Resonance in our work, from life to life?

[nreiter]

Hi again all,

Figured I had best start asking some questions on a not so out-there topic:)

Germane, though to my overall bag of personal trans-life issues, I'd like to get an opinion from any of you who might offer some perspectives on something I didn't see directly discussed on any of the more recent threads here. (Might have missed it though)

Does anyone have any personal experience or evidence that what might be called "life-work" is carried on in a theme, life to life?

I am currently an engineering degree'd scientist working in solar energy, with a variety of other more exotic science interests I have pursued in off-time. This has been pretty much the primary theme and soul-level "fit" for my life's tasks. Of the other past life vectors I have recalled snips of, in flashes or dream mostly, this has been a theme. Glass chemist and artisan in the late 1700s Scotland. Several lives as monks or laborium technicians working in alchemy. Now its not to say I haven't had others in there - the one that probably has given me the most relevant dose of drama for this lifetime was really just a tragic but simple life as a sodbuster in Kansas, late 1800s.

Now a skeptic might accuse me of simply projecting my own persona onto fantasized other-lives to enhance my own sense of self-justification. Or some such. And maybe tis so, but its not what my heart feels, nor my own willful astral venturing has shown.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, my (so far) "off-limits" WWII era life was - by my sense of whiff if nothing else - that of a scientist or engineer working on something quite clandestine.

But is this a well known theme in reincarnation theories? I see a lot of research and discussion here regarding soul-mates and family-friend units resonating or reincarnating. What of scientific or magical work? Has anyone else stories of Great Work bridging time?

Thank you

NR

[rednight94]

I'm sure many people have. We are, essentially, the same person. Just in a different body. There's no reason why are interests, hobbies, career choices, ideals, etc. should be any different from one life to the next, unless something has happened to you to change or you chose to block out a specific trait to learn something or other in this lifetime.

I really can't say that there are any specific patters in my case. I died in my last life at around 17. In the life before that I was a woman, and did not work. The life before that I think I was an aristocrat, so whatever it was I did was probably passed down in the family. And the life before that I believe I was the son of a fairly prosperous farmer in the colonial era. Not rich, but comfortable. Then too, I feel whatever I did was passed down to me... This life will be my first time, if I don't die within the next few years (I'm 17), that I'll actually have to go out and find a career for myself in probably over two hundred years. That's a pretty comforting thought... ;D haha

[nreiter]

Thank you rednight and SS3!

Sounds like you are on the verge of an amazing new cycle then, rednight! I know sometimes I let my scientist-side take reigns a lttle too much, and I bog myself down in speculations about the mechanisms of reincarnation, and different models of how it really might work. In some classical versions, the essential "I" that moves from life to life is stripped down to the bare essence in between, and things like likes, personalities, beliefs, are all technically supposed to be wiped clean. But yet I gather (especially from stories here) it really doesn't seem to happen like that. People do seem to carry more with them across the void in between. Thank you.

SS3 - thank you very much too! I reckon that if you've seen the other post I made yesterday, you'll be even more inclined to run for the hills:) Just teasing. I certainly do want to oblige and honor the guidelines here, although for me personally, the life-to-life issues do contain some verboten aspects.

NR

[Laurasia]

Hello Nreiter.

Oh I have absolutely noticed a running theme throughout the majority of my incarnations...that of being a warrior/soldier of some type. This has, obviously, usually manifested in my fighting in some war (ancient Greece, Viking, Civil War, WWII, etc) & I almost joined the military again in this lifetime. Thankfully I did not happen, as I know that is NOT the type of "fighting" that I needed to experience in this lifetime. I am, however, still a warrior in different ways now.

I am now a warrior who helps others to heal in various ways. Being a survivor of both incest & sexual assault I have helped others to heal from such trauma themselves. Having survived being raised in a very dysfunctional & abusive family I have helped others through such things too. I have fought alongside others through some terrible & trying situations/circumstances for much of my life. I have served as listening board, spiritual mentor, mother-figure, etc. It took me quite a while (& an outsiders' observation ) to realize that I haven't lost the warrior aspect that was present in the rest of my life-cycles...it has just taken on a different means of manifesting itself.

And I have to say that this is a much healthier way than the one that I had conditioned myself into for so many centuries. ;D

Sincerely,
Laurasia

[doctorwhat]

in many lives, i've been in the military or connected in some way. i tried joining in THIS life, but i have childhood asthma, which automatically disqualified me. the past couple lives, i've died while in service (rather young) in some way or another, and i think since i wanted to join so badly (since i was 3) the universe by giving me asthma was kicking me in the butt to change my cycle and give something else a try.

this life, tho, i'm still connected to the military - being born into a family where my dad retired from the Navy when i was a teenager, and my husband's in the Navy now. my family's been military dating back to the 1st Crusades.

this life, is completely different. i fell into photography and art lol. completely opposite of my dream of joining the military that was crushed at 13 when i tried to join the Sea Cadets (like the pre-ROTC Navy) but was rejected due to asthma

[sarque]

Yes, I've definitely noticed it. In all my lives up until this one, I've been in the military or connected to it in some way. I considered joining it in this life, but like doctorwhat, I have asthma. Maybe it's good that I can't go into the military, so that I can do something else, and let my soul experience new things.

However, I am going into law enforcement, hopefully, so there are some similarities there. I definitely think a lot of my interests have been similar/the same throughout my incarnations.

[nreiter]

Hi all,

Indeed, Laurasia, there's no denying that this is a warrior life for you - and a triumphant one too I daresay! I suppose if we live a chain of lives, sometimes we get the bear, and sometimes the bear gets us. Very happy to hear your stories too, Doctorwhat and Sarque.

Now here's a notion. Have you ever heard of the Eternal Warrior theory? (nah, not a Highlander reference, although that would kick *ss) I think it goes by different names in different cultures. The premise being that there are essentially two distinct types of human souls - warrior and non-warrior. Now of course, either can manifest with a myriad of expressions - like Laurasia points out in her present life. Or Doctorwhat as an artist this time.

Back in 2004, I was having a good talk with an old Native American author from Ohio. He researches the period of transition between the moundbuilder cultures and the historical Indian folks. Anyway, a genuine loremaster of knowledge from the Shawnee nation. He showed me some symbols that have perplexed white ethnographers for a long time. These were found in Shawnee drawings, as well as little clay marble-like doohickies. One is a yellow circle or marble with a single band running around it. The other is red, with two bands at right angles to each other. Apparently, these two tokens were gifted to people when they were babies. They signify whether you are a warrior soul or not. Single band for non, crossed bands for warrior. This was determined by an elder, medicine man, or grandmother. Either type of soul could eventually go on to have any number of roles in the tribe, that was somewhat of a different sorting that would come later.

But the warrior soul idea is that - there are two distinct "flavors" of human soul, that remain constant for all lives, until one finally achieves unity with the ultimate or Great Spirit or God.

Again, thanks!

nr

[Laurasia]

Hello Nreiter.

That is very interesting about the Shawnee stones. I've never heard of that before. I don't believe that each soul is destined to only be either a warrior, of some sort, or not though. I believe that every soul needs to experience every aspect of being (both warrior-like & not) before it can rejoin with the Divine. (And then after rejoining it may decide to seperate again & start the cycle anew!)

Sincerely,
Laurasia

[Miss Bothmann]

I, like Laurasia and so many others in this thread, have a strong warrior theme throughout my lifetimes. However, I seem to have broken the cycle within the last couple hundred years (as much as I can remember anyway). I have had ancient warrior past lives in Greece, Turkey (anatolia), somewhere in the Crusades..and then it seems to stop after that. Suddenly, the new cycle begins with a monk (in I think it was medieval France), an upper class woman in Victorian England, a girl in the Conferderate territories of the American Civil War, Anna in WW2 Austria and Germany..then finally to me. What I have noticed is that I went from being the warrior...to seemingly becoming the constant companion of another warrior. The both of us (Laurasia and myself) have incarnated together in almost every life that I have recalled (the ones that I haven't recalled her in she was probably still there and I do not remember it LOL!)

I have noticed though that I still tend to incarnate wherever there is war or at least a lot of strife. I thought that in this life, I had pretty much ended that cycle..until I remembered that 9/11 happened. Though I wasn't there---and it is not a war-torn country that I live in--it still was a hell of a jolt to the people in this country. Therefore, in my opinion, this qualifies as yet another lifetime surrounded by the darker side of human nature.

Oh, and just as a funny afterthought: Like Laurasia, I wanted to join the military when I was REAL small. Then, by the time I was about 8 or 9, I wanted to marry a rich military man . Hey, a girl knows what she wants, right?

[jhwoodw]

Definitely! I am so glad you brought this up because I think of this a lot! I think I may have been a scholar of some kind (as well as a soldier) in my PL and in this life I am an academic/scientist. I am a physical athropologist specializing in paleopathology. I basically examine mummies and bones for injury or disease to piece together their life and death. But my true dream is to work on genocides (digging up the mass graves and proving that the bodies are not normal collateral damage, but genocide). I have no problem with the idea of going into war zones and have considered joining the army to prepare myself for the situation.

[ignotus]

Ahh.. I'm not sure as I have only uncovered two past life memories. A Pirate hunter and A SSBK in WW2 Germany. I would say a hunter.. But I think the more accurate description would be a servant/Butler/Helper. In both lifetimes, I helped the Government with whatever they need doing. Pirate hunter life, according to the few historical sources I found about me, the Government of Jamaica asked me to capture a famous pirate. (Anne Bonny) I found these memories to be quite accurate as I never got a regression about people with peg legs and hooks. And later, it was proven quite true.

Then, there was my Begleitkommando life, I helped the high ranks with whatever they need doing. And then now, there's me. Still lost.. When I was little, I thought about serving the royals as a servant as I always thought the job was cool in a way. (I still think it is. But depends on the situation, of course..)

I had a vivid dream that I was bowing like a royal guard to a noble. Not sure where, but she was wearing a veil. Maybe I'll check that out. But I'm not sure if that was even a PL memory. But I remember every inch of her face.

[gumby]

I think that the succession of past lives probably do have some connectivness, common themes, perhaps even repetitive actions and experiences. I think that many of our likes and dislikes in our present time can be related to our past life. So if you had a scientific inquiring mind in your previous lives, it would likely continue into the next incarnation. I have noted that I have been a victim of war in many of my past lives, including WWII and the Civil War. Why this is I don't know, as being the victim was never an easy course. It is difficult to say if we have any control over any of this or not, perhaps our desires and driving interest continue with our being as we move from one incarnation to the next. This really seems plausible.