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Azure

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Have you ever notice you had had dormant skills? I mean, that you have a skill for something you have never even tried, and when first doing it, it comes out like something natural and innate...?

I remember first time riding horseback as child. It felt natural, something I had done all my life. I have always been interested in the Middle Ages, and I am an active re-enactress. When the boys fast-talked me to try swordplay and fencing (and I picked up the sword), it was again like a natural skill for me. While I had never before fought with sword, I could easily hold my own against the menfolk, some of them which had had martial arts experience, and even win. Likewise, many other skills of those days were like innate to me. I can easily distinguish between what is authentic and what is not, and what works and what doesn't. What Deborah described on her life as a nun, was a very authentic description of 13th century garb.

Could it be that I have once upon a time been a knight - since what I described are knightly skills. And that the people in the re-enactment society have had some incarnation during the Middle Ages, and are willing to re-experience something they have especially liked?

If my past life was an airplane mechanic aboard USS Franklin, that would also explain my fairly unfeminine profession as an engineer, and my interest on both aviation and maritime.
 
No, I've never noticed dormant skills, I've got enough trouble with the one talent I was born with! Stress is great, isn't it? I've always wondered, though, about this. Interesting topic, Azure! I wonder how many people go through life without realizing dormant skills? I seem to have a major problem with finding the interest to try new things, so finding any possible hidden skills will be difficult at best for me, but I can't wait to read other people's posts on this topic! There's hardly better evidence for reincarnation than someone accidentally stumbling on a dormant skill, is there(rhetorical question)?
 
I've mentioned this before in another thread, but since I was a small child, my parents always remarked at my aptitude for music. The first time I played a piano, I took to it straight away, and even though I was doing piano lessons, I used to make up my own compositions independent of the lessons I was getting. When I did so, I completely ignored the way I was taught and just "freeformed" my own pieces and I just seemed to intuitively know which chords to play.


A similar thing happened when I played the bass guitar for the first time which, like the piano seemed "natural" to me. I did not naturally take to the six stringed guitar this way at all though, and even now don't really enjoy playing it much.
 
Hi Azure! It is commonly believed that things that seemingly come naturally are skills that carry over from previous lives. I would not be suprised if what you have described does come from being a skilled knight once apon a time.


Having a love for a particular time period seems to be a strong indicator of having strong past life ties to that time. I've often thought that re-enactors must have a deep emotional bond with a past life from that era.


Inphanta, I'm the opposite of you. A guitar in my hands feels completely natural, but sitting in front of a piano I am lost. :D
 
When my family participated in the Yorktown, Virginia Bicentennial in 1981, my little guy of four years was wandering about the encampment barefoot and dressed only in a knee-length linen shirt. Everywhere he went, our fellow reenactors would notice him staring at their musical instruments with his mouth open; so they would let him try his hand with violin, penny whistle, and fife. With amazement they watched him play one, then another, then another. Today, the little skipe is a top-notch rock guitarist.


-Nightrain
 
For me, the guitar was my natural instrument. And after that, lute. I felt playing lute was innate to me. I have never felt comfortable with piano or synthesizer.
 
There's a lot of skills I've had show up in childhood that don't seem all that common in most kids ...


I could always play music by ear (I'm still functionally illiterate reading it, though! :rolleyes:). I have a mimic's ear at reproducing foreign accents and it's very easy for me to learn foreign languages. Acting (as in, being on stage) has always come easy for me. I like to think I'm a pretty good writer, too.


This might be relevant to a past life I can remember: in my twenties I joined the US Coast Guard and I would have won the "Seamanship Award" for my company if I hadn't been medically discharged in the last week of boot camp. This after living in landlocked areas all my life -- the only seafaring I'd ever done was take the ferry! :o
 
Azure said:
I have always been interested in the Middle Ages, and I am an active re-enactress.
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Which century and culture are you primarily interested in the Middle Ages? 15th century France and 100 years' war is my favourite, though I have never had any occassion to try sword fight in this life (and I have no knowledge, whether I had done it in a past life).


Skarphedinn
 
For me it was composing music. I had always enjoyed classical music since I was old enough to reach the phonograph my parents had. Then one day, six or eight years ago, I decided I was going to compose a symphony. There wasn't even the slightest doubt in my mind that I could do it. To be honest, my first symphony was pretty bad, but by my third symphony I thought it was halfway decent. I've since composed various other kinds of orchestral music. I didn't even have to learn orchestration. It just came to me the first time I tried it.


That lasted three or four years before I lost interest in it and moved on to something else (drawing and painting).


I posted a few mp3s on sound click many years ago: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=744587&content=music


--gary
 
Skarphedinn said:
Which century and culture are you primarily interested in the Middle Ages? 15th century France and 100 years' war is my favourite, though I have never had any occassion to try sword fight in this life (and I have no knowledge, whether I had done it in a past life).
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For me, it is the Iberian peninsula and the period of Reconquista, especially the 13th century. I can speak Spanish, and I also do understand Portuguese.
 
fiziwig said:
I've since composed various other kinds of orchestral music. I didn't even have to learn orchestration. It just came to me the first time I tried it.
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Hi Gary! Your arrangements are wonderful! What software did you use?


-Nightrain
 
Nightrain1 said:
Hi Gary! Your arrangements are wonderful! What software did you use?
-Nightrain
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Thanks!


I used Noteworthy Composer notation software and Garritan Personal Orchestra synthesizer software.
 
While I can count the number of times that I have ridden a horse on one hand, I have had discussions on a number of occasions with people who commercially organise riders who cannot believe my lack of experience given my level of ability.


Immediate past lives however were as an airman. I have not learned to fly in this life due to a feeling that makes the idea of flying a small plane somehow uncomfortable or dangerous. I have often wondered to what extent I can recall those skills.
 
I apologize if I appear to be one of those parents, who are always talking about their kids. BUT, when thinking about dormant skills, my first son comes to mind. I've spoken of him in other posts, and described the kind of difficulty he had with learning, with authority, and with the world in general. Some obvious skills were very apparent from the moment he was born, and others appeared along the way. But, the most remarkable dormant skills have been appearing during this past 34th year of his life.


Only a year ago he was tending bar at his motorcycle club and engaging in numerous brawls. Now, he is teaching himself Spanish and Latin, Military History and Music, the Classics, and selected works for an ascending Freemason. His goal is to have all the skills of an 18th Century Gentleman, and his demeanor and speech already reflect that he has succeeded. The change is unbelievable! And, I think it was always there from the beginning. He also has the heart of an adventurer and had to experience what he could of the dark side before settling down. His entire life has been the most convincing bit of evidence for me, that he has had some very interesting past lives.


-Nightrain
 
Nightrain1 said:
I apologize if I appear to be one of those parents, who are always talking about their kids. BUT, when thinking about dormant skills, my first son comes to mind. I've spoken of him in other posts, and described the kind of difficulty he had with learning, with authority, and with the world in general. Some obvious skills were very apparent from the moment he was born, and others appeared along the way. But, the most remarkable dormant skills have been appearing during this past 34th year of his life.
Only a year ago he was tending bar at his motorcycle club and engaging in numerous brawls. Now, he is teaching himself Spanish and Latin, Military History and Music, the Classics, and selected works for an ascending Freemason. His goal is to have all the skills of an 18th Century Gentleman, and his demeanor and speech already reflect that he has succeeded. The change is unbelievable! And, I think it was always there from the beginning. He also has the heart of an adventurer and had to experience what he could of the dark side before settling down. His entire life has been the most convincing bit of evidence for me, that he has had some very interesting past lives.


-Nightrain
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That is interesting. Besides my dormant Medieval skills, I have a suspicion I have had a Jewish incarnation at some time, as I am interested also in various Judaic things. I have learned some Hebrew, I know the Hebrew alphabet and can read both Hebrew and Yiddish texts (Yiddish is actually pretty easy if you know German) and I have also familiarized myself with Judaic thinking, including some Talmudic concepts. One of my friends said I have a very Judaic set of values in my life and philosophy.


I do have a small "inner Jew" inside me, but then again, I am not really interested in digging the past too much - as I am not with my possible previous incarnation in the WWII. Yet it is all a knot on the life's great tapestry.
 
I love this topic! :) Since I was a child drawing and playing music always comes natural to me. It's possible that I could have picked up these talents when I was Henry III of France. He was into the arts. However, I must admit that there's a lot of talent in my family in this life. A knight sounds like a good choice for you. Do you have any memories of being one?
 
I have the opposite of this going on, I think.


I have always been frustrated that in this life, I cannot really dance, sing, or draw. I feel like I used to have these talents but I sure don't have them in this life.
 
Hannah said:
I have always been frustrated that in this life, I cannot really dance, sing, or draw. I feel like I used to have these talents but I sure don't have them in this life.
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Hi Hannah! I've observed that even in the course of this lifetime, we can totally lose any desire to do what we used to enjoy. I wonder if it's something related to "Been there...Done that!" Perhaps, it's really something a little deeper having to do with having fulfilled some karmic purpose. It's interesting that I have totally lost any creative motivation since becoming a member of this Forum. I can only guess that my need to pursue creativity has somehow been replaced by this pursuit for the meaning of life.


-Nightrain
 
Hannah, I have a similar problem. I could never sing well, but that didn't stop me. I'd sing everywhere; in the car, on the school bus (it only occurred to me in middle school that it looked like I was crazy), etc. Then one day it just... stopped. I've started singing more again, though.


Also, I have a relative who sings quite well, and it used to bother me when she sang until I was old enough to know it was rude - and a little strange - to be bothered by it.


I wouldn't call my skills dormant, because they've defined me too much, but I definitely think there's things that come almost naturally. But there's nothing that I just woke up knowing how to do or anything. It's more that there's things I always seemed to know how to do.
 
Hi! I'm new here, and when reading this I thread, I can't help but think about people who speak in tongues...I've heard that sometimes these languages aren't made up so much as ancient languages, like Aramaic. I remember being 5 years old and when we would listen to music I would "play" along on an imaginary piano...despite taking lessons later on, I never mastered that skill, but I am a professional artist and was extremely good very young. But the first time I painted in Oils (in my 20's) it was like coming home.
 
Welcome to the forum TLD :) I agree with you on speaking in tongues :thumbsup:
 
I have always been a natural creative writer, and started writing as a child. I am an author as well and I have been a writer in many previous lives. I was a writer in my Victorian life as well.
 
Jody said:
There's a lot of skills I've had show up in childhood that don't seem all that common in most kids ...
I could always play music by ear (I'm still functionally illiterate reading it, though! :rolleyes:). I have a mimic's ear at reproducing foreign accents and it's very easy for me to learn foreign languages.
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I'm the same way, Jody, with being able to learn other languages and reproduce the sounds in those languages quite well, especially in Russian.


Also, massage is something that always came very easily to me - when I was little, and nowadays as well, I used to just love to give people massages wherever they needed it, and although I've never taken any classes on how to give massage, people tell me that the massages I give them are just as good and helpful, if not better, than some ''real'' massages that they've had. I think that's kind of cool, but I don't know how my seemingly innate knowledge of massage could tie in with any past lives that I've had.
 
Regarding languages...I'm not good at actually learnon them but there are a handful whose accejts I can get so easily that people assume I am fluent or native when I am far from it, those languages are italian, french, spanish and oddly cantonese...despite taking 3 years of german I can't manage anything of it.
 
despite taking 3 years of german I can't manage anything of it.
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I feel that way with French :rolleyes: Most foreign languages come really easy to me, I speak English almost as fluently as my native language, I speak German and a bit of Russian, and although I seem to understand French somewhat, I've just never been able to my way around it.
 
The only language that I am fluent in is English. I know some Spanish and some German, but living in the midwestern US, it's not necessary to speak anything other than English. However, I've always been told by foreign language teachers that my pronounciation was excellent. I seem to be really good at mimicing what I hear. I do impersonations of other people which are always popular. Sometimes out of nowhere someone will ask me "hey, do your 'x' impersonation."


I'm also a pretty good karaoke singer. I have a decent voice, nothing great, but I love to sing. It's also nothing more than impersonating the song to me.
 
Sunniva...mange tak for all the information...I can't even speak Danish despite growing up with it though I can understand it pretty well:-)
 
When I first tried to learn to spin with a hand spindle I tried a low whorl and couldn't accomplish it. I was so frustrated because I felt like I should be able to do it. Later I tried a high whorl spindle and it just came to me naturally. It is so relaxing to me and it feels as if I have done it for years and years.


I have good "intuition" about herbs---which herbs are medicinal and how they are used. When I was a child of seven I gathered yarrow plants and laid them out in a basket to dry "for the winter." I hadn't been told anything about them and had no idea consciously that they are an old remedy for coughs and colds. As a teenager I kept being drawn to a herb in my backyard to use for poison ivy rash. I tried it and it worked. Later I found out it was marsh betony and it was used in England long ago for skin problems. Recently I had a past life regression where I was a herbalist in 17th century England. It made a lot of sense to me.


When I was ten I dug up some sumac roots and ate them. (I still can't believe I did this!) I was pretending to be Native American---something I did a lot--and I just pulled up the roots, peeled them and ate them like it was the most natural thing in the world.:coffee:
 
Jadeswan said:
Later I tried a high whorl spindle and it just came to me naturally. It is so relaxing to me and it feels as if I have done it for years and years. I have good "intuition" about herbs---which herbs are medicinal and how they are used. When I was a child of seven I gathered yarrow plants and laid them out in a basket to dry "for the winter."
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Hi Jadeswan! And welcome to the Forum. What you described concerning the drop spindle and the herbs is remarkable, and certainly worth investigating further. Could you describe the type of regression you had? Was it guided, with video induction, or meditation?
 
Welcome Jadeswan, and thanks for sharing :)


I think the majority of people intuitively know about certain things, but never question how they know, or where this knowledge comes from. I think many of these cases are evidence of skills that were learned in a past life. You might enjoy reading this related thread: Knowing things that you never knew


Chris :)
 
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