August 25, 2008
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Past Life Reading – Apocatastasis
In that lifetime, you were born in the slums of Atlanta, Georgia, USA, in 1948. You had a fairly normal life for a black child in that time and place: your father was absent, your mother was a non-functional junkie, and you were raised by your grandmother.
Some of the things about you that were not so normal were your high intelligence and the fact that your grandmother was not particularly religious. You picked up unaccented “mid-Atlantic” English from TV, and could turn the ghetto talk on or off at will.
In your late teens, you were arrested for drugs, and given the option of going to jail or joining the army. You joined the army and went to Vietnam. You enjoyed the ready availability there of high quality drugs, and you found the violence exhilarating rather than threatening.
You were unenthusiastic about the war, and mostly only fought the enemy in self-defense. You felt that you had less of a quarrel with the other side than with some of your own officers. You and a few other black soldiers conspired to frag a white lieutenant who had ordered the destruction of a village for no reason other than his own sadism.
You died by “friendly fire,” blown apart by a carelessly thrown grenade.
Nobody you knew in that life is involved in your current life. That lack of karmic ties could result in feelings of alienation or persistent loneliness.
Experiences from that life could lead, in this life, to a fascination with war, or to anti-war or anti-government feelings, and/or to strong opinions on racial issues, poverty, and the like.
Comments (2)
Wow, so I was one of the Vietnam-era fraggers. I’m seeing echoes of my present life in this. And I still find war exhilirating. I have a propensity toward addiction.
Even today, I’d probably do exactly what you describe in the “unenthusiastic about the war” paragraph.
The lack of karmic ties doesn’t come as a surprise. I feel confused and lost here; alienated too, as you suggested. I have friends, but I don’t think I can relate to 95% of the people around me on anything more than a shallow level.
Death by friendly fire does not surprise me either.
Fascination with war, yes. It’s longstanding, since I was a wee lad. Anti-war? No. Anti-govt.? Been there three years ago when I was about 14, now too apathetic to really give a damn. I have deep empathetic feelings for those afflicted by poverty, and all that comes with it. But that’s nothing special, because I have empathy for all kinds of people in all kinds of situations.
Two questions:
1. Is having no karmic ties quite unusual, especially considering that you tend to pick up on lifetimes with the most karmic significance to the present?
2. Any ideas regarding lessons to be learned in this present life?
- Abracadabra.
I suppose my attitude toward govt. could be better described as ambivalent*