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How much research do you do?

Whippoorwill

Whippoorwill

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I started this thread as I'm really curious to see how much research people do alongside their memories. I don't mean looking up facts or names that you've encountered yourself, but in reading about the times they occurred in.

I'm desperate to find out more about the subjects involved in some of my past life memories, partly due to curiosity and partly in the hope that they will trigger more memories. On the other hand, I don't want to read a detail during research that, had I remembered it on my own, would have provided me with the proof and reassurance I'm looking for!

For example, as I've mentioned before, I only live a short journey away from the place I believe I lived in the life directly prior to this one. I have such a yearning to go there and look around (even though the community itself has been flattened and nothing much remains) but I don't believe I've done enough work in trying to recover my memories yet, if I could just recall a bend in the road, an unusual building, anything... and it was actually THERE, that would be such a huge reassurance to me. Similarly, when researching a name I'd been given, I feel like I looked too long and hard at the census, studying the names of her parents and siblings. I feel like there are so few facts I can check with this person, that anything I find out during research is a wasted opportunity, do you know what I mean?

I did the same thing on Wikipedia, I've always been drawn to a lesser Scottish noble from the age of about six. I was so mad recently that I'd glimpsed even the basic details about him online before I'd tried to recall anything myself. Then again, I suppose in this case there are always other facts to check. :)

The worst thing for me, of course, is that I work in a library! It's a constant temptation!

So, I suppose, what I'm trying to say is: do you deliberately avoid information that might nullify evidence or contaminate your memories or do you seek it out in the hope that it will trigger more? I'd love to hear about you experiences with this.
 
Detective Work...


I have always worked with journals and drawings before I go searching for "hard" evidence. I write down and draw what I see and what I remember. Until now, I have not had to look for evidence to trigger memories...my memories have been very clear. Even after finding what I was looking for and then reading books, not all of my memories matched up with history books one-to-one...so it didn't really make a big difference what I had later read, and what I had remembered. This one event stays with me though...


The night before my husband and I went to visit St. Augustines Abbey in Canterbury England, (this is were my memories are of working on the Bayuex Tapestry) I drew a picture of what I saw in my mind and told my husband it was important that he see this now, not after our visit. It was very impressive to say the least. Although the abbey is now in ruins, my drawing was detailed enough to match with what was left.


I know how you feel by not wanting to be influenced, at that moment it was also very important to me!
 
I have spent many hours researching my daughter's memories and have been amazed each time the information in my library's closed stacks match what she has told me.
 
I do Tons of research. im a walking encyclopedia on late imperial china.


However at first i thought it was quite important to try and disprove as much as possible. Of it is possible, you should try and write down as much of what you remember, think feel ect. Before you do research.
 
It is also important to reach out to others. By doing so I was given a link to perhaps the best unpublished volume of historical data on Johnstown ever printed.


Also go to abebooks.com and put your area into the search and you might come up with more information.
 
Thanks, Aelfgyva, that's good to hear as it matches up exactly to what I'm doing now. I jot down everything I can and sketch whatever I'm able to! Your experience with St. Augustines Abbey is amazing and reaffirms my belief that I shouldn't rush to visit the place where I may have lived, I shall see what I can remember first. :)


That's great, Mama2HRB. It's good that you can do the research for her, it's much more awkward when it's your own memories that you're researching. I think validating facts is fine, I just don't want to be swayed by what else I may read, if you know what I mean. I agree, I think reaching out is also so important. Thanks very much for the link.


That's definitely the road I'm going down, Totoro, thank you. I think I shall wait to do any significant research, it's just a constant temptation to me, alas!
 
I am reading a historical dissertation that was written in 1940 now and the information matches what she has said. I was specifically shocked to see not just the area being correct but the exact street was named ...
 
I keep a journal of my dreams and when I feel I have a great amount of information, will I do thorough research. But then again it depends.For example, the other night I dreamed about a "Skull Society" and about early possible pre-muslim pagan rituals and such. Since I wasn't sure if these were in any way related to past lives I did research then. If it is a life that I am aware of, but don't have an identity, I wait. If it is a known life, with an identity, I may or may not, since I am already confident about that lifetime, unless it is something I feel I really ought to know.
 
I have never been able to deliberately 'trigger' my memories (except sometimes during self-regression). They come when they are meant to, usually in dreams, or strong feelings/flash backs during the day. I have done some research, i.e. reading, searching the internet, etc. after some memories, but not before. Like a name I heard in a language I do not currently know, or trying to date the time period I was remembering from clues like clothing styles, etc. :)
 
An example of one of my research projects...in high school one of my courses was Shakespeare's Macbeth; we walked through it with exhausting thoroughness. Something about it was familiar and I easily understood the language used...even some of the more arcane words and usages. From this I became attracted to the Shakespeare comedies and often took them on trips to read at slow points and quiet times.


At a later date I had a lucid dream in which I was a young man with long hair, wearing an off-white, longsleeved shirt, a leather vest-like cover (gerkin?), and wore pants which had a codpiece, and non-descript, worn boots which seemed more like leather socks that wrapped around the lower leg. I casually jumped up and sat on the back of a passing dray cart making its way down a muddy "street", and got off at a building I knew to be a theatre. There was a small covered structure on which a bill was posted in front of the theatre and whatever it said angered me dramatically.


I had the dream two more times and then kind of put it away, never making any meaningful connections...though I was reading "A Midsummernight's Dream" at about the same time. Soon after this series of dreams, I picked up another Shakespeare comedy and found myself unable to read it...and felt some unreasonable sense of contempt and judgment.


Several years later I began asking questions of my guidance while in the akashic records. These questions were usually based in aspects of spirituality, but I also found I could obtain detailed answers about my previous lives and reasons for various emotions, proclivities and interests I had experienced and which had somehow been remarkable enough to stay in my memory.


When I asked guidance about the young man in the dream, the whole vision came back clearly and with even greater detail than I remembered; my father in that lifetime was a "player" and contemporary of Shakespeare, and I was on the periphery of that society. The issue and my contempt and anger came from the posting of a play with Shakespeare getting credit for writing it. He was a scammer and couldn't even write, but had arranged to be paid for the use of his name. None of the players trusted him, but no one took him to task because you couldn't be sure of what he might do....better to let him go his way than get involved with him.


Within a week of this revelation I was in a used bookstore digging through a stack of books organized by the topic of colonial America. A non-descript, thin, green volume with no markings on binding or cover found its way into my hand. It was a privately published legal treatise on the "true author of Shakespeare's Plays" with cases for and against "the man from Avon" and various other candidates. I forgot all about my colonial American search and bought this small green book and found I couldn't put it down. As I read the book's details for and against the various candidates, I found myself emotionally involved and the comments carried strong feelings which could either warmly resonated within me, or felt patently wrong and cold; there were also some which carried no charge at all, and they were irrelevant to the story. One candidate, despite the historic record, in particular resonated warmly, clearly and continuously.


With this information, and my personal understanding of the meaning behind my impressions, it is clear to me that "the man from Avon", or as he was known then, "Shaksper", did not write Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. I am also assured that any verification of this will not be made, unless others with even closer past life connections can obtain details from their memories which can prove the matter...which is not likely in our current level of human understanding.


I am happy now with the increasing and public doubt of Shaksper's authorship...it has replaced my previous anger and contempt with a sense of calm.
 
Ustawuz, were you by any chance Christopher Marlowe's son? If so, I am an admirer of your father. Did you know that February 4th, is sometimes listed as his birthday? if so, Happy Birthday, Christopher, whom ever, and wherever, you may be.
 
No...I was an actor's son and I have yet to obtain his name, though I am searching on and off. I feel I'll find it when the time comes. Right now I am pleased to see my feelings and impressions validated with the string of synchronistic events I received.


I did not know Marlowe's birthday was 2/4...and I hadn't heard he had children. It seems that lifestyle was a little out of his purview...I, too, admire his achievements, and what he was able to accomplish both before and after his "death". The Italian influence in Shakespeare's work wasn't a figment of Shaksper's imagination any more than was Elsinore, the life of a courtier, lawyer, or soldier!


Happy birthday, Kit!
 
If you would like to add to your synchronicity list, I lived in a place called Elsinore for 11 years. It jumped off the screen at me. I don't think Marlowe married - I think he was poly-amorous, so I thought you might have been a by-blow. He was actually christened on February 4th. I'm beginning to think I "knew" him. I was "in love" with him as a little girl, as soon as I heard his name. I got that "queasy" feeling today, when I learned it was his birthday. I'm thinking, maybe Lady Arabella Stuart, but it's still a big "maybe". He was her tutor from the time she was 13. Just the age where you would have a crush on a tutor. I always have done a "double-take" when I read, or hear the name Stuart. That started around age 6. Going back to the theme of Whippoorwill's thread, I'm afraid to research too much, before I have time to meditate on it.
 
Elsinore is supposedly the Danish castle to which Marlowe was initially sent while "in Her Majesty's Secret Service". And also, Hamlet's birthright...hmmm.


Like your impressions, the initial charge I received when I read the name "Christopher Marlowe" as one of the candidates for "author" was surprisingly warm, though fairly undefined...I simply noted "a disturbance in the force" rather than the pointed finger on a stick. Only as I read the factors that made him a candidate did my "internal verification meter" (Ha! My "ivm"!) begin to register what I took to be fact and not.


While I understand your reticence to compromise your memories and impressions with advanced research, I have found that no matter how much I "imagine" I cannot fake the emotions which come to me. I too, usually seek to meditate or hit the records to get an initial understanding of a topic before I get the official view, but times when I haven't I have been pleased with my "ivm" or emotional compass.


There is also alot of conjecture that even during the lifetime of the man from Avon and for several years afterwards, it was a poorly kept secret that Shaksper had a ghost writer. Only when the Shakespeare Canon was printed and Ben Jonson wrote the introduction for his "esteemed colleague", did the man from Avon posthumously obtain all the accolades...he was anything but revered during his life.


A noteworthy study was done which counted the number of two, three, four and five letter words used in Shakespeare's plays and compared the count to other contemporary potential writer's works. In comparison to Marlowe's plays, there was a statistically insignificant difference, while all the others held dramatically different word counts. With that, the search begins for how Kit survived his murder in order to write for the next twenty years as it is not likely other authors would or could change their already successful word choice and usage to mirror Marlowe/Shakespeare.


Oops...sorry for the off-topic ramble.
 
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