SpookyGoverness
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Hello all, I'm new to this forum but not necessarily the study of reincarnation. I've always been fascinated by it, as I have been just about obsessed with various historical periods since I was a small child, and my somewhat superstitious family always liked to suggest perhaps I'd must have lived several past lives.
I make historical costumes as a hobby, and particularly favor the late medieval period, the fifteenth century mainly. I'm a very spiritually-inclined person, raised Catholic but with very open-minded parents who encouraged me to read about as many different faiths as I liked. I have a complicated but nonetheless working personal theology, but I often experience synchronicities related to the past, though none in the form of clear memories. The past few years, in particular, have been very spiritually meaningful for me, and I've been studying different facets of esoteric/spiritualist study very often. I regularly pray to/with and have "discussions" with dead relatives, saints, etc in thought. This is pretty much normal in my family.
I imagined if I ever "figured out" a possible past life identity, it'd be someone medieval--but recently I've been prompted to focus on a much more recent era.
While I was in the midst of creating a sewing project several months ago, I remember telling my boyfriend an odd thought I'd had. I was drafting an 1840s dress, but couldn't get the 1970s out of my head, specifically the first few years of the decade, no later than 1973. And I had the weirdest artistic inclination that the romantic era, the 1840s, and the 1970s shared some kind of spiritual or cultural link. I associated them heavily in my head but couldn't figure out why. I kept envisioning/fantasizing strange scenarios in which both times existed simultaneously: Jane Eyre wandering Thornfield to Nights in White Satin, or something similarly incongruous.
Slowly, I started fixating more and more on minute cultural similarities I perceived in western society between the 1840s and the early 1970s--nothing significantly large, just small, subtle pop culture things. Trendy men's hairstyles and sideburns were virtually identical in the two decades. The gothic romance literature that defined the 1840s became the 1970s "Women Running from Houses" gothic romance revival. Tiny nuances like that.
My interest prompted me to search for some books on reincarnation on Amazon--different from ones I was already familiar with, ones that involved clear memories. So I googled "retrocognition" instead. I found a book written in 1971 and immediately bought it. I love it, though most of its anecdotes are more clear and revelatory than mine.
Flipping through my Hulu app on the television one night, I started watching reruns of the 1960s soap series Dark Shadows--terribly cheesy camp, but great fun to watch over booze alone on a rainy night (just me?). Since the episodes were so short (and so plentiful) I got through the first several seasons pretty quickly by binge-watching and skipping what veteran fans had suggested was filler. Despite the cheesiness of the show I did enjoy it, feeling that I had seen it before and could stand to enjoy it again, even if it's silly now. I know my grandmother used to watch it when she was in high school and college, but we never really discussed it in depth since I've never been a soap person (I *am* however a campy gothic-romance person).
Welp, fast forward to about 650 episodes in, and I'm noticing the plot now revolves around a manor in which two timelines exist simultaneously: one in 1840, and one in 1970.
None of this is particularly groundbreaking or revelatory, but I wonder if anyone who considers reincarnation a likely possibility would entertain the idea that I may have experienced the 1970s and seen this television show during that lifetime. My grandmother, whom I heard about this show from, had a brother who suffered from a debilitating health condition that ultimately led him to take his own life in the early 1970s. I have a very close friend who shares this health condition with my deceased uncle: we have bonded over our experiences with suicidal thoughts and I have told my mother that he closely reminds me of this uncle, even though I never knew him. I do wonder if maybe I experienced a past life as a friend of this uncle and I'm here, again, as his friend. This may sound like nothing to those of you with more clear experiences, but maybe with more discernment and exploration it could lead to something more clear.
I make historical costumes as a hobby, and particularly favor the late medieval period, the fifteenth century mainly. I'm a very spiritually-inclined person, raised Catholic but with very open-minded parents who encouraged me to read about as many different faiths as I liked. I have a complicated but nonetheless working personal theology, but I often experience synchronicities related to the past, though none in the form of clear memories. The past few years, in particular, have been very spiritually meaningful for me, and I've been studying different facets of esoteric/spiritualist study very often. I regularly pray to/with and have "discussions" with dead relatives, saints, etc in thought. This is pretty much normal in my family.
I imagined if I ever "figured out" a possible past life identity, it'd be someone medieval--but recently I've been prompted to focus on a much more recent era.
While I was in the midst of creating a sewing project several months ago, I remember telling my boyfriend an odd thought I'd had. I was drafting an 1840s dress, but couldn't get the 1970s out of my head, specifically the first few years of the decade, no later than 1973. And I had the weirdest artistic inclination that the romantic era, the 1840s, and the 1970s shared some kind of spiritual or cultural link. I associated them heavily in my head but couldn't figure out why. I kept envisioning/fantasizing strange scenarios in which both times existed simultaneously: Jane Eyre wandering Thornfield to Nights in White Satin, or something similarly incongruous.
Slowly, I started fixating more and more on minute cultural similarities I perceived in western society between the 1840s and the early 1970s--nothing significantly large, just small, subtle pop culture things. Trendy men's hairstyles and sideburns were virtually identical in the two decades. The gothic romance literature that defined the 1840s became the 1970s "Women Running from Houses" gothic romance revival. Tiny nuances like that.
My interest prompted me to search for some books on reincarnation on Amazon--different from ones I was already familiar with, ones that involved clear memories. So I googled "retrocognition" instead. I found a book written in 1971 and immediately bought it. I love it, though most of its anecdotes are more clear and revelatory than mine.
Flipping through my Hulu app on the television one night, I started watching reruns of the 1960s soap series Dark Shadows--terribly cheesy camp, but great fun to watch over booze alone on a rainy night (just me?). Since the episodes were so short (and so plentiful) I got through the first several seasons pretty quickly by binge-watching and skipping what veteran fans had suggested was filler. Despite the cheesiness of the show I did enjoy it, feeling that I had seen it before and could stand to enjoy it again, even if it's silly now. I know my grandmother used to watch it when she was in high school and college, but we never really discussed it in depth since I've never been a soap person (I *am* however a campy gothic-romance person).
Welp, fast forward to about 650 episodes in, and I'm noticing the plot now revolves around a manor in which two timelines exist simultaneously: one in 1840, and one in 1970.
None of this is particularly groundbreaking or revelatory, but I wonder if anyone who considers reincarnation a likely possibility would entertain the idea that I may have experienced the 1970s and seen this television show during that lifetime. My grandmother, whom I heard about this show from, had a brother who suffered from a debilitating health condition that ultimately led him to take his own life in the early 1970s. I have a very close friend who shares this health condition with my deceased uncle: we have bonded over our experiences with suicidal thoughts and I have told my mother that he closely reminds me of this uncle, even though I never knew him. I do wonder if maybe I experienced a past life as a friend of this uncle and I'm here, again, as his friend. This may sound like nothing to those of you with more clear experiences, but maybe with more discernment and exploration it could lead to something more clear.
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