posted February 18, 2003 05:01 AM         

I was just wondering: have any of you tried regression or some other kind of remembering your past lives?

And if, how was it? Was it successful?

posted February 18, 2003 07:44 PM         

Hi!
I used to do automatic writing when I was a teenager but I could never got much sense out of it.Probably because I didn't really know how to do it properly. I have connected with past lives but not in that manner. It sounds great!
Any good tips starlover?

Marcie

"Love is the water of life.The beauty of the heart is the only lasting beauty." Rumi

posted February 19, 2003 05:25 AM         

Starlover,
what did your automatic writing reveal? Did you actually remember things from your past lives?

Imaiden,
in what manner did you connect with your past lives?

Has anyone tried hypnosis? And I don't know of any other methond really, just regression and hypnosis and now automatic writing

posted February 20, 2003 03:47 AM         

I've tried regression couple of times, and I find it very interesting, even necessary to enlight some hidden emotions.
BUT
I don't know about you, but my intuiton tells me past lives is a symbolic category of understanding our higher self.
I'll explain:
I believe if a person progresses (spiritually) in his/her life, and if he does the regression of hypnosis for example every 3 years, I doubt he would remember the same lives. Why? Because he has overgrown (I hope this is the proper word in English) himself. He doesn't NEED to remember these lives. He'll remember only those lives that would help him to evolve more.
You might ask - how many lives do we live than?
If you believe in Oneness, in no past-future linear time and space, only NOW, that explains everything.
It explains our tasks, our karma, how come some people can read future, materialisation, the power of love, the power of thoughts, the possibilities we have only by being humans etc.
We are nothing but energy, and if you think about energy, you will see there are many different frequencies of it. Imagine, we (physical beings) are a bit "slowlier" energy, hard materials even more slowlier, but as we grow in our spiritual path, our energy becomes more and more suptile, finer, higher. That is what we're aiming for!
And now, if you watch the world through such glasses, you will enjoy the higher creativity itself!
To me, it is like watching the painting - different colours, different techiques...
I can't see aura, but I FEEL what I'm saying about.
So, there is no need to bother with facts when or where did you live in your past lives - you already ARE living all of them at the same time, but it's up to you when or which you'll be conscious of!

How about that?

posted February 20, 2003 05:26 AM         

I really don't know what to say, this is a relatively new concept for me, I've heard that before but haven't yet given it serious thought. Let's just say that I have to see or feel it for myself to believe it. That's why I want to try regression and see how it feels and what feels true to me about it.
How did you come to these conclusions/beliefs, Dreamflake? Did it just strike a cord in you or felt somehow "right"? I'm really interested to know.

Hi, Wych of Avalon, and welcome to Lindaland!
I'm a bit hesitant about hypnosis because it can happen that under hypnosis you remember something that you read of saw in a film so accurately that it feels like your own memory, so you have to have a really good therapist and one you can trust, but I really don't know where to turn for getting one, and with regression it's you remembering in a state of consciousness, so that appeals to me.

posted February 20, 2003 07:45 AM         

The second time I was in Civil War clothes . I was dancing with a dashing Yankee soldier, and the next thing, I was crying with my head down on a table. I had to be awakened again, and I couldn't shake the sad feeling for days....

I found this web site, crying for my daddy that died Christmas Eve.

Or maby its my Scorpio Moon!!

posted February 20, 2003 03:44 PM         

I wish I could tell you how did I come to these conclusions.
I feel it somehow. It's logical to me. You too, I'm sure, often come to points (in literature, or conversations) where the fact that there's no linear time and space appears to be truth. I don't read much lately, but I remember a book describing the physics of the Universe, and that was the first time I met the same theory I had inside. The author is Barbara Ann Brennan, and it's a book about healing.

My experience with regression is great. I remember I had very strong emotions, both overwelming love and beauty, as well as anger and pain. I also remember I was "cleaning" some points from this life. The past lives were also clear to me.
But, I don't see why would remembering the actual events and facts about past lives matter?

Dear Stella Polaris,
I believe regression can take you to the specific life, but only if it's for your own good.
I'll give an example:
You are what you are, you live your daily life, etc. You are a kind of a product of what you were (your past thoughts and deeds). Sometimes it's hard to understand our reality, whether relationships, or maybe some deep feelings, problems etc. I believe regression is a kind of moovie - when we see this moovie, it's a kind of experience we identify with (it is our experience, in fact), and it's easier to see the cause-effect connection. This connection has such an impact on ourselves that we need to act, in our actual life.

I believe you can make a list of past lives, but the bottom line I'm talking about is that this list will never end, as you improve yourself as a person.
Further you go with your evolution, different problems and doubts you confront, and if you look for a help in your past lives, I doubt you'll go back to one where you were "playing a role" of someone who has to learn believing in something beyond body, for example.

posted February 22, 2003 05:35 AM         

I think so too - that you remember things that you need to, to understand why you are what you are.

But Dreamflake, in that previous post you said that you feel that there are no past lives, that they are all in the eternal now, so by this logic you could also see your "future" life under hypnosis, for example, wouldn't that be true?

What do you all think?

posted February 23, 2003 04:51 PM         

As for me, I prefer concentrate on my present living. I feel I have so much to learn, but in practical sense.

As for automatic writing, I have never experienced it directly. Sometimes, when I write poetry, I feel as if I flew, and many times I found answers wrapped in my poems.

But, I'd never have enough courage to try this as an experiment. I still haven't cleaned fears which I've earned when I was teenager, playing with spiritualism.

These things I still cannot explain, and I freeze when I think of something "automatic".

posted February 23, 2003 09:46 PM         

I think different people have different experiences with "right & wrong" "past & future", "here & there", "life & death" and this thing called "life". There is more than one way leading to Rome.

I strongly feel the thought of everything being energy is right for me and my perception of the world and life in general.

I have tried hypnosis, (for insomnia) and I think I touched "past life" as well as my future in this life, without wanting to get deeper into that here.

I think my inner "wise guy" guided me in hypnosis, showing me only what I needed to "see" or feel at that time, and nothing more or less. Disappointing since I, on a superficial, egocentric level, am a bit curious about the issue.

But my past or my future was not the issue at the time of hypnosis, and my core belief is that what matters is NOW, and solving THIS problem, that mixing in my past or my future in a wider perspective would just mess up my present even more.

And, as Dreamflake suggests, past lives might just be a symbolic category for understanding our higher self.

You get what you need, not what you want. And what really counts, I feel, is NOW. If you, as Dreamflake suggests, take only NOW into account, nothing else really matters. I have had several dreams, 'visions', ideas and experiences since my childhood years telling me this. I have a tendency to become "too old for my age" at the same time "too childish for my age". This duality in me shows that the middle way, and the road of least resistance, would be the NOW. Not the past or the future.

That might be only MY truth, and not the issue for everybody else.

posted February 24, 2003 01:33 PM         

Reading them, I got a clearer sense of the universal feeling that we all share about how we experience our lives in the spiritual sense. Yes, there are many paths to Rome, but on some level, they are all one and the same...

Hi, Randall!
That's really insightful what you wrote, it made me think, just as Dreamflake's post made me REALLY think...

Evergreen, you put that so beautifully! I have nothing more to add

StarLover, I hope I'll get a good psychic, yes, but most of all, I'd like to be my own psychic, if you know what I mean

Dreamflake, yes, now it's time to go to work!
By the way, what happened when you were a teenager playing with spiritualism, as you say?

morgana

posted February 25, 2003 02:31 AM         

Considering my spiritualism experience, I'll tell you more a bit later today.

posted February 25, 2003 11:27 AM         

You'd like to know what happened when I was playing with spiritualism.

I was 15, and me and 3 of my friends wanted to know what's on the other side, and we chose a very simple method to call the spirits. It worked immediately, and we were curious, asking all kinds of questions, and writing down all the answers. With time, it became our obsession.
One night, I had a "dream", where this particular ghost asked me to come to him. He looked scary, and was very afraid when I woke up. The same day, while contacting them, he asked me why was I scared last night.
At this point, I definately knew something was wrong with our hobby.
After that day, and few days (right now, something fell in my kitchen!?) after, all the answers we recieved from our ghosts were kind of invitations to us, and these messages were so confucing and vibrated VERY negative. We stopped. We've burned all the papers with all our writing about the facts from "the other side". But, the fear couldn't be canceled that fast.

I hope you understand my point. I still can't explain this period to myself, but I think we were too open minded, too open-perceptive and too sensitive, but unfortunately, in the wrong direction. Although I've done many changes ever since (I'm 28 now), like including Reiki and meditation in my life, this fear I still have inside (from time to time), and it is my urgent task to get rid of it, since fear itself feeds such energies.

I wish it all didn't happen, but I realize that only way of conquering fear would be facing it, fully conscious of the Higher order, meaning love and light.

What do you think?

posted February 25, 2003 02:23 PM         

But thank you for sharing it anyway, it surely helps keep my curiosity in line, never to try spiritism myself. In my country of origin, it's actually forbidden. But kids experiment anyway.

posted February 25, 2003 03:04 PM         

And sometimes I doubt my mental capacity. Like now. HELP!!
Why does the soul, if the concept of time just is an illusion not important for the soul, choose a time in the first place? Especially, if we live several lives simultaneously and there is no linear time...

What our souls are looking for is timeless. Yes? So why choose a time?

And if time does NOT exist; how come the stars and planets are moving; doesn't moving thorugh space need time, or create time??

Unless we are everywhere at once, which means we all have to be one huge lump of being, not having to move anywhere, because we are everywhere...