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Curiosity -- Past Lives and Taboo

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Hi *S*S*S

I have a question for everyone. It pertains to something that has been casually mentioned on many threads over the years. Some people say that they NEVER look for their past lives out of curiosity, only for healing or if it spontaneously surfaces. That looking out of curiosity is somehow "taboo."

Others are curious, they want to know and ask many questions, have regressions and begin a journey that takes them on a life time adventure -- searching for answers.

What is your opinion on searching -- on looking out of curiosity? What do you feel inside when you do look? Does guilt, shame, doubts or unworthiness surface? Or perhaps do you get fantastic results that lead you to a better understanding of your self and your loved ones?

I would much appreciate everyone's thoughts and personal reflections regarding this.

Love,
Deborah
 
Dear Deborah,
curiosity is led by many different needs, one of them facing an old enemy. Knowing yourself better is a sign of self-esteem and shouldn't be punished with any label! I believe the worst enemy to this travel to inner truth is religion. That's where most of the tags went from.
Peace
 
I feel like I really don't know if I should be responding to your question, Deborah. Sometimes I doubt that what I have to say about these topics has much value because almost EVERYONE else on this forum has been on their "journeys" longer than I have; but I do have a PERSONAL opinion that works for me.

I feel like there are some aspects of past lives that individuals are suppose to understand (for higher reasons which they may not even be aware of). Maybe it relates to a problem that an individual has been working on over the course of many lifetimes, or maybe it's related to a painful past-life experience that needs to be recognized in this life-time to help promote healing which never fully occured. In those situations, past-life regression can be benificial.

I think there are OTHER past-life memories that really need to remain buried in one's subconscious memory, however. Entering a life shadowed in "amnesia" IS NOT an accident. I don't think it is an "accident" that we consciously "forget" most of our past-life experiences upon becoming integrated with our present lives.

In my personal life, there are obstacles in my own character development that I'm trying to over-come. I may never completely over-come those obstacles in this lifetime, and I will undoubtedly carry them over into my next life (and that's fine), but I will be GRATEFUL to tackle those same obstacles from a fresh, blank slate. I look forward to the time when I can look at my problems with a new perspective, by losing the memories I have in failing as I've struggled with those particular obstacles, or the memories associated with indulging in behavior that was counterproductive to my growth in those area. In losing the memories I don't also lose the particular lessons I'm working on; I just gain a fresh perspective.

If you look at reincarnation as an individual growth process in awareness or "enlightenment :) ," mortal amnesia can often be looked at as a tool and a blessing. However, if you look at life as just another state of consciousness, where personal growth is not emphasized, amnesia may seem like a "stumbling block" instead of a tool which serves a purpose. I guess it's all in how you see it.

Love,
Rob
 
Since I am one of the people who said that I don't search just out of curiousity, let me clarify my perspective.

There are many shades or varieties of curiousity. Sometimes people are on a heartfelt search for understanding and truth. Sometimes people just want to know if they were famous or connected with someone famous. There are many varieties of curiousity between those two.

I have never said nor thought that looking out of curiousity is taboo.

Since I do so much work that involves communicating with my soul (I consider learning about past lives part of soul work.) I have found that I do much better for myself and for my clients if I let my soul guide the process rather than letting my intellect guide the process. Of course, intellectual curiousity can be and often is guided by one's soul.

I guess that whenever I delve into past lives and any of the other vast mysteries of my soul, I like to know/feel that my heart is as active in the process as my mind. When my inspiration and guidance come from both my heart and my mind, I receive the gretest amount of illumination.
 
Hi to all,
Personal experience, just about 10 years since I had a regression, long as I can remember way back when I didn't even know it is possible to find out I always wanted and feelt I do want to know. I feelt I missing some very important knowledge to understand myself better. Under regression I remembered 4 of my past, and I still this day learning from them. Interestingly all 4 answer basically the question what I needed to find.
I said interesting because I do believe curiousity or NEED to know don't really matter. I believe my soul/HigherSelf let me see what I can handle or need for my spiritual growth.I'm sure I saw very small % of my lives.
My opinion nobody can JUST be simple curious,this is not a movie to go and see, if someone curious enough they have the reason right there.Whatever they find that's what they NEED to know.
Love,
 
Hi *S*S*S

Thank you for all the responses -- so far.

My question was for everyone, not just those who have "more" experience Rob, I always appreciate your thoughts. :) I am hoping that more will think about it, and respond no matter what view they hold. An open dialogue about feelings, emotions and intellectual perspectives gives an extended understanding for everyone to contemplate.

Stil, you are right -religion has been part of the problem not part of the solution.

I was not singling you out Bob :) ..it is something I have seen on this forum over the years, and I think it is something important to reflect on and discuss. That's all.

Something I see or 'feel' when reading posts many times here on the forum is that often there is a fascination with the PAST not an integration with it.

Past life regressions are soul work. But to me that is the first level -- To work on one's individual soul. But then what? What about future lives? What about interconnectiveness and others? What about responsibilities and creating reality?

The concept of the "afterlife" or "next life" or "past life" actually refers to certain extreme potentials latent in our --"present life." I wonder if the accent should not be on immortality, but on a from of resurrection -- on the transformation of the body, and an expansion of consciousness. What we term 'paranormal' may just be the evolution of mankind to transcend the limiting principles of bodily function, and in doing so, point to possible forms of function in the future of humanity.

Bob, something that I have not only researched quite a bit, but also experience anytime I do 'consciousness/soul' work is that by working WITH the three intelligence's; heart intelligence, emotional intelligence and cerebral intelligence -- illumination is possible -- beyond time and space, beyond religion and beyond the self. Anyone can do it. From my perspective you are right when you access information or truths by way of the heart. :)
The children are coming back with more and more past life memories. Children have visions, see auras and talk about things that are beyond most adults. That is why Carol's work is so important. But as adults we need to look at the whole 'adventure' -- to me this journey is a new frontier --limitless -- boundless and wide open. We need to help our children understand the evolution we are now immersed in.

For me, the bottom line is -- where is "my" consciousness...you see, I believe it creates my reality. Past - present and future.

Love,
Deborah
 
Deborah, what a fascinating question you have presented us.

I see nothing wrong with curiosity being a factor in past life research, as long as the knowledge gained is used for awareness of self/others and positivity thereof.

Curiosity however, is not how I came to discover my past lives in this one. Throughout my childhood I was, just beneath the surface, "aware" of my past (unlike many others here, I was "brought up" in the maintenance of reincarnation); and when it came time to remember specifics, little was left for surprise. It was basically confirmation. The first conscious inkling was when I was a teen and I discovered photographs of me in a past life. I must admit curiosity *did*, a little, play a role, as the more people I met in this life, the more people I "looked up" in that particular one. But that first inkling, that drove me to research more, was not curiosity; I had to "research" more. I had to.

I realize that the "veil of forgetfulness" IS necessary. It is NOT necessary for every single person to recall their past lives in each lifetime. My dear friend, for example, who is so fundamentally, organized "Christian," was my dear, precious little sister 100 years ago, and while she would call me insane if I were to tell her so, I KNOW that she is not meant to remember me. She does, in the important ways, just as my students "remember" me....in the important ways.
A friend once told me, 6 years ago, that he thought I remembered my other lives in my other lives, as well (he's very "intuitive"). He's right. I do.

As for "interconnectedness," it is truly more than we think. We can talk of the Oneness of the Universe and how we're all connected, but to realize that we are all parts of one another...it is a gift. To have realized, this year, that there are people out there who were the same people I was, who existed the same exact existence as I did up until certain holoprojectory points....it is amazing. And what is interesting is that, instead of making me feel littler, that it has made me feel larger. It has not diminished me. It has strengthened me.

Well, those are my thoughts for now.
Light to all,

DJ
 
Dear Deborah,
imagine living in a house with a room forever closed... Opening that door is far more than curiosity, is a human impulse. And when your survival is involved, leaving the door shut could mean the fear of unknown. Some people KNOW they shouldn't tackle with sleeping facts. But everyone, sometime, somehow will.
Best wishes,
 
Hi DJ,

Well, like you, my experiences with 'Past Lives' began not out of curiosity but have been with me since childhood. Always spontaneous, sometimes in dreams, and sometimes in waking reality. I never knew what to make of them until my first full blown experience with my son, I was 26 and he was 8 months old. What I experienced was so beautiful -- so heart wrenching and explains so well my relationship with him now. He is almost 16 and well..figure out how old I am. LOLOLOL

Maybe I should share it again. It's been a long time. It illustrates the theory about 'what we hold in consciousness we ourselves recreate in the next life' -- to some degree anyway. Let me know if you guys want to hear it OK?

Anyway from there it just expanded and curiosity of course got the better of me. The more I search -- the more I find, the more doors that open, and the possibilities seem endless.

One of the 'finer' things in life - I have found - is that the "gift" is in the giving. ;)

Love,
Deborah
 
Deborah,

I don't think I've heard it, so I'd love to hear it.

My experiences, yes, have been sort of similar---sometimes in dreams, in regressions, in conscious memory, in "flashes," in meditation...

Light to you,

DJ
 
Hi DJ,

OK - Here is a small section. The memory came not out of curiosity -- but seemed to present itself to me unprovoked. However, it was this memory that opened the doors of curiosity even wider :)
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As I already said -- My first past life memory with Daniel was when he was 8 months old and I was twenty-six. I was laying in bed cradling him in my arms. My other two children where asleep. He had been fussing and had just fallen asleep too. It was a warm fall evening, the sun was down and my husband was still at work. The house was very quiet.

I closed my eyes and within a few seconds was viewing a movie, (I don't know what else to call it, it was as if I was looking at a movie screen only I was in the movie). Suddenly I was inside of a covered wagon, I could hear the rain hitting hard against the tarp and the pots and pans hitting the side of the railing. I could hear the horse's footsteps and the wheels grinding over the ground. I was a boy of about ten years old and my sister lay before me in back of the wagon dying. She was five, blond, blue eyes, very petite and frail. I began sobbing and crying. I cried and cried and cried. The pain in my heart and the sorrow I felt cannot be described.

I knew our mother had died, my father was in the front of the wagon driving the horses and could not stop for we would be lost behind the rest of the wagon train. My sister was so weak and sick. I could do nothing to help her or stop it. She had phenomena. I kept telling her "if only you were a boy like me you would be stronger. If only I was mom, I could stop the sickness" I looked deeply into her eyes right before she died. I cried and cried....

I left this altered state of consciousness, I was in my room again, holding my baby. I realized as I cried I was holding my little sister. I had come back as her mother, and she had come back as a boy.

Love,
Deborah
 
Dear All

What a great topic...and before I start I would just like to quickly say...that YES Deborah, I'd love to read about the experience with your son you mentioned. I know I haven't read it before in here, so I would love it if you would share it again

In answer to the question, I truly believe that there is nothing wrong with looking into past lifes, etc, out of curiosity...not if it is capable of bringing about any form of positive change, healing or understanding to one's "true" and "whole" self - there are of course those - who like Bob mentioned - are curious simply from an egostistical point of view, but in these cases, the true purpose or insight is lost to them, because the whole understanding is in the shedding of the ego entirely....so I guess in most cases, curiosity is just as important as spontaneity in memory recall.

Like Bob and Deborah though, I do believe in looking within for the answers by using all three intelligences, through good advice and practice, I have found this not only to be the best way to access memories and share with others, but also the only real "true" way of looking - the results are amazing

Without simple curiosity I would not know what I have learnt today (and that I value), I would not have seen and experienced the sights and emotions I have felt in both the past and present...I would not have opened my mind up to the multitude of possibilities and basically, I would not be here.

Through asking questions and looking within, I have rediscovered memories and experiences I had as a child but had long forgotten, things I would love to have journalled at the time, but had not even considered out of the ordinary and so simply didn't question...through searching, I have been able to grasp a better understanding of myself, a better understanding of my truths...and the adventure is only at it's beginning

I have always been very sensitive to spirits all through my life, and I have always believed in the whole concept of reincarnation, although through my teens I guess I didn't question how or why I knew, I just accepted that I did....now I'm questioning, and the answers I have and will find constantly push me forward into a better personal understanding...expanding one's consciousness can never be harmful if done with the intention of personal good, growth and understanding
 
Dear Deborah,

I especially appreciate your post from yesterday afternoon. Learning about our past lives is only a small part of remembering all that we are. I look upon special experiences - like past life memories, contact with deceased loved ones, contact with angelic beings, near death experiences, out of body experiences, moments of rapture, etc. - as doorways. As such, these experiences open us to the infinity of who we truly are. They show us that we are more, much more than we thought we were.

Once we step through a doorway then we can catch a larger glimpse of our potential. From there, anything is possible!

And I agree with your point about the importance of integrating our past with who we are today. This is why I prefer to approach past lives with the guidance of my (or my client's) soul and with the intention to heal past traumas which keep us from being fully integrated, joyous beings.

Many blessings,

Bob
 
Dear Deborah

Well I swore blind DJ's was the last post before I replied, but your's somehow slipped in before me.

Thanks for sharing that experience, how touching that you had held that thought in your consciousness to such ends to recreate it in another incarnation, just so you could protect your little sister and give her the best chance of love, safety and life.
 
Thank you Kelly and Bob,

You both have added much to the topic.

And Kelly - I believe you! It's happened to me a few times too! Cyber ghosts moving posts! LOLOL

Love,
Deborah
 
Hi! Compared to all of you, I'm a real novice, a newbie. I've been searching for answers to things that have been happening in my life and I have never thought to look under this type of forum until a series of incidents prompted me to type "Reincarnation" into the Search Engine.
My dream about my dead sister-in-law, my close friend's problem with her husband's Ex, my Iguana, etc. I was told before by someone who saw my aura that I have a guardian angel watching over me, that I'll have a good life....I have always wondered who this angel is. I'm not a religious person , so it was a very spontaneous thing to link my search to finding answers about this life, to my possible past lives. I still haven't found out who or what I might have been, but I have learnt so much from all your experiences. Thanks for all the sharing!

JK
 
Hi JK,

Thanks for the reply. I have been swamped lately so - needless to say - silent me! ;)

For me, the key component is the search, to reach for understanding and to grow. Good for you! I too am not a religious person, but religion and spirituality are two separate things!

So, that brings up another question I have for you, and for others here.

How would you define that which is "spiritual?" What are the events, happenings or actions of your life that denote what you consider to be "spirituality?" I have heard many say -- "nothing spiritual ever happens to me" or "some are so lucky to be spiritually connected" or even "spiritual things spook me."

So bottom line, beyond religion, what do you think is Spiritual?

Love,
Deborah
 
Hmmm. I wonder if this topic is now kind of sealed off by the last couple of posts and no one will continue discussing it. I'll try adding my 2 cents worth or however much it is.
In my experience I have never had a curiosity about a past life matter unless I had some inkling in my present life that there was something connecting a present person or experience to the past, like someone I felt I had known before, but didn't have a clear idea under what circumstances or what the person was in my present life for. But I have never had any success with past life regression. Not that I've tried many times, but I end up just lying there waiting for something to happen. I've had psychic readings, but one can't be sure if the psychic really knows what he or she is talking about.
I think part of the reason for the feeling that we shouldn't just explore something like past lives out of curiosity is the warning not to shift our attention too much from the life we are living now by getting fascinated with the past. If we do that we can't make a good job of this life now. Terron
 
HI Terron,

Thank you for the reflections. No it's not sealed off. :)

You are right -- about going to a psychic and having readings. I have always maintained that it is better to EXPERIENCE the feelings, emotions, and 'reality' of a past life than to have someone tell you about it. There is such a difference in "knowing'..at a very deep soul level.

Personally tough, I think I do a better 'job' of it in the now, because of what I know from the past -- that integration is a key element and part of the process.

What if -time doesn't exist, and there is no past or future? What if it is all happening in the now? (I can give scientific research that suggests this is the case - later) How does that fit into the 'focus' of what's happening NOW and what happened in the 'past'? And how much does this affect us in this present moment?

Love,
Deborah

PS -I feel like the question queen! LOLOLOL
 
Wow Deborah, so many questions, so little time!! *LOL* What a thing to say in a place like this, huh.

I had a period of time in which I was struggling with many, many questions regarding my life, my belief system, my journey. My biggest struggle, I think was in feeling like I needed to put off what I had learned thus far, disregard it as rubbish, which was so wrong of me to think.
But, my mindset at the time was that there was a right path, and a wrong path.

But, I wanted to know my purpose, and this was utmost in my mind. I was confused, struggling, felt as though I had lost my way...didn't even know my way.

In hindsight, I see the perfect timing of all of this, but in the experience it all seemed like chaos to me. I remember laying in my bed at night, with so many questions. We had just buried my mother and along with this, here I was struggling to understand who I was. I was weeping, confused.

I knew I had a spirit guide, but had felt that I was blocking the lines of communication because of my thought processes. In my distress I cried out that I couldn't deal with this anymore. If these things that I had been experiencing, little hints of things beyond what I perceived as "my world", were real, then make it more real to me, help me to understand, guide me into my knowing.

I sensed my spirit guide in the room, why wasn't he talking to me, why couldn't I see him? *L* I remember laying back on the pillow, exhausted from my confusion, my struggles and ready to give in to sleep.

A moment or two later, whether vision or OBE I don't know. I saw a bear coming down the hallway, on hind legs. I don't remember fearing it, although it was moving in a very aggressive manner, it's mouth wide open in growls. Just as it reached me, a hand grabbed mine and together we moved through the bears mouth.

On the other side, I find myself a small Native American boy, about three years old, in a very sunny place, with orange/red buttes all around me. I'm barefoot and the soil is also orange/red and lumpy under my feet. I see myself from a distance behind, so I guess this is called remote viewing (?). As I walk across the soil a large black bird flies over head, and swoops down, alighting on my left shoulder, a place where it has been many, many times before. I continue walking.

I know this to be my home, and my grandfather who is a medicine man, is just off to the right of me on a ridge, watching me. I feel comfortable, complete, whole in this little body of mine, wanting for nothing. And, then back in my bedroom.

This was my first experience into what I believe is one of my pastlives. Of course it left me with more questions than I had ever had before. But...now my questions began coming from a place of knowing, rather than a place of confusion.

So, I guess I said all of that to say, in my experience (and each and everyone of us have our own experience), mine came to me in a desire to know my spiritual self, to know my journey, and a desire to follow my purpose.
 
Deborah,
I just wanted to say that I was SO touched by your experience with your son. Your story moved me to tears! What a wonderful gift reincarnation is!!!!! To allow you to come back and actually BE her mother and have her BE a boy, instead of just wishing for it.... Well, that just confirms my belief in our LOVING, WONDERFUL, AMAZING God! No Fire and Brimstone, Damning, Vengeful (and all the other fear inducing names that have been given to him) would give us a gift so wonderful as the chance to *do it all again* and make right what went wrong!

Like you, I am not a religious person, but I am VERY spiritual! I do NOT believe in a God that we are to FEAR! I do not equate FEAR of GOD with LOVE of God, as so many of our religious dogmas proclaim us to do!

I have several "Christian" friends and family who are convinced that I am going to go to HELL because my belief system allows me to know that God loves me without fear that he will condem me for the mistakes I make along the way! They say that reincarnation (among other things) is a blaspheme of the bible and that the ONLY way to God is through Jesus Christ!

"If you haven't accepted Christ into your heart, then you will be left behind when he comes to reclaim his Kingdom"

What about accepting GOD into your heart? These same people preach about our JEALOUS God and how we should not put "other" God's before HIM. Well, isn't basing your entire religion around JESUS, and making JESUS the only way to Heaven, putting JESUS before GOD? Oh no, I hope I didn't just open up a can of worms with THAT statement! Please, I do not mean to step on anyones religion! These are simply the questions that have always plagued MY mind.

I had a family member kick me out of her house during a discussion of this very nature! She is a staunch Catholic and in her opinion, her beliefs are the ONLY way and everything else is heresy! I guess I really pushed her buttons when I reminded her that while she may feel very strongly about her religion, MY heretic, non-religious, beliefs allow me to, at least, ACCEPT her point of view as different than mine. I wasn't the one who left the conversation with anger in my heart, if you get my meaning!

Anyway, I see I have gone off on a tangent again!! Good topic, Deborah!

Tammy
 
Hi,

Croweyes...do you know the tribe you belonged to? The Bear is very symbolic especially concerning the traditions of the Hopi. It is also symbolic for resurrection (as emerging from its winter cave of hibernation with its new born cub in spring) -new life, hence initiation and its associations with the rites of passage. WOW woman..that was some vision!!!!!

I think visions are a symbolic language -- they contain images that are multilayered, and have many many meanings! Your spirit guide gave you a wonderful wonderful gift I guess you heard him loud and clear then.

The mouth is symbolic for the rendering, devouring aspect of the Great Mother and the entrance into the 'underworld.' I know you didn't ask for an interpretation...but I thought I would just post my thoughts which include symbolic interpretation (since I am an artist and use them, and study them ALL the time.

Tammy - thank you...there is much much more than that to my past life with my son, and you have reminded me - it's important to share. I hope you both continue to share! I am enjoying your posts very much.

God -- Yup yup - that's another subject in and of it's self.
 
Yes Deborah, it was the Hopi tribe, or Anasazi...which was the name I was given.

I lived a very short life. Was 5 when I died. My grandfather, knowing my life would be short taught me a lot in those short years, and in retrospect I guess he was preparing me for my future. Interesting, many times the lessons were about distance & time (or should I say the absence of them, depending on your prospective). I never quite understood, but I think it is coming clearer now.

Anyway, you know in this lifetime, I actually connected with the person who was my mother in that lifetime, though only for a short time. And she said it was the Anasazi, which I had never heard of. She said nothing of Hopi, but as I have read up on it, they are one and the same.

My mother from that lifetime is Native American now also. We were both on another board together and would talk some there. Then we talked on ICQ for some time.

We tested one another quite a bit, without giving out much information...not wanting wishful thinking to take us off to some *imaginary* place. I should mention that my grandfather in that lifetime is actually my spirit guide in this.

Too many coincidences to deny that this was not true. Her father's name was my grandfather's name. She wouldn't tell me what he looked like, but asked me to describe him to her. Fit to a T.

I think we connected because she still carries a tremendous amount of guilt over my death. Says it was her fault. My instinct tells me it wasn't her fault, and only because she was the mother, does she feel this way. And this guilt was so deep that she would not even share with me the circumstances of my death....something that I don't have a memory of. But, it really doesn't matter to me. We certainly connected as mother and son, and I had no animosity towards her what-so-ever.

I know that even as short as that lifetime was, that I fulfilled my purpose in it.
 
Oh my gosh Deborah!!! That was like the most beautiful movie I have ever read!!! Ooohh. And it is a classic example of what I've know for quite a long time and that is that "we get what we order sooner or later". Wow!!!

And I think that's why I'm a little lost, or maybe a little found in this life, because from my memories, not many people I know in the life, or even many of my family was I with in my previous lives. And I really feel taht they were on the other side of the world. But I think that explains why I 'aquire' family whereever I go, and feel so at home everywhere! He!

But thanks for reviving this thread it's beautiful adn interesting! I've had this conversation over and over again lately, and I do feel that there is always a reason for people to be curious. You can't be interested in something unless you are supposed to know about it. Kuka
 
Hi Deborah
The experience with your son is so beautyful and so touching. It’s great you could “complete” the relationship with your sister/son. Thank you for sharing these pictures and thank you for “resurrecting” that thread for us newcomers.
I’m interested in reincarnation mainly out of curiosity. What could be more interesting than remembering past lives? We know so few about how people were thinking and making a life some centuries ago, recollecting past life memories could be a great source on behalf of that.
On the other side, I’m so **** scared of death, sometimes it’s hard to stand. The day I am convinced of reincarnation, I’ll fell a lot better.

Crow Eyes, how I’d love to meet someone I knew in a former live to share experiences and memories to really get convinced of reincarnation. It’s so great you met your mother of a former live.
I stand where you stood some time before, as I am “blocking the lines of communication because of my thought processes.” I just don’t know how to proceed…
When I read your quote about the red/orange buttes and the red/orange soil, my first thought was “This must be Arizona”. If there’s a place in the world to feel mother earth, it’s Arizona… The smell, the dust, the colors...everything is so strong.
As far as I remember “Anasazi” is a Navajo-Word and means “the ancestors”. As the Navajo-People came to Arizona (at about 1500 a.c.), the cliff-dwellings of the Anasazi in the canyons were already abandoned. It seems the region of the canyons had got dry, forcing the Anasazi to leave. There’s a legend that tells that the Anasazi then spread into the four directions, some got as far as Canada (Calgary) and Central Mexico, and some formed the modern Hopi.

Love, Dieter
 
I resisted delving into my past lives for many years, and finally as I was researching a documentary on the subject, it became necessary as part of the work I was doing. So that became my excuse. However, I agree with the consensus here that mere curiosity isn't usually the main motivation. It reminds me of what homosexuals have said about being homosexuals...it's not that they decided to be homosexual. It's that they always were and had varying degrees of difficulty coming to terms with it. Past-life memories have affected me all my life, but it's only recently that I've begun to recognize them for what they were and to integrate them. Basically, though, I think I'm "protected" from what I'm not supposed to know. I think what I need to know is released to me. I have a pretty good sense of several interconnected lifetimes, and how they have created certain patterns in my life now. It's very valuable information.

The other side of the coin is that we always say "*I* can take it, bring it on." Like telling someone close to you, "I want the whole, unvarnished truth," and then when they share it, you can't handle it...I believe I remember a few cases where people let loose a "pandora's box" and remembered things that they can't stuff back down, and it was disturbing for them. So I think the bottom line is not to have a mindset of using force, but to have a mindset of being open to what you're ready for and what is allowed for you.
Steve
 
Steve,
I think that is very good advise! I personally have had visions of being a victim of the Holocaust, and believe me I don't want to see anymore than I already have! That is why I have resisted being regressed for a long time. But, I think I am ready now. When the time is right, I will look into having it done!
 
Wow, thanks Dieter for sharing that information with me. I really appreciate it.

You know Dieter, as far as blocking communication because of your thought processes...go into meditation, and just release your thoughts, and let that take as long as it needs to take....even if you think it is taking far more time than it should.

That was my problem too, I didn't know how to proceed. So, I just sat and felt stupid, and guilty. *L* Well, I tried that and it didn't work...so I knew I was going to have to release those feelings somehow.

Find some good meditation tapes, some that moves right into your soul, and ministers to it. And just find some quiet, peaceful place...and breath. You'll get there. :)
 
Hi Crow Eyes

Thanks for your advice. I shall do so. YES! It’s just that the days are so short, the working and the family leave so little time for myself. And then there’s the television and I’m so undisciplined. But I’ll try! YEP.
 
Thank you all for your kind words concerning my past life memory with my son. Kuka..it was the most interesting movie I ever saw too!

I posted a new post in the children's section titled "Soul Moments" -- that continues my experiences with him.

Steve I like your thoughts about being OPEN -but I don't see it as if being "allowed" -- I think it has more to do with -as you said..being open to the possibilities and what you are ready for.

Dieter, *S*S* I agree..what could be more interesting than past lives? And I'll bet..if you look around you..there are many people in your life now..that you have known before. Just look to your heart -and feel what you know from inside of yourself -- heart consciousness is a wise wise part of BEING.
 
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