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Who do think you have been in previous lives?
« on: March 10, 2007, 08:21:18 am »
I thought this might be fun (I am not taking myself seriously here!) : accept the hypothesis that reincarnation is a fact; according to what you know about yourself - your desires, gifts, "memories" that don't belong to this life - who do you think you were in past lives?

I believe I must have been a man several times (certainly in the Middle Ages), and a least one of those times a gay man.
I believe I have lived in Spain, and in Britain (and maybe Russia).
I must have taken part in revolutionary wars (the Spanish civil war at least, on the Republican/anarchist side).
I feel (very strongly, on this one :-\) that I was sent to a concentration camp during WW2, but didn't die there.

What about you?
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Re: Who do think you have been in previous lives?
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2007, 02:40:07 pm »
I think in a past life, I lived in ancient Egypt.  The exact details are well, fuzzy.  ;)

If I were to be born again into the 'next life', I'd want to be a Siberian tiger.
(Yes, I have given this alot of thought ..  ;D )


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Re: Who do think you have been in previous lives?
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2007, 02:45:16 pm »
why just for fun?  I belong to a mystical tradition that works on the development of techniques for awakening one's sense of and certainty regarding our own soul information.

I have had many memories of former lives, and they are all quite detailed.
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Re: Who do think you have been in previous lives?
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2007, 03:05:50 pm »
In my previous lives, I have been.....

An egyptian priestess who sacrificed her romantic interest in order to follow her temple.

A nobleman that might have been executed during the French revolution, who happened to be gay, and was turned in by his lover.  This one's difficult to remember exactly because I'm not certain if he was rescued or not. The few emotional memories I have definitely indicate a feeling of being taken away from one's love.

A prehistoric shaman somewhere in Eurasia.  The only thing I can remember from that lifetime was that I killed someone for a bronze figurine of the goddess. That someone happens to have reincarnated as my brother in this lifetime.

A German spy (or some other discrete figure) during WWII.
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Re: Who do think you have been in previous lives?
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2007, 03:09:08 pm »
I'm not very sure if this is true. Reincarnation that is. But I was told I was a man in my previous life. The one right before this one. The person who told me this couldn't give me details about it, just that I was a man.
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Re: Who do think you have been in previous lives?
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2007, 03:24:21 pm »
A German spy (or some other discrete figure) during WWII.

Aha... and now we meet again! Maybe YOU 're the one who turned me in??  ;)
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Re: Who do think you have been in previous lives?
« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2007, 03:28:48 pm »
why just for fun? 
I have had many memories of former lives, and they are all quite detailed.

OK Louise, maybe I was a teeny bit shy about admitting I do believe this is not my first life on this earth, and also I wanted everyone to join in even if all they do is put in their 'best guesses', whether they believe in reincarnation or not.

And Louise, I'd be VERY interested to know more about the techniques you mention (really).
Also, can you tell us more about what you remember of your previous lives please?
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Re: Who do think you have been in previous lives?
« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2007, 03:42:00 pm »
The jury is still out on reincarnation as far as I'm concerned.  It might be, but I don't know.  I've never had dreams of other lives and just one vision, but just one and that might have just been my imagination.

I do know friends who have had visions and believe they had previous lives.

Personally, I've had a strong attraction to the ancient Graeco-Roman world ever since I was a little girl.  Don't know why, but it's an obsession that has continued to this day.  An old boss of mine who was also a witch, believed that I probably had previous lives during the times I'm most attracted to.

I also have a strong strong affinity for colonial Britain and feudal Japan and that's it.  I find other cultures interesting, but not as compelling like these three.

Gender-wise, I think I probably was a man at one point or another.

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Re: Who do think you have been in previous lives?
« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2007, 03:46:13 pm »
Aha... and now we meet again! Maybe YOU 're the one who turned me in??  ;)

I don't know, but if I did I got my just rewards. The details of this life are sketchy, but I know how he died.... Intentionally suffocated in an air-tight chamber.  Age 24.
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Re: Who do think you have been in previous lives?
« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2007, 03:54:25 pm »
I don't know, but if I did I got my just rewards. The details of this life are sketchy, but I know how he died.... Intentionally suffocated in an air-tight chamber.  Age 24.

OK Daniel, how did you come to know/remember all this? It's fascinating!
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