Trying to understand "family groups"

[Looking Backwards]

I see the concept of people reincarnating in family groups brought up a lot. It's intriguing! But it seems a lot of people reincarnate more randomly? So someone from England remembers dying a Chinese man in the 1970's. My only thought would be that the families are still connected in a way that may not seem immediately obvious, but would be understandable if you connected the dots. But for example, I've done a lot of research on my family's history, and I really haven't felt any definitive "triggers." I DO think I'll see my grandmother again, so perhaps we've "traveled" together? Or, is it possible that we sometimes aren't triggered, and just take things for granted?


This isn't really about me though, I'm just trying to understand the concept.

 

[BethC]

I guess it happens sometimes but not always. I believe within my family, I have some evidence for one of my children being the reincarnation of one of my aunts. However, this aunt died as an infant and obviously I never had a relationship with her. My mother was only 3 or 4 when she died. As for other family members, I have a strong feeling of having past lives with some of them in different lifetimes, but not along a familial line, necessarily.

 

[Looking Backwards]

I guess it happens sometimes but not always. I believe within my family' date=' I have some evidence for one of my children being the reincarnation of one of my aunts. However, this aunt died as an infant and obviously I never had a relationship with her. My mother was only 3 or 4 when she died. As for other family members, I have a strong feeling of having past lives with some of them in different lifetimes, but not along a familial line, necessarily.[/quote']
Oh! Yeah, I think I misunderstood the meaning, then. I definitely have family members I think I very possibly reincarnated with. I also somehow think I'm going to be a grandmother figure to my grandmother. (Not an actual grandmother, as I don't plan on having kids. But I got the strangest inkling once that that would be the case, though who knows.)

 

[sreedoohum]

halo

 

[tanguerra]

It seems to be pretty common for people to share more than one life with the same group of people.

Do others remember sharing a life with a present life family member?

 

[Mere Dreamer]

I personally feel like I'm not part of the core family group I was born into. There are a few with whom I think I share a stronger history, like my aunt and cousin on my mom's side and possibly a cousin on my dad's side, but I spent very little time with them growing up (different countries, so basically only at family reunions). I don't even have a strong dislike for anyone. I genuinely appreciate them, but they aren't my inner circle for the most part.

Now, this doesn't mean I don't have some shared family history, but maybe they weren't my most significant relationships in those lives. Most of my "childhood memories" from other lives involve either losing my birth family early on or travelling away from them for one reason or other. (Oddly, I only just now realized this point.) Even in this life I spent a significant percentage of my childhood in boarding school.

If I chose them, it was because this family is of the more scattered sort (world-wide missions, etc), perhaps, and positioned me where I needed to be to have the experiences I needed to have and be there for the people I needed to meet... who knows?

I did marry someone with whom I shared a negative past life connection that extended through at least two remembered lives, though.

Maybe this explains why I tend to want to adopt people to "be like family" when I meet someone who shares that instinctive familiarity of a long history together.

 

[Darius]

I continuously am reborn in the same bloodline - however I am connected to certain souls and they are connected to me and one another. Because of that, we are often living amongst one another time and time again.