Reincarnation

I have been here before, and so have you. Nobody alive today is having their first lifetime on Earth.

I know that sentence lands differently depending on where you grew up and what you were taught. So I will tell you how I came to it, what I have remembered, and what I think it means for the life you are living right now. Then you can weigh it against your own experience, which is the only test that counts.

How it went missing

Reincarnation was once taught by mainstream religion as a fact.

That changed with the Council of Nicaea, in the early to mid 300s AD, under the direction of the Emperor Constantine. The teaching was removed so the church could have greater control over the masses.

I grew up in a Christian household, with church and Sunday school and all the rest of it. My spiritual awakening came at about four years of age, and I learned early to keep what I saw to myself. I did not share an experience like that again until I was an adult.

I spent years exploring different denominations looking for answers. The deeper I went into what I was being taught, the more questions I had. On the surface it looked like the ideal picture. Underneath it was far from it: untruths, half truths, power, corruption, greed, abuse and manipulation. I also found there was no single definitive version of the Bible, that each denomination had its own version and its own reading of it, and that a lot of them had split in two over exactly that. So I went down the rabbit hole of tracing where the Bible itself came from. That is a very long story, and it left me with more questions than answers.

I have not been part of a religion for about forty years now. I spent a long time in the beginning carrying a great deal of guilt over that. I am well over it. What I found in the end was peace, and the understanding that your spiritual path is a very individual and personal thing. Once I understood that, I no longer needed anyone to tell me their version of the truth was better than mine.

So when I say reincarnation is a fact, I am not asking you to swap one set of rules for mine. I am telling you what I have found.

Remembering

Then there is memory.

There was a stretch in 2021 when I was getting more and more past life memories, one after another over a few weeks.

One of them goes back to a time when the ice was over a kilometre thick across parts of Europe. People were arguing even then about the climate warming, and the learned view of the day was that there was no way it could ever melt that much ice. It was simply not possible. And here we are today, heading for a time when ice over anything will no longer be a thing.

Another came while I was watching footage from the Mars Rover. I came across one of the photos it had taken, and I immediately had an image of myself looking at that same object in a town square. I was dark skinned and tall. I have no idea whether I was a man or a woman.

There is also a Japanese warrior priest, a previous incarnation of mine, who comes through when I work as a transfiguration medium. The Mediumship page is the place for that.

You may already have had one of these yourself without calling it that. The most common is arriving somewhere for the first time and knowing it. You can describe the place as though you knew it well, and yet you know you have never been there. That is one of the four kinds of deja vu, and the Deja Vu and Its Four Kinds page goes through all of them.

Soul memory

The memory you carry between lives has a name. I call it soul memory.

Your human memory is this life so far, from your first breath until this morning. Soul memory is the sum of every human experience you have lived and everything you learned, or unlearned, along the way. Most of the time it sits underneath, out of reach.

You can jog it. Say this out loud.

"I am not of this world."

For many people there is a wave of familiarity, and very often a tingle down the arms or the back of the neck. That is soul memory stirring. I wrote about this in the Remember Who YOU Are post, and the Where We Come From page takes it further back than I will go here.

You do not come back alone, either. We travel each lifetime with the same twenty to twenty five souls and take on different roles in each other's lives. The Soul Groups page is about them.

Ten things to take as given

There is a lot that can be written on this subject. If you ever talk to nurses who work in end of life care, they will have a lot of stories for you about the afterlife, and the What Happens When We Die page picks up that thread.

For now I want to give you ten brief things you can take as given about your time here. If you have been here before and will be here again, these are what matter while you are in this one.

1. Love yourself. It teaches others how to treat you, and it gives you a greater depth of love for those around you.
2. Live life fearlessly. Living in fear does not protect you completely. Living in love protects you far better, and it protects the people you love far better too.
3. Humour, laughter and joy. We can never have enough. Watch children at play. Society teaches us to lose that ability for random fun, and as an adult you have the power to bring it back.
4. Life is a gift, and not a chore. Cherish it. Extract all the beauty you can out of it.
5. Always be yourself. Being true to yourself is the only path to enlightenment, and it is the best way to attract real people into your life.
6. We are one soul. We all come from the same place, and we all return to it.
7. We are one consciousness. This is where your spiritual abilities come from.
8. You are deeply loved and cherished forever. That one explains itself.
9. You will be taken care of. The unconditional love of the universe loves you.
10. You have nothing to fear. The love of the universe hugs you.

Sitting with it

If this is new to you, you do not need to settle it today. Read it, put it down, and watch what comes up over the next few weeks: a place that feels familiar, a person you are sure you have known before, a moment of knowing you cannot account for.

Have you been remembering too?

You will be your own teacher. All I will do is help you remember what you already know.

If you would like this read against your own chart, my readings are here.