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What first made you believe it is possible?

Ohiomommy

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For me, it was when my two year old daughter began saying things we know she has never heard (she was never in childcare or away from me) and actually spoke Latin (we know she had never heard any and she spoke VERY well). She is now 8 years old and has always been very intelligent and above her age level in everything. My son who is nine has also given us a few surprise clues. He is hyperactive and has dyslexia which interferes with his learning somewhat but he is also very intelligent and they both retain a great deal of information. My husband and I always dismissed the idea of reincarnation and were strict Baptist and everything we had always believed came crashing down when our children began recalling what seem to be past life memories. When I began college a year later to finish my teaching degree, I was actually told by the professor in Child Development class that recalling past lives is so common that anyone working with small children, especially before the age of 5 will hear little recollections frequently but we should ignore it and not upset the parents by telling them. Now that our children are older, we kind of miss the little stories they used to tell.
 
Hello


Welcome to the forum, and thanks for sharing your childrens' experiences. That must have been amazing to hear your 2 year old speaking Latin, did you ever write anything down to see if you could translate what she was saying?


I would love to hear about any more memories they told you about, if you can remember.


I hope you enjoy reading through other childrens' experiences here, feel free to join in with any of the discussions.


Chris... :)
 
Welcome to the forum, Ohiomommy. :)


What you shared is very interesting! Like Chris, I'd love to hear more. :thumbsup:


I hope you'll find this forum a useful place. There are plenty of interesting stories about children remembering past lives.


Karoliina
 
I did write down what she said and went to the library and translated it. She said "I want to see my teacher" which was odd not only because it was in Latin (we were lucky we were able to guess the right language by chance) but because she didn't have any teachers. She said the same verse over and over. My son had vivid memories of a farm that he only talks about in his sleep now. We have always lived in the city. He knows quite a bit about farming and animals- he knew alot before he even knew how to read. I think he had a rather simple life on a farm. As for my daughter, she has a very unique personality all her own, she really stands out. She is very mature, well cordinated (even as an infant), fearless and very clever. When she started preschool at age 4, she once said to her teacher "Who do you think you are talking to? do you know who I am ?" which really schocked us because she is not normally disrespectful. and would say other things that made us think "Where did she get that?" My husband and I joke that she was royalty. She and her brother have been raised the exact same way yet they are so different. If they were not reincarnated, something is going on!. I would like to add that they meet the 4 clues especially the one about being consistant. Their stories have never changed, they just remember less and less.
 
Thanks for the welcome. I have been visiting this site for over a year and finally decided to add my experience.
 
Thank you Ohiomommy......Welcome!


It is so nice to read your experience with your daughter and son. My first experience was with my son. I believe it is the children who will point the way. ;) I hope to hear more about your children's experiences and your thoughts else where on the forum. :D
 
Helena Rose told me about her past life when she was about 1 1/2 years old. After she told me that her parents were murdered many things began to make sense. But I think I may still have had some small doubts if it wasn't that I could plainly see by the way she spoke that the story she told had really happened and was not a child's fantasy. My recollection of those minutes that she first spoke of her parent's death remains just as frozen in my memory as the moment I heard that President Kennedy was shot. What she discribed was so real to her, as though it had just recently happened, that I heard her tell her memory as though it truly had just happened myself.


This is rather hard for me to put into words, but I have noticed that others have also mentioned that when the child first tells of thier past life memory they speak in a different manner than what is usual for them or any child.
 
Marsey,


The first moment that I knew my son was telling me a story that had actually happened was when he spoke of his past life mother dying in a car accident. He was at first speaking in that matter of fact tone you mentioned but he got emotional when speaking of her dying.


He had said some other things up to that point but that is the exact moment that I really knew it could be nothing else.


Vicky
 
I have always just remembered things since early childhood. I wrote about it. But there were numerous other incidents.


I thought it was perfectly normal and until I went to school assumed that everyone was the same, would just have these images or whatever they were, about people in other historical periods and would just know things and remember things. :)


In my teens I came across a book about reincarnation and the 'penny dropped'. I thought, oh, so that's what that is!
 
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Ohiomommy said:
For me, it was when my two year old daughter began saying things we know she has never heard (she was never in childcare or away from me) and actually spoke Latin (we know she had never heard any and she spoke VERY well). She is now 8 years old and has always been very intelligent and above her age level in everything. My son who is nine has also given us a few surprise clues. He is hyperactive and has dyslexia which interferes with his learning somewhat but he is also very intelligent and they both retain a great deal of information. My husband and I always dismissed the idea of reincarnation and were strict Baptist and everything we had always believed came crashing down when our children began recalling what seem to be past life memories. When I began college a year later to finish my teaching degree, I was actually told by the professor in Child Development class that recalling past lives is so common that anyone working with small children, especially before the age of 5 will hear little recollections frequently but we should ignore it and not upset the parents by telling them. Now that our children are older, we kind of miss the little stories they used to tell.
Hi there, for me it was a very gradual process of piecing together different things I experienced and remembered, what I called memories of things that never happened because I knew they were memories but not of things that happened in this life and since as a child I was not taught about reincarnation, I just always knew I had some fragmented real memories of things that never happened (in this life) that I tried to explain away as anything other than past life (including a memory of dying!), till I gradually began to realize past life was the only answer and I was still afraid to accept it due to being a Christian, but I do remember that I finally accepted that reincarnation as being real when I heard one of the cases on the news of a child remembering a past life as a fighter in WWII, he remembered so much that he knew his past life name, and his past life sister's name who his family researched and finally found and contacted and she was a accepting of them and confirmed everything the kid had said about his past life even things they did together as children in his past life and he even remembered a nickname that he called her in his past life plus a whole bunch of things like that, and this was all when he was like 3yrs old. By age 6 the memories faded but his parents who did not believe in reincarnation before that, had written it all down. That's when I finally accepted it. :thumbsup:


 
most of my family does not believe in reincarnation because they are mainstream christians but I dont think it goes against he bible at all. Debbie made a post about "What Jesus said about children who do not forget" which is just one part in the bible refering to reincarnation. I personally respect all religions and would never try to "force" others to believe what I believe. I think people should investigate things and for their own beliefs. Here are some examples in this article:


http://www.near-death.com/experiences/origen03.html
 
And as he was passing by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who has sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?"


Jesus answered, "Neither has this man sinned, nor his parents, but the works of God were to be made manifest in him.'" (John 9:1-3)


-I like this one because it shows that the disiples believed in reincarnation and had the idea that the blind man could be punished for a past life which may be true or not
 
Ohiomommy said:
most of my family does not believe in reincarnation because they are mainstream christians but I dont think it goes against he bible at all. Debbie made a post about "What Jesus said about children who do not forget" which is just one part in the bible refering to reincarnation. I personally respect all religions and would never try to "force" others to believe what I believe. I think people should investigate things and for their own beliefs. Here are some examples in this article:
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/origen03.html
Okay cool thanks! Yeah I don't believe it goes against Christianity either now, before I thought it did but now I see that it does not. There's a lot more to the spirit realm than people can possible fully know on this side. :thumbsup: Thanks for the link I will check that out. :thumbsup:




Ohiomommy said:
And as he was passing by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who has sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?"
Jesus answered, "Neither has this man sinned, nor his parents, but the works of God were to be made manifest in him.'" (John 9:1-3)


-I like this one because it shows that the disiples believed in reincarnation and had the idea that the blind man could be punished for a past life which may be true or not

Exactly!!! :thumbsup: I like that one too! :thumbsup::thumbsup:
:)


 
I remember since being a lil' child that i thought reincarnation was a normal thing.


I've always known. It seemed to me very bizarre/abnormal otherwise.


That said, to speak the truth, i hardly recognize myself in any pubblication, theory or whatsoever about past life and reincarnation in general.


I found some days ago some youtube video with an interview with Michael Newton, a psichiatrist, who does PLR on his patient in order to solve their problems.


He talked about what could be the afterlife and the mechanism of reincarnation but i clearly didn't recognize many of his theories (that he deduces from the PLR with his patients).


I have very personal thoughts about that but i rarely talk about it.


;)
 
I grew up in a catholic society - though a very open minded one - open minded as well at school as well at home. I was about 9 years old when my mum gave me a book about an indian orphant boy - that was my first concious contact with reincarnation that I can recall - and it jus made sense - i am a pretty logical person ( math runs in the family ) and reincarnation answered many of my questions. Over the years I got more and more confirmations - personal experiences and books I read.


Clivia
 
What first made me believe it was possible, other than as the romantic ideals of philosophers was when I went to my priest to talk about the memories and dreams I'd been having about a lifetime as a woman during the Victorian era.


His response was what sent me to search for answers somewhere other than the Church. In studying Eastern religions and the writings of people like Madame Blavatsky, I found more questions than answers, but at least it got me started in the right direction.


Phoenix
 
When my daughter started having memories and would have me drive to specific places, giving me information before we got there. The information always checked out .. and a trip to the library proved even the names were correct.
 
What first made me believe it was possible...


... I think my own memories.


I have always believed in a soul and in a "life after death". I don't know why, I just believed it as long as I remember. Reincarnation sounds to me as a very logical and natural option, but I wasn't certain about it.


Last february I began to remember my own past lifes. Suddenly all my strange thought and fantasy stories became clear. Since then I have read some things about reincarnation, memories of children and other stuff like that. And now is reincarnation for me more a fact than a believe. :)
 
My 2 year old granddaughter calling me mommy.


I would say no silly that's not my name I'm grandma. At first I thought she was playing a game. But after it happened a couple of times she started saying ooohh I keep forgetting.


I said keep forgetting I'm you're grandma?


She said no silly that you're not my mommy this time.


I said I've always been your grandma.


She said no grandma before when you use to be my mommy.


She asked me once why were you my mommy before but not now? I had no answer for her.


I tried asking questions but the only answer I could get was "before". She would just come out with little things here and there. Like I looked for you for a long time. I missed you. I'm glad I found you. She didn't want to leave me because she was afraid I would move and she wouldn't be able to find me again. I had lived in the same place since she was born. So what she was saying really didn't make any sense. The only answers she would give was "before you know before"


I didn't know at the time that young children could recall past lives.


These things happened until she turned about 5. She would call me mommy when she was talking to me and then correct herself and call me grandma.


During this same time I started having dreams of a pioneer family. A husband, wife and a little girl not more than 2 years old. I would wake with the feeling of knowing that it was me, my granddaughter, and the dad is someone I've met here in this life. I knew him about 16 years before my granddaughter was born. Both of us did have the feeling of having known each other a kind of deja vu feeling. Always felt like we were just picking up again from somewhere else. Never like we


had just met and were getting to know each other.


Starting school is when my granddaughter seemed to forget everything about her befores as she called it. Now I'm the only one who remembers. I'm not sure if I'll ever tell her what she used to say, or if I'll tell her about my dreams. Have to wait and see.
 
I remember I was babysitting my niece when she was about 2 1/2 (she's 15 now), she was just barely learning to talk and put small sentences together. We were playing, when out of the blue she got a petrified look on her face and was almost ready to cry, and she asked me "am I going to die in a car accident?" I told her no, that she was safe, then she asked me if her mother was going to die in a car accident. I was in shock and didn't really know what to say at first, except to tell her that she was safe and nothing was going to happen to either of them. She calmed down after that and went back to playing as if nothing happened, the subject never came up again.


Around that same time frame, I had a vivid b&w dream of a little girl watching her house burning down. She was wearing an old-fashioned nightgown and holding a teddy bear, long blonde hair. I used to be scared to death of fire, especially at night - up until I was about 12 when I had the dream. I also would constantly wake my mom up in the middle of the night, asking her to check my heartbeat, make sure I was still breathing, etc....I was convinced I would not live to be 13!


Those are the two memories that made me believe in this... :)
 
PaulAdams said:
I remember since being a lil' child that i thought reincarnation was a normal thing.
I've always known. It seemed to me very bizarre/abnormal otherwise.


That said, to speak the truth, i hardly recognize myself in any pubblication, theory or whatsoever about past life and reincarnation in general.


I found some days ago some youtube video with an interview with Michael Newton, a psichiatrist, who does PLR on his patient in order to solve their problems.


He talked about what could be the afterlife and the mechanism of reincarnation but i clearly didn't recognize many of his theories (that he deduces from the PLR with his patients).


I have very personal thoughts about that but i rarely talk about it.


;)

Wow that video was very interesting! :thumbsup::thumbsup:
:) :)


 
I’ve always believed in reincarnation, because for most of my life I’ve had past life memories that just can’t be explained any other way. Reincarnation is the only thing that makes sense to me. Also, when my niece began sharing some of her past life memories with me, I knew reincarnation was the only possible explanation for what she was saying. She was only four at the time, but would tell me very detailed stories about the store she owned and her “music partner.”


So it was really my own memories and the memories of others that made me believe it is possible.


-Jessi
 
Unfortunately I never had any past live memories or dreams. :(


I just knew there was more after death as a young child.
 
When I was about 7 or 8 I had a profound thought one day while lying on my front lawn on a very beautiful spring afternoon. I became very aware of "me" and the separateness of the body in was in. I realized that "I" or what was "me" was looking out of these particular pair of eyes. And I began to wonder of all the people that lived in the world, why was I looking out of these pair? And for that matter, I thought, of all the people that ever existed in the world before, why these pair of eyes? In that instant I knew that I had looked out of other pairs of eyes before and I will again. It did not make sense to me to have just one experience with one pair of eyes. I did not know there was a name for this way of thinking until I was about 13...I thought I had thought it up myself. It was quite profound...and I have believed it ever since.
 
Welcome Sixeyes!!


Very interesting observation. I too have found myself in that same place of observation and wonder. And for me it was also when I was very young. I can remember it in detail. I was ill with a temperature and home from school. I had crawled under a very large vanity that looked out a large bay window. As I stared at the sky I felt detached and not part of the entity laying under the chest. It was like I was flying and looking back at myself. I realized then that I, me, was an entity beyond flesh. For a 6 or 7 year old kid that was pretty profound (by the way my favorite word check out profound). I cannot say it was when I first believed in past lives...that happened thirty years later.


All the best. Thanks for sharing!


Tinkerman
 
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