Searching for past lives is all about searching for stories; some may be about you some just may be about God and "the human condition"

but we need stories and myths to help us navigate through the dark waters that sometimes creep up from beneath us

embracing both reincarnation and art, to me, are attempts to find the same things . . . basically, something beautiful to let me know my life is also beautiful

we need this, I believe
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and so the integration of art and spirituality, for me, are keys to my happiness and even bigger keys to keeping Depression in check, as much as I can

attitudes about reincarnation are just as sexist

As anywhere else; cultural bias against women, shown with men (like me, as an example) “having” past lives as a woman

Is an outgrowth of a continuous “mythology” that men are “more important” than women
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They’re not

Mannerisms "carry over", physical similarities carry over, personality quirks, special talents, pet peeves . . . they carry over

you don't turn from a turtle into a leopard but if you are a leopard, there will be signs of the leopards from before

all past lives, in my belief, in my "theory", will look alike, not twins but similar, every time

what you were determines what you feel comfortable with next round in quite profound ways

the styles "recycle"

over and over and over some more -- no matter changes in gender or race . . . the basic physical blue print remains
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and will always be present in some quite significant way

Split incarnations -- what are the characteristics of people who are "split incarnations"?

they will be drawn to being in the lime light but will also shun it at the same time; they will be drawn like moths to a flame to fields in which they can "pretend" for a living -- actors, film makers, artists, writers

or where taking risks is part of their lifestyle: mountaineers, race drivers, soldiers of fortune

they will also have unconventional attitudes about religion. occultism, politics, marriage, Art

on top of all that, they will also likely have a very up/down kind of life, often turning away from fame and security at various points along the way

they are prone to mental illness or addictive behaviors; sexually they are not likely to follow societal rules and are typically perceived as quite sexually magnetic

they may live two lives at a time or, in some cases, three -- all simultaneously

they are intelligent but at times seem quite the "air head", brilliant innovators but also not "all there"

and, in every case, split incarnations will share certain facial and bodily similarities . . . and every split will look a little like every OTHER split

usually splits will get quite a bit of attention for what they look like and acting and modeling are natural places for them to land, for a while, at least

and, to make them even a bit more "unique" . . . splits are A - L - I - E - N - S

as (I guess) so am I

all the other splits will look a little bit like me and I will look a little (actually more than a little) like all of them

here are 5 people I think are (for sure) split incarnation types:

L to R, Vaslav Nijinksy, the great Russian ballet master who went mad, actress Romy Schneider, Lindsay Lohan, Greta Garbo, and Rudolf Nureyev

Rudolf Valentino would be on this list, Mata Hari, many others

but yeah . . . this is my "theory"
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a vampyre recognizes another vampyre, indeed

have spent all these years looking for past lives . . . in my "research" (and that's what I am, an unpaid solo make it up as you go best as you can researcher) I have come up with the "theory"

that people who reincarnate fall into 3 distinct buckets: (1) singular, one right after the other types, (2) what I call "1+1's" (Ones with a Trailer) . . . people who want to absorb as many rounds on Earth as possible, so they incarnate more quickly and may, on occasion, "overlap"

so let's say Person A had a lifetime in which they were born in 1900 and died in 1950 . . . we would expect them to "come back" around, let's say, 1957 but perhaps they choose, for a variety or reasons, to come in 1962 or even 1972

singular incarnation types will (again, my theory) reincarnate after a time "away" . . . probably 4-6 years at the speediest end and 18-22 on the slowest end; average time probably around 9-10 years

Ones with a Trailer, on the other hand, come faster so if Person B had a life lived from 1900 to 1950, we would expect them to reincarnate around 1951 . . . or even 1949 !!!

they come to "catch the Astrology and catch the DNA" and so may choose a bodily candidate who is born shortly before the "current incarnation" passes

1+1's will be more fast and furious and usually we will see a 1-2 year window, typically with these types (either direction)

. . . and then there is the third group: (3) "Splits"

who will have an incarnation, to use our example, from 1900-1950 and another one that died in 1902 and lived from 1905-1967

in some cases, they might have a life from 1900-1950 but also two more "streams" -- (1902-1926 + 1930-1961) as well as (1910-1944 + 1945-1990)

splits will have two, or sometimes even three, going most of the time

each group has fairly comparable personality quirks and styles and the splits, perhaps not surprisingly, lean more towards live fast no matter the cost approaches to life more often than not

more to come on what I think are the primary "characteristics" of each type and how those "styles" may underscore each's approach to life
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and death

it makes zero sense to expect teachers -- who have been told for the past 20 years they don't really matter

to now become armed security guards on top of what they already do . . . we cut funding to education, cut programs to help children

and then we expect somehow for money to suddenly appear for guns and training for all these teachers, many of whom (understandably) are likely freakin' the fuck out

at the very thought of what they may be asked to do

if all you want is to have your children "guarded" then I guess the next obvious choice are internment camps so they can march and pray all day

everyone who thinks "arming teachers" makes sense and reasonable controls on purchasing automatic weapons
does not

let's just say we disagree
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wow

Past Life "matching" is really more about research than clairvoyance . . . an initial impulse or vision is wonderful, and CRITICAL

but without trying to ground it in "does this make sense" or "how might this be possible", it is not really so useful in talking about reincarnation as a "real thing"

although, of course, from a therapeutic perspective, these stories potentially have tremendous value as catalysts for self-healing

there are many dead ends (irony) I run into trying to "search"; looking for records, for example, in databases that are in German or other foreign languages or the very real "issue"

that the people I'm searching for are not going to be individuals, typically, anyone is going to care about other than close family members doing genealogy research

or crazy psychics trying to confirm or deny a possible past life

so needle in a haystack is an understatement; few people would likely devote as much time to "hunting" as I do

so, yeah, it's complicated

I make mistakes, get excited about finding answers that aren't ultimately really answers at all . . . and keep incrementally piecing my theory together

and trying to add "data"

knowing that no matter what data I provide, it can never fully be vetted

and must, on some level, be "validated" through affinities rather than absolutes

still, I think there is value in what I am doing
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and I continue marching along, trying every day to understand more about what it "all means"

some people get bent when I talk about my "forecasts" as opinions and not absolutes

but I am not able to speak in absolutes; nor, in my opinion, is anyone else

I have my "ways" of seeing, my intellectual style in taking impulses and extrapolating a likely path

I realize some would perhaps prefer me to be "all knowing" but I am not

that doesn't mean I don't have unique means for formulating probability models about the future

nor does it suggest that there isn't some "extra sensory something" going on in how I go about it

because there is

but ESP is not enough and "extra" is not the same thing as total

no psychic is 98% accurate

we must interpret what we see and in that interpretation, it is easy to veer off course

I do believe there is value in "forecasting" as I do

but I think it's important to recognize I am as much Sherlock Holmes as Nostradamus . . . and, in my opinion, saying this doesn't "invalidate" me as a "psychic"
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I think it is closer to the "truth" about what we do and how we do it