Reincarnation Adventures

Another New Memory

It’s always a nice surprise when a pleasant memory from a past life spontaneously resurfaces.

Today I was listening to some traditional Chinese music while taking care of some paperwork at my job. There is something about traditional Chinese music that I have always found very soothing. I used to go to Chinese restaurants partially just to hear the music. Even the lively tunes cause my blood pressure to drop.

I’ve got a slight cold today and am a little on the sleepy side because of it. All of the sudden, I found myself remembering a moment in time when I was snuggled up to my husband on a boat. There was a very contented sleepy feel to the memory. We seemed to be on a river in China. Through the window, I could see the edge of the river and the beautiful mountains of China slowly drift by. The sense was that my husband and I were newly married and were traveling to our new home together. I don’t think we were wealthy, so I’m not sure why there would have been music. Perhaps some musicians were fellow travelers and decided to pass the time doing what they loved. A gentle rain started falling, which enhanced the sleepy mood.

I feel blessed that so many of the memories that come back to me are moments of complete contentment.

Tags: past lives, reincarnation

Past Life R.I.P.

BTW, I would encourage everyone to check out the Past Life website while it is still up. They did a good job of presenting a lot of solid information on reincarnation studies in general, and you can catch up on the aired episodes, at least for the next few weeks, in case you missed them. FOX still gets kudos from me for airing this program at all and treating the subject intelligently .

Tags: Past Life, reincarnation

Past Life TV Review

As a past life reader myself, I was thrilled when I heard that FOX was bringing a show on involving reincarnation as one of their mid-season replacements. The general premise of the show, Past Life, is that a past life regressionist works with a private detective to help solve old crimes that based on past life memories of the victims. The fact that it was a police procedural (more or less) was a bonus. Could it be that mainstream television was finally taking reincarnation seriously and not treating it with the usual romanticism or flakey New Agey slant they normally do?

Let’s get the bad out of the way. The only thing that I didn’t like about the show was glaring leaps made in the detective work. First, the detective magically decides that a case, with sketchy clues at best, occurred in Washington D.C. instead of out of all the places in the U.S. and Canada where it could possibly have happened. Then with only working on research overnight, he manages to figure out exactly who the victim was. Damn. If he wasn’t a fictional character, I would hire him in a heartbeat to work on a reincarnation murder case that I read for. It is nowhere near that easy to figure out who someone was.

Aside from that, the show lived up to my hopes. The series was based on some novels by M.J. Rose. I’ve read her blog and have to say, she is well versed in Western reincarnation theory. It showed in some aspects of the storyline as well. There were some things that your average joe wouldn’t know about reincarnation, like the fact that people do switch back and forth between being a male and a female, and the ever frustrating pieces of a puzzle nature of past life memories. The reincarnated character came back unusually quickly, but people who died traumatically and young do tend to come back more quickly than the average person. Even though it is fiction, this may be one of those shows where you actually can learn something about the paranormal.

On the non-reincarnation entertainment level, it also worked. I had read an advance review whose major complaint was that the lead characters were bland. It makes me wonder if we were watching the same show. Lifeless? Hardly! I particularly liked Kelly Giddish as the reincarnationist Dr. Kate McGinn. She brought an unexpectedly impish edge to an otherwise forthright, determined character. The story was pretty good and off the beaten path. I was also amused by the other characters’ constant mocking and disbelief about reincarnation. It may get old pretty quick, but it’s very true to life.

I’m thinking that anyone who believes in reincarnation or is intrigued by it will probably enjoy this show. Those that don’t will likely also find it entertaining as a science fiction/fantasy crime show if the writers can avoid any more unrealistic leaps in the detective work.

If the series has tweaked your interest in reincarnation, some of my colleagues in the field and I have a lot of information about it up at the Historical Figures Reincarnated website, including an article about how to find out about your own past lives. FOX also has some good articles about reincarnation on their Past Life website.

Past Life airs on FOX 9 pm EST on Thursdays for a limited run.

Tags: M.J. Rose, Past Life, past lives, reincarnation, tv

Reminder About Past Life TV Show

Past Life, the crime drama that focuses on solving crimes by using the past life memories of the reincarnated victims premieres Tuesday, February 9 on FOX.  I am quite interested to see how people react to this, as it is the first mainstream tv show I know of to treat reincarnation as a matter of fact.

So far, the 2 reviews I have seen of it have been lukewarm, but for reasons that I find iffy.  The first said the storyline was interesting, but said that the main characters were bland.  Just in the 3 minute trailer I’ve seen of it, one can see definite sparks of personality coming through in the main character, so I’m not sure what he was expecting.  Maybe the usual woowoo New Agey stereotype one usually sees when this topic comes up in fiction?  The other reviewer said that the main characters were really interesting, but he thought that the whole concept of treating reincarnation like it is real was just silly.  Sigh.  If he doesn’t believe in reincarnation, one would expect that he would review it as science fiction/fantasy.

Even if the general public reacts the same way the reviewers did, it’s still a step in the right direction that the show is airing at all.   I’m happy for any show that treats my beliefs with respect.

Tags: Past Life, past lives, reincarnation, tv

Progress?

I went to a Civil War reenactor’s ball last night.  I was hoping that it might jog some memories from my past life in that era loose.  For the most part it didn’t, but there is one incident that has me wondering.

Someone asked my my name, and I blurted out “Emmeline Baker!”  What the heck?!  I’ve suspected that my first name in that life was Emmeline, but the Baker part is new.  I haven’t come across anyone named Baker in my research back tracking my life from that of my first husband.  I’m also a little concerned at how similar it is to Josephine Baker, as in, I’m considering whether my brain was just scrambling some things together that aren’t really related except for the sound.

It’s all very odd.  I will see what I can find in the genealogical databases I have available to me when I get back into work tomorrow.  It’s throwing me off that I am not getting a strong gut reaction to this one way or the other.  Well see.

Tags: past lives, reincarnation

So You Want to Be a Psychic?

Well, you’re in luck!  I have just set up a free psychic development group on the Haunted Voices Radio Network social network.

I wasn’t always highly psychic.  While I had some psychic ability as a kid, it was nothing to brag about.  Growing up with extremely skeptical parents didn’t help.  After a terrifying experience with a malevolent entity in college, my psychic abilities shut down completely for over 2 decades.  However, my mediumship skills started kicking in again during a business trip to the extremely haunted Charleston, South Carolina.  That spurred me to get involved in paranormal research and look into developing my psychic abilities.  After working with another psychic development group for a couple of years, I was stunned by how well I could read people’s past lives and come up with information that there was no way I could have known on a conscious level.  In some cases, I was even getting names and dates that were verifiable in historic records.  It’s pretty mind-blowing when you’ve given someone their name, when they were born, and where they lived in a past life reading only for them to call you up a few days later saying that they found their past life self in the census records.

This is starting to sound like an infomercial.  LOL!

Anyway, the point is, if I can do it, so can you.  The lessons will be offered free as part of HVRN’s commitment to bringing paranormal education to the world.  I’m trying to set this up so that you can start at any time and it will be helpful for all levels of ability.  If you are more advanced, please feel free to stop in and share your knowledge, too.  We can all learn from each other.

And while you are in the educational mode, please also consider taking HVRN’s evp lessons.  The basic lessons are free, and the advanced ones are donation funded.

Tags: Haunted Voices Radio, past lives, psychic

Famous Past Lives – Issues to Consider

One theory I’ve heard about why so many people think that they were the same historical person in a past life is because they were close enough to that person to have some similar memories. For example, they may have been the maidservant to Cleopatra, or Napolean’s valet. They remember enough about the intimate life of the famous person that they believe they are that person instead of just someone closely connected to them.

I would suggest that anyone who feels a strong connection to a famous person from the past take it back one step further and consider that the famous person may feel so familiar to you simply because they were so well known. Famous people influenced a lot of people’s lives, even the lives of people who never met them, both during their own lifetime and after. You may have a strong emotion about them because you idolized them in a past life. Or maybe they had a significant influence on your life somehow. Famous people will also show up in your dreams or stand out to you in other ways because they function as archetypes. When you are having dreams about them or feelings or feelings of familiarity, it would probably help to try to figure out what they represent to you on a metaphorical level.

So, just how do you sort it all out?

One commonality I’ve noticed in people who I believe to truly have been someone famous in their past life is that they fought against the idea for a long time and only reluctantly finally gave in an accepted it. They flat out did not want to have been that famous person. If your main thought when you discover you may have had a historically significant past life is “Wow! I was really important. That’s so cool,” you probably ought to also look at the current state of your ego and consider that you may have a need to be important. If you think that you had multiple famous past lives, that’s an even stronger indication that you may be confusing a need of the ego with the truth.

Next, look at the degree of fame that person had. The vast majority of people I have met who I believe to have had famous past lives were what I call the B-Listers of history. Looking at it from a fantasy versus reality point of view, someone who has a need to feel important is going to fantasize about being the king, not the king’s third cousin twice removed. One reason why I believe Jessica Jones Jewett’s claims of being the reincarnation of Fanny Chamberlain is that realistically, nobody fantasizes about being the wife of a Civil War hero and governor of Maine. Most people have never even heard of Fanny Chamberlain, and the historians that have generally treat her in a unflattering manner. Which brings me to a related aspect. The degree of admiration that people have for the historical person could be another factor in determining that a past life memory is for real. The less that people respect the person now, the more likely the memories of being that person are to be real.

If you go to a psychic for a reading or or a hypnotherapist for a regression, do not mention who you think you were. Instead, ask them to look into the time period or an issue in your current life that relates to the possible famous past life. There is a natural inclination to want to make the client happy. Even if your reader or hypnotherapist isn’t consciously doing that, being front loaded with a suggestion about who you were could falsely influence the results they get. If the reader or hypnotherapist is unscrupulous, they will use that knowledge and make up whatever they think you want to hear.

That isn’t to say that no one who remembers being a well-liked, very famous person from the past really was that person in a past life. I have met some people who I do believe to be the reincarnations of very high-profile, well-loved people. Influential people from the past reincarnate just the same as everyone else. However, if you do think that you may have been a famous person in a past life, it is essential that you be brutally honest with yourself about the ego issue. And I do mean brutally honest. If you do that and still come to the conclusion that you were who you think you were, then that will give you more confidence that what you are experiencing is real and not some flight of fancy. If you can’t honestly say that there aren’t any egotistical needs playing into your belief, don’t kick yourself for it. Ego is a normal human failing. We’ve all got it to some degree. You just aren’t doing yourself any favors by holding on to it instead of looking for the truth about your past lives.

Tags: past lives, reincarnation

The Plot Thickens

I’ve mentioned in a previous blog about how some issues from my past life were being echoed in the life of my current sister. In that life, she had been my father and would not allow me to marry my childhood sweetheart before he left to fight in the Civil War. Her reason was that we were too young and not financially secure. My beloved was killed in the war, and I never forgave my father for denying me the short period of happiness we could have had together if we had been allowed to marry. In the current life, my sister ended up marrying very young and without financial security herself. I thought it was interesting that she chose to explore the same kind of situation that she denied me when she was my father.

Well, things just got more interesting. Now, her 18 year old son has announced that he is engaged to his equally young girlfriend, and of course, they don’t have two nickels to rub together. I’ll be intrigued to see how she handles it this time around. Is it bad of me that I find this whole situation hilarious?

Probably.

But it’s still funny.

Tags: reincarnation

Another of My Own Past Life Memories Resurfaced

I love it when I recover more memories from my past lives. I’m still trying to figure out what kinds of things trigger them. In the case of last night, I seem to have gotten one on request.

I was laying in bed after an emotionally rough day. I had already vented about it and wanted to switch gears to some happier thoughts, so I asked my angels to lift my spirits. Shortly thereafter, some pleasant images started filling my mind. What I saw was me around 2 or 3 years old in my Civil War life. I was over visiting at the home of Oscar, who was my age but would eventually become my husband. I’m not sure if his parents were babysitting me or if my family was there for a party that would run too late for little ones’ bedtimes, but Oscar and I were put in the same bed to sleep. It felt like our normal bedtime, but there was still light out, like it was a summer evening. We were having too much fun to settle down and sleep. We’d put our foreheads together so that the other would look like a Cyclops and giggle ourselves silly over it. A dark-haired lady poked her head in the room to shush us and tell us to go to sleep. She tried to be stern, but you could tell that she was quite amused by us.

My friend Steph had pointed out to me that the memories that tend to surface are often the small moments in life that had a deep emotional significance even if they weren’t about big events. I’ve been finding that the ones I have the clearest memories of are indeed moments when I was in a state of deep contentment, not even so much great joy, but the sense that all is right with the world.

Tags: past life memories, reincarnation

Spam Problem Fixed

Awhile ago, I had to discontinue allowing comments on my blog because I was literally getting a ratio of 49 spam comments to every legitimate one. Who has time to constantly go through and delete out all that nonsense?

I just installed Askimet’s anti-spam program for blogs. I’ve been hearing good things about it, so keep your fingers crossed for me. And many thanks to Askimet for making this available for free to personal or commercial sites that bring in less than $500 a month.

I may or may not be going back through my past blogs to re-allow comments, but comments will be enabled from here on out.