if you could take a guess as to what you were in a past lifetime - what or who would you be?
in my opinion,(since i don't necessarily believe in reincarnation - i'd guess what i'd like to have been.
) if some of you delved further in this topic and actually know what or who you were, please share.
well, I don't know about boring...I mean I was not any kind of royalty..I was just a common working girl in an obscure little mining town. what makes it such a sensational story is that I actually have other people who can verify some of these things.
Ravyn
anyone here ever try past life regression hypnotism?
i'm curious and wondering what my "imagination" will come up with.
maybe it's true.
since no double posts, here is my experience with past life memories:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/58246/863758/post.ashx#863758
Ravyn
if you could take a guess as to what you were in a past lifetime - what or who would you be?
in my opinion,(since i don't necessarily believe in reincarnation - i'd guess what i'd like to have been.
) if some of you delved further in this topic and actually know what or who you were, please share.
I have memories of four of my previous incarnations. The first two, one shortly after those, and a big time jump of the last one before this.
I have told this story before on here, so some may remember it. But I had a recurring 'dream' from about age 12 to age 28 where in I lived another life (successively). I had this dream a couple times a week for those 16 years. I even went to the elders about it a couple of times thinking it might be 'demons'. After I was about 19 or 20, I stopped talking about it to other JWs.
I was a prostitute named Catherine Murphy after the Civil War in some western mining town. I 'dreamed' my life in Ireland and my sweetheart who came to America first, Sean, and he was going to send for me---but after waiting two years I managed to get the money for passage to Boston and attemped to find him--to no avail. I tried to find decent work but that was to no avail either and I needed to eat so I started hooking on the docks. After a year of that, a good friend of mine died of pneumonia and I traveled West to try to make a better life, finally giving up on Sean. I ended up in a tiny mining town and then later in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho.
I was a whore there until I died also of pneumonia when I was 29 years old. I had four regular customers besides all the others. One was a miner, two were cowboys, the other one was a son of a farmer. The miner had a boot fetish and he would always make sure his boots were in his sight when he took them off. These 'dreams' were so detailed I could have written a novel about the story it unfolded. I used to refer to it as my 'alternative life'. But when I was 27 I started getting frightened since I dreamed that I died at age 29 -and I had bad health. I got an insurance settlement from a landlord dispute and I took the money and decided to move up to Idaho from So. CA desert. I had never been to Idaho and never even seen pictures of it, and all my friends thot I was nuts. But I had to see if my 'dreams' had anything to them. Well, as soon as I got into Coeur d'Alene I knew the place. I walked the streets and I just knew them. I even went to a nearby little town called Wallace that has a brothel museum and when I went into the old house I had such intense moments of flashbacks that I had to leave. It was so weird and overwhelming. I used to like to go and sit in the Catholic cemetery and eat my lunch under the Aspens.
I was wandering thru the cemetery one day after I had been there for about 2 years and I went to the back where the children were buried and I found an adult headstone that said: Catherine Murphy 1850-1879. It took my breath away. I did some historical research and found out she was a prostitute who was from Ireland and died of pneumonia!
I have since met all 4 of the men who were my 'regulars' in that past life and each of them feel a connection to me that defies explanation. It was instant recognition and involved a flirty--mildly sexual kind of friendship. I also married Sean this time around. Let me also say that each of these men, have had 'dreams' of a mining town and a red haired whore named Catherine, but none of them believed in reincarnation before they met me again. One has explained to me that he still does not believe in it, but he is sure that there is something between us that is 'beyond what we should know'. I also know that after being a virgin until I was 34 yrs old and a JW that my first sexual experience was just a tad more familliar to me than it should have been and I have since found sexual skills that are not possible for me to have known how to do in this life under the circumstances.
I have also verified my friend who died of pneumonia in Boston. I was even 'contacted' by her husband's ghost in a house of a total stranger(I was not the only one--two other people and a child also had talked to the ghost)...and when we did the research into the owner of the house it was exactly the name I dreamed of and was told by the ghost. And in the basement of this house, I found a mirror with my name written on it in orange crayon that the owner claimed she got at a thrift store...only thing about it was that I had this mirror in NJ as a child, sold it after I moved to GA, and now it shows up 15 years later in Massachusetts in a haunted house!
So when people scoff at my beliefs, (or question my sanity)--I just smile. There is no way any other explanation could answer my experiences.
Ravyn
i was reading a post on another thread about a 70yr old sister who's husband was a pillar of the circuit in times past now just drowned out most of what she heard from the platform as someones personal oppinion and served jehovah the way she felt was right.
is this typical of someone who has been in the org for that long, the difference being that she felt comfortable enough with the people concerned to actually voice it?
what about the people who joined in the 20s and 30s and have seen all the new light coming in over the years, has any asked them how different it all is now to the religion they joined?.
My schizophrenic, anointed, elder father always told me that 'we knew better' but because 'we were special' and smarter and more mature than others that it was not our place to 'stumble others with the real Truth' and that others could not handle the 'real Truth' so what the mags and talks said was for the spiritual babes and the majority. We were not the majority--we were special and knew better. He used to use the cliche 'give em an inch--they'll take a mile' all the time.
Ravyn
does anyone know what you can do if you know of someone who was sexually abused and you have told the police and norris and love but nobody does anything?
i am almost at my wits end with this watchtower.
please help me deal!
BigBoy, what is the excuse you are being given for nothing being done? Statute of Limitations? Multiple states involved? these are a couple of reasons I have heard in the past.
Ravyn
would do or accomplish, if you could?
i'm speaking of something that you either think or know is beyond your present capabilities or circumstances?.
i would fly autonomously, if i could.. frannie b.
I would reclaim my lost youth without losing my hard-gained wisdom. (to be 17 again with all the stuff I have lived and know now!)
Ravyn
i'm so excited, when i lived in alaska, i used to hunt quite a bit.
but, the last time i went hunting, it was for kodiak grizzly bear.
i had never went after something so large before.
I got no problem with hunting...not sure if I could do it. But bring me an animal already dead and I can clean and dress the meat and get the pelt ready. I love venison, had elk, squirrel, most fowl, would be willing tot ry almost anything if it is cooked right and tasty. I like being a meat eater. have fun Obi, be safe and responsible. bring home some yummies!
Ravyn
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was it the essenes?
edgar cayce says they were, but is there anything else besides edgar to back this up?
hmmm well if you only accept the Biblical cannon, then Jesus never went to the bathroom either--since it never says he did. And if you are Protestant then you don't accept all of Biblical cannon. Big controversy there!
However, in the Eastern Catholic, gnostic, and even ancient Western Catholic TRADITIONS there are many many legends about Jesus' childhood and where he went and who taught him. One of the most widely accepted is that Joseph of Arimathea was his uncle and a merchant in tin who travelled to Cornwall and Salisbury plain and the general vicinity of Wales and the Mendip mines and Jesus went with him and studied at the feet of some of the most learned druids of the day. Many many legends and myths are tied up in this--including the grail stories and Camelot. The Eastern Catholics and the Coptics believe he studied in Alexandria where the great library was(and incidentally one of the repositories for the Atlantean records that Cayce claims were saved after the disaster.) To this day, some areas of France are sanctioned by the RC Church to celebrate feast days that are downright strange linking the Three Marys and the Black Madonna and the Merovingian Dynasty to the south of France and the idea that Jesus and Mary Magdalen were the ones married at Cana and she was pregnant with twins(or had two children) when he died(the gnostics do not believe he did die) and they all settled in France, again with Joseph of Arimathea.
There are so many many holes in the Gospels when it comes to the history of Jesus. The Infancy Gospel of James is a fascinating piece of work. The Mormons of course believe Jesus appeared before his ascension in the Americas. I never understood why these legends were not seized upon by the Church in an effort to evangelize more fully. I know one of my biggest hangups is the foreigness of the Bible and the fact that I am not Jewish and feel no ancestral connection to it.
a good book for reference and interesting reading is The Other Bible by Willis Barnstone. It contains Gnostic Gospels, Dead Sea Scrolls, Visionary Wisdom Texts, Christian Apocrypha, Jewish Pseudopigrapha and Kabbalah. It was published in 1984, pre-Elaine Pagels and all her work on the Nag Hammadi, but along with that< and a Jerusalem Bible(not a NEW Jerusalem Bible) and you are pretty much set for Biblical references. I also own a separate copy of Dead Sea Scrolls and The Way of the Pilgrim. oh and the Mormon books--Pearl of Great Price and Book of Abraham-- should also be part of this library. (I have all of Cayce's books too.)
I LOVE this subject. I LOVE mythos and mysticism.
Ravyn
well, here he is in all his handsomness and sly girl-chasing potential.
grayson miller darby, my grandson extraordinaire, especially so since he's the only one i've got at the moment.
ain't he sumpin'?
actually Frank, even tho your photo is small and grainy...I do see a family resemblance! Or is it just that sparkle in his eyes?
luvya!
Ravyn, who is perfectly content loving them from a distance, smelling them once a year and giving them back to their rightful slaves guardians...
.to happen first in the us?
or do you think neither will ever happen?
consider that they are both members of a majority group and a minority group.
Gumby!
If I was Prez...we would have already nuked a couple of nations and the others would not be giving us any $h!t now. Personally I think the whole world would be better off if we dropped a bomb on Jerusalem. (and threatened mecca and vatican city next)
BOOM! there--done! If you can't play nice mommy will put it in the closet and no one gets it!
Ravyn
