Write about past life issues here. How do we know it is real? Is there someone you just have such a feeling was another person in a past life? Go for broke here!
I had a past life reading back in the early 1980's by a famous psychic named Ellwood Babbit. I hadn't realized he was going to spend the whole time talking about past lives. He was a trance medium who channeled an Irish guy with a thick brogue. It was strange and kind of funny. I felt like I was in OZ and Babbit was the wizard.
At the time I did not give readings at all. I just received a few readings and people recommended this guy. It took six months to get an appointment. (He's deceased now). He spent the entire time talking about my lives going back to Alexandria Egypt and in every life, he said I was a mystic who taught mysticism. I thought he was nuts. I had never been a mystic or taught it. But I kept the tape and listened to it many times before discarding it.
Today I give readings, do channeled meditations, and teach mysticism. It's not proof, but I do feel connected to certain places he mentioned. When I spent a summer in London in 1975, I felt so at home and happy. I spent most of my days in antique shops, and brought home a container filled with old pieces I still treasure today. I felt like I recognized them.
One of the lives Babbit talked about was in Victorian London. He even stated my name then. Oh, and I used to love wearing blouses with ruffled collars and cuffs. A friend once gazed at my clothes and said, "Is this some past life of yours?" Occasionally I get a past live feeling about someone. I remain agnostic except when I have a strong feeling and then I go with it.
I absolutely believe in past lives and would love to have a past life reading some day. I just haven’t taken the time to do it. But I do have to tell you these two stories about why I believe in past lives.
In 1995, my husband and I built our Victorian home from the ground up by ourselves with the help of my father in law.(It took 2 years to build and then 1 year to finish the indoor woodworking) At the time we were living in a Colonial style house and I always had terrible feelings living there. (And just some strange stuff would go on in the house.) Side story: Back in 1979, while touring a colonial home in New Orleans called Twin Oaks, I passed out half way through the tour, so we had to leave. It may sound weird but even until today, I can not read or watch anything dealing with the Civil War. The day we finally finished the house and moved in, I can remember feeling a sense of absolute peace. And I feel that peace even until today.
In 1999, my husband and I went to Italy. As we were walking up some steps in the Coliseum, I stopped and said to my husband, “ Oh my gosh, you worked here”. And I could see in my mind him working on the Coliseum in a past life. (He thought I was totally nuts). But the steps had the exact same feel as the front steps to the home we built.
Over the past ten years, I’ve done a lot of reading about reincarnation in books by Dr. Brian Weiss and specifically about young children remembering past lives, in books by Dr. Jim Tucker of the University of Virginia.
https://www.amazon.com/Books-Brian-L-Weiss/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3ABrian+L.+Weiss
A few years ago, I had a past life regression done with the help of a hypnotherapist and I recalled a life as a young girl, very young, maybe 3-4 years old. The time frame seemed to be early twentieth century, country unknown. I lived alone with my mother and relived going into a butcher shop with her. The butcher shop was a very vivid memory. The butcher was overly nice to my mother, but he didn’t seem to like me. Later, I saw myself alone in a house that caught fire and burned down. I didn’t relive any sense of fear or terror, but had an understanding that the butcher burned down the house because he wanted my mother to himself. He didn’t want me around.
Today, I don’t have any particular fears associated with fire, but I’m adamantly opposed to cremation. Now that seems horrifying to me.
Tagging @Tonya because of your interest in this topic, too.
I remember many past lives. One of my psychic abilities is reading the akaschic records. I had a recurring dream as a teenager that I was a Shakespearean actor center stage. In the dreams, I'd stand up and tear off my wig, being somewhat irritated saying " I'm not him anymore". After I moved to NYC, a well-known past life psychic (akaschic), it was the first life he brought up with extraordinary detail. I was stunned.
I'm agnostic when it comes to reincarnation but I would like it to be true.
I've had a few dreams that were quite vivid and seemed to be set in other times and places.
Also I had a long (like 9 years), off-and-on relationship with a guy who definitely had "abilities"--- and we both thought it possible that we had had some past lives together. One was in some kind of fabulous "Atlantis-like" realm and the other seemed to be during WW2, where he was a pilot. Neither "previous" relationship worked out well, at least according to our mutual dreams and visions. (It didn't work out this time around either.)
One day I'd like to have a past life regression done but I would only want it done with someone I could be sure was genuine and talented, and I don't know how to find such a person.
Hi, I have enough trouble remembering what I got up to in this one, let alone any previous ones.
Regards to all
I have had the ability to get glimpses of my past lives since childhood. Being raised strictly Protestant, I had never heard the word "Reincarnation" until I was grown. And I quickly learned not to discuss my visions with anyone. I wrote everything down in a journal when I was in my late 20's and I have kept the journal up throughout my life. I never see the date but I can usually estimate the time period and the country I am in from the clothes and environment. My main countries have been Bavaria, England, Southwest China, and the USA. The people in my life have also been in my other lives. We seem to be part of a soul group. By interactions with each other, we are helping each other to grow. This ability to see my personal history has helped me tremendously in my life to cope with life's adversities and to make positive adjustments.