OK, I don't know how weird this is going to sound to you guys, but, I am sure that I have been here before, I think maybe even more than once!
I read somewhere that it is possible to view any past lives you might have had, but it didn't say how you might do it.
Does anyone think or have the feeling that they have lived another life or even other lives? And does anyone know where I could find any information on connecting with my past lives?
I think it might help me settle into my newly comfortable kin skin if I could maybe see where I came from and how I got here.

Thanks
Darke. I love this smilie. I love all the smilies actually, but I really love this one.

Yes, there is such a thing as reincarnation. Past lives do exist and most of us have had them. I think (yeah ive said this before) otherkin aren't blinded by assumptions and don't take things for granted and that opens so many doors for us. Most of which have to do with possibilities. And one of the more common possibilities is past lives. That moment when you're talking about something and you know that something in detail though you've had no experience with it in this life. I personally cannot view my lives on command, but I do get them in dreams. Most of them are bloody nightmares (literally) but a few fill me with peace. Some of are this reality, others are from different planes, one is from my different times in the after life (that place is fun. so much to explore in infinity!) I know others on here may be able to give you a good way to view them but i tend to just like getting them naturally mostly because i've been a very bad kitty cat, slaughtering the villagers and what not, and don't like traversing my bloody past. But past lives are a possibility.

It doesn't sound weird at all DarkeDesire.
I know exactly what you mean and have a suggestion of a possible solution for you.
There are otherways of doing this but this is mine.

Make yourself comfortable and relaxed but keep your energy level up so you don't fall asleep.(similar to meditating)
Now look inside yourself (you can do this if you close your eyes and look into the darkness you see in front of you.)
I look for my centre point which is visible, to me, as a ball of light.
Then I move towards it with the intention of entering and letting the light move through me to connect with all my senses.
At this point it becomes obvious that there are different layers to the ball rather like a gobstopper.
Each layer denotes a seperate section of my existence, some are lives in the physical sense and some are times spent none physical.

As I move through each layer I hear or see snatches of information and all I need to do to see more is tune in and let them play through.
For me the Phoenix times are multiple interjoined layers that seem to swirl on themselves while the human lives are more translucent and obviously singular layers, times spent not physical are brighter layers which simply glow without ever showing a light source.
I used to have quite a problem with being disturbed by my dreams but could never really remember properly what had gone on in them.
Fortunately, since I started looking specifically for those memories that were coming through as dreams I have managed to completely stop the regressive dreams altogether and replace them with my version of basic, weird but harmless dreams.
I am also now in a position where I have reasonable access to my memories but they don't randomly assert themselves and cause flashbacks anymore.

The nearer I get to the centre of the ball the older the memories get.
Moving right to the centre there is my first time as a being and the point where my sentience came to exist.Now that is a long time ago.

Just one last thing.
I have found that my memories were not entirely truthful until I was comfortable with my own true inner identity.I have been seeing the past for years but until I discovered my Kin-ness I was not able to see the complete actuality of the memories

I hope this can help you but please do ask more questions if you need to.

Zygo

I don't think I have any of those.

How could I tell? Is there a way or do I just have to wait and see if anything comes along ? If so, I could be waiting forever couldn't I?

No you couldn't Faith.

No-one lives forever.

Almost everyone has had a past life. I think I've only met one person whose soul was fairly new. The only way to know about your past lives is to remember them and for a lot of people that's hard. I can't access my memories on purpose, knowledge just comes to me, or i dream about them. But this is the same when i have a premonition (usually in dreams) you may not have any idea that's what's happening, and others you may feel it in every bone in your body what exactly you are experiencing. I remember countless lives in countless forms in both this realm and the after. I can't tell you if some of the things i think i remember are actually true because they don't seem to be from this reality. Super hard to really explain without me writing a novel.
Either way, when the time comes your memories will surface. No matter what you existed in some form before this, because energy cannot be created or destroyed merely changed. But you may only have memories of the non-living reality and you usually need to be very prepared in order for those, at least i do, because the things you experience are things of the soul, not the body, and it's difficult to wrap your mind around it.

yeah i hope i didn't confuse anyone too much there.... started rambling about ideas again, eh heh...

Ok lets see.

How much you remember before you are aware of being Kin very much depends on your upbringing.
Your family’s religion or parents attitude or even the things you learned from other children at school can all effect it.
So don't worry about how much you do or don't remember right now.

This is a bit of a guess but it sounds to me like you haven't found your activation point yet.

When they move into the physical plane lots of Kin place a kind of switch within themselves that sets the wheels of remembering ,awakening and, henceforth, becoming in motion.
The switch is usually active right from birth but because it is influenced by things going on in the physical world, it is possible to "turn the volume down" so that you don't get the details just the big stuff.
What you are, and knowing you are not “human” are big ones that don't generally listen to you when you tell them to be quiet. Memories are more like little details so tend to come along in fits and starts and may not be noticed at all for quite a long time.

When you dream is there a place in your dreams that comes up often or an item that you see a lot. If you know of one then this is most likely your switch.

If you can work out what it is, ask yourself to go and touch it next time you dream about it, Touching it will set it working properly. You can ask yourself to touch the switch without knowing what it is and you should naturally find it using your intuition but it's quicker if you have seen it already.
You don't need to ask to do this while in a dream ...making the request while you're awake is not only easier but quite important because it will link your physical self with your spiritual self and open the pathways to allsorts of little treasures.

Here is something else you could try which might suit you better than the dream method.

Think about something that you did when you were younger. Pick something you remember well and that feels like a nice thing to reminisce about.
Now once you have thought about it and seen the images of the memory, take another closer look and see if anything in your memory seems a bit out of place. It will be something you recognise and probably quite unique, but once you find it visualise yourself reaching into the memory and touching the object.
You will know when it has worked by the way you feel about it.

Things will probably come along slowly at first but with time they will arrive.

Zygo

I think, no i know, the reason i don't have control over the memories is because i'm afraid of them. Too many of my earliest memories were that of pain, those of others and of myself. Because of that i have learned to fear or at least be wary of my memories. I instinctually learned to push them away and build a cage for them inside of me, and i still don't know if i want to free them. So far if i need to know something i'll either pull it out, or it'll force it's way out, but so far they're in a cage while i'm in a corner with a big wooden spoon looking at it cautiously.
I'll face them when i'm ready, but i'm too afraid and too full of doubt to be able to accept them right now. I do want to know things, but not as much as i want to protect myself.

OK I know it's taken me ages to get around to this, but it has been on my mind for a while.

I owe you an apology for this Faith. I was only trying to be amusing, and I didn't mean to offend you. So if I did I'm really sorry.

Darkness.

How do I say this.Well first I have to say that my name is Brian. I know I know I shouldn't have said it but it's relevent to the story. With me I don't remember any of Brian's past lifes but I have seen lives of people that my wolf has lived in. We are 2 seperate beings who live together so we have different memories. I've also lived some of these lives in my head

Wolfbrother

You know I hadn't even seen this until I came to reply to Skeeve's post.
It's OK Darkness and thanks for the apology.
And now I'm laughing so hard I can't remember what I was going to say to Skeeve!!!

edited to put:
Sorry Skeeve. I'll be back I promise.

You better Grrr

Wolfbrother

OK I'm going to leave a new reply to this topic and then maybe Faith will remember that she was going to reply to Wolfbrother and I won't have to wonder what I distracted her from with my apology.

Anyway here as promised, but a little later than billed in the programme.
My post on how to capture and view past life memories.

Sit in a quiet room and breathe gently in and out. Feel yourself relax and then imagine yourself in a room with a bottle of children's bubble mixture. You shake the blower in the mixture and raise it to your lips. As you blow the room begins to fill with bubbles, some big, some small.

So many memories, gathered in the soap bubbles that float around you in the room. If you look closely you can clearly see that the bubbles are different colours. Some are Red and contain lives lived, some spread their rainbow colours around the room, they are the ones that represent time spent in the ethereal realms, the black ones are for me used to hold the memories of my times spent as kitty cat, then there are the crystal clear ones, shining like ice, fresh and clean with a promise of lives yet to come, and some that make me feel strange when I look at them. These are green ones that I am really not ready to examine too closely just yet. Though the time is coming closer when I will, I feel it.

To view these lives and remember any time past, all I have to do is cup the bubble in my hands and gaze into it's translucent depths. The memories turn and turn again, like home movies, sound and vision running in perfect unison, taking me back to a place once dwelt, a hand once held, a heart once touched, a love once known, a life once lived.
All my past lives so clear to me, so achingly familiar, so yearned for, so much sought in dreams, so much re-lived in the Astral plain where we each get to be whoever we really are.
All my future lives so looked forward to. Each greeted happily when the time is right.

I have worked hard to find myself in the position I am in now. I enjoy my life, and I am completely at ease with myself. I still don't know everything, and I have doubts about many things, but none about this. I know and embrace with joy who and what I am, and the memories, though not necessary to me, are a fascinating part of all that. Though they are not all happy ones, and I know that I would still be who I was without them, I love having the memories I have.
I know in my heart that I will not stop at this life, I have many more memory bubbles to blow, and I am enjoying myself immensely.

This looks like a really good way to do this.

I had always thought it would be hard to access my memories, but this idea makes it look a whole lot easier than I was afraid it would be.
I know that ideas like this don't work for everyone, so I'll give it a try and let you know how I do.

I have yet to actually have the free time to attempt this but I am definitely going to try it the first time I get a chance.

~Farshief