| The best reincarnation stories not only entertain us, but | | | | a gentle hill, I seated myself in the midst of a flock of |
| offer examples of how reincarnation may impact our | | | | sheep. |
| own lives, and keys to see our own past-life influences. | | | | What happened next was very unusual. I haven't |
| Here is a reincarnation story that does all three. It has | | | | experienced anything like it before or since. |
| to do with an experience I had many years ago. | | | | As I gazed at that sheep pasture I saw, superimposed |
| "I was a tourist in England at the time and my friend | | | | on it, a moving line drawing of soldiers hacking at each |
| and I decided to visit where the Battle of Hastings took | | | | other with swords, of horses rearing and spears being |
| place. | | | | raised and shields going up. My eyes seemed to focus |
| The site is located some ten or twenty miles north and | | | | on one particular soldier, and I watched as he died. |
| inland from the town of Hastings. It is called Battle | | | | As the sheep gently nudged me, I wept with abandon |
| Abbey-named after the church built on the spot where | | | | for about 45 minutes. I felt that I was releasing |
| Harold of England fell in battle to the forces of William | | | | something I had held deep inside for nearly a thousand |
| the Conqueror. | | | | years-which, if I had been in that battle, would have |
| My friend and I were walking through the town of | | | | been true. |
| Battle on our way to the abbey. We hadn't seen each | | | | I am spiritually sensitive, and I've experienced |
| other in years and were catching up. We were | | | | battlefields before and the residue of sorrow and pain |
| walking along an old stone wall, and my friend had just | | | | that often lingers there from what others have gone |
| told me a joke. | | | | through. But this was different. It was very clear to me |
| I was laughing and enjoying my friend's company | | | | that what I was experiencing had to do with no one |
| when, all of a sudden, I felt as if someone had pulled | | | | else but me. It was very real, very personal, and very |
| the rug out from under me. From one moment to the | | | | powerful. |
| next, my mood shifted 180 degrees. I felt as if there | | | | At the end of it, I felt a deep healing and inner freedom. |
| were an invisible cloud over my head-like that | | | | It was partially because of this experience that I |
| character in the Little Abner cartoons. | | | | decided to share what I was learning about past lives |
| I could hardly speak. Somehow I managed to ask my | | | | with others." |
| friend if we could split up for the battlefield tour. He | | | | Now, what can you gain from this reincarnation story? |
| graciously agreed. | | | | First, that visiting someplace we've never been before |
| The battlefield is now a sheep pasture. The original | | | | in this life can trigger past-life memories-and those |
| church built on the site is in ruins. There is a standard | | | | memories can be sudden and dramatic. |
| tour that most people take, walking along a path that | | | | Also, if a past-life memory is powerful enough it can |
| circles the battlefield and stopping to study dioramas | | | | interfere with our living in the here and now. |
| that depict key moments in the day long conflict. | | | | And finally, even the most painful recalled memories |
| I skipped all of that and walked to the heart of the | | | | can bring about a deep healing and a new |
| battlefield where the fighting had taken place. There, on | | | | understanding. |