Spirituality and Orientation/Gender

[foxyshaman]

Originally Posted by Bit

I believe in reincarnation, and for a long time I have believed that people who know they are in the wrong bodies know it because their spirit/soul remembers who they were before, in other lifetimes.

I too have come to embrace the idea that we remember who we were and that can affect who we are. I do remember lives as both men and women. I remember lives as good people and the not so good people.

I remember living as a male warrior who went crazy and killed people for fun. My tribe gathered and I agreed to die. In my agreement to die I also agreed never ever to enter that tribe again. I even can still hear the three shamans that gathered to sing my soul over the other side...lest I stay as an angry ghost and inhabit the body of another. I did not understand this for a very long time in this life I just knew that certain people made my throat close and I was never treated very nicely by them, even strangers. Since recovering that knowledge I have become a bit more comfortable, but still steer very clear. It has really affected my spiritual life this time around. I have more compassion for mentally ill people I think than I would have otherwise. Perhaps not, but I like to think that it made a difference in my life.

[princessbelle]

What a most interesting thread. Gosh, the lovely posts here are so informative.

I, like Bit, also feel I have always been female identified. However, I'm sure there is a possiblity that my male version at some point "got it right" and has now possibly intertwined with the female yin of me. I have several past recollections of "scenes" in my past lives. But no chapter to fully collaborate what the book was and how it was written.

I have small verses of past lives....ie; a rememberance of waving to a knight as he/hy rode his/hys horse in jousting; working in a field picking strawberries in a huge bottomed dress that had to have been in the middle ages; falling down steps in a victorian home again felt to be in the middle ages and having a miscarriage of a son. There are more, I won't go on and on.

It is amazing for me to read what others think about pasts lives and how they relate to gender awareness today and in doing so embracing the spirituality that comes from self recognition and awareness.

I also believe that if we learn to embrace our spiritual side more the past lives of our so called "books" will be released verse by verse, page by page, chapter by chapter.

I am ready to read.