Past Lives

Do you have past lives? I do. I have many past lives, oh yeah. I'm not the first person, nor will I be the last, to occasionally feel an immediate sense of being at home with someone I've just met. I experience intense affiliations for certain landscapes that have nothing to do with my current incarnation, also certain historical periods resonate strongly. I attribute these powerful connections to past lives during which I knew people and walked the land I still feel kinship with.

Once upon a time I was a fervent believer - in past lives, magic, karma, etc. These days I no longer think in terms of what's "true" nor do I depend on what I believe to be true since my beliefs frequently change shape. Sometimes my beliefs disappear all at once in metaphorical poofs of smoke. The fact that my belief system is so malleable leads me away from thinking that beliefs necessarily point to objective truths.

I'm getting a little fancy here. All I'm saying is, I have past lives. If you don't, that's cool with me! There are an infinite number of universes, say the physicists. Perhaps in mine reincarnation is "real," while in yours, it isn't. I believe it!

Soul retrieval, another concept that's part of the Reyaverse, sometimes involves time travel to other lives when shit happened that was potent enough to leave an imprint on the soul that survives the circle of death and rebirth, sometimes over long periods of time. As often as not, past life imprints are cultural. I believe at the end of the last century when Brits and Americans began digging up the treasures of ancient Egypt, we reclaimed a splendid heritage. For our culture, those discoveries triggered a soul retrieval that made possible the creation of non-traditional spiritual schools like the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, for instance, and a whole lot of other things as well.

I can go on and on, can't I?

I'm writing about this today because there's a very powerful past-life narrative I have been confronted with twice in conversation with two different people who have never met and know nothing about each other. Both of these people "remember" me from another time. I remember them as well. The details of their narratives are freakishly similar. I'm thinking about this story that involves betrayal and murder, also a passionate love triangle. I'm thinking hard. I'm praying and pulling tarot cards and wondering what I'm supposed to learn, how can I integrate the almost identical narratives, what am I supposed to do with this information?

How could these two people "remember" the exact same story involving me? Good lord, you can't make this stuff up. In the Reyaverse many things are possible, but when something this blatantly clear comes through, it's unnerving!


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