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Have you ever recalled past
lives in a dream that you've had? These types of dreams are the
ones where you find yourself in an unfamiliar place where you've never
been before in this lifetime. It may be a house where you lived in a
previous life, or a farm, or other place where you frequented in the
past life. I believe that the majority of people have had these types
of dreams, and wake up puzzled as to why they had them. Most people
don't connect these dreams with previous lives.
A past life may
be revisited either in a dream or a deja vous experience. In either
case the memories seem to come from the sub conscience. First we will
examine dreams, then later, the deja vous experience.
Dreams
The key
to
getting more details about a previous life is to analyze the dreams,
find the dreams that are recurring, and connect dreams that seem to
have common elements. Many times a former life may be reconstructed
from many different dreams that you've had over the years. Suddenly you
recognize the connection, and then you "feel" that you have become a
part of what you once were in that previous life. And what is truly
amazing is when you actually see yourself in the former life, you
begin to realize that this person was actually you.
It is also
helpful to pinpoint the dreams that seem to take place within
the same time
frame. Say you had several dreams of being a soldier living in the
1940's in France. You could connect several dreams by what is
visualized in the dreams. There may be cars from the 1940's in the
related dreams, people dressed according to that period, 1940's era
aircraft, 1940's and earlier buildings, mannerisms of people. All
of these can help you to isolate the time when you lived the former
life.
All you need to do is make a
connection between one or two dreams to begin to recover the details of
a past life. Once you have done this, you may be able to recall
additional details by concentrating on the particulars of these dreams,
like the other persons in the dream, the location, the events.
This may trigger the memory of other events of your past life, like
your name, place of birth, local scenery. The key here is to
concentrate. You will need to find a nice quiet place and put yourself
into a meditative state.
The Deja Vous Experience
Patricia from Alberta, Canada writes
" I had an odd
experience yesterday related to this. My husband and I were at the drag
races, and while sitting in the stands watching, all of a sudden I got
a smell of something that sent me back to an airfield or at an
airport somewhere. The racetrack has an "open pit" policy, so later we
were standing by a building watching the cars being moved into place
before they raced, and then it was the loud sounds of the cars being
revved and taking off that sent me back to that airfield again just for
another instant. I'm thinking I must have been a worker at an airfield
in a previous life - maybe during WW2. "
Patricia
continues: "I did have a
strange incident a few years ago when my husbands grandmother was
clearing out her husband's garage full of stuff. My father-in-law
brought back a box of "antique' tools for us. He pulled one of the
tools out of the box and said he didn't know what it was. I immediately
piped up and said, "oh, that's a grease gun". It turns out that it was
a grease gun but I have no idea how I knew since I had never seen an
antique grease gun before (or even a modern grease gun)."
She concludes: "Maybe it's not so
odd that so many people recall past lives of WW2 - a lot of people died
during that war - both innocent and not-so-innocent. And "memories" of
WW2 would be clearer than other previous lives"
Patricia is beginning to
recall the events of a past life where she was possibly a mechanic at
an airfield during W.W.II. See how she has connected these
memories together. These memories are being triggered by something that
occurs, like the race track sounds or the grease gun incident.
Sometimes something happens that prompts the recall of a past life.
This demonstrates that it
is not always a dream where the past life is revisited, it may also be
one
of those fleeting memories that "flash' into our minds unexpectedly.
This is the deja vous experience.
Sometimes the deja vous experience can become
the major revealing source, and may be just as revealing as dreams.
Often a certain place, scent or conversation may trigger a deja vous
flashback to a past life. Take a mental note of these experiences as
well, or even better yet, write them down and then you may begin to
make connections.
Roughly French for "again you", deja vous
is the experience of thinking that one has been oneself before, perhaps
in a past life, or in this same one, but during some other time.
Extremely
self aware people are often unable to avoid experiencing deja vous
throughout every minute of their waking lives. ( see link: Deja
Vous )
Why do we remember past lives?
The
memories of past lives are either erased or forgotten when we
begin a new life. Yet I have also read about children at a very early
age telling their parents about very specific events from their
previous life. see Past
Lives as Told by Children
The issue is confusing, of course. Apparenty most or all of the
memories of the past life are forgotten at the conscious level. So it
is the sub-consciouss that retains the former life memories. Some
children may be more in tune with their sub-conscious than the norm. I
find this to be compelling evidence that we do live other lives.
The past life can intrude into our present via the sub-conscious. The
question is, why? Why do these memoiris move to the conscious level?
Does something prompt this? Does a certain place, sight or sound prompt
it? A crises in our present time? Or is it just a simple random
movement of the sub-conscious memories up to the conscious level? It is
difficult to say.
I
think that for some persons, to know and understand a former life may
be beneficial. For others, it may not. Some individuals may suppress
these memories because there is no relevance to this present life or
the memories are not functional for them. A few individuals may find
this knowledge enlightening and a spring-board from the past towards
the future.
Write
down your
dreams and deja vous experiences and analyze them for common elements
that can be connected. A journal is a good idea when attempting
to
piece together a former
life. Once
you have made the connection
between several dreams, flashback memories, or deja vous experiences,
you can begin to piece
together actual events from your previous life.
I have been able to reconstruct some of my past lives by this
method. I have determined that I am an old soul, and I have had many
past lives beginning in Classical times in the ancient Greek city of
Cyrene, the ruins which are now visible about 200 miles east of
Carthage on the N. African coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
I also remember
being a young boy during the Gold Rush era in California. I had many
dreams of being in a Gold Rush era town, probably Coloma. In one dream
I was up on the saw mill, and I threw a small pebble down the long
wooden ramp. I
silently watched as the pebble slowly rolled down the log ramp.
The most recent past lives are usually easier to
reconstruct. In my most recent past life, I lived in Germany
during W.W.II. My father was from Weinsheim, Deutschland, and he was
killed during the bombing of Cologne, where he was stationed at an
industrial area. My mother's family was in Stuttgart, and I lived with
my grandparents there after 1942. The building where my family had
lived was bombed. I remember in my dream going back to get our
belongings out, and looking up and seeing a great hole in the ceiling
of the 2nd story hallway of the building. My grandparents were good to
me, and they had grapes ( trauben) that grew on the property lines and
apple trees. At the end of the war, tragedy befell my entire family.
Grandfather died in 1946, and Grandmother died in 1948. My mother
remarried a man that I did not care for. I met a nice service man, his
name was Danny. I was in the hospital delivering our first child when I
died from a hemorrhage. That was in April of 1953.
See Related Readings about Past Lives: Past
Lives as Recalled by Children
Past Lives in Buddhism, Judaism, and Christianity