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Does anyone remember their death?

sensitive soul

sensitive soul

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I don't know if this is just me or not. But usually when I read about people remembering their death in a past life, they remember tragic deaths such as being shot in a war or drowning. I hardly ever hear of people remembering dying peacefully, such as being terminally ill and just passing on (if you know what I mean).

I was just wondering, do people who remember tragic deaths in a past life the people who remember their past lives? Just wondering what your thoughts were on this....

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"Doubt is of the mind;
Truth is of the heart."
-Sensitive Soul
 
Sadly, I am one of the people who remember a tragic death.
I was 7 months pregnant and bled to death at home when the baby came too early.
I was home alone with only my 3 children (ages 8, 6, and 4) there to watch. My husband was out on a trip to a nearby town for supplies. I remember sending them outside to wait for their father so they would not have to watch.
 
Well, I do remember one peaceful death of mine from old age (about 70). That was a very long time ago.

And if you consider terminal illness, such as cancer, a peaceful way to die, then I also remember a person who was very close to me dying from such illness, in that same long-ago lifetime. So yes, some people can actually recall non-violent deaths, I think.

On the other hand, in my most recent past life, I was killed in a motorcycle accident, and my husband was killed a year before that in a car crash. So that's pretty violent.
 
I remember only violent deaths.

- strangled (or neck snapped) by a big snake (python probably)
- sufflocated under tons of rock
- got eaten by shark
- possibly jumped down from a tower

I think this is because I'm not evolved enough to crasp those things that are peacefull and happy. Traumatic events are so energetic that they are easier to remember.
 
I remember several past lives.

I remember one violent death as a Russian cavalry officer, my most recent past life (shot to death) around 1918. This was the first life I remembered because of the traumatic death of my wife, and subsequent murder a few months later.

The other lives ~ well, I remember glimpses of them, but not necessarily the deaths.

The second life I remembered was that of a young woman around 1100AD, denied the opportunity to marry the man she loved, who joined a monastary/nunnery ~ I was raped by a soldier and had a son, but I don't remember my death. I'd hazard a guess that losing my love, being raped and raising a child in shame were the most traumatic parts of my life, and therefor the part that I remember.

The third life I remember was as a midwife in England around 1400AD, and it was a very content life ~ I cannot recall any trauma. I remember being pregnant, waking up one morning with my husband curled around me, and feeling the baby move within me, and being happily surprised that no one had needed my services during the night. I do not remember my death.

The last life I remember is being an officer in the British East India company, and being shot for screwing someone's daughter. Oops! But I have no memories of the actual death, just the facts.

I also have fragments ~ I remember wearing black riding type boots on a hardwood floor. And I remember being very dark (black) hiding in the dark forest/jungle/rain forest watching people hunting me & my family, with my wife. I do not remember anything more about either of these lives, nor remember the deaths.

I tend to think we remember the most traumatic or memorable parts of lives, which may or may not be the deaths.
 
I remember some non-violent deaths (not spontaneously, but under hypnosis or during meditation).

Once I ate fish that had been killed with a poison-tipped spear and not stripped properly of the poisonous parts... I knew I was dying, I knew why, and I accepted it as per the teachings of my community.

The other time, I was a human sacrifice victim. I was given some sort of poison or anaesthetic drink and gradually just went numb. It didn't seem violent despite the connotations of 'human sacrifice'.

yozhik
 
I definitely believe that we remember unpleasant deaths more than peaceful ones because they imprint upon our soul, especially if we die relatively early in life.

Steph

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"Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting." --Sidney Harris
 
I know that I drowned in one life--I can still remember what that was like.

In my last life, I was killed when a building was bombed in WWII. That life has had the most direct influence on my current one, by the way.

In another life, I died from illness as a child about 12 years old. My family was standing and sitting around me, smiling and laughing, when I lost consciousness. I experienced that ina regression where I was trying to explore the root of a recurrent nightmare theme.

In this current life, I have a phobia about Ferris Wheels and certain types of arched bridges. I haven't gotten to the root of that, but I wonder if it has a past-life connection.

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Does anyone remember their death?

As a matter of interest does anyone remember there spirit leaving there body at the time of death ,if so how vividly and what was the reaction.

I have heard that when you die suddenly it is like going from 1 room to another and can't get back, and you can be looking at yourself but unaware that your dead, or in total confusion, has anyone experienced this, and if its not to painful to remember be able to describe what they remember .

Brooke
 
My daughter describes it as just wonderful to die. Whenever we hear of someone dying in the news, etc. she says, "and now they are SO happy Mommy!" Sometimes it seems inappropriate, like with the Samantha Runion case, but perhaps she is right.

I remember being dead, but it was no picnic because my baby was on the other side (alive) and I was very very unresolved with my death. I think people can go different places when they die. I chose to stay close to my baby, and didn't go to the other more wonderful places. I stayed on the earth plane as close as I could. I was sad frustrated and lonley. It seemed to last forever.

I remember a fragmented memory of just dying, no idea who I was or anything. I think this was a different life. I was just floating up, spiraling up as I went (spinning around) and looking down at my body. It was lying on a hard wood floor in a pool of blood. I was thinking, "oh, THAT was pretty simple!" It wasn't entirely what I had planned, but the death was easy.

Marg

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Hi Brooke.
Yes I have memories of my spirit suddenly becoming free of my body (or at least whatever body it happened to be in at the time!). The feelings are quite wonderful - very liberating.

I have watched my own funeral in China and zoomed around in my tomb in Egypt. The feelings are of exhilaration as the spirit is able to move around in the air...through walls...anywhere at all. Neither memory holds any unpleasant feeling.
 
I don't know if I remember death or not ~ but I certainly remember being killed. I was shot in the head, while turning a corner - I walked directly into the barrel of a gun. BOOM. I remember that being very echo-ey but it didn't hurt, it was just loud. It was like it was unreal, in a way, like I was watching it from an inch "off" from my body.
 
My own past life deaths -
WW2 - I died from a firing squad (still don't know whether it was Nazi or Partisans)
Actually I was so glad to finally get IT over with that I was grateful that they made it quick. I left my body instantly with a sense of 'It's finally over!"
1909 - I was about 4 and I was playing out in the fields when a big storm came up (tornado?) I hid in an old abandoned fireplace and it collapsed during the storm.
1904 - I was old 86 and tired and wanted to do myself in, but one night I actually just fell asleep and didn't get up.
1821 - Not sure whether I fell or jumped off a cliff after I lost my little girl. I wasn't right in the mind at the time. I remember falling but i don't remember hitting.
1790 - Got stabbed on a staircase and fell down. That one hurt and I was extremely angry when I died.
1750 - I was stabbed in a duel. He was supposed to be teaching me to fence...oops.
Thats the ones I remember
catseye
 
It's funny, I can only remember what it how it was to be dead in between this and my most recent pastlife. And it just wasn't time for me to go (I didn't think anyway) and it was just like being behind an invisible wall, following people around trying to get their attention but they couldn't see or hear me.

But I have had several dreams where I've died and am in transit. And although I knew that I hadn't been the best I could have been, and that there was no way I could actually get to the point of rest at that stage, I just felt this most immense love and happiness when I thought about God and made resolutions, that no matter how bad I'd been, I'm going to always love God more than everything, and try my very hardest to be the best person any person could be!!!!

when I'd wake up from those dreams I honestly felt amazing!!! Kuka
 
I remember three of my deaths.

The first one I recall is dying peacefully in my bed, with my wife by my side. The odd thing about it, is I remember that my brother came to visit me in spirit just before I died. He had just died on the battlefield and came to tell me. Shortly after his spirit visited me, I died. This was in the 1500's.

In the 1880's I recall being shot to death. I was shot in the head and was dead before I hit the floor. I have never felt any physical pain associated with that memory.

In my last life, I died from something like a bleeding ulcer. The worst part is that I believe I died alone. I was someone that always has people around. That I died wasn't as bad as dying alone.
 
oh my god, that is so crazy. i would freak out if i started re-experiencing death from a past life.
how do you know the person in the regression is actually you? does he act, look, and talk like you? can u go back in time and actually change things?
sorry for all the questions, i'm new and very very curious.
 
osuconcepts

I would suggest you do some serious reading -try the FAQ section and books written by reputable authors - i.e, Brian Wiess, Roger Woolger, Carol Bowman, Ian Stevenson etc.
 
A very good friend of mine did a self regression and remembered running into a barn to escape a storm, but the storm tore the roof off the barn and it fell on him, killing him. The memory was so real that he could not come out of his regression and had to be brought back to this life by his father shaking him.

When I died as a half-breed Indian in the 1800's, I was shot through the head. There was no pain in the memory, but I can see two version of it. One in the body, seeing the man shoot the gun and feeling my body fall. The second is standing off to the side, seeing myself fall and the blood and behind me seeing a spirit - like an angel that I know is there waiting to help my spirit leave earth and travel on.
 
It's like really being there - yes - It's like the most vivid memory you've ever had. I seem to connect with the emotions I am going through in my regressions.

As far as watching my own death - I was really more interested in realzing that there was a spirit in the background waiting to help me get out of this life than being fascinated with the fact that I was watching my own death. Unlike others on the forum, I felt no pain in any of my 3 past life death memories.
 
Dr. Michael Newton (Journey of Souls and Destiny of Souls) reports many cases of regressions that incolved between life meetings with higher souls. There's a lot of material in both those books that explains a lot of details about what goes on between lives. Most of it is well supported by other independant sources adn the claims that are not so well supported, well you'll have to decide for yourelf. His claims are, at any rate, very intersting and thought provoking.
 
My experience in regressions has been that you are IN the body at the time and place it existed. When you die in that body you view from above the head. That is how you enter and leave.

The same is true of memories just as you die.

In one regression, I would not participate and "popped out". The difference is immediately apparent on the tape. It would have been fun to watch on video tape.
 
I should clarify further. In a regression you are first person. This accelerates the deeper you go. I am aware of me today in the background. This is a light trance. As you go deeper you are in the body of the past life.

Just for information, has anyone had sex in a regression? Not me, mores the shame!
 
see any kind of higher power? or god? in between the different phases of your past lifes?
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Anything that you see will come as a form of "realisation", a comprehension about yourself as it were. The first stage will involve the realisation that you are vastly more than you think you are. Next you may see that your own being extends beyond time, that you are eternal being. If you persist in this journey you will not have to ask about "other gods" as your understanding of yourself will be sufficient.
Regards



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Robin
 
wow... so your saying theres no higher powers? only myself and what i believe. i believe that i really dont know what to believe, so where does that leave me?
 
So Robin,

Where does the LIGHT come into this for you -not physcial light but the Light brighter than the sun that so many prophets, mystics and ancient texts refer too?

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Deborah

"I have no more words. Let the soul speak with the silent articulation of a face." ---Rumi

How to donate to this forum - read here ;)
 
On-the-spot....
Dear Deborah,
good astute on-the-spot putting question!

I find that to be maybe something like an almost penultimate experience, somewhere around “eternal being” but not necessarily “connected”. This is the joyous state of bliss representing the self, as being unencumbered.It can be achieved quite suddenly! It is represented in the Vedic tradition as associated with the Kundalini discharge encountering and lighting the crown chakra, the “thousand petaled lotus”.

Its position as an element of universal consciousnesses is illustrated in this verse. Taken from Kate Bushe’s CD The Red Shoes (in turn derived from the Isavasya Upanishad), it begins the track “Liley” but at very low volume.
· Oh thou who givest sustenance to the universe
· From whom all things proceed
· To whom all things return
· Unveil to us the face of the true spiritual sun.
· Hidden by a disk of golden light.
· That we may know the truth
· And do our whole duty
· As we journey to thy sacred feet
It is the “disk of golden light”, that covers the supreme self. Passing beyond this is the realization of ultimate involvement followed by direct recollection of who you really are.

Osuconcepts:
theres no higher powers? only myself
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That is the idea except the “myself” to which you presently refer is a only a representation of the SELF (as described above), a mere reflection of the higher self interacting with the world of matter. We generally call this aspect of the self “the ego”. You can know of the higher self intellectually as by reading this post but to actually experience it thereby removing this sense
i believe that i really dont know what to believe,
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generally calls for quite a bit of tough work. I try to outline some of the initial steps here.

I have previously mentioned the final meditation in another post. It involves a focus first on yourself, as deeply as you can go. Second, bring into your consciousness at least two lives, one past-life and your present life will do at a pinch. Third consider what sort of being the self must be in order to have formulated and created these separate lives…… beyond time itself.
Regards


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Only remember death

Hi--I hope someone can give me some insight on this. Ever since I was very young, I've had flashes and dreams of violent deaths (presumably mine). In meditation, I get what I feel are clear images and scenes of past lives--but again, they are only of my deaths, not of how I lived. Is this common? Could it be that my deaths are more potent in my memory than my lives?

The deaths I remember most clearly are: gunned down in a jungle (I was wearing US military gear--maybe Vietnam?), gunned down by anti-aircraft while flying in the Luftwaffe in WWII, burned to death on my husband's funeral pyre in India.
 
Hi Jenowi,
Yes, remembering the moment of death is quite 'normal'.:) I thought it was odd, but I read a book by Rimpoche Nawang Gehlek called 'Good Life, Good Death' and in it he says that the death transition is really such a huge thing that it's not going to leave your mind - though mundane details of everyday life often will, since they often really don't matter. What matters is how we lived our lives and what we've learnt along the way. It's what we've learnt - not the things we did that made us learn.

And think how we'd feel if we remembered all the details of years and years of cooking....cleaning....shopping for food!! :D But if you can get the death moments, then maybe you can use those to pick up on other stuff. They can be a valuable trigger to get back other key moments that you need to recall.
Love and light,
Gemeni.
 
It's the issue...

Hi Jenowi -I think you remember the death moments because your own moments of passing have stuck with you. Dying is always momentous, but you appear to have strong emotions around the moments you happen to remember. Death, in itself, can be a huge issue for some of us, and the fear of death can be a struggle to overcome. --In my regressions, I focused on issues that reverberate for my soul, issues I have not come to terms with yet. I think that's what you're experiencing, too. Your death is an issue for you. Good luck and cosmic goodies--Mertzie
 
Yes, that could well be what's going on. If you try and focus on the moment of death in a meditation then you can also pick up on the moment of separation and discover the moment when you realise there isn't any more pain. You can actually watch what's happening with this sense of total fascination and all the fear leaves.
 
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