[sprite]

I have a friend who believes she had past lives and clams that I was her friend in some of them, but she won't tell me much else, I'm not sure what I believe but as I've gotten older, I've been getting more and more strange feelings and off "Visions"? I guess that's what to call them.

Most of them are involving a man and or a little girl, some of them are uh, personal so I won't go there, but my friend thinks that they might be from a past life. She and I are both semi-clairvoyant I believe that's the term for it, I don't know about her but I have dreams and then they happen, I have bad feelings about a person and they usually turn out to be right. I hear my grandmother talking to me and she died before I was born, I know it's her though because I told my mother one time and she said it sounded like her mom. I'm fairly new to believing it's possibly real, reincarnation.

Lately the feelings, scents and images have been happening right on top of each other, I'll wake up some days feeling peaceful and safe and like someone is holding me when I sleep alone all the time. I still live with my parents (Who don?t believe in this stuff and would look at me like I have 2 heads if I said this) and have agoraphobia(A fear of people) due to bad, physical and mental childhood abuse by adults not related to me and other children. I don't usually wake up feeling safe, but when I do, it's freaky-but nice.

For me anyway. So, I'm wondering if anyone can tell me how I go about looking for a person to regress me when I'm ready or how I can safely do it myself. My friend told me to clear my head before sleeping, an hour before sleeping and only think about the feelings and images and scents that I'm being overwhelmed with, I did that and just got more flashes, all of them mixed up... and since then I've been getting more and more and sometimes I feel like a caged animal, anxious and pacing and worried and they overwhelm me, I feel as if I'll run into the man in the images if I step outside my door sometimes.

And it's all kind of scaring me. Ok, sorry, had to get all of that out... like I said, I'm new to this and very confused and not sure what to do or think. I?m 21 and I live in the middle of no where and kind of wish I did have a past life to remember, I?m physically disabled and some of the ?memories? Would be a nice escape if I could fully remember them. Sorry for rambling.

One of the images has a wedding dress in it-laying across an old chair, like a Victorian style chair and I was about the same age as I am now. I have a feeling of safety and happiness. In this image I have a balcony and the doors are wide open and I feel perfectly safe leaving them open, then I can feel the breeze and smell the night air.

The next one is of the man I mentioned. He and I are standing by a grave and other people are around and there?s a 7 year old girl standing next to me and we?re watching as that man yells at another telling him it was his fault and that he?d get even... then he turns to us and says we?re going home, he takes me by the arm and the girl by her hand and we go with him, he said her name, it was Jessica, I feel confused, a but hurt, like I was connected to both men emotionally and he tells me to never go near that man again that he?s dangerous. I?m still in my early twenties here as well, but I have a feeling of confidence and strong self esteem(I have neither of them in the hear and now).

There are other memories and feelings, their the strongest, of being with the man who the girl and I went with that day. Sometimes I?ll feel as if he?s in the room with me if I think about them, or I?ll remember him touching my hand or face. Another image is of me standing at another grave, sadder this time, I was more detached at the other one. There?s a police officer there, walking to me, the girl, Jessica is holding my hand. The officer says how sorry he is for our loss and I tell him he?s not sorry at all and to stop the phony sympathy. He tells me I had to know it was coming sooner or later and I slap him. I?m still holding the girls hand as I turn and run into the other man, he tells me he?s sorry too and I push him out of my way and leave.

I don?t feel happy or safe in this one, but sad and confused and the question of Why? Keeps racing threw my head. Another image is of a police station, I?m walking down a good number of stairs to get to teh sidewalk to hail a taxi, I?m mad and upset and muttering under my breath. I start feeling a pain in my stomach and stumble down the last few steps and double over, holding my stomach.
I feel ill and dizzy and the pains are so bad I feel like I?m going to keep over there. a limo pulls up and that same man I was told to stay away from gets out, he tells me to get in, he?ll take me to the hospital. I tell him I don't need him and he grabs me and shoves me in the car, then he gets in and locks the doors and I try screaming to be let out but the pains to mad, and I start bleeding, my skirt turned red, and I start crying. I remember thinking that I?d had a miscarriage. and that?s it, other than a feeling of being trapped and lost and scared.

Does anyone have ideas on how to deal with this? These flashes and feelings are coming in stronger and stronger and the clothes I?m seeing and style of cars are like those of the 1940s I think and it must be in America and up north, like Chicago or New York or somewhere like that.


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[kittyhaibane]

i have also had past life memories.
in the early 1600's i worked for my father at his inn/bar in scotland. i had no mother for she died giving birth to me. it was just me and my father. in my late teens i met my lover John(he is also my current boyfriend now)and he stayed at our inn for 4 years living with me and my father. John and i had two children oldest was male and the other female, i was also pregnant. unfortunatly my life was cut short as i was accused of witchcraft and burned while John was away doing mercenary work and was sent to jail for about 4 months(so i was told).
John escaped from jail with the help of a good friend of his and unfortunatly was a day to late to save me. i had no trial.

im also not sure if any of you have heard of otherkin or therianthropy. its very interestng and worth looking up.
i am a cat and fox therian and am also elven kin. if any other therians/otherkin are wondering.
my awakening was 2 years ago.
please pm me for further information.

[DragonRhapsody]

Hello, I'm new here, I just thought I'd jump right in! ^__^

I haven't done any past life regression, I really want to, though. I am utterly facinated by my past lives. My Reiki teacher told me that in one of my past lives I was an Hindu woman, a "yogi." It explains my facination with Hinduism and complete connection to the Reiki Masters. I also have a feeling that I was male in one of my past lives, possibly a Priest of some sort in the 1300's...not too sure on that one, I just have, now, a dislike for organized religion.

I would love to do some meditation or hypnosis to find out more, but I'm not too sure what to try! ^__^

[akkayakr]

I have had no past life regression sessions. More than any interest of knowing who I might have been, I would like to have access to all the life long knowledge and understanding of those lifes that does not seem to be present in the experience of this life. I am kind of a nobody in this life, so I don't know maybe knowing that I was royalty in a past life might be a bit useless if not depressing, especially if I did nothing to help the world into a better state of humanity then I found it.

I think it has a use as a process to quiet strong emotional problems that might have their origin in a previous life. Some psychics beleive that there is a cell memory associated with the body somewhat like the memory of our consciousness, as a result we may carry over physiological problems into this life. Past life regress may be useful here also.

[comforter]

When I was a kid and we would go from Michigan to see Grandma in Florida; as we'd pass through the mountains, I HAD to listen to that music of the hills. My family would tease me, but I loved it. I always said that someday I was going to live in a little house on a hill in the mountains. Just seemed like where I belonged. As a young teen, I went to a Jean Ritchie (dulcimer player) concert and she shared the music of Appalachia, much of which was Scotts/Irish in tradition. I've always wanted to visit Ireland. Last summer we did, and i felt such an affinity for those people and the lands there. I now have a mountain dulcimer, and know the basics of playing it. The amazing thing is, espciallly with the old country gospel tunes, I can pick up that dulcimer and play tunes I have not learned, just knowing how to form the correct chords. Could it be that I was in a past life, either a poor musician in Ireland or in the mountains somewhere. Just cant get over the closeness I feel to that situation.

[jana]

I've not had past life regression but is something i really want to experience, i have alot of fears i cant explain and i feel im being held back! Ever since i can remeber i feel like ive been carrying around a burden on my shoulders! i dont want to miss out on this life and miss my path because of this! i feel like i need to heal! Can regression help heal? Can regression make things worse? im not sure whether to go thro with it or not xxx

[Lady Mystique]

I've not had past life regression but is something i really want to experience, i have alot of fears i cant explain and i feel im being held back! Ever since i can remeber i feel like ive been carrying around a burden on my shoulders! i dont want to miss out on this life and miss my path because of this! i feel like i need to heal! Can regression help heal? Can regression make things worse? im not sure whether to go thro with it or not xxx

I do know ppl where regression has made things worse ? i would suggest choosing the person very carefully, do a bit of research and use your own judgement...it can help you understand ? sometimes, but you have to look inside yourself to put experiences into proper context, so that you can move on and past your fears. Also accept that what happened in the past only defines you as a person now if you let it. I would suggest you don?t need regression to aid healing ? this you can do for yourself, in different ways.

I have had past life regression ? unfortunately i am not sure what relevance my past experience has in my present one. There are little similarities between me then and me now, except for the female aspect. Not a particularly exciting experience.

I was a young girl, the daughter of a lord/chieftain ? although this did not come with any exceptional privileges, my dress was simple the house not particularly grand ? my perception of this time ? a bit like my father was more a manager directing farming ? keeping of animals in almost like a commune type arrangement.

I had a crush on the stable boy and knew he liked me 2, I initiated contact and begged the boy to meet me by the stream where we could talk, something we could not do openly because of our stations. The meeting would be taboo and we?d have been severely punished if caught ? I was willing to take the chance. I waited and waited hoping he would come, but also fearing he wouldn?t. Hours passed ? he never came. The weeks following he avoided me and I was then told I had to marry a stranger...no choice. My husband wasn?t bad, i did not hate him ? nor did I desire him either ? I did my duty.

[kifuuka]

well a couple nights ago i was lying in be when things started to flash and it kep going until it was like a movie. it was somewhere in japan, i was lying in a field of white flowers and there was some one next to me talking. i looked and saw it was a girl around 14 and she smiling. i had a happy feeling and thats when i started talking. i cant remember what i said but when i finished we got up and headed dowl a the hill we were on and saw a village. the vision changed and there was soe kind of messenger wearing japanese armor. it changed once more and this time i had a katana in my hand there was blood everywhere. i looked again and saw my blade had blood on it. than the scene changed once more to a waterfall. on the other side there was another samurai. although it was a water fall it was more a stream with a waterfall. when some wind blew we charged at eachother katana's in hand a swung. it was kinda blurry but i remember seeing red in the water and than the other samurai collapsed and fell down the waterfall. at the time i was feeling sorrow and regret. when the scene changed one last time i was running and i came to the field of white flowers but the village was aflame. my eyes widened and i ran into the village and opened the rice paper door to a familiar house and i saw the girl from before but around 19 now. i heard a crying and ran to it. what i saw was a baby and i had the feeling it was my child. i took the child and now 19 year old girl and walked out of flaming village and went up to the white flower field and dug a grave for the girl. when i was finished i walked away from the grave and village.

i feel this is a past life because the person from earlier who i killed seemed to be a friend that betrayed me. and recently i got into a fight with my best friend. ive also always had a fascination with japanese swords and warriors. i also was intigued by its culture and history. what do you guys think?

[Selfonomy]

Hello

I am a Past Life Regressionist working in Ireland and have always been deeply facinated by the accounts of past lives given by my clients whilst under hypnosis. It is a subject which for many attempts to satisfy one of the 'big questions' in life - namely, have we been here before?

Also, during my work i have been appauled to hear peoples experiences of other past lilfe regressions in the hands of - at best well meaning, at worst down right dangerous practitioners.

There can be subtle differences between good practice and bad practice. I have heard on a few occasions how, since a regression the person has felt an intense emotion of either guilt, shame or fear. I feel it is part of the Regressionists job to make sure that the client doesnt bring any unwanted memories or emotions with them back into the present otherwise complications and difficulties can arise in a persons sense of self.

It is important to always feel comfortable with your regressionist and it is very tempting to go with any Tom, **** or Harriet because there arent many regressionists to choose from. But it is always best not to take chances with your emotional health. Past Life Regression can be a very pleasant and enlightening experience and one which everybody can partake in safely.

So how do you find a good regressionist and a bad one?
Well this can be tricky - as with anything you want badly enough good judgment can be shelved for the sake of getting what you want.
But here is one failsafe method of distinguishing between a good Regressionist and a bad one.

Most Practioners employing Hypnosis as a means of regressing their clients will have a set of questions to ask you whilst you are in the hypnotic state for example: What do you find your self doing here today? and Describe yourself to me? these are known as open questions.
Open questions of this sort guide the experience of the client, the clients subconscious is then free to wax lyrical.

A closed question would be for example: Are you feeling afraid here? and What kind of trousers are you wearing? The subconscious will always try to make sense out of the question it is being asked and if it is asked, are you feeling afraid here? it will respond to the suggestion of fear and try to make sense of being afraid, thus giving you an answer pertaining to fear. This is a bad line of questioning that leads the clients experience. However, sometimes closed questions are suitable for example: how old are you? and what is your name? these closed questions and have a fixed answer, you either know it or you dont! So it is only the closed questions that elicit a suggested enterpretation by the subconscious that should be avoided.

So what to do? Ask the Regressionist/Hypnotherapist for examples or a copy of the kinds of questions that are asked under hypnosis. If the questions have any closed questions that are suggestable then find someone else!

As with anything, use your gut feeling, if it doesnt feel right to you then its probably not right for you!

I hope this helps in your search for a good Past Life Regressionist.

Best wishes

Graham

(sorry for annny speeling misstakes)

[szumu01]

FROM THE SPIRITS:

Q.Do we re-incarnate again on earth?
A.Now that is a question I find difficulty in answering. I have known no one who has. I passed over many years ago, and I have round about me those who lived thousands of years ago on earth. That is all I can say, because my knowledge does not permit me to say more


30 [THIRTY] YEARS AMONG THE DEAD, 1924 By Carl A. Wickland, M.D.* It must be remembered that even Madam Blavatsky tried to RE-turn after her passing over to the spirit world. On finding that she could not will herself or choose to return to earth as she had taught in her theory of re-incarnation, Blavatsky's work in the spirit world became 'rescuing' spirits trapped in the darkness who were only looking to return to earth life and in so doing found themselves lost or, obsessing or possessing another's physical body. Putting right her erroneous earth teachings, Blavatsky helped to guide lost spirits into Spiritualistic 'rescue circles' here on earth, to help them find the light again and be able to continue their progression into the higher spirit world.

After several weeks of reading the lawyer's automatic writings and, I might add, resonating with them, I came to a message from an ancient East Indian spirit which took me by surprise. In it, he said that he believed reincarnation was a process of purification that was necessary in order for a spirit to attain a state of purification and perfection and arrive at the blissful state of Nirvana. "But in all the years of my spirit existence," he said, "I had not known of a spirit to reincarnate, and in this, my disappointment has been grievous. Karma exists in the spirit world, and many spirits of my association have become pure and perfected spirits through renunciation; yet, they have remained spirits and have progressed to the highest realms without taking another body."

"When comparing the most advanced mortals in mind and soul condition, they are not equal to us in development. This makes me wonder what improvement could be made in our condition in order for us to progress, should we enter into another mortal body. Yet, strangely, we cling to our old belief in reincarnation and congregate together, waiting for something that must happen in order for reincarnation to become the destiny of our souls..."

THE SOUL IS ENCASED IN A SPIRIT BODY
In the following message from an advanced spirit, he explains that it is impossible for a soul in the spirit world to be reincarnated back into flesh. This is because, upon leaving the mortal body, the soul will inhabit its spirit or etheric body thereafter. The spirit body is the envelope and protector of the soul and is what gives the soul its individuality as a conscious entity. The soul is encased in its spirit body which, though physical in nature, is not of a gross material. The spirit body remains with the soul as long as the soul exists. If a soul enters a mortal body, it would have to shed its spirit body, which it cannot do. Only a soul without a spirit body can enter into a mortal body.
When mortals die, their souls have already achieved the purpose of incarnation, that is, individualization of the soul. A soul may become a purified soul through the exercise of will and the expression of remorse in the spirit world. It is, therefore, absolutely unnecessary for the soul to go back to the flesh for another chance to purify itself.
Rev. Merrill goes on about how spirits are continually interacting with the mortal world; child prodigies and child geniuses are said to be old souls who have come back in re-birth. Do people not know that children are most susceptible to spirit influence from birth to six or seven years of age, whether that influencing spirit is a musician, mathematician, poet or writer of prose? How easy it is to forget that spirits are around us at all times, mingling and co-mingling.

Through Mrs. Wickland's inspirational writing, a personal friend, the late Dr. J. M. Peebles (author, lecturer, and diplomat), stated, "When I reached the spirit world, I found such glory and happiness and beauty that I now realize this little earth is a grammar school, not a university or even a high school; it is only the first lesson of life." Why should anyone want to come back again, to be confined in a body? In the spirit world, you are free to travel everywhere. Why go back to that prison again? Dr. Peebles continued, "You can learn in one day here what takes years to learn on earth. Forget reincarnation, because it is a sandbag around your neck. You will have it so centered on your mind, that you will think of nothing else, and you will stay just where you are. You cannot progress because your mind will always revert to the earth again. You cannot live on the earth more than once. Life is progression, not retrogression."
CORRECTION FROM THE OTHER SIDE
The most powerful testimonial came from Helena Blavatsky. Madam Blavatsky was a spiritualist medium of considerable talent and co-founder of the Theosophical Society. She was a pioneer of the New Thought Movement, the early forerunner of New Age. She stated, "I studied reincarnation in India and thought there was truth and justice in the theory that we come back to learn and grow. I taught the theory and wanted to bring it to the world. I felt that I remembered far back into my past, but I was mistaken. When you become sensitive and can feel the spirits around you, they speak to you by impressions, and their past will be like a panorama. A person feels it and will relive the past of spirits, but the mistake is made of taking this for the memory of past incarnations. I did not know this when I lived on earth, but when I came to the spirit side of life I learned differently. Once you reach the spirit world, where all is congenial, where all is life, where all is bliss, where there is no jealousy, no envy, where all is one grand harmony, do you think for one moment that you would want to leave that beautiful condition to come back to earth and be a little baby, restricted in mind and knowing nothing whatever?"
Memories of past lives are caused by spirits that bring such thoughts and represent the lives that they lived. A spirit impresses a person with the experiences of its life and these are implanted in the mind as one's own, causing you to think you remember your past.

Lincoln went into trance - his voice changed, and he gave an fascinating address from his spirit guide, Magnus. When he finished, there were questions and answers. The one question which stuck with me was asked by a woman concerning reincarnation. The spirit guide, Magnus, replied that he had seen many spirits waiting to return to earth, but had never seen any spirits actually leave the spirit world. Furthermore, he added that he and his companions were more advanced than mortals and, therefore, could not imagine what would be accomplished by returning to the earth. I quickly glanced over at the woman to see her reaction. She was visibly taken back; obviously, this was not what she had expected to hear.

It is true that communications, or what purport to be communications, from the dead assert the doctrine of reincarnation. But we must remember that there is no agreement in communications of the dead about their life. The disagreement is as great as it is about philosophic views among the living. The probable origin of the theory of reincarnation explains the element of truth which it contains. But the survival of personal identity, adequately supported by facts, contradicts the main doctrine of the reincarnationist. It goes to prove that we are receiving only statements of opinion, not facts, from communicators, if we accept the statements as communications from a transcendental world.
Some communicators deny the reincarnation. Some venture to adduce facts to support it, but these will not bear the slightest examination as evidence. For instance, some will tell us that they can remember a previous existence. But they do not reckon with illusions of memory. We sometimes recall something which we locate in a certain time and place, but find later that this location was wrong. When the total experience is recalled we find that we are dealing with two events connected only by similarity. We confused them because of the imperfection of the recall. This imperfect recall will explain most of the alleged instances of recollection of a prenatal past. Other facts adduced in support of reincarnation can be explained as mediumistic phenomena. That is, discarnate personalities may produce in the minds of psychics the feeling of long past time or of previous existence by the transmission, telepathically perhaps, of their own feelings and states of mind. These would naturally enough be interpreted as evidence of reincarnation. But when we find that they are memories transmitted from the discarnate to the living mind, their claims as evidence are nullified. The sense of recognizing a place which we are seeing for the first time is another type of fact like the one just considered, except that it involves space instead of time. It too can be explained either as an illusion of memory or as clairvoyance.
Either hypothesis nullifies the value of the facts as evidence for reincarnation. What it is that can recommend the doctrine of reincarnation to its believers is difficult to understand. It contains nothing desirable and nothing ethical. Reincarnation is not desirable, because it does not satisfy the only instinct that makes survival of any kind interesting, namely, the instinct to preserve the consciousness of personal identity. This is denied to the process until its end and that is never in sight! Moreover, assertion of even this return of memory is purely arbitrary. Man's only interest in survival is for the persistence of his personal identity. It is a form of the impulse towards self-preservation, which is fundamental to all the acquisitions of experience and character in this life. A future life must be the continuity of this consciousness or it is not a life to us at all. Moreover, there is nothing ethical in the doctrine. The absolutely fundamental condition of all ethics is memory and the retention of personal identity, and memory and personal identity are excluded from the process of reincarnation. That you cannot maintain a theory of responsibility in any existence without memory is a truism in ethics and even in our civil courts. If our personal identity were changed, we could not be held responsible for anything we did. If we lost our memory every five minutes we should be regarded as insane, and crime could not be ascribed to us. In cases of alternating personality, punishment might be meted out to the personality performing the act, but this restraint could not apply to the other personality. The result is that cases of dissociation and change of personality are subjects for the physician and not the police.
The doctrine of reincarnation has to face this large question. We cannot apply to any future life the categories of the present, unless personal identity be assumed. Memory from one stage to another is necessary to the continuance of existence. "Karma" without memory is retribution minus all grounds for it, abstracting everything that makes it rational. When, in the light of psychic research, we examine the early theories of animism and the doctrine of reincarnation as held among the early Greek philosophers, even the materialists Empedocles and Democritus, we may discover how the theory of reincarnation originated. Primitive animism was bound up with the belief in reincarnation, but it was not clearly worked out into a logical and consistent philosophy. We find in animism only the seeds of the doctrine, in the naive ideas of ignorant people with a penchant for explaining things. But when we recognize undeveloped spiritualism in this primitive animism, we find a clue to the origin of the myth of reincarnation.
Do spirits reincarnate? Findlay replies: ?To return would be retrogression and we have no evidence that this is nature?s plan. It sounds simple and believable to those who have never thought out how we obtain our individual minds and become individual beings. These come from our parents as already explained. There is no mystery about it, so the one who believes that he or she is the reincarnation of some individual who once lived, must explain how this separate individual mind took the place of the combined minds of his or her parents at conception. It is caused by misunderstanding of the facts and sprang from minds. These views, I may say, receive the support of my informants in the Etheric world, who say that they know of no one who has incarnated again on earth. They have with them those who live on earth thousands of years ago, and those not with them have gone on to higher planes.