A lot of people demand proof of reincarnation. Not only that but they demand proof of who you were on a historical documentation level -- if the person you claim is not written down on paper somewhere, then they must not be real. Or if events you remember are not written down or historically iffy, then you must be making it up. I don't encounter this so much with Fanny Chamberlain as I do with Celine or my Elizabethan life. Celine (as of right now) is not a documented person that I can prove on a historical level, but on the other hand, I have not tried to search for her on that historical level either. It doesn't really occur to me to do that because I know it as fact inside of me that I lived at that time whether I find her on execution lists or not (if there is such a thing as execution lists). I truthfully don't need historical documentation to tell me where and when I lived.

I wish I could give everyone that kind of solid foundation in their belief systems because I see a lot of people questioning and second guessing things that they subconsciously know to be true about themselves. I think my solid foundation comes from the fact that I went through this process with Fanny. I had feelings, flashbacks, etc., that I had no historical basis for, but as soon as I started researching her, I found out that 95% of the things I knew as truth inside of me were provable documented facts from Fanny's life. I learned to trust my instincts about myself and I haven't really questioned myself since then. Through the process of learning about Fanny internally and externally, I learned to tell the difference between genuine past life recall and simple "what if" flights of fancy. I apply what I learned in the Fanny process to what I go through now with exploring Celine's life, as well as my Elizabethan life, and I think sometimes people might see me as stubborn or arrogant or prone to exaggeration because I am completely immovable in knowing who I am and what happened to me. If people knew what I went through -- the blood, sweat and tears for years of struggling to accept Fanny and prove it to myself that I was her and she is me -- it would be easy to see why I am so solid in my belief system. I worked hard to achieve my beliefs and understanding of who I am.

Celine may be a documented person and she may not. I know she existed. I know Celine was probably a nickname for a longer name like Joceline, but do I have a last name? No. I don't feel like it makes much of a difference. Names don't really change things for me because exploring past lives is supposed to be about figuring out who you are as a soul, where you are headed on your path, and what lessons and relationships you still may need to resolve to advance your path, not entertaining the desire to be "somebody." I always tell people that if their interests lie in trying to find a "famous" past life, don't bother looking, because that is a rather useless reason to explore past lives. Don't explore it if you just want to chase the documentation trail. What happens when you find your name on a census or perhaps find an image of yourself? If you just wanted to look to prove you were there, it turns into a dead end experience and a rather empty one at that.

This is not to say I will never look for Celine. I probably will someday, just for my own curiosity. I doubt there would be any surviving paintings of her but I would like to have one like I do of Fanny. I feel like Celine was only about 22 when she was executed with her family so there won't be a lot of documentation at all about such a short life. Looking for your previous identities is a very personal decision that should not be made because you want to prove yourself to other people or you want to "be somebody important." I do not consider Celine or Fanny or my Elizabethan life "important" in the sense that they are known worldwide like Cleopatra or Marie Antoinette. Outside of the Civil War enthusiast community, Fanny is virtually unknown. Celine is not known at all. Her TIME and the EVENTS she witnessed are what give her the illusion of importance. And outside of Elizabethan enthusiasts in England, that particular life of mine is virtually unknown as well. What I am over and over again is a woman deeply hidden in the shadow of greater people - Queen Marie Antoinette, Queen Elizabeth I, and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. Not that he is on the level of royalty but he is far more well-known than Fanny. My point is, "importance" or "fame" is a fickle thing that is really in the eye of the beholder. Important to one person is totally useless to another person. There has to be a deeper reason for exploring your past lives than the desire to be somebody famous. It can be a burden to be reincarnated from semi-famous or famous figures, so be careful what you wish for.

I talk a lot about parallels and connections between who you are today and who you were in past lives. Until recently I had completely overlooked the fact that your different past lives will have connections and parallels between each other outside of who you are today. The more you learn about yourself and your past, the more you see that things will connect like a big spider web, not only between you and your other selves, but between you and other people in your soul group.

It is important to understand that who you were in the past is not who you are today as well. A lot of people get so wrapped up in their past lives that they forget to live for today, or they view people in current lives as who they were in the past, which can be dangerous to current relationships. With that in mind, it is also important to understand that the decisions you make will impact decisions you make in future lives. It is a delicate balance in a lot of deeper things besides, "Wow, cool, I lived during the French Revolution," or, "Awesome, I know who I was when the first Elizabeth was queen," or any other time period.

Although we all are different people with different life experiences each time, there are characteristics in people that carry from life to life unless these sometimes harmful characteristics can be unlearned. Forgiveness and removing yourself from harmful situations are equally important in order to advance as a soul. When you remove yourself from repetitively bad relationships, please remember to forgive that person on the way out. You can forgive and still recognize that some people are unhealthy to your journey. Lovers in previous lives may only be meant to be fleeting presences in this life but past life connections are not solid enough reasons to keep potentially harmful people around now. Some of the hardest lessons we have to learn are when to let go and when to forgive. These principles must go hand in hand.

Behaviors and common patterns can follow people from life to life. I will give you some very elementary examples from my past four lives to illustrate what I'm talking about. There is a principle of the "anniversary phenomena," which is one of many parts of proof that all lives are connected and built upon each other. It goes a lot deeper than this but I'm keeping it very simple for you.

The year ending in 93:
Celine was executed in 1793.
Fanny went blind in 1893.
I was declared legally blind in 1993.

The date September 8:
My Elizabethan life ended on September 8.
Fanny's husband was born on September 8.
My ex-fiance was born on September 8.

The date October 16:
Celine's hero, Queen Marie Antoinette, was executed on October 16.
Fanny's daughter, Grace, was born on October 16.
I miscarried on October 16.
My brother is getting married on October 16.

Names:
My past four nicknames all rhyme and are two syllables and spelled very similarly.

Fanny named her last child Gertrude Lorraine, not Loraine. Lorraine is in Marie Antoinette's formal French name.

Elizabethan Me had sisters names Anne and Frances. My current middle name is Ann and my name used to be Frances.

Miscellaneous parallels:
My Elizabethan husband was pardoned from execution on October 18.
Fanny died on October 18.

February 4 (my current birthday), Elizabethan Husband's father granted property in Yarmouth (England) to us. Yarmouth is also a place in Maine that Fanny often visited.

Elizabethan Husband became Joint-Steward of the Manor of Rising and constable of the castle on December 7, which was the date of Fanny and Lawrence's wedding.

Elizabethan Me was known for spending large sums of money on dresses, which is a trait that Fanny and Celine had. I often spend beyond my means on clothes.

Fanny decorated her Brunswick home in a very French way with pieces very similar to things found in Versailles. She also spent a summer abroad in Paris, where Celine lived, and she spoke fluent French.

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Those are just some of the examples. I do have a lot more that run into a lot of personal things with other people who don't need to be dragged into the limelight. What kind of parallels can you find between your lives?

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