opposite to many Western ideals. I remember a past life as a young Japanese man, born into a noble and wealthy family. I was given his name, but I have forgotten it now. He would ride through the countryside, visiting all the orphanages. He would hold the children high, play with them, have a deep and genuine concern for their safety and well being. The years passed by, and the estate passed to him. My next recall is of him sitting, ceremoniously, in a well appointed room. Perhaps an altar of some sort within his home. He had some clear fluid in a small bowl. It was a beautiful bowl, with a shimmering emerald surface. As he raised the bowl to his lips, an internal voice shouted in my ear "He took poison!" This made absolutely no sense to me. Why would a young, handsome, kind hearted man with a wealthy estate and everything to live for, commit suicide? There was almost a theatrical way in which the next titbit entered my consciousness. In his will, he had left his entire estate to an array of orphanages within the surrounding area, ensuring the continuance of their good work for many years to come.

A typically eastern mindset, and one that bodes well for the future of the people of Earth.

[Alien Ramone]

When I first came upon my past life as pharaoh Ramses II, I was not initially entirely convinced that this was indeed one of my past lives. However, after uncovering a number of memories of that lifetime, including dates and the age of my death, I consulted historical references and found the dates were accurate and the incidents actually happened. This was surprising since I had never studied Egyptology. After recovering the memories I also consulted Zecharia Sitchin's books regarding Ramses II and found that two of my memories had been accurately documented by the Egyptians, thereby verifying the authenticity of my memories. I documented this lifetime in the first chapter of my book, THE EYE OF RA, and anyone can read it free of charge by clicking on the link below.

Maybe what I am going to ask is explained in the book that you wrote, which I have bookmarked the link for, and am going to read. I am wondering about the nature of a memory such as a date which we designate as BC, but didn't exist in that form at the time. My memory of a calendar date in this life would be in the form of the numerals we use, the calendar we use, and the language we use. What did you remember when remembering a date from around 1,300 BC? Did you remember the date in its original form in either symbol or language and have to do research to see where that ended up being in our current calendar system? Or did you just remember certain important events that have been documented and base the dates on those?

According to Wikipedia:
"He was once said to have lived to be 99 years old, but it is more likely that he died in his 90th or 91st year."

What is your recollection on the age of death, and are you remembering it in the form of a memory of someone who spoke Egyptian and used the Egyptian numerical symbols of the time, or are you remembering the number translated?

I'm not asking this in the spirit of trying to debunk anything, but am trying to understand how it all works and figure out what is really going on with all things.

[AmberButtermilk]

I have yet to remember anything, but I have very strong suspicions that I was a girl named Amber who lived in Scotland and was murdered in the North Berwick witch trials.

- My favorite name has been Amber for as long as I can remember. If I ever have a daughter, that will definitely be her name. [Edit: my favorite boy's name has always been Scott)
- Anyone who was not able to remember my name referred to me as/guessed my name was Amber (My real name is Ashley)
- My favorite song is Amber by 311 [Lyrics: "Amber is the color of your energy / shades of gold displayed naturally"] (Side note: The one and only time I was successful in seeing my aura, it had a gold hue)
- I eventually looked into the name Amber and found it has a Gaelic origin
- I have always desperately wanted to go to Ireland, but have no appeal for visiting Scotland. It always seemed unwelcoming and off-putting to me, while I felt Ireland seemed happy.
- In a past life meditation (time limited; did not get far) I saw hilly, green terrain and cobblestone alleys, with a very strong sense that it was Scotland.
- I have adored Celtic culture since I was a child. Bagpipes have always sounded incredibly beautiful to me. (I always went straight for the bagpipes when I'd see those CD sample stations in stores as a kid! They were very soothing.)
- I have a strong attraction (previously an obsession!) to red-haired men (as well as them seemingly being drawn to me)
- When the Disney movie Brave came out, my first reaction was to say, "it's me!" despite looking and acting nothing like the character. (Ironically, Amber in Gaelic also means "fierce")
- While staring at a pentacle, I had an urge to look into witch trials in Scotland. I found the North Berwick trials, and while reading about them, my throat began to get tense as if I needed to cry. I also discovered Ireland was one of the least persecuted areas for witches at that time.


I also have a story about seemingly writing a letter to a future Irish boyfriend as a child (this boyfriend breaking up with me set off the beginning of my awakening) and another about vanishing four-leaf clovers. I am unsure what to attribute these to yet.

[Selene]

Your impressions sound perfectly valid to me, Amber.

That's exactly how past lives can bubble up though the present day: images, preferences, emotions, drawn-toward or away, etc. Your list provides a good example for other readers, who may have similar lists of their own.

The important thing is to trust yourself, your own feelings and impressions. And sometimes, by focussing on a familiar image or impression when you are in a relaxed and comfortable state you can discover more about what else surrounds it. Look around a little bit more. At first, you'll probably think "I'm just imagining this..." but play along as though it is a game. What else is there? What do you feel? What's down the street or the view out the window? Who else is there? Etc etc. Just follow your own instincts and know that at all times you are fully conscious and safely here in the present moment.

Regards,

Selene

[avid]

There are things in my 'lives-past' which stop me in my present constantly. The isolation, and rejection, which I still fear today, and are still there (allowing it to happen to me - almost welcoming the inevitable). I have had hypnotherapy, and cognitative behavioral therapy as an insurance-funded programme, and was shocked, but had to come to terms with some parental issues. Yet to go back further is too frightening for me to comprehend, at the moment. Nonetheless, we are all alive and dealing with our crazy pasts hanging onto our 'coat-tails'. We can't all be 'disturbed', but we are adjusted to cope with traitors in our lives. Some more than others. It's all a journey, and some will find the road a bit rocky now and again. Eventually, we will find our real selves, and be forgiving. At this moment I'm still on the 'rocky road', but I am confident that there will be calm and fortitude for everyone who is on the similar path to my own. I am trying to curtail any anger or negativity in any terrible circumstance. .... (Aaaaarrrggghhhh - is excused!) ;)

[Lysaur]

I actually think I may have been Queen Anne (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne,_Queen_of_Great_Britain) of Britain, but not the Ann Boyloen mentioned by Selene earlier in this thread. We have similar look in the eyes and face according to other people (not just me). She never had good health, maybe that's why my health obsession bordered (well, became completely a case of) orthorexia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthorexia_nervosa). At least 12 of her at least 17 children were still-born / miscarriages. If you click the link of her in this post, scroll to see a pic of her with her son. His head is rather large. The doctors weighed mine when I was born, but I look normal now, minus the pronounced widening and upwards extension towards the back you can clearly see (as well as oppositely not notice) from certain angles of view. And I really wonder if this royal queen, with her royal blood and all these botched births, might not have been used in alien abduction genetic hybrid breeding projects?

A real psychic told me I was a hybrid 88 lives ago, and that alien energy is still in me, and part of why I'm used in abductions (I'm sure is much more complex). Well, royalty, like ancient Pharaohs in Truman's case, or King James in James Rink's (abductee) case have more alien blood in their 'royal' bloodline. Would make sense for a hybrid soul, if it had to reincarnate, to fall into a body with more alien genetic coding in it. Alien soul energy may alter the physical body a bit too, causing certain effects, such as eyes or head size maybe.

I love medieval history though. I wrote stories of being a peasant who trained in the woods because he wanted to be a knight. Maybe I was? Because a psychic told me in a past life, I was forbidden to marry someone who I was deeply in love with because of class distinctions. Maybe that's why I love the story of Romeo and Juliet so much. I asked this psychic what this birth mark on my hand means. She said that me, being my rebellious self, since I was told I couldn't marry my love, took my ring and burnt it into my flesh on my wedding ring finger. She said she saw a lot of fire. Here it is, though it's not pronounced as much as in summer because lack of sunlight and tanning:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rmizs90thchkqg6/20141202_204819.jpg?dl=0

She said I'll meet this person again in this life. That might be nice. Maybe she'll have the same mark on her finger? LOL the thought of me burning someone else's ring into their finger in a past life seems unlikely...like, 'C'mon hold still! It'll take 2 seconds' ha.

I also had a couple flashbacks of being in a more sci-fi setting, but that maybe more of a milab experience than past life.

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edit: I forgot to add this---

ever since I was a child, I remembered this older man with a long white beard. He was very wise and was in this cabin house on a peninsula of boulders that stretched into a turbulent sea. It was storming, and inside the candle lit dwelling, were manuscripts, books, and inkwell to write with, and potions. I thought it was me in the past or in the future.

[Natalia]

Ok, here are past lives that I have recalled myself, mostly through dreams but a few in visions

The first ever past life that I (remember) that I remembered was of me in a little boat as a young girl in a place that was surrounded by water, it felt like a loving place and I felt happy. As a child when I had this dream I knew that it was a past life but did not know where it was exactly. That was to be discovered years later when I read a bit about Atlantis and the canals and a good psychic told me that I had more than 1 past life there. This felt very true as if I already knew it and it was being confirmed. I also, over the years, have had many dreams about drowning and water...one recurring dream that I used to was of a huge tidal wave coming towards us and trying to run away from it...and I think that that may have been linked to what happened in Atlantis. Some believe that Atlantis was all bad and about power and control, but I sensed good and love and joy and art and sense of community, there too...it was divided like it is today (duality)...

Here is a dream that I had in January 2009 (copied and pasted as it was written at the time)

"I was on the bottom of this white rock formation, the sea was below, where I was, there were some long looking rocks in the sea (which looked pale blue, like a ceylon blue), they were a white ish colour. There were these aggressive powerful beings, they seemed tall, and large build, with long faces, and what looked like masks…on top of the white rocks quite high above the sea. Me and this man (who has blond hair and reminded me of david wilcock) were trying to be un noticed, we did not want those beings to see us. Some goings on in the sea, not peaceful, like trying to get away or something (can’t remember exactly).

The beings were guarding the white rock formation (that seemed a bit like a rocky gate or something, like you could not get passed it, without one of those beings seeing you).

I also was in some building, in this dream, I saw this man again, with blond hair, he was a good person (and so was I), he was in a high position or something, but he had a secret. He could not let the others know what he knew, and he wanted to protect me, he told me to stay away, something that he had to deal with by himself. My life was in danger. There was love between me and him, this very strong connection (like soul mates). I could feel the danger in the air. I can’t remember exactly, but it seemed/felt like either I was going to die, or he was, and we kissed each other goodbye, it felt like the last kiss. It’s like, we knew, we would be separated somehow.

I can’t remember much else, but it felt like there could be a war or a battle, or something. I vaguely remember some fighting....like I saw it going on, but don't remember being part of it."

I believe that the man in that dream was my twin flame or at least a very close soulmate...(and after that dream I was hoping to meet him in this life, hasn't happened...)

Other past life dreams and visions that I have had were of me being a male priest in a past life, and as crazy as it may sound, I spoke to him letting him know that I still believe in god...(but I am not religious in the organised sense). That recall was in a vision and I had a strong feeling about it being true. Another one that I had was of me being a Japanese lady with the white painted and non expressive face...later someone told me that it was called a geisha...

I must have had more "normal" past lives but can't remember them (or not aware of remembering them).

Years ago I've had dreams that felt real that had 2 moons or 2 suns in the sky...plus of celestial events occurring...seemed Earth like but may or may not have been here...

There is a past life that I was told about in a psychic reading (again, me as a woman with long blond hair) that I want to know something about who some of those people were...I'm being vague because I don't want to share detail of that life in public (I was good, what happened to me wasn't...)...

[Violet]

I find this a difficult thing to decide. I have seen interesting things closing my eyes (see album on my profile page: What does it mean?) and also in dreaming, but there is always the question: what is real and what is not? Sometimes I have a strong intuition and it will allow me to decide. Sometimes not, and I am just faced with images that could mean anything.

Obviously we live in a sensory world. We see things and experience them, they evoke hopes and thoughts and feelings and imagery in us that we take with us on a conscious and subconscious level. Then, how to distinguish between imagery that is significant in terms of past lives and imagery that was processed as a result of earlier sensory perception (in this life)?

And this is not just a by-the-way thought, I would really love to know.

[sunwings]

Aged five, Carl Edon loved to draw. He spent hours working on dot-to-dots or his colouring books, and drawing his own shapes and patterns.

One morning, his mother, Val, noticed how long he had been working on a picture and asked to take a look.

It was surprisingly neat, not a scribble, yet she could not quite make out what the designs were meant to be.

Carl explained that these were his air force badges. The first was an eagle, its wings drawn straight out at the sides.

But before Carl could describe the next symbol, Val recognised it with a jolt. It was a swastika.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6296347/Was-Nazi-pilot-reincarnated-boy-Middlesbrough.html

A fascinating read!

[Ratszinger]

I have really hesitated to share this, but am risking it now, even though it feels as if I am breaking a confidence, or exposing something very private that is not entirely my own - in an astral situation about a year ago, I was informed that I had been certain person in my immediate past life. (This was a man, but in this life I am in a female body)

I finally got around to doing some research about him, and have been quite shaken by what I discovered, & also what I am beginning to remember in flashes. His work & life was strangely enough not included in my education; he died on the day I was born & somehow was overlooked by my teachers, although I had heard his name in passing.

I've always been fascinated by his country of birth & was puzzled many years ago to find that I understood the language (don't want to give away too much as I don't want to feed my ego here) but as it is a romance language, it is not entirely incomprehensibly different from my "present" mother tongue.

In another astral experience, which actually took place on my last birthday, I was thanked by some beautiful gold, blue & silver Beings for "my past work in performing the music of Bach". This embarrassed me deeply - when I used to perform in my small way in "'this" life I avoided Bach entirely, & concentrated on later composers, although I obviously loved listening to Bach. . . . .

I have been thinking about all this, & am seriously conflicted by several considerations, as well as feeling deeply humbled & strangely upset. If I look too deeply into the matter, I begin to feel unpleasant physical symptoms including dizziness & nausea.

I have now "concluded" that this present personality that I wear could at best only have been part of an over- soul-group, which could possibly, I suppose, have included this great man; but am convinced that "I", personally, was not actually "him".

I do hope that my astral informants were not being cruel or mocking - they certainly seemed benevolent; but why would they tell me something like this? Neither they nor I gain anything from it; in fact I am ashamed & almost depressed to realize how far short I have come this time round if this is true.

I've had flashes over the years of several other of my "lives"; as a woman in a long brown dress who walked miles through cold fields each day, to work in a rich man's house; existences on other "planets" or dimensions; a pilot called Eduard who died in WWII - but nothing has truly touched me as deeply as this has done.

Has anyone else had similar experiences that they would be willing to share? How did you handle the "knowledge"?

We we lived and worked in Arizona on the Navajo Reservation we visited Albuquerque, NM a lot because my wife's sis lived there with her husband and two children. When we stayed there we slept in Leah's room. One night while sleeping there while visiting I had a astral event and was allowed to see three of my lives. In the first I was a miner, a gold miner and I had a claim I was killed for. I could see the guys coming from the front but didn't know of the one behind me and got clubbed with one of my own implements and killed for my claim. I have a birth mark on the back of my neck and head just where that happened to me and I never even knew I had that birth mark or any birth mark until I got a buzz cut some years later and my wife pointed it out> I got such chills learning where that was and it all came back to me right there in the mirror. I was stunned.

In the second event I was a red coat soldier. Young, sandy blond hair. I was in front of a fogged up mirror in what I perceived as my office. I was a lower ranking officer and there was a commotion out front. I heard yelling and gun fire and went to the door. No sooner did I open the door and walk out to inspect and I felt something. I looked down at my mid section and could see blood coming out of my shirt and I began to fall at that time. I was going down when I was caught by another, a man and he looked like the skipper from Gilligan's Isle show but he was not as heavy. I knew instantly that this man was dying too but caught me and that we were lovers. This man was my wife, or is my wife or was. I knew her immediately! I was again shocked and didn't sleep well over that one and after waking up I was finally tired enough to go back to her bedroom and wham I had yet another astral event and this time I was a little boy with long thick curly blond hair. By the way I have a bullet hole birth mark or mole withe dark circle and a bulls eye middle darker still area right where I was shot in that astral event. Next I was a child.

I could see my mom and I was playing on the floor. I noticed she was left handed like me writing and drawing and I was not well. I didn't feel right. My mother wasn't well either and I recognized her as a girl I dated and was hot for for quite a while, Nikki. She was my mother when we died in that house from something. My father was there too and I noted his look but didn't recognize him at all today as anyone I know. I learned later it was poison that killed all of us.

I was in France and I somehow knew this in the 'dream' dare I say dream. I suddenly fell ill and my parents were crying and I died rising up out of the house and I could see the house we lived in quite clearly. We lived in a house on stilts and it had a boat not a car. I was looking at it as I left and years later found a pic of it. I knew that was a pic of the house I died in the moment I saw it or at least one very close to what I saw..We lived on the water. Somehow the area became poisonous and we all died. That is all I knew. It was after this I began looking into our experiences here as simply something we do to learn from.

As I was looking at my own life from that perspective in each of those lives it all seemed so real at the time, so permanent but then so does this life and I know now that is not the case. I am reassured by the feeling that we go on and reexperience life. I never had a religious experience of any kind while going to organized religious teachings or masses that even compares to this and the long term effects it had on me.

Every time we stayed in Leah's room I was off out and about at night though but those were the premier experiences I had in her room there on Christy Street in Albuquerque. Something about that house I think. I've stayed in her rooms several times since then in different states and nothing so I tend to think it was the environment. Great topic!