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seagreen

seagreen

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I looked through the forum to see if anyone ever posted something similar to what I'm about to say, but I didn't see anything.

Lately I've been thinking about putting one of my past lives into short story form. I don't remember everything. In fact, I don't remember much at all except the circumstances of my death. A psychic friend of mine gave me some details that he could see about my life, including my name at the time, but that's all I have.

So, I've been thinking about turning it into a story. I thought that it might be a healing exercise for me because that particular lifetime has been heavily affecting this one. Has anyone ever tried doing something like this, channeling past lives into creative outlets, and does anyone think that something bad could come from it? Just curious what you all think.
 
I can't see how it could be anything but positive, seagreen. I would guess that details that you think you are inventing might be correct. There are authors who have done this with great results.
 
Thanks, BriarRose. I will have to create some of the details of the story, but like you said, I would hope that my subconscious will give me most of what I need. Do you know any good stories that I could find online that are based on past lives?
 
Someone I know in another forum has told us in detail about their memories of contact with ET's. They have the physical signs to go with it. They were describing a "missing time" experience which sounded like a classic case. I told them that I believed them but it sounded like science fiction and they could probably make some money writing science fiction. So now they are working on their first sci fi book. I read somewhere that many science fiction writers have dreams or memories of contact with ET's, etc. I see no reason why you couldn't do the same with PL memories. No one would have to know where the ideas are coming from.
 
seagreen, the author Taylor Caldwell based all her novels on past life memories. They were historical "fiction". I don't know that you could find them on-line, but your local public library would surely have some of her books. She was a best-selling author "back in the day". I read "Dear and Glorious Physician" without knowing her story. Initially, she was not a believer in reincarnation, but underwent regression, remembering eleven lives.
 
I think that any form of writing can reveal some aspects of past life experience as well as current memory; and, to some extent, one could even say that fictional stories are at least partially auto-biographical. But, what part of any story could one accurately describe as truly biographical? And, when writing of one's past-life; one might ask which past-life? Certainly it is possible that any story could be an amalgamation of several past lives. Although writing of one's favorite past-life can be cathartic, it can also be an exercise in ego-massage.
 
Somehow, I don't think ego-massage is what you intend, seagreen. It will be a good experience to write it out. Most of my own PLs are so drab and boring, that my imagination could surely invent something more interesting! Writing will probably make you feel better, as you mentioned that this particular life is creating some issues for you.
 
I've been working to short stories


On a past life I discussed here .


One is postive, one is really tragic.


I decided to play with both sides.
 
I think that makes an interesting concept, shadows. Are they the two lives that you mention most often, or another two?
 
Seagreen


I am currently working on two books based on reincarnation memories. The research is a lot of work but it truly is a labor of love.
 
I think this is a great idea, Seagreen.


I tried to write a story of my latest life, but I was failed many times. (Sometimes I write short poems, but I'm not good in prose.)


I don't think that it will be useful for healing, because that will be fantasy in a big part... but go ahead and be creative. ;)
 
I think it' s an Ok idea, I never did it myself but I know people who did it with good results. Just be careful when trying to figure out what of what you wrote could be past life related and what is just imagination.
 
I think it's a very good idea, seagreen. Probably the best short story I've ever written was loosely based on a past life, and it was tremendously insightful and cathartic for me to write.
 
Cont....

Marc Ross said:
'The Reincarnation of Peter Proud' was both a book and a movie.
Considering the story and movie were made in the 1970s, the storyline was "ahead of it's time" relative to the notions that most people had on reincarnation back in the 1970s!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reincarnation_of_Peter_Proud
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Correction: The previous link 'The Reincarnation of Peter Proud' was the 1975 movie. The following link is the novel.


Link includes additional (decades-old) stories whose story-lines incorporate reincarnation.


In reading both older, and newer stories involving reincarnation, the experience may provide grist for reading (and even writing) stories which may, or may not be based on actual past-lives.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reincarnation_of_Peter_Proud_%28novel%29
 
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