(As promised) My past life reading. Neat as all get-out.

[BlueIris]

Okay, so, I had a past life reading today. It was so great. Very helpful. I think it was most helpful for me because the reader has made a career out of teaching people how to heal from past life traumas and other issues--she has some interesting suggestions for how a person could overcome problems linked to past life conflict. So, I definitely feel like the reading had a productive outcome, as opposed to other readings I've had in which readers have just told me about my other incarnations.

One wacky thing I didn't expect to learn that she said may or may not be connected to anything significant I've yet encountered in this life cycle--apparently, there is a very powerful dog spirit that has followed me through several lifetimes. Her feeling was that in another time, it was my St. Bernard companion and saved me from dying in the wilderness. Her sense is that in this life, it has existed in at least one dog I've owned.

Among the more amazing revelations was confirmation of something suggested by a mod here last night--apparently, in one of my past lives, I was a member of the German government during the '30s. I was killed early on in Hitler's rise to power, before the war, because I was suspected of being a dissenter, or someone who eventually would dissent. The positively creepy thing she added? The person who exists as my father in this life, was a high-ranking Nazi in that life. He lived on after my death, possibly through the war, eventually reaching the top echelon of Hitler's circle. According to the reader, it's possible that in that life, I actually offered myself up to be killed (especially toward the end) because although I had private objections to the emerging Nazi ideology, I knew I would not be spiritually strong enough to challenge the government or my comrades who accepted and even revered Hitler. For both my dad and I, our decisions in that cycle were about loyalty; although I wasn't strong enough to act on my convictions, my spirit understood that loyalty should not supersede things like justice, while my father's spirit couldn't turn against the loyalty he felt to his country and government, despite the evils they facilitated. This actually explains a lot of stuff about my dad in this life in my eyes.

The other great insight she gave me had to do with her visions of the end of my past life as a Roman centurion. At some point, I had been assigned to watch both sides of a long wall around a palace or stronghold. There weren't enough guards, and it was a huge area to be responsible for. While I was trying to watch both sides, literally traveling back and forth between one side of the wall and the other, someone snuck up behind me and killed me. What my soul remembers about this is that as a result of my so-called failing in that lose-lose situation, the perimeter was breached, and the Emperor left exposed. The reader says I have a ton of guilt about this incident, which is impairing my ability to make important decisions in this life, especially with regard to how involved I want to continue to be in politically-oriented activities.

There was one additional fun thing about the reading (not sure how it's connected to a past incarnation, it was just something she threw in at the end). I was thrilled to have her ask if I was working on a book. I am! I've been wondering whether to continue with it though. She said I definitely should, and not to stress as much about the timeline for its completion as I had before. The important thing about my novel will not be the first draft, but (as I had suspected) the lengthy editing and refinement process, an experience she had said would be revolutionary for me. I can't explain in a convincing way why this was the most powerful part of the reading for me, (aside from the revelation about Rome) but it was; totally left me with a good feeling.

It was a fun encounter; spooky, and also enlightening.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Hmm interesting stuff. :^D

[johnnie]

2. Pretty interesting

I think this stuff can help people do better in this life if they take the information and work with it.

[Dora]

3. How did you find your reader?

Is that the right terminology?

Did you use the yellow pages?

I'm curious because I've considered doing something like this as well, but haven't any idea how to find someone reputable.

[BlueIris]

4. The owner of a metaphysical bookstore I frequent pointed me to her.

You could try the yellow pages or the Internets, but I would think word of mouth would be your best bet. Do you know anyone who has contacted a past life reader for anything?

[Dora]

6. No, I don't know anyone who is into other ways of seeing.

But there is a metaphysical bookstore down the road from our house. Perhaps next time I'm in there I'll ask if they do referrals.

I'm curious: what is the benefit to you in learning about your past lives? How do you use what you've learned?

From my one experience consulting a psychic, I can say that I used what she told me as a series of "possible outcomes," and I worked (just kept my eyes open, really) to either promote or prevent the outcomes she presented. It was a fascinating experience, and a very interesting next few years.

[BlueIris]

7. I confess, even in my experience, a session with a "reputable" reader

may wind up being unrewarding. Not all readers will "connect" with all of their clients. Not all clients will be "receptive" to the advice the readers give them. And sometimes a "reputable" reader--isn't. You'll just have to try out the people recommended to you, I think.

As for how learning about the issues within my past lives may help me resolve some problems in this one, well, just knowing about the (possible) sources of some of my emotional and spiritual difficulties in this life has helped a little. Today's reader suggested visualizing the troubling situations from the other lives we discussed and imagining that more positive outcomes had occurred (not dying on the wall, having had the courage to challenge Nazi tyranny). She also suggested simply forgiving myself for things I couldn't have prevented in other life cycles.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Interesting stuff!

Long ago, my then boyfriend took me to a psychic he knew, who would tell you about your past lives and what was going on this time. I went in a skeptic, and came out a believer...

She would take some belongings of whoever she was doing the reading for, and then go into a trance...

She told me that I'd had many, many lives, but that I'd been careful about where and when I would come back. I would look around at my choices and decide where to be reborn depending on what I wanted to accomplish that time. She told me I'd been royal, both sexes, and had also been Tibetan or some such, and had written texts that have not yet been discovered.

The kicker for me was what she said I'd come back for this time. She told me that I wanted to do the one thing I hadn't done yet: have a family. And indeed that was high on my list of priorities....

Then she turned to my boyfriend. The difference was stunning! He had apparently had many more lives, but he hadn't used them to figure out what he needed to do next. She told him he'd left bodies all over Europe.....He had not maximized his chances the way I had....

I still wonder if she was right.....I wish I could remember those other lives.....

:shrug:

[BlueIris]

8. Curious.

That's interesting that there was something of a pattern or purpose in the lives you were told about. I have the sense now that there was something of a pattern in mine, too--I think it's significant that I've been involved in municipal services for at least two kinds of powerful rulers. I also wonder about another thing she told me, which jives with what another past life reader once said, that I've been murdered a lot. Apparently, that's a little unusual. Generally, people are more likely to die from disease or trauma than be murdered.

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. I'm glad you had an experience that was meaningful!

Interesting about the Nazi stuff.


Personal note to Arwalden: You know what text goes here.

[fishwax]

10. That sounds like a cool experience

I confess, I've never had any experience with such a reader (reputable or otherwise), but it sounds interesting.

I've got to ask, and I hope this doesn't sound disrespectful, because I don't in any way mean it to be. I'm genuinely curious. Right now, I'd say I'm pretty much at a high point in my cycle of cynicism, and I generally view most metaphysics (including judeo-chriatian theology) with skepticism (healthy or otherwise ;)) ... but at the same time, I think whatever helps one to make sense of the journey is a positive thing, and whatever constructs for life/spirituality that one can't build/adapt/adopt in a healthy manner is a good thing. So my question is, do you approach such regression readings as (a) something that may or may not be literal truth but can reveal essential truths about your own nature (in this life cycle) which you can then apply/adjust to/use in your everyday life, or (b) literal truth? Or something in between or some combination of the two?

Either way, I'm happy for your experience, and good luck with your novel! :hi:

[BlueIris]

11. Uh, option (a), mostly.

And as interesting as today was, it's not like I walk around basing major life decisions (what job to take, what medical test to have, etc.) on information--that may or may not be in any sense "literally true"--given to me by a complete stranger. Experiences like that are only about widening perspectives for me.

[fishwax]

13. Very cool

I think any time one can get Answers (or Insight) we should certainly make note of it. But I'm often surprised/amused by the way people will ridicule or mock the kind of experience you've had even while relying, in their own lives, on a culturally-specific judeo-christian mysticism which is no more obvious, objectively speaking. I totally agree that it's all about widening perspectives :)

Thanks for your insight :hi:

[BlueIris]

15. Well, any mockers or ridiculers who may have already snarked this thread

at least have left comments that aren't visible to me, because I put them on Ignore long ago.

[fishwax]

16. A wise choice ...

Nobody has on this thread, fwiw ... I was just speaking from my own experience/upbringing, which (like all of us), I'm constantly trying to escape/understand/redeem ...

[jpgray]

12. I was an agrarian serf from Gascony in my past life

I died of dysentery at the age of six. Not too bad for a first go, and I've nearly quadrupled my score this time round!

:bounce:

[johnnie]

14. I was a singer in the early 50s

I was on "tour" and we went off the road and I drowned. That was one that I heard and the other was something about the catacombs.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

17. I am Generalissino Francisco Franco. Someone please inform Chevy Chase. nt

[BlueIris]

18. Oh, and I forgot: apparently, my work in politics in the future

will be, as she put it, "mostly underground." Hee. That's the only piece of info my friends and family thought sounded preposterous. In the words of my mother, "okay, she might be psychic, but she clearly doesn't know you."

[BlueIris]

19. Since nothing spooky has happened to me today, I'm kicking this post.

Yes, I know that makes me look dorky and unpopular. But still, this was just so cool!

[lildreamer316]

20. I'm dying (bad pun) to have this done!

Got lots of books on it.....facinating stuff. Thanks for the report!
Hey...check out my ghost stories post btw. Fun for all..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4228316&mesg_id=4228316

[BlueIris]

21. You should!

Hunt high and low for a reader. They can be tough to locate.

[ZombieNixon]

22. Interesting stuff...

I'd like to have one of those. I think my deep-seated psychological issues might make for interesting past lives!

[XemaSab]

23. When I was little

I used to have nightmares about Vietnam.

Hardcore, "Apocalypse Now" type stuff.

And I was pretty young, like 5-8?

:shrug:

[BlueIris]

24. Woah.

That sounds like past life remnants to me. I don't have a lot of connection to my past lives in the visual arena of my dreams. I've been kind of jealous lately of people who say that they do, but what you went through? Doesn't sound nice.

[XemaSab]

25. They were bad nightmares, some of them

Burning huts, bad people, being out in the jungle and feeling EVIL animal and human presences.

:(