The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyoneย ; Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain.ย
– Katha Upanishad
I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.ย
– Goethe
We observe the principles of reincarnation everywhere in life:ย the cycles of nature, day and night, the cyclic motion of the sun, earth, moon and solar system.ย We also see the principles of reincarnation reflected around us each day: a plant grows, dies and releases its seeds.ย Its seeds burrow into the earth, begin to sprout, and new life is reborn once again.
Reincarnation, or the rebirth of energy, or life, occurs all around us in different shapes and forms every day.ย Perhaps this is why to many of us reincarnation is something intuitive, something that resonates the very nature, the very essence of life.ย
We also see that our lives, and everything around us, follows a fundamental pattern; that of change, growth, transformation, and evolution.ย We see that all of life goes through a maturing process at different rates and different velocities.ย Thus to many of us, the maturation process of the soul through the process of reincarnation sounds just as instinctively and fundamentally correct as any other maturing process in life.
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Not only that, but some of us have experienced extraordinary feelings, memories and sensations that point to the legitimacy of such a mysterious experience.ย We will be exploring many different signs that you might have touched the โother sideโ in this article.
Past Lives and โYourโ Soul
The doctrine of metempsychosis is, above all, neither absurd nor useless … It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.ย – Voltaire
Known also as โmetempsychosisโ and โtransmigrationโ, Reincarnation and the concept of past lives has existed for thousands of years, spanning back to the ancient Celtic, Greek, Asian and Indian traditions.ย These days, about 51% of the worldโs population believe in some form of an afterlife, with about 7% believing that we are ultimately reincarnated.
One of the most intrinsic beliefs of reincarnation is that most of us have lived many lives before, and sometimes we can actually remember these past lives.ย These past lives and past โselvesโ we tend to identify with as extensions of ourselves and our egos.
However, as Mateo elaborated in a previous article on reincarnation:
Reincarnation of an โindividual selfโ is only as possible to the extent of believing that your sense of โselfโ – your ego – is real.ย Two identities who are dwelling within two different physical bodies in the present, or in the past, will be two very distinct personalities.ย In truth, the โIโ is a transitioning, ever-changing phenomenon.ย Although our identities and senses of self are ever-changing, there is something that remains the same.ย There is something within us that is constant and continuous and that is pure awareness.ย It is this very pure awareness which serves as the experiencer and observer of life, and it is this pure awareness that we can refer to as โourโ Soul โฆ This understanding of reincarnation closely resembles that of the Buddhist idea that the continuity continues, but the individual disappears.
So although it is not necessarily โyouโ or โmeโ who has experienced reincarnation and past lives, the ever-present soulful essence within us has.
12 Signs Your Soul Has Reincarnated
When we understand reincarnation as the maturation process, or evolution, of soulful energy, it follows that some of us have intuitively experienced different things in our lives that reflect on the age of the energy known as our souls.ย
It is commonly believed that many of our personal characteristics, experiences and capabilities in this life reflect on whether we have lived before on earth.ย It is thought that the more we mature, the more gifted we are in certain areas of life and the more often we go through spiritual awakening experiences.
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The truth is that all of us have most likely reincarnated, however, some of us have gone through this cycle more than others and therefore experience many of the following characteristics:
1.ย Recurring Dreams
Dreams are reflections of the unconscious mind, and while repetitive dreams may sometimes signify trauma, fear or issues that your brain is trying to process (โunfinished businessโ), repetitive dreams can also potentially be reflections of past life experiences.ย Many people claim to have experienced certain events, seen particular people or gone to specific places frequently in their dreams that feel very familiar, and somehow recognizable.ย For example, I often have recurring dreams of a 15th century castle that I have a distinct feeling of knowing very well, yet I have never seen or been to this castle before in waking life.
ย 2.ย Out-of-place Memories
There are many recorded instances of young children who have out-of-place memories that later prove to be oddly accurate in detail.ย While out-of-place memories could be due to simple fantasies, misunderstandings or an incongruency in the ability to remember, there is mounting evidence that suggests out-of-place memories could reveal connections to past lives.
3.ย You Have a Strong Intuition
Intuition is the ability to balance the conscious and unconscious mind and to tap into our deeper wellsprings of primal wisdom and innate knowledge.ย It is said that the more we soulfully mature, the more we are closer to returning to the โsourceโ (known also as nirvana, eternity, oneness) from which our Souls come from, and from which the collective unconsciousย – a body of universal knowledge – exists.
4.ย Dรฉjร vu
Weโve all experienced dรฉjร vu before at some point in our lives.ย Itโs that bizarre feeling that somehow we have already experienced or lived a moment in time before.ย Often dรฉjร vu comes spontaneously, and is triggered by smells, sounds, sights, tastes and various other sensations.ย While some claim that dรฉjร vu is a neurological dissonance, others claim that dรฉjร vu reflects the possibility of other dimensions (i.e. parallel universes), and still others believe it is revealing of past life experience.
5.ย Youโre an Empath
Empaths absorb the emotions, and in some instances the physical pains, of those around them literally empathizing, or directly feeling and experiencing what others experience.ย In this article aboutย Empaths I go into greater depth about this unique breed of people.ย While identifying as an Empath and absorbing the emotions of others could be seen in some instances as a psychological form of avoidance to bypass oneโs own problems and pin the blame on others, in other genuine cases it can be seen as a sign of a soul that has undergone many previous reincarnations and has refined to the point of transcending the individual self and itโs problems, extending to others as well.
6.ย Precognition
Also known as โfuture sightโ or โsecond sightโ, precognition is the ability to obtain information about future events that isn’t usually available.ย Precognition can be experienced through visions, physical sensations and feelings as well as in dreams.ย While considered quasi-scientific by some, to others precognition is a very real experience and could indicate the maturation of soulful energy.
7.ย Retrocognition
You probably guessed it!ย Retrocognition is the opposite of the above precognition, and refers to the ability to obtain information not usually available about past events.ย These past events could be in your own lifetime, or sometime in the distant past.ย Of course, retrocognition unlike precognition is not easy to prove or verify, however, for those who have genuinely experienced it (and have been able to honestly verify it), this ability could also be a sign of soulful reincarnation.
8.ย You Feel Older Than Your Age Reflects
Some people are perpetually โyoung at heartโ even into their later lives, and in the same manner,ย some people just seem to have been born with โOld Soulsโ.ย The experience of feeling older than your age reflects is commonly associated with having reincarnated many times over and this is echoed in the โSoul Ageโ theory where there is a certain progression of soulful development: from Infant Souls, to Awakened Souls.ย For example: if you have reincarnated few times on earth, this would be reflected in the age of your energy, and in this life you will display many primitive and child-like characteristics.ย If, however, your soulful energy has reincarnated many times over, you will display many matured and wizened characteristics (such as the ones mentioned in this article).ย If you feel older than your age reflects you might be a an Old Soul.
9.ย You Have a Great Affinity for Certain Cultures/Time Periods/Environments
It is said that having a great, unexplainable attraction for certain cultures or time periods is a kind of past life โresidueโ reminiscent of a certain place, culture or environment that your soul may have experienced in past lives.ย For instance, you may have an inexplicable affinity to Asian culture, Celtic artifacts, or the 19th century.
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10.ย Unexplainable Fears or Phobias
As touched on in the last point, many believe that certain memories or experiences can pass on or leave โresiduesโ in our childhoods and adulthoods from past lives.ย Whether this is true, or is simply a form of problem bypassing, many believe that we can experience the echoes of past traumas in our own lifetimes in the form of unexplainable fears and phobias.ย Examples can include:ย the fear of drowning, the fear of certain types of animals, the fear of certain places, the fear of particular numbers, colors, objects, and so forth.
11.ย You Feel as Though this Earth Is Not Your Home
The yearning to find your โhomeโ can be seen as a reflection of the desire to return back to the source (oneness, consciousness, divinity).ย Many people feel this yearning to be reminiscent of an athlete running a long race and longing to reach the โfinish lineโ.ย In the same manner, Souls that have reincarnated many times over express this basic need for finally completing the cycle and returning home.ย Feeling that this earth is not your home is often accompanied by chronic feelings of tiredness and wariness for life on earth.
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Could you relate to any of these signs?ย Do you have any of your own to share?ย I hope, if anything, this article could offer you another doorway of explanation for what you experience in life.ย Reincarnation is a mysterious topic, and Iโd love if you could share your own experiences with past lives below.
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Well, I cannot say for sure if any of my experiences have anything to do with a past life, though some of the things from the article apply to me. I haven’t even decided if I believe in them. But, often I feel instinctively like it’s TRUE.
The problem is, how am I supposed to know if any of my experiences, feelings, ect are from a past life, this life before memory sets in, or inspired by my own imagination? Feeling old beyond my years could just as easily be bc life has been rough.
There are definitely experiences that could point to a past life. I had two different recurring dreams as a child. I haven’t had the first since becoming a teenager. The second I have had twice in adulthood, but was mainly in childhood. I can recall both vividly, even now. De ja cu and feelings of having been places before are fairly common occurrences. I have given these things little thought until a couple years ago.
I had my strongest ever experience. I was at my husband’s old college campus. It was so weird. Everything was normal. He was showing us around. We entered a study hall and the sense of familiarity was overwhelming. I had never even known the college existed until meeting my husband. But, just about everything in the room felt so familiar. But, I somehow felt like some of the decor was different than I “remembered .” Which I admit makes no sense. It was so bizarre and so strong that I had goosebumps. Then later walking around campus, we came across a statue of previous students that had died while attending that school. As he told me the story, it felt familiar and I felt a strange sense of attachment to it..like it was somehow relevant to me on some deep, unknown level. As he was talking, I actually had a quick flash of the events of that fateful day.
I can’t explain it. and I don’t discount the idea that maybe I am crazy or my imagination got the better of me. But, every time its discussed or we’re near the statue I feel drawn to it..to the statue, the people, the story. I can’t explain it, but it just feels somehow relevant to me and sometimes like a part of me.
I don’t know. Maybe I am just crazy or overly imaginative.
I think it’s a great post and website!
I believe strongly in past lives and I think it should be more studied and taken seriously. I believe we could find cures to different desieses and more with that knowledge.
I also agree with the fact that a point is feeling like you don’t belong.
Remembering a past life is even harder because sometimes you feel.like the person you where before and would love to go back to that life as well.
Therefore thank you for this website.
I have had visions of a life as a roman soldier during Nero’s time while the city was burning. I was in love with a courtesan well known and beautiful. I was 40 yrs old. I had to leave her to go back to regiment to correct something(tell why I am no longer a soldier) I am caught in a crowd of many people trying to escape I only need to get back to Cassandra. I was stabbed in the back by a knife wielding person. A long knife about 12″ long(sexual?) and I died amongst the cities people crushed to the end of my life. Always seeking Cassandra.
Cassandra had a beautiful columned home on a small hill away from town and cities. She was dressed in beautiful blue toga type outfit. Blonde to strawberry blonde hair. She and I were going to be married. I was a male.
I had a vision I was a little boy of about 11 or 12 yrs old in India. Starving. I went to the palace gates and saw a white horse standing there and we were at once close. I leaned on the gates to see what kind of foods were inside the gate and I was killed right where I stood. Last sight was of the white horse looking down at me. And then blackness and no more pain or hunger.
I had a vision of being an Egyptian girl of royal descent. Aprox. 16 yrs old. I lived in a palace of white. There was a fountain beautiful made of whitest marble you could imagine and purest water you could imagine. I had a beautiful pure white horse. He was mine. He loved me and I him. We would touch heads in greeting. I was about 5′ 6 or maybe taller with black hair and the most marvelous of turquoise blue eyes I have ever seen. Me as I see them now that is. I was indeed beautiful but not in a conceited way. I was dressed in white flowing toga with gold tie around waste and headband of various colors. I did not flaunt it. I was kind and helped the poorer people whenever I could. One day as I stood at the fountain with my horse I was stabbed from behind by someone I could not see and died right there by the fountain as my horse was lead away.
I had a vision of this old dark stone house. One of a strong german make. It had a driveway with a stone covering shielding the entry and part of the driveway from the elements. It was taken over by the germans. I was underground and on a mission to collect as many papers as I could from the rooms inside. I see myself walking up the driveway not noticed and allowed in. I was greeted and collected papers. There was a sudden alarm throughout the house and soldiers came out of everywhere. I stepped back to let them go past and I continued on my way out the door into the driveway down the driveway and onto the side walkway leading away from the stone house. It was dark. I suddenly found myself falling into the bushes to my right and landing on a flat piece of bush I turned and saw dimly figures in green and brown and then I thought to myself I am dead I have failed in my mission. But another thought no I did not fail I succeeded as the papers were taken from me by someone else deeper crawling on the ground in the bushes. The all went black.
I have a strong affinity roman times. Not Egyptian though. I read about much.
I had a vision I was a gladiator at one time. A good one but did not like the killing and did not win my freedom. This was the shortest vision I ever had.(probably cause I was killed quickly)
I read for my present roomie..I hesitate to tell you who she was. I was startled to find her after so many yrs.
My grandmother and I go back many many yrs. As many different people(sisters brother sister daughter mother, etc.)
My father was german miner. My mother lived in Holland and I saw her viewing a field of beautiful tulips. It was not till a later time she revealed her love of tulips. I got her tulips all the time as it pleased her.
I have not been plagued by nightmares. But once I was near my car getting my friend into the passenger seat and she looked terrified and I turned and saw a samurai coming at me with a beautiful sword. I got her safely in the door my back towards the car then turned hoping to make it to my side and the samurai took his sword and thrust it into my stomack and I felt all the air blow out of me and I crumbled to the ground.
Another time I awoke from twilight sleep unable to move speak anything. I looked at the foot of my bed and there was a 4-5 ft being in a monks garb. The hooded robes that were worn long ago. It was a male. He had one hand perched under chin bent at elbow thinking deeply and did not notice I was awake. I struggled to move made some sounds he startled and looked at me(he had no face)and poof was gone.
This one is good! I got killed by a ray gun! Wow what a jolt that was!!!
Fears? I had two very strong ones. Dying by fire and/or drowning.
Fire I conquered for the most part by outing out a fire with my feet.A huge oak tree was getting ready to burst into flames and I could not allow such a thing to happen. I could hear the tree crying for help! No kidding! I ran down the street and stomped my feet all over the bottom and put the fire out(the fire truck pulls up!) I looked down at my ft and legs afterwards and my pants had melted to my legs but I was not hurt. the pants were destroyed but not a mark on me!
I can now handle fire. But not to be trapped in one. I think I would poop my pants if trapped in fire!
Drowning plagued me a lot in the past.
Till I leaped off a 10′ high diving board and when I hit the water saw my feet dangling in my face( a weird feeling) and my back breaking. And as I was drowning one hand shot up and only my hand was visible and suddenly I was yanked to the surface.
If I had my druthers drowning would be the best way for me to go.
It does not take long and feels rather peaceful.
But fire???? To be trapped in a car and burning to death would be my worst case scenario. Peeling flesh burning hair seeing my body disintagrate, etc. Pretty graphic!!!
I conquered my horrors of holocaust several yrs ago. I kept having this vision of it over and over. The yr 1942. I read and learned and one day I found a penny the same day I saw the date and it was dated 1942. An internet friend said I should not be haunted anymore. And I have not.
My father was cruel when I was 4 yrs old. Sat me in front of tv on floor and he proceeded to watch the holocaust and the screen blared with thousands of bodies dead and so on and I was MORTIFIED!! Only 4 and he let me see this! I climbed on his lap and asked about death. He could not answer. That was the last time I sat on his lap.
You say picture yourself dead. I have many times. Because I was starved for affection I would create a fantasy before falling asleep. Make up a story and I would be killed somehow and one person cared about me and I was outside my body seeing this person give a shit about me !!!!! That was so long ago.
Now I only see peace green grass blue sky birds a pond a weeping willow tree and a cabin and me, alone and loving it with all the animals of my life and of heavenly life. Oh and a waterfall. Not huge just enough to hear the falling water.
To be honest I am anxious to get off the planet and get away to my peace place. I LONG for it. BUT I KNOW I have to wait. Waiting is the pits. Not a very patient person.
Up to date I have weird dreams. Always have dreamt in color. I do not know why people dream in black and white when color is so wonderful! Alive! So I look at the strangely too when they b&w. Its very strange to me.
I KNOW I am not of this planet. Although wishful thinking is of Saturn I KNOW its Neptune.
I enjoy dreaming.When I get the chance. But when I walk I mediate and hear the angels and divine speak. I gave up my music listening as I walked so I could enjoy God and His wonderful angels and special people speaking. Not to mention all the wild life I get priviledged to see and speak to.
I finaly got to see bob cat and coyote. I tried to feed coyote but one piece of meat would not save it. It had some little ones and was starving. I cried.
On my walks animals that are going to die come to me.
I saw a brown lump on the side of the road. I did not know if it was poop or animal. I went to it and it was a burrowing owl. A young one. I picked it up stil alive. It felt(I am healer) its bones brken inside as if dropped from height and it looked at me with a kindness and an amazement that I did not hurt it. I spoke to it and held it and cried all the way home. I laid it down on a table and prayed to God to take it swiftly. He did. I saw the light go out of its eyes and close as it continued to look at me and the whole body relaxed and I said a prayer dug a hole put the box in and buried it and covered it with rocks to hopefully keep critters out at least for awhile.
I was opn another walk and saw a turtle. Someone ran over the rear of it and it was dragging itself to the off road. I felt it crying and needing to get off the road. I began to pick it up to carry it home and it stretched out its neck like ET and the expression I could have died right there! It was in deep pain. I gentley held it together prayed to not hurt anymore and held it close and spoke to it softly and it relaxed. I brought it home and laid it on a table and prayed for God to take it swiftly too and He did. It too is n my yard. Protected from people!!!
Roomie hates it when I ask her to stop the car and let me save something from murderous cars and people. She won’t stop and so I open the door to get anyway and she stops.
I am now in the throws of holding my dog. She is dying. I was able to heal her once and I had her eternal graditude. A Siamese twin she became. But this time I can not save the sweetest little dog. I cry and hold her and she looks at me with adoration and love and pain from being unable to breath. I pray to God to take her regardless of my love and wanting her to stay and she fights to stay with me and I tell her to let go its ok.
So I am in deep grieving and unable to put her down for vets here are unsympathic to poor people and I could not break her neck to end her suffering so she isheld and loved and hand fed and watered and is the strongest most remarkable dog!!!!
When she does I do not know what my grief will take me to. I know I got her to ease my grief of losing my rotweiller. A truly wonderful dog. And I hate calling them animals!!!! People are animals.
So I thank you for accepting my long post hope all of you are well and if I am gone for awhile well you have my answer..My dog died and I am grieving deeply.
Its the pits. Even though I saw her death coming it does not ease the grief.
thanks a lot for reading and all.
I have memories of being a victorian woman who died young and was very unhappy, some of the victorian buildings where I live I have seen them before even before I had actually gone in them I’ve walked into them previously but not in my actual life. My victorian self feels unhappy that I can’t go back 130 years and be me again and emotionally I feel unhappy I can’t get back to myself I have always felt like this. I also have memories of being a roman man in all the roman warrior clothes and I was some kind of war leader that was not my true self I still feel the victorian lady is exactly who I am. But the strangest memories I have are that I am actually just a spirit and every night as a child and sometimes now I can fly over hills and see my body asleep I fly all over looking for my other self and I go back to my life in the morning when the sun’s turns up, I visited my senior school once like this aged 11 but I had not actually started it until a month after, when I walked into the old victorian school I’d been I. It before in my Dream as a spirit I knew exactly where everything was. I try to stay happy within this era but I feel like my children and family are 130 years gone before me, its sad
I am an enpath and can deeply feel others around me, I can easily cry if a friend tells me a sad story. My intuition is also becoming very strong and I just simply get body alerts when when I know I have to do something. When I was young I had repetitive dreams for a few years, it tortured me. Each time I dreamt I was fully aware of it and tried to escape theough different ways. As I got older I think I got blocked and never felt aware in my dreams again. I have always said, when we die we donโt stop existing but we go home. I know Iโve had many lives and I know there is still work to be done, but I do feel a cronic tiredness and I find it hard to take care of myself, I would much rather care for others and it is something can makes my tiredness dissapear. Thank you for sharing.
I can identify with not feeling at home anywhere. I’m 65 yrs old and have lived in 4 long term locations, owned not rented, and never felt at home in any of them, not even my childhood home. I will probably move on from my current location. I also have a very strong connection to the 1920s. I feel very comfortable with the culture. Don’t know why, I just do. I love the buildings from that era also and the way of life of the upper crust of that time. I feel that at some point I was part of it and it was a happy time.
Jules your post made me remember I was a gun moll in the 20’s!
Whoa what a time to live. OH I am 67. Feel like I am ancient. So much inner experiences. Spiritual. Just not a being of this place this planet. I love the cold! What the heck am I doing here in 90 plus heat!!!!
Completing another one of lives……
3,4,5,9, and most the 11.You Feel as Though this Earth Is Not Your Home.
Yes yes… sense i was very child
Till now. And when i try to meditatie i cry Like a river ( I what go home this is not my place).And i love my 2 beautiful boys.
Dear Writer, I definitely know what your feeling, a feeling of being misunderstood and lonliness. I am at a point of peace but have very few friends of higher consciousness because most people sadly are under a horrific spell of roman religiosity and barberism. As a personification of a 2.8 billion year people called the AMU and the BATWA from the Kongo, i feel your mind. Thank you for the articles.
I have memories of past lives. I remember more and more the older I get. Why have I had a few lives where I have been severely oppressed? In these lives, including this one, I’ve been severely oppressed by the same soul for almost 20 years in each life. Why can’t I get away from the soul that oppresses me? It seems I am able to handle the oppression with less strength in every life. Am I doing something wrong? Is there some lesson I am not learning?
I reccomend seeing a Shaman, and seeing if he can retrieve your soul parts. There maybe a soul, who is missing THEIR soul parts, that have dominion over yours. (There’s actually so many riddled around if you do a google search. Thats how I’ve visited mine.)
I’m not sure how many times I have been here. I just know that I have. I get both visions and dreams at times of catastrophic events before they happen. Space shuttle explosion I had visions a week before. World trade center 2 weeks ahead. My daughter that she would be a girl the night she was conceived. That was the only good vision ahead of time. It was like she told me she would be coming. I’ve had dreams of past experiences but I have never done or really know where I was but appeared to be around 1955-1960ish.