Sometimes we don't get the lessons we need in school. Life is also one of nature's greatest teachers and my education in this life hasn't been about gaining diplomas and degrees. Instead, I wanted to discover the human condition. Even as a small child, I was asking questions about life, love and compassion.
Reincarnation teaches us that we are all eternal beings and that, in effect, we are immortal, but immortality doesn't always come with built-in wisdom.
For many years, I was lost, caught up in the tangles of baggage I was dragging around with me, that I had gained from this life and from the lives from the past. I was fearful of moving forward and kept creating difficulties for myself so that I didn't have to achieve.
For a while, I tried traditional religion and embraced my parent's Methodist beliefs, but my logical mind struggled with the concept of a belief system that had moved away from the teachings of Jesus and was more about the manipulation of the church and of men of power throughout history.
One day, I read a reincarnation story in a magazine and I knew I had found my truth. It wasn't a spiritual story, it was just a factual account of the events that happened in the case.
I went looking for more accounts like the one I found and could only find reincarnation wrapped up with spiritualist belief and doctrine. The spiritualist view didn't work for me as, once again, faith and automatic acceptance were required and I was being asked to accept the wisdom of other humans, rather than being presented with physical proof of life after death. I know that spiritualism works for many people and is healing, life affirming and valuable for them, but my cynical, analytical mind just could not make that leap. I must confess to feeling very lonely in my beliefs around this time. There didn't seem to be anybody else just looking for factual answers about what this complex phenomena was.
I knew there had to be more cases out there similar to the one I found. So, I started on my journey for the truth. I asked myself, what was reincarnation? Why am I the only one that feels the truth of it, without the need to embellish it with belief systems and ritual?
That question was finally answered for me, years later during the COVID lockdown, when my current work ceased and I was at a loose end. I went looking for a reincarnation podcast and couldn't find one that wasn't based on spiritualism, so I decided to make one. To this day, I could not tell you why I did that. I'm not someone who seeks attention; I don't want to be the next great media influencer. I had started listening to podcasts and enjoying them and I was bored because we were in lockdown. I thought, well, let's actually see if anybody out there feels the same way I do about this. So, I found one of the cases I had investigated, recorded an episode about it and put it up.
If I had received 20 likes, I would have been delighted but the next morning, the case I put up had been downloaded around 500 times. That was the beginning of my life's passion. I had found my community of like-minded seekers who were looking for true exploration of this subject from a logical standpoint.
So I set to work, researching and recording cases. However, it soon became much more than that. As time went on, I started getting messages of gratitude from people who were trying to cope with their past life memories on their own. They described feeling isolated and alone in their attempts to reach out to family and friends, who shut them down out of fear or cynicism. Sometimes they were accused of being liars or fantasists, so they learned not to speak of it and to repress their experiences. As they described their confusion and asked many questions about what was happening to them, I realised that this thing I had been fascinated in as a teenager was important and that the podcast itself had become a healing tool.
As I researched the signs of reincarnation, so I could have conversations about what reincarnation really was, and hopefully help people to realise they weren't alone, I found forums of like-minded researchers and professionals who were investigating and collating data on the many facets of life after death. We are now all part of a huge global community of people who share our information and stories. We have created a safe space for people to be able to say, "I have memories, they are real and I'm not crazy. I am unique, my experiences are valuable and I matter."
I'm so grateful now that I get to spend my days focusing on this endlessly fascinating subject, with its many remarkable facets, like synchronicity, wounds and birthmarks and memory recall. There is so much to still learn about reincarnation and I'm honoured to welcome you as a fellow seeker.
