marsey said:
Hi maulacat,
Sounds like your little one made a good choice when he chose his mama and papa this time around!
Thanks Marsey, that's really sweet
It does seem that our children may have a preference for people who remind them of their past life friends then eh?!
A little update on my son that I thought some of you might be interested in:-
1. He said he wanted to go "home" again today while we were at home. I explained again that we were home and luckily he took it OK!
2. A potentially interesting fact to do with his reading and writing; My son recognises most English letters now (and has even managed to write an "A" a few times:laugh
, yet a couple of times now he's written shapes that look nothing like English letters, but which do look like text. The first time he did it I presumed it was probably just squiggle, where he was trying to write something in English or draw something and couldn't, but he's done it a couple of times now and the shapes were very similar on both occasions. That, coupled with the fact that he seems to concentrate really hard when he writes it, made me think it was probably something I should take note of, so I decided to look in the Hindi/Urdu book that I bought since all this past life stuff started. It didn't look anything like hindi, so at first I was a bit disappointed, but then I looked at the urdu text - and it's just like it! He hasn't written enough of it for me to try to translate it, just the odd random batch of 3 or 4 letters/symbols, but I am intrigued to know if this is what it is. If any of the hindi speakers subscribed to this thread read this, please could you tell me; what is urdu and how is it different from hinduism? Do hindus speak/write in urdu? Something else I've seen my son do once when we were reading a book, was point at the text and pretend to read it, but he traced it from right to left. Obviously this is a bit odd, because in England we read from left to right, and I believe from what I've read that Hindus do indeed read from right to left. This could of course just have been because he still hasn't mastered reading and something any English kid his age might do, but I thought it was potentially quite interesting.
3. He has said something on a few occasions which sounds like "fa-az"/"fah-oz" or something like that. Do any of the hindi/urdu speakers have any suggestions as to what this could be?
4. He is very interested in the moon and excitedly points it out if it's out and says "moon! moon!". He doesn't do this with the sun. I understand that the moon is quite important in Hindu religion.
5. He rarely sits still for more than a few seconds and is a real fidget, but the other day I showed him a video on the computer of a hindu god (I think it was Shiva) with indian music playing in the background and he sat on my lap very quietly and didn't move while he watched it. After a minute or 2 I noticed he looked very sad. I asked him what was wrong and he just looked down at the floor and wouldn't make eye contact with me, like he was really sad about something. Not long after that he went to sleep, so I dont know if he just acted like that because he was tired, but his behaviour did seem quite out of character to me.
Just thought I would add something that happened this morning, as I thought it was pretty interesting:- This morning I thought I'd show my son a video of Shiva again to see if he reacted the same as last time. He sat and watched it and I said to him "what's that?" and pointed at the picture of Shiva on the screen and he said "it's dead". I said "dead?" and he nodded. I gave it a couple of seconds and asked him what it was again and he said the same thing. I've mentioned in one of my earlier posts that he has used the word "dead" to refer to things that have stopped working and that I didn't know where he could have learned this from, but I didn't know why he was using it this time (there were no pictures of Shiva dead in this video!). I looked up some info about Shiva on the internet and found several references to Shiva being dead! Here are 2 examples:
1. Kali is shown standing on the prone, inert or dead body of Shiva. There is a mythological story for the reason behind her standing on what appears to be Shiva’s corpse.
2. Kali is often depicted having sexual intercourse with Shiva's dead and lifeless body. Shiva is dead to signify his passiveness in relation to Kali.
I thought this was pretty amazing!