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	cmdr_zoom 2011-01-27 09:15 pm UTC (link)
	Ever notice that nobody is ever the reincarnation of anyone who isn't famous? Statistically, you'd expect that the vast majority of past lives would be peasants of various sorts/eras. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

keri
2011-01-27 09:24 pm UTC (link)

I know! I actually asked her about that, like "why Alexander and not one of his soldiers or something?" and she'd start pointing out all their similarities and whatnot that of course were because they're the same soul (I'd list them, but that would make her too recognizable). Plus, apparently her lineage has lots of shamans, so it's only natural that she'd be an otherkinmultiplesoulbonder person herself.

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	chez_moi 2011-01-27 09:31 pm UTC (link)
	"I was Alexander the Great.............'s chief eunuch." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	etcetera_cat 2011-01-28 01:01 am UTC (link)
	"...no wonder you're such a good singer." (Reply to this)(Parent)

	singe 2011-01-30 06:30 pm UTC (link)
	Snort! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	erototoxin 2011-02-02 12:12 am UTC (link)
	Cool! I read all about you! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kylenne 2011-01-27 10:36 pm UTC (link)
	That's actually sort of an irritating fallacy. Plenty of people who do past life regressions find lives where they were no one of any particular note, self included. The problem is the "I was Cleopatra/King Arthur" crowd tends to be louder, for obvious reasons. wipes up (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	evilsqueakers 2011-01-28 08:17 am UTC (link)
	I've done the past lives regression thing once as a mid-teen, and I was like a little sister to my godmom (long story). And she's statistically been nuns, or women of religion that didn't like being around men. I don't think I've ever been anyone important. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tofuknight 2011-01-28 12:26 pm UTC (link)
	On the other hand, that sounds kinda cool. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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edana_ni_emer
2011-01-29 07:31 pm UTC (link)

Yeah, I've only poked around to find one, but that was Isis Temple Priestess #316, during a period where there wasn't even any great civil unrest. I think the Romans hadn't even gotten there.

Next time around will be funny. Either all my memories of this life will be of sitting in front of the computer, or I'll remember myself playing WoW and think I actually spent a lot of time killing zombies and will be very confused.

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silrana
2011-01-28 03:39 pm UTC (link)

That has been around for a very long time, and was popularized during the spiritualist movement. I just recently read a book that was written in the 1930's that had a character gushing about how she had been Nefertiti in a former life. So I doubt it's going to die out soon. On a side note, I remember a character in another book say he was tired of meeting Egyptian queens and famous generals, and just once would like to meet someone who had been a scullery maid who died of typhoid in a former life.

For myself, I've never had done any sort of regressions, but I did have one dream when I was a teenager that was so clear and vivid that it makes me go, "Hmmm." I was wearing the sort of pillbox-hat-and-gloves outfit that was fashionable in the early 60's (which was when I was conceived and born), and I was in a sort of gift shop at an airfield or bus station. I remember the windows of the shop faced on to a large open outdoor area, so I'm leaning towards airfield.

I was a woman who was running from her husband, who was tied in with crime or corruption in some way. I just wanted to get away from him, but knew he'd be afraid I would go to the police. I had wandered into a quiet corner of the shop, and heard my name called (it was clear in the dream, but I couldn't remember it when I woke). I turned and saw my husband there, and as he shot me my last thought was astonishment that he had done it himself rather than send one of his goons.

I've told that story to friends, and they've joked that is probably why I wound up in law enforcement.

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kirarose
2011-01-29 06:21 am UTC (link)

I don't usually confess this, but I've done the past life thing and... yeah no famous people and most of everything was rather mundane.

One was merely a wife putting dinner on the table. Low income. The dress was scratchy and stiff material, cheap. I could even smell the soup I'd made. I could smell the sweat of the man that came in and the lamps we had. It was perhaps the most boring past life, ever. And I'm completely okay with this.

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	bellomee13 2011-02-02 07:07 am UTC (link)
	This...sounds fascinating. How does it work? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

pfeffermuse
2011-02-04 10:59 pm UTC (link)

There are several ways to go about having a past-life regression done.

1) If you live in a small town, your nearest local health-food store (definitely not Whole Foods, or something like that, though), likely has a bulletin board with all sorts of notices for people who do some sort of metaphysical work.

Larger towns and cities will probably have a New Age or some sort of occult shop, where you can get references. However, if you walk into such a store and don't like the feel of it -- like does it make you feel antsy -- leave, and quickly.

Sometimes liberal Unitarian Universalists or Religious Science churches, or liberal Synagogues may also provide leads to people who do such work.

2) Even if you do find someone who seems promising, ask for references and rates up front. Now, the practitioner may not want to give out their clients' names for you to contact, which is understandable, ask them what New Age type stores they'd recommend for you to go for more info.

Ask how long the session would be. Most should be between 60 and 90 minutes; if they're asking for more than $150 (US -- and that would be in major cities), run.

3) If you don't want to go with someone directing the session, you can pick-up books on self-hypnosis and past-life regression, which will provide a decent enough base to start from. Stay away from any books by JZ Knight, Sylvia Browne and Linda Lovegood, and anyone who refers you to them. Back in the day, when there wasn't a self-publisher on every corner, I'd have said stay away from anything published by the mainstream presses. At this point, though, it can tend to be a crap shoot. Weiser's was a fairly decent occult press, and you can still find a diamond-in-the-rough from Llewellyn.

Good luck.

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franzen
2011-01-27 11:08 pm UTC (link)

Legit DID/pluralism/multiplicity has nothing to do with aping historical domain characters, interestingly; I think the "soulbonding" crowd (a whole different kettle of crazy that has nothing to do with DID) has aped the multiplicity terms from the psych domain and conflated the two. A friend of mine came out as multiple and I've read up on the subject -- controversial as the diagnosis may be and leaving aside questions of "oh it's all contagion," actual accounts and case studies say nothing about "I woke up one morning and realised I was also Alex the Great."

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kittenwings
2011-01-28 02:01 am UTC (link)

I totally agree.

Dude, if I had any past lives, well, it just reminds me of this Vienna Teng song, In Another Life:

n another life
You and I worked West Virginia coal mines
Side by side
Collecting the black dust like sin
The day the main shaft caved in
I caught your eye
As the lantern light guttered out
And the afterdamp swallowed us slowly
I gripped your hand
And caught a glance
Of the next time 'round

In another life
You and I were Red Guards in training
Side by side
We marched on Tiananmen
Turned our own parents in
For hoarding rice
And in the Great Leap forward
We crawled on our bellies and died
A blood orange sky
Gave a cry
Of next time 'round

In another life
I was married at thirteen
You were killed at twenty-one
On a minor battlefield
I was buried beside my second stillborn child
My last thought it seemed
A fever dream

Now we sink into a summer afternoon
Central Park in June
Marveling at the bounty our days contain
And we feel it like the shiver
Of a passing train
That other life
Deep underground
You and I
Side by side
We are the next time 'round

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	bigbigtruck 2011-01-28 03:14 pm UTC (link)
	That's gorgeous. It reminded me of this, too: http://s2b2.livejournal.com/142934.html (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kittenwings 2011-01-28 09:31 pm UTC (link)
	Vienna Teng is one of my favorite musicians. Oh, WOW. That is amazing. Love it! (Reply to this)(Parent)

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	cmdr_zoom 2011-01-28 08:58 pm UTC (link)
	How long 'till my soul gets it right? Can any human being ever reach that kind of light? I call on the resting soul of Galileo King of night vision, king of insight Indigo Girls, "Galileo" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	seiberwing 2011-01-29 04:17 am UTC (link)
	That is just gorgeous. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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full_metal_ox
2011-01-30 09:51 pm UTC (link)

Although it doesn't involve a romantic pairing, another beautiful song on the topic of adventurous past lives is worth sharing:: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VST2KKIYn50

The lyrics, for those not in a position to listen:

WILLIE NELSON:
I was a highwayman; along the coach roads I did ride,
With sword and pistol by my side;
Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade,
Many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade,
The bastards hung me in the spring of twenty-five--
But I am still alive.

KRIS KRISTOFFERSON:
I was a sailor; I was born upon the tide,
And with the sea I did abide.
I sailed a schooner round the Horn to Mexico;
I went aloft and furled the mainsail in a blow,
And when the yards broke off they said that I got killed--
But I am living still.

WAYLON JENNINGS:
I was a dam builder across the river deep and wide,
Where steel and water did collide,
A place called Boulder on the wild Colorado;
I slipped and fell into the wet concrete below.
They buried me in that great tomb that knows no sound--
But I am still around..I'll always be around..and around and around and
around and around...

JOHNNY CASH:
I fly a starship across the Universe divide,
And when I reach the other side,
I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can;
Perhaps I may become a highwayman again,
Or I may simply be a single drop of rain--
But I will remain...
And I'll be back again, and again and again and again and again..

--"The Highwayman" by Jimmy Webb; covered in 1984 by the Highwaymen.

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	sisterelwood 2011-01-28 02:21 am UTC (link)
	Exactly! I've read a little on the subject and that's what most people find they were - just normal, every day people. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	atdelphi 2011-01-28 03:31 pm UTC (link)
	I'm not currently convinced by any evidence for reincarnation, but apparently when I was a little kid, I went through a phase of telling people that before I was born, I used to be a linesman—as in a powerline technician. Go figure. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rosehiptea 2011-01-28 05:32 pm UTC (link)
	Maybe you were a Glen Campbell fan? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	hadesphoenix 2011-01-29 08:21 pm UTC (link)
	There was a book written by a psychiatrist about the past-life regression he did with a patient, and all those "lives" were totally mundane (sometimes tragic or traumatizing), anonymous people like you'd expect to see in the majority of the population. (I dunno, your comment just made me think of it.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

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