Past Life Regression/ experiences/ Deja-vu

[WyandotteTX]

It sounds like many of you on this thread are interested in the idea of "reincarnation". If you really want to learn the idea and understand its history you need to look into its Hindu past. In Hindu society there was a caste system made up of different members of society. Ex: Priests, craftsman, scholars, laborers and lastly the untouchables. This caste system has gone on for thousands of years in India. The main idea is how you live your life determines what caste you will be in in the next life(kharma and darma). Whatever caste you are born into is the one you stay in your whole life, there is no change. Only after death and reincarnation. The idea of reincarnation and past lives and the way it is thought about in Wester society is very much a "modernization" of this concept without all of the unpleasantries that are associated with it from its Hindu past.
A last note is about the Untouchables or dalits of the caste system. They are the lowest of what you can be reincarnated and are treated as such in Hindu society. They do the unpleasant tasks of society(even to this day). Under Hindu laws and beliefs they are not actually considered human and any punishment you give upon them is deserved because of how horrible they have been in past lives to become an untouchable.
Just some info for you. If you are really interested, look up some information about what it really is.

 

[mom'sfolly]

Hindus were not the only group that has a belief in reincarnation. It crops up cross culturally in Asia, Europe and the Americas. It is core to both the Hindu religion and Buddhist, but it is very different in the Buddhist tradition from the Hindu. And yes, Buddhism came from a Hindu tradition and share some similarities; just a Christianity shares Jewish traditions. It crops up in Norse and Celtic myth as well and Native American and others.

 

[Cat Water]

This thread is facinating to read!

I have deja vu quite regularly, but everyone that knows me just assumes I'm psycic.

 

[GammaPoppyLilyFlutter]

I agree. I hope in my next life I'm a chicken or a wolf!

 

[welsummerchicks]

Hindi is a language of Northern India, not a religion. HIndu is the religion.

Buddhist and Hindu ideas about reincarnation are somewhat different, but in substance, no, not that different.

And those few Hindus who still believe in reincarnation(a good many do not), they absolutely and definitely do not believe in THIS sort of reincarnation.

In fact, it would be the absolute height of arrogance for someone to suggest that they recall past lives, aside from a few more extreme or off-the-beaten path sects, Hindus do not believe in that (unless they adopt it as part of some Western belief or as some non-orthodox concept). Only divine beings are able to do that and one does not go around self declaring to be divine.

It's related to the physiology that goes along with reincarnation. The person sheds a good number of layers when s/he dies, and the personality and memory of all past lives are shed.

What's left is likened to a spark of a flame - no memories, no personality, nothing but that tiny little spark is left. It has no 'personality' and no memories.

The brain has a lot of software that's designed to identify whether a current experience is like a prior experience.

Sometimes it makes a mistake. That's deja vu.

As far as past lives being experienced, I don't believe in it. I think people are suggestible and easily convinced of such things, because they wish to believe. I think it makes them feel special and better than the average Joe.

I don't debate, argue or disprove. I think it makes people feel happy to believe in something. As long as it does not make them do something self destructive or harmful to others, I'm fine with it.

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

I think there are too many things we do not know about time or physics let alone the human brain to be sure of anything. I like the physicists studying the Higgs bosun.... they know it is there, but we cannot perceive it in any manner we currently have. Anti-matter - we know it exists but we cannot perceive it really.

My own issues with past life memories are fairly mundane - knowing how to do things I should not have known, being in old palces and knowing what they used to look like and being correct. Things like that. That isn't deja vu because there are pieces of information not known that are accurate. Sadly, none of what I know seems to indicate that i ever had money!!

So somethings never change!!

But, my daughter is a different issue. When she was very young she told very very detailed stories including terms and object names that I had to look up for every day items used with horses in particular in the late 1700s. She told us an extremely detailed story of how she lost her father in the woods. She then said fairly matter of factly, "That was then and this is now, this time is better." She was three.

Last year we went onto a battleship for a camping sleep over and she inexplicably knew her way around the ship in minute detail, using correct nautical terms for items in the ship. She went into one room and turned right only to run into a wall. She looked truly puzzled and the docent of the ship said she's right there used to be a door there during WWII. Her knowledge of the ship was so complete that all of the adults were asking her for directions. When we asked her how she knew she said the layout of the ship seemed completely logical to her. The rest of us were lost 90% of the time!

 

[Moabite]

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Hey wait a minute, a psychic told me I was a slave in a past life, and someone told me I was a soldier in Vietnam and several people have told me I was a pirate. I don't put much stock in any of their interpretations though as I can see how they might come to those conclusions through superficial judgements. I have no doubts whatsoever about reincarnation after reading The Book of The Dead and from the hand I've been delt in this life. Those Tibetans make the most sense to me. I relate to and understand Christianity much more so since studying up on Tibetan Buddhism, but I choose to worship "The great Mystery" and celebrate celestial cycles.

Have you heard that people have had "near death experiences" in G-force machines used to train pilots? (Devil's advocate

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[Organics North]

I do not claim to know or believe I know much of anything.. Surely not on the subject of things like reincarnation. It is my opinion no one can claim to "have the answers".
I surely would not say those that claim to have a past life experience are arrogant! On Divinity... I happen to feel we are all divine! Every single living creature on this planet.. In my belief I feel we are all part of "it". (There as many words to describe "it" as their are beliefs in this world.) I am an eclectic Pagan, I have no need or desire to fit in with any group or organization. My beliefs are simply mine..

Deja vu a mistake maybe... Maybe not.. again I am not in the position to judge others experiences.

What I do know is we all have our own feelings and believes... The concept of past life may be simply a delusion or not. IMO the point of "real", or not "real" is irrelevant.. One can use the experiences as a tool to better understand themselves in the present, and bettering their future. If nothing else I feel it brings forth ones deepest thought, emotions and insecurities. Which I see as a good thing! Many have difficulty acknowledging or honestly facing deep rooted emotions within their self..

Another thing I do know is I love life, every breath every sensation, yet I am ready to go always have been.. I have no answers yet have no fears.. It is something for me I just know.. (I guess that is why they call it faith..)

I feel blessed.

My own personal saga could be nothing more than my over sensitivity with seeking to please others, and receive their gratitude.. . Bad dreams and such were nothing more than a way for my mind to work through it. Which it did to some degree.. (I still want people to be happy with me, and am overly concerned about being judged by others..)

Humbly
ON

 

[farmerlor]

When I was a little girl I used to have dreams that I was some sort of street urchin in ancient Rome and somehow I always knew that I'd witnessed my last few moments of life but not how I actually died. That was how I got interested in past lives, Pagan beliefs and ancient Roman and Greek history.
Later when I looked into the eyes of my tiny foster baby Rissa (who we later adopted) I KNEW her. I'd known her before in a past life and we were very important to each other. Those are my only experiences with past lives but I do believe that we have been here before and that those of us who still have lessons to learn will be back again.

 

[Rammy]

It is possible to have been an animal in a past life. I remember reading a book on it and it explained this but I dont remember the books name, sorry.

I have lucid dreams where I think they are memories of past lifes. I remember one where I was in 1950"s France. I walked out onto the balcony, felt the wrought iron railing, how cool the morning was, stuff like that.
I had a dream where I was a young chinese girl.
I had another dream that I wont talk about because you probably wont believe me anyway, but it was the one where I was extremely upset for waking up because this was one of my happy lives and I didnt want to come back to this one. Oh, well, what can ya do?

Everybody has past lives. In each live, you are here to learn something, to correct something, or teach something. You have issues to resolve and to take care of.
People you meet in your life are part of your soul group. When your soul was first born, you were born with many others. These souls as well as yours are connected. A person who was your mother now was maybe your sister or brother or someone you had a connection with in another life. Someone you meet that you felt like you have known all your life is probably someone from your soulgroup.
Totally cool.

Rammy