The Ghost Inside My Child

Originally posted by sled735
reply to post by Foxy1

 

We have a funny one here, Folks.

NO! Your spirit guide will arrange that you somehow meet one another. We have these things called computers these days where people get on sites like ATS, and Facebook, and you could meet that way. Or, you could be on a plane going somewhere, and this person just happens to be on the same plane... sitting right beside you.
You could be in an accident, and the person that responds could be a soul mate.

It doesn't matter HOW you meet, but you WILL meet... at the right time. Most people would call it "by coincidence", but there is no such thing. Everything happens for a reason to lead you to one another.

so your saying the growth of technology is expanding spiritual connections and growth?

reply to post by Foxy1

pls relate to me how technology (which obviously makes match making very easy) has anything to do with spiritual past life ?! Didn't you just blatantly throw facebook into the the argument? pls explain the spiritual side of facebook.
Ive had plenty of dates from facebook. Pls tell me more about your spiritual connection with the internet.

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reply to post by Foxy1


suddenly im the funny one yet im here to defend my remarks and you are nowhere to be found.

reply to post by Foxy1


I think my last post was clear enough, and I think you are just a troll.

It's my bedtime now, so I won't be responding to you any more.

Have a good day.

reply to post by Foxy1


Why are you arguing with yourself?

Don't confuse what a soul mate is with what a lover is.
I see this happen a lot and it goes with the definition of soul mate.

People think a soul mate is a lover who you connect with on a very soul touching level, which honestly, a lover should do or you shouldn't be in love. A soul mate is a part of a soul group, one who has been around through lifetimes with another. At least that has been my experience with it.

A soul mate can be a lover, mother,brother,best friend, teacher, etc....
It is a person who has such a profound effect in some way on your life for a specific set of reasons, because they are traveling thru lifetimes with you, and are a part of your "classroom".

reply to post by sled735


So, I've often wondered about this process (which of, I too a'm a believer). During my reading, I think it's a very real possibility that this option is available to us as ethereal beings. My question is and you may have read about this, do we get to choose this as an option? What's the process? As I understand it, we have to first "go into the light" to be completely released from this plane but once "over there" the existence seems harder to understand. It appears that if one chooses to NOT enter the light, we are somehow bound to a closer existence to this realm (where we now exists as "living" beings) and we are able to interact at some level with the living i.e.; ghosts, poltergeists. Once we enter the light, we seem to go over into a different realm which may be closer to the living GOD. It's in this realm where we can interact with other dead people AND can move back to the "living" realm for the occasional visit. The book "The Other Side" by Bishop James Pike seems to reinforce this stance if you believe he was in communication with his son (other are saying Bishop Pike was being lead astray by nefarious sources and was lied to by the spirit world. See: "Demons in The World Today", M. Unger).

As far as your research goes, do you think that this is the process? That we have to "take the plunge" as it were, in order to be given the option to return? Then once the decision has been made, do we get to choose where we come back to? Seems like there would be quite the cue to come back as an English Royal. Or is it the luck of the draw and you could very well end up living in a Calcutta slum?
What's your opinion?

Thanks

reply to post by sled735

And this is why the child felt more drawn to their previous parents than their current parents.

Okay, just finished watching it. I'd heard of James, but not the other two.

In thinking about the dilemma posed by 'remembering', and by being the "new" mom or dad, I was fascinated by the parents' responses to the revelations from their kids.

I think the Leiningers did the best at handling it - to have contacted the sister of his last lifetime, and allowed the young man to get that closure....

But the other two:
Carson's mom, in my opinion, would have done well to try to find out the name of her daughter's former family, and I think I would want to know if my child had returned after I had survived his or her death. I can't imagine anything more horrible than losing your child....
it would so heartbreaking, I believe I would lose my mind, in all seriousness. I've wondered about it, and talked with people about it - my best friend from high school and I discussed it years ago, when our kids were small.....
and I've spent every day of my life since becoming a mother grateful that my two have made it to their 20s now - neither has 'past life memories', but ALL 3 of us, and my husband, believe that reincarnation is undoubtedly true.

So....if I had been Carsons' "bereft" mom, I would be so relieved to know she was okay, that it would be the ONLY way for me to heal.

As for Cade - I feel the woman should contact the family she has identified as "Cade's" survivors - and I think it is selfish of HER to insist that she won't change his name, or notify his survivors that he is "back." If I'd lost someone on 9/11, and they were back - what a huge relief!! Even if they were born to someone else.

What do you think, sled? Would you want to know? I think it would bring peace to ALL of them - the youngsters AND their survivors AND their new parents.

Do you think it would be workable for Carson, for example, to find out WHO she was and go to her former mom?
What about "Cade" - eventually he'll be old enough to decide, and I think it's unfair of his parents to not let him try to find them.

Originally posted by sled735
reply to post by littled16

 

That's awesome!

I've met people before that I made an instant connection with. It is said these are people that we knew, or liked in a past life.
I've also met people who I knew I didn't care for before they opened their mouth.

We should be careful about attributing this feeling to having met in a previous life. Has anyone here ever sat on a job interview panel? Sometimes applicants manage to generate like/dislike even before they have opened their mouths! It's down to us reading a whole load of clues from their body signals etc. Mostly we don't even know we are doing it. It's partly a survival skill - fine tuned from primitive days when we had to identify hostile peeps likely to club us over the head!

Originally posted by Realtruth
I hope everyone has taken a step back to see how Hollywood has spun this documentary?

Weird, creepy and dramatic sounds, then all the camera angles to match too.

The responses to the subject match Hollywood's agenda.

Why can't we just see things from a calm perspective and have an open mind, without being led by the media, and television? Sign

They do that to keep people's interest. Most people would just change the channel if it didn't come across to them like a horror/suspense movie, because most people born in the last three or four decades have the attention span of a mosquito.

Originally posted by wrkn4livn
reply to post by sled735

 

As far as your research goes, do you think that this is the process? That we have to "take the plunge" as it were, in order to be given the option to return? Then once the decision has been made, do we get to choose where we come back to? Seems like there would be quite the cue to come back as an English Royal. Or is it the luck of the draw and you could very well end up living in a Calcutta slum?
What's your opinion?
Thanks

It is my understanding that when we die we are greeted by a loved one(s), or a spiritual icon we associated with our beliefs, (what/whoever makes our transition to the other side the easiest) to be escorted to a place where we have a "life review".
It is here that we judge ourselves on how well we learned the lessons we came to learn. There is a higher spiritual being there with us at this time also.
In my opinion, this is what Christians call Judgement Day. And the reason no one knows when it is, not even the angels in heaven, is because it is a different day/time for all of us... whenever we die.

After our life review, we make a decision whether we need to return to learn more lessons, continue with the same lesson because we didn't pass the test, or come back to help others, etc.

If we passed the test and don't choose to come back, we ascend to higher realms to enter the next phase of our learning process.

If we choose to come back to Earth, then we begin the process of choosing our parents, our location of birth, put together a plan of action arranging how things will happen to ensure that the lessons we chose are presented to us. We choose the people who will impact our life... in short, we choose everything. This takes time, and our spirit guides are deeply involved in helping us with our plan.

After we are born our spirit guide(s) and guardian angel(s) are helping to arrange things to keep us on the right path to ensure that we walk the road we came here to walk, so to speak.

Did that answer your questions? If not, please ask anything else you don't understand.

Originally posted by wildtimes

In thinking about the dilemma posed by 'remembering', and by being the "new" mom or dad, I was fascinated by the parents' responses to the revelations from their kids.

I think the Leiningers did the best at handling it - to have contacted the sister of his last lifetime, and allowed the young man to get that closure....

So....if I had been Carsons' "bereft" mom, I would be so relieved to know she was okay, that it would be the ONLY way for me to heal.

As for Cade - I feel the woman should contact the family she has identified as "Cade's" survivors - and I think it is selfish of HER to insist that she won't change his name, or notify his survivors that he is "back." If I'd lost someone on 9/11, and they were back - what a huge relief!! Even if they were born to someone else.

What do you think, sled? Would you want to know? I think it would bring peace to ALL of them - the youngsters AND their survivors AND their new parents.

Do you think it would be workable for Carson, for example, to find out WHO she was and go to her former mom?
What about "Cade" - eventually he'll be old enough to decide, and I think it's unfair of his parents to not let him try to find them.

Well, based on my beliefs of reincarnation, I would definitely want to know, and it would bring me great peace to know they were back and okay.
I agree with you... based on my beliefs.

The thing to consider is, what are the beliefs of the kid's former parents? If they don't believe in reincarnation, then they may not accept a stranger coming to them telling this kid used to be theirs. They would probably call the police because they have some "crazy" person harassing them with ridiculous, fabricated stories.

So, while I would choose to know, others may not feel the same way.

I think when the children get old enough they can do more research in finding their former parents if they still want to. I know I would. But it is a delicate situation, for sure.

Thanks for your feedback, Wildtimes.

reply to post by Darkblade71


Darkblade you always seem to have such a profound way of expressing difficult situations.

and Sled, like you said, there is no such thing as coincidence. Everything happens for a reason.

I totally believe in soul mates. When I was married to my first husband (a mistake) I kept begging him to get me a job with his asphalt crew. took a few years, but he did. When I met the foreman I came unglued. I was nervous around him for no reason, felt like I already knew him. It was freaky. Years later I got divorced and so did the foreman. another year and the foreman started dating me. next thing, we got married. We often talked about being each others soul mates, the connection was sooo odd and so strong. We both felt like we already knew each other.
So was it coincidence my X caused me to meet my soul mate?
On another note, my sister and I both have dreams of flying all the time, always with each other. Another soul mate.
If it is meant to be, the circle of soul mates will find each other. the internet has nothing to do with it. I have several friends I'm sure I've been with for a long long time.
Bottom line, yes I believe there is more to life than our current life on earth. I saw that show Sunday and although I tried to be skeptical I found it very compelling.

reply to post by horseplay


Thanks for the compliment!

The thing about soul mate groups, is they are like rings in a chain. Perhaps your ex, was part of another overlapping ring in your main chain, so he would lead you to your current situation. It is like circles of souls within circles of souls, they expand outward and inward to and away from you and are linked together.
If that makes any sense.

When I was about 6 or 7 years old, I used to have these visions of circles within circles and they were connected to other circles, as I have grown up and explored my own spirituality and beliefs, I have discovered for myself personally that "soul mates" are like these circles I used to see when I was little.

It just clicks with me.
(I still have to watch that video )
perhaps tomorrow evening.

Originally posted by horseplay
reply to post by Darkblade71

 

Darkblade you always seem to have such a profound way of expressing difficult situations.

and Sled, like you said, there is no such thing as coincidence. Everything happens for a reason.

the internet has nothing to do with it.

Thank you.
I didn't mean to imply the internet was used to meet/find people all the time, but in some cases that's how it happens.
As an example, someone came on one of my threads last year, and I immediately felt such a strong connection to this person, it bewildered me. (No, it wasn't you, DB... ) I felt like he was my son, and I believe he was in a past life.
He has left ATS now, but we still communicate via e-mail, and the connection we share is unbelievable.
So, that's why I threw in the internet being a tool to find one another. But that is only ONE way; the list is endless.

reply to post by sled735


Just watched both videos on reincarnation posted n this thread. Wow. Every parent should watch the Ghost Inside My Child. I know so many people who laugh at their kids' comments about previous lives and ridicule them, calling it imagination. I myself have a few basic memories of two lives before my current one.

When I was about 6 or 7, I remember telling my mother that I'd been with two other families before this one. The first one I was an African American man in the Army. I don't remember any particulars now, but I still have a picture in my head of what I looked like. It was an "official" looking picture, where I'm sitting and gazing to my left (to the right if you're looking at the photo) wearing camouflage and a helmet, and there are two flags behind me.

The next life I remember I was a little girl about 7, and lived with a very abusive father. I was only with these people 7 years, so I'm sure I died. My mental picture of what I looked like is still vivid. I was a pale kid that never smiled, and my hair was straight and jet black. My bangs were cut straight across and my hair was a little less than shoulder length. Then I said I came to live with my current mother.

She was amused by all this, and even had our doctor tell me he indeed did deliver me to this mother. I've never tried to do any research on either of these lives. Several years back I had a bad experience at some fireworks near my home. During the finale, which has always been my favorite part, I started seeing another scene play out in the flashes and smoke. It was like the two images were playing together, like two video sources at the same time.

I was looking out over sand dunes, miles in all directions, and got sort of hypnotized. Too late I realized men were running up over those sand dunes, raising huge black clunky looking rifles as they ran. I opened my mouth to shout a warning - apparently I was on watch in the military - but I knew it was just too late. It was a sickening feeling, knowing I had just got us all killed. The gunshots rang out, and in slow motion, I felt each bullet hit me.

They felt like punches as they hit me in the shoulder, forearms, and legs. As I slowly fell to the ground, everything got all swirly and I remember thinking, "So this is what it feels like to die." This is the first time anything like this had ever happened to me, and as yet I wasn't into all this paranormal stuff, so I just naturally thought I was going crazy!

In the little bit of research I've done since then, the closest thing to what I saw in the men running towards me and shooting, their uniforms were most like the US uniforms in World War II. The sand dunes had to be the African "theater," as it's often called. I've always taken offense to that, because nobody is acting, but I realize it is where everything plays out. I've not been able to identify the rifles though. Their helmets and uniforms both were tan or khaki, and the brim of the helmet was very wide, probably for protection from the sun. They wore shorts, too... kind of weird if you ask me.

The following year I had no interest in getting anywhere near fireworks, so it was the second year after that before I ventured maybe 2 miles away from that year's fireworks. Oh, I neglected to mention this happened on the 4th of July!

I hate that I don't remember what year this vision, or flashback, occurred. I know I wrote it down somewhere, but in which notebook I have no idea. Sooner or later I'll run across it, I'm sure.

One more thing, then I'll shut up... I promise! My brother and his wife moved to Florida from Tennessee around 1980, and in 1982 my mother and I drove down to see them. I never had any fears of bridges, until we were on one little road that had a short bridge over water. My mother was driving the car. As we approached this tiny little bridge I lost my breath, got dizzy, and grabbed onto the car door for dear life. I made it across the bridge but I never knew where this fear came from. I have it today, and I get light-headed driving across a bridge over water, and if the bridge is very long I smother.

Relating to this, I used to have to cross a bridge on the way to work. Coming back at night I always had the fear of watching my lights on the road suddenly reveal black, where the bridge had collapsed and I was going to drive off into the water. Not as I approached the bridge, I always got this fear toward the end of the bridge. Could be a clue, huh?

I'm going to see my sister near Greenwood, SC in a few days, and I dread this one bridge. It is about at the water's level, crossing a big lake. I cannot breathe when I cross this bridge, and I gasp for air. Wish me luck, as it's the only way to get to where she lives!!!

reply to post by Scribe611


Sounds to me like your bridges could be a warning or a death in a past life. Perhaps you drove off a bridge with no abrupt warning and the water was at the bridges level? ((Kinda freaky if you ask me.)) As for me though with past lives and kind of getting off topic with you. I always have dreams of wolves. Wolves are protecting me O___O One wolf always stands out though. A bright silver wolf with reddish gold eyes. Who knows? I don't. But your other past lives seem pretty harsh. I wish you luck on your bridge crossing. I also wish you luck you pay attention. Never drive fast over a bridge XP Thats how you end up in messes x.x

I wanted to add to this. Reason why I relate wolves with past lives is because recently, I have had visions of my past life. One of them I'm not even human if you can believe that. Well.... I was in another dimension and I kind of "FELL" to Earth X.x All I remember was being stabbed in the stomach. Laying there bloody as a big black wolf came and cuddled and warmed me up until I died. Kind of sucked..... and I mean really sucked. But yeah x.x I've always had it weird I suppose.

reply to post by sled735


I believe we all travel in "circles"...all the people we meet in this life...we knew in one form or another in our past lives to me...it explains how you can get along with someone as soon as you "meet" them.....or not get along with them... it would also explain how you can be friends with people half your age..or twice your age....because...in all reality...your the same age confused yet if believe...you would be

reply to post by sled735


ah ha. ok that makes total sense now. guess I was thinking along the lines of dating sites or something scary.
But yes, the circles make so much sense to me.
funny how we all find each other again, really uncanny I think.
One of my best friends has a daughter that ever since she was born I feel like she was a mother figure to me before. although I am 51 and she is 13 , I always am hit with a deep respect for her. Hard to explain, but I'm sure you get it.
There must be more to life than this lifetime.
thanks for the thought provoking thread.

reply to post by sled735


I finally watched the video!

I am glad these things are being documented like they are, but it is a shame that these children have such tragic memories to work through at such a young age. Each parent handled it differently, and each parent did what is right for their children, bravo to the parents. Even the skeptical dad, I don't blame him one bit for not believing until the final piece of proof was presented to him. Good for him too!

Although this is not surprising to me, as I also have a past life memory, I am really glad this is documented like it is, as it helps to verify that it is a real experience for many people. It left me with a couple of questions though, things I will have to ponder. My last lifetime was many years ago,somewhere in the mid to late 1800's. Unless I have had other after that life that I remember, and just don't remember them, but I don't think I have.
(I was told once by someone that I have had 7 lifetimes, this bein g the 7th but dunno how true that is)
So I wonder why reincarnate so soon?
(It was also suggested that one of my sons is a reincarnation of a friend of mine who died and was my first ADC, but she said she was going some place better, and I doubt I would be it lol )
I wonder how much that has to do with a premature dead. Perhaps because it was out of their control, they had to come back very quickly, with the exception of James, who took over 50 years.

The phobia thing I know is true though, as I experienced that myself. I was killed by a wolf/dog hybrid, and have an irrational fear of dogs, and have had that my entire life, until I remembered how I died, then I understood the fear and it was a lot less, although I still have it to some extent.

I think the one child who has not had a chance to settle with his past will eventually on his own.

Great video Sled!

reply to post by Scribe611


Thank you for sharing that remarkable account of your memories with past lives.

More validation for us. Great!!!

Have a safe trip to S.C., and just remember when you approach the bridge, the fear is from the past... you can let it go now.