Past Life Experiences

[lmurphy]

Has anyone had the feeling that they have been here before?

I have very strong feelings from time to time that I lived during the Victorian times and would like to find out more about it and also find out people's views on it.

[CSwriter1]

I think I could have been an outlaw in my incarnation before this one. I was shot in the back when attempting to escape prison. No big deal, because my life wasn't that good.

The thing that intereset me is there is no punishment for the wrong things I did. It isn't fear of punishment that keeps a reasonable person good, but a natural desire to do things right. I would have done things right last time if I knew what I know this time. Heck, it is just easier doing things right than breaking the law and being on the run. But back then is was easier to break the law. Things were not set up real well for women to support themselves you know, and the prejudice against people was very bad.

The way good, moral Christian folks did things, made my life pretty bad, so didn't think it is was wrong to steal and do what had to be done to stay alive and free.
Does that make sense?

[______]

I've had a dream of being a small girl (8 yrs old or so) and was watching my father tending to sheep. I turned and was attacked by what I now understand was most likely a wolf (I hadn't seen much of the animal). I don't remember if I had felt pain or not, but I do remember the last thing I saw was my father rushing over brandishing a large stick. It's been a recurring dream (last time I had it was a couple months or so ago) so I'm led to believe that it was one of my past lives.

Other than that one, I don't recall any others. I have, however, had similar feelings of being here before. Can't put my finger on when or where. Just know I've been in this realm before.

[MidnightSun]

I somehow feel attached to XIX century, I think that I lived those days in my past life .

[Thomas Knierim]

I somehow feel attached to XIX century...

I also feel attached to the 19th century, but for a specific reason. I think some of the best English, French, and German literature has been written and some of the best music has been composed during that century.

What concerns past life experiences, I tend to see it as an intelligent hypothesis. I had a strange experience in Cuba. I found that I could navigate through Havana Vieja, the old quarter of Havana, almost intuitively, without using a map. Somehow I knew which building to expect behind the next block, although I had never been to Havana before. I also learned to speak Spanish almost fluently within just a few months.

After 12 years in Thailand my Spanish unfortunately became quite rusty. :( :lol:

Cheers, Thomas

[MidnightSun]

Sounds intresting Thomas, u learned that language somehow quick.

I tend to think that I was some colonist or an explorer in one of my past lifes or an englishman, gentelman perhaps. For some not really known reasons I believe i was one of the following two.

[intuit]

Yoe,

This is my first post to your forum. I'm interested in finding out about my past lives in hopes of maybe finding a greater purpose in this life. I have accomplished many things, but I still feel like there is some task hidden from mine eye.

Could anyone tell me exactly 'how' to find out who, or what i was?

Peace \ /
intuit

[sonrisa]

CS--.... so I didn't think it was wrong to steal and do what had to be done to stay alive and free.
Does that make any sense?

-- yep. The survival instinct is very strong.

I posted an account of a past life experience on the old board where I saw Vesuvius blow. I've pasted it on this board a couple times. I'll find it & paste it here if anybody's interested.

I don't have a drop of Italian blood in me, but somehow I happen to have this Italian stomach. I think it's a souvineer from that past life

:P

[namtso]

I posted an account of a past life experience on the old board where I saw Vesuvius blow. I've pasted it on this board a couple times. I'll find it & paste it here if anybody's interested.
- sonrisa

Yes, I'd like to read it.

[Winfried]

I've had a dream of being a small girl (8 yrs old or so) and was watching my father tending to sheep. I turned and was attacked by what I now understand was most likely a wolf (I hadn't seen much of the animal). I don't remember if I had felt pain or not, but I do remember the last thing I saw was my father rushing over brandishing a large stick. It's been a recurring dream (last time I had it was a couple months or so ago) so I'm led to believe that it was one of my past lives.
Who could get rather Freudian on this one. But I won't.

I don't believe I have been here before, no 'false' memories, no strange dreams, no hunches. Perhaps this is my first visit, but perhaps re-incarnation is an impossibility.

[sonrisa]

to Namtso, here ya go--

sonrisa
22-Mar-2003
IP: 209.240.212.100

Richie, I must tell you what happened several years ago: Some 10-12 years ago, early 90's, I started to paint a mountain. Didn't like the way it was going so I put the canvas up. A couple years later, in 1995, I was looking around for something to paint & I pulled out the partway-done mountain painting, & began working it over, so that eventually it became Vesuvius Blows Its Top & took a red ribbon in a local art show. All the while I was working on this piece I got the feeling that I was painting the erupting volcano & the pandemonium in the foreground while looking over my shoulder &/or running backward. At one point, when I was trying to see thru the smoke & haze in my mind's eye to draw what I saw on the canvas, I realized that I was trying to remember what happened, which is odd becuz this happened some 1900 years ago & I don't go back nearly that far (or so I thought) Nevertheless, when I realized that I was trying to remember the eruption & ensuing events, I chilled, got into a Zen zone, & let the memories flow onto the canvas, & created a 2nd place prizewinning painting.

Several months after taking the ribbon, maybe early 1996, one of those cable channels, Discovery, TLC, whatever, ran a documentary about Vesuvius narrated by Kathleen Turner in which the following points stood out for me:
a) I can draw many things, but straight lines are not among them. By the time I noticed that the buildings were off kilter, it was too late to fix them without the painting looking doctored. But I decided the finished piece would be so busy that nobody would notice the buildings were off kilter unless it was pointed out to them. According to the documentary there were earthquakes along with the eruption & they knocked buildings off kilter.
b ) somebody, upon viewing the painting (which has a black background) snobbishly pointed out that Vesuvius blew up around noon. I replied that I didn't care what time it blew, it was dark. Pliny the Younger, who witnessed the eruption from a boat, said that Vesuius threw up so much soot & ash the sky turned pitch black.
c) the only volcanoes I had seen were pix of Mt St Helens & some Hawaiian volcanoes spewing up orange embers, like fireflies over their tops. I painted something like a nuke coming out of my volcano. I decided to leave it that way as my commentary on the Bomb. The documentary ran Air Force footage of bombers flying over Vesuvius during WWII. What was coming out looked like they had dropped one of their bombs into it. On the other hand, maybe that's what they did.
d) I had never seen Vesuvius- not even a photo- until I saw this documentary. All the while I was painting the volcano, I kept wanting drag out the left side of it towards the edge of the canvas. I resisted becuz I had painted this nice even volcano & didn't want to destroy the symmetry. Towards the end of the documentary they the showed a long shot of Vesuvius- & the left side was sloping out asymetrically! Now, once I sign a painting, that's it. I don't mess with it any more, certainly not after it's taken a ribbon. But when I saw Vesuvius on TV sloping on the left side, I got out my paints & painted it sloping to the left, as I had wanted to do all the while I was painting it! Only time I ever fixed a signed & supposedly finished painting.
And that is my past life story. Honest to god!

ps since I got online I check out Vesuvius cam from time to time, so I've seen it quite a bit since making that painting

[namtso]

to Namtso, here ya go--
- sonrisaCool, thanks. My Mother and Grandmother had past life readings done and were told they had a life together in the past in Egypt. My Mother also confirmed this by some very realistic dreams she had about a life in Egypt. My Mother and Grandmother also believe that they shared a life together in a Christian Convent. Me, I remain clueless but hopeful.

[chirag_360]

well thay say that this experience is that of your being in the astral dimension........

[WanderingTaoist]

I took the "Past Life Analysis" program on this site; I have to say, I found the results kind of eeirely plausible!

"I don't know how you feel about it, but you were female in your last earthly incarnation.You were born somewhere in the territory of modern West Australia around the year 1575. Your profession was that of a sailor or shoemaker.

"Your brief psychological profile in your past life:

"Inquisitive, inventive, you liked to get to the very bottom of things and to rummage in books. Talent for drama, natural born actor. The lesson that your last past life brought to your present incarnation:

"There is an invisible connection between the material and the spiritual world. Your lesson is to search, find and use this magical bridge."

I could see that, actually. Obviously some anachronisms (i.e. "shoe-maker" and "rummaging in books" in 16th century Australia?), but the general sort of person implied by the descriptions easily fits my personality (you don't need to actually have books to be the sort of person that would rummage in them if you had books).

In terms of actually getting in touch with one's past life, I'm relatively skeptical anything can be completely known for sure; we might have feelings of affinity with a particular epoch, or a vauge sense of deja vu, etc, but I'm not sure we can find anything out for sure about what happened before we were born in this life. I have to say, I'm not all that interested in finding out about it; if it were really necessary, I feel like we'd naturally have access to it. This life is enough for me.

[scameter]

In all entire honesty, I have no idea what I was in my past life, if indeed I had one. I would be very interested if someone else could try to see what mine was though. :unsure:

[sonrisa]

Scam, in his past lives, was a chatterbox

:P

[Winfried]

The analysis on this site gave me the following information:
The lesson that your last past life brought to your present incarnation:
Your main lesson is to develop magnanimity and a feeling of brotherhood. Try to become less adhered to material property and learn to take only as much, as you can give back.
These actually ARE my main goals in this life. Still trying hard to let go of connection to material property, but around me, I've managed to form a brotherhood (no cult or anything :P ). Still trying to get the world to become a friendlier, but above all, a nicer place.
I don't remember anything about being a timid creative female australian map-making astronomer astrologer, sometimes concidered strange by my environment. It's more like in this life that I'm a timid creative person, sometimes concidered strange by my environment. Sometimes algorithms consisting of 455 lines are somewhat accurate. How lovely.