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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.

105 Reader Comments (so far…) Sign In or Register to comment

Dona Howlett
Hi De, I also have had several Past life Readings…………. they were facinating. It was like watching a huge curtain separate and a story beginning. I had recollection of quite a few different lives. One life I was an African woman (lived in a cave) An old American Indian woman A Japanese woman An Arab woman who lived out in the desert (huge tents) A life in the 1500’s in Scotland or Ireland (I couldn’t tell for sure) that reading was very vivid………….beautiful rolling hills…………Huge stone house. My clothes were beautiful……….I was a young woman probably about 16 or 17. I usually go barefooted, but I hate the feel of dirt or sand……….I think that came from my Indian and Arab lives. I don’t like to feel dirty at all…………..not even my hands when I used to work in the garden. The Last Life I’ve recalled was right after the First World War…………….I was a nurse. I was terribly injured and in horrible pain.I ended up commiting sucide. The year was 1919 I lived in Chicago. I have Psychic abilities and have had many paranormal happenings during my life time. I believe it’s a gift and I cherish the gift. I would write more but I’m exhausted and I’m signing off for now……….
By Dona Howlett on 09/08/2008 11:21 pm
Frannie Em
I have met so many people who thought they were Leonardo Da Vinci, Elizabeth I, George Eliot (several of those), Van Gogh, Cleopatra, and I can go on. It is always surprising that when we get down to the real nitty gritty work, they discover they were not. They may have been near the person in their lives, but not the person. Catherine the Great comes up a lot as well. The point is that what they discover is much more fascinating. It is like a key that unlocks a door to hidden mysteries. The big reveal of why they have held themselves back or pushed themselves in the wrong direction. It solves why we are attached to someone, like a partner, even when it is not good for us. It is like a karmic dance. You get entangled and there is a script that is buried deep in the psyche and you just pick it right back up carry on. Like a karmic glue that eventually goes back to the unhappiness you felt before, all the while your intelligence telling you you don’t want it anymore, but the karma has sucked you in. Got to change the end of the story in many cases. It can be done. Dona, I spend a lot of time in England, Scotland and Ireland in the 1500’s and 1600’s. So I know what you are talking about.
By Frannie Em on 09/09/2008 1:30 am
Frannie Em
Should read I spent a lot of time…
By Frannie Em on 09/09/2008 1:32 am
DeBúrca obj
Wow, very interesting stuff!
By DeBúrca obj on 09/09/2008 2:30 pm
C A Rose
I was either very, very good, or extremely naughty. That’s the only way I can justify what has happened during my current life. CA
By C A Rose on 09/08/2008 9:45 pm
Jill Skoglund
I just do not believe that we are recycled (no past life).
By Jill Skoglund on 09/08/2008 10:02 pm
Eliza Dodd
A Healer and a Warrior & A Medicine Woman !
By Eliza Dodd on 09/09/2008 8:51 am
Angel Harper
To bad Xena isn’t a real person of course I’d probably have been Gabrielle. I have never had a past life reading, who knows… I like that song by the Indigo Girls “Galileo” I believe they say by thoughts best. ” Galileos head was on the block The crime was looking up for truth And as the bombshells of my daily fears explode I try to trace them to my youth And then you had to bring up reincarnation Over a couple of beers the other night And now Im serving time for mistakes Made by another in another lifetime How long till my soul gets it right Can any human being ever reach that kind of light I call on the resting soul of galileo King of night vision, king of insight And then I think about my fear of motion Which I never could explain Some other fool across the ocean years ago Must have crashed his little airplane How long till my soul gets it right Can any human being ever reach that kind of light I call on the resting soul of galileo King of night vision, king of insight Im not making a joke, you know me I take everything so seriously If we wait for the time till all souls get it right Then at least I know therell be no nuclear annihilation In my lifetime Im still not right I offer thanks to those before me Thats all Ive got to say cause maybe you squandered big bucks in your lifetime Now I have to pay But then again it feels like some sort of inspiration To let the next life off the hook But shell say look what I had to overcome from my last life I think Ill write a book How long till my soul gets it right Can any human being ever reach the highest light Except for galileo God rest his soul (except for the resting soul of galileo) King of night vision, king of insight How long (till my soul gets it right) [til we reach the highest light] How long (till my soul gets it right) [til we reach the highest light] How long”
By Angel Harper on 09/09/2008 10:51 am
FeliJane Ramjohn
I believe I was a teacher in my past life. Just that and I think in the same Guyana where I am. I had students who loved me and I used to watch whoopi movies all the time, old ones. And I used to live in my own apartment and I believe I was alone. There were no lovers and just a television in my apartment. And I had a cat, well I think at least five. I loved it then. No seriously, its like sometimes I just get this feeling. Wierd.LOL Love, Felicia
By FeliJane Ramjohn on 09/09/2008 3:37 pm
Frannie Em
Felicia Goldberg Are you teaching us now? A previous lifetime and you were watching Whoopi’s movies? Well Ms. Goldberg, you are fun. Stop by more often.
By Frannie Em on 09/10/2008 1:02 am
Rainbow Power
Oh how I wish I could be someone really special in my next life. There are so many great many people from which to choose. If only I could choose. But knowing my luck, I will probably come back as a huge mosquito or a fly and be eaten by a huge frog for lunch.
By Rainbow Power on 09/10/2008 9:05 am
Linda P
We were in Wales - at Caernarvon Castle. Though I’m fairly certain I have no Welsh ancestors, I had the sense that I’d been there before. Not as royalty - but as some kind of worker - maybe a chambermaid. But I “knew” the castle, and the grounds around it. It was positively eerie.
By Linda P on 09/10/2008 12:02 pm
FeliJane Ramjohn
Hey Frannie Em, Thanks for saying Im fun.LOL. I just speak from what I truly feel I was. I just want to know. Does anyone think that they were like, a cat in their previous lifetime? Maybe another animal or something? Tell me, because I always tell people I want to be a cat in my next lifetime or be born into Whoopi’s family. LOLLOL. Not funny. But alot of cats get knocked down in my country by vehicles thats why I want to be a cat in America.Gee, that sounds cool. Then with the Whoopi thingee, it’s true because I like her so much and I wish to God I was like her niece or something to like see her for real and hug her. LOL Love, Felicia
By FeliJane Ramjohn on 09/10/2008 2:07 pm
Irena B
To the post that said women on the “left” have a double standard, meaning they have questions about Sarah Palin’s leadership abilities. Have you forgotten so quickly the criticisms of Hillary Clinton? It is not a “Right” or “Left” issue, anyone aspiring to high office has ambition, but it goes to judgement how they conduct their life both personal and professional as to whether they will be a responsible leader.
By Irena B on 09/12/2008 10:54 am
Becky Reyes
Frida Kahlo - my mentor used to tell me that I (and my work) reminded him of hers and bugged me for months to check her out. Upon further investigation, I found I was born on her birthday, had a lot of similar political leanings and humanitarian beliefs, liked to dress in more traditional garb, and on and on it goes. So many similarities. But I’ve also had a recurring dream that I’m a Mexican man in an adobe hovel. There’s a knock at the door and when I open the door, a man on a horse says, “Te quiere Villa” (Villa wants you). I look at my wife, cup her chin in my hand and tell her that all will be well. I exit the door and the dream ends. Another dream that goes along with this is that I am the same man but standing before a firing squad. I am shot (along with another man I identify with Cheech Marin of all people) but told that if I can crawl to the shade of a certain tree, my “transgressions” will be forgiven and I will have proven myself worthy of redemption. My comrade and I actually do make it to the tree, but he dies. I crawl back to the barracks, pulling along my dead comrade. I am forgiven and not only proven worthy, but very brave and strong. My companion is buried with honors because he made it to the tree alive.
By Becky Reyes on 09/15/2008 12:43 pm