June 13, 2002

  • Anyone who has read very many of my blogs knows that I came to Xanga for the insight commonly believed to be accessible through journaling:  recording and then looking back over one’s own thoughts and behavior.


    This comment goes to a different form, or a higher octave, of that:



    …I’ve never done any past life work and would not know how to begin.  My good friend has done some and it has given her many clues to why her personality is the way it is now and also as to what some of her patterns are and why.  I’ve read that we can use past life work to assist in healing our “today.” Do you have any thoughts on that?








    Posted 6/13/2002 at 8:36 am by soul_survivor


    Recalling my past lives has worked that way for me.  As a child I was programmed not to believe in reincarnation.  But many of my dreams concerned times past, and they were scenes I’d never found in books or movies.  In fact, one movie set in Ireland showed me places I immediately recognized from dreams.  It was all a mystery to me then, and much remains mysterious now.  I don’t believe in reincarnation, but neither do I believe in any other theory that contradicts it.  All I know is that I remember living and dying before this life, and some of the people who are here in this life with me now remember being in some of those other lives with me, too.


    Some of my relationships make no sense at all until explained from the reincarnational perspective.  Then everything falls into place.  Edgar Cayce said that we belong to “soul families” and members of a soul family often are born into the same genetic family and/or a series of their lives will be associated with a common theme.  Adoption is such a theme for me and my soul family, and my earthly family as well.  The martial arts and what some call “warrior karma” is another such theme throughout many of the lives I recall, as are percussion music and dance.  I’ve gotten used to walking down front at a concert to dance, and looking up to lock gazes with the drummer and see the same spark of recognition there that I was feeling.


    One of my favorite fellow old souls, Dick Sutphen, says another term for old soul is slow learner.  His belief system says that we keep coming back until we get it right.  Maybe so; I can’t refute that.  It seems to me, rather, that I keep coming back to see what happens next.  But I’ve never had a very long life that I recall, and I’ve had many many brief lifespans, some never making it out of childhood.  I’m still exploring my past, making connections, finding the patterns.  I’m getting help with it, too, especially from my own precious kid and Xanga’s own pet oOMisFitOo, who have each been around with me more than once before. 


    Dick Sutphen also advocates verifying our memories, if it means going and finding our gravestones, looking up descendants and all that.  That’s one of the ways I spend time online and with books from Inter-Library Loan.  I don’t expect to convince any non-believers with the validation I’ve found.  I don’t care about that.  Some people don’t have any past lives to remember, so what difference does it make to them?  I get a lot out of remembering something and then finding the historical or archaeological evidence for it.  I’ll give one example here.  Greyfox was first to recall when he was Coiler and I was Storm, in the Mimbres branch of the Mogollon culture.  Those memories came to him on our honeymoon when we ended up in the Mimbres Valley as the result of some map dowsing.  A bit later in a museum, I saw a bowl that Storm had painted, and that brought memories flooding back to me.


    In trance, Greyfox saw scenes that didn’t conform to any of the popular theories of how our culture then died off or evolved away from the obvious archaelogical markers of pottery style and pueblos, etc.  My own recall was consistent with his, and none of what I read in the interpretive signs at ruins or in museum displays quite fit in terms of timing.  After the honeymoon, I kept studying Southwestern archaeology, and in the past four years have found several archaeologists whose conclusions from their work conform to our memories, and their new theories are gaining more popularity in the profession now, too.


    For most of my life, all my past life recall came in dreams.  I went through a lot of strange incidents when I’d meet someone for the first time and stare… and stare, and finally say, “Don’t I know you from somewhere?”  A few of those times, they’d look at me and say, “Yes, I knew you in a past life.”  Then one of my clients sent me, in trade for a reading, one of Dick Sutphen’s audiotape sets.  It had canned hypnosis sessions designed to regress me to my first earthly life, the one with the highest level of spiritual growth, one with my current partner or associate, and another one with the flexibility to take a person to the life of one’s choice.  I got so much out of them that I ordered his catalog and sent off for a tape that jumped off the page at me:  Teotihuacán:  the Reincarnation of the 25,000.


    It blew me away, and the memories I recovered from there got me a place in Dick’s book Earthly Purpose.  For a year or two after that, dreams and hypnotic regression tapes were the only sources for me of past-life recall.  Then I started corresponding with Greyfox and got into shamanism through his influence.  Our making contact triggered a new level of awareness for me, and suddenly I was spontaneously recalling past lives as easily as I recall childhood events or things that happened last week (not always easy, in any of those cases, for the Secretary of Space).

Comments (6)

  • Damn!  I wish I could do that.  (that is as profound as she gets today…lol…) Yet another great blog, SuSu…thanks

  • this is such an insightful entry about your amazing experience, susu. i’ve never came across a person & think ‘have i met you somewhere before?’ so that may put me in the “don’t-have-any-past-lives-to-remember” category… unfortunately.

  • I do love reading your log.  I have used my past life information to heal relationships and physial ailments.  I am no where near as prolific with the info as you but I have explored several lives spanning what feels like eons of time.  I agree – when I meet someone who just “feels” familiar I know, somewhere, sometime we were together in some manner and we are part of the same Soul group.  What a wonderous knowing.   LOL   Feels good inside.  Rowan

  • Just remember everything painfully, painstakingly.  Then revamp accordingly.

  • In The Awakening by Betty J. Eadie (author of Embraced By The Light), reincarnation is discussed from her perspective of having had a near death experience.  She said one of the things she learned was that there is reincarnation for some especially if life ended early.  For others, the remembering is a cell memory passed down through the generations.  My own belief is that we often tap into this cell memory  (or knowledge library)  as I like to call it.  This explains why an invention of something extroidinary can happen on one side of the world at the same time it is being made on another.  It also explains why there are sometimes two people remembering the same past life.  Of course another theory is that we have several levels of one consciousness and so two or more people having had the same past life may be a part of one whole.  The only other thing to add here is that I believe if one has hypnosis to remember a past life there need be the question of where the information came from as sometimes “memories” are not memories at all, but a rememberance of something read.  -Kristy

  • That cell memories thing in the comment above reminds me of Anne Rice’s book, Taltos.  Good book, interesting concept.

    But what I really wanted to say is thanks!  This answered my question!  I was looking for information on how you got started on your past life regressions (recollections?) and for a way to start on my own, if/when I’m ready to do so!  Gracias!

    Oh, and before I forget…  Funny that one (or more?) of your past lives was in the southwest…  I’m not familiar with the civilization you belonged to, but I am half Pueblo, and that’s just darned interesting.

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