Maybe you were around back then?

[PrettySquareGal]

Do you believe in reincarnation? I don't know if I do; I know that I have no logical explanation for it if it does occur. However, I sometimes have a sense of coming home when I read certain old books or listen to Glen Miller. I sometimes feel like I heard it the first time around. I've also always felt like an old lady, and I don't mean that in a negative sense, but like I've been around a long time.

What are you beliefs about reincarnation?

 

[Dixon Cannon]

I second that emotion...

I've felt that way for my entire adult life. It seems to be related to WWII, England and those big, beautiful birds, the B-17 Bombers. I can't fully explain it, but I have a deep affinity for that period.

I had never seen a B-17 'Flying Fortress' until 1978 in Chino, CA. The moment I stepped inside I felt as if I had been there before. I had to sit down for a moment and take it all in - it was almost overwhelming.

I just seem to take it for granted now. I've been here before. If I don't get it right this time, I'll no doubt be back again. Now I just enjoy the experience - like Deja Vous, all over again!!

-dixon cannon

 

[LizzieMaine]

I guess I'm sort of "well, I dunno, but..." when it comes to such things. No clearly structured system of belief or non-belief in such matters, but on the other hand, ever since childhood I've always had a very strong affinity for a time that I wasn't born into. When I used to draw pictures as a little girl, I'd draw things that were not of the era I lived in -- when I drew people, they were wearing vintage-era clothes, if I drew a telephone, I'd draw a candlestick-type phone, or if I drew people riding in a car, it'd be an open-topped twenties-style touring car, and other odd things like that. Nobody ever said anything to me about it, and I never really thought about it as being all that unusual -- it's just the way I seemed to naturally drift.

I tend to feel most connected with a period starting from about 1925, continuing thru the thirties and forties, and tapering off by the middle fifties. I was born in 1963. Someone who believed seriously in reincarnation might draw a conclusion from all that, but it could just as easily be a serious case of "chronological dysphoria" or something. I've never really tried to get to the bottom of it -- it's just the way I am.

Interesting to think about though.

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Wow! You've done it again. Ya went and struck a familiar chord in my conciousness.

Again. I think it explains my fascination with the 40's, WW2, the army air force in particular, and well, all things vintage.
I grew up on Glenn Miller and I've always had this great interest in flight, but at the same time I have a great fear of flight also!
In particular, it's a fear of someone else's piloting. If I knew how to fly it would not really bother me so much I think.
So I think that maybe I was in a plane that someone else crashed. [huh]

 

[Andykev]

I used to know, but that was in my other life.

If reincarnation is true...then there has been the argument that the number of people born into this world is far smaller than simply doing the math, and projections on population explosion worldwide.

In this context, you are destined to "live" several lives, in different cultures and places..rich/poor, etc. You then are supposedly "tested" on how you handled the circumstances given you, ie. the attainment of the ultimate good.

So the unfortunate poor, cripple, or oppressed birth would be a "test" of how you handle it. In the same context, you can speculate that being "filthy rich" and how you used your wealth, ie greed, or for making the world a better place.

Quite simply, is one life, be it a short one, such as a young lad being killed crossing the street on his bike at say, age 8....is that person really having the true "test" from the creator? Sounds like a science fiction theme?

No I don't believe in reincarnation. You get what you are delt. You never know when this ride will end. Why does anyone think there is a "second chance"? Maybe we all have mental abilities we have yet to understand, where some people can connect to the thoughts or threads of knowledge from prior lives........

Mind boggeling?

 

[Joseph Ciotti]

I do believe I was born in the mafia age, I've contacted my guardian through the automatic writing technique, he told me I died in 1928 at the age of 41, he was 33, died by a car bomb. It may sound unbelievable. This was in Chicago, if my guardian isn't lying. I had the same name in my past life... It's kind of unexplainable really.

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

And something to ponder anyway, whether we choose to believe it or not.
One thing that makes it seem more plausable to me is the fact that there have probably been countless trillions of people that have lived and died on this planet. Would make for a crowded afterlife,.....[huh]

 

[PrettySquareGal]

I know reincarnation doesn't make sense or seem possible on an intellectual level, but then again, neither does infinity yet the universe has no beginning or end...

 

[artdecodame]

I have believed in it for quite awhile, although I admit to being not so sure in the beginning. The feeling for me personally is especially prominent while watching old films (especially from the 1920's & 30's eras), or listening to singers like Ruth Etting, Lee Morse and Rudy Vallee. I pity those who are so stuck in not only modern trends, but life in general. I wouldn't be where I am today emotionally and personality-wise if it were not for the olden days...I just wouldn't have anything to relate to, for one thing. I like to say I was an actress in a past life, which really could be true (either that or something to do with the entertainment world.)
They say you can dream about past lives, or have a sort of "deja vu" while awake. I've had that so very many times.

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

I pity those who are so stuck in not only modern trends, but life in general. I wouldn't be where I am today emotionally and personality-wise if it were not for the olden days...I just wouldn't have anything to relate to, for one thing.

Yeah, I hear that sister. These modern times we are stuck in just have no soul, no substance, everything is so commercial and shallow.

 

[PrettySquareGal]

Yeah, I hear that sister. These modern times we are stuck in just have no soul, no substance, everything is so commercial and shallow.

Regardless of whether or not I was around once or many times before, I am definitely an old Victorian lady in heart and soul. I love the 40's and 50's, but my soul is circa 1881.

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Maybe you really are an "old soul" then!?

 

[PrettySquareGal]

Maybe you really are an "old soul" then!?

I have no doubt that I am. Does that I mean "I" was alive back then? I don't know.

 

[VintageJess]

An adapted version...

PSG,

I can say that I completely identify with you as well. From the time I was a little girl, my Mom would always say that I was an "old soul." My interests have always been in history and the past. I go to events like VFW meetings, and I feel like I am among old friends while talking with the old WWII veterans and their spouses. When I listen to music of that era, read magazines and literature about the time, watch the movies, etc.--it all just feels "right." I find it to be very difficult to describe, other than simply a higher level of comfort and familiarity than anything that I've ever experienced with modern culture.

As far as reincarnation, I suppose that I prefer a somewhat modified version. I tend to believe that we have our ancestry living on inside of us--they are alive inside of our souls. Maybe it sounds a bit hokey, but I do feel that it explains a lot of our inclinations and preferences, and the deja vu feelings that we often experience.

Just my two cents,
Jessica

 

[Matthew Dalton]

I don't believe in reincarnation, but unless proof either way was produced I wouldn't write it off.
My mother had some theory I was killed in a war-time explosion because of how I reacted to loud noises as an infant. I don't know how differently she thinks other babies reacted to loud noises but it's nonsense to me...
My aversion to what was "normal" as a child and leanings toward the Golden Era intrigue me. I don't believe I was exposed to old movies or culture or anything like that as a kid, just the opposite. I still can't place where my interest began... Possibly after seeing the movie "Harvey" some years ago? Or seeing the painting "Nighthawks"?
From when I was young up until now I've always gotten along better with people over 35, much better than with most people my own age.
I do believe in life after death though, because of certain things I've seen.

 

[Benny Holiday]

I don't believe in reincarnation, but I do understand well that feeling of belonging elswehere (elsewhen?) that we get from time to time. If reincarnation was valid, I guess we'd feel that way about various periods of history, or that everyone would share our love of old things. Everyone's different, and we just happen to have an affinity for an aesthetic that was prominent in days gone by. That doesn't mean I'd love to live all of the Golden Era - with its racism and World War II and so on - but there are certain aspects of the music, dress, furniture, etiquette, cars, architecture, dance and so on that I really enjoy.

 

[Andykev]

Please share

I do believe in life after death though, because of certain things I've seen.

I am very interested. What have you seen?

 

[Matthew Dalton]

Back when I a bit younger I caught site of a large, perhaps six foot apparition floating passed our window down our decking. It was clearly unsupported and probably about a foot above the deck. We were inside in well-lit conditions and the deck is quite visible from that window. This was the side of the house concealed to others, a cousin and family friend also saw it. We were young and for some reason we didn't go out to view it. I think we told our parents who didn't take much notice. It seemed to me to be like a large sheet, kind of like a cartoon ghost. No one believed us. Had anyone been out there they would of been heard by our parents who were seated in the other side of the room, you could hear people walking down the decking easily and this would of attracted attention.

Many years later at a party we were talking to our neighbours form next-door who had never heard the story. The conversation turned to the supernatural they then told me about how their house is haunted by a woman in a flowing, period dress. It had appeared to several people there. It wasn't a cartoonish sheet at all...

In the same house my father claimed to of seen both of my grandfathers soon before and after they were deceased.

The other things are not as direct and tend to revolve around quite personal family matters.

 

[funneman]

Past lives?

I was reading somewhere about a study that suggested really strong memories in parents, can be passed from parent to child, just like hair color, eye color, etc.

Since I was born in the fifties, it would stand to reason that incidents in the forties would be the strongest or most recent memories of my parents.

WW-2 would have left some pretty strong memories for them, like a lot of young couples, they're entire lives were uprooted and changed drastically, forever.

Like a lot of others in this thread, I too have a strong feelings around Aviation. As it happens, my father worked on planes when he was in the Navy during the war. In fact, anyone living in the forties would have been very interested in Aviation as it was the latest and greatest thing going.
(Look at the fascinaton Stetson and Resistol have had with planes.)

Interesting?

Anyone else hear anything about this study?

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

Not neccessarily reincarnation, but...

My Dad was born in 1906 and my Mom in 1916, so I sometimes feel part of an older generation even though I was born in 1961.