Do you know who you were in a previous life?

Question

Just out of curiosity, do many of you believe in past lives? If so, do you know who you were or was it anyone famous?!

Answer 1

I've always wondered why so many re-incarnations of Cleopatra and Napoleon Bonaparte are being treated for mental illness. Do you think it is because they can't adapt to modern life? Or is it because they can't handle being separated from Julius Caesar/Mark Anthony and Josephine?

Answer 2

Yes I do as ever since I was small child I have had a re-occuring and very vivid dream of me in 19th centry London, I was the daughter of a very rich business man, walking down a road and past an oil pampost, I stop to cross the road and begin shouting at a small boy for splashing mud on my gown, I turn to carry on and get hit by a run-away horse and carriage, and unfortunatley well I asume I die as the dream never goes on...Talk about Karma. I have the exact same dream at least several times a month and this is the only dream I ever remeber...Yes I know it is Freakish and some what strange and bizarre but there you go!!!

Answer 3

I do believe in past lives and that karma, good or bad, can follow you. I work in a grocery store where I stack large quantities of beer. Very heavy and lots of it. I've been doing this for 26 years. I tell people that I feel I was a builder on the Great Pyramids. I've always had an attraction to the Pyramids and the Valley of the Kings. I was probably there.

Answer 4

You can see by the majority of your answers that we DO have many lives here and on other planets. You do retain similar looks in lives and scars or birthmarks, as well as phobias, are remnants from other lives. People reincarnate in "soul groups", so you may find instant attractions to certain other people that you meet or live with. Life is a learning process to advance your soul... earth is literally a stage for that purpose. Some souls actually volunteer for undesirable lifes, such as murder victim or abused child, in order to help other souls advance in some way. You've chosen your life, and learning about your past can help you find meaning in your present life.

Answer 5

I think I must have been a noviate living beyond the mist on Avalon, studying and learning the Ancient practices. It is said there were few left when Arthur of Pendragon died and Avalon slipped quietly between parallel worlds and into the sea beyond Lindesfarms Priory. Cornwall, Wales, and Druidry are more a part of me than I can ever reveal.

Answer 6

I believe in past lives but I am so involved with this one that I really don't give much thought or energy to any other life but this one. This is the one that matters. Others have felt the need to tell me who they thought I was in connection to them. They are from different areas in my life so they don't know each other, but they all have described the same thing or a story that appears to support the others.

They say I lived in a high grassy area above water. I liked to sit on the cliff with stars above me and reflecting off the water at my feet so they seemed to be all around me ( I actually have dreamt that one a few times but did not share it with any of them). I waited for one to return by sea. One said she was the woman who watched over me (chaperone? maid? friend?). The third said he was my teacher/ adviser? and was there when the first did not return and I thought him to be dead. He was not. Sounds like a big old mess to me!

Answer 7

I believe in past lives, and I think I was a cat! However, I met a psychic once who specialised in past lives. It was at a social event, so he was a bit tipsy and not earning money, but he said I had been an Opera Singer in my past life. I thought that was hilarious as I can't sing for tuppence; then it hit me - he's probably right and that is why I can't sing now! I used up that talent to the full in the past and have to move on.
After realising that, my singing miraculously improved!

Answer 8

No. Load of old cobbers. Every time a past life claimant is subject to scientific examination, it turns out to be complete fantasy. Even famous cases like 'Bridey Murphy' evaporate under critical scrutiny. Sometimes it is hilarious to here people claiming to have been ancient Egyptians etc - under regression they start speaking in Hollywood style olde speak, but never actually in the language of the time or place!

Answer 9

Hi! I think every person is unique and unrepeatable, but your answer depends if you really think that you have an inmortal soul. I've found interesting this article-

"Is the Soul Immortal?
To answer this question, let us turn to the highest authority on the subject—the inspired Word of the Creator. In the very first book of the Bible, Genesis, we learn the accurate meaning of "soul." Regarding the creation of the first man, Adam, the Bible says: "Jehovah God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living soul." (Genesis 2:7) Clearly, the soul is not what a man has but what he is. The Hebrew word used here for soul is ne'phesh. It occurs some 700 times in the Bible, and it never refers to a separate and ethereal part of a human but always to something tangible and physical.—Job 6:7; Psalm 35:13; 107:9; 119:28.

What happens to the soul at death? Consider what happened to Adam at his death. When he sinned, God told him: "You [will] return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return." (Genesis 3:19) Think of what that means. Before God created him from the dust, Adam did not exist. After his death, Adam returned to the same state of nonexistence.

Simply stated, the Bible teaches that death is the opposite of life. At Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10, we read: "The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol, the place to which you are going."

This means that the dead are unable to do or feel anything. They no longer have any thoughts, nor do they remember anything. The psalmist states: "Do not put your trust in nobles, nor in the son of earthling man, to whom no salvation belongs. His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish."—Psalm 146:3, 4.

The Bible clearly shows that at death the soul does not move on to another body, but it dies. "The soul that is sinning—it itself will die," the Bible emphatically states. (Ezekiel 18:4, 20; Acts 3:23; Revelation 16:3) Thus, the doctrine of the immortality of the soul—the very foundation of the theory of reincarnation—does not find any support in the Scriptures. Without it, the theory collapses. What, then, explains the suffering we see in the world?"

Answer 10

I have one vivid recollection, being on top of a south American step pyramid and jumping arms outstretched. I believe in past lives and I know I've been around a very long time and seen many things, yet I still come back for more.

Answer 11

I don't know about any past lives but if I do come back, I want to keep my degrees. Although I enjoyed uni on all three occasions I really don't want to have to do all those essays and exams again!

I think it would be quite novel to be a toddler with two batchelors degrees and a masters, I could go straight into a doctorate. instead of infant school.