>>7992422>>7993635Just for the bump of it, I'll add a couple more thoughts.
First, I don't in any way believe that I lived a past life. The experience I related was "just something weird" that I've always written off as some form of deja vu. To me, it's a crossover of information in my head that mixed with my memory function. Maybe just me watching old war movies as a young kid and the images were somehow so vivid they intruded into how my brain processes more direct memory functions.
I do allow for the possibility of past lives, but I've never run across anything to make me believe them. Just keeping an open mind, though. I've not discussed it with other people much, but some have been convinced of it, and their less-than-rational infatuation with the idea has turned me off hard, making me a strong skeptic.
There is this interesting song, though, which I'll contribute instead of trying to find another Civil War art:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9zJp8lcnvcVery topic-related.
I mentioned some interesting weirdness that makes the experience stand out for me in the other post. I'll admit I've had this thought, skeptical though I am. I mentioned "about he time I turned 30" because there wasn't a clear moment when it stopped. Just that somewhere around that time I noticed I hadn't experienced it "for a while." It was the sort of thing I didn't notice more than once or twice a year throughout my life, just that it was a specific and repeatable experience.
I've wondered if the experiences stopped because that was the age of the man who died at Gettysburg. Rather than it being my past life, it did occur to me an alternate explanation might be that I was somehow channeling or connecting with the ghost/spirit of someone who did die there, that I somehow echoed that final day or two of his life in pieces of my own memory, and that the experience stopped because I passed the age at which he died.
So, maybe a ghost story rather than a reincarnation testimony?
