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[kimberlysteele]

Hi Everyone, feel free to comment on anything and everything... but please refrain from curse words. Thank you.

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Re: Thank you

[(Anonymous)]

I note that you refer to these past lives as other people who are not yourself. In many cases when I hear people describe past lives, I hear them say "In this life I did this thing" whereas you describe it as "In this life they did that thing". How come you to think of it in this way?


I personally have no particular reason to believe I've had a past life. I sometimes wonder if instead I've had a future life. Or the same life. I know that over the course of time I feel like in my younger days I've received messages from future me. However all these messages come from "future" me who is younger than I am currently. This is somewhat disconcerting as I think on it.


On meditating about the possibilities of a past existence, I have only the faintest of glimmers and cannot guarantee that it isn't simply influenced by media.

Re: Thank you

[kimberlysteele]

I had to parse out a great deal of media influences when I looked into my past lives. It's actually very good to analyze the media you have seen (movies, TV, internet, novels, etc.) in order to understand where it may be infiltrating your imagination. There is a great deal of "sifting for gold" in discursive meditation. Discursive meditation is often plodding, methodical, seemingly redundant work. Success, just like in musicianship, comes only from relentless practice.

I think of my past lives as different people because though we all have a common thread, they truly are not me as Kimberly Steele. There are lots of habits from those lives (serial murder, for instance) that I don't choose to do anymore, so I try to make the distinction as clear as possible not just for others, but to remind myself I can grow from experience.

I get flashes from my future lives fairly frequently. For whatever reason, they come as readily as flashes from my past lives.