How many lives

[spirituallygiving]

If you believe in reincarnation, how many lives do you think you've lived? Personally I think I've lived about 50. That sounds like a lot, but I have a feeling I've died young a good amount of times (thus my childish disposition all the time LOL).

What times are you drawn to? I'm very drawn to the Renaisance era.
I am very drawn to Europe and can tell I've lived there many times.

How about you?

[Christine]

I'm not sure...I always disliked the idea of reincarnation and then I found out why...a friend was doing a reading on me once and I had died violently in a number of lives in the past. Another friend saw me as a French courtesan which makes sense because I've always had a lot of connections to French things and the French language.

More recently, I've been fascinated by the idea that family members choose to incarnate together. My maternal grandmother's family were all psychic, did hands on healing, readings, herbal healings, etc. I believe that it was a gift to incarnate with them so that I could learn even more about healing in this lifetime.

Christine

[yogagurl]

Christine,
I believe my family reincarnates together like that. Actually, we have been told that by a Psychic friend of ours. We are all healers, and feel that we have a purpose here together.

As far as past lives I have remembered about 6 or 7, but I think I have had many more. I am drawn to Asian cultures, and know I have lived lives in China before.
Kristi

[Peace]

i believe in reincarnation. not sure about how many lives i've had. i know it has to be quite a few. i've been told by someome else that i've lived a couple dozen times or so? i dunno. i've only remembered one, for sure. as far as eras that i'm drawn to? ancient egypt, midevel, irland, india, petra....mainly those, but also, ancient greek eras, too. it's all something i'd like to learn more about, for sure! lol.

[saffy]

I believe in reincarnation too. As far as how many lives, I can remember 3. All were way way back.

I actually had a vision of being in a cave and cowering the in corner, scared and cold, I was female.

Then one as being an Indian Brave with smudged face paint on standing on a river bank staring up at the fork in the river, with my eyes went and maybe even crying.

Then one being a servant in Egypt standing under a white rag tarp serving food and drink to the builders of the pyramids (at least that was the feeling I got, never saw them).


As I was writing this down, some things occurred to me about how I am today. Maybe I never learned from some of these experiences, so I am still working on those.

Great question

[♥Starlene]

I believe we incarnate too, I dont know a number of times I have incarnated but I have went back in my Akashic records and looked at past lives that were as clear as day while I looked back at them. That has been something that has fascinated me for a long time.

I totally believe that us as families and friends incarnate together to learn with and from one another. I think it was either Sylvia Browne or Brain Weiss that talked about someone they regressed, it was a woman, and she totally hated her mother in law, the mother in law felt the same... And when she was regressed she went back to a time before they were incarnated into this lifetime, like a time when they were Spirit,,, and she learned that her mother in law and her were actually best friends that were put on the earth to learn compassion and peace with one another.. It totally made her look at the MIL differently and when I read that I started looking at others in a different way too.

I believe it is not only those that we have wonderful connected relationship with that we incarnate with, but also those that we have struggles with too. If everything was roses then what would we learn and evolve from, isnt the point of reincarnation so we can evolve, you know? I guess just looking at it like that, I tend to soften my heart to those in my life, in the past, present and future that I have struggled with and I look for the lesson to learn.

I personally have had lives in ancient Egypt, and India, and more recent lives in Europe particularity in the UK,,, but I know I havent discovered or uncovered all of them, those that I have, I have learned a great deal from though

[Anamere]

I totally believe we reincarnate.

I didn't always believe in it. In fact this is what I was initially hung up about when I began studying Buddhism. Now I can't think of believing that it isn't true yanno?

Kristy, feel I have a connection with China too. I have had some memories of past lives as a male in China. I don't want to glorify it and say I was a "warrior" but I feel I was in a war, was very young, very poor and didn't feel I had a choice.

I had a flash at what I think was the great wall and the people we were fighting against were way more powerful and like... killed us all. I have had memories of that death. I was armed with a tiny spear WAY under dressed (like no armor) and it came quickly. I even had a terrible pain when I reconnected with the memories. Very vivid.

I listened to a tape that lead you through past lives. I've tried it off and on several times. It's pretty interesting. I had so many memories of so many past lives (like at least 20 or more) that I began to think I was just making it all up. Some of them I would come back to over and over. Then at other times while listening I would sort of jerk back awake... not realizing I was "gone" yanno? Maybe too painful a memory or something I wasn't ready for? I don't know.

I had memories as male and female almost equally. Saw most of the lifetimes as poor and/or hungry. And dying either a painful death (like starvation or violent) or young and tragic. Saw myself as far back as what I think was Atlantis and as recent as the 1920's or 30's here in America dying young as a girl from a rich family... I know weird huh.

I think we incarnate with those we need to learn from or have been with before too. Like our family's.

I totally think I killed my Ex husband in a past life. Seriously, I had a flash of it. Except in it he was female, I was male. It was weird. Even though I forgave him years ago, after having that flash I forgave him totally for being abusive yannO? I think I was a very jealous person in that incarnation... in this life time have had little to no tolerence for it and was unforgiving to those who are. So clearly a lesson there.

Ahhhh I could ramble on, but it's getting late. You know me. Sorry!!!!


In ending, I'd like to think I'm getting closer to "getting it" LOL but clearly I'm pretty dense IT's taken me a more than FEW times to "get it"

Cool topic!

[katnips]

I'm not sure how many I have had, but I seem ancient!...lol..I feel drawn to many lives, esp as native american and eastern cultures, since we are spirit having a human experince, we all don't learn things at the same time, it might take some of us a little longer..lol..I would like to experience the Akashic records, to see if my feelings are right,,maybe I have and taken them as dreams!
Kathy

[Peace]

mee tooo! how can i get to the akashic records? i wanna!!!!

[saffy]

That's something I always wanted to explore. I have a guided tape, but I've only made it to that second step. I'm sure there are many other ways. In fact I know Star has an attunement about the Akashic records.

Can anyone explain about it?

[♥Starlene]

Well the attunement helps you to connect with the energy of the Akashic records, it is still something that you have to work at and practice. This lady that is in the crystal store by my house is really good at it, she can just look at you and read yours. For me it is more something I do in a meditative type state, I mean I can read people by looking at them but to really get into their records I need quiet time. It's pretty cool though, you can see past, present and future stuff, as the "records" as they are referred to is everything recorded in time.

[spirituallygiving]

I'm attuned to it, but I haven't used it yet LOL

Guess I better get on that!

[Sloan]

I know I've had a few lives, not sure how many though. I have often been told I am an old soul, even though I already knew it. I was told before too that in a past life I was a Sage/High Priestess in Egypt and I've had a flash back to a former life after holding a piece of rainbow aura quartz - I was a doctor on a ship in the 1800's. Always wanted to learn more though.

[blue]

I've done a few mediatations for past lives in which I was a youthful girl helping very poor children with herbal medicines but I made a mistake with two herbs that looked very similar and I made a child too sick to recover...I remember my frustration and fear at seeing this child get worse instead of better :-(
I've seen myself as Native American outside a tippee, cooking bark over a fire (I don't know why)...that's when I saw myself see myself.
My friend saw me as the Cheifs young wife in a past life med and she was a young man.
My daughter has been my mother and my present partner has been my brother when I died a very young child of some sickness.
I love past life med...they are absolutely fascinating!

[Peace]

blue, i'm right there with you. when i first posted to this thread, i only knew of one, i think. now i've connected with at least three and possibly a fourth just recently. i know i've been male and female before. i've witnessed my own death a couple times. even though these memories can sometimes be painful, i also see it as a blessing to be able to see them again and figure out what they mean in this life. i think it's awesome!

[dreamwalker67]

I find this to be a very interesting topic. I believe that I've had several as well, but I don't know for sure how many. The one that has most recently surfaced was one that I don't really have much information on other than knowing that I was buried alive. This would definitely explain why I am terribly clastrophobic. The Akashic Records attunement that Starlene offers is one that certainly interests me.

[holistichealer]

I am definate believer in reincarnation because I have seen at least two of my lives. I only think I have had two lives before this one, but I also believe that my cousin is actually my grandfather that passed. He is not only a spitting image of him but also has so many of the same characteristics in his personality it is scary. I would love to have another Past Life regression done but I am not sure who to ask to help.

[saffy]

you know, I agree Aura. since this was originally written I have had flashes of my other lives.