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"I am thinking about seeing someone about past life regression"
If its just a bit of fun with a friend, go for it. If you want to just throw money away, find a worthy cause to donate to, don't throw it at a lazy thief. Read some science books, the real world is much more fascinating than the cheap stories sold by a charlatan.
Oh yeah, beware of other believers telling stories that cannot be confirmed. These stories have all the value of a kid who claims to have seen santa, the easter bunny or the tooth fairy outside their window.
"But if it is a past life memory or perhaps something I have seen on TV when I was very young and forgotten, that I do not know. "
The old tv memory is good, a much better approach than past lives. And remember, with our imaginations it could be several past tv shows, a few books, some internet past lives stories, and completely original imagination all combined together.
"But I have all my life been afraid of fire. "
Without the dream this is a common fear, and a rational one as fire burns.
"I also get this strange feeling when I watch movies set in ancient Egypt, I get this feeling that it is wrong, that it is not the way it was"
I get this feeling when I watch most shows, especially historical re-enactments as it is not a recording but a re-enactment.
"A psychic woman I know told me she saw me as a male magician in the middle ages who reached 300 years of age before I died."
Which just goes to show these people are frauds. There is absolutely no evidence to suggest any human has lived 300 years. There is also absolutely no evidence that magic has ever existed, which is why modern magicians call themselves illusionists.
"gee...maybe if you are a decent person now, you were also decent in your past lives?"
Using that line of "thinking", the past "refuse" would be current "refuse" and telling people about their past lives. Your defensive comment did not provide an answer. Take some time to think before replying.
"It is difficult to talk about things like past lives in the face of folks who would rather shut down any thoughts and ideas about it. "
Now don't you go getting all defensive as well. It is not about shutting anything down, it is about complete lack of evidence that your beliefs are anything but beliefs. Also that there are no past life stories that are anything but cheap fiction. No person with a past life story has an imagination or any story telling skills, they just aren't believable. It is no different to the ghost stories where psychics claim they can talk to dead people.
"This site may not be the best venue to explore your interest here OP. There is lots of valuable information out there "
There is some valuable information out there, but none of it will lead you to past lives. You'll want to avoid that information more than this site. What is out there are lots of groups for people who do believe, whether that belief is in gods, past lives, aliens, atlantis, or santa. People in these groups will provide no information, but they will tell you lots of stories and tell you how great you are for uncovering your past lives.
"What kind of experience you have depends a lot on why you're thinking of doing it."
The experience depends entirely on the believers beliefs, as it comes from their mind, not reality.
"But never to know that perhaps, a past life causing pain, then another suffering similarly......those are what we do not wish to hear. They are not romantic or pretty."
Depends if one believes in reincarnation and the journey to enlightenment, or if one is being trendy and just wants romantic pretty things. Most believers of any belief system only want romantic and pretty, it is inevitably left up to those outside the sytem to show the full extent of the system.
"I am thrown down hard on my back "
You've been watching too much tv, this is not a memory.
Also your memory arrangement might not be accurate. Our memories are quite unreliable.
"I walked right to "the spot" and was certain that I had found it. It is both creepy and exhilarating to be standing on the spot where you know - just know - that you died."
But the problem is you "know" the same way any believer in history has "known" their god was real and would protect them. Also do you have much experience with navigation/orienteering? Even with a map and compass it is easy to convince yourself that you are in the right place, you "know" it, even though you are actually in the wrong place. Many fields and trees do look alike, and a movie scene you saw as a kid could look like many places you visited, without you ever finding the exact place.
"majority of past lifes are boring "
Yes, due to the author. Even the ones who try to make themselves special never have a good enough understanding of the people and places to make an interesting story.
"The fact that I am asking about this subject means that I haven't read a book or volunteered? It is interesting how you view the world,"
You really should go back and read domiguy's post, as that was not what he said at all. What he was saying is don't waste your time with past life fairytales, and instead read a book, take a journey, do something charitable. It doesn't matter if you have done these things in the past or not, they are a much better idea than throwing money at a thief who will tell you fairytales. Read before getting defensive, it saves so much time and effort.
"What is the appeal of past lives anyway?"
Immortality for one thing. Past lives, afterlives, they are both desperate grasps at immortality.
"Say for example you found you lived and died in some past life, what that would suggest is that for all eternity you would continue to die and live in this unending cycle of repetition and none of your lives are or any more importance than the last life you lived. "
Most people who believe in reincarnation believe in an endpoint "heaven". The point is to grow through multiple lifetimes until you are worthy of the "heaven".
LadyEllen,
If your post was not a joke, then your sense of guilt seems very appropriate giving your other feelings. Having a nazi past life might make you feel better about yourself, but it's not a nazi's feelings rolling around in your head, it's all you. Confronting why you have these feelings will be much more helpful than blaming an imaginary nazi past life.
"Some people claim looking back is a waste of time, negative, cowardly even, are usually people who are not in love with the idea of emotional expression."
Hiding in fantasy is not expressing anything, emotional or otherwise.
"My path is my path. I happen to feel and believe that people who can look into the past with the intent to heal themselves from inherited genetics"
Fantasy past lifes cannot heal the present unless it is merely roleplaying to explore real issues. Believing in past lives and that ones problems come from past lives is hiding from reality and emotions. It is an attempt to control without effort, just like prayer or ritual sacrifice. Also if you are going to dribble this past life stuff, don't try to legitimise it by throwing the word genetics in when you clearly have no idea what it means.
"I've always had what I consider a severe "gut reaction" to things I read and watch about the holocaust, and always felt that I was there. Once, when drawing blood on an elderly patient, I noticed a number tattoo on their inner forearm and I knew what it was right away, like it was familiar to me. It made my blood run cold."
This would be a normal reaction to the atrocities of the Nazi's, no past life necessary for these feelings, just some knowledge of history and empathy.
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