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Past life memories, present life pain

GoldFish65

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Good morning Deborah,

I would love to start a new thread on this topic, but I'm not quite sure I know how. I'm really not very knowledgeable about this forum stuff, so a little guidance would be appreciated.

In response to your questions, I have read a few books on Past Lives and Carol's was the first. While I found it a fascinating read and I refer it often to clients with past life questions, I didn't find it helpful in my own case. In fact, nothing that I read was particularly helpful because I wasn't simply having past life recall.....I was experiencing a soul's awakening...and that is very different on so many levels. It's like being stuck in a time warp. When I made the reference, in my last post, that it was like my soul came out of a coma, I wasn't kidding. Though my mind was always aware of the reality of my situation with Stewart, my heart wasn't. I remember telling a friend that I wished I could club him on the head and drag him off to a deserted island, so I could hold him in my arms and just stare at him. At the time, he was 28 years old!!! Hardly baby material.....and yet, each time I looked at him I saw my stolen child. It's taken a long time, a lot of hard work, and a lot of grieving, for me to find a comfortable place with what I feel. It's been five years now and I think I've finally succeeded.

With regard to my stating that I'd never do another past life journey....I'm, quite honestly, afraid to. Within days after doing that regression it was like a portal opened backwards and I began spontaneously recalling other past lives with Stewart. He was my master/husband in 1543 and my son in 1679. Only 1679 ended in a normal, healthy way. I died a content old woman completely at peace with my life. In 1543 it was a love/hate relationship that ended with him dying in an industrial accident, of sorts. His death came much too soon for me.

While this might sound like an episode from the Twilight Zone, it certainly isn't. The parts of my soul connected to Stewart, with unresolved pasts, woke up from their soul sleep with the hope of resuming their past life relationships!! I often refer to that time as when I had a 'spiritual multiple personality disorder' because that's what it felt like.

At Marlene's (Stewart's Mom) prompting I wrote and published a book about our experience, including all the past life stuff. It's called A Soul Comes Home. When she first prompted me to start journalling our process together, she said, " You won't be the first to experience this, but you will be the first to write about." I searched high and low to find anything that explained the chaos I was dealing with...and I never found anything that came close.....so if you're aware of any potential resource, please let me know.

Blessings.
 
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Hi Goldfish,


I moved your post to the memories section for you. When you want to start a new thread look to the upper left side of any section and click - "New Thread." If you want me to title it something else just let me know - I can do that for you.


Have a Happy New Year and I will be back later with thoughts regarding your post. In the meantime I hope others respond too. ;)
 
Thanks for the assist Deborah. I would like the title changed to better reflect the topic. If you don't mind could you change it to "Past life memories, present life pain?" I hope others respond as well. I wish I'd known about this forum when I was going through my own process. It would have been a very valuable tool at that time....but better late than never, right?


As much as I speak about the emotional turmoil caused by my soul's awakening there are also benefits to remembering the past so clearly. Every time I see Stewart I'm reminded that no one is ever really lost to us. In two lifetimes I tragically lost this person I love...and yet he's still here.....a happy, healthy, whole young man...and I have the privilege of knowing him again...and loving him still. How cool is that?


I'm not exactly sure how much to share here. Like I said, I'm not really familiar with this forum thing, so if you have any questions feel free to throw them my way.


Thanks for your help and blessings!
 
What a wonderful story, GoldFish! Thank you for sharing.

As much as I speak about the emotional turmoil caused by my soul's awakening there are also benefits to remembering the past so clearly. Every time I see Stewart I'm reminded that no one is ever really lost to us. In two lifetimes I tragically lost this person I love...and yet he's still here.....a happy, healthy, whole young man...and I have the privilege of knowing him again...and loving him still. How cool is that?
That is very cool ;) And I think it's one of the gifts of reincarnation, I really do. I know I've experienced something quite similar to you. I treasure those profound connections - they are such a beautiful thing.


Aili
 
Thanks Ailish. For the longest time I couldn't decide whether those memories were a curse or a blessing because I was so consumed the devastation of the whole thing. Reconciling the past with the present has been its own journey....but now I see the diamond....and I feel so truly blessed. These connections certainly can be a beautiful thing!!!


Blessings.
 
GoldFish65,


I thought it would be a good idea to link your earlier post about how you started experiencing this here, I hope you don't mind. :)


I think it's a fascinating story, and I would be interested in the details, but I realise they are too many to post here. Maybe I have to purchase the book. ;)


Anyway, thanks for sharing, and I'm glad you've found one of your closest soul mates in this incarnation, too. It can be wonderful, I know this from personal experience, too.


Does Stewart feel the same way about you?


Karoliina
 
Thanks for setting up a link to my initial post Karoliina, that was a great idea.....and something that I wouldn't have known how to do.


You asked whether Stewart feels the same about me..and I'm not so sure. He certainly doesn't have the memories I do..and he's never done any past life research. However, when I told him that I'd learned about being his Mom he said, "I'm not surprised to hear that." Obviously he feels somewhat of an emotional connection, but I remember him being torn from my arms and sometimes it feels like it happened in this life. He definitely doesn't have that perspective!


What I find most interesting and fascinating about our situation is that when he's not feeling well, whether physically or emotionally, I'm able to tell. And, usually, during those times he astral travels to my home and lies beside me in bed. The first time it happened I couldn't believe it. First thing the next morning I called a friend who is a psycho-spiritual counsellor and arranged a session. I thought I needed therapy because I was losing my mind!!!! I'm used to spirits showing up in my house. That's normal. But Stewart is still living and yet I saw him, in a spiritual form, floating into my bedroom. Instinctively I pulled the blankets back and allowed him to nestle in beside me. It was like sleeping with a five year old.....all arms and legs! LOL!!


Since that night whenever he's upset, ill, stressed out or missing his mom from this life...I get a visit. What's cooler still, is that we can have conversations about things going on his current physical life...and he has no conscious knowledge that he's shared it with me. On one occasion I mentioned an astral conversation because I knew he was worried. He was shocked that I knew, but relieved that I was able to put his mind at rest. Now, if I inquire about specific issues or people he'll ask if he told me down here...or up there? Isn't that bizarre?


We've even played astral visit games. Once I used four large quartz crystals. I telepathically showed him all four and told him which one to pick when I physically saw him. When we got together I physically showed him the stones and simply said, choose the one that speaks to you. He chose the one I told him to! Curious as to whether it was just a lucky guess, we played the game again using four small different coloured crystals. This time he had to pick two stones. Then we played it using scarves. In each case he chose the one/one's he was directed to. He had retained the information.


While it's my belief that Stewart and I have a golden opportunity to explore our past life connections....to study the depth of our bond....our significant others' are a little less enthusiastic. So, out of respect for them we do limit our time together. Plus, that makes it easier for me emotionally. Thankfully, I have a very understanding husband who is okay with me having a framed picture of myself and Stewart sitting on the buffet. Whenever anyone asks about it, he responds, "Oh. That's the son she shares with another woman." Though he has a hard time getting his head around the past life thing. He knows that my three years working with Stewart and his Mom made its own mark on my heart. I suppose you could say I'm blessed all the way around. Lucky me.


Blessings.
 
That really is cool, GoldFish65. :)


I'm loving astral meetings, even if it in my case only means being conscious of dreams I these days recognise as being something else. It doesn't happen often for me, though.


Karoliina
 
Starting in late 2004, in my role as medium, I began working with a young man following the death of his mother. As time went by I began feeling very emotionally attached to Stewart, which is extremely out of character for me. My role is medium, conveyor of information for those who no longer walk this earth; I am simply a messenger…..with no vested interest. Things with Stewart were different. I cared about him very much. At first I presumed it was because I was channelling his Mom’s energy and was simply feeling for him what she felt for him. Over time I realized the feelings actually belonged to me. It felt unethical and too deep for my liking. The more I analyzed what I felt the more I suspected it was not ‘of this life.’ Not being one who believed in past lives I was sceptical about investigating it. Then, one day Marlene, Stewart’s Mom, made a cryptic statement that left me wondering. She said, “Mark October 26th on your calendar. I want to give you a gift for all you’ve done.” When I questioned her about it I was met with silence. Sensing that it had something to do with Stewart and me, I proceeded to do a past life journey.


During my regression this is what I saw: It was a cool, clear fall evening. I got the sense that I was on the west coast of the United States. I was in my early twenties and had a newborn baby. I didn’t see my husband and sensed that he was away at sea. I had just finished bathing and feeding my son and was sitting in a rocking chair holding my sleeping baby. I was overwhelmed with a sense of peacefulness as I sat watching him sleep. I instinctively knew the child was the soul that I now know as Stewart. As I watched the scene play out before me I was both participant and observer so it was no shock to feel the fear, firsthand, when two men stormed into my home and took my son. I think I even screamed out loud at one point.


Still within the regression I fast forwarded and saw myself commit suicide when I realized that my baby was the target of the kidnapping, not money. I was devastated by my loss and humiliated at not being able to look after my son. Unable to cope with the events of my life I jumped from a cliff to my death.


On the one hand, revisiting the past gave me a measure of peace. I no longer felt that my love for Stewart was inappropriate. However, on the other I was devastated that the son I’d lost in a previous life was still here, but had been raised by someone else. From Marlene, and another medium, I learned that Stewart was kidnapped on October 26th, 1867 at 8:23 pm. The gift Marlene wanted to give me was my son. It was her way of balancing the Karma between us, as she was responsible for taking him in 1867.


In the months that followed I actually had moments of jealousy when I envied Marlene the love Stewart had for her. I wanted him to love me that way. My past life journey became my present life torment as I struggled to integrate it all. Within days of doing this past life regression I began spontaneously recalling other past lives with Stewart. In 1679 he was my son and I had three daughters as well. We owned a sheep station in Australia/New Zealand….or somewhere similar. I died a content old woman, completely at peace with that incarnation. I’ve had no ill effects from remembering that history. Then I was his wife/slave in 1543 Romania. Our family was a band of gypsies and my father gave me to him as repayment for a debt he owed. I was a bit trampy in that life and would fool around with other men as a means of sticking it to my husband/master. The relationship was extremely antagonistic initially, but over time things began to change. We were just growing to care for each other when he died in an industrial like accident.


In two of these lives my soul was tormented and it made dealing with Stewart in this life very complicated….at least for a while anyway. Sometimes I felt very maternal toward him and protective of him and other times I felt angry with him. One of my coping mechanisms was to share my crazy emotions with Stewart so he understood that I wasn’t bipolar. Luckily, he gave me the patience and understanding needed until I was able to sort it out.


Thanks for the link to Julie Z’s story Deborah. I was very much able to relate and my heart goes out to her.


Blessings.
 
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