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Tevai
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Date: September 22, 2020 04:46PM
My understanding of a human "soul" is somewhat simpler than I think most people understand or believe.
To me, it is human individuality--and this individuality is not necessarily connected to anything religious.
Restricting this post JUST to human beings:
I think all (or most) of us have "Long Histories": the lives we have lived previously. Although some of these previous lifetimes can have some fairly strong impacts on a present life, most of a given person's "past lives" have either little, or no, impact on the lives being lived now.
Contrary to common belief, most people who are regressed "go back" to incredibly ordinary lifetimes (similar to the inordinately incredibly ordinary lifetimes being lived across this planet right now).
This is nuanced, however. Major life lessons are often learned in incredibly ordinary lifetimes because, contrary to common suppositions, most people were NOT famous, wealthy, beautiful, esteemed, or powerful in any way. They were just ordinary people living absolutely ordinary lives.
My husband spontaneously went back to a lifetime as a peasant in England, in the general period around the ancient invasions. He and his mother were literally starving to death, so he volunteered to become a soldier--but he couldn't take the killing, so he ran away; he later died because he was so weak from malnutrition that he literally couldn't get away from being crushed to death in a farm accident.
Someone else I know spontaneously went back to a life on a hardscrabble farm somewhere in the American Midwest, sometime in the early 1800s--a life in which he was (in his adolescence back then) literally beaten to death by his father.
Kathleen Jenks worked her way through University of California graduate school by regressing people, and she says that she has only run into someone [now] who was "SOMEONE" [back then] a few times out of hundreds of regressions, and when it did [rarely] occur, the details which came out in the regression were not details which were commonly known or written about in contemporary times--though they did tend to check out if those details were researched.
In my regression, I learned that I am the second person in this body. When I told my Mom this, her reaction was: "So THAT is what happened!" She said that my personality is entirely unlike the personality of the baby she gave birth to, and suddenly one day, *I* was a massively "different person" (for the better). She and I compared details, and it became pretty clear that there had been a switch which occurred during the first couple of years of "my" life now. I was unbelievably better off in this body than I had been in the body I had just left (a lifetime which ended when I had been shot in the head; it was WWII), and I have always felt that I totally lucked out in landing in this body, and in the lifetime I have now--despite the fact that I was always, from the very beginning and forever, a stranger to the family I had when I was growing up. I can't say that they, or I, ever understood each other, but we did--painful adjustment by painful adjustment--sort of get "used to" each other over the years, which was okay enough by me. In truth, though, I never had ANY real connection to the many relatives who came along as part of the "package" of this lifetime. Since I well remember where I came from, I am always conscious that--despite all of the clumsy family awkwardness--I truly lucked out in getting this lifetime I have now.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/22/2020 04:50PM by Tevai.