Question Concerning the Past...

[TheFadedAngel]

Is it possible to remotely view the past of another individual? And, if so, would someone be so kind as to point me in the correct direction of study...

[Lunacie]

I've only done this once, with my husband (at the time). Our working group was doing some discussions and my husband told us what happened to him when he was in the Navy stationed in San Francisco. Suddenly I was 'seeing' what he was telling us. It wasn't something I consciously tried to do. But I was able to describe a place he visited on the wharf and a person he had been really drawn to. I can still see that little cafe and that waitress in my mind as clearly as if I'd actually been there myself, though it was 19 years ago that this vision happened. I don't know that I could do it with someone I wasn't as connected to as my hubby.

[Pinkfluff]

I'm sure it is possible, but probably harder than doing it for yourself, and like Lunacie says it probably requires a connection to the person. The stronger the connection, the better it would work (in theory, because I haven't actually done it for another person myself).

[TheFadedAngel]

I'm sure it is possible, but probably harder than doing it for yourself...

Recalling one's own past would be simply that... recollection. *smiles* My interest doesn't really lie in simply remembering something, more so viewing an event passed in another's past... be that from their eyes or otherwise.

See, there is always the option of reading the other person through their own recollection of the event; however, I don't wish this person to need to relive the event. Thus, I'd like a way to bypass their recollection and view the event... without their having to endure revisiting that time/event.

Sort of like "borrowing" their memory for my own examination, so-to-speak.

[Mab]

I'm not sure if I would want to know of people's pasts. I think it would be a bit eerie and weird too. It is what makes up that individual's personality and it would be reading into that person's inner self. I think if it would be a random happening or if let's say when there was a dire circumstance, it would be neat, but just that, neat... Mab

[Pinkfluff]

Recalling one's own past would be simply that... recollection.

Oh you mean past as in only their current past. Usually I use "past" in the context of a person's past to mean both this and previous lives' pasts (yeah I do believe in reincarnation). So I'd think the techniques for seeing your own past pasts and other peoples' pasts (either current past or past pasts) would be similar.

I think that if you want to see their memories without having them relive it then you would have to find the memory yourself. Might be easier to do if they can just relive it for you, but if it is something painful (which I suspect is the case), then I can understand why you wouldn't want them to have to do this. Maybe if you have some other source of information about this event it might give you a lead to be able to look at it for yourself without needing the person in question to go into it. Like a diary entry, newspaper article, another person's account, or anything like that.

[serah]

I'm not entirely sure how to make it happen, but it's happened to me in a few instances involuntarily.

However, even if I knew how, I think I'd try to keep such abilities for dire situations; I feel like poking into someone else's past is an invasion of privacy, possibly a major one.

Serah

[arohk]

I am guessing that would go against some cosmic rule or something it would be a form of intrusion and you might get a shock if you try it. for safety sake I would not want to mess with that sort of thing you know the rule of three and all that.

It is o.k. to check out past lives but to be poking around peoples memories while they are alive...bad karma. :bricks: