Did any of those who recall previous lives ever read the cult classic "Winged Pharaoh" (1937) by Joan Grant? She claimed to have recalled the events in Winged Pharaoh while in a trance-like state. Interesting character.
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <s3raphita@...> wrote: Re "It is something I would like to experience as long as it didn't freak me out too much.": Ay, there's the rub. Perhaps you and I can't recall any past lives because: 1) Our previous lives were as bland and insipid as a cold cup of tea. 2) On the contrary, our lives were traumatic nightmares and we instinctively repress any recall hints. 3) This is our first incarnation (must be true for most people as there's been a huge population explosion. Google "World population milestones".) ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <awoelflebater@...> wrote: Sounds like a dream while being awake. Any slippage into another time dimension makes it seem probable these dimensions exist simultaneously with the present. I wonder what it is in our brains or in the frequency of the dimensions called "time" that causes a momentary ability to be able to see sine past event. And are you sure it is a former you that is participating or simply the current you who has slipped, temporarily, into another time frequency and can simply see what happened back then in that spot? Whatever the case or the reason it is something I would like to experience as long as it didn't freak me out too much or the event wasn't too violent. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita wrote: > > I was going to say this: If I was to find myself suddenly in a past-life - let's say in Elizabethan London - I'd take careful note of what clothes the people around me wore, what food they ate, what the houses looked like, etc. and then when I returned I'd check against the best-available historical evidence. Here's the thing though: if you were to have a past-life recall can you alter what you're thinking or doing? If it's a far-memory of "you" in a previous life is the you that's "you in the 21st century having the recall" able to change anything? I cannot speak to hypothetical situations like yours. I can only say what it was like for me. For me it was *not* like lucid dreaming, which I have practiced and gotten good enough at that I could change things in the dream to suit myself. The flashes I've had were all short-lived -- thirty seconds to at most a couple of minutes -- during which I was completely immersed in the scene. I *did* seem to have some volition, in that I could decide to try to talk to someone, and pull that off, but it was not the "I'm in control of this vision" kinda thang one experiences with lucid dreaming. I never sought any of these flashes, nor am I interested in doing so now. They just happened, almost always when I was in the physical location where the original events took place. That's the part that's so much FUN about whatever it is. I'm in the same room of a castle, or in the courtyard of a large city like Carcassonne, and one moment I'm "here and now" and the next I'm "here and then." The overall scene doesn't change, just the details -- like what people are wearing, eating, etc. I guess I could have been more Sherlock Holmes-y about it, but frankly each time it's happened it's come as such a surprise and been so thoroughly entertaining that I just allowed myself to be entertained.
