Have you ever tried to contact your PL family?
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Emma66
Once a Marine, always a Marine
I agree with you Melon. That's why I was asking this question.
I am always doubtful about all I have seen under regression. I thought it was all a figment of my imagination. I need to validate everything I have seen.
I feel like I have partial amnesia and I need to fill in the blanks of these past life memories.
A little inner voice tells me I have to do it and my mind says no
I know how weird and awkward it is.
I am always doubtful about all I have seen under regression. I thought it was all a figment of my imagination. I need to validate everything I have seen.
I feel like I have partial amnesia and I need to fill in the blanks of these past life memories.
A little inner voice tells me I have to do it and my mind says no
I know how weird and awkward it is.
Cyrus
Senior Registered
I think it's neither weird nor awkward, but very natural.
As you died fairly young and reincarnated rather soon, some people you knew in your PL may still be alive.
The only real obstacles to your desire should not be within yourself, but are outside yourself.
Take care noboby calls police while you're trying to explain yourself. People are so suspicious. Even if you find someone - better act incognito, and never reveal your intentions. Just look and see. Nobody will get delighted to embrace a ghost.
I reincarnated so long after my PL death, and I became aware of reincarnation just recently, so, for me the only hope now can be in visiting the places I could have known in my PL, though these surely have changed so much, that I cannot hope to find something very familiar. It's almost of no use for me now.
Good luck and be very, very careful and patient.
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Emma66
Once a Marine, always a Marine
Thank you very much Cyrus,
When I found out my PL identity (even if I am still doubtful, it sounds contradictory) and when I saw that some of my family members were still alive, my first thought was to buy a airplane ticket.
For the moment I prefer to wait. At least I can see their public Facebook posts with photos. I also know in my heart that I have something to tell them. As if I had to apologize but I don't know why yet. In my last PL I died so young and so far from my family that I believe it hurt my soul. Inside of me (because I couldn't speak) my last words were :"I'm sorry, I'm sorry". And I don't even know why...
SeekerOfKnowledge
Learner
I don't know what I would do if I knew my PL ID and if there were people from my PL still alive.
Would I want to contact them? Want, yes, definitely so. Of course I would want to talk to them and meet them in person as soon as possible.
But would that be a good idea? Hm... would depend on what THEY believe.
As others already said, the main problem here is that you don't know what these people believe and how they would react.
Normally I would say you should listen to your gut feeling, but... the question really is if you would do them a favor or not.
Will they believe you at all? Will they be shocked?
OR do they believe in an afterlife and are open-minded enough to take reincarnation into consideration, at least? Are they even waiting for a sign of their dead relative?
At least you can see their public Facebook posts. Let's hope one of them will say something that gives you a hint (like mentioning something that allows conclusions concerning their beliefs and how they would react).
I hope it will work out for you and your PL relatives in what ever is best for you and them. My best wishes.
Would I want to contact them? Want, yes, definitely so. Of course I would want to talk to them and meet them in person as soon as possible.
But would that be a good idea? Hm... would depend on what THEY believe.
As others already said, the main problem here is that you don't know what these people believe and how they would react.
Normally I would say you should listen to your gut feeling, but... the question really is if you would do them a favor or not.
Will they believe you at all? Will they be shocked?
OR do they believe in an afterlife and are open-minded enough to take reincarnation into consideration, at least? Are they even waiting for a sign of their dead relative?
At least you can see their public Facebook posts. Let's hope one of them will say something that gives you a hint (like mentioning something that allows conclusions concerning their beliefs and how they would react).
I hope it will work out for you and your PL relatives in what ever is best for you and them. My best wishes.
Cyrus
Senior Registered
Maybe you repoach yourself for not having accepted your relatives's advice not to become a marine.
I reproach myself one little detail. I was on a leave (a short vacation on shore) some days before my PL death, and I spent those days at home, and when I left the house where I had been born and raised, to return to my ship, I did it with a certain relief, because being home rather bored me compared to how splendidly I passed my time with my comrades on the ship, and how we periodically escaped into the city on our short leaves, and the local girls made so much fuss around us - the military sailors - well, now I just see in front of me that long alley of solemn tall cypresses in the dusk, leading from my house on a hill to the road, and how glad I was to leave all I had there - a pang seizes my heart and tears fill my eyes...
How could I be so blind then and unaware I was seeing all that for the last time ever?...
Best regards and take care.
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Eva1942
A Walking Enigma...
I'd advise you not to do this. On one side, with my PL family, one of the children believes in spiritual matters, but the others don't. I have no intention of disturbing their lives after WWII, as they get hounded enough as it is.
However in saying that, on the other side (my Jewish side), I contacted another daughter I had in my WWII lifetime. We speak to each other often, but the connection is not a physical one. It's a spiritual one. She passed away before I had a chance to visit Berlin and find her, but I feel so lucky that she remembers me.
Though, I do have a friend who found one of their PL sons on Facebook. It seems they still think highly of their father (considering they never had a chance to meet them), and the posts are public on their profile. That paternal fatherly instinct even began to 'kick-in' when they had noticed they hadn't been posting for a while. Maternal and Paternal connections to children whether PL or present stay for a lot longer than people realise.
Eva x
Why would you be awkward ? Your PL family will be grateful! I lost my son this year. Waiting for his next avatar to contact me seems to be the only reason to go on still living! May almighty grant my wish !
As far as I know, all of my close relatives from my past life are deceased so that would be impossible for me to do.
However, I do know of a man who remembers a past life (a well verified case) who sent a letter to his past life daughter shortly before she died. He was very happy he did that.
My advice is:
The worst-case scenario is that they write you off as an eccentric character and refuse to talk to you. Seriously. That's it. You'll still be able to tell yourself that you tried to reach out and did what was in your power to talk to them.
As for how one would go about finding them - if you know their names look them up on social media and tell them you're researching [your past life name]. When they ask why, tell them you felt compelled to do it. You don't need to tell them everything at once. Be polite, reserved, and respectful towards their time.
Best of luck whatever you decide Emma!
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Any family was long deceased by the time I arrived in this lifetime. Next generations might be around but that is something else, doesn't carry so much meaning.
One thing which has been mentioned, and even this took me a long while to get around to trying, is to visit some past-life location(s). By the time I paid a visit I was no longer really concerned about past lives, it had lost the intensity or urgency which it all had when memories first surfaced. So I just passed through the town as a tourist, in the summertime.
The really strange thing is that I had some quirky, odd experiences there which I didn't even think of in terms of past lives until at least fifteen years after my visit. Basically I was very happy, felt totally at home there. The odd parts were that someone tried to rob me in the street and separately I watched a fellow tourist fall to the ground with an outpouring of blood. These have made sense to me with hindsight though not at the time.
One other disturbing occurrence which I still don't understand fully was, I walked by a canal which had various debris, some litter, some plant life growing on the surface. One curious object, a curved round shape. I could only understand this to be a dead dog floating in the water. It caused a bit of a shudder to pass through me. Probably half-a-dozen years later in the aftermath of the Indonesian Tsunami, I saw a photograph of similar curved shapes in the water. These were the bodies of those who were swept away by the water and did not survive.
My apologies for that horrific description. I suspect I may have had somewhat of a precognition, a glimpse of the future during that trip. Perhaps opening up one's awareness to the past as I willingly did may also open a doorway to the future.
Any family was long deceased by the time I arrived in this lifetime. Next generations might be around but that is something else, doesn't carry so much meaning.
One thing which has been mentioned, and even this took me a long while to get around to trying, is to visit some past-life location(s). By the time I paid a visit I was no longer really concerned about past lives, it had lost the intensity or urgency which it all had when memories first surfaced. So I just passed through the town as a tourist, in the summertime.
The really strange thing is that I had some quirky, odd experiences there which I didn't even think of in terms of past lives until at least fifteen years after my visit. Basically I was very happy, felt totally at home there. The odd parts were that someone tried to rob me in the street and separately I watched a fellow tourist fall to the ground with an outpouring of blood. These have made sense to me with hindsight though not at the time.
One other disturbing occurrence which I still don't understand fully was, I walked by a canal which had various debris, some litter, some plant life growing on the surface. One curious object, a curved round shape. I could only understand this to be a dead dog floating in the water. It caused a bit of a shudder to pass through me. Probably half-a-dozen years later in the aftermath of the Indonesian Tsunami, I saw a photograph of similar curved shapes in the water. These were the bodies of those who were swept away by the water and did not survive.
My apologies for that horrific description. I suspect I may have had somewhat of a precognition, a glimpse of the future during that trip. Perhaps opening up one's awareness to the past as I willingly did may also open a doorway to the future.
Cyrus
Senior Registered
Hi, Speedwell:
It doesn't make me feel disturbed.
Thank you for sharing this, it gave me kind of a pang in my heart.
Some of those bizarre phenomenons (a dead dog in a canal, blood on the street) might be just casual coincidences that your excited mind wrongly attributed to quite unrelated memories.
The very first time I went to Taranto in this life, it was more than 60 years after I had been there for the last time in my PL. Though many things were changed, I had lots of déjà-vus, which I could not explain because I didn't know anything about reincarnation yet, at least, I had never thought it could be so near myself. I just had a sensation of not having come there for the first time, but of returning after a long-long absense. I thought it was a kind of a tourist syndrome described in one of W.S.Maugham's novels about a man coming for the first time to Alexandria (Egypt) right from England. I stayed in a suburb, invited by a friend, not in the city itself, so my déjà-vus happily left me when I returned to that suburb after my visit.
I went to Taranto more than once after that, and only on very short (several hours) visits, and each time my déjà-vus became weaker and weaker. They were never unpleasant.
IMHO.
Best regards.
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Emma66
Once a Marine, always a Marine
I did it. I won’t go into too much detail because this is a public forum.
I didn’t want to contact my PL sister because she’s old and I didn’t want to disturb her. I sent a message to someone in my PL family who is too young to have known me but whom I found because she wrote posts about my previous incarnation on Facebook.
By chance she writes books about ghost stories, haunted houses. I thought that was a good approach. Maybe someone with an open mind. I didn’t say who I thought I was. I just asked her if she would be interested in writing a story about reincarnation and that I had ideas about it but she blocked me on messenger. I still can see her Facebook posts.
I don’t regret anything. I tried. I had to try.
I didn’t want to contact my PL sister because she’s old and I didn’t want to disturb her. I sent a message to someone in my PL family who is too young to have known me but whom I found because she wrote posts about my previous incarnation on Facebook.
By chance she writes books about ghost stories, haunted houses. I thought that was a good approach. Maybe someone with an open mind. I didn’t say who I thought I was. I just asked her if she would be interested in writing a story about reincarnation and that I had ideas about it but she blocked me on messenger. I still can see her Facebook posts.
I don’t regret anything. I tried. I had to try.
Well, I wasn't excited at the time, just relaxed and happy. However I've been avoiding giving any specific identifying details, so my descriptions at least of the past-life related phenomena is only a brief labelling of something, rather that a complete description including all the surrounding context. In order to maintain anonymity that's the way it is, I'm not able to share everything publicly.
Cyrus
Senior Registered
What a pity. I always suspected that all those writers about supernatural phenomena are in reality more sober than most of us, and good psychologists: just earning their money.
I would have tried to see your PL sister. though, not to reveal myself to her, but e.g. under the pretext of writing a book about your PL you and looking for details and asking her for an interview, if her state of health is not too delicate for such a thing. Not a single hint on anything supernatural. Just gain an access to her and "look and see".
Well, and talking with her about your PL you, to recall a lot of missing details of that PL, maybe.
IMHO.
Very best.
Take care.
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Hi Emma 66,
You may learn the story of Jenny Cockell. She remembered her past life when she was about 5 years old, she thought others also have these feelings, thus she didn't talk. Getting older she felt unfinished business, then tried to find her children. In an article, I read that her children felt that Jenny's efforts to find them had brought brothers and sisters meet again after they separated, lived in orphans house or adopted. They didn't focus on whether she was true their mother.
I read about Jenny Cockell almost 10 years ago. I found this recent article https://exemplore.com/paranormal/Je...as-Lived-Before-Mother-of-yesterdays-Children You may search other articles.
Regards,
Emma66
Once a Marine, always a Marine
Hi MaVie,
Thank you very much.
This article is very interesting. And yes in a perfect world everything goes well. As I explained in a previous post I tried but the person was not ready to hear about reincarnation. Maybe I should have been more direct instead of taking a lot of precautions not to upset her. What is done is done. 6 months ago, I think I would have done like her if someone had sent me such a message.
Best regards.
Emma
Bellona324
Fictional character enjoyer
I honestly wouldn’t want to. Watch from the sidelines and hope they’re doing well, maybe, but I’m not going to them to say ‘Hey I was your dad/grandpa/great-grandpa in my past life’. They have their own lives and I’ve been dead since the 80s.
I would be more than happy to visit my previous hometowns, though. I already have some locations I want to visit when I’m in a better situation to aka Covid is mild enough and it’s safe enough to visit Europe. I would probably just disguise it as my little world tour and just visit with my homies.
I would be more than happy to visit my previous hometowns, though. I already have some locations I want to visit when I’m in a better situation to aka Covid is mild enough and it’s safe enough to visit Europe. I would probably just disguise it as my little world tour and just visit with my homies.
Athlynne
Senior Registered
My son from a previous life found me through some old friends from that same life. We're now in regular contact, and he still calls me Maman.
Jody
Senior Registered
You might be interested in this case where the daughter of Jack London (the famous writer) and a guy who believes he is his reincarnation met up: https://pastlifelogbook.blogspot.com/2019/02/jack-london-don-jacobs-reincarnation.html
That’s interesting. I’d appreciate if you can shMy son from a previous life found me through some old friends from that same life. We're now in regular contact, and he still calls me Maman.
I noticed something factually wrong in the video. At about 15 minutes he says,”Dr Ian Stevenson is hypnotizing children from India “
Dr Stevenson never ‘hypnotized’ children. He just investigated children who spontaneously recalled PL memories.
Indeed, that's an important point. Though I personally am not opposed to hypnotic regression, some current researchers in the field of past lives such as Jim Matlock have very little trust in hypnosis, and place the emphasis of scientific research firmly in spontaneous recall.
SkyeL
Member
If I knew enough information to find them, I don't think I would. I might find them on Facebook and just be friends without revealing why, but I would not meet them in real life. They probably would not believe in reincarnation and even if they did, they might be skeptical of my motives because there are so many bad people out there. There would be no proof that I am who I say I am. So it would just be weird.
Emma66
Once a Marine, always a Marine
I think it will be my last post on the forum.
Contacting past life family, don't do it or be ready for the worst.
A reincarnation researcher has been working on my case since last year. He messaged 6 members of my previous life family and sent them the first part of his publication. Most of my memories are plausible or validated but we need to check several memories like childhood memories. I really wanted to understand if my memories were real or my imagination and something (or someone) inside of me really wanted to let them know I (David, my PL name) was here .
One PL niece Barbara (the one that didn't answer my message last year , I asked only question about her work as she is an author of ghost stories , I had not told her who I thought I was. See my post above) answered that although she was a paranormal author she didn't believe in reincarnation and thought I was doing that only for money, fame or even worse had bad intentions for her family. That I could have found all the information online... I am devastated. It is so hard to read those words.
She has not studied the evidence or her profound disbelief in reincarnation is the main cause of her reaction. The researcher told me he had never seen such a reaction.
But curiously she agreed for the publication with her quote and name. It will be reviewed then published later this year.
The researcher was sure a contact with my PL family would have helped me. I was looking for answers, to understand and fill in the blank in my past life and I will never know.
Sometimes I think it might have been better not to remember....
Contacting past life family, don't do it or be ready for the worst.
A reincarnation researcher has been working on my case since last year. He messaged 6 members of my previous life family and sent them the first part of his publication. Most of my memories are plausible or validated but we need to check several memories like childhood memories. I really wanted to understand if my memories were real or my imagination and something (or someone) inside of me really wanted to let them know I (David, my PL name) was here .
One PL niece Barbara (the one that didn't answer my message last year , I asked only question about her work as she is an author of ghost stories , I had not told her who I thought I was. See my post above) answered that although she was a paranormal author she didn't believe in reincarnation and thought I was doing that only for money, fame or even worse had bad intentions for her family. That I could have found all the information online... I am devastated. It is so hard to read those words.
She has not studied the evidence or her profound disbelief in reincarnation is the main cause of her reaction. The researcher told me he had never seen such a reaction.
But curiously she agreed for the publication with her quote and name. It will be reviewed then published later this year.
The researcher was sure a contact with my PL family would have helped me. I was looking for answers, to understand and fill in the blank in my past life and I will never know.
Sometimes I think it might have been better not to remember....
Hey Emma!
I’m sorry to hear about that. It must be really frustrating to know you won’t be able to contact your PL family ever again and you won’t be able to confirm your childhood memories or fill in the blanks. But at least you’ve tried everything in your power.
If you hadn’t, you would ask yourself for years what their reaction would have been and if you missed something important by not contacting them. Now, at least you know for sure. When you’ve reached a dead-end here, so be it. It’s hard, but you’ve tried. And it really takes guts to do so. Chapeau for that!
Playing the devil’s advocate, your PL niece’s reaction is harsh and I totally understand it’s hurtful, but it’s also somewhat understandable. If I didn’t believe in reincarnation at all and someone claimed to be a reincarnated member of my family, I would think that must be some kind of scam or a mentally ill person. Now that I do believe in reincarnation, I would still be suspicious and take it all with a grain of salt until I had good reason to believe otherwise. With all the con artists and scammers on the internet today, you can never know. Don’t take her reaction personally. I hope you can accept it and find peace with it one day.
Dear Emma, it’s a shame you want to leave the forum, but I can understand. Thanks for sharing with us. I’ve always enjoyed reading your posts and your story. Wishing you all the best! Will miss you
Once the publication about your PL is available, I would appreciate if you shared a link where to find it.
I’m sorry to hear about that. It must be really frustrating to know you won’t be able to contact your PL family ever again and you won’t be able to confirm your childhood memories or fill in the blanks. But at least you’ve tried everything in your power.
If you hadn’t, you would ask yourself for years what their reaction would have been and if you missed something important by not contacting them. Now, at least you know for sure. When you’ve reached a dead-end here, so be it. It’s hard, but you’ve tried. And it really takes guts to do so. Chapeau for that!
Playing the devil’s advocate, your PL niece’s reaction is harsh and I totally understand it’s hurtful, but it’s also somewhat understandable. If I didn’t believe in reincarnation at all and someone claimed to be a reincarnated member of my family, I would think that must be some kind of scam or a mentally ill person. Now that I do believe in reincarnation, I would still be suspicious and take it all with a grain of salt until I had good reason to believe otherwise. With all the con artists and scammers on the internet today, you can never know. Don’t take her reaction personally. I hope you can accept it and find peace with it one day.
Dear Emma, it’s a shame you want to leave the forum, but I can understand. Thanks for sharing with us. I’ve always enjoyed reading your posts and your story. Wishing you all the best! Will miss you
Once the publication about your PL is available, I would appreciate if you shared a link where to find it.
SeekerOfKnowledge
Learner
Dear Emma, it is understandable that you have had enough and need to take a break, but you will be missed. Hope you'll be back one day. And give us the link to the publication once it is available.
Carole Louie
Carole Louie
Hi, Emma, I have an unusual story about this question. I'll be brief here but I wrote about it in more detail in my book "Unstuck in Time." Here goes. While doing Chinese genealogy research, I discovered a branch of my family that I resonated with very strongly. One synchronicity after another and I was able to discover a LOT of data to confirm my past life memories (of the fifth generation of that branch). Eventually the synchronicities led me to the tenth generation. I was then able to meet him in-person in 2018. Even though we could not speak the same language, there was a unique connection between us. He asked me to write about the family which I did in a tiny book called "The Legacy of the Lei Family Architects Lives On: The story of Yanghi Lei." (Lei is the Mandarin version of the Americanized version of Louie) Whether it was my past life, our ancestors, or both that guided me to this reunion, I am forever grateful.
@Carole Louie You are already a member of your family though, right?
How did you approach the situation? Did you bring up at all your past life or did you simply keep it to ancestry and research?
I would think, in general, it would be much harder for people to contact their past families if there was no current relation. I have a very strong connection with someone and I was able to track down his family online. I posed as an author wanting to ask some questions for research (a half truth, or white lie) and they didn't want to speak to me.
I can't imagine even trying to contact people of another culture, with no relation and having a successful response! I hope maybe one day it will happen and be positive, but who knows until then.
How did you approach the situation? Did you bring up at all your past life or did you simply keep it to ancestry and research?
I would think, in general, it would be much harder for people to contact their past families if there was no current relation. I have a very strong connection with someone and I was able to track down his family online. I posed as an author wanting to ask some questions for research (a half truth, or white lie) and they didn't want to speak to me.
I can't imagine even trying to contact people of another culture, with no relation and having a successful response! I hope maybe one day it will happen and be positive, but who knows until then.
Carole Louie
Carole Louie
Hi, Emma, As I mentioned, I believe I had help from the other side. I also had help on this side from an organization who helps people locate their relatives. I gave them the name and source. They located him for me, arranged the meeting, and translated for us. It was challenging communicating due to the language barrier, but the connection was very real. I wish I had had more time to talk with him and tell him more. Even though he is Chinese, I cannot assume he believes in reincarnation as he was raised under the PRC. I wanted to go back and spend more time with him, but then covid happened and I have not been able to do so. Maybe it does not matter because I believe I fulfilled my dharma from the previous lifetime. FYI It takes patience, persistence as well as luck to find all the pieces of the puzzle and put them where they belong.