Good morning Glia,
That is a good question, and I am happy to answer. I thought about your questions, not the question, but how best to answer, as my answers took many years to get to where I am now. I decided that I will write more than one post. You may be able to relate to my journey. I am also a scientist, an Electrical Engineer. My life is energy, frequency, magnetism; things we cannot sense with four of our 5 senses, and touch is not recommended. Energy cannot be destroyed, only converted. Like most teenagers, at some point, I started questioning life, and purpose. A lot of research followed, until I was convinced of reincarnation when I was as about 26yrs. That is when Arnol Bloxham was using hypnosis, and making recordings, in Cardiff, where I was living at the time.
Many years later, I joined my present partner. After the first "event", I started documenting. (See my post of 20th March). Once I realized that we had spiritual assistance, bringing us together, I needed verification. By this time I had met many of Hazel's friends, that were similarly gifted. I was told that we had been together before, and many other things. One morning, having coffee with a regular visitor, I asked, "Why is this not common knowledge? Why do you guys not talk more openly, and only to your friends?" Her simple answer was profound. "They used to burn us."
There are white witches, and dark witches. Stay in he light. I hear this often.
So I do not know my past lives. I only know what I am told, by those that "have knowings". We are very connected to our native communities. They worship Mother Earth, and the Creator. These beliefs make sense. My wife is able to communicate with her mentor, on the other side. She is a healer. When questioned by me, she explains that healers are simply conduits. The healers comes through her, from a spirit helper.
Of course, I have to test and replicate everything. It is who I am. We are in communication with more than a dozen psychics. They do not call themselves psychics. That is a collective term that I use for them. They all have similar abilities, but no two are the same. Hazel was so overwhelmed with seeing dead people as she was growing up, that she tried to block those visions. She can only sense them now, and sees shadows, and pixilated images. but she can communicate with them. Marion, can see and communicate, the same way as with a living person. Hazel's bloodline are all gifted. Her mother, children and grandchildren, all with varying degrees of the same abilities. The younger ones deny the ability, mostly from fear, except one grandson, who I will post about.
Most religions believe in reincarnation, catholicism being the one that denies it, and was responsible for the burning of the "witches". History is my prime hobby, so I will not go there on catholicism, only that before Rome high-jacked Christianity, there was a belief in reincarnation. Many, perhaps most, Orthodox Christians believe.
Getting back to who I am, and what I do, Reincarnation makes a lot more sense, than birth, death, that's it. It was this inefficient use of life that got me first thinking, when I was about 16. What was the purpose? I looked at child prodigies. Example, explain how a 4yr year old can play a piano like a 40yr old with 25yrs of practice. Not logical. But playing from memory certainly is.
This subject really took off, when the internet got busy in the early 90s, and a World of information became available for further research.
I believe what the psychics tell me, as I always ask the same question of at least three of them. The ones that work with me have not met each other. They only know me. That is how I am able to research, and be able to accept the answers as a truth. Like electricity, we are dealing with an intangible subject. Our only proof, or truth, is the overwhelming preponderance of the evidence.
Peter