RE: [FairfieldLife] Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TurquoiseB Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 12:42 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations Or, for that matter, if you've got some idea who *you* might have been in a previous incarnation, do tell. A couple of people suggested to me, independent of one another, that I might have been Mark Twain. I guess they thought so because of some similarities in our personalities, or my Tom Sawyerish nature. There were some similarities in our lives. I was born and used to teach TM in Connecticut. He lived and died there. His wife was from Buffalo. My father grew up there. His wife slipped on the ice and injured herself seriously. My wife is inordinately afraid of slipping and falling. He lived in the Midwest near where I live. He visited India and was interested in yogis, siddhis, etc. He visited Switzerland and sat on a bench on Lake Lucerne. I sat on the same bench, or at least at the same spot. But I have no intuitive insight of having been him, or anyone. I did have a heavy dream on my 6 month course that seemed to be a past life unstressing. In it, I was running along a beach at night, in a state of great fear, with bombers droning overhead. A woman whose TTC I taught told me I was a journalist in WWII and had been killed in the war. I was born in 1949. 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.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations
On Jun 9, 2007, at 12:42 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: So, who else -- in the public eye and thus people we'd be familiar with, or in the TM/spiritual scene, for the same reasons -- do you know who has speculated publicly as to who they might have been in a past life? I think Abraham Lincoln once speculated he might have been Andy Rymer. Or, for that matter, if you've got some idea who *you* might have been in a previous incarnation, do tell.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Idea for a Fun Thread: People's Previous Incarnations
TurquoiseB wrote: snip Or, for that matter, if you've got some idea who *you* might have been in a previous incarnation, do tell. How do you know that it isn't genetic memory (if there is such a thing) or a past life non genetic. For instance if you somehow wound up with talents your parents didn't have and believed that it came from a past life and then discovered your great great grandfather also was a master in that field it could be genetic. Maybe we are able to remember some of the experiences our ancestors had. When teaching music I would have an occasional student with extraordinary abilities when neither parent were musically inclined. At the time I had to credit that to reincarnation. I may well have studied tantra in a past life as I seem to have come into this one with some techniques that I didn't know were tantric until I learned tantra. And know at least to what I've been able to ascertain of my ancestors non of them learned tantra. :) There is also an interesting theory about reincarnation that when one dies the atoms scatter and creatures when born pick up these atoms and they are what are giving one the sensation of a past life.
