General Chat

It is a very interesting topic, Dizzi. Half of me wants to say it is nonsense. The other half of me is pretty sure there is an awful lot to find out.

My experience of hearing my mum talking quite clearly about the life of her maternal grandmother in the 1890's (30 year before mum was born) have haunted me.

Her grandmother died in 1894 when her mother (my gran) was just 6 years old.

How did my mum know so many details about her grandmother? My gran knew nothing much about her own mother, and her life changed dramatically after the 1894 death. Gran ran away into service at age of 8 after 2 years of abuse from a stepmother.

I thought there were a lot of similarities between my mother and Jenny Cocker who wrote that book about a young mother in Malahide (Jenny Sutton) who died very young in 1920's (see link earlier)

Ever visited somewhere that you know you've never been to before, and it seems 'comfortable' to be there?

Have you been to , perhaps, a market - picked up an item that caught your eye and just felt it, rubbed your hands over it then put it back thinking, 'I've done this before' ?

Been doing something such as taking a plate out of a cupboard, it drops and smashes and you say 'I just knew that was going to happen!'.

Out of the corner of your eye, something 'moves' ..... nothing there, but it did look briefly like a long gone pet ?

The last may be deja vu?? But what of the others.....?

Any other examples out there ?

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MrD When we lived in an old house in Whitchurch, Salop, it was built on a Roman burial site - an intact burial urn was discovered in 19th century when land was excavated prior to building house.

One night, wife and children had gone to bed and I was sitting in the dark downstairs in the lounge and suddenly a light went past me in the hall. I gllimpsed up and saw this small figure of a woman in white. Quite a pleasant experience and no fear.

Told OH following morning and she had seen her too a few days earlier - but thought it was her imagination. Less than 5 feet tall but a young woman. House was a very happy house, and we would have stayed there if I had not had to move for job reasons.

I like to keep an open mind about most things but I don't feel I've been here before. Maybe I'm a newbie :-)

Sue. I find it very difficult to reconcile my Christian beliefs with reincarnation.

I think we are all created as new people, as individuals, and we cannot be held to account for the deeds (good or bad) or our ancestors.

Yet there is something that connects us to the past in our memory banks. There are places we are familiar with often, that we have definitely never visited before.

And I have been more forthcoming on this thread than normal. Hope it doesn't backfire :-(

Mr D, I often see the long lost cats and dog out of the corner of my eye, so does my daughter, I quite like it. M

Although I’d like to believe in reincarnation/past life recession, I don’t see how it works.

There are apparently more people alive on the earth now than there ever has in the past. How can we all have past lives?

Past lives from different eras Det? Just a thought. Not all from one century.

Mr D, I do know that feeling of touching something strange to me yet feeling I have done that before. it is very eerie.

Hm. Yes. Well. I don't know.

If you took the Dali Llama theory, they believe that the current one is a direct reincarnation of the previous one, with no gap (apart from a couple of years) in continuity.

I'm more inclined to go with a genetic memory theory.

There has been some suggest that the déjà vu phenomena is one side of the brain working slightly faster than the other.

Hmm your last sentence sort of makes sense Det. Not sure what to make of any of it either but I do like to try and keep an open mind.

Regression therapy used to be a management tool back in 1970's. I remember one manager who was extremely aggressive and very capable, but was being held back because of inappropriate personal behaviour (in short, he was a bully). He went for a day of regression.

He came back quite a different person. They had taken him back to his very early childhood and he was remebering things that he must have blotted out later in childhood. They were bad things. Once he had faced his demons and dealt with them, he was a much fairer boss and a greater achiever for the company.

That was progressive thinking on the part of that company. I had a boss who could have done with that. No good now, he is no longer with us.

Thought you were going to say that in a past life he had been a bare knuckle fighter or something else aggressive!

Regression Therapy to unblock events in your own life is rather different to past life regression. Glad he was able to come to terms with events in his childhood, and hope that he had further counselling to fully come to terms with it

DET and AnninGlos

Yes, I realised I was straying a bit from past lives. Sorry. But it was a very private matter, and for some reason he felt able to confide in me. He was a few years older than me and believe he has died recently.

It was Tesco and they were a brilliant employer. They did have a problem in that they attracted a very aggressive and uneducated manager in 1960's and 1970's. One or two ex-Armed Forces who were hard and fair, but a lot were just hard and nasty.

About 1978, all that changed and they started to recruit graduates for management and most companies would have packaged off these old dinosaurs. But Tesco spent a fortune on giving the old store managers every chance to bloom in the new culture (based on Japanese management, quality circles, Management by Objectives etc) . And almost all of them did respond and many really thrived. Quite a few of my colleagues are millionaires today (including their homes) when they could have easily been kicked into touch 35 years ago.

Do buildings hold memories?

I went with one of my brothers to view a small manor house in Essex that he was considering buying.

We had started looking through the ground floor rooms and as we entered a large salon I went cold and didn't like the atmosphere. I beat a hasty retreat whilst brother was laughing. I spoke with the agent and he told me that salon had been used as a school room for some years in the 1800s.

I am a total sceptic re any supernatural phenomena but even I couldn't rationally explain that.

Possibly!

It's like when you are house/home hunting. Some places you can walk into and it just feels 'right'. Others may fulfill the tick list, but you don't feel comfortable or welcomed.

All the more reason to go back for a second viewing, when your head has a better chance of ruling your heart. :-D

A couple of weeks after my neighbours moved in next door, I was asked " Did a short plump woman who wore a wrap round apron & smelt of lavender live here?"

I asked why she wanted to know & was told that a friend of hers had seen her standing in the kitchen & drawn a picture of her.

I showed her a photo of my Nan who had lived there for many years & the resemblance was uncanny.

One of my oldest firnds is a Hindu & she firmly believes that when a family member dies, the next child to be born into the family will take on the dead person´s persona Quite regardless of the sex of either of them.
Interesting.

Oh yes I do believe we have been here before. I have experienced this several times and so has my younger sister.
I knew as soon as I walked into the house we last bought that a lady who was bed bound was living there, not just lived and died there but still there. Did it worry me..no. She never seemed to be angry but seemed pleased to have company. Items moved, not far but away from where I left on. Sometimes I heard her she only spoke German, as her and her husband had managed to get out of Germany and came to Spain.

When I lived in Essex some one used to move items around, not once but often, as if it was a prank, I knew what had been left in the loft and frequently heard someone talking, it was a detached house with a large garden around all sides, that was a bit strange.

The brother I never knew would also be in my grandmothers house in Essex he was tiny and because I was scared my grandmother told me of my brother who had died when just 4 hrs old, and he was born in the room next to wher I slept. She took me to the church and showed me his burial place. All these years later, 62 to be exact I still visit him when I can and always make sure that he has flowers on his birthday and that the Vicar prays for him on the same day.

Others may have other views which I respect but I will always believe.



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