Would love to hear others experiences with these "glimpses" of the past and how the experiences were.
I have had some in different ways.
Certain people have, 'randomly?' 'triggered' something. One time I was working with a co-worker who became a friend outside of work. We shared a similar spirituality and would have impromptu fellowships on the nature of God with another coworker while we were all together. There was lots of leisure time...
One day this coworker was standing behind me as I was organizing something on a lower shelf. As he spoke I heard his voice in a completely different way from how he normally sounds. Suddenly I had a vision of us as children, barefoot leaned up against a clay hut. The sand was reddish brown and we were playing games and laughing. Like that the vision came and went and we were back to whatever was considered normal. It was very strange.
Oddly, I don't feel a past life connection- but a connection to something greater nonetheless. Was this considered a glimpse of the past?
Other times there have been certain folks every so often who come with such a strong familiarity to them, there is a comfort that is not normally there with strangers. When I sold cars years ago I helped a young couple. By the end of it we were all saying how it felt like we knew each other from another life. It was so strong and so surreal, but no one cared or wanted to do anything with it. I only thought it unique that both the man and the woman told me they too were experiencing something, "more" by our being together.
In another I have had a friend say she saw me in a past life as a promiscuous drunk. I can't say I feel any way towards it, but that I have struggled with alcoholism at one point in life and promiscuous energy. Fortunately a lot of that has since changed.
Lastly, I had a dream I met several women wearing all white with veils over their heads. Later I came to understand them as wives from past lives. I think I met one in this life, and she wanted nothing to do with me. We shared a very strong sense of knowing the other. It seemed we were both being guided by a similar spiritual journey in this life too.
What was unique about this connection was not that I had a glimpse of a past life but that she woke up extremely vivid dreams and other psychic phenomenon. I randomly found a necklace she lost and at a specific time where we previously agreed this time would be a way for us to know if something more was happening. The necklace was gifted by her father. The necklace was of a specific saint and holding the jewelry in my hand brought strong impressions and feelings. I was not so sure these were my own emotions. Except she continually said she did not want to create anything further with me. By this time I was convinced she was my wife from a past life.
One of those surreal dreams involved meeting her in this very specific place, our bodies disappeared and all that was left was golden light and autumn leaves. It was one of the most peaceful feelings ever. Anyways, I explained this dream to her in full detail and she was shocked that I was describing with accuracy the place she goes to in meditation to work out her emotional issues with her significant others. I mean, I was relaying back weird details she envisions as a part of the environment she swears she hasn't shared with anyone.
Still, the reciprocation was not there and this moment passed.
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There is even more... But what I am enjoying, or learning, is the experience of the present. Behind these many forms is an active, intelligent and loving guidance system. In all ways, communicating to us, things that we can't always rationalize but showing there is life after life, and that something is with us even Now.