--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Who knows? It's interesting to think that one's physical > remains from previous lives are probably still scattered > around the world in various graves.
I was once standing in a museum, on a "field trip" there with a buncha other Rama students, and found myself fascinated by an Egyptian mummy. It wasn't that pretty a mummy :-), just a buncha bones and brown skin wrapped in rags, but I was fascinated anyway. At that moment Rama walked by, poked me in the side, and said, "Yep, that was you." That and the proverbial three bucks...Starbucks, etc. I personally have no memories of the Egyptian period or any intuitive "feel" for having been there, so it might even take five bucks at Starbucks. :-) As a kid I had dreams five or six times a month for maybe ten years of myself swordfighting, using a long sword held two-handed, in a fighting style unlike anything I'd ever seen in the movies. It took me seeing my first Japanese samurai film to "get" the fighting style, and where and when the dreams might have been glimpses of. Might have been. I can't be sure, of course. I've had similar dreams of life in Tibet, again starting from an early age, again before I knew that there was such a place as Tibet or what it looked like. The only one I'm fairly sure of is that I paid my dues as a Cathar perfecti at one point. When I go to the Cathar chateaux and other areas frequented by them here in France, I tend to have rather intense visual flashbacks, and can often tell the people touring the chateau with me what we'll find in the next rooms and what they'll look like, before we get there. None of us has been there before this time around. They're usually freaked out by this; I have begun to accept it as fairly normal. Go figure. That said, all of these flashes don't really mean much of anything, do they? They don't help us much with our self discovery this time around much, unless we can pinpoint some samskara in the past that still needs work in the present. I'm always amused by the New Age tendency to claim that they were *famous* people in the past. The Rama guy claimed he was Cardinal Richilieu; I can't see that *at all*. And Shirley MacLaine's been any *number* of famous people. Wasn't anyone ever the scullery maids and the cooks and the janitors? :-)
