Do you cry when you see your past life?

SeekerOfKnowledge · Mar 25, 2022

I lived in Siena, too, but that was about 600 years earlier than you (died in 1348). I don't remember much, but what I saw was enough to later find out that the city was Siena.

Mimic · Mar 25, 2022

I had a very strange moment in the Boston Museum of Fine Art years ago. I had been travelling with a friend, but went alone. And I got to the Egyptian section, and began crying because "There's so little of this left!"
Still don't understand that one. It was an instant emotional reaction. There's something there though.

Cyrus · Mar 30, 2022

SeekerOfKnowledge said: ↑

I lived in Siena, too, but that was about 600 years earlier than you (died in 1348). I don't remember much, but what I saw was enough to later find out that the city was Siena.
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Hi, Seeker:

What a joyful surprise to meet somebody who was almost my neighbour not so long ago, really !

I lived near Siena, not in Siena itself. And I was never so much fascinated by architecture or things of the art, I was just a simple country guy.

Maybe if you read (or listened as an audiobook) the James Hadley Chase's "Mission to Siena" ("Zahle oder stirb"), you'd find there some details on Siena's medieval past, maybe even something you had lived through yourself in that PL of yours.

Best regards.

Liebe12345 · Apr 5, 2022

Speedwell said: ↑

This question is about crying and past lives. For me, the discovery of crying was part of both healing and the connection with past lives. For a number of years as a young adult, someone in the physical prime of life, I'd tried so hard to push all of this hidden feeling aside, to leave it behind. There's a phrase 'get on with my life'; though I'm not sure what that means.

After a few years of struggling with this bubbling emotion, always submerged just beneath the surface, but never going away for very long, I decided it was time to try a different tack. Another approach. All that buried emotion - from I knew not where - I decided to let it flow. it was a violent eruption of feeling. To say I cried would be an understatement. Once I had decided it was ok to go down this path, the first thing I noticed was that I survived. It hurt, it was painful. But the next day I was still alive. I started to feel joy. Somewhere into this mix of intense weeping followed by periods of joy and peace, I already knew this must be the right track, I just wanted some sort of healing. And pow, bam, an explosion of connection as I found my own previous self in a photograph from many years before I was born.

That was a start of a different thing, an effort at the intellectual level to try to understand all of that rationally. I made a few errors there. Rational thinking is the hardest and most error-strewn part of life. Often one must follow emotion and intuition, that will lead to truth, while rational argument may be futile. I say this from experience. My Dad had a saying, "the wise man learns from other people's mistakes - the fool learns from his own" - and he self-deprecatingly admitted he had had to learn from his own mistakes. Perhaps that is the human lot, we all have to learn from our own experience - whether we call it a mistake or inevitable almost doesn't matter.

To track back a little to the earlier part of this post. Allowing oneself to weep uncontrollably is not something which it is easy to fit into everyday life. This experience went on for at least ten years, and fortunately I learned to turn on and off the emotional outpouring at will. So I went through a form of self-therapy which could only be done when alone, while also setting off on a new career and launching myself deep into the world of work.

What I'm talking about here is a kind of time-sharing. I devoted myself 100% to the job I was doing, indeed one I was just learning. I also devoted myself 100% to releasing buried emotion from a past life. And somehow managed to fit both into a busy schedule, while also adding into the mix a hectic social life. I don't know how this is even possible. But that past-life stuff is not just an academic curiosity, some obscure interest, it is a crucial part of health and well being. It must be allowed its day, just as all the other aspects of life are attended to.
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Thank you for posting this. I thought I was the only one! I, too, carved out time for intense crying and emotions over my past life. I just couldn’t stop mourning a person I had lost. It felt so real and present, as though I needed to see a grief counselor. But you cant really attend grief therapy for a past life loss- far too much explaining to do. I have finally reached the stage where I don’t sob daily for this person. But I still mourn him. And certain memories of place still make me feel so melancholy.

SeekerOfKnowledge · Apr 5, 2022

A loving welcome to you, Liebe12345!

Emma66 · Apr 5, 2022

Welcome Liebe12345!
You're not alone. I cried a lot when I saw photos of places or when memories of my last past life as a marine in Vietnam spontaneously came back with a lot of emotions. Over time, that settled down. I thought I was fine but now another of my past lives (Cossack imperial guard in Russia in late 18th, early 19th ) pops out and the tears crisis start again looking at photos of places (Tsarskoïe Selo, Smolensk, Krasnoi where I died in 1812) and sometimes just with memories. I would also like to see people that I have known in this life.

Cyrus · Apr 5, 2022

Well, I'm an optimist, after all my scepticism and materialism.

No use crying over spilt milk. 'Just take care of your karma, and your karma will take of you', is my motto.
And I hope that someday, when I look back, I'll be able to say, like Edith Piaf in this song, "Je me fous du passé / Je ne regrette rien" (= "F*** the past / I don't regret anything").

But yes, with a lump in my throat...

IMHO

Speedwell · Apr 7, 2022

Liebe12345 said: ↑

Thank you for posting this. I thought I was the only one! I, too, carved out time for intense crying and emotions over my past life. I just couldn’t stop mourning a person I had lost. It felt so real and present, as though I needed to see a grief counselor. But you cant really attend grief therapy for a past life loss- far too much explaining to do. I have finally reached the stage where I don’t sob daily for this person. But I still mourn him. And certain memories of place still make me feel so melancholy.
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Thanks, it helps me too to know that others have similar experiences. Though I'm more balanced nowadays, there were times when I felt there was no-one else who understood what I was going through. Years ago, people would say to me light-heartedly, "Cheer up, it might never happen!" to which I had nothing to say in response though I did sometimes reply "It already has" and leave it at that.

It's good that you seem to have most of that process already behind you. I hope things get better for you.

It seems I post bits and pieces of my experience in different threads, for example this recent post from another thread which is on a similar topic,

NonOrdinary States of Consciousness and the Accessing of Feelings

Speedwell said: ↑

That certainly matches my own experience. I didn't know what I was doing, just discovered a method or process by myself. After years of struggling to suppress and minimise inner pain and distress, I realised it was not going to go away. So one day I decided to try the exact opposite of suppressing the pain. I settled down by myself, and just felt the pain, allowed it to come to the surface. I've talked about it before. It resulting in tears, I cried for the first time in many years. This turned out to be beneficial.

I carried on that process for days, weeks, eventually for years. The key though is the description, "NonOrdinary States of Consciousness". I was able to enter or leave this state at will. I never did it in public, though might perhaps if in a corner of something like a bus or train, where I would be unobserved. When it was time to engage with everyday life such as buying a ticket or chatting to someone, I'd be back in everyday consciousness immediately.

Yes, it allowed access to feelings, which actually was my navigation tool, in order to enter this state of consciousness I went towards the pain, into it, that's how I knew which way to go. It also had two results. One was healing. Two was triggering recall of a past life, though not in a direct way, but by the ability to discern what my past had been. For example I'd research a topic and suddenly certain things felt right, felt like me, while the rest just left me uninterested, no response. That was something new though it all fitted into a much longer pattern, going back to childhood when I had no idea of the concept of past lives, so things went unrecognised at the time.
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Cyrus · May 7, 2022

Just a year after. I might be there too, who knows:

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