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Do you remember your past lives?

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SparklyJadeFawn · 22/08/2024 18:00

I remember two of mine.

I was just in a yoga class and a man there was telling me that he remembers all of his past lives.

I think it's so so interesting!

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Joystir59 · 22/08/2024 20:48

It's a past life experience. Of which I've had fleeting glimpses in meditation.

SparklyJadeFawn · 22/08/2024 20:48

spm20 · 22/08/2024 20:47

I find reincarnation and past life fascinating. I would recommend reading the book Journey of souls by Michael Newton, if you haven't already.

I read that one. It's very interesting

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PeterGabrielsunderpants · 22/08/2024 20:49

SparklyJadeFawn · 22/08/2024 19:22

That's so interesting . Thanks for sharing.

It definitely adds to the theory that maybe people more vividly remember the more traumatic past lives. As it still upsets them
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It's so interesting that met a spiritual teacher. Do you remember what he / she looked like?

It was a living teacher from India. He has since left his body

Interested in this thread?

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Anotherdayanotherhangover · 22/08/2024 21:31

I'm fascinated by reincarnation. I had hypnosis many years ago and vividly remembered my death, very mundane in a bed in a cottage, with an awful pain in my right breast. Weirdly I described the thickness of the walls and the small window and I could hear a fox howling. For a few years afterwards I would get random tingling/pins and needles in my right breast to the point of getting my GP to check it.
I have no idea if it was a real memory.

I believe in it, but I don't expect other people to. I also don't expect them to think I should share their beliefs.

Myserenebird123 · 22/08/2024 21:37

I have memories of 5 lives, 2 of which I had since I was young where memories have been persistent, the other 3 since having regression therapy twice….1 was a violent death but the other 4 were very mundane lives but they do make sense in relation to issues that I still need to work on and learn from in this life.I have always believed in reincarnation and for me it makes sense, I have never had a crisis of belief as the existence of our souls and of an afterlife seems so clear to me…I never can understand the “ live once then enter heaven” that we were taught at school and if you believe in a soul or an afterlife then reincarnation is not a stretch! However I totally understand anyone who thinks it’s imagination.

Hillsmakeyoustrong · 22/08/2024 21:46

I've had dreams about unforseen events that have unfolded the following day. But never anything that feels from a past life. I strongly believe in the spirit realm, and that we are eternal spirits, but that we only live as mortals once.

HarpyBirthday · 22/08/2024 21:54

DH has a strong antipathy for religious ppl. Particularly Christian men so I assume he was persecuted in a past life.

NoProblems · 22/08/2024 22:16

I 100% believe in reincarnation but have no idea about my previous lives.

My belief in reincarnation is linked to the concepts of Soul and Karma. You cannot have one without the other two.

There are many accounts of people remembering their previous lives. I would say some of them are fake or imagined and some are real, but unless we know the persons very well, it is impossible to know for sure.

"I was just in a yoga class and a man there was telling me that he remembers all of his past lives."

I find this statement amazing and would be extremely interested in knowing more.

How many lives has he had till now?

How long ago was his first life, where was it and what species was it in?

Have his lives been as humans, animals, plants? Male or Female?

In which places has he been born in his previous lives?

How long did he live in his different lives?

CatCaretaker · 22/08/2024 22:19

CatCaretaker · 22/08/2024 19:11

How far back in history and archaeology do past lives go? Can past lives extend before Homo sapiens existed?

What part of you is being reborn each time, and when did that first come into existence?

Edited

Genuinely, how does this work?

NoProblems · 22/08/2024 23:46

Like the OP, I am very interested in reading accounts of people remembering their past lives, although I wouldn't be sure about their truth.

I have therefore read most comments and am responding to some of them.

"There’s no such thing as a past life. You’re born, you die, and it’s over."

That is your belief, but other people have other beliefs.

"Do you believe in God op? If not, then what's this past lives business?

You don't have to believe in a creator God to believe in past lives.

"My nan always says what you do in this life will catch you in the next one be good."

Well done your nan. Basically, you ultimately reap what you sow, if not in this life in a future one.

"Can you answer me this? If there are approximately 7bn people in the world, the highest the population has ever been, they can't have all had past lives, can they, because there were far fewer people?"

What if the past lives were in different species? How many billions of other species have died out? What about past lives on other planets?

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Lack of proof of past lives doesn't mean they aren't a reality.
Lack of a mechanism known to science doesn't mean something can't happen.
It just means that science can't answer one way or another."

Very well said. And anyway, science is not going to find out one's past lives, only oneself can find out.

"Memories aren't, they're stored in each of our brains. There's no mechanism for them to survive after our deaths - only what other people remember of us and what we've written or created."

According to some beliefs, memories and Karmas are stored in the soul which is the spiritual consciousness and not the physical brain. The soul leaves the physical body and moves to another.

"If you're in a permanent state of reincarnation why can you only remember some of your previous lives?"

"I once visited Harrogate and felt completely at home, and knew my way around the town. I also knew that I'd never ever been there before."

"No, but my daughter told me some things about the 'mum she had before me' when she was three, and asked what happened to that mum, where is she now."

It seems that very very few remember even one previous life. Can you imagine what it would be like if everyone remembered their previous lives, especially if their previous families were still alive? Even if we remembered every single thing in this life, our lives would become unlivable. Some have very good memories and some have very bad memories, and like with computer memory there could be a limit to what can be remembered.

Many accounts suggest that children when they are little have retained some of those memories (while too many new memories have not formed yet), or those memories are triggered when one returns to a place familiar in a past life.

My comments are based on my beliefs and what I have read and heard - I don't have proof of anything!

Yesanother · 22/08/2024 23:52

Using a name change as I post a lot on here in case I’m ever recognised. Mine isn’t so much remembering past lives but recognising people I have shared lives with. People in my soul group. My dd somehow knows this too but doesn’t understand or recognise it. She decided she was a sibling to a boy she gets on really well with. She’s correct. Idk who their mother / father was but I don’t think it was me.

My first dog has come back to me. Definitely. One person I’ve shared a lot of lives with but I’m not close or related to them since they reincarnated this time nor likely to be. I know we have experienced many difficult situations together. I’ve spoken to someone else, who experiences the same. She said her friend has her child from a past life. She hasn’t told her friend.

There is a woman dh was friends with, actually a group of friends for many years. The woman always disliked me. In a past life we were great friends but I accidentally killed her child. Idk how it happened as I go on the feeling / intuition rather lots of visual cues.

MonsteraMama · 22/08/2024 23:53

I don't know if I believe in reincarnation, I certainly hope my dreams aren't my past lives because I've been some right bastards in my dreams.

However my daughter used to tell me stories at bed time about "when she was older" and used to fish in the place with the black sand, before she drowned in a cave and came to me. She used to talk about this with that casual certainty that only kids have that'll have you believing in unicorns and dragons. She's 16 now and has no memory of it at all.

So I guess my daughter might've been an Icelandic fisherman in a past life.

ProvincialLady2024 · 22/08/2024 23:54

I don't remember any past life, but if Karma is a thing I must have been very bad to be living the life I have now.

Yesanother · 22/08/2024 23:55

I forgot to say when expanding my mind in all of time and space I found myself on another planet. That was scary when I initially discovered me. But also very interesting. It’s a shame I don’t have the gift to explore lives like some people seem to be able to do.

BabaYetu · 23/08/2024 00:03

nobody says they were a lumbering primitive

Well that’s where you’re wrong, @coldcallerbaiter - in my past life I was Robin off Ghosts

SparklyJadeFawn · 23/08/2024 00:12

Maybe they are simultaneous lives

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SparklyJadeFawn · 23/08/2024 00:13

Yesanother · 22/08/2024 23:55

I forgot to say when expanding my mind in all of time and space I found myself on another planet. That was scary when I initially discovered me. But also very interesting. It’s a shame I don’t have the gift to explore lives like some people seem to be able to do.

I feel like I've astral travelled to other planets in my dreams sometimes

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silverjackal · 23/08/2024 00:21

AnywhereAnyoneAnyTime · 22/08/2024 18:29

It’s all nonsense.

If you’ve had reams about other countries etc it’s because you’ve heard of them, even in the smallest way e.g. through a radio programme or to or something you might have seen printed somewhere.

There’s no such thing as a past life. You’re born, you die, and it’s over.

Remarkable that you know this for certain, when no physicist has proven what the nature of life is yet.

Yesanother · 23/08/2024 00:23

They could be simultaneous lives. I know a woman, who thinks our souls are jumbled up in a soul group and then part of that soul group containing parts of more than one soul is scooped up and dropped into existence. In this case, parts of a soul can be in more than one place.

Lwrenn · 23/08/2024 00:32

feliciabirthgiver · 22/08/2024 20:10

@Lwrenn hilarious (currently at the airport with a 4 hour delay, this has made my evening)

I'm glad! 😂 I hope you're at your destination now! X

Ted22 · 23/08/2024 00:51

coldcallerbaiter · 22/08/2024 18:47

Past lives you hear people discussing are either interesting, noble or very recent history. The reality of humanity is that we were uggs for millennia, nobody says they were a lumbering primitive…

Interestingly I have a real thing about caves, and often dream about living in a cave. Don’t know if it means a past life, though.

Eldrick47s · 23/08/2024 00:54

KateDelRick · 22/08/2024 19:31

Can you answer me this? If there are approximately 7bn people in the world, the highest the population has ever been, they can't have all had past lives, can they, because there were far fewer people?.

I was thinking exactly this moments before I came across your post.

Obviously everyone is entitled to believe what they wish, logically though I cannot see it. My dreams are usually based on fears (for some reason I'm usually running, and something is closing in on me).

Blackcats7 · 23/08/2024 01:00

Once again MN (hot on the heels of the “manifesting” thread) makes me aware that perhaps the universal right to vote is not necessarily a good thing.

SnowFrogJelly · 23/08/2024 01:06

Lwrenn · 22/08/2024 18:01

Mate, I don't remember why I walked into a room.

😂

GorgeousTulips · 23/08/2024 02:43

coldcallerbaiter · 22/08/2024 18:47

Past lives you hear people discussing are either interesting, noble or very recent history. The reality of humanity is that we were uggs for millennia, nobody says they were a lumbering primitive…

Yes they do. Most past lives were hard and full of poverty

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