Past Lives Part Two

Past lives part two

When I had completed my list of unique things to which I felt attracted, as well as things that bothered me, I sat down at the kitchen table, held my breath, and Googled my name.  I didn’t find much, so I started searching starting by Googling my name followed by the first item on the list – the country of Norway.  I decided to search images instead of text to see if I recognized anything I saw, and somehow found myself researching a Danish author Karen Blixen http://www.karenblixen.com/ whose work I had never heard of before.  She had my same first and middle names, and her maiden name was similar to mine. 

I headed over to Books-A-Million http://www.booksamillion.com/?&ad=BNGBAMM and ordered two of her books.  I was intrigued, because I remember from my trip to Norway that I had a much easier time understanding the Danish than I did Norwegian, and reading Danish came naturally for me as well even though I struggled with reading Norwegian.  Reading the details of her life drew out the most intense sorrow I have ever felt, and I couldn’t put into words exactly why.  I had to quit reading about her for awhile, but her books still came in from where I ordered them.

Curiosity finally overcame awkwardness, so I started reading more about Karen Blixen.  This was very uncomfortable for several reasons, the first being that my logical mind tells me that the likelihood of being someone semi-famous in a past life has to be statistically very low.   Of the over six billion people alive in the world, how many were really that famous in this life or in a past life or ever? “Used to be famous” is not a likely statistic, that’s for sure, so I kept my guard up really high.  I decided that I would feel most comfortable if I could prove that I was not her in a past life, so I comforted myself with that goal.

This past-life research occurred during the same time period where I was also seeking other types of personal growth and had begun using Holosync meditations which I ordered online from Centerpointe at http://www.centerpointe.com/holosync/?gclid=CPiO1PnZ2qQCFRBL2godxkj4rg .  The personal growth methods encouraged by Centerpointe Research Institute and its mastermind Bill Harris (also a co-author in Rhonda Byrne’s the Secret http://www.thesecret.tv/ ) include being okay with whatever happens and approaching issues with curiosity; these were the mind-frames I attempted to keep during my research.  It didn’t take long for my studies to become very interesting. 

Past Lives Part One

Here is my story:

Past Lives Part One
I have several friends and family members who I’ve felt strong connections with over the years. Sometimes we would jokingly say, “We must have been related in a past life,” but it has always been more of a passing comment rather than an intentional statement of fact. I found myself curious about past lives though, and continually wondering if there was anything to the past lives phenomenon. I was raised strict Seventh-Day-Adventist, so the possibility that there was anything to the theory of reincarnation felt strictly taboo. It was forbidden, not necessarily false.
One day my husband showed me a video online about a lady who had past-life memories as Anne Frank. Here is the link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6323600618966598174# . I was very interested, because if she had actual memories then I was sure that there was a way for me to access actual past life memories as well.
We found another interesting story about a little boy with past life memories from world war two. Here is the link to that article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1209795/Reincarnated-Our-son-World-War-II-pilot-come-life.html . This story made me very curious about whether some of my interests, dreams, and night-mares had links to past-life experiences, as well as wondering how to find out more. I used the concept about names from both stories to conclude that my name was likely Karen in a past life – I never felt that I should be called by a different name as the lady who had past life memories as Anne Frank felt, and in the other story the little boy had past life memories with the same name as he currently has.
I couldn’t stop thinking about the idea, so I made up a list of things that I felt unexplainably attracted to. I then made a list of things that I was afraid of. I was thinking these might help me find a lead to myself in a past life. I had not yet heard of past life regression at the time, and I would probably not have tried it if I did hear about it because I wanted hard evidence.