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Gypsy8

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My sixth grade teacher read to us daily of places and events from around the world from The Book of Knowledge. I learned far more from those readings than anything else that year. And I may have had my second experience with a past life.

One day at reading time, the teacher told us she was going to read the story of Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius. When I heard those names it was as though I'd been suddenly transported to Hell.

I was surrounded by hundreds of people, and we were running, trying to reach the water; screaming, crying, yelling out names of loved ones as burning rocks fell from the sky. Everything was on fire and the smoke was thick and hot, searing as it went into my lungs. People were falling and being run over by the hordes of desperate people. And then something hit me hard and everything went black.

Back in the classroom I'd suddenly become so ill I had to be taken home by the Principal.
 
I would say definitely a past life memory. There were many warning earthquakes like with Mt. St. Helens back in 1980. But in Roman times no one knew those were warnings signs that the volcano was getting ready to explode. Before Mt. St. Helens blew up people thought volcanoes were mostly lava oozing like the one in Hawaii.
 
Sounds like a flashback to a past life to me. It would seem that existence ended with the eruption.
 
I think it was definitely a flash of memory. I had a reaction like that when learning about the holocaust in school. To this day I can't watch schindlers list. When they showed it in school I had to skip because even the thought of watching it bothered me so much.
 
I agree with all the posters - definitely a past life recall. I have been wondering if anyone on the forum perished at Pompeii. Photos of the casts of bodies, lying where they fell are very moving. Those people still seem so real.
 
Kimberlyanne419 said:
To this day I can't watch schindlers list. When they showed it in school I had to skip because even the thought of watching it bothered me so much.
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There are many people here on the forum that had a past life in WWII, on both sides.
 
BriarRose said:
I agree with all the posters - definitely a past life recall. I have been wondering if anyone on the forum perished at Pompeii. Photos of the casts of bodies, lying where they fell are very moving. Those people still seem so real.
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Like Kimberly and Schindler's List, I've never been able to watch any of the things about Vesuvius or Pompeii.
 
Aged Gypsy said:
Back in the classroom I'd suddenly become so ill I had to be taken home by the Principal.
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Aged Gypsy said:
I've never been able to watch any of the things about Vesuvius or Pompeii.
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It's interesting that you have these reactions whenever you see anything related to Pompeii and Vesuvius. I'm the opposite, I actually feel fascinated in a morbid way by volcanic eruptions. I can watch footage on the tv and it makes me feel uneasy and very 'jumpy', but at the same time, I feel mesmerized by it. I remember Pompeii and Vesuvius were one of the first topics that captured my interest at school when I was very young.

BriarRose said:
I have been wondering if anyone on the forum perished at Pompeii.
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I didn't perish at Pompeii, but I do remember my life coming to an end in an eruption elsewhere.
 
Like ChrisR, I am fascinated by volcanic eruptions. For anyone who is interested, Vesuvius A.D. 79 The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum by Ernesto De Carolis and Giovanni Patricelli, might be one to try. Its a scholarly look at what happened, but it really goes in depth. Written in Italian and translated into English by Getty Publications.
 
ChrisR said:
It's interesting that you have these reactions whenever you see anything related to Pompeii and Vesuvius. I'm the opposite, I actually feel fascinated in a morbid way by volcanic eruptions. I can watch footage on the tv and it makes me feel uneasy and very 'jumpy', but at the same time, I feel mesmerized by it. I remember Pompeii and Vesuvius were one of the first topics that captured my interest at school when I was very young.
I didn't perish at Pompeii, but I do remember my life coming to an end in an eruption elsewhere.
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I've actually had a fascination with volcanos most of my life. It's just Vesuvius and what its eruption did to Pompeii that I've always shied away from.
 
I know you react badly to all things connected to Pompeii and Vesuvius, but if you were given the opportunity, would you go back there and visit the place? There's a part of me that yearns to go back to the place where I lived and died, but another part of me holds back, sensing danger that it could happen again, or that it WILL happen again even. But I know that some people do actually visit a location of their past life, and feel a sense of closure. Either way, I know it would be an extremely emotional experience, and it's definately on my 'things to do before I die' list :)
 
I think I've probably gone there between lives to visit what remained of me in that lifetime. Funny, in my memory of that life, I have no idea whether I was male or female. Guess that just shows how immaterial everything becomes when one's survival is all that matters.


I've never felt the need for closure from the lives I've lived. I see those lives sort of like life itself. We're born, we grow and learn, and become adult. We will live in our lifetimes, every lifestyle, from the most primitive native of a land, to the highest ruler; be every kind of person, from horribly deformed to the perfect, and experience every brutality to every advantage. As we live these many lives, we learn what it's like to be exalted, the despised, the hunted, and so on. We become skilled in many things, develop talents. With every life lived our soul has become that much more developed, and humane.


In this way I see us developing into ever more elevated beings that will be far above the petty hates, differences, wars, and all the things that has destroyed civilizations since the beginning of time, and we'll have highly advanced technology that will provide everything needed without destroying anything in the process.


This is my own concept, one that has been developing for all of my seventy-six years, of why we live so many lives. So far, I've never come across anyone who sees it as I do.
 
Gypsy, it may have taken you 76 years, but you have come "home" to your people. I agree with every word you wrote. It was wise, and beautifully expressed. I think many others here will agree with your statement.
 
Hi Wilma, yes I agree with your words, they pretty much sum up the 'big picture' for most of us here, so you're certainly not alone with your thoughts. I should have chosen my words more carefully when I said 'closure', I meant that some people (myself included) are, or have been, haunted with nightmares or extreme emotions from a past life, and sometimes just visiting a location, or a grave, seeing or touching a physical connection with the past life can be enough to ease the load.


Of course, I wouldn't want to lose any memories of my past lives, not even the bad ones. They all combine to make me the person who I am today, they are all part of me and there are bits of 'me' that I recognize in each of them.
 
ChrisR said:
Hi Wilma, yes I agree with your words, they pretty much sum up the 'big picture' for most of us here, so you're certainly not alone with your thoughts. I should have chosen my words more carefully when I said 'closure', I meant that some people (myself included) are, or have been, haunted with nightmares or extreme emotions from a past life, and sometimes just visiting a location, or a grave, seeing or touching a physical connection with the past life can be enough to ease the load.
Of course, I wouldn't want to lose any memories of my past lives, not even the bad ones. They all combine to make me the person who I am today, they are all part of me and there are bits of 'me' that I recognize in each of them.
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Hi Chris. Actually, the problem with 'closure' was mine. I've heard it used in so many different ways, about so many things. I can understand the need to confront (also probably not the right word) that which causes extreme pain of any kind. I do that with any problem I'm confronted with, so I do understand the need.


I was living in Northern California at the time of the Mt. St. Helens eruption, just over the state line in Oregon. While I was mesmerized by the photos that were taken of the eruption, I've never been able to get the old man who'd lived next to the volcano and refused to leave, out of my mind.
 
Aged Gypsy said:
While I was mesmerized by the photos that were taken of the eruption, I've never been able to get the old man who'd lived next to the volcano and refused to leave, out of my mind.
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Some people just have no concept of danger. Many people in Pompeii stayed in their homes because they thought they would be safe there, and then the weight of ash was too much for the roof's of their houses, and they collapsed, crushing the occupants inside. That's why there are so many cast's of the victims on display today. Or perhaps that old guy at St. Helens had lived there his whole life and could never see himself settling anywhere else, so decided to stay put and accept his fate.
 
Aged Gypsy said:
I was living in Northern California at the time of the Mt. St. Helens eruption, just over the state line in Oregon. While I was mesmerized by the photos that were taken of the eruption, I've never been able to get the old man who'd lived next to the volcano and refused to leave, out of my mind.
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I haven't either, and I don't believe I have any connection with volcanoes in a past life. But the thought of him staying there is just haunting.
 
That is pretty fascinating that you had that experience! How do you feel about that time period today? Do you seek out experiences from that period and try to learn more about it? Does it still scare you a lot? Do you ever have recurring nightmares like the one in the classroom? It must have been scary for you and thank you for sharing with us.
 
ZeonChar said:
That is pretty fascinating that you had that experience! How do you feel about that time period today? Do you seek out experiences from that period and try to learn more about it? Does it still scare you a lot? Do you ever have recurring nightmares like the one in the classroom? It must have been scary for you and thank you for sharing with us.
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As I mentioned further down from my original post, I really don't think about my past lives. I hadn't actually thought of my experiences as possible past life memories until shortly before I came here. I've never had any recurring nightmares of anything. I guess I think I was in Pompeii because of my reaction upon hearing the name. I've seen the stories of the area and the remains as an adult, but have no reaction to them.
 
ChrisR said:
Some people just have no concept of danger. Many people in Pompeii stayed in their homes because they thought they would be safe there, and then the weight of ash was too much for the roof's of their houses, and they collapsed, crushing the occupants inside. That's why there are so many cast's of the victims on display today. Or perhaps that old guy at St. Helens had lived there his whole life and could never see himself settling anywhere else, so decided to stay put and accept his fate.
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There were stories about this old guy before the eruption, and I'd been drawn to him in some way. Not sure why. Maybe just the idea of anyone living so close to a mountain that was giving signs of erupting. They say Mt Rainier could blow at any time, and look how many live around it - some of my family included.
 
In certain areas, we seem to have to ignore danger to live there. California has had some worries about volcanic activity at Mt. Shasta. Seismic events have been fewer for us in the last twenty years, but we had a 4.4 last night, centered not far from my house. We briefly woke up, and went immediately back to sleep. My husband slept through the Northridge Quake, the last major event that caused much damage. Except for the area around Northridge, you couldn't tell anything had happened. We went out the next day, and bought a house. My point is that I can understand how people in Pompei ignored the warning signs. The mountain "burps", and you take it in stride, because it happens all the time. A hurricane is coming, and you buy some doughnuts, make some coffee, and watch the weather all night. The earth rumbles, and your husband says, "It's just an earthquake. Go back to sleep." It's human nature. :rolleyes:
 
Wow. Yes, it does sound like a past life memory. I lived in Herculaneum and my wife, who is also my wife this life and I, along with our son were killed by the pyroclastic flow that put paid to Herculaneum. It sounds, though, as if you may have been killed by stones that fell from the eruption cloud--many did die that way during especially the early hours of the eruption.


I've had a lifelong interest in geology, especially volcanology. I love watching footage of eruptions and have quite a few books on the topic, both lay and textbooks. Also when I visited Pompeii when I was 9, there was a familiarity to the place...it turns out that although I lived near Herculaneum after I married, I was born and raised in Pompeii.


As for the earthquakes, people in Campania (where Vesuvius, Pompeii and Herculaneum are located) were used to frequent tremors...this was even commented on by the naturalist Pliny the Elder, who, incidentally, died during the final pyroclastic surge on the morning of the 25th of August. Romans really had no concept of connecting increasing earthquake activity with the possibility of a volcano erupting. It is only recently that some researchers have come to consider the great earthquake of 62AD, which badly damaged Pompeii, was likely a premonitory (warning) quake. Given that Vesuvius hadn't erupted in several hundred years I'm not even sure they actually knew Vesuvius was a volcano.
 
Wow. Yes, it does sound like a past life memory. I lived in Herculaneum and my wife, who is also my wife this life and I, along with our son were killed by the pyroclastic flow that put paid to Herculaneum. It sounds, though, as if you may have been killed by stones that fell from the eruption cloud--many did die that way during especially the early hours of the eruption.
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As fascinating as it is terrifying! It's hard to imagine going through this in real time, much less what it would be like as an ancient. What an event, gives me the shivers. I'm into geology too, and studying both our own film and media on eruption events and legend records as well as what's in the fossil record never gets old. Amazing that you got to visit the place in your youth, that 'familiar feeling' really is something, isn't it?


Aged Gypsy mentioned experiencing the Mount St. Helens eruption, my mother lived by the Toutle River at the time and while she did evacuate as advised, she also mentioned an old man who did stay and did die with his mountain. Wonder if it's the same bloke? I wonder also where he (or she, if they're back?) might be now. Perhaps he'll register here someday!


Learning about the fate of Pompeii and Herculaneum made an impression on grade-school Spatz too, but whether or not that was a reaction to a trigger of a past life fate of mine or just a typical interest in natural disaster, I don't know. I tend to keep the viewpoint that obsessions don't just come from nowhere, and it's interesting to read some of the above reactions to learning and hearing about the subject when it was something they experienced as part of a past life death or trauma.
 
ChrisR said:
It's interesting that you have these reactions whenever you see anything related to Pompeii and Vesuvius. I'm the opposite, I actually feel fascinated in a morbid way by volcanic eruptions. I can watch footage on the tv and it makes me feel uneasy and very 'jumpy', but at the same time, I feel mesmerized by it. I remember Pompeii and Vesuvius were one of the first topics that captured my interest at school when I was very young.
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Volcanoes are creepy... but this is the way I feel about Schindler's List, which I have watched more times than I know to count. Disturbed, detached and fascinated. Weird, and so what would that mean..! :confused:
 
Spatz said:
As fascinating as it is terrifying! It's hard to imagine going through this in real time, much less what it would be like as an ancient. What an event, gives me the shivers. I'm into geology too, and studying both our own film and media on eruption events and legend records as well as what's in the fossil record never gets old. Amazing that you got to visit the place in your youth, that 'familiar feeling' really is something, isn't it?
Aged Gypsy mentioned experiencing the Mount St. Helens eruption, my mother lived by the Toutle River at the time and while she did evacuate as advised, she also mentioned an old man who did stay and did die with his mountain. Wonder if it's the same bloke? I wonder also where he (or she, if they're back?) might be now. Perhaps he'll register here someday!


Learning about the fate of Pompeii and Herculaneum made an impression on grade-school Spatz too, but whether or not that was a reaction to a trigger of a past life fate of mine or just a typical interest in natural disaster, I don't know. I tend to keep the viewpoint that obsessions don't just come from nowhere, and it's interesting to read some of the above reactions to learning and hearing about the subject when it was something they experienced as part of a past life death or trauma.
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Yes, the feeling of deja vu is quite something.


As for the man mentioned in connection with Mt. St. Helens, I believe it was Harry Truman, who had a lodge at Spirit Lake. If the media reports are correct, he honestly believed that Mt. St. Helens wouldn't harm him. Unfortunately he was wrong. I'm glad to hear your mom evacuated!
 
As a former victim of eruption, I'm quite intrigued to 'experience' this forthcoming movie on the big screen. It's released in the UK this week, and even the trailer is pretty intense, and just a little bit more 'dramatic' than the scenes from my memories ;) , but that 'morbid fascination' still draws me in to go and see it, i'm a sucker for punishment and hope I can sit and watch it to the end! - anyone else seen it, or going to see it?

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