Gaia: Remembering

Re: Off to explore Carcassonne

http://oceanprotector.gaia.com — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:16:37 GMT

So I never got around to the telling part...

I didn't feel any immediate connections to Carcassone – no goose bumps, no overwhelming sadness or anger, no odd dreams. And I didn't have a delayed reaction like I have done with another place.

I did love Carcassone – it's hard not to with such an amazingly restored medieval castle, set on a hill by a river, surrounded by vineyards, with lots of really friendly southern French folk, and fine French wine!

However, there was some fabulous sychronicity going on, I met some great characters, and I learned alot.

If I've ever been there before, it was a time of happiness and peace.

When born with Talent

http://wisdomchanneler.gaia.com — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:02:02 GMT

I believe talent to be a trait that was mastered...or well-practiced...in a former lifetime. When talented people presume themselves to be superior to the less talented ones, I just shake my head slowly, for they have fogotten all the practice their former life allowed.

http://sunthoughts2007.com

Re: Off to explore Carcassonne

http://dragonsbeard.gaia.com — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:49:59 GMT

Good travels and good memories, Catfish!
...I suspect that even if memories are or are not immediately realized, the opening of the doorway will be evident and irreversible.
Peaceful journey....

Off to explore Carcassonne

http://oceanprotector.gaia.com — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:54:46 GMT

I really felt a connection to the Cathars when I read a book on Cathars and Reincarnation, and when I looked up Carcassonne, an important city in Cathar history, I got major goose-bumps looking at the pictures of the old town.

So I'm off to Carcassonne next week to explore and see if it triggers any memories.

Ever since I made the decision, little synchronous things have happened – like the book I'm reading based in Da Vinci's Italy (not Cathar France!) mentions the Cathars and Carcassone.

I'll tell you all what happens!

Re: Starting to remember...

http://dragonsbeard.gaia.com — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:38:05 GMT

Indeed, many blessings, Mita. And the strength of heart to remain open, and understanding....
What do you suspect started to open this awareness?
Are you aware of other past lives, particularly with those around you now?
Peace and wonder.....

Re: Consider this

http://dragonsbeard.gaia.com — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:32:48 GMT

From my perspective, every millisecond of every day of every life exists forever, like frames in a movie. Our segmented consciousness aligns and sequences a grouping of these frames as primary focus--this life. It sometimes configures secondary focuses--past/future lives. Just as this consciousness defines a sequence for the experiences of this life, it defines the secondary experiences as past or future. In fact, I suspect all these experiences are simultaneous, eternal, and interacting.
Then, that's just the 'alignment' my conscious suggest to me.

Re: Starting to remember...

http://seek2know.gaia.com — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:29:46 GMT

I am remembering a lot now about the most recent past life and a moment of heart wrenching interaction with a fellow whose spitual path/journey intersects with mine now...our last 15 years or entire life perhaps.

We are exploring similar issues questions about love, purpose of relationship, what are the purpose and pattern of present life difficulties....there are many level, subtleties and nuances that take great degree of unconditional love and compassion and insight to unravel.

Difficulty is I am more fully aware while the other person is dimly...still going through egoic battles! Someday I may write a novel based on it. Can't tell much as it is still unfolding...the soul's journey. It has been very rough for me at times, yet very revealing and healing too and the best part I feel is... this is how the sacred heart and sacred intimacy opens!

So bless me that I get to experience the whole of it....although at times I feel just quitting it and take the easy way out. Just love the mystery of it.

Peace
Mita for DCC

Re: Consider this

http://johon.gaia.com — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:25:46 GMT

I have read it described like going over a waterfall.
Over the upper edge is our birth when we seperate into our individual drop.
Our death is the splash at the bottom bringing us back together into the main stream.
Meanwhile as we fall we are conscious of all the other waterdrops yet remain seperate.

Re: Consider this

http://endbegin.gaia.com — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:05:44 GMT

Perhaps it is like our lives are spokes on a wheel as opposed to following each other in a straight line.

Re: Consider this

http://dragonsbeard.gaia.com — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:00:04 GMT

That's just the way I experience it!
I have been walking through thick forest land and amazed at the strength of one stream of sunlight that makes it way through the trees and onto my back. I, too, feel that sunlight from those other times. I might not be able to identify its location (consciously) but I acknowledge its presence....and know we are interacting, connected.

Re: Consider this

http://oceanprotector.gaia.com — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:48:04 GMT

I love that.

I can really feel those of my lives that are being lived with a ferocious passion, in the same way as I can feel the warmth of the sun even when I can't see it.

Consider this

http://dragonsbeard.gaia.com — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:52:41 GMT

What if our relationships, lives, and loves are not merely four-dimensional? What, with the "there is no time or space" thing, if "past lives" are really running along simultaneously? Maybe "each life" generally does not perceive the other lives...but that does not mean that the parallel lives do not affect each other.

Re: Movies with a reincarnation theme

http://dragonsbeard.gaia.com — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:32:54 GMT

yes, this is an excellent movie! I have watched it quite a few times.
....on a lighter side--a much simpler love story--

Made in Heaven by Timothy Hutton, Kelly McGillis, Maureen Stapleton, and Ann Wedgeworth

Ways to help yourself remember...

http://embracelife.gaia.com — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:59:41 GMT

The Book Life After Death by Deepak Chopra is one of the best books to integrate and inform your today's body about this journey....he's an amazingly wise and brilliant man who we are lucky to be sharing his gifts with this Universe.
In peace and Light,
Jen

Why remember?

http://oceanprotector.gaia.com — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:51:01 GMT

The past is a fascinating place and I love stories – fictional and real. I come from a family of historians and very seriously considered going back to university to study archaeology after my biology degree.

I'm fascinated by the fact that I might have lived before. I want to find my stories in amongst the many of history. I want to understand why I have strong attractions to some people and places and events but not others.

I have learned so much recently just from looking closely at the past of my current life and how I made choices that impact who I am now – many unconsciously. When I was two-years-old, something happened which made me decide that when I get things wrong, terrible things happen – it's made me highly analytical, a perfectionist, and a diplomat, but also makes me very nervous when I do any kind of public speaking. So where does my drive to perform on stage, to teach others, to be an inspiring leader come from? I have had that drive for as long as I can remember.

We can learn so much from the past. I know we can also get obsessed or tied down by it to the extent that we can't live fully in the present, but like everything, balance is the key.

Re: Starting to remember...

http://sam3star.gaia.com — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:39:43 GMT

This is such a facinating topic, I hope to see people begin to post here again on a more regular basis. I've read many books about past lives and though most have given useful infomation, it's not quite the same as individual experience. There are few people in my life who believe in reincarnation, so there is little opportunity for me to discuss my memories with the people I'm closest to. So it's especially nice for me to read about other people's experiences and memories.

Re: Remembering places...

http://sam3star.gaia.com — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:25:20 GMT

I've not had an experience recognizing a place where I've been in a past life. I often recognize people. But I have a good friend (who does not completely believe in reincarnation) who visited Paris for the first time a couple of years ago. She explained to me that the city streets were made like spokes on a wheel. Forgive me if this makes no sense. I've never been to Paris. The point is, she knew instinctively how to get around even though the city where we live is a classic grid. She told me that she felt as if she had come home, and that she felt very strongly that she should be there. I told her I believed she had lived there in a past life; maybe many lives which might explain why she felt so comfortable there.

Re: Remembering places...

http://oceanprotector.gaia.com — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:13:00 GMT

I often go to new places 'looking' for memories that might be there, trying to 'feel' whether I have been there before in a past life. I try to be aware of anything like goose bumps, strange emotional reactions, or an ache in my solar plexus.

It has been some time since I found somewhere that gave me that kind of response and I was starting to doubt some of my previous feelings for places like Paris. I've been to so many lovely and fascinating places in the UK but none of them have given me any clues to my past, depite other strong indicators that I have had multiple lives here.

Then, last November, I walked into an old Gallo-Roman amphitheatre in Saintes in the Charente region of France and found a connection. I had a vague feeling of familiarity when I first looked down on the theatre, but I attributed this to watching too many films! However, when I walked across the sandy floor of the amphitheatre I felt a deep sadness and a gentle ache in my solar plexus. I sat there for a while but no images appeared and I couldn't find the source of the sorrow. Was it mine or was I feeling the sadness of the people who had lost their loved ones or lives here?

However, this morning while I was meditating I began to think about the places I had strong connections to. I thought of the amphitheatre and imagined walking through it again. Suddenly I heard a clear voice (my own) say "You were a doctor here. You used to check that people were really dead." I was overwhelmed with an intense feeling of sadness and regret and found myself sobbing on my bed. When I stopped, I felt like a weight was lifted from me.

I'd never really thought of doctors working at Roman theatres. I guess I assumed no would would care much what happened to gladitors. But some research today has shown me that in fact it was common, and there have been famous doctors working with gladiators.

I know that in multiple lives I have been a doctor or a healer of sorts, and now I have finally linked one of these lives to a place.

The search continues...

Re: Books on Reincarnation

http://oceanprotector.gaia.com — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:47:59 GMT

I just love synchronicity...

I've been thinking a lot lately about the impacts of past lives on our current health and body design. Health is a big fascination of mine.

I haven't read Stevenson's books but have read his work cited in other articles and the cases he has reported really are eye-opening.

I haven't explored any particular 'leads' on my past lives but I've been thinking about whether my chronic neck and right shoulder pain has a link to a past life trauma. One of my sisters has a similar problem and I'm very sure we have been close in at least one past life. Maybe it's a coincidence, or genetics, but maybe not.

We all know how our conscious and unconscious minds influence our health, so why not hidden past life memories? I am generally a very healthy and positive person who rarely gets ill unless I am under loads of stress. But I have this recurring back trouble which doesn't appear to be linked to anything specific. Sure, a bad mattress or unusual excercise can cause trouble but it's not that clear cut. I will search for a more scientific answer but am open to alternatives if they solve the problem!

Scientists can be skeptical of anything they can't measure. But if you don't know exactly what causes something, if you can't see it and haven't felt it yourself, how can you measure it or test it? What if the best measuring device or detector is the enlightened human brain? It's all about energy so one day we'll figure it out.

Catfish

Books on Reincarnation

http://endbegin.gaia.com — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:39:11 GMT

I have on my reading list, a two volume book titled "Reincarnation and Biology" by Dr. Ian Stevenson. I was wondering if anyone here has read this or heard of this. Since I haven't read this yet, I will shamelessly insert the book description from Amazon.

Here goes:
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Based on some 30 years of research on people who claim to remember past lives, this work encompasses the full spectrum of theory and case study on the subject to date. Early in his investigations, Stevenson became aware that some who remember past lives had birthmarks or birth defects that corresponded to wounds, usually fatal, on the person whose life was remembered. The work suggests surprising answers to such questions as the following: Why does someone born with a birth defect have the one he or she has, instead of another one? Why do some children show phobias in early infancy when they have had no traumatic experiences and no model for the phobia in their family? Why are some monozygotic (one-egg) twins markedly different from each other? Why do many boys who later become homosexual show effeminate behavior in infancy before their parents can have influenced them to do so? Writing as a scientist and a Western medical professional, Stevenson realizes that the idea that wounds on a deceased person can influence the embryo of a later-born baby is subversive to many assumptions of modern biology. Knowing that each individual case has some flaw or weakness, he decided to publish the entire corpus of cases of this sort. Photographs of birthmarks and illustrations of weapons form part of the evidence in this daring and explorative research. This work will be of particular interest to physicians, psychiatrists, biologists, and anthropologists. In addition, those concerned with paranormal phenomena and the mind-brain problem will find this work challenging.
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I tend to get skeptical and always like when there is some scientific research done on mystical topics and this book seems like it would fit the bill. Having science is not always necessary for me, but it can be nice to cite, particularly during "harmless" conversation.

Anyway, I hope to get to reading this book in my current lifetime. Thoughts, anyone?