• Lucytorial said on Feb 21, 2008....

  is this a moon thing?? man soulcast is just reeling with sad asses lately.. join the crew grape...
  
  I'm not sure how I can explain what I believe right now, I don't think I have the energy to type it all out.
  
  The point is that everything, every moment is precious and cannot be taken back or changed, once it is done it is so.  Its important to remember that living each moment is sometimes more important than planing each moment.
  

• secretlife said on Feb 21, 2008....

  i'm not a big believer in past lives grape.
  i am a believer in the preciousness of the one i'm living now.
  but if, by some chance, we get to come back again, i already have someone i hope to spend it with. 
   
  you're not lost, i see you right here!
  {{hugs}}

• gingersoul said on Feb 21, 2008....

  Grapey...... if there is something i can be proud of is exatcly this: i have been dealt pretty shitty cards in these past years and I honeslty think i played good games with them, after all.

  In my past life i must have lived in the Middle Age, in a monastery or a castle....i have been alwasy attracted by churches, clusters, castles....a nun or a cortigiana or a Sherazade......

  Where i might be in my next life? Everywhere but in Texas, thank you....lol....  

  Oh, and i see you. And Secret too.....:-D

• dailyachesandpains said on Feb 21, 2008....

  Hey Grapester!
   
  Great post! (Hi Secret and Gingie!)
   
  In my past life, I was told that I was a pilot by a medium.  I think I might agree with her.  Call me crazy, nuts or whatever you want, but when I have a vivid thought or nightmare about a plane crash, it has always happened.  My Mother thinks that it's my Cousin that was killed in a plane crash sending me messages.  What crappy messages to send, especially because he doesn't give me the where and the when so I can say something.  I also wanted to be a fighter pilot when I was little!
   
  If I were to come back, I think I would be a better person and with less anxiety and panic attacks.  Maybe a motivational speaker, lol!
   
  Daily
   

• quietone said on Feb 22, 2008....

  Hi grape, secret, ginger, and daily ~ I don't want to come back - however many times I have already been here, I don't know......but I do know I have had enough this time around...now its time to go home.  But, maybe I would come back just to see daily as a motivational speaker!  :)

• secretlife said on Feb 22, 2008....

  I think we ALL should come back to see daily as a motivational speaker!
   

• queenparanoia said on Feb 22, 2008....

  so true.. =)

• Mamie said on Feb 22, 2008....

  I do think life is neverending and that our souls can live out different variations...yes. I did a past life thing before and it took me to a rolling meadow in France...where I was but one of about  a half dozen little girls, each of us in a little sundress, similar but different. I was their sister and in real life timing, it seemed to me to be why I have always wanted sisters...in the session, then we went to our home to prepare for school where i saw my now mother but she was speaking to us in French.
  Off to school found me running into the arms of a laughing nun...it was at a convent or church...and I enjoyed going to catholic schools with nuns in this life time...and now volunteer at a retirement convent...I took 6 years of French but don't speak a word of it.
  As for what I may do next? No idea, but I bet it is fun!!

• GrapeKoolaid said on Feb 22, 2008....

  I've always felt pretty handy with a bow, like I was born into archery.  I have dreams about it quite often as well.  Funny thing is, no one ever taught me to shoot a bow.  It was something that came quite natural to me. 
  
  If I could come back as anything, I'd love to come back as an asian pear tree.  That way, I could live to be hundreds of years old, provide sweet, watery, delicious nourishment for the hungry and provide a cool shade for the weary traveler.  Plus, the villagers would love me.  :)
  
  Lucy:  Sorry if this post had a downer kinda feel.  Yesterday was just one of those days when I was feeling generally powerless towards things.  I seem to be in a better place this morning, and not feeling so quite lost.  It's not that my situation's changed any overnight, it's probably that my perspective has shifted a little bit. 
  
  Secret:  Thanks for the hugs...  It was sweeter than usual and I needed it that much more.  :)  I'm with you on the preciousness of every waking moment, and I guess this post was just me letting out a little steam at my feeling of general helplessness and the overall lack of control that I felt.  Nothing like the feeling of your life spiraling out of control to put you in perspective, you know? 
  
  Sweet gingery brew...  At one point in my life, I may have had a thousand and one tales to delight you with every night.  As of right now, the well's runnin' kinda dry... 
  
  I know you've played a brilliant game thus far, in spite of the hands you were dealt at times.  I marvel at your courage and steadfastness and have always held you in highest esteem.  I think you know that already, though...  Your eyes giving nothing away, holding your cards close to your heart...
  
  Remind me never to play poker with you...  I'll bet you have a great poker face.  ;)
  
  Daily:  Hi daily!  It's been a while, it seems.  Thanks for stoppin' in.  A fighter pilot, huh?  That's very interesting.  Like I mentioned above, I distinctly remember being an archer somewhere in my past, but not in this life.  And like I said, I am pretty handy with a bow.  Strange, isn't it? 
  
  If you sat in the cockpit of an old WWII plane, how familiar do you think the controls would be for you?  I'd be curious to know. 
  
  A peace of mind is something that is indeed hard to come by in out turbulent lives sometimes, no?  I wish you calm in facing your storms and your hurdles.  I think we all could use some. 
  
  quiet:  Perhaps the reason why we keep coming back is because something is not yet finished.  According to the Buddhists, you keep trying until that proverbial lightbulb goes off in your head and you say, "A-ha!" spiritually. 
  
  I already find Daily to be rather motivating and empowering, to tell you the truth.  ;)
  
  secret:  If I come back as a tree, you guys would have to come to me.  Don't worry.  I'll provide plenty of shade for everyone.  Just don't chop me down for firewood.  :)
  
  qp:  Myuh-huh. 
  
  Mamie:  You?  A giddy little school girl from France?  I could totally see that.  Holding hands with your classmates skipping around the nun in a big circle...  Picking flowers to make a crown on the meadow...  What a lovely picture.  In that life, I'd be but a shepherd boy tending his flock, sneaking furtive glances at the schoolgirls wishing he was literate.  :)
  

• wombat said on Feb 22, 2008....

  Sometimes when I am down (read depression) I wonder with all the billions of humans that are and ever were, why I had to be me?  Silly, and just so wrong, I know.  But I didn't ask to be here, and I didn't ask to be brought up the way I was.
   
  Yes, I know life is a gift--and we are what we make of it.  It's just harder for some than others to excel in life and make it what it should be.  That's just sad.
   
  On another note:  I sometimes get little "flashes" of images that are bizarre--and if they happened to be flashbacks of my "past existence" then I was a missionary priest that was burned in some sort of weird ceremony by the natives!
   
  If I could come back with a "choice" of who I would be, it would be anyone without all the baggage I have had to carry this time around, so that maybe I could do better at that "making it what it should be" part a little easier.

• GracefullyGrowing said on Feb 22, 2008....

  I do believe in reincarnation, and I'm convinced this is not my first, nor my last, life in this realm.
   
  I *really* care about the overall purpose - so what I come back as is the decision of that purpose.  Whatever it takes to fulfill that purpose, that's what I want to come back as.  Sometimes it would be nice to know what that is.  Most times, it's probably a good thing to NOT know, or I'd wimp out. =)
   
  ~Grace~

• GrapeKoolaid said on Feb 22, 2008....

  wombie:  If I may I'd like to share a quote with you.  It seems apropos. 
  
  "To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers. No servant or disciple can dress the wound. You dress it yourself or continue bleeding for all to see." -Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)-
  
  Nice dressing.  French?  or Italian?  :D
  

• wombat said on Feb 22, 2008....

  GrapeKoolaid:  Well, I bled a little there for you to see I guess.  Thanks for reading and sending along the quote.  It makes sense to me.

• GrapeKoolaid said on Feb 22, 2008....

  Grace:  Do you know the purpose?  If you do, you're far wiser than I(Not a difficult task, by the way).  If you don't, do you wish to know? 
  
  wombie:  One more for you:  
  
  "We all need someone we can bleed on
  And if you want it, baby, well you can bleed on me
  We all need someone we can bleed on
  And if you want it, why dont you bleed on me"
  
  -The Rolling Stones, "Let it Bleed"
  

• wombat said on Feb 22, 2008....

  I know the song of course, but never really listened to the lyrics.   Thanks! 

• GracefullyGrowing said on Feb 22, 2008....

  Grape - I know for sure what my purpose is for this particular round in life is, though at different stages in life it changes.  I've recently been given a new one, but the funny thing is the purposes throughout the stages always tie in with my particular personality.  It's clear to me, most of the time, how it all fits with everything else.  And while it does not take wisdom to see these things, seeing these things does afford wisdom.  It's REALLY cool how that works!
   
  I have a good idea what the overall purpose is as well - but it is a belief, and therefore not concrete for anyone but me.  Yes, I'd like to KNOW what the overall purpose is.  I think it would motivate me to do better, and give me stamina of spirit and emotional stability.   I *think* that if I knew for sure, things would be somewhat easier.  (I wonder if that's the way it would really turn out though.)
   
  ~Grace~

• Holly-Go-Lightly said on Feb 22, 2008....

  grape in shining armour~~
  I'm not so sure about past lives or future lives~however, there must be something to move forward to, otherwise, what is the use of these situations we are faced with, disguised as "life lessons"?
  
  people that know me, have always commented on what a difficult life I've led. and to see it all on paper, I would agree. however, in the midst of living it, I never backed down. I was afraid, many times, but I took my life in my jaws like a pitbull pup, and beat it down when I had to. then there was a time, when life took me down. all the fight had gone out of me for quite some time.
  
  I thought it meant that it was all over. But, once again, just a test of what I was made of . And  it turned out, that even during what was clearly the largest challenge I  ever had to deal with in my life, there was still a spark in my spirit, a flame in my soul, something deep in my heart of hearts that would not let me give up.
  
  And so, I spend my life hoping to gain knowledge from the things that present themselves in my life, believing there is a reason for everything, believing that it is part of my responsibility to understand and grow from any understanding I may gain. And in the end, I don't know where this lifetime's experiences and lessons will take me. what have I transcended here? what am I qualified for there?
  
  ahh...it's enough just trying to understand the here and now...
  what was the question again??
  ;)
  

• Battycat said on Feb 22, 2008....

  I do think we live many lives, I'd love to know the purpose of this one! I'm sure I'll have to come back.

• GrapeKoolaid said on Feb 22, 2008....

  Grace:  "while it does not take wisdom to see these things, seeing these things does afford wisdom."
  
  That is exceptionally eloquent.  Very well writ. 
  
  Between belief and knowing is a paper-thin layer of faith.  But sometimes that's all you need to separate between the divine and the banal, the infinite and the temporal. 
  
  Thank you for your thoughtful(and thought-provoking) comment. 
  
  Holly:  First, let me just tell you that the thought of being under the management of the Jolly Green Giant still come to me often and I receive some strange looks from people for bursting out laughing for no apparent reason. 
  
  Secondly, every time I see your name here, you remind me of "The Hollies", which is a group that I like very much. 
  
  Especially their 1974 hit, "The air that I breathe." 
  
  Even though Graham Nash is no longer in the band, the song is still great.  Sure it's a little sappy, but I do have a soft spot in my heart for that kind of music. 
  
  
  
  
  BattyC:  If you had a choice, what would you like to come back as?  Try again as a person? 
  

• Battycat said on Feb 22, 2008....

  Maybe a person, i really don't know, a well cared for and loved cat would be nice
   :-D

• GrapeKoolaid said on Feb 22, 2008....

  LOL.  Yeah, it'd be nice to spend your days in the lap of luxury and comfort, sunning yourself during the day, getting brushed, canned food, chasing toys, dishes of milk...  If I came back as a cat, I'd love to be a fat cat.  I always say, "fat cats are happy cats(didn't say anything about healthy)".  Life as a stray on the street's gotta be a pretty desperate existence, though.  Cats are superb hunters, though, so I'm sure they fare better than a lot of other animals.  :)
  

• Holly-Go-Lightly said on Feb 22, 2008....

  Holly  LOL>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Jolly Great Giant!!!
  
  every good blog needs a musical interlude~that was beautiful~thank you
  

• Holly-Go-Lightly said on Feb 22, 2008....

  btw~~still melancholy and lost?
  care to share?
  

• skald said on Feb 22, 2008....

  I've been here many times, just like my friend Quiet. I am thirty for life and i think I like to come back each time a little bit better.
  
  I don't agree that helping other is a luxury. I do it all the time if I can and I think it is my duty. But it is also my duty not to forget my self and I want to mature more and more.
  

• GrapeKoolaid said on Feb 22, 2008....

  Holly:  No, thank you  ;)  Last night I was feeling a bit melancholy and lost...  Isolated, I guess...  Or was it insulated?  I can't quite seem to recall.  Something about sharing clouds and staring out the only window that matters had me unsure of my steps, but I seem to be much better now.  I'm on a better path now.  Solid earth beneath my feet and no more wispy apparitions' serpent tongues to cause me doubt. 
  
  I am the master procrastinator and the work still remains undone.  But it will be.  It's not that I do my best work under pressure, but my only work under pressure.  :)
  
  skald:  What a world this would be if more people thought as you and considered it their duty to help another...  Inspirational, really. 
  
  However, one must necessarily be able to help him/herself before they can help another.  Isn't that so?  If it is, then helping another has a pre-requisite.  Mine before yours.  If you helped others, disregarding your own self, would you be considered a fool?  Or a saint? 
  
  Thank you for this very thought provoking comment. 
  

• skald said on Feb 22, 2008....

  That is what I said You have a duty to your self. You must not forget it but we usually can help others too. 

• GrapeKoolaid said on Feb 22, 2008....

  skald:  Absolutely, my dear poet.  You can give as much as there is room in your heart.  I can see that you have lots.  :)  I think that's a great quality you possess.  

• Alyss said on Feb 22, 2008....

  Dear GK, if you had asked me this in years gone by I would have said no, no such thing as reincarnation but in recent times I have begun to wonder more about it.
  
  Perhaps with the increased awareness of the possibility of there having been past lives, the precognition I experience sometimes seems more explainable. Sometimes I just get that feeling that I have experienced things before but know I have not ever done so what other reason could there be for that to happen?
  
  Similarly how do you explain the connections that form between individuals who know nothing about each other, for whom there is no earthly reason for them to be drawn to each other but are?
  
  I don't think I can presume to make a suggestion as to what I might come  back as were it to happen for real. Sometimes I think I must have been a very, very bad person in previous times to have drawn the straw that I have had in this one.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• GrapeKoolaid said on Feb 22, 2008....

  Alyss:  I know how you feel.  Sometimes I feel that way, too.  Other times, I think to myself, "Those around me must have done something awful in their past lives for them to be stuck with me". 
  
  For you, also:  If you could come back as anything, what would you come back as?  Would you give humanity another chance?  Or would you crave something a little simpler?  Also, would you come back as female?  Or could you entertain the thought of coming back as a male? 
  
  I wouldn't recommend a male praying mantis, though.  They get eaten during copulation, you see. 
  

• Alyss said on Feb 22, 2008....

  Would I give humanity another shot? Yes because in the end it will work out. Would I be male? I don't think that's the kind of thing you get a choice in but if I were I'm sure I'd adjust.
  
  If it were as an animal then something outside the human food chain would be preferable, don't you think? ;-)
  
  LOL about the preying mantis!
  

• Me-Myself&I said on Feb 22, 2008....

  Hello, Grape. You sure can attract the people. I quess they know a great writer and person when they see one. *smile*

  I haven't read anyone's comment, but I believe in past lives. I feel like an old soul. Doing, living till i get it right. I feel i'm getting closer to retirement.*smile* Before this life, i was an indian woman back about 1700. I knew the old ways.

  For what i'll be or hope to be....just Me, carrying all the wisdom i obtain along the way.

  As always i loved the post. now i'm going to go read the rest of the story. take care ~see ya 

• CreativeWoman said on Feb 22, 2008....

  If my dreams can be any indication, I think I had two past lives.  One was spiritual and related to biblical times and the other was in caveman times. Maybe I just have weird dreams?
  
  I do think the spirit never dies.
  
  If I got to come back?  Hmmm.  I would want to be a mom.
  
  CW
  

• GrapeKoolaid said on Feb 22, 2008....

  MM&I:  "getting it right", or as some would call it, "Nirvana" seems close to you, huh?  That must be a comforting feeling...  I am envious...  I am also flattered to know that you enjoy my writing.  Much like my drawings, I consider these to be little "doodles" on the corners of my virtual notebook.  I always appreciate you stopping in.  :)
  
  I was never good at taking notes.  All my notebooks end up getting filled with "doodles". 
  
  
  Question:  Am I the only one that end up writing in sketchbooks and drawing on notebooks?  Somehow they all turn out that way for me...
  
  CeeDub:  A long periods in between your past lives...  Are there a few more in between that you have yet to glean?  Or perhaps you were masticating the valuable lessons learned, letting them marinate for a bit. 
  
  As always, lovely to see you. 
  
  :)
  

• husbandhater said on Feb 22, 2008....

  If there is such a thing as Karma George Bush will come back as an ass cheek or a shoe that has to step in shit all day. I'm too busy to be sad although I guess somewhere in my soul I am about my marriage and my husband still doesn't get it. So I hope if I come back I'm some rich socialite b/c I like being  a woman. I'd like to at least like to have money out the way as an issue so I could deal with other things. Haha!

• GrapeKoolaid said on Feb 22, 2008....

  I have an ex-gf named Karma...
  
  Somehow i get the feeling I've got a loooong way to go in balancing that wheel...
  
  Perhaps that's why I want to come back as a tree...
  

• CreativeWoman said on Feb 22, 2008....

  Grape,
  The biblical set of dreams brought me guidance.  The caveman dreams brought me a possible explanation to an irrational fear I have.  Maybe there could have been other lives.  I would love to have a past life regression sometime just to see if there is anything to it and what my mind would come up with.  I find that stuff fascinating.
  
  I don't doodle in my notebooks, but they are filled with ideas and little notes to myself.  I don't stay in the lines.  I write all over the page before I flip it over.  I love going back and re-reading my scribbles.  :-)
  
  It's good to see you too.
  
  CW
  

• GrapeKoolaid said on Feb 22, 2008....

  CW:  Irrational fear?  You know I'm not going to let you get away that easily...  Care to elaborate?  I have an irrational fear myself(though in my mind, it's perfectly rational).  I'll tell you what it is if you feel like sharing.  :)

• CreativeWoman said on Feb 22, 2008....

  Grape,
  My irrational fear is being afraid of the sound of strong winter winds blowing.  It makes me want to peel out of my skin.  I think if I was subjected to them for an extended period of time, it would chip away at my sanity.  I know there is nothing I can do about them, but they really unnerve me.
  
  I've had dreams that I struggled through a blizzard with a wind howling around me.  I was frozen and scared.  The only part of myself I saw in the dream was my feet covered in boots as such from the caveman era.  I've dreamed that dream many times.
  
  Now, let's hear yours.  :-)
  
  CW
  

• GrapeKoolaid said on Feb 22, 2008....

  My irrational fear is of birds.  Any kind of birds, from the tiniest canary to the ostrich.  They all scare the crap out of me.  Something about their reptilian talons and beaks, laying eggs and such I find unsettling.  I've had several bad experiences with birds, too. 
  
  I've been chased and bitten by a Canadian goose(which I promptly kicked but it did little to hurt that creature) just trying to make it in to work from the parking lot.  I've head seagulls swoop at my head, trying to get my ice cream when I was a little kid at Sea World, I was mobbed by pigeons somewhere in Rome, I've hit a bird with my car, so on and so on. 
  
  When I was in college, a bird flew into my room and perched itself by the door.  Living on a loft at the time, I was eye to eye with that thing for a few hours.  Neither of us refused to budge(though I was more petrified than anything) and I ended up missing all of my classes that day.  Eventually, my roommate came back and shooed the bird away.  :)
  
  It's strange.  Mammals seem to love me, but not the avian creatures.  They give me the evil eye. 
  

• CreativeWoman said on Feb 22, 2008....

  Grape,
  I have the same kind of fear with mice.  There is no house big enough for me and a mouse.  So, I really do understand about the birds. 
  
  My mom says she was startled by a mouse when she was pregnant with me.  She always has believed that is when I got my fear of them.  Straight from the womb.  lol
  
  CW
  

• LtCmdrWorf1 said on Feb 22, 2008....

  Hey Grape,

   

  Ah, “The undiscovered country from who’s borne no traveler returns.”  I don’t know if I’ve ever had a pass life, but I’m always fascinated by the civil war.  If I were to be able to chose my destination after death I think I would want to come back as human, but at some point in the future when we can travel in space.  I would like to explore the universe, and all of God’s creation.  Failing that, a really great guitar player.  Peace and Long Life

   

  Love Worf

• beyondtheveil said on Feb 22, 2008....

  I feel nothing, because I know nothing. My life tells me nothing of the past, nor does it tell me anything of the future. My dreams are continually disjointed, no stories, no clues. I don't know why I'm here, or why I'd ever want to come back.
  
  The only thing I would suggest about reincarnation is that if we have come here once, which we obviously have, I see no reason why we wouldn't come back again or have been here a thousand times.
  
  But that is not a comforting thought. Hope or desire of something better for everyone is all I've ever had.
  

• GrapeKoolaid said on Feb 22, 2008....

  LOL perhaps a pterodactyl snatched me off and flew me away a long ways back.  :)

• Dreamknightx said on Feb 22, 2008....

  I would like to be placed on hold until the far future when we have evolved into beings of pure energy. Then I won't have to trim my toenails any more.

• SikariChepiNashota said on Feb 22, 2008....

  i was told by this lady...in my past life...i used to be an egyptian...then at one point i was an indian--it was the happiest of my past lives she said....and i also had a life in the 18thC...all i can say is--there are instances i find myself drawn to those places...and to the clothing and the things popular to them.....sometimes..i do feel like an old soul grape...
  hope you're thrilled by my answer to your question/s...=0)
  if i'm going back...that----i'll have to think about yet! ha!
  

• Jenna said on Feb 22, 2008....

  Hello my dear Grape......wow...you have been gone for awhile and then come back like this.  What a thought provoking post.  Very interesting......

  The hand we are dealt......and how we play it......I believe I am doing ok.  I have had my temper tantrums, screaming at my God saying I did not want this, but I have always come out on the other side saying....Oh...that is what you wanted me to learn.  Each day I believe I am learning how to play my hand.....I am finding there are a lot of choices.  Making the right choice is always a crap shoot.  When I make the wrong choice, I always experience a tremendous amount of growth, so maybe it was the right choice after all......who knows?

  As far as past lives.....I went to this past life class once.....it was so interesting. We did an exercise that took us back.... I saw myself as a nurse during a war in Europe.  I actually saw my feet walking the cobblestone streets as I journeyed to the hospital to care for the victims of war. 

  To this day, I hate hospitals.  I think in a past life I saw too much pain. 

  Another interesting thing I learned in this class....you know how sometimes you meet someone and you instantly connect.  You look into their eyes and just know. them.  Well the theory in this class was that we have met before. 

  Not sure how much I believe this.  I just know there is a lot out there I do not know. 

  As far as coming back......I don't want to for awhile.  I believe in God and heaven and I am going to ask for a time out.  I am tired.  I just want to hang in heaven for awhile.   

   

• GrapeKoolaid said on Feb 22, 2008....

  Worf:  I get the feeling that you're a pretty decent guitarist already.  Probably more than competent.  As to coming back, no better time than the future, no doubt about it.  I'm sure many of you with past lives know all about 12th century dentistry, 16th century field surgery, and the curse that the witch doctor put on you three lives back.  
  
  btv:  You may not be attuned to it, perhaps you choose to ignore it, but it's there.  It's always been there.  It's encoded into your genes.  Hundreds of thousands of years(at least) of evolutionary impulses driven by survival instincts.  Who knows?  It could have been you and you again. 
  
  dtx:  You know, if and when humanity attains that level, they would be so far removed from us that we wouldn't be able to recognize them, I don't think.  Certainly not be able to relate to each other. 
  
  SCN:  Wow...  Been all around the world, too.  I am delighted with your answers.  I am intrigued by them as well.  Further light you could shed on this matter would be appreciated greatly.  :)  Any other details?  Of your life in Egypt?  Indian as in Sub-Continent Indians?  Or "Feather" Indians(Though I believe that the term "Native American" is the preferred nomenclature)? 
  
  Jenna:  Very interesting yourself....  There were many wars in Europe that were just terrible!  The Crimean War was a particularly bad one, but then I guess, all wars are pretty terrible...  You seem very attuned.  Glad to see it.  Glad to see you.  :)
  

• openclose said on Feb 22, 2008....

  I know I have lived past lives as I remember them quite vividly.

  I was a teacher in Scotland in the 1600s.  My used to be bestest friend in the whole wide world was my sister. 

  I was also a pirates wench who was also a damned good fighter and lover. Both of us.  :-)  We sailed on both sides of Mexico.  I wielded a sword as good as or better than most men did.  I was a force to be afraid of.  We took over many ships, both pirate and otherwise, and we were feared by everyone on the seas.  I really loved this life.  The salty air brings back precious memories of that life.

  I have also been a successful plantation owners wife who fell in love with someone who was not so successful and we ran away together the west.  Robbers and fighters we were.

  Recently I realized I lived in Savannah with my now sister.  We were sisters then also.  Except she was wealthy and lived the high life.  I was the whore.  When we go to Savannah we both feel like we have come home and feel very comfortable there.

  I also was a Native American shaman.  A very strong one too.

  Three of those five lives were spent with my soulmate.  We both have those memories.  We have both sat down and wrote our memories alone without speaking about them first.  It was amazing what we both remembered.

  It is very comforting to know that others have lived previous lives also.

• SikariChepiNashota said on Feb 23, 2008....

  okay...just this one grape: the egyptian past life...was not so nice..something bad happened to me, in my social life ..i was in the medical profession, and i was female--she said...re the indian p.life...i was a native-american/feather indian, she just summed it up that i had a good life--still a female...and so with the 18thC time...but that one isn't clear to her at that time...so she didn't elaborate... :]

• Holly-Go-Lightly said on Feb 25, 2008....

  you know~ traditional chinese belief holds that not only are we reincarnated over and over again, but that our lives continue to revolve around the same souls, only in different form. for instance, two women in this lifetime may be sisters, in a past lifetime perhaps they were mother and daughter, and in a future life, maybe grandmother and granddaughter, or any number of combinations. it is a sense of security that when they go, they will eventually see their loved ones again, and will try to be able to recognize them in their new forms.
  
  I've always said I would come back as a butterfly~after that old saying "only butterflies are free"...but a sleek, sexy, powerful black panther wouldn't be so bad either...  :)
  

• silverwhisper said on Feb 25, 2008....

  i'll confess i hold w/ neither past lives nor reincarnation, myself--although betimes, i do have second thoughts given my interest in otters. :>
  
  grape, why so gloomy when you posted this?
  
  ed

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