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Edelweiss

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Has anyone here read a historical document, or anything historically related, and have a triggered recall?

Instead of dreaming about exactly what you read, you dream similar, and some of the events are different but feel more correct than what you read or saw?
 
Numerous times. Saw a scene in a movie depicting a battle during one of the Crusades and it was like watching a home movie of some place I'd been.


I also read a reprint of a newspaper from the American Revolution and thought to myself "That's not how I remember it..."


What gets me is the revising of history they're doing these days, the extent of which turns my stomach. (The man said "War is Hell," NOT "War is unfortunate"!) It may well turn into a case of "if you get a memory from watching a current documentary, you're getting a false hit."
 
A couple of times. Once when I was sitting the belly gun turret of a surviving B-17 bomber and once when I was at the Treasures of Tutankhamun when it was making the rounds in the US a few years back. Those aren't reading but they are the real historical artifacts.
 
Tell us about your experience and/or feelings sitting in the "Ball Turret" on the B-17. Are you aware of the history of the ball turret operators during the War? Was this the one at Chino?
 
Edelweiss said:
Has anyone here read a historical document, or anything historically related, and have a triggered recall?
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YES. Through many ways historically related. Playing renaissance music triggered memories of a life in the 1600s. Memories have been triggered by historical movies, places & above all reenacting. Being around the reenactors of periods you've lived in is a strange feeling, very familiar.
 
I have had multiple triggers through historical ways, and was thinking that I might be crazy! To see that other people have had similar if not the same experiences, is comforting.


Thank you
 
when i was watching "Battle of Britain" movie, i was a kid. and when the first German fighters started to appear... i felt a strong disapointment... and said to myself... "hey!!! those ugly planes are not Messerschmitts!"
 
Lady2 said:
Being around the reenactors of periods you've lived in is a strange feeling, very familiar.
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I've suspected for years that people who join "reinactment societies" such as American Civil War, Ren-Faires, etc. were attracted to that because of a past life, whether they realize it or not.
 
Denise Lynn once remarked that she accidently wandered into a Civil War reenactment in the 80's, and wasn't sure if she had entered a time warp. Some of the reenactors told her they were aware of Civil War era past lives. I've been researching a possible PL of my own that was civil war related. Reenacters have some very interesting web sites, where they discuss the historical accuracy of their efforts. Are there any reenactors of more recent conflicts? I still find anything about Viet Nam painful to watch. It's because people I loved were forced to participate, even though I sat at home and waited. Maybe it takes a few life times for the pain to fade? A very interesting subject, and an interesting suggestion, Argonne.
 
BriarRose said:
Are there any reenactors of more recent conflicts? I still find anything about Viet Nam painful to watch. It's because people I loved were forced to participate, even though I sat at home and waited. Maybe it takes a few life times for the pain to fade?
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I've read that there are WWI reenactment groups, but I haven't run across any. Maybe in England? Later than that is probably still too painful. I had several friends and classmates that went to Viet Nam, but I didn't go. When I was in high school I even thought about going to Canada if I were drafted. One of my friends did go to Canada. His mother saw him get on the bus for boot camp. But when she left he got off the bus and disappeared.
 
I" googled" reenactors. They exist everywhere. I didn't find specific Viet Nam ones, but there were "modern groups". The weirdest, for me was a group in Italy who were reenacting Louisiana's 14th Regiment. If I'm not mistaken, they were at Mannassas and Bull Run during the American Civil War. I may have been there, too, which was curious. An obssession like that must be PL related, since I presume they were Italian reeinactors. I don't blame anyone who served, or headed for Canada, during Viet Nam, Argonne. It hung over our teens like a curse. I have read theories that the war protests were made by reincarnated WWII vets, who knew the horrors of war, and didn't want to do it again.
 
Hi Shiftkitty:


I'd say that you are RIGHT on here. I really like learning on my own terms, but history was something that I had very little interest in. It repelled me. That is, until I learned that the history we are taught is "His story" i.e. not the truth at all.


When I found what looks like real history to me, I could not get enough for years! For instance, the so called unprovoked sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. I found out that we were blockading Japan from getting oil. They had a mere two week supply left when they attacked Pearl Harbor. They would have gone back to the stone age or worse if they had not attacked. Roosevelt also knew that attack was coming as we had broken the Japanese code before that. Most good historians now agree on this.


There is much much more, but yes the main history we are told is not at all the truth. You have to dig for it.

Shiftkitty said:
Numerous times. Saw a scene in a movie depicting a battle during one of the Crusades and it was like watching a home movie of some place I'd been.
I also read a reprint of a newspaper from the American Revolution and thought to myself "That's not how I remember it..."


What gets me is the revising of history they're doing these days, the extent of which turns my stomach. (The man said "War is Hell," NOT "War is unfortunate"!) It may well turn into a case of "if you get a memory from watching a current documentary, you're getting a false hit."
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OutOfTheBox said:
Hi Shiftkitty:
For instance, the so called unprovoked sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. I found out that we were blockading Japan from getting oil. They had a mere two week supply left when they attacked Pearl Harbor. They would have gone back to the stone age or worse if they had not attacked. Roosevelt also knew that attack was coming as we had broken the Japanese code before that. Most good historians now agree on this.
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Don't forget Japan had invaded Korea about 1910 and China in 1931. The U.S. had been dragging their feet on what do to about it for years. U.S. Intelligence had broken the Japanese code and knew that an attack was imminent but they didn't know the exact target, as it was not spelled out in any of the messages. They thought it was going to be the Philippines and warned Mac Arthur to get ready, which he ignored. On the other hand, what if the U.S. had been ready and prevented the attack? What if the U.S. had managed to stay out of the war? What if the Germans had won? Then what? The B-29 bomber was originally designed to bomb Germany from Canada if the British had surrendered. But by 1943 they realized it would not be needed in Europe.
 
Reading 'the classics' as a trigger?


Hello,


Has anybody felt that reading 'the classics' e.g., Socrates, Plato, Aristotle acted as "a trigger" of sorts?


Thank-you
 
Odd thing happened today. As I've said elsewhere before, I haven't had any past life memories yet that I can identify. But I do have lifelong affinities to certain places and times.


Anyway, I have a friend that is studying in Britain at the moment, and this morning I awoke to an ongoing stream of photos being posted on Facebook as he walked along Hadrian's wall. At first the pictures struck me as merely beautiful and possessing historical significance. But as he continued walking and sharing pictures....I started to feel sad. Like homesick. I felt a sincere, heartbreaking MISSING of this place I had never been in. And then he posted a photo of the foundation of a Roman fort, attached to the wall, with the whole thing just filled with wildflowers....and I started to cry. I swear my soul ached to be in that place. It was startling and unsettling.
 
Tears and nostalgia like this are often a pretty good indicator of a past life Stellaria. I wonder if you can get any more info?
 
I do plan on getting some regression therapy eventually, so it might be possible. But just understanding how many lifetimes could be had in a 2000 year timespan, especially given that your odds of dying before age 5 were pretty good for about 1800-1900 of them....anywhere and any time is possible!
 
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