My past life mom and I spent some time together this morning before a funeral service. She held my hand while we were walking and I swear I could feel our centuries worth of shared karmic history. As far as I know, she doesn't seem to be consciously aware of her past lives, not that she's mentioned to me anyway.
Her current self is unlikely to accept the idea of reincarnation, so I don't plan on telling her, at least not right now. That said, if you were in this position, would you do it?
If I am to refer to your first post in a little more detail (I was half asleep this morning when I originally posted), I have that with my Mum right now and have done since I moved out of home. She's not consciously aware of her PL in Germany during the Third Reich, nor is she aware consciously of the little quirks she does that relate directly to her PL in the Third Reich. In that lifetime, she was VERY anti-Semitic towards me and often taunted me for being Jewish. She couldn't accept me how I was then, and so in this current lifetime, she has had to learn to accept me for how I am now (a 'Gentile' and her daughter). In my current life's adolescence, she still taunted me (not for being Jewish, but because 'I wasn't a boy') and it didn't stop until I got married. I realised this stemmed from her PL in Germany where she had two boys and a girl. We probably go way back further too, like you and your Mum.
I think I posted it in here somewhere (I can't remember where - too long ago) but one morning while she was on holiday staying with me, she mentioned a dream that I instantly knew was a past life. After some quick research and a chat with my guides, I realised she had described the bombing of Dresden in 1945. Her once elegant self was left penniless and starving on the streets of Dresden. She died from starvation in that lifetime (She described her self as 'looking old, dirty and 'eeew', while the 'concrete' she described seeing around her, was in fact rubble from the bombings). However, I would NEVER tell her all this, but I have 'tested the waters' and shown (I claimed these were on 'accident' but really I was doing it deliberately) her period photographs of her PL son, Dresden, Prague and other such places that I knew would be 'subconsciously familiar' to her. When I showed her the picture of her PL son, she instantly became very furious at me and yelled "I don't want to know! I don't want to understand!". I later learned it was like pointing a pistol in her face. Her subconscious memories were triggered but she did not understand in what way, because she does not hold the belief you or I do. Since then, I've left the topic well alone with her.
That last part is what I'm afraid of. I don't want to put her off or ruin the friendship we have now.
You could (and I say this being at your own risk) just nonchalantly show her a photograph of the city where you both lived in this PL, and see what she says. You could disguise it as thoughts for a holiday destination and if she asked you why would you want to visit such a place, you could say that it is 'somewhere different'. When I was trying to work out who my husband was in his PL so I could heal some karmic energy with him (He was with me in Germany too, but as a 'work colleague') I showed him a photograph of Koenigsberg during the war, where he was last reported alive in 1945. He said that it 'looked like a nice place', and would be interested in visiting, so I left it at that.
But like I said, I'd tread very carefully if you choose to tell her and she's doesn't believe. I've had full blown online arguments with people who don't believe we can live more than once, and sometimes these little secrets are treasures best kept for ourselves. Just keep what you have with her now, and keep the little secret to yourself. It's far more satisfying that way.
Eva x