Who were you in your previous life??

[Dr MAG]

Originally Posted by Luana

I'm going to share a strange experience I had recently. I'm sitting in my American Literature class and the Professor is talking about William Faulkner. As she is going on about his life I had the most incredible feelings flowing all over my body, I mean really intense, almost orgasmic.

It made me think perhaps I could be him. I always felt that I was a walkin from the age of 7. I have no idea why nor do I know if this is the truth.

I continue to have those feelings when I think about it, not nearly as strong as the first time. I do feel there is something to this but I have no idea what.

Hi Luana

Really interesting experience!
William Faulkner was an inspired writer.
On the day the experience happened, remember your college professor. Was he/she conveying the passion of Faulkner's work, the magic, the fluidity?
Look at the writer's themes for a bit: Faulkner was intense about the relationship of whites to blacks; Mississippi, the deep south, the music, the river, earth. You may be resonating to the spirit of the "place" and the "era" and also the truth Faulkner responded to and wanted to convey about life.

Faulkner wrote in "stream of consciousness style"— he had connection –body and being to the universal energy; what Reich might call the "orgone". In your class the ripples you felt through your body were resonance with the spirit of a great man and, behind that, with his energy, and the causes he followed, even though you may not know all of them yet. (Get to know his interests, intensities, you may find they are very important to you too.) Not only that, you will find there is an integrity to his essential spirit. Perhaps his kundalini was raised and you resonated with that!
Follow that!!

So, perhaps you weren't Faulkner, your being responded to the spirit of the man conveyed by another instrument (the teacher) and you connected to the pure vibration conveyed.
That is some measure of what we call pure genius, greatness.
You are on the right track.


Either way, you are fortunate to have a resonant being.
Please take care of it.
It is very precious.

[246]

Originally Posted by Dr MAG

Hi Luana

Really interesting experience!
William Faulkner was an inspired writer.
On the day the experience happened, remember your college professor. Was he/she conveying the passion of Faulkner's work, the magic, the fluidity?
Look at the writer's themes for a bit: Faulkner was intense about the relationship of whites to blacks; Mississippi, the deep south, the music, the river, earth. You may be resonating to the spirit of the "place" and the "era" and also the truth Faulkner responded to and wanted to convey about life.

Faulkner wrote in "stream of consciousness style"— he had connection –body and being to the universal energy; what Reich might call the "orgone". In your class the ripples you felt through your body were resonance with the spirit of a great man and, behind that, with his energy, and the causes he followed, even though you may not know all of them yet. (Get to know his interests, intensities, you may find they are very important to you too.) Not only that, you will find there is an integrity to his essential spirit. Perhaps his kundalini was raised and you resonated with that!
Follow that!!

So, perhaps you weren't Faulkner, your being responded to the spirit of the man conveyed by another instrument (the teacher) and you connected to the pure vibration conveyed.
That is some measure of what we call pure genius, greatness.
You are on the right track.


Either way, you are fortunate to have a resonant being.
Please take care of it.
It is very precious.

Another similar writer is James Joyce. Sometimes I feel that I think like he writes. Maybe I was Joyce in a past life. Or maybe that's just where I'm at now in this life.

[Dr MAG]

This is an edited email of a private discussion: the recipient graciously agreed for their questions to be passed over in case they are useful to you (and it is updated):

"What you said spoke very loudly to me. I've had those thoughts about reincarnation and responses, but not sure where to go with them. Tell me, what do you mean by resonate being? I guess what I'm wondering about is the way you speak of it."

This last hour I've looked at a couple of other threads and find that "resonant" is suddenly full-on in one of them and appears to be cropping up, suite suddenly, elsewhere. Never saw that before in my peregrinations round this forum. So maybe, the very idea is coming to fruit in the collective consciousness.

Having said that, it is not surprising what I said spoke "loud" to your personal consciousness [and unconscious]. That usually happens when something is the truth. You know it within. It just "is". Your conscious mind may play with ideas and your conditioning and cultural frameworks may put up various fights; and your cellular memory will even chip in and maybe revolt, while your eternal spirit (so to speak) will be trying to move you on.

So, where to go with these "thoughts"?
In the first instance, the old adage "follow your heart" is the start, always was and always will be.
(There are some caveats on that, but too long a story for now.)

You are wondering about "resonate being"....
Resonate, resonance follow in the same line.
To be honest, to use the term and believe in the idea of "resonance" does not always mean one is on the path of truth, not at all. Then again I am an incredible stickler for detail, so in line with the present conversation, bear with me.

Resonance is acoustic; there is a "ring" about resonance, i.e. what "rings true". So that feels on the right track, yes! Something speaking "loud" in you, and "resonance" each have acoustic reverberations.

This is the path inward, the spiral path.

With Faulkner's words, or take Herman Hesse, or Marija Gimbutas, for instance, resonating within you, you can feel like a bell struck, ringing, the echoes go on....

What does that mean. "Was I him or her in another life?
Did I live by the Mississippi or Hamburg? Was I even one of the blacks the writer befriended? Did I share a consoling glass of drink with him? Did he/she sleep with me?
Was it his/her eyes I remember? Was he me, or did I know him?
Or do I resonate with the "place", the actual locality, rather than the person? Is that it?

These is the kind of questions one may ask if they feel particularly attracted to a historical person and suddenly gets an idea they might have been him or her in another lifetime.

Words from writers, philosophers, great minds, while they are the linear expression of acoustic chords, they also do have the ability, through the genius and mastery of an artist, to express multivalience (perhaps multidimensionally and hence multilinearly, therefore time-hopping) truth about life. This is why you can hear something now or read about it, say, the Epic of Gilgamesh from 5000 years ago, and suddenly you are there in ancient Mesopotamia and being spoken to directly. Does that mean you were there? Or you were Gilgamesh himself, or Inanna, the goddess? Or is the echo of expression, curling through the aurall shell of time and space, overcoming distance and simply marrying you to the family of similar beings?

You don't know, you may have been a fish in the Persian Gulf that caught sight of the flash of a sandal...

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To 246, you may not have been James Joyce, but just to resonate on a similar frequency he was on when he was writing will give you congruence with him. This is not about reincarnation though.

All this doesn't mean you cannot find out who or what you were— because you have been around before.

Just to finish this post off I will recount a story of a famous individual, still alive in Australia who came there from Europe as a young man. He was groomed, trained and crafted from a young boy in the occult which included very precise past life readings for people. Years ago, because of my research interests, and while sharing time with him, I asked him many questions. One of the things he said was that many people came to him expecting to be told they were famous people in history. He said usually the reverse proved true.

With recollections and study, this is so. One example concerns a member of the Renaissance Medici family of Rome. Now not everybody would want to have been one of them in a past life! But let's say, you were. And it dawned upon you as something terrible, nothing to feel smart about. And then you met someone at a festival or space/place and in the course of a conversation they said to you, "Oh, I was that ***Medici person in a past life" with a smug sense of satisfaction. How would you feel? Now there is two of you!

Getting back to the past life reader— He said to me he had met at least a dozen Cleopatras. And you probably know of a few Ra's and Amenhotep's yourself? Or a couple of Crowleys, or a Hitler? Without opening the subject area up to too wide an ambit, and this gets back to my earlier discussion in this thread, a person may or may not have been someone that they "resonate" powerfully to, or are attracted to.


If it has to do with a past life situation, a person who imagines they were Cleopatra, for instance, in that day and age, may have been anyone of hundreds of thousands of young Egyptian/Near-Eastern girls and women, who were anything from handmaidens, hairdressers or servants, to a person watching the litter pass by of the queen, and wishing with all their being that they were her. There was only one, however. The rest are subsumed into the archetype.

When it comes to past lives, as I mentioned earlier in this thread, do you really want to know? It can be a rocky road.

Sometimes you may really need to know.
Don’t try and jump the gun, however.
Go within; stay humble, honest, and very close to your heart-resonance, beyond the illusions.

It will work out.

This mail has grown. Thanks to viking for starting this thread. So long for now.

[viking]

Thanks Dr Mag

Very interesting information... It really does beg the question do we really want to know??? As you eloquently say here..

With recollections and study, this is so. One example concerns a member of the Renaissance Medici family of Rome. Now not everybody would want to have been one of them in a past life! But let's say, you were. And it dawned upon you as something terrible, nothing to feel smart about. And then you met someone at a festival or space/place and in the course of a conversation they said to you, "Oh, I was that ***Medici person in a past life" with a smug sense of satisfaction. How would you feel? Now there is two of you!

Also as we are approaching the time of great happenings. And the Golden age and our conciousness expanding...Will we be able to remember all our past lives??? The mind really does boggle hey?? I'll join you for a cuppa!!

Thanks again Dr for your generous input.

viking