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Post by mccoyxyz on Jul 31, 2010 11:36:05 GMT -5
Looking back, I realize I might have missed my calling, would have been a good priest. Something in my manner (rather glacial, actually), in the knowledge I don't pass anything on, causes people to feel a desire to do confessional. Among others, I have regularly heard from a pastlife Jew and two pastlife nazis. Not wishing to divulge anything confidential, I would merely point out what the world observes in them. That is, all use intoxicants to excess (some illegal ones as well), confront authority a lot and get great joy from doing so, and are involved in hazardous pastimes. I would prefer to believe they are something of a statistical aberration, not the norm. However, one of the psy traits common in actual camp survivors is anhedonia, an inability to feel pleasure. Logically, a person would respond to anhedonia in one of two fashions: acceptance or upping the ante. I'm not a psy professional, merely an avid reader in psy topics. I view western psy through a largely Freudian lens. Now whether you like Freud or not, you have to agree western psy would have gone nowhere without him. I often find myself asking how Freud would view a particular situation. So, I guess I'm becoming a westerner after all. Anyone else with views on addictions and such?
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Post by Laurasia on Jul 31, 2010 20:06:00 GMT -5
I definitely hear you on some of the issues that both reincarnated Nazis & Holocaust victims can have. And substance abuse is definitely right up there! I personally had once of Hans' own addictions come right through to me in this lifetime....nicotine. Hans smoked CONSTANTLY, & I began smoking in this lifetime when I was just 9 years old (thankfully I was able to successfully stop smoking at the age of 19).
Hans' other addiction was drinking alcohol, LOTS of it. I have been able to refrain from an addiction to alcohol (& having a very alcoholic father in this incarnation has a lot to do with that!), but find that I cannot tolerate Hans' drink of choice (scotch).
Sincerely, Laurasia
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Post by lulz on Aug 6, 2010 1:15:28 GMT -5
I can relate as well. Also with myself, nicotine is a big thing for me. Josef smoked quite a lot as well, but although he has no problem with social drinking, he didn't get drunk much. No one in my entire family smokes cigarettes besides myself and my dad, and I actually have smoked longer than him. I think I must have given him the habit.
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Post by empathicus on Sept 12, 2011 0:27:02 GMT -5
Ive literally had alchohol poisoning so many times you wouldn't believe. I've drank so much that even for days afterwords i couldnt walk without falling down. My kidneys used to hurt so bad my whole lower back felt like death after my drinking sessions and people would exclaim oh my god you are green, im normally a white guy so green and blue color complexion really stands out i guess. I abused all kinds of drugs, meth, coke, opium, morphine, whatever i could get my hands on. Eventually i used marijuana to quit all the other substances partly because with my alchohol abuse i would always drink myself into a blackout and then hear all sorts of strange and hard to believe stories about what i did in all those hours i have no remembrance of. I put my brothers life in very real danger one time and after that i started trying to get away from what i was doing because it wasnt just hurting me anymore. Self hate, extreme anxiety, extreem depression, undiagnosed but obvious bipolar, fear, and extreme guilt are the emotions that drive my desire to blast myself far away from myself.
Also just a few weeks ago before i found this forum, it occured to me that good things are wasted on me because i have an extreemly limited ability to enjoy the enjoyable things in my life. Thats why the oppening post in this thread jumped out at me. So ya you are on to something. It's interesting that the nazi's and victims have reincarnated with so many similar issues. I can see how i deserve these things but i guess "deserve" really has nothing to do with it if the victims have many of the same issues going on. Sort of makes us connected like so many married couples who are together now because in a past life one wronged the other and created a karmic attachment. Ugly and beutiful all at once. I'm sure ive shared many a drunken stuper with some of the fellow souls reincarnated from either side of that aweful moment in history. Some of the friends i used to abuse myself with died (it was that bad), some are all crippled up and broken from accidents and substance abuse. I had so many close calls and those are just the ones i remember. I'm so thankful to still be alive and allowed to work on my karma and allowed to love my fellow suffering brothers and sisters. I dont feel like ive made much progress spiritually but theres still hope i will make a good dent in this incarnation, which is really important to me as looking at my astrological situation shows that i really cant afford any more pileup of issues to deal with in the next incarnation. Good post seriously!
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Post by Laurasia on Sept 13, 2011 17:42:15 GMT -5
I have to second what SS3 has said here. Just the fact that you were open enough & willing to join a forum such as this, with the intent of healing both yourself & others< speaks volumes about just how far you have already come, Empathicus. Sincerely, Laurasia
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Post by mooseroom on Dec 3, 2011 21:02:56 GMT -5
I can relate as well. Also with myself, nicotine is a big thing for me. Josef smoked quite a lot as well, but although he has no problem with social drinking, he didn't get drunk much. No one in my entire family smokes cigarettes besides myself and my dad, and I actually have smoked longer than him. I think I must have given him the habit. Amen sister. I find it so funny, I hate lighting with a lighter, only matches. XD
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Post by mooseroom on Dec 3, 2011 21:09:33 GMT -5
yes, I would say both sides have their issues. While your may suffer physically from a past life issue, a persecuted minority or the socially accepted type of people (wanted to say them in different ways).
ANYWHO while you may suffer, and feel it may be related to what the nazi's died or you did in a pl, I would argue that a minority pl would effect this life too. Perhaps clinging to phobias, or medical conditions. Having ticks in your personality.
I know I hate having people follow me, it makes me so uncomfortable. I made the connection a year ago, that it's funny my dream (possible plr) I was shot in the back in a fireline type thing.
I also was born catholic, and am trying to convert to Judaism.. while saying 'no I really am jewish on the inside....' yea doesn't help me int he system much. This causes depression, anxiety, more smoking, and emotional eating.
On a good note... I am looking into becoming an LGBT counselor. I feel that my struggles to convert are in some way in the ball park of what an LGBT youth goes though. They go through it more intensely and more dramatic ways, but it opens the door and allows the empathy to more genuine.
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Post by Laurasia on Dec 6, 2011 16:02:34 GMT -5
Hello Mooseroom. Indeed, you have mentioned some good examples of how past life issues can be manifested in this lifetime. And I think that it's wonderful you are considering becoming a LGBT counselor! The issues faced by the young people within that community are very distressing indeed. I only wish that I would have had such a person to speak with when I was coming to terms with my own sexuality. Sincerely, Laurasia
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