Re "I'm in the same room of a castle, or in the courtyard of a large city like Carcassonne . . " and "Papal Palace in Avignon, realizing that I had not only been there before but been tortured (probably to death) there.":
Aha! So you are claiming you were a Cathar in a previous life. As in "The Cathars & Reincarnation" by Arthur Guirdham (first edition 1970) up to "Labyrinth" by Kate Mosse set both in the Middle Ages and present-day France and published in 2005. Two possibilities: 1) your imagination has been hyper-activated by reading too much on this popular theme. 2) you really were a Cathar and your present incarnation is a continuation of the spiritual life you led back then. So your interest in FFL. ---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.
