I've been interested in exploring the concept of past lives for some time, and would like to know what you all think.
When I was very young, I had a "memory" that I really thought was my own. I remembered (and still remember) standing in a big field, holding my Dad's hand, and watching a VERY early airplane flight, i.e., one of the first airplanes ever built. I can still see it in my mind, and I remember my Dad commenting that someday people would fly all over the country in airplanes. It wasn't until much later, when I was older, that I realized this couldn't have come from my own childhood, as I was born in 1950 and by then people WERE flying all over the place! A memory from a past life? I really don't know, all I know is that it was very real to me.
There are some places in the world that I have never been to, but when I look at pictures of them they seem very familiar to me. Some of the ancient dwellings in this country's southwest, such as Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde, are like that. Also places in the northeast of the U.S., and the British Isles. Past lives, or maybe some sort of ancestral imprint on my DNA? I don't know... (In my mind, more likely past lives, as my ancestry is purely German. I suppose they could have visited England and Ireland, but not likely North America!)
Carole
When I was very young, I had a "memory" that I really thought was my own. I remembered (and still remember) standing in a big field, holding my Dad's hand, and watching a VERY early airplane flight, i.e., one of the first airplanes ever built. I can still see it in my mind, and I remember my Dad commenting that someday people would fly all over the country in airplanes. It wasn't until much later, when I was older, that I realized this couldn't have come from my own childhood, as I was born in 1950 and by then people WERE flying all over the place! A memory from a past life? I really don't know, all I know is that it was very real to me.
There are some places in the world that I have never been to, but when I look at pictures of them they seem very familiar to me. Some of the ancient dwellings in this country's southwest, such as Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde, are like that. Also places in the northeast of the U.S., and the British Isles. Past lives, or maybe some sort of ancestral imprint on my DNA? I don't know... (In my mind, more likely past lives, as my ancestry is purely German. I suppose they could have visited England and Ireland, but not likely North America!)
Carole