Past life influencing present life

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Assuming, of course, that one believes in reincarnation, I'm curious if things experienced in a past life can influence how we feel about certain things now. Questions I ask myself, such as:
1. Why am I so drawn to certain places, like Egypt, when I've never been there or have any plans to go?
2. Why does the horrendous treatment of the Jewish people during WWII haunt me? Before my time and I'm not Jewish.
3. Why am I so afraid of heights?
4. Why did the fate of people on the Titanic affect me so strongly? It almost feels personal.
5. Why does the smell of Mexican food make me want to toss my cookies?

Could I have experienced living in Egypt long ago, went down on the Titanic, or was a victim of the holocaust? Did I once die from a fall? Did I die from eating tainted Mexican food?

Is some residual memory of these events still with me? I've often wondered if it's possible.
 

I was told that when I was very little I called my one Grandma by another name. No one knew where it came from. Years later I told my one friend that story & she said that could have been what I knew her by in another life. I hadn't thought about it like that until she said it.

@caroln, you've brought up a very interesting topic.
 
caroln said:
Assuming, of course, that one believes in reincarnation, I'm curious if things experienced in a past life can influence how we feel about certain things now. Questions I ask myself, such as:
1. Why am I so drawn to certain places, like Egypt, when I've never been there or have any plans to go?
2. Why does the horrendous treatment of the Jewish people during WWII haunt me? Before my time and I'm not Jewish.
3. Why am I so afraid of heights?
4. Why did the fate of people on the Titanic affect me so strongly? It almost feels personal.
5. Why does the smell of Mexican food make me want to toss my cookies?

Could I have experienced living in Egypt long ago, went down on the Titanic, or was a victim of the holocaust? Did I once die from a fall? Did I die from eating tainted Mexican food?

Is some residual memory of these events still with me? I've often wondered if it's possible.
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yes, yes and yes...i have had similar experiences
We had a thread some time ago on similar subject which was very interesting.
 
I very much believe in reincarnation. While taking a metaphysical course, our instructor told us that people reincarnate in groups. I've met people in this life that I feel because of the amazing ways we met and the types of bonds we formed, they were probably in my past life (lives).
A good friend of mine who is Italian feels very strongly that she was Black in a former life. She was regressed and saw herself as a little Black girl with braids. She asked me to search for a picture, featuring Black women and that child, at the AA History museum, feeling it actually exists because she pictured in so vividly, but I didn't get a chance to go through the whole museum.

Like you, I feel an "affinity" for Egypt, but never had the desire to go there. Funny...I went to a club in Washington, D.C. with a friend a few decades ago. It was frequented by many Africans. One of them I danced with asked me if I was from Egypt. When I said no, he seemed surprised because he said I looked like I could be from there. I definitely have both likes and fears I think could have stemmed from past life experiences.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
I very much believe in reincarnation. While taking a metaphysical course, our instructor told us that people reincarnate in groups. I've met people in this life that I feel because of the amazing ways we met and the types of bonds we formed, they were probably in my past life (lives).
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I also believe that we may be reunited with some of the same people when we reincarnate, just playing different roles in our lives. I have had a friend since I was 5 years old, and even though we now live in different states we are just as close. I think she must have been my sister once (maybe twice!).
 
I have had several instances in my life which more than proves this theory but too much typing now for my fumble fingers to tell.
However, consider the babies born who can speak in foreign languages, Mozart composing his Minuet at 5 years old and so on.
Definitely past lives there with memories surfacing in present life.
Fascinating !
 
Mizmo said:
I have had several instances in my life which more than proves this theory but too much typing now for my fumble fingers to tell.
However, consider the babies born who can speak in foreign languages, Mozart composing his Minuet at 5 years old and so on.
Definitely past lives there with memories surfacing in present life.
Fascinating !
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Absolutely!
 
There is one story I must tell.

I did volunteer work for our local museum several years ago and for a while I helped in the Gift shop.
At one of the children's events a woman came in with her son who was about seven years old.
Well, we locked eyes and he said to me, "you have nice eyes". I said so do you.
Honestly it was like looking in to my own eyes and I knew instantly that we were connected,
He hung around me and paid no interest to his Mum.

Anyway came time for his Mum to pay for her purchase and he did not want to go with her.
She got a bit angry with him and by now he was crying and looking at me and I felt so sad.
I will never forget the look in his eyes when he turned to wave goodbye to me.
 
Yes, we can have residual memories, often they show in phobic level fears and in 'affinities' or fascinations with certain cultures or activities. While some fears (like of heights, uncontrolled fires, being in 'tight' physical spaces fairly normal and understandable in terms of survival instincts. Phobic level discomfort with such things with no discernable 'cause' in this life could indeed be the result of past life events. The claustrophobia i had for over half my life, lessened with recall of the three past life deaths that involved tight spaces and disappeared after the third/final recall.

Edit: i don't know if it's the same for everyone but at an early age i began coping with difficult memories from this life by reminding myself: 'That was then, this is NOW. Keep the lesson, let go the pain.' When i began having past life recalls, i used the same technique for them, which is probably why my claustrophobia left once i recalled all the Past Life (death) traumas that created it.

As for special levels of empathy for the suffering of people in particular groups---while one could simply be highly compassionate--it is possible such feelings hark back to past life experiences with that group. And it might not be that you were one of the oppressed or brutalized--you may have belonged to the oppressing group who went along with the brutality. You may have felt guilt even in that life for being too afraid to speak up, then you got some perspective on it in between lives time and in current life feel more strongly about it.

It is also possible that those who've had many lives have experienced belonging to many different cultures and so are more open and accepting of ALL. We may have learned that for better or worse we all share some primal human feelings. We may be abusers in some lives and abused others. Hopefully tho the soul makes a steady progress in each life toward being compassionate, supportive, caring about other humans (and animals and the planet).

Just as in this one life, lessons seem to be repeated until we actually LEARN them.
 
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@OneEyedDiva said "Like you, I feel an "affinity" for Egypt, but never had the desire to go there. Funny...I went to a club in Washington, D.C. with a friend a few decades ago. It was frequented by many Africans. One of them I danced with asked me if I was from Egypt. When I said no, he seemed surprised because he said I looked like I could be from there."

It could also be that for a moment or even subconsciously he saw you as he knew you in that a previous life. And if it was one in distant past---people from Egypt, then 'Kemet', were considerably darker hued like other residents of the continent.

When i'm meditating daily and several times a day i get to point where not only do instances of synchronicity multiply (often involving coming across something i wanted or needed but had no sense of urgency about--but day after i think about it---there it is the info or thing i wanted/needed), but i start not just getting that feeling of connection that @Mizmo talked about in her Museum gift shop story but i will sometimes see them as who i knew them as in previous joint incarnation. Just for a moment or two and what it looks like is as if a piece film with their past image superimposed over who they are now.
 
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I've always wanted to go to the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia When I was younger I was crazy for anything associated with it, the song, the movie, photos, articles anything. Recently, I've been doing genealogical history of my family and discovered that a branch of the family were among the earliest settlers there and lived there for generations.

So, I'm wondering if somehow memories of place were passed down with DNA, I haven't got an explanation for any of this, I really feel the need to go there now, I hope that I get the chance.
 
When my friend's grandson was born, she said she stopped grieving for her own teenage son who died many years ago as, the grandson looks so like her lost son that she feels she has got him back again. I have seen photos of her son and, she is right, they look identical. Of course, there are always family likenesses etc but, wouldn't it be wonderful if it were the case? I can't say I believe in reincarnation but, I think it would be great if we all got a chance to experience life again.
 
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I've always wanted to go to the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia When I was younger I was crazy for anything associated with it, the song, the movie, photos, articles anything. Recently, I've been doing genealogical history of my family and discovered that a branch of the family were among the earliest settlers there and lived there for generations.

So, I'm wondering if somehow memories of place were passed down with DNA, I haven't got an explanation for any of this, I really feel the need to go there now, I hope that I get the chance.
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This is very interesting for a couple of reasons. It brings up the question, had you been there before (in a past life) with the family that settled there and that's why you are drawn to S Valley? There's another post where we mentioned that people reincarnate in groups, so that some people you were with in a past life tend to also be a part of your present life. Or is it in the DNA. I tend to think it's the former explanation.
 
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Interesting. I might like to observe a regression but it is probably pretty intimate, requiring a lot of trust - to be fair to the subject.
 
I think there's a hell of a lot we don't understand or know about. There are many things I don't exactly believe in but I don't exactly NOT believe in either. I can only hope that one day the veil will fall and I WILL know these things to be true or not.

In the meantime.....I'm keeping my options open.
 

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