other past life memories?

[doctorwhat]

i'm not sure this is the right area of the forum, but i see others' memories in here, so i'm gonna do it here.

i'm bored, so i was wondering what others' past lives were aside from the WW2 era. i'm just curious.

aside from my WW2 past life, here's the recurring dreams i've had since i was a little kid. i'm not sure how reincarnation recall really works. but in dreams that's how mine come to me. a couple times when i've meditated, but that hardly does it for me because my mind wont relax.

and it's never a total recall of my lives. it's usually something attached to some sort of emotion, like dislike/hate, excitement, etc. kind of like in this lifetime, you remember graduating high school or college, but you dont remember some of the everyday things like what you had for breakfast May 30, 1998. that's my take on reincarnation.

ok, here's mine

sometime during the Renaissance (1500s maybe?), i was around 12 years old boy in Spain, and i was learning to make pigments for my paint. i had an instructor who was Italian (who i hated because he kept using Italian), but i made him speak Latin since i didnt know Italian. but i knew Spanish, English, Latin, and French. and he kept getting annoyed at me because my green wasnt green enough to make the painting realistic? and i was fascinated by the woman milking the cows and there were chickens running around everywhere. and there were stone walls around me, like an enclosure. and i wore a floppy hat, some sort of vest and fluffy sleeved shirt and tights. and i wasnt all swarthy like Spanish people look. i had light hair and eyes and light skin.

in late 17th century France, i saw some sort of coach, and i was a little girl, blonde, probably around 8 or 9 years old? and i remember it was coming down a small hill, and there were horses pulling the coach. and it looked like this one --> www.flickr.com/photos/slayra/4734086888/in/photostream only it was whitish and goldish, and no paintings on the side from what i could see. but the shape and appearance are similar. and i was so excited because i got to see our king's coach go thru my town/village.

in just before the end of the American Revolution in Connecticut (like a couple years before), i was a girl around 18 or 19, and i wanted to be a soldier, but i wanted to be in the British army. i dunno. in my dream/meditation i was really enamored with the redcoats for some reason. i was a secret Tory (loyal to England) but my parents werent, and my Toryness was based on liking the uniforms better i remember really liking Benedict Arnold for some reason tho, before he was found out for traitorous behaviors.

i had a really strong recurring dream in the late 1800s about being in the Civil War during the Battle of Sharpsburg (aka Antietam), and i was on the Confederate side in the Army of N VA. there was corn? lol, i dunno, but for some reason there was a cornfield and it stuck out in my dream (i still have an obsession with cornfields). i was on the young side, and i had a wife and a baby boy. and i was shot, but died because they tried to save my left arm (below the elbow), and i remember they used maggots to eat away at the dead flesh. i think this is where my phobia came from - definitely extreme fear - of being infested with parasites, even tho i know maggots arent parasites, but the wriggling and stuff....i have goosebumps & shivers thinking about it ick. in my dream i remember being disgusted when i lifted the bandage to see them squirming and wriggling and moving. but i ended up dying of some sort of infection in the hospital tent. i get like cold chills every time i look at photos of the battle of Sharpsburg/Antietam Confederate dead. not any other ones, like Gettysburg or whatever.

then my SS life. not sure if i was a doctor (in 1 source it says "doctor" but that's the only place i saw it, but i'm pretty sure he/i wasnt a doctor), but i hung out with Mengele at the selection ramps drunk off my rocker. worked in a few camps, in charge of the men's camp in Auschwitz. obsession with gypsies (haha carried over my gypsy obsession and Mengele hatred/obsession to this life too) died by hanging because of Ravensbruck

then after that one, my Vietnam War past life. i was around 22, my name was Jeremy. and i remember running ahead of my guys and my commander, wanting to play hero (against my commander's orders) and 1 of them said "Jeremy! no! come back here!" and got myself shot in front of a jungley tree area by some Vietnamese. in the head, shoulder, and my hip. my guys dragged me back, and the last thing i saw was helicopters flying over us before i died. i was only in Vietnam itself for a few months. what's weird about this one, is he/i was from the same town in NE as the city i was born in VA, and the county in NE is the same name as the town i live in now in IN.

the other day, i was thinking about my hydrophobia (haha not related to rabies) and decided to do some meditation, because there HAS to be a reason i'm so terrified of water (i never in my life had any almost drowning or whatever, and i refuse to learn to swim because i cant bring myself to go into the water, which is a bit counterproductive as learning to swim could save me, but still) and i got nothing i'm still working on it.

but those are the ones i know of.


edited to add this : i'm interested in my WW2 past life, but i think the one i'm most interested in is the VW one, i think because it's the one that's most recent. and i was only born in 1978, a couple years after it ended. so for some reason, i reincarnated pretty quickly between that life and this one. i still dont know too much how past life astrology works, but i've been trying to read my chart w/ help of Miriam's new book (which is excellent by the way - go buy it). but still have no idea how it really relates to it. unless for some reason i'm just not getting it.

[Laurasia]

Hi Doctor What.

Yep we have a forum for such discussions, so I moved the thread for you.

As for lifetimes I'm aware of other than my SS one as Hans? Oh boy, well some I only have fleeting memories of & some I'm not completelt comfortable in going into them. In any case, these are some of my other incarnations.....

* A king from very long ago.

* A viking, who I'm almost sure was from Norway.

* An ancient Greek warrior.

* Another ancient Greek/Macedonian warrior during the time of Alexander, this one famous & well-known.

* A lifetime during the Renaissance, not sure yet if this one was male or female though.

* A Muslim female in, or near, the Holy Land during the time of the Crusades.

* A man during what I think may be the English Victorian era.

* A Confederate surgeon during the American Civil War.

* And Hans during WWII.

Sincerely,
Laurasia

[Miss Bothmann]

Wow, the ones I know of? Ok, besides Anna, here goes:

* A long time ago...someone who loved obscurity, but got drug into a huge battle nonetheless.

* A prince who would have preferred not to fight and kill people, but had no choice in the matter when my older brother was killed. Then I had to become the leader of the armies.

* A King who had many followers and close friends who believed in him. He was a great warrior who conquered a lot of lands...thereby gaining loads of respect. Eventually, though, like all great warrior/kings, I succumbed to paranoia and no longer trusted many people. My kingdom began to rock shakily even before my death.

* A man in the Knights Templar

* A monk or priest who lived either at the end of the Dark Ages or at the beginning of the Renaissance.

*maybe another lifetime in the Renaissance...still haven't figured that one out.

* A girl who lived in the Confederate states during the American Civil War

* A woman in Victorian England

[rednight94]

I'm not really as gung-ho about the other ones as I am about my life during the Holocaust (which I even have doubts about sometimes), but here are a few lives I think I might have led:

1. I remember being a male citizen in ancient Rome. I wasn't a good person; I indulged in sex and alcohol, and was quite greedy. Just a mean person.

2. I was an Aztec (?) boy who was killed by the Spaniards.

3. I was a wealthy English man who hung himself after his wife's death.

4. I was in the British Navy during the Revolutionary War. Even though I was quite fond of my homeland, when the war ended I stayed in America because of it's sheer untouched beauty; I had grown up in a city. I sent over for my wife and son. This life was fairly uneventful; I ran a General Store in rural Pennsylvania.

5. A German. My family was fairly well-off, but I was just a depressed, quiet person not interested in society at all. I loved to be out by nature. When I was around thirty, maybe younger, I took my own life.

6. This life I remember as being very happy until my death. I was a woman, born sometime around 1860, Montana. I married a boy I had grown up with and we had a very happy family and a successful farm. I do not know exactly what happened, but my death was accidental. I can see myself laying in our bed just shaking. I think I was stung, or ate something poisoned...? I don't know, but my family knew I was dying. They were all gathered around my bed watching.

7. The next one, I was a wealthy man again. I won't say I was a bad person, but I was certainly a spoiled brat! After the girl I loved left me to marry a man in America, did I ever though a fit! I was in my study, threw my glass of brandy at the wall, pulled out my pistol and shot myself.

8. I was reincarnated very quickly after that last life. I was a girl. This was the life I died as a Holocaust victim in.

9. I vaguely feel I was born in the late forties as a black man in America. This life was pretty basic... married, had kids, died. I did die quite early though. I was hardly fifty. It was nothing gruesome; I think I had a heart-attack sometime in the late eighties.

10. My current life!

Both numbers three and nine I don't feel too strongly about, in all honestly. Really don't feel too strongly about most of them, but those two in particular stand out.
I do feel quite strongly about my life as a Holocaust victim though.

[Laurasia]

My goodness Rednight! So many suicides! I certainly hope that you've worked that little kink out of your life cycles.

Sincerely,
Laurasia

[rednight94]

Jun 14, 2011 14:32:16 GMT -5 Laurasia said:

My goodness Rednight! So many suicides! I certainly hope that you've worked that little kink out of your life cycles.

Sincerely,
Laurasia

I hope so too! I've come close to it in this life, though. As a little kid I suffered from severe depression and I remember wanting to die when I was eight. I think it was just all the sadness coming through form 'then'.
Funny thing is, when I started coming to terms with the past, I became a much happier person. I'm glad I put all that behind me, because I would hate to have to deal with that anymore... I actually really enjoy life most of the time now, I'd like to think.

[Laurasia]

I'm certainly glad to hear that! I also came close to taking my own life when I was younger & am also very glad to be out of "that place" now.

Sincerely,
Laurasia

[jleaw]

I think the positive aspects of my personality (the negative being caused by the Holocaust, possibly) is probably more influenced from an early 19th cent. life. I'm an English major with emph. on 19th cent. lit. and generally can see where those influences would come in with the way I communicate. Also, even aside from the Holocaust, I think I've had many, many lives in Eastern Europe, since I really connect with that area.
Does anyone think that the places you hate and never want to visit/re-visit is suggestion of a past life gut connection, as well?

[Leutnantzursee]

Hi jleaw - yes I can testify to that! I have an absolute horror of Scotland, though its not so bad now and I have visited twice, but both times felt uncomfortable. I know I had a PL in Scotland during the 'clearances' of the highlands, I was turfed out of my little crofters cottage, a widow with a large family and we were left to perish and starve. So yes, you can most definitely get that from a place!

[jleaw]

Hi, lizzie66

I can see how that experience would have trickled over into Holocaust experiences, either in defensive actions of a protagonist or in facing past fears as a victim. It's really admirable that you were able to return for a second time.
I'm from WV and absolutely hate this area (pretty much an rural, American area, for that matter) and wonder if it could be rooted more deeply than this life's experiences. I mean, if you've ever visited this area, you would see that there is little reason to want to live here, but the degree to which I *can't wait* to move from this area seems strong enough to be a product of more than my experiences, lol.

[ignotus]

Besides Hansgeorg, for me?

-A pirate hunter in the British Navy during the 1700s
-Police inspector in Europe ( I won't say England, as it isn't verified, but possibly tied to Jack the Ripper's last victim. Possibly.)
-African American slave in America, not sure whether during the Wild West era or before the ruling of Abraham Lincoln.. (Not clear)
-A royal(?) guard in Ancient Persia or Egypt but in the Middle East. A possible life too. I'm quite sure its Persia, the clothes match there even more.

[Leutnantzursee]

Hi again Jleaw:-) I suppose its possible we might come back to a place that resembled physically or energetically somewhere we hated in a PL, maybe because we have to work through some sort of karma connected to the place? Maybe its about undergoing a healing process in some way that has to be activated in that living space we hate so much. But yes I can certainly relate to what you're saying:-) Of course, perhaps you did live in this town in a PL. I was told by my guides that I'd come back to Sheffield (I'm in England BTW) because I'd had a life here 5000 years ago when it was a forested, misty valley with few inhabitants, but annoyingly they didn't elaborate as to WHY I was back again!!LOL ! And yes, I hate the place too and just can't find a way to get out that wouldn't involve copious quantities of cash! So I do understand that feeling of entrapment. It's a really interesting thought and probably no coincidence that you mentioned it, it probably counts for my situation too:-)

[jleaw]

Hi again lizzie :-)

I'm glad we can related to each other! (Or not, depending upon how you look at it, lol) I'm a little scared to try talking to my spirit guides, and didn't know what to think when I read all of the detailed stories on here, but guess that practice is how so many members are more connected with the past. I mean, all I have to go on are a few vague dreams and a gut feeling.

Do you believe that you are learning why you have had to return to Sheffield? I struggle because I don't want to focus so much on my PL that I don't concentrate on having a full life, but I certainly do not want to have to return here, in rural mid-west America Another thing I find odd is that I do feel I'm reincarnated from the Holocaust, but would do anything within reason to move back to central/Eastern Europe. I absolutely felt like a different, happier person there, yet--obviously--that's were tramatic events once took place. I mean, shouldn't I have a worse reaction to Europe, in light of the Holocaust, than the states? So complex!

[Leutnantzursee]

The spirit guide thing, I know isn't everyone's cup of tea (LOL!!) and I don't think its necessary to have to make contact with one in order to uncover PL stuff, some people believe our 'guides' are simply a form of our higher self anyway, so I guess its just a matter of semantics and what's relevant to you:-) There's nothing wrong with 'a few vague dreams and a gut feeling' I don't have much else to go on either, although I did uncover my PL through hypnotic regression, but it was fleeting and as it was one of those recorded DIY ones, it didn't allow me to explore more, which has been endlessly frustrating! I think sometimes our present soul has very deliberately built a brier fence around these terrible memories, in order to protect us from the pain, so uncovering them is a bit like glimpsing some terrible haunted house in the woods, whilst hiding behind the undergrowth, we have an inbuilt system that protects us from becoming overloaded. I honestly don't feel like I've learned anything much in this place, aside from the patience of a saint, because there is absolutely NO way to escape it, aside from walking out on my family, which obviously I would never do. I'm told I have to do healing on the lands around here, which is a part of my spiritual path in this life, but again I can't get to places as I don't drive. All in all, my life has been a lesson in frustration and limitation, so as yet, I'm not very savvy as to why I'm in Sheffield! I suppose if you do feel drawn to Eastern Europe, perhaps its because for most of that life you WERE happy, until the holocaust, perhaps it was a wonderful life in some way? I think that's the real connection we make with a place, its about the quality of LIFE we had there, rather than it being a place we died a horrible death, although I guess one could end up with quite odd ambivalent feelings because of something like that! Don't know if that helps?:-)

[jleaw]

I apologize if bits aren't as thoughtfully typed as I'd normally prefer--I've had a couple glasses of wine, lol.

No, I think it would be my thing if I knew how to talk to them! It probably is no coincidence that we're having this conversation because I have been thinking about all of this.
dwell in the possibilites of how good it could have been, even if it was no better/worse than our present lives.
That makes total sense for both of us, about the quality of life or memories. Or maybe even part of our imaginations
I don't feel like I've learned anything from this place, either. Maybe it's not so much about learning as it is experiencing it differently, if that makes any sense. If you don't mind my asking, what type of profession do you have? I'm in school to teach English and sometimes I wonder if teaching isn't some sort of contribution to the area, even if it's a small one.