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My daughter Lottie's memories

Thanks for sharing that Jenny, no indication of any past life memories from that conversation then, although it does make you wonder if feelings of claustrophobia, which must be one of the most common phobias, come from the womb?


It's interesting how she could differentiate between being enclosed in a small space, and having the space to stretch out if she didn't know any different, and also being bored when she's never experienced doing anything at that stage. In my opinion, one would need to have a 'memory' of not being bored in order to be bored. Perhaps that could indicate that she was 'aware' of herself before she was born, if that makes sense? :tongue:
 
Hello Jenny, thanks for sharing your daughter`s possible past life and in-utero memories! It is a great gift for you that she is able to tell you what it was like in your tummy! Those memories are by no means as rare as we might think. I remember that Dr. Tucker discussed this with some examples in his book "Life before Life". Maybe you would like to ask her if she also remembers how she happened to come into your tummy and how she came out. Many children remember how they chose their parents and also their birth experience.


As to the past life memories, I am German and though "Franz is an old fashioned German name "Hanzug" doesn`t sound like any German name known to me. The name "Hansen" does exist but this is quite different. The word "Anzug" (without the "H") means "suit" in English. Skate board like toys might be introduced in the U. S. in the 1940s but I doubt that they were known in Europe. That is something that is si typical American for us so I do not thing that people made any before they were well known in the U. S.! But maybe fantasies just mix with actual memories for she only remembers Franz as an adult and makes up how his childhood as a boy might have been?
 
Hi all,


It can sometimes happen that a "sound" of a name, particularly in German for a non-speaking toddler or person, might get mixed up. In one of my recurring dreams of a possible past life in WWII, I was at a farm where some soldiers were playing a game of football (or soccer, to you Americans ;) ) and being introduced to some senior officers as Karl "Hess" or "Heiss".


What I began thinking about Lottie was of a possible past life after the German one in which, yes, a skateboard would not be out of place... :thumbsup:
 
Even more...


Hi all,


Thanks for your continued interest! I do plan on replying to various points made in the last few posts when I have a bit more time on my hands, but I thought this was more important for now... I managed to bring up the subject again with Lottie. She was a little more reluctant about talking this time (I noticed this before when she was two - she was more reluctant to talk if it was me who brought the subject up and not her), but nonetheless, the following conversation took place. This is so exciting for me! This may be the last conversation like this in the foreseeable future because I promised her I wouldn't try and talk with her about it again, as she told me she does like talking about it (I don't know why).


Me: Lottie... I was just wondering about what happened to me when I died in a past life.


Lot: I don't know.


Me: I wonder if I drifted up into the sky too, like you did? What was that like?


Lot: Thin air. I've already told you this.


Me: Oh, sorry. Do you not like talking about this?


Lot: I've just told you all the information before.


Me: I know. I've got a bad memory. I just wondered if you could see your body when you looked down? Your dead body.


Lot: No.


Me: Oh. I suppose because you didn't have any eyes.


Lot: I did! They were really, really tiny. Like this (she held up her fingers with a gap of about a millimeter inbetween). Just pieces of dust.


Me: Oh, I see. Why couldn't you see your body?


Lot: It was under the ground. Soil on me.


Me: Oh, I see. Was it your funeral?


Lot: What's that?


Me: It's a time when all the people you knew and loved put you in the ground. Have you ever heard of being 'buried', Lottie?


Lot: No. Why would they put me in the ground?


Me: It's just somewhere to put people when they die.


Lot: Why didn't they put me in a museum?


Me: I don't know. Did you see any people?


Lot: There were other dead bodies.


Me: Were they under the ground as well?


Lot: Yes.


Me: Did you see any live people there?


Lot: No. There were animals walking on top of me.


Me: What do you mean?


Lot: I could see animals walking over my body. I think they were African animals? I can't remember what kind of animals they were. I was in Africa.


Me: Oh. Did people put you in the ground?


Lot: No, I just got into the ground when animals walked over me, like this (slowly plods her hands up her body from her thighs up to her chest).


Me: Oh. Did you start off on the surface of the ground?


Lot: Yes.


Me: And the animals trampled you under?


Lot: Yes.


Me: Were you alive when the animals started walking over you?


Lot: No.


Me: How long ago was this, Lottie?


Lot: I don't know. I can't remember.


Me: That's really interesting, Lottie. I didn't know this was in Africa. What colour was your skin?


Lot: No colour. Black. You're confusing me!


Me: I'm confused too. I just wondered when you were living in Africa what colour your skin was?


Lot: Black. I didn't know if you were talking about my body or the dust.


Me: Oh, sorry, I meant your body. So your skin was black? What colour was your hair?


Lot: I didn't have any.


Me: Ok. Sorry for confusing you. When you turned into dust was that a particular colour then?


Lot: No. White. (sees my writing) What are you doing?


Me: I'm just writing down what you're saying to I don't forget.


Lot: (pointing) What bit does that say?


Me: About you being covered in soil.


Lot: It wasn't just soil. It was rocks. And rubbish. I don't mean litter, I mean clothes and things like that. Anything. Old things.


And then she ran off because she heard a theme tune of a favourite TV show in the next room and ran off to watch it. Her mind just blows me away...


I hope she will want to talk about it again at some point, but I won't push it now. Reading back through this conversation I realised I was a bit heavy handed in the questioning. I just got excited and carried away!
 
Hi Jenny!


Another wonderful, and very interesting transcript! Thank you!


It sounds as though you felt pushed by the realization that she won't have much to say during the coming months, wherein her conscious memory is expected to fade. You are, clearly, at the mercy of her willingness to bring it up again; and, apparently, you are cognizant that, when she does bring it up, your need to run for paper and pen may distract her, or end the conversation entirely. Kids don't always pick the best time to start chattering.


We are, certainly, hoping that she will be one of the few, who retain their memories of a past life for the rest of this lifetime. But, if not, we still don't want to lose contact with you. I have been wondering what goes through the minds of such children after they enter adolescence, knowing that there is such a clear record of past life memories now forgotten. How do they feel, when they become aware of these two realities?


No matter how frustrated you may feel about this process, you have had and incredible opportunity to observe everything from beginning to adolescence and adulthood, where the effects are still at work. Please stay in touch, even when nothing is happening, OK?


-Nightrain
 
Hi Jenny,


It is interesting that "past life memories" with kids seem comfortable for them only when they surface spontaneously, otherwise I at least get the impression that they feel they are being questioned over something which they seem not to be supposed to be talking about????


I believe this is because they probably feel that what is already in the past should remain there, at least for now...
 
Hi Jenny!


I'm just checking in to see if anything new has transpired since we last heard from you? We've all been deeply enthralled by Lottie's progress and past life memories; and we're hoping to hear from you again.


-Nightrain
 
A few thoughts...


You most certainly have a most interesting daughter. Untangling the details may be difficult since she sees so many past lives at once.


People describe the "interim" between lives differently, but her version is certainly consistent with the general features common to most. I would guess that there are no specific words or descriptions for the experience of being a soul without a body, since language is made by living people. Thus, the concept of floating and of not having a body are almost universal but how those things are interpreted and described seem to vary.


When she asked about being buried vs. put in a museum, my first thought was that that was kid's mispronunciation of "mausoleum", an above-ground burial structure.


It is my personal opinion that were right in occasionally telling her about what she said, since it may help her understand feelings and memories later in life. What she knows is valuable information about how life itself works. Just be careful not to push the issue, plant ideas, or tun the discussions or questions in a "chore".


You asked if a concern about having no one to marry is common for toddlers. I would have to say "no". Even most teenagers don't worry about this. It sounded like she felt the loss because the person she had married or was going to marry is not around her in this lifetime. If it comes up again (by her choosing), it would be a good time to remind her of the here and now and that she is loved and valuable in this life today, in Australia and that for the same reasons that she married before she will marry again.


Overall, I get a feeling of warmth and concern that suggests to me that you and Lottie are lucky to have each other.


...Rod
 
Rod said:
When she asked about being buried vs. put in a museum, my first thought was that that was kid's mispronunciation of "mausoleum", an above-ground burial structure.
Hi everyone,


Just thought I would sign in and say hello. There has been no mention from Lottie about her previous lives since I last posted, but I live in hope that it's not the last we will hear.


Thanks for your post, Rod. You could be right about 'mausoleum' - I hadn't thought of that, although she has seen skeletons in museums before so her original question of why she wasn't put in a museum may be due to that. Who's to say? I don't want to try and interpret really because then it will be harder to distinguish between what she said and what she meant. It's hard enough trying to fully understand young children anyway!


We are doing fine though. Lottie is looking forward to starting school in the following months, and I often wonder if any memories she still has will fade once she gets stuck in to school life. I am so glad I have written down what she has said in the past; I would so regret it now if I hadn't. And I'm sure she will be interested to hear what she said as a toddler when she is an adult!


I am still keeping my fingers crossed tht my younger daughter will come out with something...
 
@ Jennywren


May I say, that not since the James Leininger case have I found a more exciting story as yours. What makes your story special to me, is your daughter has addressed that period between lives, something that children of past lives rarely touch upon.


Your daughter's experiences raises loads of questions, and gives me a rough idea of the sort of reality people exist in when they die. For instance, when your daughter talked about dust, I see a soul made of particles just as the ancient Greek atomists predicted.


People need to be careful about taking a literal interpretation of what a child is describing in past life memories, for the child has to describe an experience with a limited vocabulary. I am unsurprised that children will struggle, become anxious, confused and stressed trying to describe things they have seen and experienced.


Lotties memory and descriptive skills are excellent.


Lottie remembers what appears to be three past lives:


USA/Britain - 1700's


Europe - 1900+


Africa - 1970+ - death via famine


America - 2004+ - as Lottie


The above are rough ideas from memory of reading your story a month ago. I am going to re-read the whole story again, and will make a further post soon.
 
Hi Ajones,

For instance, when your daughter talked about dust, I see a soul made of particles just as the ancient Greek atomists predicted.
Merely for the sake of terminology, I just wanted to add the thought that it is the Spiritual Body, and not the Soul, that apparently consists of particles of a more subtle and fluidic form of matter present in the Spiritual Dimensions, which apparently consists of some form of "light". To those who might find this theory implausible, I would add the thought that it is about as implausible as the fact that we hold the consciousness that we do in our physical bodies.


The "Soul", in the way I see it, would be practically immaterial, and would correspond to what we also call our "Consciousness". It is this "Consciousness" that dresses itself and creates by attraction and "conditioning" a Spiritual Body that corresponds to the same shape and format of what was once its physical body.


You know, "dark matter" keeps nagging at the back of my brain...
 
Charles Stuart said:
Merely for the sake of terminology, I just wanted to add the thought that it is the Spiritual Body, and not the Soul, that apparently consists of particles of a more subtle and fluidic form of matter present in the Spiritual Dimensions, which apparently consists of some form of "light"...The "Soul", in the way I see it, would be practically immaterial, and would correspond to what we also call our "Consciousness".
Thanks for your post, Charles Stuart. I get pretty confused about what is meant but the various words 'soul', 'spiritual body', and 'conciousness'. I find it hard to understand if these words can be interchanged, IE if they are different words for the same thing, or if they represent seperate things. It seems not to be universally agreed upon.


Thanks for your interest, AJones. I'm glad you think what Lottie has said is fascinating. It is pretty hard to tell which snippets of information relate to which life at times, especially as she gave us a location for two lives (Germany and Africa), but no dates, and gave us a year for Daisy, but no location (although as you pointed out, it was presumably somewhere English-speaking). It's like a big jigsaw with pieces missing!


As an extra matter of interest, I conducted my own little experiment with Lottie today. I know many people simply dismiss past life memories as being fantasy from the child's imagination. Lottie's memories seemed very realistic to me, and so I was curious as to whether Lottie could deliberately invent a past life story that was historically plausable. I asked her to make up a past life and tell me about it. The results were exactly what I had expected. I will type up what she said and include it in my next post.
 
Thanks for your post, Charles Stuart. I get pretty confused about what is meant but the various words 'soul', 'spiritual body', and 'conciousness'. I find it hard to understand if these words can be interchanged, IE if they are different words for the same thing, or if they represent seperate things. It seems not to be universally agreed upon.
Needn't worry, Jenny... :)


IMO, who we are as individual beings is who we are in thought. I, as a person, am what I think. Our physical body is merely a clothing we wear while incarnated, which is undressed upon the moment of physical death. To me, this "individual thought", which I believe is what for so long has been referred to as the "soul", retains its existence and individuality also after physical death, and in the spiritual realms it is dressed with a spiritual body, the essence of which still remains a mystery.


As for being "universally agreed upon", well, it never has been, has it? :) But in truth I also believe that it is of lesser importance what we believe in for the evolution and ascending of the Soul. What is truly of importance is how we conduct ourselves during each of our lifetimes... :thumbsup:
 
Jennywren said:
I conducted my own little experiment with Lottie today. I know many people simply dismiss past life memories as being fantasy from the child's imagination. Lottie's memories seemed very realistic to me, and so I was curious as to whether Lottie could deliberately invent a past life story that was historically plausable. I asked her to make up a past life and tell me about it. The results were exactly what I had expected. I will type up what she said and include it in my next post.
Hi everyone,


As it says above, I asked Lottie to invent a past life and tell me about it in order to see if a deliberate fantasy from her could be historically plausable.


As I thought, the answer was no.


Straight away her story contained elements of fantasy. She 'remembered' the life of a princess living in a castle, with a dragon. The castle was full of buttons you could press that would make anything you wanted appear, "If you wanted a sandwich, all you had to do was to press the 'sandwich button', and one would appear!". She wasn't serious, and wasn't reflective like she had been when telling me about her real past lives, she was happy and animated, taking great delight in describing every detail, especially what the castle looked like. The colour of the dragon kept changing randomly between green and red; she obviously couldn't remember, or couldn't decide on a colour, between one minute and the next. She then said that the castle was haunted by ghosts and ghostly objects, and she got so caught up with this new idea that she stopped refering to it as a castle and instead it became a 'haunted mansion' for the rest of the story, and her descriptions of it changed from that of the previous 'castle'. She said there were "living jumping jelly beans" in the haunted mansion, and "Flowers with faces" in the garden. I could identify elements from at least one Disney movie, one stage show she had seen, and one book she owns. With her real past lives, we could not identify any sources for her memories.


Interestingly, she stopped telling the story in the first person and instead the main character just became "The princess". Her character was purely descriptive - she had a blue dress, red shoes, and long hair. Lottie never once identified with the Princess' feelings, thoughts, emotions, likes, dislikes, etc; she was two dimentional in the extreme. There was no mention of her age, name or surname, what she did for a living, her mothers name, a prefered food, any skills she had, or how she died - all things she had mentioned when speaking about her remembered life as Daisy. And one of the things she had not concentrated on at all when remembering her real past lives were what the people had looked like, clothes they had worn, etc. I would say about 95% of her made-up story was purely descriptive, as opposed to, say, 10% or less for her real memories.


The Princess character wasn't the focus of the story either, she was secondary to everything else, including the scenery, and was all but forgotten by the end. Details changed accidently as Lottie couldn't remember details from even several seconds ago. Compare this to the fact that more than 2 years ago the details of her past lives never once changed, even over the course of months!


In her orginal memories you got a sense of the whole lifetime - what she did on a daily basis, up until the day she died. In her fantasy story the life of the princess was mearly a snapshot of what she looked like on one day. The whole story consisted of a visual description of the princess, ghosts, dragon and castle/mansion, and happened in realtime. It wasn't a past life, it was a past 10 minutes. It lacked anything even remotely credible.


I found this experiment to be very telling. A friend of mine once said that Lottie's past life stories were invented, as she has a very good imagination. I couldn't argue about that - her imagination is amazing. But I struggled to believe that a two year old would


a) come up with the theory of reincarnation on her own and out the blue (she had never been exposed to the idea),


b) decide to make-believe she had been someone else in the past, and convince her parents she was not making it up,


c) come up with historically accurate information about common first names, surname, methods of sheep shearing, and music from the 1700's, and invent her own cause of death by starvation (she knew neither what death was, nor starvation),


and d) not change the story or details at all, even over the course of months.


And now I have asked her to make up a past life story, it didn't have the same elements as her real memories - not even slightly.


I am more convinced in reincarnation than ever.
 
That was a really interesting experiment Jennywren, thanks for sharing :thumbsup: And the results don't surprise me at all! It would be good if other parents with children who remember their past lives, could also try this experiment, and then compare the results.
 
Fascinating experiment, indeed! And I totally agree that it would be useful if more parents gave such an experiment a try (I will, no matter if my daughter is going to have past-life memories or not - she is 18 months old, thus not verbal enough). Also, this a fun, creative game for both parents and kids and certainly will not do any harm. Maybe it is useful to start a thread about this so that those findings become more abvious?
 
I sincerely applaud your ability to encourage Lottie's descriptions, and to interpret them in contrast to her earlier stories. A touch of genius, I think!
 
More from Lottie!


Hello everyone,


I hope you are all well! It has been some time since I have had any reason to post on here. I tend to assume that each time Lottie brings up her past lives it will be the last time, but this seems not to be the case!


Again, I managed to transcript the conversation (which is getting harder as I'm having to write faster now she is older and more articulate). I was really excited, as there is often such a long time between these conversations that I always wonder whether that might be the last of it. But the memories still seem to be there, deep inside, and they pop up unexpectedly from time to time!


Anyway, it began after Lottie got home from school. She asked me if it was silly to believe in something if their isn't any proof. (I thought this was a great question!). So we had a discussion about what proof is, how hard it can be to get hold of, and that some people need proof to believe, and other's don't. I used a belief in god as an example, IE that his existence has not been proven or disproved, but that people can still choose whether to believe or not. She then said, "When I was Daisy, I believed in god". (I grabbed the nearest scrap of paper and pen).


Me: Did you?


Lot: Yeah. Because I used to go to church.


Me: Oh, right. What did it look like?


Lot: It was a big place, and it was a church. People used to go there to pray.


Me: I wonder why you used to believe in god, but don't now?


Lot: Because I'm a different person now.


Me: I suppose so... I just thought that maybe you had the same personality as Daisy had?


Lot: No. This is a different life. A different body.


Me: Oh. So how come you can have a different personality now, but used to be Daisy?


Lot: Because the personality is gone, but the person is still there.


Me: You mean that a 'person', and a 'personality', are two different things?!


Lot: Yes.


Me: Wow. I didn't know that.


Lot: Everyone had to believe in god. Otherwise – dead.


Me: What do you mean?


Lot: Everyone had to believe in god, even if they didn't, otherwise they would be killed.


Me: I don't think that would happen!


Lot: Well it did when I was alive.


Me: So, did you really believe in god, or did you just say you did?


Lot: I really did believe in him.


Me: Did everyone believe?


Lot: I don't think so. I think some people must have said they did, when they didn't, because otherwise they would be killed.


Me: Did you live in a big city?


Lot: I lived in a little town.


Me: Do you remember the name of it?


Lot: ...no.


Me: What country was it in?


Lot: England.


Me: And what was the capital city called?


Lot: I don't know; I didn't live there. I only lived in a little town. Most people around lived in little villages where everybody knew each other. There were a few shops. You could buy bread, cheese, meat.


Me: Right. And was there a McDonalds in the town?


Lot: (Laughs) No, that wasn't invented yet!


Me: Are you sure?


Lot: Yes. We didn't even have cars – only horses.


Me: Right. Do you remember anything else at all?


Lot: Um... not much. I remember the money had the king on it.


Me: Did it?


Lot: Yes. There was only a king in the country, no queen.


Me: What did the money look like?


Lot: It had the king on them.


Me: What else? Was it paper money?


Lot: No! There wasn't such thing as paper notes. Only coins.


Me: Oh, I see. And what did the coins look like?


Lot: The coins were bumpy on the edges. And they were very flat. Not like the $2. They were very flat.


Me: What do you mean, 'bumpy'? Like, bashed about?


Lot: No, they were... bumpy.


Me: Do you mean like raised, or ridged? Around the edge?


Lot: Yes.


Me: How do you know all this?


Lot: I don't know.


Me: Have you heard it somewhere? Have you been learning history at school?


Lot: (Incredulously) Impossible!


Me: What do you mean?


Lot: That would be impossible. I think only the year fives get to do history. NOT kindys, or year ones. No way.


I was so pleased to hear all this from her! And I even had some statements to check! I did some research, based on the previous date she had given for Daisy (1787). In the following post...
 
Continued from last post


This is what my research shows:


Firstly, she was right about there being food shops in towns back then, and the items she listed would have been available.


She was also correct about there being a king on the throne (King George III) as he reined from 1760-1820.


I wasn't able to find out if atheism or heresy was still a crime in the late 1700s, but I think you were more likely to be murdered for it in the 1600s? There was loads of information on the witch trials, but nothing much from the late 1700s. Can anyone help with this? Perhaps her town was particularly religious and threatened death as a punishment for atheistic views?


I looked up the history of paper money in England, and although it had been invented and was being printed in the late 1700s (the Bank of England first printed five pound notes in 1793), they were not widely used, and would have rarely, if ever, been seen by the working classes. Bank notes did not actually become legal tender until 1833.


I investigated what Lottie had meant by coins being 'bumpy' around the edges, and discovered that from the 17th century, coins were 'milled' (made with serrated edges to prevent people removing precious metals). Before this, they had been made with smooth edges.


And there's more. I decided to show Lottie pictures of a variety of coins (52 coins in all), ranging from ancient Celtic and Roman coins, through Tudor and Stuart, and all the way up to modern day money. I thought there might be a slim chance she recognised one of the coins. I expected no results.


I asked her if any of them were familiar. She looked though them all, immediately dismissing the modern coins, and the old style hammered coins from before the 1600s, pointing out that the coins she remembered had not been made like this (hammered). She was right about this too, they had stopped using that method by then.


When I showed her a page of milled coins from 1662-1816, she pointed to the dots around the edge of one of the coins and said that's what she had meant by 'bumpy', although she didn't recognise that particular coin. She dismissed the William III five guineas from 1701, the James II half crown from 1685, the George I shilling from 1723, and a George I halfpenny from 1717.


But she immediately pointed to a George III shilling from 1787! She said she strongly recognised that coin, and she recognised the picture of the king on it. Needless to say, I was amazed at such a hit! But she astounded me even more by pointing out three other coins she recognised – a George III 'spade' guinea from 1793, a George III farthing from 1799 (which was vaguely familiar to her), and a Somerset Bristol halfpenny token from 1793 (which she said she had, “seen before”).


To me, this is incredible! I don't know how else she might have come by this information about coins, if not from direct experience of them in a past life. I know she is correct when she says she is not doing history at school as she is only 5 years old, and history is not on the curriculum yet. She does not watch any history programmes on the TV.


And no matter how hard I try and lead her into saying something historically incorrect, such as trying to get her to agree to there being a McDonalds in an 18th century town, she so firmly won't be moved.


Thank you all for your continued interest. You will all be the first to hear if she has anything more to say! I feel so privileged to have her for my daughter. Who knew that a 5 year old could so completely turn your world upside down?


xx
 
Jennywren said:
I feel so privileged to have her for my daughter. Who knew that a 5 year old could so completely turn your world upside down?
Jennywren, I am so impressed at the way you are pursuing this experience with your daughter. Thank you so very much for keeping us in the loop.
 
Jennywren,


Thank you for sharing Lottie's information. It is true your child's memories can change your life. My daughter's totally changed mine, and I am certainly glad it changed.


You are doing very well by not asking her leading questions and allowing her to show you what she means.


I love how she shows attitude about McDonald's. My daughter used to show attitude sometimes, too.


I have been fortunate to learn about several past lives with my daughter and have found proof to back up what she says, both by asking here and by spending time in my local library.


In her most recent past life she was someone that I knew in this life. Now THAT threw me for a loop LOL


Best wishes to you
 
Jennywren –


I have greatly enjoyed reading about your daughter Lottie’s memories, and found the most recent addition to the story fascinating. The connections with the period coinage are just down right amazing. I think it very likely that even as late as 1787 people would still be fearing for their lives if they didn’t make God happy, or more likely, the church.


I love how you research everything while keeping an open mind. Keep up the good work, your daughter is very special, but then, you are a special mother to listen so well. I am lucky enough to have a mother like you, who listens to my brother & I when we talk about past lives. It makes all the difference in your self confidence, instead of growing up and being told not to talk about'those things'.


I think because you listen, she will keep telling you more that she remembers. :)


Keep us posted!
 
Thanks for your interest everyone, and your kind words. I feel so lucky to be on the receiving end of all this! It's just amazing. I am all ears when I'm with her, and that notebook and pencil is never too far away, just in case...
 
Jennywren said:
Me: Right. And was there a McDonalds in the town?


Lot: (Laughs) No, that wasn't invented yet!
That was funny! :laugh:


What a fascinating conversation. I'm particularly intrigued by how Lottie says you can have a different personality, but the person is still there. I'm also really curious as to why she believed in God before, but now she doesn't. Thank you so much for recording your discussion and sharing it with us!
 
Jody said:
I'm particularly intrigued by how Lottie says you can have a different personality, but the person is still there. I'm also really curious as to why she believed in God before, but now she doesn't.
I know! Baffling, isn't it! I've been thinking about it and the best way I can explain it is that by 'person', she may mean consciousness, and by 'personality', she may mean chartacter/temperment. IE that the consciousness remains the same and unchanged from life to life, but that your personality is the result of your parents genes, and your experiences and environment. Does that make sense? That could also explain why she used to believe in god, but doesn't now; it could have been environmental factors that decided it. She may have had a religious upbringing in that time, but in this life, she hasn't.


Please someone tell me if they think I'm barking up the wrong tree with this one, but it's the best way I have thought of to explain what she said!
 
Jennywren

Jennywren said:
the best way I can explain it is that by 'person', she may mean consciousness, and by 'personality', she may mean chartacter/temperment. IE that the consciousness remains the same and unchanged from life to life, but that your personality is the result of your parents genes, and your experiences and environment. Does that make sense?
Absolutly makes sense! She does a great job with her limited vocabulary to explain it all as well as she does.
 
Jennywren said:
Lot: Because I'm a different person now.
Me: I suppose so... I just thought that maybe you had the same personality as Daisy had?


Lot: No. This is a different life. A different body.


Me: Oh. So how come you can have a different personality now, but used to be Daisy?


Lot: Because the personality is gone, but the person is still there.


Me: You mean that a 'person', and a 'personality', are two different things?!


Lot: Yes.
Jennywren, your thread is fascinating and I envy your having the forethought to be ready to document Lottie's disclosures...amazing.


Like Jody, I am very interested in the above cited quotes regarding the difference between person and personality, and while the dialog slightly mixed the terminology ("I'm a different person now" instead of "different personality now"), it seemed to me (I got a warmth emanating from my heart) she was speaking clearly of a soul (person) living on while a body (personality) has its lifetime. It dovetails with my sense that the soul is the actor while the body/personality/lifetime is the character in costume.


From the mouths of babes...
 
usetawuz said:
it seemed to me (I got a warmth emanating from my heart) she was speaking clearly of a soul (person) living on while a body (personality) has its lifetime. It dovetails with my sense that the soul is the actor while the body/personality/lifetime is the character in costume.
Hi Usetawuz,


That's an interesting way to think about it! I too am sure that she means to convey a sense that part of you never changes from lifetime to lifetime (the 'person'), whereas other aspects of you are confined to the body (the 'personality'). I never would have thought about it that way if she hadn't explained it to me. For her age, I think she does a wonderful job! And I am left in the fairly strange and uncertain position of feeling like I know a lot less than my own young daughter! :confused:
 
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