02-22-2012, 03:21 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-22-2012, 03:39 PM by Steppingfeet.)
a.) Have unmistakable memories of that lifetime
Negative. I wish this were the case. I've attempted a couple of past-life regressions to no avail. Don't think I am susceptible to hypnosis.
b.) Were told this by a psychic
Ah, a definitive yes here. There is a very positively oriented psychic in Louisville with uncanny ability and accuracy that's left my jaw on the floor during readings.
1) I asked her regarding the source of a very difficult & challenging mental/emotional/spiritual pain I experience in this life, whose genesis I could not locate in this lifetime. She replied saying that I was a samurai in Japan during the time of that society's transition to an industrial economy when the samurai were being phased out, you might say.
She said that my entire village was decimated by an invading army. I lost not only loved ones who I was unable to save/protect, but my entire way and code of life, and thus did the "harakiri" thing, the suicide with a sword through the mid-section.
Who knows if this is true. I have no particular resonance with samurai or Japanese culture in general. Could just be a vehicle for describing and processing the pain.
2) She told me that I had been generals or commanders of armies in past lives. And that I was a great in this because I led with compassion.
This too seemed odd because the purpose of the military is so antithetical to who I now know myself to be, and I did not enjoy my stint in the Army Reserves in this lifetime.
3) She told a good friend of mine (on this forum) that this friend and I had been an Egyptian priest and priestess offering healing services.
4) She also told this friend that I had been a roaming, solitary monk-like seeker. This makes more sense to me as I still tend to be somewhat solitary in my thought and living patterns.
f.) None of the above, but just resonate with a character from history or have some intense emotion concerning that character
I have an intense resonance with everything about the American Revolution, to the extent that the clothing and costumes of the era seem appealing to me. I feel certain that I somehow participated in the revolution. I used to think of being Thomas Jefferson, but that's akin to being Cleopatra. :-)
Negative. I wish this were the case. I've attempted a couple of past-life regressions to no avail. Don't think I am susceptible to hypnosis.
b.) Were told this by a psychic
Ah, a definitive yes here. There is a very positively oriented psychic in Louisville with uncanny ability and accuracy that's left my jaw on the floor during readings.
1) I asked her regarding the source of a very difficult & challenging mental/emotional/spiritual pain I experience in this life, whose genesis I could not locate in this lifetime. She replied saying that I was a samurai in Japan during the time of that society's transition to an industrial economy when the samurai were being phased out, you might say.
She said that my entire village was decimated by an invading army. I lost not only loved ones who I was unable to save/protect, but my entire way and code of life, and thus did the "harakiri" thing, the suicide with a sword through the mid-section.
Who knows if this is true. I have no particular resonance with samurai or Japanese culture in general. Could just be a vehicle for describing and processing the pain.
2) She told me that I had been generals or commanders of armies in past lives. And that I was a great in this because I led with compassion.
This too seemed odd because the purpose of the military is so antithetical to who I now know myself to be, and I did not enjoy my stint in the Army Reserves in this lifetime.
3) She told a good friend of mine (on this forum) that this friend and I had been an Egyptian priest and priestess offering healing services.
4) She also told this friend that I had been a roaming, solitary monk-like seeker. This makes more sense to me as I still tend to be somewhat solitary in my thought and living patterns.
f.) None of the above, but just resonate with a character from history or have some intense emotion concerning that character
I have an intense resonance with everything about the American Revolution, to the extent that the clothing and costumes of the era seem appealing to me. I feel certain that I somehow participated in the revolution. I used to think of being Thomas Jefferson, but that's akin to being Cleopatra. :-)
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, but love unexplained is clearer. - Rumi
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