Past lives: regression, karmic links to others and the zodiac wheel

[NatoPMT]

I have always felt that I have been drowned – I learned to swim very late because whenever I went in water which came up past my middle, I would start to hyperventilate and gasp for air – I haven’t had that problem in a pool since childhood. I have never had any bad experiences with water (in this life- ha) but I have dreamt several times I have been drowning, twice I dreamt i actually died. Once I was sinking and sinking to the bottom of the ocean and my head was being swished from side to side in the water from the speed of the descent into the blackness below. Ugh. Sometimes I get impressions of swirling muddy water, almost like a photograph or flashback, usually when i have just woken from having a nightmare. And ridiculous as this sounds, I cant drink quickly, if I try to drink a pint of water quickly (its good for you, i try to get it over in one go), I start getting the gasping for air feeling and I feel the panic rise…

 

I don’t want to go to past life regression as I feel a) too scared as it sounds horrible experiencing your past life trauma, plus b) I don’t feel any trauma is affecting me – I am happy.

 

Has anyone had past life regression? What was your experience of it? Am interested to hear of anyone else’s feelings of their past lives

 

My other thing is that I don’t feel I have met my bf in past lives, I feel it’s a brand new relationship and we don’t have any past links (good or bad) – it feels like we have a clean slate. My ex on the other hand... I feel we had some serious bad karma but I had to meet him again, and I feel I may meet him again in future lives which I really don’t want. I feel he’s going to crop up again to teach me lessons of humility and to get me on the right track through pain and suffering. I really don’t want to meet him again – do I sound as ridiculous as I feel? To anyone that knows about this – if I learned my lessons this time round, does this mean I will avoid meeting him again?

 

My last question is concerning astrology. If you are an Aries, does this mean you have no past lives as you are at the start of the zodiac? I have read that Pisces can have emotional problems due to the sheer exhaustion and stress of living so many lives. I am a Gemini, does this mean I have to get through the zodiac before I can have everlasting peace? I don’t want to go through the karmic rat race to find serenity. Can’t I hop off here? Please?

 

BB

 

Ps I have not slipped my trolley

[moimeme]

I have read that Pisces can have emotional problems due to the sheer exhaustion and stress of living so many lives

 

I don't know about your questions. I know of a couple people who think they have past lives. Me, if I had a past life, it was as a cat. But if I'm an Aquarius...

[NatoPMT]

aquarians arent far behind pisces, so you have full permission to be a fruitbat. i have no such excuse. id milk that if i were you.

 

if you were a cat you could have another 8 lives left, thats punishment enough in my book.

[moimeme]

(whines) But I don't want to be a fruit bat.....

[Papillon]

Fruit bats have all the fun! They get to scare people for free, and their sh*t is worth millions.

[loveregardless]

I was a tree in a past life. And I'm a taurus whatever that adds into the equation.

[Pocky]

The problem with past life regression is that in this state the mind can't tell the difference between a real memory and a fantasy.

[loveregardless]

thats the problem with all supernatural, paranormal, clairvoyant, etc. images/thoughts or whatever they are. It's hard to know the difference between illusion and reality when dealing with the subconscious.

[YellowLioness]

Hey, I'm an aries, and I think me and my fiance met in a past life. Well, a psychic told him so... but who knows about that.

 

I met him and I instantly knew him. Well, of course there were events that I missed in this life time, but he still felt so familliar. He felt the same way.

 

I don't think it matters what sign of the zodiac you are. I believe in soul recycling, and I know I've met some people that I've had horrid karmic ties to, just like you. Mostly exes, especially my last ex.

 

I think that I burned in a fire in a past life. When I was 6, I had this crude drawing of our house mapped out so that I could get out if a fire started. I dreamed about burning, and woke up smelling smoke sometimes. Or, maybe the dream just seemed so real.

 

I was terrified that in the night a fire would start and torch my whole family. I was a strange five year old in that case, lol.

 

ANYWAY, yeah, you probably did drown in a past life, and you're still tied to the event in some way. Perhaps you were wrongfully drowned, and that's why your soul keeps trying to re-live it.

[Fayebelle]

Do you think that anyone goes to heaven? Or that some souls hang out here w/out a body? What are the requirements for reincarnation?

 

Some say past lives explain genius. The reason Mozart could write and perform at such a young age was b/c he had already mastered music in a past life and "remembered" all he knew.

[YellowLioness]

Do you think that anyone goes to heaven? Or that some souls hang out here w/out a body? What are the requirements for reincarnation?

 

I'm so interested in this stuff. Here's my theory:

 

We're all here to learn, and we're alllll on different levels of learning. Some souls have been here for a long time, and they've learned what lessons they can here. Good or bad, the earth has no more to teach, so they move on to another world, heaven or hell, or become part of God.

 

I think that souls are continuously born and recycled until we get to this point.

 

As for bodies, those are just vessels. We use them to learn certain lessons, as well.

 

I think that some people have such bad, violent, or confusing deaths that the soul doesn't realize the body is dead, and wanders around. They don't realize that they're trapped her.

 

I think that angels and demons can trancend the curtain between the worlds because they are sent on a mission, and that they are either her to do good, or evil, not to learn.

[loveregardless]

depends on what you think heaven is? do you believe in hell? i don't believe in either. I believe in whatever "this" is and whatever the "other" is, but I don't have the first clue what the "other" really is. Once you die your soul goes somewhere. where? who knows...i don't believe in an actual place called heaven or a place called heaven however. i believe that when you have a review of your life you will be seeing either your own personal heaven or hell, dependning on what kind of life you lived. i adopted this philosophy from a very brilliant professor of mine that worked very closely with a scientist named David Bohm who studies the paranormal...out of body expericances, near death experiances and what not. He said that when you have this life review you see/feel everything that you ever did/thought/said (this is gathered from actual reports from people all over the world who have had such experiances) and how that effected not only those you came in immediate contact with, but like a ripple in water, how your life effected the world. for those who caused lots of pain or anger in their lives, this would very much be HELL. for those who lived good peaceful lives this would be very much HEAVEN. and since time only exists as a creation of human physicality, there is no time during this life review, meaning it could seem like it lasted FOR ETERNITY. Interesting, eh?

[Fayebelle]

Do you think that souls can choose to hang out, come back occasionally, or be reincarnated? Free will after death if you will.

 

Some feel Earth is Hell and that reincarnation is damnation til you get it right.

 

There is also a theory that everyone is reincarnated- that the light at the end of the tunnel is actually the birth canal for your next life- near death experiances explain still borns.

[loveregardless]

the idea of reincarnation has everything to do with the historical view of the wheel of samsara, or the wheel of rebirth. soul must be born and reborn continuosly until it has reached its ultimate consciousness, that of Brahman. This is all based on hinduism by the way. And I believe that all of our souls made a choice to be here (Healing with the Angels and Healing with the Fairies by Doreen Virtue), we just can't remember what/why that was. I also don't belive in evil. I believe in souls that have created extremely bad Karma for themselves, but all evil is a result of something learned. Evil in the devil demon sense, I don't believe is real.

[YellowLioness]

There is also a theory that everyone is reincarnated- that the light at the end of the tunnel is actually the birth canal for your next life- near death experiances explain still borns.

 

Wow. Never thought of it like that. I like that. Makes sense to me.

 

 

 

Some feel Earth is Hell and that reincarnation is damnation til you get it right.

 

I sort of agree with it, sort of not. I believe hell is seperation from God. We are seperated from God in these infernal bodies.

 

Also, I think that although life is hard, there are good times. There is love, there is kindness, there is beauty. I don't think that any beauty here can ever compare to heaven. Although, during orgasms, or when I see the sun set behind the mountains, I think that maybe that's just a small taste of the beauty that waits.

[whichwayisup]

This is a wonderful thread to read. I'm learning more and more about past lives, connections and why things happen for a reason. I am much more spiritual now than I have been in my past. I think when my father died 11 years ago that really opened up alot of this for me. I always believed once you're dead you're dead, that's it...The maggots come in and eat ya. (My dad told me this when I was very young. My mom ofcourse gave him SH*T cuz I asked him, we were at my grandfather's funeral!!)My dad was a real atheist. I used to be but not anymore and I'm so glad because I've learned so much more about myself and I'm very open minded, cuz of that I've met some incredible people in this crazy world. People come and go in and out of our lives. I've learned good and bad with every experience but it's helped me be ME. Does this make any sense to anyone? lol.

 

Oh and I'm Aquarian too.

[loveregardless]

that the light at the end of the tunnel is the birth cannal nor that near death experiances explain stil birth. your soul doesn't necessarily move right from one body to another. and near death experiances usually happen to people who are say, in a comma and then wake up. besides the fact that my teacher said something else about how being born is actually more traumatic than death, because being forced into a physical body is well...traumatic for your soul, and that death is much more natural and actually pleasant because you are being released from this cage, this shell of a human form. I have always felt like I was trapped, emotionally and especially mentally by my body, like I just have all of this energy and life force that is constantly trying to burst out of me.

[Fayebelle]

Which- Whatever gets you thru is OK by me!

 

 

BTW- I'm a Scorpio- I know we are supposed to be super intuitive and sensitive- but I have NO Clue what it means about reincarnation.

[YellowLioness]

I'm very open minded, cuz of that I've met some incredible people in this crazy world. People come and go in and out of our lives. I've learned good and bad with every experience but it's helped me be ME. Does this make any sense to anyone? lol.

 

Sure! Makes sense to me!

 

We all have soul families and spiritual families that sometimes have nothign to do with our blood families, I believe.

 

Keep on searching for what you believe. I don't think any of us are wrong or right. We're all on our own journies.

 

It's cool that you're thinking about this stuff!

[loveregardless]

scorpios are supposed to be super sensitive and super secretive/mysterious as well. my bf is a scorpio and he drives me nuts! they are also supposed to hold everthing inside and then lash out/explode like volcanoes when it builds up to much. he is EXACTLY like that. and I'm a taurus and taurus and scorpio are like EXACT opposites about everything except that they are the two most stubborn and uncomprimising signs that there are. they are also the two most passionate signs...craziness...I don't know anything about reincarnation and your sings however. sounds like i got me some research to do.

[loveregardless]

"Keep on searching for what you believe. I don't think any of us are wrong or right. We're all on our own journies."

Exactly...

[aFighter]

I'm a Taurus but I've been told I've got a good dose of Scorpio stubbornness/having the last word

 

A bull with a sting in his tail, lol.

[whichwayisup]

What amazes me is when you meet people that are so closed minded. There are the ones really missing out! I was athiest before but still abit interested...I'm so glad I'm not anymore because at times LIFE REALLY SUCKS and there HAS to be something else out there after we leave our bodies. This can't be IT. No way!!

 

I want to come back as a cat but have someone like me as an owner...

[loveregardless]

how true is that. close minded people are very sad. my philosophy is to believe whatever you can because thats really all you have. so i believe everything and anything. of course by believe i don't mean like "absolute truth" kind of belief, but just believing in a way that i know what ANYTHING is possible. Everyone thinks I'm a weirdo fairy loving tree hugger anyway...but what else is there if you don't have that. I don't belong to any religion but I have respect for all of them. I'm just me. I would like to come back as a bird or a butterfly. i want to fly.

[whichwayisup]

Hey Love that sounds great to me! Fly away baby. Could imagine really how cool that would be? To actually be up there flying away in the clouds?