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my son has lived a life of a native american since he was 2. We are not native americans. He knows more about the indians than I would ever know if i read every book in libary. My son sees and talks with indian spirits. I have had an indian chief come here and he says he believes my son sees and knows all this. My son can dance like one, can tell you how they hunted back in the 1800s. He has named many indians from the 1800s also. He told me before i was married to one of them. I have been reasearching this for 4 yrs now. we have been recently taking pics with a digital camera and a reg camera and have been getting many strange objects in and outside our home. Any ideas will be helpful.
 
Hello! What you have written is very interesting. It doesn't sound as though your son is bothered by his memories, but what is your impression on this? Does he seem to understand that the life he remembers is over, or are you concerned that he is too much involved in it? Is he having a hard time relating to his current surroundings and companions? It does seem that some children return with a good deal of wisdom (there is an interesting book called "Reborn in the West" about Tibetan lamas returning as Western children, you might find it helpful). Are you worried about your son's memories?
 
He is not bothered by memories, he lives this day to day. He falls asleep and I know he goes into trances, He has only got upset a few times because he says he has to fight for his life,he says he is a warrior. To him this is not over, it is very real to him as like i said he sees spirits. We have an indian burial ground on our land. He is very involved in this. Somedays more than others. He knows each and every indian buried on this lands name. I have done research on this land and he is right. He is becoming very strong in his visions. He sees other things as well, he told us of a tornado going to hit our home 10 mins before it did and there was no warnings from weather. Sometimes i think he is bothered by some of it because when his visions were strong at night he was wetting the bed and he never did before, thats why i called an indain chief here. Everything settled for a while but it is slowly going back to the way it use to be with him fighting. I will sure look into that book thank you Elisabeth.
 
Chickatx,

Carol would like to talk to you. It sounds like your son has an unusually clear connection to his past life. She can help you understand it better and know what to do. She's also curious to hear more details.

Please email us with your phone number. The address is cbowman@childpastlives.org. We look forward to hearing from you and learning more about your very special boy.

Steve
 
Being born of a different race etc.

Everybody,

This is an interesting topic, and a few of us began to talk of it in a dif. thread, so I thought I'd (re)open it up here.

Someone(s) mentioned that if a person has hatred for another race, he/she might very well be born in that race in a future lifetime. Personally, I think that is quite probable. Not that it would be necessarily a "punishment." The person, to put it simply, would be examining life from a different point of view. Maybe it would not even be hard for them (that's not the point). Maybe it would be simply for the sake of that individual experiencing life from that different viewpoint.
On the other hand, I agree with Mary, basically, that other things are called into play. Perhaps a person who hates another race would choose to be in that race, OR, perhaps that person would think it better to learn not to be race prejudiced by the *same* viewpoint (ie from the same race as they possess racial hatred). Perhaps one single experience and not the racial heritage would teach the person a lesson. There are many different ways to learn a lesson. As a teacher I see that *all kids learn the same thing via many different methods.*

Welcome, newcomers. Maybe I should've watched that "Beyond Death" program! As if my head isn't in the clouds or on noncorporeal subjects enough!

Peace to you,
DJ
 
Sorry, DJ, I didn't see you started a thread on the issue--I read the posts from bottom to top.

Sunday
 
Im not sure this is really a reply to what was written.,..all i know is that i have some questions.....i have a 5 yr old boy, we were recently sitting at a liquor store that my older son had gone into to purchase a drink. My youngest son and i were sitting in the car when a young black mother and her son came out of the store.....i told my son to look at the beautiful little boy and he replied to me by asking "Mom when i was black when i was little did we walk to the store together like that?" At first i thought it was so funny that he would say such a thing so i replied to him by saying honey u were never black. My 5 yr old then proceeded to tell me that yes he was black look into his eyes. I laughed assuming he was joking...then he said "Mom i was black but i am white now." This last statement he made was not made in fun....he appeared to be very serious....i still didnt think anything of it...then my mother told me about this site and told me to come and check it out....i guess i have alot of questions about could this have been a past life experience and how do i find out...what do i say what do i ask him....do i ask him anything at all.....he has since talked about a black family with a grandmother that had very long grey hair....most of the time he just starts acting silly and i think im being silly by asking him things....maybe u can explain some of the questions i have to me so that i can talk to my son about this....i find it very exciting and would like to know more......thank u for ur time and for the forum to write to someone and ask.
thank u,
sweetie1270
 
Dear DJ,

You put that so well, I only have questions.
I never thought of reincarnation as ethno-
centric.

Do you think people are usually born into
the same race and only into a different
race for the experience or to learn a lesson?

What about sex? Buddhists believe men are
always men and women always women. Take that
back, some do not agree with that dogma.

What do you think?

Kat
 
Kat,

I think that everyone has different reasons ie their own agenda when they are born. If we ask why a person is born into a French heritage family as opposed to another one, we might also ask why is a person born on the North American continent as opposed to the European continent. Everyone has different reasons for being born into their particular situations.
I wasn't aware until very recently that many or most Buddhists believe that men are always men and women always women. I have generally been male...my brother was female in his most recent lifetime...I could go on and on. I think a lot of people (not all, but some) might get bored if they were to view life constantly from the viewpoint of a single sex.

Peace,
DJ
 
I agree with you, DJ. I think different people choose their experiences for different reasons. Yes, some people might choose to be a certain race to overcome certain prejudices they may have had before, but I don't think this is always the case. I believe I am in the body I'm in simply to experience persecution and face the challenge of forgiveness. Trust me, it's not always easy -- but I know that it is for the greater good.

Not to change the subject, but I think this is somewhat related...

I was reading earlier today about the Russian sub that had sunk, and how about 100 sailors will probably meet one of the worst deaths imaginable. The article (courtesy excite.com) noted that even after the American and British governments offered to assist in the rescue effort, Russia declined. Granted, the article could be exaggerated because it was written by an American, but that's irrelevant. Could this be a message from above that we need to resolve our prior differences for the sake of these 100 men that may die in the line of duty? Are we allowing our own pride and old way of thinking to cloud the need to see a greater good to come of it? Pardon my idealism...
 
It's an interesting topic that you guys have posted. I distinctly remember being a guy, but then again, I also remember being a girl in past lives too. My most vivid memory (one that I've had since I've been born, but apparently never brought up when I was a kid) is of being at a very dreary funeral. I was four years old and watching my own funeral (enternment) through the legs of other men (I was behind them peeping around). Everyone (almost all men) were dressed in trench coats and very dark pants. I remember watching as the casket went down (on a metal converyor belt, very fancy and rich), one side dropped and everyone took in a simultaneous breath of air. The casket was readjusted and I was settled into the ground. It was really strange for me because even though I had family members that died when I was young, the first time that I went to a funeral was when I was 21 (two years ago) when my grandfather died. It's strange all the memories that come back to us now.

Take Care all, -rinkrat.
 
Re the submarine:

I heard something on the news about how/why the Russians turned down international help; apparently by the time other countries gave their services, it would be too late anyway. I don't know if that would be necessarily the case, but that was the report I heard.

DJ
 
To All,
I have an archive filled with articles about the events in the Berent Sea.

Both a ship from Norway and an American sub in the region stated that they detected two
events late Saturday/early Sunday. We have to remember there are time differences. Australia, for example, is 14 hours ahead of the east coast of the USA.

Nobody knows what the two events were except perhaps the Russian govt. Variously, a possible collision followed by a horrific explosion (a torpedo or torpedos) OR two explosions. My step-father is a Naval Officer(ret). Says he, "Torpedos do not just explode, not even in modern Russian subs."
Clearly, what happened was extremely serious and casts doubt on all of the men surviving the initial events.

The Russians say they did communicate with the sub immediately afterwards and that has been confirmed. Obviously, both the Americans and the Norweigans know exactly when this happened.

Habit of Secrecy and National Pride: So are given the reasons why the Russians did not immediately request help and why they rebuffed such help as was offered. They say they tried to rescue the men themselves. We really have no reason to doubt that they didn't. There is definantly past precedence, when there were accidents with Mir for which help was offered and turned down but on at least one occasion, it was later requested and assistance rendered successfully.

Apparently, the Russia people are as fully aware of the events so far as the rest of the world. They blame Putin as well as their own government for putting their habits and their fears ahead of doing everything possible to save as many men as they could.

I think we can all agree that what matters most are the lives of these men. We don't care that they are Russian. They are human beings, something everyone of us can relate to. We can pray for them, that their souls find Light and Peace.

Kat
 
The wise statement: "Do unto others as ye would have them do unto you" sure does kick in here, eh?

I believe that the Universal Law of Cause and Effect (otherwise known as Karma) comes into play here. You absolutly do experience everything you have been, and are. We create our own reality though BEING the reality we manifest. Am I making sense?

It is not necessarily an "eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth", however. But I do believe you experience all the emotional highs and lows you have caused in others through out your lives. Karma is naturally experienced.

"Self is constantly meeting Self" - Edgar Cayce


Warmest Regards,

Peter Vanderzwet
 
touched by a lama?

My son, who is six, has always had an unusual interest in Buddha, and the Dalai Lama. In my family, we are more aligned with Buddhism than other spiritual venues, but we never pushed anything on him.
So, here's his story-it's long !

When he was about 10 months old, he began to get excited and point at pictures of the Dalai Lama and say, "Dalai Lama, Dalai Lama !!!!" We had only once told him who it was a while before that, when he pointed to his photo and wanted us to say what (who) it was. When he was 2, we ran into several maroon-robed Tibetan monks at a small shop selling Tibetan jewelry. My son, being very shy at the time, did not hang back like I expected him to, but charged forward up to one of the lamas (monks), looking directly at him and smiled. The lama bent down and put his hand on my son's head and said a blessing to him in Tibetan. One of the other
lamas approached him and did the same thing.After that my son followed them around the store. It was odd behavior for him, to say the least !
He taught himself how to do mandala sand paintings at the age of 3,and when we go to the art museum, the only place he wants to go to is the Asia room, where a sandpainting made by Tibetan monks at a recent U.S. visit is displayed. There are also Buddhist artifacts and Buddha statues there, which he spends a long time looking at. In the last 2 years he has studied Tibetan script from a library book he picked out, and learned some Thai. He likes to learn snipets of other languages just to learn how to communicate with friends who speak English as a second language.He also has a very strong sense of empathy.
He has some odd physical charecteristics as well. He was born with a bluish "Mongolian Spot" a birthmark rarely seen on the tailbones of European newborns.( My husband and I were not born with this). He also was born with eyes the color of dark chocolate-almost black, and with little black streaks in them, and the color never changed. My husband and I are both of European ancestry,and neither of us have eyes that look anything like that.
He learned how to embroider when he was 2 (very simple, single lines) and now reads at a 5th grade level. It probably sounds like I'm bragging, but I guess I'm just trying to understand what his "deal" is. Is he some kind of reincarnation ? or what ???? He just seems like such an unusual kid, and although he has never spoken of past lives, he goes into depth telling me how when you die, people's spirits leave their body, go to the stars and return as people or animals. He is very accepting of the 2 major deaths that have happened in his little life. He takes comfort in the thought of their eventual return. I find myself sometimes wishing that I could be at peace with such things as he.
He is a normal boy otherwise...well, maybe.

A possible contributing factor -
nine months before he was conceived, I actually met, in person, the Dalai Lama without knowing it was him, only later to see a poster that showed his picture and announced his arrival in that city.

Could these things influence his spiritual behavior ? At the age of 6, should I encourage more of the spiritual thoughts that he has expressed ? and, has anyone on this board experienced this within a buddhist context ?
I would appreciate any feedback !
Thanks !
 
Dear Mequot,

It certainly seems to me that your son was Tibetan Buddhist in his last lifetime, or certainly in a very recent lifetime.

Please understand that many children being born now have special spiritual affinities and abilities. So, your son's uniqueness does not surprise me at all. If you will scroll down on this forum to March 10 you will find a topic called resources for children who are having spiritual experiences. Some of the websites and books mentioned there may help you with deeper understanding of him.

Blessings,

Bob
 
Mequot your son sounds lovely and it's fascinating that his interests are so strong, evident and focused.

I know there are some books and articles out there about a couple of lamas re-born in the west. I'm not an expert on it and I don't know the names of the two boys I've read about, but one was educated in the Tibetan tradition and is now married and living in Paris. I saw that on a tv show. I think the movie Little Buddha was based on his life.

The other is a teen and is from Spain. I read an article about him and he has tutors who are instructing him in both western and Tibetan education. Thought I'd mention those as they might be interesting for you to read about. The two boys I heard/read about - I think their experience of actually going and being educated in Nepal was a big decision for their families (who were both buddhist, interestingly), but if reincarnation is what happens, then your son chose you as his parents and chose a western experience - no reason why he couldn't integrate his interests right from home and develop wonderfully!

namaste
Szo
 
son remembers past life as a native american

Since the age my son learned to talk he talked about his other mommy. He talked about living within an Indian nation. He even cried that he missed his other mommy sometimes. The older he is getting, the more this is fading.
 
Welcome Peace,

I hope you have kept a journal going for him...when he gets older he may be able to use it as a reference for memories as an adult, should he choose to do regression work.

Does he speak of what nation? Does he remember any names?

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Love,
Deborah

Lifes experiences weave a tapestry of knowledge
 
From India to Indiana

I watched the Beyond Death episode on A & E this afternoon. And this website was mentioned about children and past lives. I wanted to recount something that I had experienced when I was younger.

When I was a child, I always would rock an imaginary baby, not a baby doll, just cradle my arms as if I was rocking a baby. *Oh boy I am getting emotional as I write this* I would only do this around my sister, or by myself, never around any adults. In my "imaginary" story line I was a wealthy Indian woman married to a person named Sudhir. Don't ask me why the name Sudhir. I remember being sad because I couldn't rock my baby anymore and missing my husband. Isn't that a weird feeling for a 6 year old to have? When I was young I was immediately attracted to anything on television that was related to Indian culture/India. I grew up in a small town in Indiana with absolutely no Indian/Pakistani people in it so it was sort of weird to feel this connection to India.

As I got older, I often wondered to myself why did I have this imaginary scenario and to me the name Sudhir was so foreign, I wasn't even sure if there were people who really had that first name. I never really told anybody about it these experiences. I was just curious what other people thought about this.
 
Hi,

I am from India. Sudhir seems to be a typical North Indian name. Do you remember anything else about Sudhir or your child. Or may the town or city you lived in?

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I am What I am
 
Hi neonhaze,

Interesting about your remembering an Indian name! Don´t know if you read the thread "little yogi", where I tell about our daughter identifying herself by an Indian male name. Funnily, yesterday she spoke about someone having killed her baby! ("Larsson"...LOL, think she got that one from a swedish soccer-player on TV)

Hi, Sumi- I wonder, do you possibly recognize the name "Pooba".
I did find a man named likewise on the net, but it would be interesting to hear your view, too!

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I really can't remember to much now about my experiences as a child. I do recall certain things.

I say that I think I was a rich Indian woman simply because the home I envisioned was fairly large with courtyard in the center. Of course I suppose I could have worked there as a maid or nursemaid or something along those lines. The style of the home was very different than where I lived in Indiana. I got the feeling it was very open like there were no windows.

Another name I used to use in my "imaginary" scenarios was Sadiq or Sadik (pronounced like Sad-eek). I don't know if this is a first or last name or could be both. If anyone knows could you let me know.
 
"When I lived in China"

Hi,
I've just stumbled on to this site because I was looking for some info about things that my daughter says.

She is 6 1/2 now, so I'm a bit concerned that I may not get much more from her, but she still says things that really scare me sometimes.

She quite often talks about when she lived in China, and I have always said "no, you were born in Australia" and haven't really listened to her much.

She has also said things like when she was my mum and I was her daughter and I said it couldn't be possible.

After reading many stories and tips, I will definately be delving further into what she says,probably first thing tomorrow, as my curiosity from reading other stories will get the better of me.

She often tells me about the ghost she saw in the back yard, and when she was a baby, often old ladies (always old ladies -have you noticed) would comment and say " oh she's an old soul" and "she's been here before"

I will speak to her tomorrow and see what she has to say, can't wait, and will get back in touch.
 
Hey Lorna,

How about asking your daughter if she can speak in Chinese, or ask her "So what was your name when you lived back in China?" then be like "Really? Was I there too? What was my name?"

Try finding out the specific location wherein China you lived, so you can research it on the net.

Has she been in contact with Chinese objects, or seen pictures from China? Maybe take a book out in the library and ask her if she remembers anything, or just let her look through it and see if she says anything.

Maybe record her on tape saying things, like if she speaks in Chinese or something, just in case when she gets older, she forgets and you can play it back for her. If she like does unusual things at times, videotape it, I mean as long as she has no problem with taping her.

Do you have any video tapes of her? Books she drew in? Stuff like that? Cause maybe she drew things referencing to past live/s or maybe she's on tape and you realize thinking back to it, could this been something? Maybe just watching old tapes, and observing things she says or anything that could be hinting at a former life or lives, that you never even noticed before. Go over everything you can think, maybe now that your conscious of this past life thing, maybe things that took place in the past (this life), will become conscious to you as past life/s reference.

You might already know this stuff to do, just in case, thought I tell ya things to try.

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Hi,
Thankyou so much for your reply, here's what happened this morning.

I asked her if she remembered when she said she used to live in China, she said yes.

She said she was a baby and her mum and dad died. She had lots of brothers and sisters. She said "I did all the cooking, lots and lots of cooking"

I guess she might be remembering quite a few things about what seemed to be quite a long life.She went on.

"My brothers were split up by the king. One was treated very nicely, the other one was treated very badly"

I said are you sad about that? "no, they are up in heaven with God now, they aren't gonna be born anymore, they are God's children now, God took me up to heaven and put me in his wifes tummy (?) then I was born to you and your my mummy now"

I said were you big or little then " I was very old then, God took my heart and took it up to heaven(her spirit maybe ?)

Iasked her about her shoes(she loves shoes)"they were wooden and they had a blue picture on them of fishies.I had a robe with long sleeves" she describes the long cuffs with actions.

She said her name was bu li shka ( sounds Russian, maybe Mongolia? )She said she lived in Leba . "There was no room for me at school"(maybe a lie told to her by her siblings).

I asked her if I was in China with her and she said that was when she was my mum but I died. She said her husband died but he was very old " but he was very handsome when I met him"

How long ago were you there"A long long long time ago, longer than I was here."

"We were very poor and we used to steal food. We lived in a big city." were there any cars " no" I said how did we get around " we walked, thats why God gave us legs"(silly me!)

I said what kind of a house did you have she said " you mean US have "

She said she didn't want to talk any more but I got alot out of her. She doesn't seem traumatized at all like a lot of other kids I read about, no nightmares or anything, but I will definately probe a little more later and keep writing and reading others stories.
Thanks for listening,
Lorna
 
Lorna,

That's interesting to hear what your daughter had to say.

As I was reading your reply, in the beginning of your reply I think, all of a sudden I got this image in my mind. Was just a quick flash of this little girl with short black hair (sides of her hair were down near hey eyebrowes) and she had a white shirt on and had a black dress on. I think was black dress, cause I saw black straps over the girl's white shirt. The girl I saw in ym midn was real young, maybe around 4 about. Behind her wasn't very clear, but later as I read more of your reply, and you mentioned a city, I realized that behind the girl was a bunch of greyish buildings. So it would make sense it wasa city. She wasn't standing, more like kneeling or sitting, but sorta like she was in the middle of this road. You also said what her name was, and said maybe it's Russian, or Mongolian. Well thinking back to thei mage, she (to what I remember Mongolian people on tv looked like) she definetely could have been Mongolian.

I don't know if this was your daughter in a past life, that I saw in my mind, but thought I share it with you.

Interested in hearing more on what happens.
 
She is 6 1/2 now, so I'm a bit concerned that I may not get much more from her, but she still says things that really scare me sometimes.
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This is nothing to be scared about. At this site you will find accounts from many parents who have children with past life memories. I am one of them.
She quite often talks about when she lived in China, and I have always said "no, you were born in Australia" and haven't really listened to her much.
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I think children can be very sensitive at this young age. It does not help to contradict them so forcefully. After all children are the ones without any preconceptions or vested interests. They don't lie.
She has also said things like when she was my mum and I was her daughter and I said it couldn't be possible.
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These things are entirely possible and indeed quite likely. Again I am saying this based on my own experience with my daughter. She let me know who she was before she came as my daughter very clearly. I have no doubt about it either.

It is clear to me that you are not using your daughter to serve your curiosity in any way. If anything, you have tended to ignore her account which I would recommend against for the sake of your child. It is in the best interest of the child to let her get off her chest everything she wants to. Perhaps, if in the future she has issues, you may be able to understand and guide her better, after she herself may have forgotten her 'history' as most children do.

Kris

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Hi,
Thankyou again for your responses. It is quite interesting to hear other peoples points of view on this topic.

Thanks Frosty_mon for your insight. I too have images like these that pop into my head, and Kayla (my daughter) does describe having straight black hair. She also described her outfit as a two peice outfit, which seems a little unusual. I will try and see what else she has to say.

I thought I might just say that I actually found a place calles Leba in China. I was quite shocked.

I would have to say though that I am curious and I am partly satisfying my own curiosities (Peter's comment) and I think everyone would be curious in the least to discover what their child is talking about.

Although that was one of my resons, my main reason for asking her about these things was to validate to her that I believe what she is saying to me, and so I can understand my daughter a little better, because before I came to this site I never even considered that she might be talking about her past life.

Like I said, my daughter isn't terrorized by recalling these memories, she's very calm.
I would never do anything to hurt my own child which is kind of how I took that comment, but I understand your point of view.

I hope I have justified my reasons to you peterv.

I haven't spoken to her about her past life again yet. I think I will wait and see what happens, though I think I understand her so much more now. I feel really close to her, like we have a bond that goes beyond this earth, which I did feel anyway, but it seems more real now.

Thankyou for your support, it makes a big difference.

Lorna
 
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