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Why Do So Many People Claim To Be Famous In A Past Life?

The proof I found of my child's past life existence was that all of the names, addresses and jobs matched identically to what she told me. She was about ten at the time and had never been in the reference portion of the library where that information is kept.


Her memories were also proven to be correct by the way buildings were set up inside even though there had been changes, the old parts of the building are above where she would have been able to see even if she had even been in that part of the building. Fact is, she had never even been in that building and has not been there to this day.
 
Totoro,


I am sorry you have received emails like that. It is one reason why people find it hard to share, what we research is something that leaves one open to ridicule.


Thank you for your candid posts. I don't always comment but I do read them.
 
Hello Everyone. I recommend reading Karen´s post about "12 reasons why FPLs suck", however, the link she provided is in a section of the forum that requires permissions (new members are required to post an introduction in order to get permissions, it's a standard procedure in MPL). Anyways, to make things easier, I made a copy of the thread for one of the public sections and removed all comments by MPL members since they posted them in a private section trusting that it would remain private.


This is the link to read the article:


Twelve Reasons an FPL Sucks : A Ten-Year Retrospective


Have fun!
 
Hey Karen,


By reading your analysis I can see what you have been through regarding those famous PL memories. Is it 10 years ago that you first started talking about them, or was it earlier?


When you started sharing those memories, did you expect that you would get a lot of negative comments? You must have developed a thick skin over the years. I try to imagine what it must be like, you have all these memories, with very personal details (that unfortunately can't be historically verified), in all honesty you try to share them, and then get 'shot'; it must be difficult to stay on your feet, to stay confident in what you 'know' and feel to be true. And all this happens while you have to live your 'Now' life also.


Why do you think all those detailed memories came to you in THIS life? I ask because I guess you had several lives between that one and the current one. Do you have a suspicion that the memory of him popped up in another Pl of yours also? After all, he was a very significant/strong/stubborn personality (I guess, don't know so much about him).


A more personal question: I could read in your summary that your life-partner (who I remember was also very important for you in that PL) is no longer with you. I don't know how to ask exactly, but, was this confusing--loosing that PL bond? or other emotions? If too personal, don't answer, I don't want to be nosy. But, I mean, it must have been special, knowing that you were together in that PL, that must have given a special feeling, to be reunited again, and now that is gone.....? Was it not tempting to think: that part of the memories was not true....sort of denial phase?


Ok, maybe I am rambling, but I am just writing down all the thoughts that came in my head after reading your analysis, and remembering (bits of) what you shared long ago.


Anyway, thank you for sharing your review, and thank you, Owl, for making it available.
 
A Famous Object Past Life...


Karen writes:


#5. You know historically significant things that only you know, and to which no one will listen.*You feel like Kassandra -- knowing the truth, and being believed by no one. If they value their academic reputations, historians will have nothing to do with you. Or else they'll insist on continuing to present you in your past incarnation as they think you ought to have been, not as you actually were. Historians critical of you in your past life will write about you as they never would about someone still alive, because they'd be sued in an instant for libel -- but you can't sue them for libel.


I have been following this post with interest over the last years, but because I don't remember a FPL, have never posted. But...I did have a past life with a very famous object, I was one of the embroiderers who worked on the Bayeux Tapestry. After reading Karen's post about the reasons why having a FPL Sucks, I can say that most of these points are also relevant for myself as well. Especially #5. What I “know” about this tapestry and what history claims to "know" do not match up, and when trying to contact the studied academicians to answer their so sought after questions, I received either nothing (those were the polite ones...) or was labeled as “crazy”. After many years, I finally found a young woman who was writing a theses about the tapestry, and she was interested in my stories. After I wrote my heart out...because FINALLY someone was listening...she wrote me back, thanked me for the lovely stories, but said without proof ( I mean, come on...proof?? We only have what is written by scholars and academicians today...) she could not use any of what I had written. So, like mentioned in #5...knowing the truth, but not being believed by anyone, applies for me too!
 
Answering Eevee Part 1


Hey Eevee! Long time no e :)


So many deep and thoughtful questions, I'm figuring that with the 4K character limit it's going to take more than one message to answer them all.


Second thought... archivist...? Does that mean you have access to posts that have been deleted? Please PM me about that :)


From the top --

Eevee said:
...what you have been through regarding those famous PL memories. Is it 10 years ago that you first started talking about them, or was it earlier?
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To be fair, I have not suffered every fate referred to in "12 Reasons." Some were suffered by other people, and some were merely paranoid possibilities.


I had the first memory on Aug. 17, 2000, and have been talking about them with those who were interested ever since minus a hiatus from about 2008 to late 2011. My join date here is Oct. 2002, so I was certainly talking about them here from then.

When you started sharing those memories, did you expect that you would get a lot of negative comments? You must have developed a thick skin over the years.
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Well, something I've identified as a soul trait is innate optimism, so when I went into it I was actually almost stupidly optimistic re reactions. "12 Reasons" came about after some harsh experiences. But to be fair again, I haven't had that many. And most of them came at the other hands of other people claiming my more famous PL. (See Reason #8.)


But I'll say again, from personal experience, that when you become sure of yourself in your knowledge of reincarnation and your own PLs, what naysayers say stops mattering. It might annoy or dismay you (as in "Why do they do that?") but it no longer shakes you at that deep level, stirring up self-doubts. They can't stir up self-doubts unless they're already there in you. So for anyone who is plagued by muggle attacks, however F or not F your PLs, that's where to look and what to work on.


The secret for me was realizing and then working on the fact that my mother was not only a muggle, but an opinionated one who felt a duty to keep her kids on the straight and narrow. She believed that we come in a blank slate and therefore whatever we express is a reflection on whomever is raising us, i.e., in my case, her. So when I pointed at a picture in a kid's illustrated history book and said "That's me! I was that man!" and went on to draw reams and reams of drawings of realistically-gory pre-firearms stickman battles, she pulled out the big guns: ridicule, disgust, a clear message that I was crazy, destruction (all of my drawings were either thrown away or burned in the fireplace), corporal punishment and a death-threat in the form of being locked out of the house in winter. (An almost-three-year-old interprets that as a death threat.) Maybe this should be Reason #13.


The result was growing up with severe self-esteem problems, though I don’t think that was her intent. Her clear imperative was "Forget!" -- not only my PLs and the Eternal Return (as I call the place between lives) but how she had punished me. I dutifully did, and have been plagued by forgetting and fragmentation and disappearance of my own records of what I know ever since, which is why I was asking about deleted posts. But through various healing methods I've dug up and recovered from the whole thing enough, for instance, to be merely slowed down and forced to sleep more hours when I post the autobio online rather than terrorized or completely stopped as before.


After that, being smacked online is a picnic in the daisies. In another capacity, advocating for another controversial thing, I have been called stupid and crooked and generally evil online, by my real name. The way I look at it, if that hadn’t been happening, I wouldn’t have been doing my job right. It is fair and helpful to interpret the barbs from some people as a badge of honour.


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Interjection @Aelfgyva


You worked on the Bayeux Tapestry?


How totally cool is that!!


What parts of it? How did you embroiderers divide up the work...different sections? Different colours of thread? Was it sketched out rough first? Did you get how the story was supposed to go in writing? Who contracted you to do it? Who designed it? Were you embroiderers men or women or a mix? And above all... what do you know that's different from the conventional history? If this is all in a post somewhere on this site, can you share the link?


I'm sorry to hear you got shut out of the research when you have so much to contribute. I know what the problem is from how science reacts to information that doesn't fall within its (arbitrary!) parameters of what is scientific: everyone's worried about their careers and reputations. They see what happened, say, to Jacques Benveniste, and they're like "Whoa, I'm not sticking my neck out." Whether they believe you or not.


I think the trick (in case you haven't already tried this) is to offer them information in the form of a hypothesis which is provable with extant data, and be okay with letting them claim the hypothesis as their idea. That way you can slip it in under the door but you have to be willing to get no credit.


I have a friend who saw an underlying pattern in what she was studying for her grad thesis, and shared it with her prof. The guy jumped all over it, saying she hadn't proven it sufficiently, and pressured her to get out of the field. Then he went and gathered sufficient evidence and published, taking total credit for the idea, and it is now the conventional wisdom.


Scientists will have you believe they're all Dr. Spock, ruled strictly by logic and rationality, but make no mistake: inside those white coats are all the human weaknesses, including venality, same as we are all plagued with.


Anyway--I know the kudos is a few centuries late, but--awesome tapestry. Brava!! :jump:
 
Answering Eevee Part 2

...All these memories, with very personal details (that unfortunately can't be historically verified)...
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Yes, indeed. The other forum I'm on is full of dead Nazis. Whatever else you may say about the Hitler regime, they kept excellent records, and because it was only double-digits years ago, they're still there, and there are lots of photos to match details you get in memories to. So I get to see one dead Nazi after another remember, research and get enough iron-clad verifications that they'll use their PL names as their sigs and so forth. Then they'll go off to Munich or wherever in Germany and find out they know their way around town.


And I am green with envy because my more famous PL happened 2,300 years ago. Virtually everything from that time that wasn't made of stone or metal is gone. Every place I lived or visited is a ruin, most of them just foundations, many still underground (and archaeology done well, as they do it these days, takes forever.) I went to Greece in 2008 and tried to find my way around the foundations of my hometown... from the PL perspective it's like "What unthinkable disaster happened here... what kind of destruction takes every building down to the foundations plus completely erases everything that's not stone or metal?" It was depressing.


As for historic records, it's a broken telephone line. Twenty books were written by eyewitnesses, and they are all lost; we only know they existed from selected quotes. Of the five primary literary sources that have been preserved, three drew majorly from one writer who was basically a gossip columnist of the time and known to be unreliable... but much of the modern scholarship is based on his account...! At least the primary sources blessedly contradict each other so there's at least evidence that some of them are just plain wrong.


So, yes, this made for a challenge in convincing myself it was real. (Reason #1 Remembering an Ancient FPL Sucks.) What did it was more subtle. At some point soon I'll write a "KarenF's FPL cred" post that gives the highlights. One thing that was crucial was an awesome memory from this life, that I got with such certainty I knew it was real, as real as knowing my address and phone number from the time. It was of being a small child with my mind still half in the Eternal Return, and what that felt like: I was just passing through this place so it was fine if things were a little crazy, I remembered all my PLs like a giant tapestry, everything was bright, and there was this almost indescribably strong sense of ultimate safety and security and joy. Words cannot start to do it justice. I remembered this in January and it changed my life. Something I never thought of until now as I write: I think remembering the Eternal Return at some level throughout my life, and maybe previous ones, is the source of my innate optimism.

And all this happens while you have to live your 'Now' life also.
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I edged near burnout in 2011, so I have learned what my limits are and to listen to my body. And my house is a mess cover face :)


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Wow! I may have to write a book...!!!


Hi Karen...thank-you for all your questions....Wow...! I have talked about my working on the tapestry here in forum, but have not gone into the detail that I have in my private journals...I may have to write a book...fiction of course...! ;) If you look on my profile page you will see all of the threads that I have stared (2 or 3...not too many...) and there I have talked a bit about them...I have also talked about my memories in other threads...they are all available on my profile page.
 
Hi Karen,

One thing that was crucial was an awesome memory from this life, that I got with such certainty I knew it was real, as real as knowing my address and phone number from the time.
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That is what resonates with me, when you suddenly KNOW it, with such overwhelming certainty that it gives you the strength and the peace of mind to cast away the doubts that often try to sneak in.


As for the historical things you know, but can't proof, I have a little example of my own. I have memories of being a roman boy, later living on the countryside, where we had cattle. I knew we didn't drink milk, only used it for cheese etc.


This was confirmed in a book I read.


Later I was on a history forum, saying, I read in this book (naming it) that romans didn't drink milk, but etc., and got a conversation going. Then I replied again, and said: 'That is why they used only roman slaves to herd their cattle, because the barbarian slaves would drink the milk from their cattle'. Immediatly I got replies: where is that in the book? what page number, etc.


I sneaked out of that forum, because, oh my, that was something I didn't know from the book, but from my memories....OMG
 
@Aelfgyva: yup, you have to write a book


Absolutely fascinating... having to do the work in a crypt...? Breaking the ice off the drinking water so your hands got so cold you couldn't feel the needle...? And the politics, of course everyone knows and no one talks about it... Learning the story behind an iconic historic piece of artwork is enthralling.
 
You should write a book anyway! I teach my students about the tapestry every year. To plug in some "what if's.." would be awesome from my point of view.


One of my REAL LIFE ancestors had it made.....mmmm or was part of it some how. Can't remember. My father is into researching our family history. I'll ask him who and what his involvement was.

I was one of the embroiderers who worked on the Bayeux Tapestry.
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Makes me think of the saying "Only six degrees of separation between people," and wondering if that applies between life times.


Nice to see you back Karen :)
 
Answering Eevee Part 3

Why do you think all those detailed memories came to you in THIS life?
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Can't answer this next set of questions without naming names...


Leaving life as Alexander I swore I would remember. (It is something of a secret, though not on this forum, that ancient Greeks believed in reincarnation.) Why this life, 2,300 years later? I think it’s either that as a soul I came to a point of readiness, or that there are emotional healing modalities available in this era that never were before that I used to expedite getting to the point of readiness. Or both. I once did an inventory of methods I’ve used and determined that all but one of them arose in the 20th Century, and the older one arose in the 18th/19th.

Do you have a suspicion that the memory of him popped up in another Pl of yours also? After all, he was a very significant/strong/stubborn personality...
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Heh, oh yeah, both those lives. As Alexander it was “nothing and no one will stop me” and as Thomas More it was “I won’t change my mind even if you torture and kill me.” My this-life (and humbler) version is that I have no quit in me for my mission now—healing and integrating myself to wholeness, including remembering. I didn’t even stop during my reincarnation hiatus, just took other approaches, excellent ones, which ended up sending me back to it.


The first question—a little background. Forbidden to frame my violent pre-firearms creative output as anything but fantasy by my mother, I went on to become a fantasy novelist. I only seemed to have one story in me, however, that I started as a young teen and stuck to, on and off, for about 40 years. It’s about a warrior-king type who conquers a great empire, never loses a battle, is bi and has multiple lovers in a kind of crazy personal life, loses his father to assassination by knife, becomes head of state at the age of 20, is a brilliant strategist and warrior, is very charismatic and deeply loved by his warriors, thinks outside the box, purposely spreads culture and technology, comes to be worshipped as a God by some, is very generous but at the same time can be wicked ruthless, gets in trouble with some of his own people for taking on the ways of the conquered empire too much, and dies young. Aside from that, he doesn’t resemble Alexander in the slightest.


So once I was into PLs and noticing the parallels, I thought: if there are Alexander parallels in fiction I wrote in this life, could there be in fiction I wrote in a life in between? With shaking hands, not sure whether I was more afraid of not finding them or finding them, I opened an old copy of Utopia, which I had never read in this life.


They’re subtle—Alexander is never mentioned by name, for instance—but they are there and have the feel of something subconscious. If you want to see this for yourself, bone up on Alexander history, for which I recommend Robin Lane Fox’s Alexander the Great. I thought it was the most accurate even before I learned to my delight it was informed by PL memory... Lane Fox said as much in a column in the Sunday Times, not online, alas, around the same time the Oliver Stone movie came out. He consulted on the movie, btw, and took as his only pay the opportunity to take an extra role as a cavalier.


Then crack Utopia yourself. I don’t even know how many Alexander traces there are, because I freaked out so much I never finished the job... I should try again now. The one that jumped out the most at me is that Utopia, the original utopian society, is a hybrid of Greek and Persian culture. Only one person ever attempted to create that in real life... I guess I wanted to do in imagination what I couldn’t in the flesh. What I remember about writing Utopia was that it started out as pure satire, but then grabbed me and grew into something more as I was writing, and I just let that happen, same as I do writing in this life.


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@Deborah, nice to be back


There you go, Aelfgyva -- a teacher who does value your contribution ;)
 
Wow Karen, now I must definitely read Utopia!! Amazing that you remember being Alexander, and T. More, and afterwards finding confirmation in More's work about Alexander's conquests and his 'Utopia', or worldview. I sat on the tip of my chair reading about your findings! A brilliant idea to look that up! It must have been a relief and a HUGE confirmation to see it there, even if it is subtle!
 
@Eevee


No, it wasn't a relief at all. It scared the asterisks out of me. I think it was like "OMG it's true TILT TILT TILT" and I kept not believing what I was seeing and minimizing/denying it and feeling I had way too much emotion to properly weigh it and then I had to flee.


As the man who was a formerly a newt in Monty Python and the Holy Grail says: "I got better."


Re reading Utopia -- warning -- it's really not a novel. You know what it reads like more than anything? The background notes a science fiction/fantasy writer puts together about a culture in preparation for writing a novel set in it. I know from doing a few in this life.


The other thing is, you won't see the Alexander traces unless you are fairly knowledgeable about the history. BTW I read somewhere about someone finding one or more references to the Iliad -- which I held as my "Bible" about how to be in that life -- in Utopia, but never spotted them myself. Possibly in this life I don't know the Iliad well enough. In that life I had it memorized from end to end by the time I was nine.


Thanks :)
 
Answering Eevee Part 4


...because the Gods know I haven't hijacked this thread enough! (Can mods split them?)


Before I get to the toughest question to answer, further to letting your story go where it will when you write: I think all the best writers do this. I remember the sf/fantasy great Gene Wolfe saying, “I know my subconscious is way smarter than I am.” Further to that: many if not most historical novelists, especially the best ones, write at least in part from PL memory. The obvious example would be Taylor Caldwell, though she denied it to her dying breath.


Even further: my fantasy works are not 100% Alexander. The longish flights of legal geekitude in them, plus certain things about being imprisoned and likely to be executed, are pure Thomas. And I suspect other PLs that I have not remembered yet also figure.

A more personal question: I could read in your summary that your life-partner (who I remember was also very important for you in that PL) is no longer with you. I don't know how to ask exactly, but, was this confusing--loosing that PL bond? or other emotions? ...Was it not tempting to think: that part of the memories was not true....sort of denial phase?
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Yes... and I write this with great embarrassment... it’s not just that we parted ways. It is also that 1) I learned that said ex is, let’s say, less than scrupulous about truth, 2) I learned some of her memories did not match parts of the history that are well-established, and 3) I think I led her into thinking she was who we thought she was in the first place, and she was happy to claim it, because... eh, let’s just say, the relationship had some dysfunctionalities and some co-dependence. We broke the rule, which I didn’t understand as well then, that each person should be their own discoverer of who they were. Desperate for confirmation, I wanted badly to think that people in my life had been there in that one and could help with remembering. Between that and my self-esteem problem influencing my choices of friends and, em, life-partners, I set myself up for deception.


This is part of what made me flee the whole thing for a while; before I figured out how to separate the wheat from the chaff, everything seemed cast into doubt. Now I’ve marked some things in my records as compromised, and I never break the aforementioned rule. If I’m ready and there’s good reason to find people who were in my PLs and vice-versa for them, it’ll happen.


Parting ways with her turned out to be a very good thing, so no need to be sad for it, at least on my behalf. The happiest years of this life began then and continue to date.


The take-home point: in your journey of self-discovery, do not lean too much on other people. I can’t emphasize that enough.


Thanks for your questions, Eevee, and if you have more, ask away.
 
Recorded history is not always correct. Sometimes it has been "washed" so to speak.


For example, let's say people who live not too far from here come back into a new life and have memories of watching a certain vehicle being shot down, of picking up debris for miles.


Now, if they went to the history books none of that would show. In fact, what they read would be quite different.


Wanna take a wild guess who is right?


Please write that book about the tapestry, I would love to read a real account of what happened, and I am sure many others would, too.


Self publishing is easy to do. Writing is the hard part :) And please if you do write the book put a link on the site so I can buy your book.
 
And thank you for your honest answers, Karen.

before I figured out how to separate the wheat from the chaff, everything seemed cast into doubt.
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Yes, that must have been tough. And an immense task to sort it all out again, what was real memory and what details were influenced by the (then) present relationship. And overcoming the doubts about other possible Soul-connections then, and their possible presence now.


And BTW, I think you have shown your readiness to remember by your thorough and honest investigation, and like him, you don't give up! Great messages I got from these posts of yours!


And about More:

No, it wasn't a relief at all. It scared the asterisks out of me. I think it was like " it's true TILT TILT TILT" and I kept not believing what I was seeing and minimizing/denying it and feeling I had way too much emotion to properly weigh it and then I had to flee.
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Very understandable for a first reaction. But afterwards, after deep breaths, clearing the head, etc., it must have brought you further on your path? It probably took a while before you could grab the consequences of your discovery. I think, if something like that happened to me, I would spend days, weeks, months, going over the writings over and over again. But I guess then I would feel like if a lightbulb was on in my head, or so, there must come a moment when you can't deny anymore what you see? Making it public is something else of course....you are very brave, Karen!


Eevee
 
BTW, I agree, both Karen and Aelfgyva should write their book!
 
Writing those books


I already am writing mine. I'd give you the link, except for one thing: I am presenting it as historical fiction, and not bringing up the PL part, so don't want to connect this forum to it. So if you were praising me for being brave enough to be open about it, Eevee... I'm not that brave. Or more exactly, I'm being practical. I want it to reach a wide audience and from what I've seen, I think I'd lower my odds of getting help doing that by making the claim. I know someone who published a book in which she shared her memories of being Guinevere... as in King Arthur, yes, that Guinevere... but from what I gather it didn't do all that well.


Or let's put it this way: if you know a little bit about a historical figure, enough to think his story might be fascinating, then read a novel about him that puts you right there, as if you've gone back in a time machine and you're in his head and it all fits together and make sense and has the ring of truth--you'll come away from reading it with a solid and lasting impression that that person was just as he was portrayed in the book.


If, on the other hand, you read on the book jacket that the author is claiming to have been him in a prior life, your first thought is "Yeah, right" or "Let's see the proof." (I'd bet a good percentage even of the people on this forum would think that... heck, I would. I did with Guinevere.) And because you feel that suspending your disbelief as you read the book, the way you do naturally with fiction, also requires that you accept that the author really was the person, you feel like that's asking a lot, and you're not going to suspend it so easily. You're going to read the book hesitantly, judgmentally and suspiciously, looking for errors or inconsistencies, not letting your emotions get into it, rather than just jumping in and being immersed. So it just won't touch you as much.


Hence my decision.


I actually started writing it back in the early naughts, but my doubts plagued me and I didn't feel I was doing it well enough. I gave up and went back to fantasy for a while. Now... my job is to learn to apply my long-practiced fiction skills... and habits... to something I am not making up but remembering. It's harder than it might seem. But really, it all comes down to my emotions about it, and I'm getting them closer and closer to the right place.
 
@Eevee again

Eevee said:
Yes, that must have been tough. And an immense task to sort it all out again, what was real memory and what details were influenced by the (then) present relationship.
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Actually that's easier than you'd think, now that I'm not blinded by... well, you know how relationships can have myths? Those. The clarity and the rigour felt very good... like a splash of ice-cold water on the face, or the purifying tiredness after a hard workout. To me truth feels like something divine, always has, so I am ultimately happier to be returned to it, even if there's some pain involved.

I think, if something like that happened to me, I would spend days, weeks, months, going over the writings over and over again.
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You've inspired me. Scaring up an online copy of Utopia right now!


Thank you so much for your support :)
 
Hi Karen,


By being brave, I was thinking about brave enough to share in public, on a forum. That already is quite something!


I can understand very well your decision to write the book as historical fiction. I can't explain in a few words how I see it, but that way both believers and non-believers in reincarnation would read it and be unbiased in their judgement. And I think it is also an easier way to go deeper into the emotional side, and that is mostly what makes a book attractive, not the bare facts.


Success!! :)
 
shadowsofmypast said:
I was not famous nor did want that much attention.
All wanted to do is sing I didn't care how many people were there. If they enjoyed my singing fine if they didn't fine as well.


Some people do come back from a person who was famous , but do they want be be famous? Have same problems as they did in that past life that is the question.
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Good question shadows. It could be that someone who was 'famous' before, might decide they really didn't like fame all that much and want to be more private the next time around.


I guess it depends how famous they were and how it all went for them? Also, yes, a lot of musicians and artists have no interest in fame, only in making their music or art, but it happens anyway. Another one of those 'individual personality' things I suppose.
 
Mama2HRB said:
Recorded history is not always correct. Sometimes it has been "washed" so to speak...In fact, what they read would be quite different.
Please write that book about the tapestry, I would love to read a real account of what happened, and I am sure many others would, too. Self publishing is easy to do. Writing is the hard part :) And please if you do write the book put a link on the site so I can buy your book.
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Yes Mama, you're right. 'History' can never be complete anyway and there are a thousand stories behind each 'famous' historic event that will probably never be known. Especially as KarenF is saying, the further back and back you go in history, the less evidence remains.


One test of a claimed famous past life is always how much 'private' stuff does the person seem to recall? People who are faking it (intentionally or otherwise) tend to focus on the most public and well known elements of a famous life. Whereas in the lives of most people, even the most famous, it's the private stuff that is usually of most personal significance - the loves, the families, etc. But then, for the very reason that these bits were 'private' and not well known, they are the most difficult to verify. The Catch 22!


A book about the tapestry would be fascinating. You could say it was a 'what if' 'historical fantasy' book perhaps? An imagination exercise? It's a shame that people have to lie about these things ... but that is the world we have at this time.
 
In the Beginning...


You all are so inspiring!!! I sat down this morning and started putting a few words together for a book, not just memories in a journal. I think I will do it! One of my very good friends has written and published, he also said it is not difficult. What I do find difficult is...I have spontaneous memories, which means that when I start to write about these memories, I have more...and that brings me emotionally in and out of our "real" world. Yesterday, just writing here in forum, prompted more memories. I get so lost sometimes that it takes hours to come back...but as I said...I sat down this morning and started what might be the beginning of a "What If??" book...


Here for you all my words from this morning:


Tournai (Doornik) Vlaanderen. ca.1050-52


* I hear my father's footsteps on the hard stone floor echoing like a drum in my belly and I feel fear. My nurse pulls me gently and instinctively closer and quickly pushes my hair under my linen haube... she says my father must not see my hair. We are sitting on a very cold stone bank by an open window, and the warmth of my nurse's massive body is a comfort to me. My mother is dead.I don't know what dead is... I see him coming now, dressed in a long black robe with a square hat on his head...his curly grey hair on both sides. He is with many men, but only he has a hat on...my nurse says he is important and that I am lucky...I don't know what important is, or lucky. He does not like me...I know it and that is why I am afraid. I have seen what he has done to animals he does not like.


I will not write my "book" here in forum, but will keep you all informed about where and when. It is also hard for me to write in English although it is my mother tongue. I have been living in Europe for over 34 years, speak 3 different languages...but none, not even my own, 100%.


Thank you all again for your inspiration!
 
You go girl


Great start. The question the writer always wants to know is: "Do you want to keep reading?" Unqualified yes from me. Your English is good enough that a little work by an editor is all it needs, same as lots of other writers :)
 
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