Many lives together

[Christopher Rose]

I met a very special lady eighteen months ago and instantly knew I had known her before.
As soon as we met I started having dreams and recollections of her from the past.
I have previously had dreams that I think were from a former life, particularly as a child.
I have had numerous visions of her from what I think must be around two thousand five hundred years ago in Thracia and five hundred years ago in Italy. We have both since visited a regression therapist and found other lives together. Some of the memories are quite traumatic and we have experienced quite a lot of tragedy together. I have come to the assumption that we must keep meeting to resolve something from a former life. I wondered if there are other members out there who have had a similar experience and would love to hear from them.

 

[Angie Brown]

I met a very special lady eighteen months ago and instantly knew I had known her before.
As soon as we met I started having dreams and recollections of her from the past.
I have previously had dreams that I think were from a former life, particularly as a child.
I have had numerous visions of her from what I think must be around two thousand five hundred years ago in Thracia and five hundred years ago in Italy. We have both since visited a regression therapist and found other lives together. Some of the memories are quite traumatic and we have experienced quite a lot of tragedy together. I have come to the assumption that we must keep meeting to resolve something from a former life. I wondered if there are other members out there who have had a similar experience and would love to hear from them.

There seem to be a few on the forum who have had at least some past lives with another. For me, my youngest was my son at least once before.
I expect others will respond ☺

 

[Spirit Sword]

Welcome, Christopher Rose.

In my experience, we reincarnate with many of the same people. I cannot tell if this is due to a familiarity, a need to tie up loose ends, or a combination of the two. I think it might be the both of them.

In my current incarnation, my two best friends have been with me before. In one life, we were all together, with one as my right-hand man and another as my beloved brother. In another life, the right-hand man was such again, though the other soul was nowhere to be found. There is still a very close bond between us and I am inclined to think that we keep coming back together purely out of fondness for the other. On the other hand, there is a soul I long to reunite with and have not at this point. My reasoning seems to be both attachment and unfinished business, as the two of us were once lovers separated by war. The longing does not seem to stem purely from absence of a person I liked, but it is as though I urgently need to tell her something (though I do not know what).

 

[There and back again]

I am really out of place and out of the meta of the current times so who knows, a lot of the people in my life have not been pleasant nor a good influence for me. I don't see myself as being modern thought and belief wise at all despite getting along tech wise pretty well being able to tinker with electronics. Would have made a great engineer had it not been for the loathsome public education that hobbled the potential of multiple generations in a row.

 

[Galina]

Hi Christopher Rose, I too have heard that we often reincarnate with the same people again and again. The reasons I have read for this from others over the years have ranged from the group of souls that keep showing up being our 'soul group' that are destined to always be around us in different lives, to the idea of unfinished business needing to be resolved and personal life lessons still needing to be learned.

There is one person I have met in this life whom I believe was at least my child in one life before, and have recently been told that there is a history with that person. I also had a reading done which gave some information about the past lives of my current parents, and it was curious that it confirmed how much I already sort of knew how those lives would have been, so suspect that I have known them before at least once too. They say that if you have a strong reaction to a person, it is very possible that you featured in each other's past lives in some way. Well...

My mother always struck me as a somewhat empty and perhaps self-pitying person who wanted the high life brought to her and seemed to regret her marriage to my not hugely well off father as it wasn't 'glitzy' enough. I was intensely annoyed by the way she would try to make me perform in front of others as a child, and I instinctively felt even as a very young person that she needed to grow up and make more effort to get a life of her own instead of attempting to hold court all of the time using other people to get attention. The resentment went so deep that it was actually quite scary for a child. I was told that she was here this time to learn that other people were not just around her to do as she said and wished, and in general to acquire some humility and help others. Coincidental, as I eventually had to leave the relationship behind as it was too toxic and perhaps I knew then on some level that she wasn't learning what she needed to and probably never would in this lifetime until it was too late and I'd already spent my current life trying and failing to fill her voids - what I suspect was not the first of my lifetimes trying to do so.

That's just a couple of my examples

 

[Angie Brown]

Hi Christopher Rose, I too have heard that we often reincarnate with the same people again and again. The reasons I have read for this from others over the years have ranged from the group of souls that keep showing up being our 'soul group' that are destined to always be around us in different lives, to the idea of unfinished business needing to be resolved and personal life lessons still needing to be learned.

There is one person I have met in this life whom I believe was at least my child in one life before, and have recently been told that there is a history with that person. I also had a reading done which gave some information about the past lives of my current parents, and it was curious that it confirmed how much I already sort of knew how those lives would have been, so suspect that I have known them before at least once too. They say that if you have a strong reaction to a person, it is very possible that you featured in each other's past lives in some way. Well...

My mother always struck me as a somewhat empty and perhaps self-pitying person who wanted the high life brought to her and seemed to regret her marriage to my not hugely well off father as it wasn't 'glitzy' enough. I was intensely annoyed by the way she would try to make me perform in front of others as a child, and I instinctively felt even as a very young person that she needed to grow up and make more effort to get a life of her own instead of attempting to hold court all of the time using other people to get attention. The resentment went so deep that it was actually quite scary for a child. I was told that she was here this time to learn that other people were not just around her to do as she said and wished, and in general to acquire some humility and help others. Coincidental, as I eventually had to leave the relationship behind as it was too toxic and perhaps I knew then on some level that she wasn't learning what she needed to and probably never would in this lifetime until it was too late and I'd already spent my current life trying and failing to fill her voids - what I suspect was not the first of my lifetimes trying to do so.

That's just a couple of my examples

Sorry to read that. It must have been painful - for both of you, your mum also and maybe more so as it seems she didn't/doesn't realise why.

 

[Galina]

Sorry to read that. It must have been painful - for both of you, your mum also and maybe more so as it seems she didn't/doesn't realise why.

Hi Angie, thank you for reading the long post! I suspect you are right. There were a lot of occasions where I behaved like the parent and my mother like the child. She was very childlike in some ways, and I often felt a responsibility to look after her. However, she also exhibited the impulsivity of a child. There have been a couple of photographs that she took that reduced me to tears because I don't look like a person; but like a posed toy. One at toddling age, where she made my grandmother's neighbour's grandchild sit at the top of a slide and grasp me by the armpits, as if she could let me go down it at any second like a doll or a stuffed animal. The kid was graceless - it physically hurt, and it showed in my eyes. The other was as a teenager, being made to stand in front of some flowers in public so everyone in our tour group could see her take it (I don't like being looked at unless it is a performance or outing I have chosen to make or prepared for). My face was so sad that I tore it up after we ceased to have contact. In adulthood, I got past the anger and just started to wonder why she had inflicted her pain and wishes on me in that way... because no happy person does those things, right? However, the deeper I looked, the more exhaustion became apparent and the realisation dawned that I had nothing left to give.

I don't know who my mother was in her past lives to need to learn the lesson I was told about, but think she could actually have been a real force for good if she put her mind to it. I could see her in the middle of charity events and other such things that are fun, need larger than life personalities, and change people's lives.

The great irony with her was that she wasn't the world's greatest listener. You could suggest things to her until the cows came home, but if they didn't fit with how she saw herself, they wouldn't even be entertained. I once made her a printed book bound with string, filled with pressed flowers and poetic wording about how much I loved her and what a caring grandmother I envisioned her being to my children in the future. It was looked at fairly blankly for a couple of minutes and shoved into the drawer for old batteries, receipts, and light bulbs. Maybe she was put off by the word 'grandmother' as it suggested ageing? Who knows. Neither I nor anyone else was ever going to fill that bottomless pit the way it was, though.

Thanks for replying Angie, and sorry for hijacking your thread, Christopher!

 

[sortoflikeheaven]

Wow, that's really fascinating. Yes, I too think that is very possible in my own case - I can pin down some people in my own current life to have been with me in a past life due to personality traits and similarity in looks as well and just how they make me feel when I'm around them. Some (not all...) were my backbone, so to speak, before and is this time around as well so I don't feel as if I have unfinished business with them, I just think we are possibly here because we care and want to help each other out. We want to be together, what ever the form/relationship it is okey - love is love. One time a friend of mine began to talk to me about her own experienced past life and said we had been friends back then too. Because I had identified, and found who's memories I carried with me (At the time I was still cut in two about whether to claim this as my own past life or just somehow having access to it although I had no idea how). There were things my friend knew that I had absolutely not told her anything about. For instance at the time I had tried to tell myself I had imagined a certain man (my supposedly past life husband, later ex husband) but then she began to describe him just how I had experienced him - and she just could not have known.