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Different Cultures

GalaxyDreamer90

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So I have this co worker that I think had a past life in some other country. Not entirely sure what country but he's always talking about how if he had the money he would travel to countries like the Phillipines. He's also into other cultures which I've noticed most other people usually aren't. He even one time mentioned he likes food from other countries while the rest of his family doesn't. Also he's always talking about how he's attracted to women from other countries. I'm sure he has lived here in the United States his entire life and he's mostly white though he says he has some native American ancestry from his grandma. Could his interest in other countries and cultures be a sign of reincarnation.
 
So I have this co worker that I think had a past life in some other country. Not entirely sure what country but he's always talking about how if he had the money he would travel to countries like the Phillipines. He's also into other cultures which I've noticed most other people usually aren't. He even one time mentioned he likes food from other countries while the rest of his family doesn't. Also he's always talking about how he's attracted to women from other countries. I'm sure he has lived here in the United States his entire life and he's mostly white though he says he has some native American ancestry from his grandma. Could his interest in other countries and cultures be a sign of reincarnation.
This might mean something, but is not indicative of any specific past lives in and of itself.
 
My approach to sharing of my beliefs is keep in mind that they are just beliefs, not truths, and that other people have their own beliefs, sometimes diametrically opposed to mine, which they consider truths. So, while I am not shy in expressing what I believe, I don't intend to convince anybody of anything, nor am I open to argue the merits of my beliefs.

Sure, I don't expect others to respect my opinions, but I expect people to be polite, which isn't often the case; most people get defensive, impolite, even rude, when their truths are challenged by others.
 
I have mixed feelings about that. I think sometimes people get wrapped up in other cultures because it gives them a feeling of being exotic or worldly and that doesn't necessarily mean that they had a past life there.

Normally when I hear people talk about other cultures, they tend speak in generalities like "OMG, when you're there, it's just the best! The food is amazing and the people there are just so beautiful.."

However, I would tend to think that the more specific the interest is, the more it might be a possible clue to a past life. Like is this person drawn to a certain type of traditional music? a particular village or island? A time period? method of cooking?

And generally too, with Asian cultures, there are multiple ethnicities clustered together in the same areas. Does he seem to have a preference for one ethnicity over another?

Otherwise, it could just be something he's interested in for one reason or another.
 
I would say there is a chance of there being something and the same goes for historical periods but beyond that without the memories figuring anything more would not be as straight forward. The natal chart (astrology) might suggest some potential past life connections but that is way beyond what I've learned thus far in that aspect.
 
From my own self, I tend to be interested in things I never lived be it an area or a historical period.

As Totoro mentioned cooking...I have absolutely no link to Africa, be it now or in the past. but I make potjiekos regularly and own a potjie pot as well as make other African dishes. Same with Greek food, while I married one and will tell you I am a better Greek then he was, it's just an interest in cuisines I happen to enjoy.

Since my hobby is historical cooking, it very often runs a lot of areas and times I have no tie to in a past life. I just enjoy it. Usually I don't make food from times I lived in, though; while I own a book on ancient Egyptian cooking, I have very little desire to make or eat it same with a few other cuisiness. On the other hand, I have a stove from 1927 that I absolutely love using even with all the idiosyncrasies- I didn't live in the 20s and died just as these gas ranges were coming out as a marvel of latest tech nor did I live when earthen ovens were normal. Both of these (and a few other methods) I thoroughly enjoy because I never used them. While I can make a clay pot out of my yard, I am not going to make one or cook in it unless the world ends; I've done that and been there before.

TL;DR sometimes an interest is because of NOT having a life there in the past as well.
 
An interest in other cultures could also stem from being interested in those cultures in another past life. Since I was little I liked Sparta and the idea of Sparta, and the warrior mentality, how they were trained since children etc. I must have been around 14 when I decided to read the Iliad and the Oddissey. Everyone kept telling me how then latter was better and more entertaining because it had fantasy elements. I preferred the Iliad 10 times better, because although Sparta per se wasn't part of the conflict (only some Spartans) when I read it I felt inspired and wanted to train and fight (Something similar happened to me years later with Stuka Pilot, which... makes a lot of sense but that's another story). At some point I even thought it may have been because of a possible past life in Ancient Greece that I didn't remember. While it's always a possibility, I think it's a lot more likely that I simply had those feelings due to general Nazi propaganda and their infatuation with Sparta.

At one point I was also really into Plato and Nietzsche. It was weird, I would read Nietzsche and feel like the things he wrote were things that I had already thought about before. I even thought "What if I was him in a past life?". But then I realized that didn't make any sense, I didn't have any memories, and probably it all just stemmed from having read and reflected about Nietzsche in the past. But if you die and forget where the thoughts come from, you would perceive external influences as internal, because you forgot the source.
 
... because you forgot the source.
You may forget the source, but at some point in your life, many dots may align and then you “realize”, getting some clues. It is very interesting when you can confirm some memories, placing them in time and space. Then, you can say “This happens to me at this time, in this life, and that happened to me in the past, in another timeframe and another life.” For me, it was amazing to realize, 15 years after I left the U.S. returning home, that all the places I lived and visited when I was there, matched almost perfectly with the places I grew up between 1926 and 1943. I confirmed that because some documents are online now, so I followed for example the census records of my PL family along the East Cost. I was not conscious of that between 1998 and 2002, but 15 years after returning home, I start building the puzzle. I put together memories and images of places with my deep memories when I was a toddler and a boy. If you ask me if knowing all that, changed something inside my current self, I can say probably no. It was just to discover some new pages or chapter of a book that I start reading/writing in1966. Now I put together some parts of the chapter 1926-1944. It's great to know that chapter, because you can better understand some of the reasons why this current chapter 1966-2024 is evolving the way it is. I see my past as a foundation that helped to build the present. But that is still the past. It's like reading history. Now, we only have the present, and that is the only time we have to grow, to learn, to change, to live being better persons, where we can enjoy or heal our memories of the past. The present is the only canvas I have to paint my life. Memories are just another tool inside our art toolbox, but only in the present we can learn how to use that tool wisely.
 
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