Henry Ford was convinced he had lived before, most recently as a soldier killed at the battle of Gettysburg. A quote from the San Francisco Examiner from August 26, 1928 described Ford’s beliefs:
“I adopted the theory of Reincarnation when I was twenty-six. Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give me complete satisfaction. Work is futile if we cannot utilise the experience we collect in one life in the next. When I discovered Reincarnation it was as if I had found a universal plan I realised that there was a chance to work out my ideas. Time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock. Genius is experience. Some seem to think that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives. Some are older souls than others, and so they know more. The discovery of Reincarnation put my mind at ease. If you preserve a record of this conversation, write it so that it puts men’s minds at ease. I would like to communicate to others the calmness that the long view of life gives to us.”
Henry Ford rightfully questioned embracing talents as assigned by a higher power. Why did one person and not others receive the gift? Is it a reward to the gifted? A punishment to those who didn’t receive it? Are the gifts randomly handed out?
What I’ve found in many years of past life regression research is that what you are naturally good at is what you’ve practiced many times in many past lives, even for those who don’t believe in reincarnation. Dancing, cooking, parenting, managing, drawing, painting, debating, driving, memorizing, shooting, psychically perceiving, entertaining, writing, care taking, singing, speaking, and even sex. Whatever you excel at, you’ve developed the talent over many lifetimes. So, if you want to know who you were and what you did in past lives, you can find clues in what you’re good at now. Present lives are much more of a mirror for past lives than most people realize.
Copyright © 2012 Stephen Petullo
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