Medieval past

[hiker45]

Originally Posted by fractured_kidult

I was wondering if I might be having flashes of a past life I have lived? Is it possible to know how to remember past lives without paying someone?

What you are experiencing is very natural.

Memories are just a pattern of atoms in your brain. Sometimes a pattern like this is transferred in your bloodstream to your gonads of ovaries, whichever you have, and they are stored in your sperm or egg cells like your instincts. Then you pass these memories on to your children.

This happened to one of your medieval ancestors and their memories have been passed on to you. No big real.

[JerZ]

Well, on a practical level, many people who feel they were "born in the wrong time" (often due to simply not being able to "get along" in this one, and daydreaming about a "better" life or better time period, in their perception) seem to pinpoint Medieval times as their "correct" time, and Europe as that place. This probably points more to our romanticizing that particular period in history than any concrete evidence of a past life.

Now as far as whether it's actually a past-life memory, obviously, nobody - even believers in reincarnation - can tell you that. But I wonder whether this question isn't more appropriate to the Unexplained Mysteries/Paranormal board.

[Shirina]

This is a 4 year-old thread so I doubt the OP is still around to read anyone's advice.

But I will say that I don't even feel like I belong within the human race much less being in the wrong time period.

Too many things, especially regarding human behavior, are just too alien to me.

[old_cold]

In the case of the op, he had a few strange feelings and then immersed himself in literature about the time period...became obsessed, in his own words.
And it's supposed to be strange that he started dreaming about it???

[TRANSPONDER]

In a way this is filed in my mind along with NDE and OOB claims. And indeed the belief that one is getting messages from God, or in some cases, space aliens.

I read some of these history flashback stories (and how much they reminded me of alien abduction claims recalled by hypnotic regression) and there was frustratingly little to go on to check the factuality. One memorable memory was of a revenue man in Charles II's time looking out for smugglers. It seemed unlikely, since smuggling was more a result of the blockade in the Napoleonic wars and the problem in Stuart times was piracy. But this objection was brushed aside rather.

There was also a recall of a seaman moaning about his superior who didn't dare give him a hard time because he could 'lay a gun'. He lost his leg on the 'Aggie' (Aggamemnon? One of Nelson's commands 1) when a French ship broke the blockade. Again, nothing really that one could chec, though I imagine the log of the Agamemnon would show whether a gun -captain lost a leg in such an action.

I'm reminded also of Rosemary Brown who produced some convincing Spirit Dictated compositions from Beethoven, Brahms and others (2) and her Brahms quartet -fragment sounded very convincing. But nothing that couldn't be accounted for by someone with a bit of familiarity being inventive, perhaps really believing it, or wanting to.

After all of this and much more, we still have no convincing evidence and yet another tranche of afterlife (or previous life) Proof that is all the rage.

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Agamemnon_%281781%29
Meditteranean rather than blockade duty; a slight doubt. This was the earliest of the name and the only one where a gunner could feasibly lose a leg in an action against the French.

(2) can't find the Brahms but this dictated composition by the spirit Liszt is appropriate. (may need to boost the sound a bit)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdPQj4pXovQ