amit1235813
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How has it changed the way you view events around you, your relationships, work and daily life in general?
How was remembering your past lives changed your perspective of life?
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Cyrus
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First of all, I have lost any fear of the Death.
From time to time my old university and school friends send me news about somebody of other old friends having died, and it doesn't affect me, whereas I clearly see that it DOES affect them.
Somehing like that.
Best Regards.
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amit1235813
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Thanks for sharing, Cyrus.
Thats really amazing to be free of that fear of death.
For me it is still there though. That illogical fear/uncertainty is still there.
I guess my whole being still hasn't integrated the idea that I will be born again.
Emma66
Once a Marine, always a Marine
Now I know that I am much more than the human being of this current life. My soul went through so many traumatic events that I cannot complain about my current life issues. Maybe my warrior past lives give me strength and courage . I also have emotional and crying crisis when I think about my PL.
I am not afraid of death since a NDE.
I am not afraid of death since a NDE.
amit1235813
Active Member
Thanks for sharing Emma, yeah that part holds true for me too. All the trauma of past lives makes the ones in this one seems smaller.
Great question, Amit! And a warm welcome to the forum!
I've believed in reincarnation my entire life, and only recently have I begun actively remembering past lives. So, the simple fact of having memories didn't change my life. Even without memories, I already knew that I had known a lot of my friends in my former lives. The instant bond and trust.
When I started to get detailed visions and memories of past lives, it always started with some trigger. Those triggers lifted the veils that stand between our daily existence and the past. Those experiences of reliving old pains really changed my life. Knowing where the pains originated from, cleared my current soul. Gave me peace in this life.
SeekerOfKnowledge
Learner
It's not only what I remember, but also what I do not remember. Memories, of course, made the whole reicarnation thing feel much more real. No more doubt.
How can I judge or blame others? I may have been in a similar situation and may have done no better. I am not in their shoes, but may well have a past or future life where I am confronted with similar circumstances.
I am more grateful for joyful experiences, as I am aware they will pass. Less joyful experiences are less horrible, because they, too, will pass. Everything here is a temporary experience. Whole civilizations have risen and fallen through the millennia.
I more and more think of what I am going through as experiences. Whether they are joyful or not so much fun, they probably are necessary.
I don't care for social status anymore or for material possessions you just have to have them. What for? Can't take objects into the next life and if anybody remembers the name my parents have given this body, well... why would I even bother?
How can I judge or blame others? I may have been in a similar situation and may have done no better. I am not in their shoes, but may well have a past or future life where I am confronted with similar circumstances.
I am more grateful for joyful experiences, as I am aware they will pass. Less joyful experiences are less horrible, because they, too, will pass. Everything here is a temporary experience. Whole civilizations have risen and fallen through the millennia.
I more and more think of what I am going through as experiences. Whether they are joyful or not so much fun, they probably are necessary.
I don't care for social status anymore or for material possessions you just have to have them. What for? Can't take objects into the next life and if anybody remembers the name my parents have given this body, well... why would I even bother?
In addition to there being obvious positives and my agreement with everything @SeekerOfKnowledge has said above, there are some negatives for me that’ve been very difficult. The OP’s excellent question reminded me of something I wrote about ten years ago, and still holds true:
“I mentioned [to my friend] that I see no one in my life now as permanent. I dread my next life because the people I care about now will probably not be in it, or in it in the same way (at best). If anything about reincarnation has traumatized me, I'd easily say it's been the separation from my past loved ones and the crazily heavy sense of loss it's given me. And I also think that I am not too hip on change. My son, who is the person I love the most out of anyone in this world and whom I am so proud of, I feel is actually someone else's son (in the past). And he'll have another mother in the future...and I take care of him like I'd hope his future mother would take care of him, with love and understanding. My parents, who I never saw as my 'real' parents, naturally fit into this “I'm yours for now” category. Since I know what it's like to miss my pl wife, I am not looking forward to the days when my current partner is gone and I won't know except that there is a hole where a person should be.”
“I mentioned [to my friend] that I see no one in my life now as permanent. I dread my next life because the people I care about now will probably not be in it, or in it in the same way (at best). If anything about reincarnation has traumatized me, I'd easily say it's been the separation from my past loved ones and the crazily heavy sense of loss it's given me. And I also think that I am not too hip on change. My son, who is the person I love the most out of anyone in this world and whom I am so proud of, I feel is actually someone else's son (in the past). And he'll have another mother in the future...and I take care of him like I'd hope his future mother would take care of him, with love and understanding. My parents, who I never saw as my 'real' parents, naturally fit into this “I'm yours for now” category. Since I know what it's like to miss my pl wife, I am not looking forward to the days when my current partner is gone and I won't know except that there is a hole where a person should be.”
SeekerOfKnowledge
Learner
That:s true, @Inhaltslos.
Makes the time we spend with loved ones even more precious. Good reminder for when people catch you in the worst possible moment or have a talent to get on your nerves. That the time spent with them actually is a precious gift. The day will come when we miss them, and be it in another life.
Makes the time we spend with loved ones even more precious. Good reminder for when people catch you in the worst possible moment or have a talent to get on your nerves. That the time spent with them actually is a precious gift. The day will come when we miss them, and be it in another life.
Wow, @Inhaltslos, I can relate to those feelings. To me, it's not the fear of separation but the raw pain of separation. I think I overcame a lot of those traumas during life (and not the easy way) and a mature approach to the concept of reincarnation helped (although it's not a bandage to ease the pain). I have met too many people that I recognized (and always both ways, even if they didn't believe in reincarnation, they would make a small exception, lol). It was the instant bond, the bubble of timelessness, and an extreme instant loyalty and trust. I can't even mention the word 'love' because that word even seems shallow when you are meeting an ancient monument in the form of a person. Probably because you're not only bound by good experiences, but also by ugly experiences as well. *
I've learned to see and accept that other people need to continue their paths without me being involved, that I am not responsible for their well-being, that they are entitled to make their own mistakes, and that it was a great gift to reconnect for a while, as an assurance that we're not alone in this World.
* btw, those meetings often occur on 'crossing points', you suddenly meet when one of the two is having a difficult time because their life is about to change dramatically. You stand next to each other until the need is over. I could write a book about it, lol.
I've learned to see and accept that other people need to continue their paths without me being involved, that I am not responsible for their well-being, that they are entitled to make their own mistakes, and that it was a great gift to reconnect for a while, as an assurance that we're not alone in this World.
* btw, those meetings often occur on 'crossing points', you suddenly meet when one of the two is having a difficult time because their life is about to change dramatically. You stand next to each other until the need is over. I could write a book about it, lol.
melon04
Senior Member
What is real? What is not? I question many things. And there are some things that I feel like are difficult to either prove or disprove, as well as some things that are extremely difficult, if not impossible, for us to know for sure. Such as: if God exists, if the multiverse exists, what was there before the universe existed, what will be there after the universe ceases to exist, what exists at the edge/outside of the universe, etc.
The reason I frequently question the reality of things was because of my dad raising me as an Evangelical/Christian fundamentalist, and I was very invested in those beliefs until middle school. And after realizing how many, if not all, of these ideas were absurd at best and outright dangerous at worst, I began to have difficulty with knowing what is real and what is not. (The same can be said regarding me, him, and extremely conservative political beliefs.)
This was also why I initially believed my past life memories were the products of my imagination, as I wasn't raised believing in reincarnation and therefore I didn't believe they were real until further examination.
People should be taught how to think, not what to think.
The reason I frequently question the reality of things was because of my dad raising me as an Evangelical/Christian fundamentalist, and I was very invested in those beliefs until middle school. And after realizing how many, if not all, of these ideas were absurd at best and outright dangerous at worst, I began to have difficulty with knowing what is real and what is not. (The same can be said regarding me, him, and extremely conservative political beliefs.)
This was also why I initially believed my past life memories were the products of my imagination, as I wasn't raised believing in reincarnation and therefore I didn't believe they were real until further examination.
People should be taught how to think, not what to think.
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I had a starting position which was materialist, scientific. In my teenage years I read a lot of science fiction - the more real the science, the better. Later these ideas were extended a little with experiences of telepathy and precognition, things which mostly came to me in dreams. That made me a kind of materialist+. But it still led to me holding a nihilistic view of the world which was a desperately hard place to be.
I mentioned finding out about the flexibility of time from my dreams. Another key finding which my dreams taught me was about love. The importance of love in breaking out of the pointlessness of my nihilist perspective.
But past lives - that was a big breakthrough. It meant a number of things. First that people are indestructible. Life carries on, before and after the body there is life. The amount of pressure this removed from me was enormous. I had a lot of unanswered questions, things which I still don't know to this day. But that didn't bother me any more. I was satisfied that even though I did not know all the answers, at least in principle I was sure that answers were possible. Things like meaning and purpose, how to spend one's time and energies during this lifetime, I was satisfied that it really did mean something.
That is most of it, it gave a great sense of relief.
In the early days after reaching this recognition that reincarnation and past lives are real, I did get a bit distracted. I started to look at the people around me and wonder which of them I had known before. I know some people do have knowledge of some connections with others. That's not the case for me. I made a lot of guesses, a lot of speculation, but nothing was conclusive. Eventually I had to relax and stop worrying about such things. I'm sure there are people I've known before, but I think it's much more like a scattered network, people I've met in different places and at different times in my life have been significant to me. So I don't think in terms of a closely-knit group of souls gathered in one place, but instead of them spread out so I meet them in unexpected places.
On the matter of fear of death, I've also had some After-Death Communications (ADC) from deceased relatives and friends. Those have allowed me continued certainty over the continuance of existence. I'm sometimes a little embarrassed these days when I go to a funeral and can't stop being cheerful. I know the pain of grief too of course, and don't mean any disrespect.
These are legitimate questions and I hope all of us face them at least once in a lifetime.
I have found some of my own answers. Including the notion not to dive too deep into esoteric questions, simply because with my small brain I can't wrap around big concepts, like 'God'.
I have been lucky enough to have had several spiritual experiences in which I got answers to questions. Mostly, those 'answers' can be understood on a soul level, but hardly put into words afterward. Not that I will ever use the answers shown to me for others to know. These are my personal treasures.
But I can give an example for a better understanding. It was never one of my questions (so it is not secret knowledge, just my understanding of things) but if you are struggling with the notion of God and what was before... I can only say that this is an impossible question to ever find an answer to. Why? We are now living in this World (some call it 3D) and this environment is constructed by duality and the notion of Time. As soon as your consciousness leaves this place (in spirit during your life, or dead after you crossed over), Time is no longer an item. There is no before or after, there is only consciousness and focus (and endlessness creation). I was given the opportunity to tap into some higher dimension during my life and I was even able to do some questions and got a lot of answers - that I don't remember - but it gave me some peace to focus on living and not crack my head with questions that I am not capable of grabbing the answers.
I don't say this as a piece of advice, it's just what I went through. I encourage you to certainly question everything and find your own answers. Maybe you will get to different conclusions, and different experiences, maybe your brain is bigger than mine and will be able to contain more answers.
Emma66
Once a Marine, always a Marine
After several months working on my PL memories I have just figured out few days ago that I had followed the same pattern in each life. With slight differences but finally the trials I went through always led me to the same conclusion. I won't give details on a public forum but now I know and maybe it's time to change something in this life.
I always wondered why me, why I could remember past lives and why now.
Maybe it's time to understand and start to change...
I always wondered why me, why I could remember past lives and why now.
Maybe it's time to understand and start to change...
Spiegel
Senior Member
I've definitely started worrying less about the small things in life. Perhaps whether my socks clash with my trousers, or if someone's going to think I look weird because my outfit is all the same olive drab colour. Superficial things, that I now find less important after remembering a few past lives. It's made me realise they don't actually matter too much in the grand scheme of things.
melon04
Senior Member
I wonder if I also have some patters and commonalities throughout my lifetimes. I really need to do another regression soon but unfortunately I'm busy with school work.
HBC
Senior Member
Life makes more sense now. What seemed like random tragedy and hardship before are actually things I wanted and planned -- and because I remember my previous life (and bits of a few others) I understand why. I see what my strengths and weaknesses are, and not just through the myopic lens of current cultural norms. I see who I really am, and what I am really doing. And I have a much richer understanding of the human condition; seeing things from different angles so clearly absolutely decimates dualistic thinking. I'm now more patient with other perspectives, more compassionate with people of all walks. It's made me a better person, less dogmatic, humbler, more curious and open-minded. And there have been a few specific perks: certain psychological "life-hacks" I picked up in my previous life are still helpful today, and I never had to learn them or practice them -- just remember them. They come naturally, like riding a bicycle. So no complaints there!
I do often struggle with believing in my memories, though -- they didn't come to me in a regression or anything; they just stormed the proverbial gates one day. It makes it rather confusing, as it was never something I sought out or had any clear boundaries around. It's messy. But writing out all the ways it's benefited me helps quite a bit. Thanks for the opportunity to do that!
I do often struggle with believing in my memories, though -- they didn't come to me in a regression or anything; they just stormed the proverbial gates one day. It makes it rather confusing, as it was never something I sought out or had any clear boundaries around. It's messy. But writing out all the ways it's benefited me helps quite a bit. Thanks for the opportunity to do that!
