Has anyone here successfully uncovered a past life identity? How'd that work out for you?

[BlueIris]

As in, with the Internets and facts and stuff? For various reasons, mostly curiosity, I'm thinking of taking a stab at finding the real name and real life history of the woman I was in my last life cycle. Even though she was allegedly...not such a nice lady.

I've been able to intuit a birthday and place of birth. So I'm thinking of doing some more digging. I think it would make a good project for Mars Retrograde. Has anyone else tried doing something like this?

[Kind of Blue]

1. I believe I've confirmed 3.

A surprising fourth when my husband went through a regression recounting the day he died in one life and who was in his house.

The most recent was finding a foreign word that was in a recurrent dream, thru childhood and 20's, of being a little Asian girl and the word tapay shouted seemingly as a warning before a tsunami struck. Found out doing more digging on the Internet that the word is Filipino related to cresting water. I think the meaning of that life is to know that life is creativity and not let misfortunes stop creative flow.

The second, again through a dream, before asking for an answer - that I was ready to know - to a heartbreaking question. Little did I know that I would be reliving the exact events in the dream at least 3years later when my husband's ex-wife passed away and family life took another course. I was shown in the dream the instance of the "mistake" I made concerning "my son" that to me seemed unforgivable.

This one had an interesting twist because the same therapist, my husband's psychologist cousin, thought that the answer was so hard that she assumed the turmoil had roots going back further. Under regression, we found the beginning in a life from a couple of thousands years ago. After ex-wife passed, cousin calls and said seems like same actors different time taking another stab at it, let's see if we can stop the pattern in this one. Man, was I ready for that :rofl: When things came to a head this time, I stepped out of the picture. It's funny, this time the same "terrible" decision was made but I didn't make it - my stepson did! But it eventually turned into a happy ending this past week after a family gathering in Nevada to celebrate my late MIL. The boy and I had a particularly rough relationship. He's 21 now. When we dropped him off at his house, he suddenly came back out and said, Hey, KOB, you want a hug. I said yeah, you? He said yeah. I got out of the car and we embraced for a long, long time :cry: :cry: :cry:

I'm sure the lessons I've learned are of patience and that love is ever expansive.

The only facts that I have is that I've related these dreams to family and friends way before events in them happened in the present.

[Celebration]

10. great story!!

What a wonderful embrace!

I know nothing of my past lives, but have the feeling that I have been mostly poor in my past lives, and prone to do most anything to help my family survive.

[Kind of Blue]

13. Thank you, Celebration!

I think the knowing/feeling with little confirmations here and there has really helped settle or encourage good things.

As an aside, I think it's interesting that of the lives listed in this this thread, no one so far was Cleopatra or Julius Ceasar or Marilyn Monroe, just regular folks living the best way we could.

[Cleita]

2. Never have done it but am thinking of trying to

reach back. My mother told me stories of when I was a baby and learning to talk that I used words that weren't part of the language, but distinct words and not just baby talk words of the language I was learning. She said I called actual objects by these words that I "made up". She thought I was making words up when I was eighteen months old. Unfortunately, she never wrote down what I said and I don't remember. I'm not a good subject for hypnosis so I will have to find a different way to go back there. I think if I can trace the language I probably can trace back a former life. I think it would be wonderful if you can research a former life and find out who you were for real in a previous life.

[MorningGlow]

3. I haven't actually confirmed any with absolute facts

But I always found it interesting that I instinctively knew my way around Glastonbury despite never having been there before. Ditto for New Orleans, where I was a quadroon "kept woman" by a retired Confederate War officer. It wasn't a regression, exactly--he came through in a witchboard session. He only gave his initials, and it was really difficult to try to find any information on him, but I didn't make as strong an effort as I should have. I hope to reconnect with him someday and get more info.

[Why Syzygy]

4. "not such a nice lady"

BlueIris .. I know you have concerns about who you might have been and what 'you' may have done.
I also know that you think your astro chart is mm. 'tainted'..

I don't know if you can learn this now. It has taken me a long time, loss of teeth and a lot of extra weight to
FINALLY realize that EVERYONE IS DOING THE BEST THEY CAN. I hate to admit that I had some judgments for people
who had 'flaws' in the past. No more! No one sets out to be an overweight mess or a toothless wonder.
We can't help it! We are doing the best we can given the resources we have and how/if we use them.
Especially you've got to someday realize that 'you' did the best you can at that time.

I know that I was in rural Georgia one time. (I love Georgia, but have never lived there.)
I also know I was a mason in another, during the Middle Age-ish. (I am drawn to castles, not so much to cathedrals.)

If you choose to pursue this, I wish you the best and forgiveness for anything that might bring shame.

[BlueIris]

9. Yeah, obviously, I'm still having...issues about who she was.

Actually, I'm trying to be open to the fact that I don't yet know any "facts" about this person, only what I and others have sluiced out with intuitive work. So she might not even be a she. I'm hoping that whatever I find takes the sting out of it.

[get the red out]

5. I've tried a little

I believe I was a man in my last life, killed in WWII. BUT, speaking of "not so nice", I think I was an Austrian fighting in the Nazi army and was killed by the British in 1944.

I've had a few "visions" and dreams of him. On the edge of sleep I saw myself as a boy swimming in a huge lake in the mountains in Austria, then I had a meditative vision of a young man who was in the German army. I tend to think of Nazi's as just cookie cutter evil but I saw this guy playing clarinet in what I have to describe as an "om-pa" band in a bar having a great time, still in uniform. He had brown wavy hair and was the life of the party. Not a stereotype I would have envisioned in my imagination. I came out of that meditation humming the tune they were playing. I even got a name but didn't find anything on the internet, but Austria looked a lot like my dream.

Incidentally, I played clarinet from 5th grade through graduate school. I probably ought to take another stab at looking for Heinrich.

[eilen]

6. I had a dream once of being some military commanders

housestaff/servant. My job entailed taking care of his frail wife, baby, preparing meals etc. I was young and optimistic, even in a situation that I could not imagine living in now. I was also feeling a little arrogant for being strong and healthy while the higher born woman I cared for was weak, sickly and seemingly incapable of dealing or doing anything. I can still feel the dew on the grass and the dampened fabric of my skirt as I walked barefoot in the cool morning to the water pump/well at the camp wondering what man's future I would be tied with. It was a very vivid dream, as if I just stepped inside this girls head.

[FirstLight]

7. wow...that actually sounds like fun!

I have visions/dreamtime stuff about past lives, but most of them are archetypical and more ancient in nature...

I'd love to hear about your discoveries. Someday if i ever get any of that kind of info, i would surely look it up for myself!

[BlueIris]

8. Wow, thanks for these responses.

Happy to know I'm not the only one who tried to track someone down IRL.

Also happy to see that we've got the usual cornucopia of past life experiences here. I thought I was the only one with at least one past life that was, er, not so proud-making.

[SheilaT]

11. I've had several past life regressions,

but none of the lives (a Jewish girl who died at about age 14 in the Warsaw Ghetto, a Native American woman from some time in the 19th century, a sailor in probably the 17th century, a life in ancient Egypt) have not been at all conducive to establishing any of those actual identities.

For me, personally, the emotional verity of those lives are proof enough for me, but it's easy to understand why someone would like to find more actual verification.

Have you actually had a past-life regression to this life? I'd think that would be the best way to try to get verifiable information.

I had a niece, who when she was very young and in the learning to talk stage, didn't make up words, but spoke with a syntax that was so obviously not American English, that I'm convinced she was holding over the language patterns of a previous life. After a while that all went away and she speaks normal American English.

[hermetic]

12. I had a guided regression once

many years ago. I was in a relationship that was going very badly for some reason after many good years and I was looking to see if there was something from long ago. What I saw, and experienced the pain, was that this person once chopped off my head. It looked to be in medieval times.

I 'got' that now my trial was to learn to forgive this person, which I eventually did. We have since gone our separate ways and did part as friends.

[BlueIris]

14. Okey dokey. This project is officially off the table for now.

Uh, why? Well...

To be frank, because this identity sucked.

I expected to start digging around (intuitively) and pick up things that could explain why I behaved so badly in my most recent past life (I was worried I was in danger of becoming like this person.) Instead, I began digging around and the impression I got: criminal. Not a decent person who made bad choices, a misanthrope and mentally ill person who committed crimes because she wanted to. Very sad.

So I'm too disturbed to find out anything else really. Hopefully, this is the last time I flirt with finding out who this person was, as this is the second (or third) time I've been too creeped out by what came back with just a little intuiting to want to go any deeper.

[MorningGlow]

15. Don't worry about it

We've all had those lives we can be, um, less than proud of. For lots of different reasons.

I always laugh when skeptics scoff at past-life discussions, accusing us all of claiming to have been Cleopatra or Elizabeth I or whatever. All the lives I've seen have been very common ones--many downright BORING, in fact--and some quite questionable when it comes to morals.

BI, just the fact that you saw this lifetime for what it was and acknowledged that you might still be carrying some traits or tendencies from that lifetime, and (most important) STOPPED and chose not to follow those patterns again is all the lesson you need to know about that particular lifetime. Let it go. Maybe someday you'll feel more comfortable with investigating it further, or maybe not. Either way, it's okay.

[Fire Walk With Me]

16. Some insight has been given about where is all this crap coming from.

I've needed that insight.

[AC_Mem]

17. I believe I know of one

I did a past life regression and a life came through very clearly. I have the name, general area of life and death, and details of my life then.

Where to start to confirm what came through was always a puzzle for me. Do you have suggestions as to where you would start?

There are some outstanding past life guided meditations out there, I recommend "Mirrors of Time" - a book by Brian L. Weiss, M.D. (author of Many Lives, Many Masters). The book has a guided past life meditation cd in it.

Link at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Mirrors-Time-Regression-Emotional-Spiritual/dp/1561709298/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315156691&sr=8-1

Interesting subject!

Annette

[get the red out]

21. Very good books/CDs

I loved Brian Weisses books, just amazing stuff. I also have had some results from the CD.

[kimmerspixelated]

18. Someone here

a few years back, now I believe, told me that I had once been royalty and that my father was the same father I had in a previous life! I believe the reading also touched on the fact that I was a writer and healer. I am a writer in this life and learning about alternative medicine comes quite easily to me.. I wished I'd kept that information, because I know there was more.

[GliderGuider]

19. Yes, I've confirmed a past life name in an old-fashioned library.

I have always had very strong memories of being an RAF Spitfire pilot during the Battle of Britain in 1940, including an unexplained familiarity with the Spit's cockpit layout. When I was about 25 I had a "waking dream" of flying a Spitfire on patrol. In the dream I caught a glimpse of motion back to my left. When I turned my head to get a better look I just had time to realize it was a German fighter firing on me. Three machine gun rounds came through the canopy - one forward near the windscreen, one halfway back, and the third hit me in the neck just under my left jaw, and killed me. As this happened I got a name and a squadron number. The squadron number was 609, and the name was "Pilot Officer Blayne, with a 'Y'".

About a year later I was in the library, and found a book listing the "Order of Battle" for the RAF and the Luftwaffe during that period. I remembered my vision, and looked up 609 Squadron. In the summer of 1940, 609 Squadron was based at an airfield named Middle Wallop in the south-east of England. They were flying Spitfires. The roster for July 1940 listed the squadron personnel, including a "Pilot Officer A. J. Blayney" - "Blayne with a y"... He was not listed on the August roster...

I was born this time in 1950.

I've found a couple of mentions of Blaney on the net, but not enough to get a fix on what happened to him IRL.

[GliderGuider]

20. I've had two visions that showed past lives, but not in a way that could be tracked.

In one I was a financial adviser to an English nobleman in maybe the 1600s. I was apparently a very good adviser at first, then I started to believe my own press and made a major mistake that cost my patron a whole lot of money. The vision was of my patron looking up at me grimly from the crowd around the scaffold, the feeling of the trap door under my boots falling open, and the snap of my neck as rope ended that life.

In the other I was a young Asian (Chinese, Korean or Japanese) child being taken to live at a Buddhist monastery in the mountains. The vision covered a walk up the mountain road in the company of an older man, my introduction to the head monk at the monastery, and ended in my tiny room with a narrow bed and a small chest of drawers. I remember sitting on the bed feeling totally ecstatic that I would be introduced into the mysteries. I couldn't tell the nationality or the era.

As you can see, there's nothing to go on for validation. On the other hand, the important thing about these matters isn't whether they are "true" in some objective sense, but insteat what meaning they hold. Both these visions have very strong resonances in my current life.

[findrskeep]

22. I've been meaning to reply to this thread and just now finally

got the chance to sit down and do it! Thank you B.I. for such an interesting topic. A few years ago I had a really strange thing happen. We were living in KS and had just gone through a horrendous experience, like finding out our business partners were using us and were actually criminals! One day a yellow bird showed up at my window. I thought it was odd at the time, but didn't pay too much attention to it until it started showing up at the window of each room I entered. Then about 3 days later, ANOTHER yellow bird showed up and the same thing happened, they followed me from room to room. Honestly, if my husband and kids did not see those birds, this story would've never gotten out because I wouldn't have told it to anyone as crazy as it sounds! This went on for about 12 days. We were in the process of trying to move somewhere, anywhere as long as we were out of KS. So fast forward to our move to New England. We rented a furnished house online. When we arrived, we walked into the foyer of this 1715 house and what was hanging on the wall but a print of two yellow gold finches, male and female. The EXACT birds I had had the experience with in KS.

So I had been reading Dr. Michael Newton's book, "Journey of Souls". He does "life between life" research. It's really fascinating stuff. In the back of the book he had listed past life regressionists who had trained under him and one was local to us. So my husband and I went to have our life between lives regression. During the session, I saw myself as a male Indian. I was sitting on the ground watching this fire burning. When the hypnotist asked me why I was watching the fire, I replied, "So I can tell my people of the prophecy I receive". Very weird!

A few days later, I was doing a meditation and I clearly saw the letters "P E Q U O T" float by. I made a mental note to later google those letters to see what came up. Later that afternoon, I typed the words into google. The first page I clicked on said that the Pequot were an Indian tribe from this region, but that's not what caught my eye. As I scrolled down page, I saw the words "yellow feather" beside the name "Massasoit". As I read further, I saw that he was the Indian chief who signed the treaty with the Pilgrims on the first Thanksgiving. His name meant "Yellow Feather" and he was the leader of the Wampanoag tribe. But what gave me chills was the date. It was signed March 20, 1621. The day we went to have the life between lives regression was March 20th!

So I don't know if this was all coincidence or what...as I have no real proof other than synchronicity. But it certainly was interesting!

[Kind of Blue]

23. Wonderful story, Findrskeep!

Just too many coincidences to be dismissed.

[Howler]

24. the karma of Two of my past lives are what is relevant

to my current incarnation.
I started to remember them in my early "dirty thirties" They help me understand what,why,how,things are the way they are and give me a general direction on how to achieve maximum growth and evolution this time around.(when I'm feeling confidant enough to actually learn ) LOL!!!
For me..... Its been verified in fractals.
My ascendant sign helped to verify one incarnation. Which was a fractal of my numerology chart.
My personal Tarot cards were another fractal of my astrological,numerological charts.
Even the names and the meaning of the names of my guides were another fractal of the whole.
My medicine totem animals,Celtic tree and animals,etc ect.....You guessed it. Fractals of the whole.
Plus If your working from the theory of your guides being you in past,future,and present lives You get some pretty big clues.

I'm going to assume its that way for every one ....Or it could just mean that i'm really REALLY slow and the patterns have to keep repeating to catch my attention.:rofl: