How to know?

[OnyxCrescent]

I was wondering, how have many of you come to know your past lives? Is there a method to use to find out, or do you have to just be lucky and remember? Do they come in dreams? I often times dream of the future. Is it possible I came from the future in a past life? I would like to learn more if I can.
The Onyxcrescent
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[Jasriella]

Well the solid and undeniable truth is that there really isn't any way to truly "know" of your past life. Or if it ever existed for that matter. In all reality we all could just be falsely deluding ourselve in believing that we were something else before we were incarnated in this life.

But with that more obvious note aside. There is no real "one" way of finding about your past life. Most often I've heard the memories just come to ya at random. They have in my case most definitely. I believe only twice, maybe three, times during my sleep my dreams took a change to something as real as being awake. And in those two or three times I was a dragon in them. Once I think I was an elder teaching hatchlings, another time I remember being a hatchling and being smothered by my mother's love. And if I'm not mistaken the third would be a random flashback of me flying. I didn't do anything special for these memories. No chanting, meditation, strange liquids. Just a simple good night and sleep.

Now on your question of is it possible to have one of your past lives in the future? With all the anomolies in space and time it can very well be possible. All of what we know about the soul and reincarnation is speculation and gut feelings, nothing more. So in all reality anything could be possible as to our origins.

To find your truth though is completely up to you. I have yet to hear of a definite way to bring about past life memories. The only suggestion which has been stated time and time again is meditation. All I've gotten out of that is the phantom limbs and a tingly sensation but maybe you'll get more out of it.
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[Namhias]

You are asking a very difficult question, but that's a good thing because it keeps you sharp.

I believe I have had past lives, I don't know for certain and I fear I never will. At first, it was just a gut feeling, it felt right. I was looking very hard for evidence that it's all real, but I sort of gave up years ago. I've had dreams though, very lively, where I was a dragon, flying around hunting a deer like creature. I've also tried to meditate, but that was hardly successful, I simply couldn't do it, there was always some kind of thought, or tune in my head which I couldn't get rid off. I guess I was just lucky.

I can't help you with your dreams about the future, I don't know anything about that stuff, it's not really my area of expertise. Who knows what's possible? There are so many things we don't know. Personally, I don't think it's possible to have a past life in the future.

[Obsidian]

Bits and fragments, like pieces of a torn picture blowing in a strong wind. Sometimes you see glimpses, pieces that let you reconstruct a part of what that picture might once have been.

Then you relaize that picture is merely one moment from a lifetime, and despair of ever remembering it all.
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[Monarth]

I have to agree with Namhias, I also don't think it's possible to have past life in future. (Like how dragons time travel? ) Other choice is that your dreams could be glimpses of your own future. Like once one of my friends saw a kind of a dream of future where he saw me as dragon and another dragon named Asmo, who appears to be my other dragon friend.

In my case, I have no past life. I have not seen a single glimpse of memory about my past life as dragon. So it leads me to be a new being in this world. So then I can't remember or see past, only see glimpses of future. Sadly I've seen none, but some of my friends have seen some. But it's never sure will the glimpses of future come true until they happen or not.

The only other choice next to past life seems to be being a new being. Or does anyone have more choices?
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[OnyxCrescent]

All of these things are the mysteries of life. When I dream of the future, it is of some distant point from now, I was given a date of 6400 something in one dream. I am not sure past lives even happen, maybe a soul lives one physical life, and then that's it. Or maybe we keep getting recycled over and over again. Matter is recycled. Grass draws minerals from the soil, a cow eats the grass, which becomes part of the cows body. We kill and eat the cow, which becomes part of our bodies, we die and return to the earth, where grass draws us up, and so on.
As far as past lives from the future go, I have no proof of this. However, you assume that 2009 is the furthest point in time that has been reached. What if we are living in the past? What if all time has already played out, and now we are a station in it. Or, the universe is a memory of some being. All interesting points, but we don't know. Where is the present to one who stands outside of time?
Maybe my dreams of the future represent a desire of some sort, as they are often dreams of elation and wonder. Or, maybe they are images of heaven? Who said heaven has to be a glorified medieval city, why can't it be a super hi tech wonderland? Next time I visit the sixty fifth century in a dream, I'll try to ask.
The Onyxcrescent
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[Jasriella]

Well let me try to explain here why I think of having a past life in the future "may" (though highly unlikely) be possible.

What do we know of the soul? And what do we know about time? In all reality we know little to nothing about either. We "speculate" that a living body contains a soul. We "speculate" that time is what causes us to age, machines to wear down, and the universe to grow.

But in all reality, what is time to something that has no limit of it? (this will be a little far-fetched but it's the only example I can come up with.) Does time exist to something that is immortal or indestructable?

And for the soul. We've seen through some paranormal activity (if you believe in such things) that the soul does have the ability to stay behind. Wether by choice or not is a different subject. But just as an example. I was watching that show "Crossing Over With John Edwards". And in more than one occasion the souls that spoke to him had seen the future of their loved ones. In one instance I remember the soul warned of her husband to quit smoking because sometime in the next decade he'll end up dying from lung cancer.

I'm just putting these out there to show you that beings there is so little we know about either the soul or time, that you can't just dismiss the possiblity that perhaps the soul can travel through time and reincarnate in the past, present, or future.
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I am trapped between heaven and hell. My wings carry me upon the winds. Above lies heaven, below hell. Yet I must land in hell to soar in heaven. I am a Dragon!

[Namhias]

Actually, we do know a lot about time. It's the fourth dimension, and physics has coined it pretty nicely. Models of the world around us are very accurate nowadays.

I'm a man of science, and therefore my view on things may be a bit limited about certain things.