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Do you have any type of recollection of your previous life as to who and where?? Can you remember?

I am doing some research at the moment..

Would appreciate some feedback no matter how outlandish it may sound!!! ....

I am a firm believer that we have all had past lives and was wondering if anyone has any type of memories about there previous lives... whether they have been here before or in another dimension does'nt matter...

Don't be shy...

viking

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I think past life recollection is something that we will all eventually have.

When everything is working correctly, I think the past life recollection ability comes along soon after you have evolved to a degree that means you are sufficiently well grounded and detached that you can view your past lives in all thier gory detail - the good the bad and the ugly.

Distorting this process, and forcing the issue before its natural time is very likely asking for trouble - think of the drama, and the karma, that you have resolved to get you to the point you are today. There is every chance you did some things you would not be proud of in the light of where you are today.

A..

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Surely in our past lives we were OURSELVES :original:
Its always been just us living in a different time period/dimension and in a different body/shell. :thumb_yello:
Makes you wonder how old you truly are ...

Peace
Regards
Iain

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I have some visions I cant explain. I have a feeling its from a past life. but I don't really know.

I see myself as a dark skinned person. not sure what ethnicity. and Im sitting on a hill side in a field of poppies. looking at the sunset.

and another of what I can tell looks to be from medieval times? where Im wearing some leather armor and Im part of a large family or group. I also see farming.

my mother seems to think I was a bad cop long ago who caught my mother steeling when she was a child. and I jailed her and cut here hands off. this might explain why she beats me in my youth? I don't recall any of that.:nono: I hope not. & I chose her as my mother out of some kind of redemption..

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although i have more interest in the pacific theatre, i am ALWAYS fighting the Germans and i have massive, massive fear of them.

Emotions transcend space and time. If not rational in terms of the present life experience, are a sure indicator of past life connections. They certainly show you were fighting with them. If you want to resolve them, recalling your past life will help.. Dolores Cannon is very good with that.

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Although many do have recollections of past lives sadly i have none, i was probably permanantly brain wiped lol!
I kept saying i'm never coming back but the b.......grs keep sending me.

But saying that i do have a memory or sort and that is off planet.
I remember standing on the surface of a planet i do have to admit it was a little similar to mars because of soil colouration etc but i could breath in the atmosphere and i was looking out into space. Not far off because of the sheer size of them, two moon type planets were in full focus.
I felt contented and not frightened so i guess this was somewhere i was familiar with not sure if it was home though, always thought i was an intergallatic traveller.
But saying all this it was probably just another program how can we be sure!
:wall::wall:

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I do believe in reincarnation always have. Unfortunately (perhaps) I do not consciously remember any past lives.

However, I do feel subconsciously I do remember some things. I am convinced that I was a prisoner of war or something.

As a kid I had an absolute phobia of someone holding me down and not letting me go. My sister used to do this and tickle me with a feather. I would go absolutely nuts.

Also I used to go lots of places and have sleepovers away from home with friends and relatives. No problems. Then my mother sent me to camp....

It was the worst experience of my life. I was not homesick, I just wanted the hell out there. It seemed to bring back memories of something not pleasant. My mother refused to come and get me. I counted the minutes till I could go home.

Once I got home I still didn't feel right for close to a year.

The camp was actually very nice and the other kids were good, looking back.
The councellors must have thought I was a nutcase.

It just seemed to bring back thoughts of isolation from my family. Separation was involved there also as it was boys only and the girls were across the lake.

All too weird. sorry to ramble.:shocked:

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I firmly believe in reincarnation and for some unknown reason I believe I died in the second world war. Even as a child I had a rather unusual fixation with WW2, reading books at a very young age about the war and the Third Reich. Even today I will always watch a WW2 documentary and have a firm interest in it. Maybe when your last incarnation is so unpleasant or bad it may appear to linger around a little more in your awareness or consciousness.

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I couldn't agree more. I believe in reincarnation...but only in an academic sense. I have not...and will not...attempt to find out who I have been. The reptiles would probably feed me a bunch of bs anyway! In reality...I could have been Hitler! Notice that so many people claim to have been famous and admired people! I'm so conflicted in my present life! I have enough trouble dealing with this life...let alone resolving all the **** in my previous feeble attempts at perfection!

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Future eyes ....

Have you ever had any type of visions for the future? .... Does'nt matter what..anything....

viking

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I have done past life regressions, both lead and spontaneous.
I have PROgressed into the future.
I have hypnotized and regressed people myself.

Seen the between times.
Been not human and not on earth.

The message is ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS the same....

Nothing matters but Love (or, when not human, the vibration that IS love).
Fear/pain and hate kill love. Our world is facing death because of it.

So it doesn't matter that I was a killer, or a saloon whore, or a Buddhist Monk, what matters is that I remember.... That YOU remember....please.... we are ALL one.
And only LOVE is Real.

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No idea why I think this but I'm sure as can be that I was a soldier that fought and was killed in WW1 or WW2, I definately wasn't a German and think I was killed by one.
I think he stabbed me to death the git :original:
I was married to Mary :wub2:
I still worry how she must have felt when I never came home. :sad:

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well,
I dont know how accurate this is...

But a few years ago,
My Mother was going to see a psychic ( Bob Sheron) (sp?)

He is a local psychic who has done alot of work the police..in NY...
helping them find missing people and things with his abilities..
He is very very good.

Anyway.. My Mom asked if I would like to go with her, so I said sure..

She spent more time with him than i did,
But he told My Mother,
That in a past life of hers,
She was a Nun, who had spoken out against the church...
and was wanted dead for it, eventually she was killed in that life for "exposing" the church, if you will.

When I spoke with him,
He told me that in my previous life, (the one right before this one)..
That I was a Sioux Warrior,
who was fighting for my people and our land.
(in this life , my real ancestry is Cherokee and Sioux, with a lil bit of italian mixed in there. lol)

I rode a grey horse for most of that lifetime apparently,
and killed many bad people.

I too , was supposedly killed in a battle with white, and native men, (from another tribe).

I have dreams of this kind of stuff sometimes,
but no real recollections of it all.
not yet anyway. lol

:wub2:

Blessings

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i have no recollection of any previous lives but there are things that evoke strong emotions in me, like for example cutting off people's heads or drowning( being shot or getting burned doesn't have the same effect). And there is one weird thing: i keep thinking that my cat was a German shepherd in another life. I am attracted to German shepherd dogs more than to any other breed although I have never had one in this life...

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I have no definitive recollections, but terrible choking sensations - a fear of water, and pains in my thighs.
There are 2 brown marks on each thigh, almost at the same height. I think those may have been where I was 'shot' in my other life. I definitely feel that I was a man previously. It has had no affect on my existence as a woman however. I am so glad our memories are buried, as we really need to learn to progress.:original::original:

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Avid I thought you were a man in this life :naughty:
Sorry :original:

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No idea

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blastawaycas: Sounds like you might have been shot down(wind, fumes, smoke, falling, impending death). Just a thought.

When I was very young...I would fantasize often about constructing and flying a flying saucer. I had an early interest in science...and was making diagrams and plans for a personal computer using a television...years before the first Apple. I had a plan for frictionless bearings utilizing magnetic force. I was reading college science textbooks in the 3rd grade. I drew the solar system over and over and over. Unfortunately I lost interest. In fact...as I got older...I got dumber and dumber regarding science...and became more and more disillusioned with the world...and life in general. The whole ufo subject seems to have perked me up. I sometimes wonder if I'm not from around here. I know that's going way out on a limb.

Speaking of 'out on a limb'...two lizards were on a rock in the desert. One said to the other 'there it is again...that impression...that knowingness...that in another life
...I was Shirley Maclaine!'

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haha!! niice

not so far out on a limb as many might think bro.

you're not alone in those feelings man. lol

and your life sounds pretty close to mine growing up.
then i too lost interest for a long time.

:wub2:

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ooooh! you are awful - but I like you!!!:naughty::naughty:

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I thought all of us were queens like Cleopatra or Kings in former lives. Darn!

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My first impressions of who I was in a past life began from an early age.

It was not a pleasant experience because I was filled with the unnerving sense of being a very big person in a very little girl's body (a bit like Alice in the Hatter's house). The next distinct impression was of the dismally thin fabric or veil between this so-called objective reality, and the other reality on the other side of the veil. The transparency was gossamer-like and why the situation was dismal was because there was nothing in the world of my parents and all the world of people inhabiting our lives who had any idea of what it felt like to live like that, and how could you tell them?

I became of aware of past lives because they presented themselves to me with force. My dilemma, then, was the many presentations simultaneously arising, and for which I had no vocabulary of translation except by way of impressions and emotions.

The multiple, simultaneous presentations, were experienced as the "all-at-onceness", coming from outside of present time reference. Indeed, I felt there was no distinction, difference, or even distance between myself as a small child in her nightie gazing up from her bed and the arc of the Milky Way and beyond. As such the timeline of the normal world was experienced as a rubbery reality ready to be burst upon by other experiences.

It took many years and quite some grief to sort this all out.

There is generally good reason for the blinds to be down over who or what we may have been. The entire history of the human race has had its moments; yet, there remains for every person incarnated on this planet, a sacrifice, almost, to exist in this three-dimensional world with its multiple potentials for acts of free will against the "divine discretion". That, by the way, is just a fancy way of saying, what is good for ourselves, each other, the planet (including the mineral world, the waters, the vegetation), and the creatures (animals, birds, fish, cetaceans etc) on it.

So who was I in my previous life? I lived in the mountains of Northern Iran. My present partner was my father and he was a medicine man and alchemist (actually all physicians in that country combined natural medicine, earth energy, astronomy, prior to the twentieth century, so it's no big deal). My mother had died; we lived a nomadic life. I was happy; it was a quiet, studious, spiritual existence; it was also a hiatus, a breather for me; I never married and found the mountain life simple and exhilarating.

Good question.

Just a couple of things to two previous writers:
For the one who is fearful of always dreaming he is fighting Germans in the war.

There are zones or "lokas" (Indian Sanskrit term) where the fights still go on (or bardos). Most of the soldiers fighting them have not left a very low realm of existence. They are dead, most of them, and don't really know it. They go on as if the war were still happening. Compare it to the isolated Second World War Japanese soldier on a Pacific Island still thinking the war is going on, when it is all over.

Or, to make it more inocuous, think of the Enid Blyton books on "The Faraway Tree". You know, the kids would climb the tree and never know what strange, scary or magical land may have landed and parked up in the clouds above the faraway tree. Up the kids would climb to their big adventures with giants, monsters, fairies, wizards and dwarves.
So just think of your dreams, in your conscious mind, like that, that you are just visiting these places where war "happens", and that these soldiers are not really real, and it will soon be over. You might then find when you enter these zones that suddenly you will crest a hill, plunge through the mist, and find you are on the other side, and that all those spectral soldiers are on the other. Then you can get into perspective that even if you were in those wars years ago, it is over, like a relationship you once had, and now you have the choice to move on. Slowly you will emerge out of those realms; you will notice a slow shift from total embeddedness and fear in the war-zone to a loosening connection, a distancing, as you do.
Try not to play too many war games on computer, too, ok?

To the author who felt the palms of her hands burning when she is meditating. That is friction in your energetic system. You have to unblock yourself. Walk in the sea. Have salt baths. Light a candle and run your palms over the flame (without burning them), and as you do, commit your heat, anger and frustration to the fire to consume the fire in you. Allow the fire to draw the fire out. Cool your hands in icy, salt water. Embrace nature and throw the past behind you like an old smock. In fact, burn the smock, metaphorically. Time to move on.http://www.projectavalon.net/forum/i...ons/icon12.gif

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I'm going to share a strange experience I had recently. I'm sitting in my American Literature class and the Professor is talking about William Faulkner. As she is going on about his life I had the most incredible feelings flowing all over my body, I mean really intense, almost orgasmic.

It made me think perhaps I could be him. I always felt that I was a walkin from the age of 7. I have no idea why nor do I know if this is the truth.

I continue to have those feelings when I think about it, not nearly as strong as the first time. I do feel there is something to this but I have no idea what.

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Wow, Luana, great story. Now that's worth exploring further.

Love

Carmen

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I was Jesus in a past life.

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Mmmm ok, and did you die on the cross??

viking

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:mfr_lol:

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Hi Luana

Really interesting experience!
William Faulkner was an inspired writer.
On the day the experience happened, remember your college professor. Was he/she conveying the passion of Faulkner's work, the magic, the fluidity?
Look at the writer's themes for a bit: Faulkner was intense about the relationship of whites to blacks; Mississippi, the deep south, the music, the river, earth. You may be resonating to the spirit of the "place" and the "era" and also the truth Faulkner responded to and wanted to convey about life.

Faulkner wrote in "stream of consciousness style"— he had connection –body and being to the universal energy; what Reich might call the "orgone". In your class the ripples you felt through your body were resonance with the spirit of a great man and, behind that, with his energy, and the causes he followed, even though you may not know all of them yet. (Get to know his interests, intensities, you may find they are very important to you too.) Not only that, you will find there is an integrity to his essential spirit. Perhaps his kundalini was raised and you resonated with that!
Follow that!!

So, perhaps you weren't Faulkner, your being responded to the spirit of the man conveyed by another instrument (the teacher) and you connected to the pure vibration conveyed.
That is some measure of what we call pure genius, greatness.
You are on the right track.


Either way, you are fortunate to have a resonant being.
Please take care of it.
It is very precious.http://projectavalon.net/forum/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Seriously, I dont remember my past lives. I've had strange dreams and daydreams. Like being a leader of a small village in Peru well before the Spanish came. I do strongly believe in reincarnation. I'm not afraid of death in any way. I think most people arent afraid of dying but they are afraid of going through the pain of dying. But I think it's just another cycle and we are the eternal spiral going up or down from one life to another.

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Another similar writer is James Joyce. Sometimes I feel that I think like he writes. Maybe I was Joyce in a past life. Or maybe that's just where I'm at now in this life.

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Also, I think in my past life I was very spiritual and maybe a shaman. I used to have daydreams as a kid of being able to look at a stone or rock and thinking I could get any answer I wanted out of the rock just by meditating on the shapes, lines or cracks. This is well before I ever read anything about the 'rock shamans' of native north america who did this.

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Thank you Dr. Mag, that made alot of sense to me.

Today was the exam for literature, when I came to Faulkners writings I again got this chilling feeling, hard to explain.

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I have no idea who I was in a past life but if there's a way I can find out, I'd love to.

All I know is that I must have done some pretty messed up things to deserve a lot of the problems I've encountered in this life.

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That's funny HJ, I think alot of us feel the same way.

Life's been rough for many of us, :wall: but I manage to always put a smile on my face. :original:

Lately it has been more genuine, I think alot of that has to be from finding all of you here at Avalon. :flowers2:

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This is an edited email of a private discussion: the recipient graciously agreed for their questions to be passed over in case they are useful to you (and it is updated):

"What you said spoke very loudly to me. I've had those thoughts about reincarnation and responses, but not sure where to go with them. Tell me, what do you mean by resonate being? I guess what I'm wondering about is the way you speak of it."

This last hour I've looked at a couple of other threads and find that "resonant" is suddenly full-on in one of them and appears to be cropping up, suite suddenly, elsewhere. Never saw that before in my peregrinations round this forum. So maybe, the very idea is coming to fruit in the collective consciousness.

Having said that, it is not surprising what I said spoke "loud" to your personal consciousness [and unconscious]. That usually happens when something is the truth. You know it within. It just "is". Your conscious mind may play with ideas and your conditioning and cultural frameworks may put up various fights; and your cellular memory will even chip in and maybe revolt, while your eternal spirit (so to speak) will be trying to move you on.

So, where to go with these "thoughts"?
In the first instance, the old adage "follow your heart" is the start, always was and always will be.
(There are some caveats on that, but too long a story for now.)

You are wondering about "resonate being"....
Resonate, resonance follow in the same line.
To be honest, to use the term and believe in the idea of "resonance" does not always mean one is on the path of truth, not at all. Then again I am an incredible stickler for detail, so in line with the present conversation, bear with me.

Resonance is acoustic; there is a "ring" about resonance, i.e. what "rings true". So that feels on the right track, yes! Something speaking "loud" in you, and "resonance" each have acoustic reverberations.

This is the path inward, the spiral path.

With Faulkner's words, or take Herman Hesse, or Marija Gimbutas, for instance, resonating within you, you can feel like a bell struck, ringing, the echoes go on....

What does that mean. "Was I him or her in another life?
Did I live by the Mississippi or Hamburg? Was I even one of the blacks the writer befriended? Did I share a consoling glass of drink with him? Did he/she sleep with me?
Was it his/her eyes I remember? Was he me, or did I know him?
Or do I resonate with the "place", the actual locality, rather than the person? Is that it?

These is the kind of questions one may ask if they feel particularly attracted to a historical person and suddenly gets an idea they might have been him or her in another lifetime.

Words from writers, philosophers, great minds, while they are the linear expression of acoustic chords, they also do have the ability, through the genius and mastery of an artist, to express multivalience (perhaps multidimensionally and hence multilinearly, therefore time-hopping) truth about life. This is why you can hear something now or read about it, say, the Epic of Gilgamesh from 5000 years ago, and suddenly you are there in ancient Mesopotamia and being spoken to directly. Does that mean you were there? Or you were Gilgamesh himself, or Inanna, the goddess? Or is the echo of expression, curling through the aurall shell of time and space, overcoming distance and simply marrying you to the family of similar beings?

You don't know, you may have been a fish in the Persian Gulf that caught sight of the flash of a sandal...

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To 246, you may not have been James Joyce, but just to resonate on a similar frequency he was on when he was writing will give you congruence with him. This is not about reincarnation though.

All this doesn't mean you cannot find out who or what you were— because you have been around before.

Just to finish this post off I will recount a story of a famous individual, still alive in Australia who came there from Europe as a young man. He was groomed, trained and crafted from a young boy in the occult which included very precise past life readings for people. Years ago, because of my research interests, and while sharing time with him, I asked him many questions. One of the things he said was that many people came to him expecting to be told they were famous people in history. He said usually the reverse proved true.

With recollections and study, this is so. One example concerns a member of the Renaissance Medici family of Rome. Now not everybody would want to have been one of them in a past life! But let's say, you were. And it dawned upon you as something terrible, nothing to feel smart about. And then you met someone at a festival or space/place and in the course of a conversation they said to you, "Oh, I was that ***Medici person in a past life" with a smug sense of satisfaction. How would you feel? Now there is two of you!

Getting back to the past life reader— He said to me he had met at least a dozen Cleopatras. And you probably know of a few Ra's and Amenhotep's yourself? Or a couple of Crowleys, or a Hitler? Without opening the subject area up to too wide an ambit, and this gets back to my earlier discussion in this thread, a person may or may not have been someone that they "resonate" powerfully to, or are attracted to.


If it has to do with a past life situation, a person who imagines they were Cleopatra, for instance, in that day and age, may have been anyone of hundreds of thousands of young Egyptian/Near-Eastern girls and women, who were anything from handmaidens, hairdressers or servants, to a person watching the litter pass by of the queen, and wishing with all their being that they were her. There was only one, however. The rest are subsumed into the archetype.

When it comes to past lives, as I mentioned earlier in this thread, do you really want to know? It can be a rocky road.

Sometimes you may really need to know.
Don’t try and jump the gun, however.
Go within; stay humble, honest, and very close to your heart-resonance, beyond the illusions.

It will work out.

This mail has grown. Thanks to viking for starting this thread. So long for now.:original: