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[Truthseeker]

I've had one brush with fame but you probably won't find me in the history books. I was a member of the ruling class in France during the late 1700's. I was born into a priviledged life. I was not a member of the royal family but I knew Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.


(I see there was someone on the forum who said they were Marie Antoinette, but they haven't been active in a long time. I would have liked to talk to them. )


For the record, Marie Antoinette was not the villainess that she's been perceived to be. I remember being asked my opinion on France's involvement in the American Revolution. It was a nice life until the French Revolution broke out. I was captured by an angry mob and eventually sent to the guillotine. That is the only life I remember being wealthy.

 

[kmatjhwy]

Personally as for myself, I was mainly just an average person who led an average life in the culture that I lived in. But one of my past lives of where I was a normal person who went to Alaska in the Goldrush but afterwards died in the fires resulting from the earthquake in San Francisco in 1906.

 

[Nightrain]

Of the few possible past lives that have come to mind, all have involved fairly common lives, and all, save one, have been within the past two hundred years. All have been male. Three have been in some form of American or Canadian military during known battles, and all have involved personal trauma and issues that somehow relate to my present life. Only two of these lives involved information that I should not have known. However, I still cannot objectively be certain that any of these are real past lives.


There is a curious focus surrounding these possible memories that have nothing to do with being famous or recognized. This focus could be due solely to issues that arose strictly from this present life. Then again, all of these past lives could be dealing with specific long-term karmic issues.


Theoretically, the above observation may fit the vast majority of everyone's possible memories; while a certain percentage could, in fact, have been famous, well-known or even verifiable cases.

 

[ChrisR]

The only past life that I can remember that is from a historically documented period was a brief spell as a sailor in the Napoleonic Wars. Apart from that, the rest have been what I would consider 'average' lives - a peasant in south America in the 1940's and 50's, a child/teen in an aristocratic family in the late 1800's, a medieval person, and a few other possibilities that I have very little information to go on, so I voted with the majority

 

[deborah]

Anyone care to share your ---average Joe PL?


The poll is indicative of the ratios on this forum, even if you don't post them...please vote.

 

[usetawuz]

I consider myself more average joe than anything else as I apparently incarnate quite frequently. I did have a prior life in which I was the son of a prominent family who died young and made the New York Times society and obit pages, then was quickly born back into the same family a generation later, only to die an even earlier death...once again making the papers.


I have died in almost every war I've been involved in and tend toward studious/academic lives in those without wars. I am usually a man, but have some interesting memories of being a colonial american prostitute and an egyptian woman of some standing. With one marked exception, power and money have never been the focus in my lives, despite a level of priviledge existing in many.


I do have some very interesting memories focused around a famous statesman but I have yet to do the work necessary to find my actual connection to him.


To me the ability to see the details of a previous existence from the first person is amazingly tantalizing. The bits and pieces I've cobbled together have enriched my sense of history and only whet my appetite for more. I understand that the roles I have played were chosen not due to their noteworthyness, but rather for the events I would experience in them. I am now working with the portions I was initially shown in order to find the meaning and significance they have for my current lifetime and the matters I am dealing with right now.

 

[NovStasik]

I have never been someone even remotely close to being famous. In fact, my most recent (I think) life in the 1940s was so not-famous, there probably exists no official record of my military service. Which is not good when I'm looking for confirmations.


I was also probably never close to anyone famous, although I think I may have been under the command of Marshal Georgy Zhukov in the 40s. Maybe I even met him. But I definitely idolized him. No matter how many bad strategies he put into action, I still can't speak badly of the guy.

 

[tltfaas]

My Average Joe Life With Marie Antoinette


I had a very ordinary life as a lowly servant at Versailles. I was one of many who cleaned the stairs everyday because people used them as toilets hard as that is to imagine. I saw Marie Antoinette several times and was enthralled by her. She was charming, kind child. Not at all what people think of her now.

 

[Shiftkitty]

I may not have been entirely truthful, but the one potential famous incarnation is very suspect, so I dismiss it even as it haunts me.


I do, however, have recollections of being very very wealthy. tltfaas, if we ever crossed paths at Versailles, thanks for handling the stairs. (I don't know if was ever at Versailles, but just in case, thanks!) I don't know how much fame came along with all that wealth, but strolling through the immaculately tended gardens was an absolute delight. Just in case anybody here worked for me, even back then I appreciated your hard work. I remember that much, a genuine appreciation for those whose jobs made mine look good. I still do that, too. When people work under me, I try to not let them feel that they work under me, but with me.


I think I was a singer sometime in the very early 1900s, like 1900 or so. Never got famous, but if anybody recognizes "Missouri Star", let me know. I think it was my stage name. I know there's a quilting shop by that name, but I knew this name long before I ever heard of the quilting place.


Other than Cullough, who was determined to make his name known far and wide but wound up played for a fool and left to freeze to death, my lives have been pleasantly anonymous.

 

[Truthseeker]

I had a very ordinary life as a lowly servant at Versailles. I was one of many who cleaned the stairs everyday because people used them as toilets hard as that is to imagine. I saw Marie Antoinette several times and was enthralled by her. She was charming, kind child. Not at all what people think of her now.

tltfaas, it is likely that I climbed the steps that you cleaned. I did not live at Versailles, but I was a visitor and friend to the king and queen. It makes me smile to see you say that the Marie you remember was charming and kind. This is the Marie that I remember as well, not the wicked queen she is portrayed as in history.

 

[Owl]

I only remember two lives, maybe three if we count a weird dream i had. My most recent life is a known life (although i wouldn' t say it' s "Famous")


Then before that one i was an Irish guy who did some travelling around the world. I wasn' t famous at all, i couldn' t even find any records about myself. It was an interesting and sad life.


Before that one, i think i might have been a woman in France, i only remember having grandchildren.

 

[Lady2]

I remember quite a few lives, but was never 'famous', so I voted 'I was an average person who led a normal life'. Interesting how the majority voted the same...Probably the closest I ever got to the very wealthy was being a court musician during the Renaissance.

 

[wildcard_seven]

Unfortunately, I don't have any clear memories of past lives. I do have "hunches", though. The great depression strikes such a chord with me that I don't doubt I was there. I think I was a miserable bum. When I was young I never liked black and white photos or old black and white movies. The world seemed so drab and serious and cardboard stiff when I saw them. Hated it. As I've gotten older I've become more drawn to those times. Not in a positive sense necessarily, but I just like to see it and understand the mentality of the times and the sensory experience people had.


It doesn't seem like a coincidence that I've reached adulthood just as America has taken an economic nosedive, and been doing my fair bit of struggling, to boot. I think our lives are much like symphonies where certain themes repeat themselves. You can look in the rear view mirror too much, though. The problems then are the same problems of right now. I don't really have to look back to understand them. I don't even need to look to yesterday. What is hanging over my head right now...whether guilt, depression, delusion, etc...is the issue to be dealt with.

 

[Sharry]

I don't know too much about who I was, I remember other people and places more.