| I have been reading reincarnation stories since I was a | | | | and so was sent to ____." And the name of some |
| teenager. There is something deeply fascinating about | | | | obscure town in England (not London or York, but a |
| the past-life experiences people have remembered, | | | | much smaller town) popped into my mind. |
| and how they affect their current lives - or are | | | | I turned the page . . . and that was the town listed. |
| strangely mirrored in the present. | | | | I almost dropped the book! I thought, "This book is |
| As we explore someone's past incarnation in Ancient | | | | haunted!" |
| Rome, the American Civil War, or the Ming Dynasty, it | | | | But it wasn't the book that was haunted - as I told my |
| opens our minds to subtle possibilities. Did we live back | | | | Las Vegas ghost hunting audience - it was I who was |
| then? Who or what were we in past? And what does | | | | haunted by my past life. |
| it have to do with what I am experiencing in my life | | | | All of us are haunted by our past lives. |
| right now? | | | | What do Past-Life Influences Look Like? |
| I think that many of us who read reincarnation stories | | | | Past-life influences show up in little ways. You've |
| do so because we have dim recollections of our own | | | | probably experienced them yourself. |
| past lives, and we are trying to get more clarity on the | | | | The occasion when you traveled to some part of the |
| subject. | | | | world you had never visited and the place seemed |
| A Haunted Book? | | | | hauntingly familiar. |
| A few years ago I gave a talk at the Las Vegas | | | | The first time you met one of your best friends and |
| Paranormal Conference. At that lecture I told the | | | | felt that you had known them forever. |
| audience about an experience I had related to | | | | That special moment of recognition and illumination |
| reincarnation. | | | | when you sensed that you an your spouse were |
| Someone lent me a book that described in detail a | | | | carrying forward a relationship you had initiated in the |
| certain period in British history - a culture and time | | | | past. |
| period I had never studied before. The more I read, the | | | | That ultra strong sense of déjà vu, |
| more familiar seemed everything I was reading. It was | | | | when you felt certain you had experienced a current |
| as if the book was reminding me of things I had | | | | situation before, but you had no recollection of anything |
| always known. | | | | similar happening in this lifetime. |
| At one point, the author wrote that the monarch of | | | | These are just a handful of the many ways in which |
| that time had sent a certain knight or courtier to a | | | | past-life memories and karma influence our current, |
| specific location. The sentence was interrupted by the | | | | daily lives. And we are reminded of them when we |
| bottom of the page. The location would be named at | | | | read reincarnation stories. |
| the top of the next page, which had yet to be turned. | | | | We read reincarnation stories about other people |
| As I was reading, and before I turned to the next page, | | | | because, on a deeper level, we sense that we are |
| the strong thought came to me, "I remember that! So | | | | reading about ourselves. |