Curiosity -- Past Lives and Taboo
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Deborah,
I want to reply to you specifically, because you started this thread.
On a very deep level, I feel that this lifetime is a healing of many things for me. I have very strong, very specific beliefs about what kind of mistakes I've made in the past. I believe that I have been too rigid, too judgemental, too arrogant. I believe my number one error has been looking down on other people, feeling superior. It is not important to me to know exactly how I have been that way. Perhaps I caused the death of some people. Perhaps I simply caused some people to be horribly miserable by being unkind through my lack of empathy. Since I believe all of us have probably made the same mistakes, just at different times, or will make them, the specifics are not important to me. I'm not really afraid of them. Or that is not the dominant reason I have not spent time trying to uncover the past. I simply feel that I know what my greatest weaknesses have been, and to me the only important thing is finding a way to change them.
Now, since you have investigated your own past lives, did you need that in order to accept the necessity of facing the lessons you've faced in this life? Does this question even make sense to you?
For me, the "answers" I need always come in dreams. But they are not about other lives. They are always about being connected and sensing a "rightness" in all that is happening to me. This does not mean that I am happy about tough experiences I am facing. That has never been so. I don't welcome pain of any kind. But in dreams I get "reminders" that that tell me I need what I am experiencing, and I get reasons that are too abstract for me to put into words. But the reasons don't feel abstract in the sense of being distant, not-attached, intellectual. They are very linked to my feelings and intuitions. I just can't put them into the "world of words".
Does any of this make sense to you? Or to anyone else? Because I've never been able to explain it, and the gut feeling that things are really right, even though they don't appear to be so at all (logically), is something I did not feel until sometime in the past decade or so.
GDL
I want to reply to you specifically, because you started this thread.
You had more to say, but I had a reaction as I read your original post. It will be very hard to explain.Deborah said:
On a very deep level, I feel that this lifetime is a healing of many things for me. I have very strong, very specific beliefs about what kind of mistakes I've made in the past. I believe that I have been too rigid, too judgemental, too arrogant. I believe my number one error has been looking down on other people, feeling superior. It is not important to me to know exactly how I have been that way. Perhaps I caused the death of some people. Perhaps I simply caused some people to be horribly miserable by being unkind through my lack of empathy. Since I believe all of us have probably made the same mistakes, just at different times, or will make them, the specifics are not important to me. I'm not really afraid of them. Or that is not the dominant reason I have not spent time trying to uncover the past. I simply feel that I know what my greatest weaknesses have been, and to me the only important thing is finding a way to change them.
Now, since you have investigated your own past lives, did you need that in order to accept the necessity of facing the lessons you've faced in this life? Does this question even make sense to you?
For me, the "answers" I need always come in dreams. But they are not about other lives. They are always about being connected and sensing a "rightness" in all that is happening to me. This does not mean that I am happy about tough experiences I am facing. That has never been so. I don't welcome pain of any kind. But in dreams I get "reminders" that that tell me I need what I am experiencing, and I get reasons that are too abstract for me to put into words. But the reasons don't feel abstract in the sense of being distant, not-attached, intellectual. They are very linked to my feelings and intuitions. I just can't put them into the "world of words".
Does any of this make sense to you? Or to anyone else? Because I've never been able to explain it, and the gut feeling that things are really right, even though they don't appear to be so at all (logically), is something I did not feel until sometime in the past decade or so.
GDL
Lux Imperium
Senior Registered
My search for past lives has come about more as an attempt to make some sense out of my personality more than anything else. I guess that would fall under the curiosity heading.
Since I was, oh dear heavens…possibly three or four, I’ve had feelings of a strong, almost physical pull to certain places.
As a child I remember playing on a beach in Europe and looking over at a palace with police/guards(?) in front of it. I had to be four years old at MOST and I thought, quite clearly
“As long as the guards are there we will be safe.”
Now, I was probably using that thought as an excuse to do stupid things in the water and thinking I’d always be rescued but the thought was so strong that now, almost forty years later I remember it.
I am an average person, from an average background…very average, I might add, but I’ve always felt “odd man out.” I would come into my own when we visited places like San Simeon or massive places like that.
I was just a freakin’ kid…WHY? These weren’t the ordinary “Oh gee, I wish I lived someplace this grand” thoughts either. It was more like “This is where I’m going to read and have my sandwich. This is home. Now I’ll take my shoes off and just sit.” I melted into these sorts of settings without trying.
“Normal” patterns prevailed and there was suddenly no “effort” no feeling that I was “out of my element” anymore.
You want weird, okay, here’s weird.
Private railway cars make me cry with bittersweet happiness.
Homesickness? Longing?
Call it what you will. I used to just think I was merely “whacked out” but the past life thing made sense of it when nothing else did.
It was like what I imagine an adopted child would experience when he finally finds his parents. Suddenly you understand WHY your eyes are that shade of brown and WHERE that mole on your shoulder comes from. I’ve even discovered WHY glittery, cluttered Victorian parlors are so blasted homey and comfortable to me.
My feeling is that one of the themes of my lives has been the balance between power and kindness. Not some massive epic “GOODNESS” just basic kindness and good nature.
I always seem to be a fairly easy-going person placed in situations where the strength of a hero is called for. Sometimes I may rise to the occasion, but I’d be willing to be you a dollar I more often just hide under the bed.
Waaah, I’m no hero! I just wanna sit in the palace and have my sandwich! As long as the guards are here, we’ll be safe…heheheh, yeah, sure.
Since I was, oh dear heavens…possibly three or four, I’ve had feelings of a strong, almost physical pull to certain places.
As a child I remember playing on a beach in Europe and looking over at a palace with police/guards(?) in front of it. I had to be four years old at MOST and I thought, quite clearly
“As long as the guards are there we will be safe.”
Now, I was probably using that thought as an excuse to do stupid things in the water and thinking I’d always be rescued but the thought was so strong that now, almost forty years later I remember it.
I am an average person, from an average background…very average, I might add, but I’ve always felt “odd man out.” I would come into my own when we visited places like San Simeon or massive places like that.
I was just a freakin’ kid…WHY? These weren’t the ordinary “Oh gee, I wish I lived someplace this grand” thoughts either. It was more like “This is where I’m going to read and have my sandwich. This is home. Now I’ll take my shoes off and just sit.” I melted into these sorts of settings without trying.
“Normal” patterns prevailed and there was suddenly no “effort” no feeling that I was “out of my element” anymore.
You want weird, okay, here’s weird.
Private railway cars make me cry with bittersweet happiness.
Homesickness? Longing?
Call it what you will. I used to just think I was merely “whacked out” but the past life thing made sense of it when nothing else did.
It was like what I imagine an adopted child would experience when he finally finds his parents. Suddenly you understand WHY your eyes are that shade of brown and WHERE that mole on your shoulder comes from. I’ve even discovered WHY glittery, cluttered Victorian parlors are so blasted homey and comfortable to me.
My feeling is that one of the themes of my lives has been the balance between power and kindness. Not some massive epic “GOODNESS” just basic kindness and good nature.
I always seem to be a fairly easy-going person placed in situations where the strength of a hero is called for. Sometimes I may rise to the occasion, but I’d be willing to be you a dollar I more often just hide under the bed.
Waaah, I’m no hero! I just wanna sit in the palace and have my sandwich! As long as the guards are here, we’ll be safe…heheheh, yeah, sure.
curious_girl
Curious Member
I read something the other day:
curiosity can be the start of a big and fullfilling adventure.
I think it's pretty normal to be fascinated by unseen and mysterious worlds,
even if you don't have any experience with this at all.
Witches, ghost stories and reincarnation are spooky and interesting,
especially kids love these sorts of things.
My interest also began with children's books and ghost stories,
and talks between me and my friends: did you ever seen a ghost?
Every Sunday we listened to a radio program about 'other worlds and realms',
the most juicy those stories the better.
Later I thought how interesting it would be that I have been princess in the past
This is where my curiosity started.
But later I forgot about the paranormal because I was too busy with school and life.
That changed when I got my first past lives flashbacks and met my spirit guide.
There was really more than I thought.
And it was quite spooky and adventurous to find out about my past life.
The more I experienced, and the more I thought about my experiences,
the more I got things into perspective.
Yes, there is another world and there was another life (or more),
but seeing things and remembering lives isn't the real issue.
It's about learning to know yourself, about personal growth and insights.
Although I still have past life memories sometimes,
and although I realize that I lived before,
it's not so important for me anymore.
Because it hardly ever brings any new information.
The here and now is more important for me these days.
Curious Girl.
curiosity can be the start of a big and fullfilling adventure.
I think it's pretty normal to be fascinated by unseen and mysterious worlds,
even if you don't have any experience with this at all.
Witches, ghost stories and reincarnation are spooky and interesting,
especially kids love these sorts of things.
My interest also began with children's books and ghost stories,
and talks between me and my friends: did you ever seen a ghost?
Every Sunday we listened to a radio program about 'other worlds and realms',
the most juicy those stories the better.
Later I thought how interesting it would be that I have been princess in the past
This is where my curiosity started.
But later I forgot about the paranormal because I was too busy with school and life.
That changed when I got my first past lives flashbacks and met my spirit guide.
There was really more than I thought.
And it was quite spooky and adventurous to find out about my past life.
The more I experienced, and the more I thought about my experiences,
the more I got things into perspective.
Yes, there is another world and there was another life (or more),
but seeing things and remembering lives isn't the real issue.
It's about learning to know yourself, about personal growth and insights.
Although I still have past life memories sometimes,
and although I realize that I lived before,
it's not so important for me anymore.
Because it hardly ever brings any new information.
The here and now is more important for me these days.
Curious Girl.
For newer members - What is your opinion on searching -- on looking out of curiosity? What do you feel inside when you do look? Does guilt, shame, doubts or unworthiness surface?
Or perhaps do you get fantastic results that lead you to a better understanding of your self and your loved ones?
Or perhaps do you get fantastic results that lead you to a better understanding of your self and your loved ones?
Lila P
Member
I think that those who are looking out of curiosity, will get scared and stop searching soon..
PL research is not always pleasant and you may find very distrubing things from your past.
I am aware of about 10 past lives, but I´ve only explored those ones that seem to be relevant in my current life. So, there are 2-3 PLs, which are "pushing through" or haunting so heavily that I´ve been almost obsessed to find out answers to certain themes in my life from the past.
So, to me PL research is therapy, not looking out of curiosity.
PL research is not always pleasant and you may find very distrubing things from your past. I am aware of about 10 past lives, but I´ve only explored those ones that seem to be relevant in my current life. So, there are 2-3 PLs, which are "pushing through" or haunting so heavily that I´ve been almost obsessed to find out answers to certain themes in my life from the past.
So, to me PL research is therapy, not looking out of curiosity.