Why are people that claim the are reincarnated always someone famous in a past life?

Question

Only so many people can be Napoleon or the King of England can't they?

Wasn't anyone Joe the butcher or Heather the plague victim?

Answer 1

Years ago I was told I have lives as:

1. A poor, nearly homeless French poet;
2. A very large female opera singer;
3. A healer/spiritual teacher, in Atlantis.
No one famous.

If you want to understand these things, bypass ego, because it is ego that asks questions in this way...ego does not want an answer, it just wants to keep you in the dark.

Answer 2

I suppose because most who claim to be a famous past person likes the attention and notoriety such a claim gives them. I am a Wiccan, I believe in reincarnation. I have never taken a past life regression as it is not that important to me. I do not know or care what the social status of my past lives were. I believe each lifetime is a lesson learned and you carry that knowledge into the next lifetime; so, given that, knowing the social status of my past lives is totally unnecessary.

Answer 3

I believe in the possibility of reincarnation but that our ego is so radically different we would not remember what we once thought we were. There are good reasons to forget. It gives us a clean slate without past biases and ego attachments. This allow for maximum spiritual growth. But to answer your question many of these people are projecting their desire to be someone powerful which is a quality at some level they do not feel they posses.

Answer 4

i think of previous existence regression is extremely risky. toddlers bear in mind previous lives yet then forget approximately. I did as an extremely small toddler yet have not have been given any memory of it now, basically my father`s checklist conserving. the two my little ones have been an identical. The unusual element approximately my own journey grow to be that i wasn`t everybody properly-standard yet in a protracted time in existence i chanced on that the stories I stated - which incorporate my dying- particularly surpassed off to an ancestor of mine interior the mid 1800`s. My description were `the partitions melted` whilst `I` were caught in a house hearth, and my ancestor had certainly died in a hearth no longer able to get out of the homestead

Answer 5

These people have probably been mislead by a psychic or therapist. It's not their fault that they think they are Napoleon Bonaparte. From my own personal beliefs, I think the reason they let themselves be deluded into thinking they were a famous person in another life is because that person mattered. Nobody wants to be a nobody in life.

Answer 6

That's an excellent question. I've heard that the most commonly cited person in England is Horatio Nelson.

No one ever claims that they were one of the slaves who built the pyramids or a caveman who got frozen in a glacier.

Answer 7

Not true! You obviously don't know many who openly discussed their experiences with past lives. For example, I have recalled past lives as a women living in the US prairie...about 200 years ago, as a Native American, as a very sickly person in Europe and not one as a famous king or queen.

Do you research before you jump to conclusions..and stop listening to drama queens.

Answer 8

Because only famous people went through a resurrection ceremony to give them a path to the other side. Slaves and peasants were kept from such knowledge.

Answer 9

Who wants to come back as a plague victim or a goat farmer?

Answer 10

Because the people are somewhat vain or they just think its fun.

From Bull Durham, right?