Contacting surviving relatives of my past life person

[rachael]

I know someone recently posted a similar topic but I thought I'd try a new thread. I tried a past life regression meditation with Brian Weiss's CD and while I didn't get extensive details about the life, I very strongly just knew somehow I was an American soldier in Vietnam. I could see my black combat boots and male hands and I was in a jungle-like setting and this knowing or awareness just flooded my mind, like "oh ya, of course, this is Vietnam." Didn't get any other details.

After I got my pendulum to confirm if I was a male, if I was a soldier, if I was American, was I in Vietnam, etc. It said yes to all. I had it spell out the name of the soldier. Then I went to the website for the Vietnam Wall to see if this person actually existed - he did. He died in 1970. From that, I learned what state he was from, saw his obituary.

I've tried other meditations and have seem glimpses of scenes from this life-him in high school, him with his family.

I've been able to find online and on Facebook his sister and her kids (his nieces). Part of me wishes to contact them but of course this is a very sensitive subject. Has anyone tried this? How did it go? I know it could go very badly - but what if it didn't? What if they were cool with it? What an opportunity to learn more about this person's life.

What's funny is that in this life, I'm female but drawn to the military - I do lots of volunteer work with it even before I knew about this. My current life father is also a Vietnam Vet.

I'm very conflicted about this - is it ethical? Or, why is it so bad to contact them? Thoughts?

 

[Twilight]

My pastlife's children are long gone by now, my most recent past life was Diana Devonshire (1632-1664) however there are other's in this site who are going though the same thing

 

[Owl]

Hello Rachael, welcome to the forum.


As I said in the other thread, I don't see why it would be unethical to contact them, however, I would be cautious when mentioning reincarnation, if I would mention it at all. Maybe try to be friends first? It would be a lost opportunity if you scared them off with reincarnation first thing.


It's better to contact them and then nothing happens than to never do it and wonder forever what could have happened. Who knows? maybe they believe in reincarnation? After all James Leininger's PL sister believed that the boy was his dead brother.


I don't think it's strange being female and being drawn to the military, most girls who had PLs as soldiers are. So you´re not alone there.

 

[firebird]

Hi Rachael,


Since you have used your pendulum for answers, why not also use it to see if it would be a positive thing to contact his sister? Is there some knowledge you have, as your life as a soldier, that you think might benefit the sister knowing? If you (the soldier) passed well before your time, then that is possibly another reason to make contact. What have you been able to gauge from his sister’s postings on facebook – do you feel she would be open to such an approach or not? If the situation were reversed, how would you feel about someone contacting you? These are the sort of questions I would be asking to go about answering the ‘ethical’ question; because I don’t think there is a right or wrong answer that applies to every situation. (I know who my previous life family are, but I've chosen not to contact them).


If I were the sister, I would have no problem with you contacting me, as you appear both very clear about your story and level headed ... but of course, I am not the sister.


It’s interesting that your current father is a Vietnam Vet – have you explored whether you might have crossed paths with him in your previous life, and/or why you chose him as your father (was it to prompt your memory perhaps)?

 

[tanguerra]

Hi Rachel,


Welcome to the forum.


I agree with the others that you would need a pretext to set up a meeting. The ethics of the situation, as Firebird has said, are around disturbing the peace of the other family, dragging up unpleasant or sad memories from the past and your reasons for doing it. Is it for curiosity? Is it because you 'miss' them? Is there something you need to communicate to them for their benefit? You need to weigh these things up very carefully before deciding what to do.


Firebird, the pendulum is a good idea. You could use this to ask if this is a good idea or something you should pursue.


If you do go ahead with it, I wouldn't encourage dishonesty but maybe there's a half truth in there somewhere? There could be a way to talk to them without causing undue upset. For instance, your father is a vet. Perhaps you could come up with an idea about writing an article or a paper about the war and its impact on families, or something like that, which would provide an excuse to contact them? If you hit it off, you may become friends. If not, oh well.

What's funny is that in this life, I'm female but drawn to the military - I do lots of volunteer work with it even before I knew about this. My current life father is also a Vietnam Vet.

This is not unusual. Things that we did before often carry through to the present life as interests (sometimes aversions). What sort of volunteer work do you do? Would that provide an excuse to make contact perhaps?


Also a side note, I wonder if you and your father were friends during the war as Firebird also suggested? That would be interesting. 'Souls' tend to stick together with the people they know and love from one life to the next.

 

[rachael]

Thanks for the answers. I don't live near them at all, have no interaction with them and can't even imagine how I'd create some pretext for contacting them that wouldn't sound weird. If I did, I think I'd just come out and explain it.


I know a woman who is a psychic medium and she connected with the father of this soldier. She said he was one of my guides now and wanted me to contact the sister. We also used the pendulum to determine if it would be a good idea - he said yes.


Their Facebook posts make them seem nice, funny - one of "my" nieces in particular seems to have a sense of humor like mine. Of course, it's hard to tell from Facebook what they are really like. But they seem to have similar interests to me.


Right now, I'd want to contact them more for curiosity than because I feel a deep emotional connection with them. My past life regression meditations have been fairly observational in nature and I haven't FELT like I missed them. But since my medium friend and I communicated with the father from this life, I have also connected with him on my own (I'm a beginner medium) and have felt some very powerful emotions from him at being, I don't know, reunited with me? There's been a few times when I've felt overwhelmed with emotion and it's weird because I don't "know" him - in this life anyway.


It would be something if I knew my current life father in the Army as this past life soldier but alas, we did not cross paths. The soldier was in a different division and was in Vietnam the year after my dad.

 

[Marc Ross]

Relatives and facial features.


Hello,


The topic of my post focuses on relatives; hence why I'm posting in this discussion thread.


Similarities in facial features in comparing past and present lives have received discussion in the Past Life Forum. Have any comparisons in facial features involving relatives in both past and present lives been discussed?


An example of interest I'm reconsidering: During meditation, I once experienced an image of a black & white picture of a lady who resembled my late Grandmother in middle-age. I felt that this was not an image of my Grandmother; as the lady in this image was smiling. My Grandmother was usually stoic in her photographs. Hence, my memory may have been of a relative or Mother of my PL.


Another example in considering: To develop a composite of facial features drawn from selected photographs of my relatives from both sides of my family. The purpose here is to construct an image which may "act as a trigger of sorts" regarding either my PL's relatives, or better yet my actual PL.


Any cases where pictures of relatives in our present lives acted as "a trigger of sorts" to what we may have looked-like in our PLs?


Thank-you


Marc