Past Lives

[Monica]

I used to think of being Thomas Jefferson

Sorry, but he's taken. Everybody knows Ron Paul was Thomas Jefferson!

I don't think anyone has claimed Ben Franklin yet, though.

but that's akin to being Cleopatra. :-)

When I was about 20, I was partying with some friends and we were talking about reincarnation. I suddenly got the bright and novel idea that I had been Cleopatra!

Much to my dismay, all the other girls thought the same thing. We realized, with much disappointment, that we couldn't all have been Cleopatra!

What's with Cleopatra anyway? Like the most famous past life ever.

Hey speaking of past lives, what does everyone think about the idea that the facial structure stays basically the same from one lifetime to the next? Isn't that rather...convenient? Most of the pictures I've seen were quite a stretch. Do you think there's something to it? If so, then discovering our past lives would be a lot easier: Just find someone in history you look like.

I did that with Anne Boleyn, 25 years ago when I had my experience at Westminster Abbey. There were other queens buried there too but for some reason Anne Boleyn just really stuck with me. Well it turns out I actually do look quite a bit like the pictures of her! (Depends on which portrait though - they are so different they look like different women!)

It's hard to tell, though, since the paintings of women of that era all looked rather similar.