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Question of the Day | 09/08/2008 12:00 am

Who or what do you think you were in a past life?

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Marlo Thomas

Marlo Thomas | 09/08/2008 12:00 am

Marlo Thomas: ‘I Was Abigail Adams’

People always want to believe they were someone famous in a previous life, and I’m no exception. I’d like to believe I was Abigail Adams. Here was this woman who was smart and witty and, by all accounts, a sage advisor to her husband during the founding of this country — but like all women of that era, she wasn’t given a voice, and it would take centuries for us to learn about her real contribution to the American Revolution. If I was Abigail in a previous life, that would go a long way toward explaining why I’m always speaking up and never at a loss for an opinion. I’m simply making up for lost time.


Joan Ganz Cooney

Joan Ganz Cooney | 09/08/2008 12:00 am

Why Joan Ganz Cooney Doesn’t Believe in Past Lives

I don’t believe in past lives. I believe in science when it comes to the beginning of life.

Mary Wells

Mary Wells | 09/08/2008 12:00 am

One of Mary Wells’s Past Life Wishes

I don’t think we can intellectualize life now or in the past. I wish I could.

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Frank Peterson
Teilhard if I remember correctly was a chaplain with the French Army in the trenches of WW1—and this comes from that experience. I haven’t read that one—but will—thanks again Suzanne—you the best! ;-)
By Frank Peterson on 09/08/2008 2:52 pm
No Kill and Drill Palin
Frank—I read his autobio and also went to see some of the battlefields in France where he was the F.A. Chaplin….and where my grandfather had also been…he’d written very vivid descriptions that seemed so alive in that empty field that hed’ described as running with blood and mud and looking up at the stars….when I was there white flowers were blowing on a hill and kept hearing ” Non ti scordar mai di me”…my grandfather was an opera singer and that was his favorite. “Don’t ever forget me.” Found this old footage of Mario Lanza. People sure dressed better. We look like a nation of refugees…guess in a way we are. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_j2HxgxSLw
By No Kill and Drill Palin on 09/08/2008 7:24 pm
Linda Myers
I know about past lives of mine to the extent, that what was learned was usuable in this life to work out some quirks. I remember when I was little, asking my mom about places that I knew about. To myself they were very clear and descriptive even before I was old enough to go to school. She would just look at me and tell me I had not been anywhere. This was before TV, and I did not care about radios. In many of them I died as a child, so in this life I at least got better at the length of life.
By Linda Myers on 09/08/2008 1:10 am
siasp surate
Alice Paul!
By siasp surate on 09/08/2008 1:14 am
James the Game
I don’t believe in a past life, unless it was our very same soul in the pre-Earth Age 1, which some believe is scripturally noted in the Bible. Other than that, maybe a computer, because I’m hyper-analytical about almost everything. I’ve also been called a walking calendar because I have a vivid, detailed long-term memory. My short-term memory is spotty at best. What was the question again?
By James the Game on 09/08/2008 1:45 am
Sam Mirando
I believe that every atom in my body has been recycled a vast number of times and probably, during the recycling, I was part of the interplanetary dust, a swirling nova, a bubbling primordial soup, a few different species of increasingly complex plants, a unicellular microorganism, and then, with a hop, skip and a jump, a dinosaur, a caveperson, and, finally, MEEEEE !!!!
By Sam Mirando on 09/08/2008 3:39 am
Suzanne de Cornelia
That’s cool, Sam….A chip off the cosmic block.
By Suzanne de Cornelia on 09/08/2008 5:47 am
Bonnie Oliver
I think I am still in my first life. I do not know enough to have lived a life at an earlier time…not matter how high or how low.
By Bonnie Oliver on 09/08/2008 6:15 am
Sam Mirando
You’re a chip off the same block, Suzanne!
By Sam Mirando on 09/08/2008 6:21 am
Rainbow Power
I hate to admit that this WoW woman feels like my past life was that of a man. I don’t like to admit that I was once a man. It kind of makes me feel like a trader to women.
By Rainbow Power on 09/08/2008 7:25 am
Lorraine Bates
You’re not a traitor. I feel that I was a man in a past life as well. Sometimes I think I was my great-grandfather!
By Lorraine Bates on 09/08/2008 9:13 am
Rainbow Power
Lorraine….thanks for correcting my spelling….that was really dumb of me. I knew better! Am I turning into someone else right now? LOL
By Rainbow Power on 09/08/2008 4:39 pm
Lorraine Bates
I knew what you meant, I’m not the grammar police, and DEFINITELY not the spelling police! I wish we had spellcheck most of the time myself!
By Lorraine Bates on 09/08/2008 5:19 pm
Dona Howlett
Rainbow………..it’s makes you a better woman!!!!!!!!!
By Dona Howlett on 09/08/2008 9:16 pm
Frannie Em
Rainbow For at least 25 years I have helped people run out previous lifetimes. It is always interesting. Many times people say they don’t believe, but something is nagging them and so we give it a try. It amazes me what they discover. It is always revealing and sometimes heartbreaking because moments of man’s inhumanity to man are revealed. There is an African American woman I have worked with to regress her, and I have to tell you, every lifetime that she remembers, she was white, or Asian, or a man. Never an African American, or African. During colony times in this country during our slave history, she was never a slave, in fact she was white male. I have regressed white people who have been African American or African in previous lifetimes. One of the most interesting was a woman that was previously a male Jewish slave building the Pyramids. She is a heterosexual in this life, and was gay in that life. It kind of surprised her. That is why being prejudice against a group seems so ridiculous to me. The resolution of fear dissolves the prejudice in many cases. One of my favorite previous lifetimes was when I was Chinese. It ended sadly, but I loved the life. I have discovered many. It is all there in our memory, and with help, it can be easy to release. I have been men as well. Everyone has. Although, I discovered that when I would work with men, they had more male lifetimes than female. You had to be brave to come in as a woman. We had it tough.
By Frannie Em on 09/09/2008 12:56 am