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Remembering/recognizing people from Past Lives (merged)

Oh Yes, I don't think I could walk up to someone and just announce my thought's and/or feeling's. Just wondered if anyone ever had an Aquaintance that they remembered details about that person, before the individual remembered themselves. I, Myself, Would not mind knowing what another seen about me, but I can see where it would also creep someone else out..LOL.
 
Just wondered if anyone ever had an Aquaintance that they remembered details about that person, before the individual remembered themselves.
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Oh definitely :D I think you'll find that many members on the forum have similar experiences to share. ;)

C'mon and share everyone :tongue: :laugh:



Ailish
 
Okay I will share! ;) Great timing on this question.

My friend is in town visiting for the holidays and I am so excited to see her tonight. I just talking with her on the phone.

We met because we worked together. We have spent many, many days, evenings, nights and weekends working together because of all the overtime and crazy demands of the work we did. We worked really well together, and I always knew not to push her on the things that approached her limits, and she always accepted me when I would approach my limits and have a nervy turn, because the work we were doing had to have a high degree of perfection, there was a TON of work, and it was always on a short deadline with revisions up to the eleventh hour.

I don't think this is the first time we have worked together. I think we were both serving women at an inn in Japan, in the mountains. In my mind are images of the snow, of hurrying to make food and tea and bring trays to guests, of going out to the road to see if anyone was coming and estimate how soon they would arrive and how many.

I guess I could say a lot more about the specifics, but it is cool to see her become more confident and less squashed than she used to be, and also much more adventurous and self-reliant, generally having fun this time. I'm glad that we worked so well together this time and there was a test in it for both of us, to see if we had learned to strengthen our characters and also to have insight to each other.

I've toyed with mentioning it, but I think I will just wait. She's really open minded, but I don't want to put the ideas 'on' her. Instead I'd like to mutually discuss it at the right time.
 
wow this is interesting, becuase one, i can often feel the emotions of other people. usually people i dont know, mostly strangers i pass in stores, school, or at work. but i am very intuned with my freinds feelings also. i know when something is wrong, when everyone else bypasses it.

also, since doing my first regression i get "flashbacks" all the time. and i can easily tell if they are from my life from the regression, another life i havnt discovered, or my current life. weird but the regressions seem to help my present life memory as well. i also get flashes where i have no real attatchment and know they are not my own. it doesnt happen often, but i was confused when it did. i was on the bus, and this girl was in front of me, and got a flash of being a black man, with braids in a bar, in the 1980's. it was weird, and i know it must have been her past life.
 
So far, I know of two people who I'm absolutely sure I've shared past lives with, and can discuss it at great length with them (which really helps the memory process!). There's another two that I suspect I've known before, but can't discuss details at this point, and one who I'm near positive was my daughter in the past, but is too young to talk to at the moment. Aside from that, I've met a handful of people who I know I haven't shared any previous lives with, but who I know I was 'supposed' to meet (I believe certain significant meetings are prearranged while still discarnate). Usually the reason for us meeting becomes very clear down the track.
If you remember a couple of past lives with some detail, it becomes very interesting to see how the same people just keep on popping up in key roles.

Cheers,

Saau
 
How do you recognize a soul group?

First off, I'm not sure I readily believe in a soul group. I ask this question because there have been certain individuals who have come into my life that I get a feeling for. The question about a soul group comes up in my mind. I don't ask the question wether or not I knew this person in a past life. Say it turns out I did know him, but rather than being a good friend or soulmate I actually bought meat at his butcher shop every fifth day of the week for years in second century Rome.

I ask this question because I've had feelings with people that have ended up treating me like garbage. Or at least I'm willing to believe that these people are soulmates and I get jerked around a bit. I know enough now to cut such people out of my life with little to no hesitation. I won't be treated like manure, and if this person really was a soulmate, I understand how hard life can be. It's up to them to shape up and become better people. I won't hang around such crap hoping that such a person comes around. I've got my own life to live. I say this because I've been an arrogant loser. I know from pathetic experience that there is no better way to get a person to come around then to leave them to their fate. There is an idea of compassion, love, and mercy being healing balms that some poor sucker is compelled to salve upon someone's open wound. The poor sucker can't leave because who will take care of this wounded when left alone? It's like a story I read about an invalid who's mother would carry her food up to her bed for years. One day, Mummy dies. The woman stays in bed for days until her hunger drives her to get out of bed and go to the kitchen for the first time in years.

On the other hand, there are people who troll the waters, who put their feelers out in the world looking for people to emotionally manipulate. I don't know why. I don't care to know why. I've had individuals come up to me telling me that they feel something with me, invite me into their world, get me to open up, and shut me off as though it was my fault. I think there are genuinely compassionate people with the wrong idea of compassion. They seek out people with wounds, and then feel overwhelmed when they find one. They may start up their own therapeutic practices, their own cults, their own bands or clubs. This goes right along with my question at hand because people like this will make you feel so warm and welcome that you begin to believe that there is a spiritual connection when what actually is occuring is that you are being duped into somebody's feel-good delusion.

I understand that finding a soulmate is not going to always be positive. I just want to know how one recognizes a soul group, saying that such a thing exists.
 
AK6,

A "soul-mate" is someone we have had many incarnations with. Some are friends, some are close friends, and some are like family to us. Unfortunately, some of them are negative and manipulative. For example, I have someone who was a friend in a previous life. We tried to be boyfriend-girlfriend in this life, and it turned out lousy. Next lifetime together should a little better for the two of us.

You said,

"The question about a soul group comes up in my mind. I don't ask the question whether or not I knew this person in a past life. Say it turns out I did know him, but rather than being a good friend or soulmate I actually bought meat at his butcher shop every fifth day of the week for years in second century Rome."

--> This is very similar to my situation described above.

"I ask this question because I've had feelings with people that have ended up treating me like garbage. Or at least I'm willing to believe that these people are soulmates and I get jerked around a bit."

--> Yes they are, and yes you do.

"I know enough now to cut such people out of my life with little to no hesitation."

--> That is the best course of action.

"I think there are genuinely compassionate people with the wrong idea of compassion."

--> The best thing to do is just steer clear of them.

"I just want to know how one recognizes a soul group, saying that such a thing exists."

--> You are doing well at spotting them. Just let them know that, no matter what happened 10 or 20 lives together before, it is not going to happen now.
 
Ak6,

I wanted to say briefly that I've struggled with some of the same types of encounters that you describe. I came to a few conclusions. First, I think that when we have a past life connection with someone, that adds a certain feeling of "weight" to it even though the connection may not be qualitatively a good one. The sheer familiarity of it makes one feel like one should fall in love. It's a basic error in assessing the situation.

Secondly, in my case, I found that there were two reasons, apparently, why I kept having this repeat experience. The first was that I had been cruel to people in past lives, and so unconsciously I was opening myself up to predatory people in romantic relationships. And they were being predatory--but it was my past-life karma that made me susceptible. I uncovered this in a past-life regression. I saw myself sadistically figuring out ways to split up couples, because I was grieving and "misery loves company", while pretending on the surface to feel sympathetic. The sadism I let myself in for in these relationships in this life, I now saw as the *exact emotional inverse* of the sadistic pleasure I got from splitting up these couples in that past life (from quite a long time ago, I gather, because it was an advanced civilization--but these things follow you down the ages).

The final thing I realized was that apparently I was still grieving for a partner I'd lost in a past life, and so I kept trying to find her again. Instead of finding her, what I was doing was projecting my longing onto these other women, opening myself immediately (though part of myself was resisting). What I finally did was to decide that this woman I was grieving for would probably prefer I find a truly caring partner, than to keep getting involved with predatory people while trying to hang on. So, once I did that, not too long afterwards, I did indeed find my current girlfriend, and our relationship is just now going into the six-year mark. It's probably not the same relationship I had with this woman I was grieving for. It's different, like my best friend in the world, definitely a past-life connection there, but more individuated, not so much "melded together". For one thing we're so different in our interests, but there is a deep understanding there despite that.

As far as soul groups goes, I don't know. I get the sense that we have been very good friends, and then in other lives we have been lovers, but this is the first time we are really putting the two things together to form a long-term relationship.

Don't know if any of that would be relevant to you, though...
Steve S.
 
AK6,

Here is the best description that I seen in a book, page 86, figures 34 and 35:

http://www3.igalaxy.net/~nick/theosophy/fp-062.htm#086

First is a group of three people called A, B, and C. Next are two people, E and F. The charts and narration show how they continually reincarnate together, increasing their fondness of each other with each shared reincarnation.
 
Regarding the link, like a lot of Theosophical literature, it's advanced teaching but a little off. According to my understanding, the bodies (which are not exactly portrayed as I understand them here), do not dissolve after death and reform for the next incarnation. Only the physical body is sloughed off at death, somewhat the way a snake, lobtser or cicada sheds its outer skin, and the rest remain intact.

Some of these seemingly minor points have serious ramifications down the line in one's understanding. For example, one Jewish teaching on reincarnation says that a soul can disappear entirely after death if the person identifies too strongly with the physical world or doesn't believe in the afterlife (I don't remember exactly which). But philosophically, the idea that any soul can disappear for any reason throws the entire moral order of the universe off kilter (i.e., this would be totally unfair, not to mention impossible given the immortal nature of the soul). It would put the soul squarely into the manifested order, which it isn't.

Likewise, that the higher bodies dissolve and reform makes no sense metaphysically, since what forms the continuity between incarnations is precisely that these bodies remain intact with all the memories, tendencies abilities and identities from past lives.

Steve S.
 
I've read a good deal of Theosophical literature, and much else. Even if it deeply affects me, I always eventually land up with no certain convictions whatever. Apart from God, some kind of karma, life after death, and reincarnation. These seem to be basics that never leave me. Not that I'm particularly fond of them.This has gradually made me stop reading on all psychic subjects. I feel that it is OK to have your head in the clouds, provided you are tall enough to always keep your feet on the ground. We are having a human experience, here on earth, and need to learn just how earthy it is; the past is not me, just my diary.
If I have some interest, say political, I will meet like-minded people for apparently the first time. I'm not meant to know, and don't much care, whether they were part of a 'soul-group' in a previous life, or whether I am part of a group, sharing similar karma, who incarnated more or less together for some purpose not yet revealed. If the wheel of a bicycle tried to be in contact with the ground all over, it wouldn't make much progress.
 
Alumnus, I love your bicycle wheel analogy. I feel the same way. I don't like to spend too much time figuring these things out and I actively try not to expand my psychic abilities and do not wish to have dreams. However, I still do. It just happens anyway. That said, I still do get a little curious when something weirder than usual happens or when I meet someone I feel I've known before. Every now and then, I come up with an answer that works even if its only for a little while until the next dream or question pops up.
Vicky
 
I too loved the wheel analogy. EXCELLENT!

I stay away from New Age books too. Instead, I have found that books written by Ph.D's and M.D's (on spiritual topics) are grounded and help me to better understand the expansion of consciousness. {minus the word Psychic} ;)
 
Sensing others' past lives?

I've been sort of wondering if any of you have ever had the experience of looking at someone, and just...eek, it's so hard to describe...just feeling like you know where a past life of theirs has been?

A few months ago (before I even really got into reincarnation), in my Geometry class, the teacher was writing something on the board, and out of nowhere I just thought, "Oh, he was a pilgrim back then." This is a feeling I can't get rid of when I see him.

And there's this girl in my class who, for YEARS, I have always associated with the SS. It's not that I don't like her and am thus trying to throw some negative label on her; she's always been polite enough to me. Never nice, really, but polite, and when you get some of the reactions from others that I get, that's good enough. :tongue:

I had another example, too, but my mind just went blank. XD;

So. Have any of you ever experienced anything similar? Or do you think that some people just give off the 'vibe' of a certain time/group, regardless of whether they had a life there or not?
 
Its odd that you brought this up because just last week I had a dream about a friend of mine. I dreamed that she was giving a woman some sort of herbal cure for something. The herbs were placed on a square of what looked like might have been burlap and then the corners of the square were brought together and tied with twine. I was her friend and i was standing there but i was seeing all of this as if i was standing behind everyone watching. Another person said, 'you'll be burned at the stake for this' to my friend. She said, 'that's ok.' The same person said 'they're coming for you now.' She said 'alright, let them come.' Somehow i knew that the woman had a child that was ill and would die without this medicine. I didn't want my friend to give her the medicine because I didn't want my friend to die that way.
The woman took off as soon as she got the medicine.
Can anyone validate this? I know nothing of history or Salem or people who got burned at the stake. My friend was wearing a long brown dress with big sleeves. Light brown, very plain.
Interesting thing is that my friend is a doctor in this life.
Vicky
 
I only have sensed past lives of others when I have seen glimpses of PL memories I have with them. For instance, when my obstertrician turned and gave me a certain look it flashed a PL memory that I had of him being in a convent with me in the 14th century.
A friend and I are certain of many past lives we have had together as sisters, mother - child, teacher - student ,etc. relationships.
 
Vicky, I was a witness to a regression where in this life the girl had begun giving away all her things, including her apt in New York, because she "knew" she was going to die in June. This was about March. When regressed she found that she had had a life (not sure of the time frame) where she/he was a scientist and he had discovered how to use herbs for certain illnesses and the powers that be killed him and his whole family. Apparently the time had been around June.

She was so excited when it was over she began reclaiming her belongings, and her apartment. It was an amazing adventure. Sorry I can't help with the time, but sounds like a similar situation. Patsy
 
I too, very much, believe we reincarnate with kindred souls. In my own journey I have been blest with knowing a few of them. The knowledge was fueled by intuition and, in the case of two, by physical likeness. It is hard to describe the "knowing" or the part of me that recognizes their connection, but it is strong.

I do believe in the concept of a soulmate. But the word has taken on a lot of baggage. It is used almost too loosely, too freely. To say we fully understand the premise is folly, for, as in all such matters, how can we know empirically. But we can seek understanding from the wisdom of others, and, in our own journeys, reap all the lessons our soul can muster. My path seems to lead me to this spiritual connection to another soul, in this life and in the past. It is not all sunshine and lollipops. In fact it is very difficult and tragic...but there in lies my own "lessons" and path. But as my quote has always said "my love is deeper than the darkness..." and I keep on searching.

Tinkerman
 
Recognizing People from Past Lives

Hi, I am new to this forum. I have had some unsettling experiences as of the last half a year or more, and was hoping that maybe some others have shared some of the same sort of thing.

Without going into massive amounts of detail, it boils down to this: I have met someone who I know was in a past life. I know this through dreams and strange coincidences and just knowing stuff about him that I have never been told before. I have always been very much in tune with the spiritual aspects of my life, and so I recognized him instantly, like an electric shock going through my body, and everything else in the world just disappearing while I held eye contact with him.

I see him regularly and feel so torn apart whenever I part company with him. I am not an emotionally needy person. We are not romantically involved. I know that the turmoil I feel around him is linked to who we were before. Through meditations and dreams and some spontaneous "visions" I realize that we either lost a child together, or I was the mother and he was my child. Either I died, or he died young, or we were torn apart by some other circumstances. In any case, it was too soon, it was traumatic, and it made lasting psychic impressions.

I know he feels a sense of attraction towards me in the here and now, but whether or not he senses the bigger picture, I don't know. He strikes me as someone who has potentially deep perception, but who is also too scared or repressed to allow himself to go there.

It has almost gotten to the point where I consider avoiding where he will be in order to not experience the fall-out, the massive sense of loss that is quite inappropriate to our level of involvement that I feel after being with him. I don't know why it is important that I recognize him, but I do, and I obviously have left markers for myself to confirm that recognition in this life.

Has anyone experienced anything like this? And if so, what did you do?
 
Hi Frankie,

Welcome to the forum. :)


You may enjoy the thread Dissolving a karmic bond

Another interesting read is Denial, Re-running, & Extreme opposites.


I realize that we either lost a child together, or I was the mother and he was my child. Either I died, or he died young, or we were torn apart by some other circumstances.
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That -- is a lot of different possibilities -- and based on who you were to each other at the time -- could result in many different results and feelings in this life. Obviously -- as your child he would evoke a different feeling from you than as your husband.

Doing a little bit of past life work may be a consideration -- if you are so bothered by this connection that you are avoiding him. It may help to try to figure out the actual connection you share -- which will give you a more profound understanding of WHY you feel the way you do.

You may also want to consider keeping a dream and/or meditation journal. Often the "pieces come together" more quickly when we have something to reference.

Good luck on your journey,
Ailish
 
Hi Frankie,

I have remet many people I have known before. It is an extraordinarily powerful experience, as you describe, like a lightning bolt sometimes.

It is sometimes painful and difficult, but the alternative is to miss out on the chance to resolve whatever your 'unfinished business' may be. It is possible to strike up a friendship with this person and not mention reincarnation at all. There may be 'work' for you to do together of a new nature, not necessarily directly related to what happened 'last time'. It is possible for you to work through your feelings without having any contact with him also. Whatever you do I would not suggest repression or running away, but take it slowly and carefully all the same.

I would second the idea that it is very helpful to keep a journal or at least write the whole story out long hand. It would be a good first step as the others have suggested to do some reading and thinking about it and try to get to the bottom of what actually happened and more importantly how you feel about that in yourself before potentially freaking this guy out and telling him all about it (if he does not also already have some idea).

Once you have done that preliminary work, then you can progress carefully to stage 2 and maybe talk to him about it (or write him a letter?).
 
Hi, thank you all for your thoughtful replies. I have checked out those links, and have a headstart on the writing it all down part, as I have been doing that for a while. Also, I have a friend I have confided in to a certain degree, if only so I don't misremember certain events.

As for mentioning it to him, I would never do that, although, like I said, there is definitely *something* on his part. I just don't know if it's a "wow, I recognize you" kind of thing, or just something more run of the mill.

While I have had glimpses of the future throughout my life, the past is a new experience, and I have trouble sometimes untangling what might be past and what might be future.

I guess it is all really just different places along the same line, though, isn't it?
 
Yes Frankie - it is much the same thing. If you have some future glimpses it would not be so unusual to have some past ones.

It is not unusual for someone I have met from a previous life to feel attracted to me (and not just for the obvious reasons) while they nonetheless don't remember a thing about any past connection. It can be as plain to me as the nose on my face, but they just don't see it. Most people will tend to be a bit frightened by the idea (particularly depending on what it is you remember they did) so you are wise to keep it to yourself, at least until you might get to know this person better and work out what your connection is.

Writing it all down is a good start. Perhaps you can share your story with us when you get some more details.
 
Hello Frankie and welcome. Reading your post reminded me of my own a few years ago. I saw and felt the same emotions and synchronous events. It has been a major revelation and life altering experience for me. I used this forum to study and learn about the concept of reincarnation. As the years have passed I think I have come to terms with things, but everyday is new.

Tanquerra's advise is good
It is sometimes painful and difficult, but the alternative is to miss out on the chance to resolve whatever your 'unfinished business' may be. It is possible to strike up a friendship with this person and not mention reincarnation at all. There may be 'work' for you to do together of a new nature, not necessarily directly related to what happened 'last time'. It is possible for you to work through your feelings without having any contact with him also. Whatever you do I would not suggest repression or running away, but take it slowly and carefully all the same.
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If I, or anyone here can answer any questions, feel free to ask. Good luck on this journey.

The Tinkerman
 
I have been reading Michael Newton's book 'Life Between Lives' and also am going to read his earlier books Journey of Souls and Destiny of Souls which he keeps referring back to. He has quite a lot to say on the subject of 'soul mates', meeting up with them, missing them, and what that might all be about and I find his take on it fairly reasonable.

I am personally not a great believer that there is ONLY ONE soul mate for each of us and our lives are empty until we connect romantically with that one person on this earth, blah blah blah (although I am sure it happens and that it is wonderful when it does).

I think there are many people who are very important to us, on a number of levels, and I believe I have met several this life (not just on this 'earthly plain' either). I understand what you mean when you say you feel that there is someone 'up there' to whom you feel very connected. This could also be your 'spirit guide' (however you interpret that).
 
I love the discussion on soulmate and twin flames. It has been a lure to me for years. I began, believing in one soulmate. I cannot tell you how or why that came about...I guess it was just an assumption given the word itself seemed singular. The more I read here on PLF and in books I believe that we do indeed have more than one soulmate as Tanguerra has said. It just seems right. BUT on the other hand, my experience also tells me of a twin flame. I know it so deep in my being I have a hard time putting it into words.

The last time I spoke about it someone started interjecting words like "co-dependence" and gibberish about singular entities needing fulfillment in another. I very much believe that the twin flame soul concept is not something one can pursue for discovery. I believe it is given to you when your journey and soul is prepared to handle the magnitude. It is powerful beyond words. I don't know if I'm right in saying it, it's only a spiritual hunch, but I believe when you are ready for it, you will understand it. I have been blest with it and am empowered, amazed and overjoyed at the thought.

There is a lot of reading on the subject. All you can do is absorb the information, discern for yourself and allow your soul to find it's truth.

Elizabeth Prophet discusses the concept in her book Karma and Reincarnation. I've also seen them in the books Tanguerra mentioned. There are also many threads on this forum regarding soulmates...just put it in the search engine, you'll see.

Tinkerman
 
I just remembered a good book on the subject by Dr Brian Weiss entitled "Only Love is Real, The Story of Soulmates Reunited." Good book!:thumbsup: I believe it is available in the PLF bookstore.
Tinkerman
 
Recognising PL people in current life

Another question from me. I've been sitting here all afternoon reading and contemplating different things about past lives.

For those who have recognised someone from a past life in their current lives... how did you do it? I mean, if you're completely different people from different backgrounds then you're obviously not going to look the same. So... is it just a "knowing"?

I ask because I've met one person in my life who when I first looked at them I felt I knew them... even though I'd never met them before.

I have no past life memories yet, so I can't say that he is someone from a PL, but I guess it is possible.
 
For me it's been mostly about "just knowing". Sometimes people can have similar features, but often I remember someone from a PL, and in time I just begin to realise how our relationship reminds me of someone in this life etc. Sometimes I know who someone is right away when I remember them from a PL.

In time it'll get easier - at least I was very unsure at the beginning before I learned to trust my intuition. ;)

Karoliina
 
Instant connections and reincarnation


I hope this is ok, I am new at this.


I'm wondering about instant connections and reincarnation.


Something really weird happened to me this spring. I had considered reincarnation before, but nothing like this has ever happened to me. And even writing it out like this makes me feel crazy. This spring I went on a second language exchange for a few weeks. And I met someone. From the moment I saw her the weirdest thought popped into my mind , it was "hey its you, oh my god its you." I liked her on sight. Part of me couldn't stop staring and the rest of me wanted to run. The program kept me busy, and I tried to brush it off as a crush. The weird part about it was the tenderness of my feelings for her. It was the most intense thing I've ever experienced. She was one of the host students, and throughout the program we kept being thrown together- she was assigned to more than one of my groups. We did talk, but with my limited french communication was difficult. When we did manage to communicate, there were weird similarities in our lives, and she would engage me in rather personal conversations. As much as I could manage anyways. Her English, I learned, was even worse than my french. I was so unnerved by the whole experience I attempted to doubt the whole thing, until the last night when I couldn't deny that she had been looking back.


Nothing quite like this has ever happened before. I've loved- not like this, I've desired- not like this.


Its weird things like this in my life that make me questions things.
 
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