Discovering My Past Life as Clockmaker John Harrison: A Validated Journey

[lesserwatch]

Hi everyone, I'd like to share a remarkable personal experience—not to claim historical fame, but to show the profound ways past-life research and validation can illuminate our soul’s journey. My journey began with spiritual curiosity around age 33, leading to my first past-life regression session with Susan Wisehart at age 40. Susan advised, "Treat it as an adventure."

During this regression, vivid memories emerged:

• Crossing a mist-covered stone bridge in Yorkshire, England.
• Sick as a boy in an early-1700s convalescent home.
• A humble father named John, anxious about losing contact with my adult son William.
• Finally, clearly seeing myself as a meticulous clockmaker, standing at my workbench surrounded by ticking clocks, intricate gears, and detailed sketches.

These visions culminated with me passing away upstairs above my shop.

For two years after, I sought historical proof. Seeking a clockmaker in London in the 18th century is like looking for a needle in a very large haystack, nevermind the lack of records kept from that time.

Then, one April morning in 2018, synchronicity intervened: Google’s homepage commemorated John Harrison (1693-1776)—the famed English inventor who solved maritime navigation's longitude problem with his marine chronometer. Seeing his portrait gave me chills of instant recognition.

Being a data scientist, I immediately applied AI facial recognition (ArcFace 68-point analysis), comparing Harrison’s portrait to my modern photo. The result was astounding—an 87% facial match, extraordinarily high despite a ~40-year age gap.

https://imgur.com/a/DJpeHOw

I then carefully cross-checked historical details with my regression memories, discovering extraordinary validations:

• Harrison was indeed born in Yorkshire. My regression matched precisely the environment and era.
• Historical records verified Harrison convalesced as a youth from smallpox near his childhood home—exactly aligning with my regression imagery.
• Harrison had an adult son named William, who accompanied him in chronometer sea trials. Crucially, William was historically isolated on a Caribbean island without mail for months—precisely mirroring my anxious regression memories of desperately awaiting letters that never arrived.
• My vision of passing alone above a clockmaker’s shop precisely matches Harrison’s documented final years.

Further validation came through renowned intuitive channel Kevin Ryerson, who channels a spirit named Atun-Re. Independently, Atun-Re confirmed:

• My past-life identity as John Harrison.
• My current son Matthew as my past-life son *William.
• My wife Kimberly as Harrison’s wife, Elizabeth.
• My soul's deep historical involvement across lifetimes mastering systems of measurement—including Egyptian agricultural calendars, the Greek Antikythera mechanism, Harrison’s marine chronometer, and my modern-day expertise in geospatial analytics and AI technology.

(Matt depicted next to portriat of William Harrison)

https://imgur.com/a/51DzUVf

Professionally today, my life reflects Harrison’s legacy—my career involves precision analytics, timing systems, artificial intelligence, and geospatial measurement.

These remarkable synchronicities and validations taught me reincarnation is not merely about belief or repeating old stories—it's about our soul’s purposeful evolution over multiple lifetimes.

I'm now using my data science expertise and passion for spiritual inquiry to objectively validate reincarnation through rigorous research, AI analytics, intuitive insight, and community-driven exploration. To this end, I'm working as a board member for ReincarnationResearch.com, who is dedicated to transparently validating and ethically researching reincarnation. My personal story is also published there after validation with Walter Semkiw from late 2019.

I share my deeply personal journey to encourage your own exploration of reincarnation. We each carry intuitive clues and memories worth exploring and validating.

Thank you sincerely for reading my story. I warmly invite your reflections, experiences, or thoughts.

-Chuck
If you want to contact me, you can reach me at chuckmcm@gmail.com

 

[SeaAndSky]

Hi Chuck ("lesserwatch"),

Welcome to the board! I'm in the middle of catching up with another friend via PM/DM, but I wanted to take a break to get back to you. Actually, I took an earlier break when I saw that a "lesserwatch" was looking things over, and fed your avatar into AI to find out who you were, receiving back your PL name and subsequently skimmed your Wikipedia article. So, once again, very glad to have you "aboard".

Cordially,
SeaAndSky

PS--BTW, remarkable resemblance, even given the gap in years.

 

[lesserwatch]

Thanks SeaAndSky! Also sent a PM (to Steve) with interest to help with the Forum. Let me know!

 

[SeaAndSky]

Hi lesserwatch,

I hope you can help with the forum, it needs new dedicated people, and you definitely have the background to be good at something like this.

Cordially,
S&S

 

[baro-san]

it's about our soul’s purposeful evolution over multiple lifetimes

Hi, I'd like to read more about that.

How did your belief in, and confirmation of reincarnation change the way you're living your life now? What do you believe "soul's purposeful evolution" might be?

 

[lesserwatch]

Hi, thanks for asking!

Here is the story. as told to an Edger Cayce Research Group back in June 2025. These folks weren't new to reincarnation, so I went pretty quick into details

Confirming reincarnation profoundly reshaped my approach to life. I now view experiences less as random challenges and more as intentional opportunities to evolve spiritually. Knowing I've lived multiple lifetimes focused on precision, timing, and technology (from ancient calendars and Greek mechanisms to 18th-century chronometers and modern-day AI), I'm guided by a sense of continuity and responsibility.

Practically, this insight has encouraged me to embrace patience, humility, and compassion in relationships, knowing we've likely shared connections before. It’s also helped me release anxieties—challenges seem temporary compared to the broader soul journey.

As for “soul’s purposeful evolution,” I believe our souls continually gather wisdom across lifetimes—less about punishment or reward, more about deepening our capacity to love, serve, and create meaningfully. Every lifetime refines our skills, balances past experiences, and enriches collective consciousness.

So, each life is a step on a much longer path, where our choices ripple positively forward, making each moment meaningful and sacred.

Have you had similar experiences or thoughts? I'd love to hear more about your journey too.

Warm regards,
Chuck

 

[Cryscat]

Welcome! You did your research!

 

[cloud potato]

Confirming reincarnation profoundly reshaped my approach to life. I now view experiences less as random challenges and more as intentional opportunities to evolve spiritually. Knowing I've lived multiple lifetimes focused on precision, timing, and technology (from ancient calendars and Greek mechanisms to 18th-century chronometers and modern-day AI), I'm guided by a sense of continuity and responsibility.

Practically, this insight has encouraged me to embrace patience, humility, and compassion in relationships, knowing we've likely shared connections before. It’s also helped me release anxieties—challenges seem temporary compared to the broader soul journey.

As for “soul’s purposeful evolution,” I believe our souls continually gather wisdom across lifetimes—less about punishment or reward, more about deepening our capacity to love, serve, and create meaningfully. Every lifetime refines our skills, balances past experiences, and enriches collective consciousness.

So, each life is a step on a much longer path, where our choices ripple positively forward, making each moment meaningful and sacred.

Welcome to the forum.

I agree whole-heartedly with your thoughts quoted above.

Understanding God as living, loving intelligence... Understanding Love, its depths and width- is transcendental.

Interestingly, I find my self looking at this "greater picture" in a less linear way.

And, where I am presently- The Now is Alive. The Now is a Personality.

Have a great day~

 

[baro-san]

So, each life is a step on a much longer path, where our choices ripple positively forward, making each moment meaningful and sacred.

Have you had similar experiences or thoughts? I'd love to hear more about your journey too.

In the way we look at reincarnation, its meaning, as well as at the meaning of life and of the physical reality, I see some similarities and some differences.

For example, I believe that what we experience, what is happening to us, follows some curricula, some themes that are pre-established before we are born here, and they remain mostly unchanged during our life: we have to, and will learn them in that particular life. These are specific lessons, and include typical conditions that help with learning those lessons.

This is why, in the self-regressions I've done, I finished them with asking and learning what was the lesson of that particular life. The lesson is usually one or two-word, and it needs an intuitive interpretation to truly get it.

 

[Totoro]

Chuck,

That is quite a lot of well done research and welcome to the forum!

I started my own research back in 2006 and have been at it ever since. I had a pretty lengthy thread, but it was more like a scrapbook than an actual story, so I hid it from forum visibility and I wanted to rewrite it into something similar to your post.

Long story short, I discovered a pattern of lives that includes mine, but also those of my immediate family.

Most interesting is that my last two lives and I all share the same birthday, November 13.

Ranjit Singh, Monday, 1780
Wan Wrong Gobulo, Tuesday, 1906
Me, Wednesday, 1974

There's a striking resemblance between Ranjit and I and also his son, Duleep and my own.

Much more to it than that, but that's the gist of it!

Once again, welcome aboard!

 

[Ocean]

Hi Chuck,

nice to meet you.

I watched your video and read your posts with great interest. This is an amazing past life discovery you had. It’s awesome you could not only find your past life identity, but also verify all those details you saw in your regression. I was especially amazed by you finding the book with the cover that “looked like a cow’s skin”. This is really incredible!

After watching the video I had some questions I'd like to ask you:

Did you do any more past life regressions after the one in 2015, which you describe, to uncover some more details or some other past lives?

When I understood it correctly, you said that you didn’t have any affinity to England. Did that change after you remembered your past life as John Harrison? Do you feel some emotional connection to the country or to Yorkshire now?

It seems some people live similar lives again and again, like always choosing the same or a similar profession, focusing on similar themes in life. For example, on this forum and elsewhere several people remembered to have been soldiers again and again, fighting in different wars in different eras around the globe.
Do you have any idea why you would choose to focus on measurement, timing, precise technology etc. over and over again in your lives? It’s really a wonderful thing to do. But does this have a deeper meaning for you or your soul? What would it be?
Maybe you don't have any answer to this question. That's fine. But maybe you reflected on this.

Best regards

 

[lesserwatch]

Hi Ocean,

Thank you so much for watching the video and for your thoughtful questions. It’s always heartening to meet someone who looks at this topic with genuine curiosity.

“Did you do any more past life regressions after the one in 2015…?”
Yes. My first deep session was with Susan Wisehart in 2016, which gave me the “clockmaker” images. After that, I did a Life Between Lives session later in 2016 and another PLR regression in 2018. I've been uncovering details of earlier lifetimes such as the being involved with the lost Antikythera mechanism as Posidonius. These later sessions helped me see the broader arc of my soul’s obvious work—precision, measurement, and complex systems across many eras.

Here is an interesting visual comparison of the bust of Posidonius and an same-age photo of me (with an AI-colored rendering for comparison

“Did your affinity to England change after you remembered being John Harrison?”
Absolutely. Before the regressions, I had no real connection to or interest in England—aside from stories of World War II, I had barely looked at a map. After the memories surfaced, though, I felt a strong pull toward the landscape, especially when exploring the area through Google Maps VR. Reading about Harrison’s childhood and seeing photos of Foulby in West Yorkshire—less than half a mile from where he grew up, while his father, Henry Harrison, worked as a carpenter at Nostell Priory—gave me a profound sense of confirmation of what I had seen in my regression memories.

“Why do you think you’ve chosen measurement, timing, precise technology over and over?”
From my reflections (and from what Ahtun Re confirmed later), this focus seems less about machines for their own sake and more about service through order. Each life seems to have the theme of helping people 'navigate'—whether that’s farmers with calendars, sailors with longitude, or modern organizations with geospatial analytics (and now AI). In my view the deeper meaning is learning patience, stewardship, and how to blend creativity with reliability. In other words, it’s my soul’s way of practicing both precision and compassion over time.

I’m still very much in exploration mode with my other past lives. In my most recent work, I’ve found evidence that I was involved in the automotive industry—so you could say my focus across lifetimes seems to center on time and movement through space. That said, I’ve only recently begun researching those lives in depth.

I'm always open to learning from others’ perspectives--have you noticed any repeating themes or “curricula” across your own memories?

Warmly,
Chuck

 

[Ocean]

Hello Chuck,

thank you very much for answering. It’s particularly interesting to hear from someone with a solved past life case. Doesn’t happen all too often.

I’ve found evidence that I was involved in the automotive industry

That’s funny. While I was reading through your story, I thought to myself you could have worked in the automobile industry in a later past life as well. Somehow I found that would fit

Posidonius is interesting, too. I love the ancient world of Greece and Rome. So, Posidonius (or anyone else from that time and place) would be a great character to hear about one day, once you have more to report on that.

I figured your affinity to England would have changed after the regression. I made the experience that I suddenly felt a loving affinity for certain things from my past lives after I had remembered them, like names, animals, clothing and places, things that were neutral to me or even dull in current life before.

Some years ago, I did a past life regression and a life-between-life regression with a trained Michael-Newton-regressionist, too. But my PL regression wasn’t nearly as successful as yours. The LBL regression was better, however. Anyway, if you’re willing to share, I would be much interested in hearing how your LBL regression went and if you remembered something from between lives.

I'm always open to learning from others’ perspectives--have you noticed any repeating themes or “curricula” across your own memories?

I can’t say I’ve found any common themes in my remembered past lives. They were all sort of different. I also changed gender regularly throughout lives.
My last past life had a lot to do with staying true to my own morality and compassion under difficult circumstances. Another past life had to do with love relationships, love triangles, adultery and so on. With many past lives I do not know what or if there was a certain theme, as they are just glimpses I remember.
Once I consulted a psychic, who told me about some other past lives of mine, which I don’t remember actively myself. According to this psychic I had one long series of lives (often female ones) in the past that dealt with marriage and having a family. But profession wise I had been many things over time: a priest, a dancer, a healer, a politician, a soldier…
I'm much connected to water, however. It's something that heals and energizes me. I've noticed, I often lived near the sea or traveled there or went on ships etc. But that's not a theme, that's like a special connection to my soul that I have.

I think, as a soul I’m more of an explorer. Like in current life, I have many different interests and I love to travel. I like to think that my soul is just the same. I feel that as a soul I just want to explore sometimes how I would deal with a certain circumstance or how I would act in a particular role in life. Also, to get a better understanding of other people and to become more loving and compassionate this way.
However, there seems to be one common approach to life in all of that (and that’s a bit hard to put into words). I believe we all carry a divine spark, a shining light inside of us, our goodness, love, compassion, inner peace and joy, our true self and true potential. But under the harsh conditions of life on Earth it can be difficult not to let this light be diminished, whether by others, by hardships, by society or by our own Ego. So, to me life is always about finding this divine spark within, staying true to it and letting it shine for the benefit of myself and others. In other words: becoming a better person and a more beautiful soul throughout different lives, circumstances and experiences.

 

[lesserwatch]

I really appreciate how you described that sense of confirmation, especially connecting it back to a place on the map that suddenly feels familiar. That really resonates with my own experience of remembering Harrison. Before the regressions I had no interest in England at all—but afterward, I felt drawn to eventually visit Foulby and Nostell Priory, almost as if they were calling me home. I even had tickets to go in March 2020, to see the statue they were erecting in the town square in Foulby… and of course, that trip was cancelled .

Hearing how you’ve processed your own memories helps me trust mine a little more. It’s comforting to know others have felt that same kind of ‘recognition spark’ when exploring past lives.