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Caribbean
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       I have not had many intense dreams, but a lot of deep gut feelings. I believe that I was a pirate in my previous life. I have a very strong connection to anything involving pirates; even when I was a little girl. I used to read books about them all the time, and study them to find out more about them. When the movie Pirates of the Caribbean came out, I saw it 11 times in theaters, and not because I am a fan of Johnny Depp. I felt this incredibly strong pull to it, like there was something in the movie I recognized and knew. That time period has also always interested me, and many Halloweens I've been a pirate, even though I am a girl. I went to Disneyland yesterday, and sat in silence during the ride Pirates of the Caribbean. Suddenly this wave of jealousy came over me, and it carried a hint of nostalgia. Like, why couldn't I live during that time? And the feeling was almost like I missed it; like I'd lived through it before and wanted to go back. Also, when I was a kid and I couldn't sleep; I'd imagine I was on a ship. A really old, large ship. And I was sleeping in a hammock, in pirates clothing, and I'd let the waves rock me to sleep. I did that almost every night for many years and I still do it now occasionally, as a teenager. Odd? Or maybe familiar...
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    In my past life I was an Irish pirate named Jonathon Dane.  I was born on July 23rd, 1669 and became a pirate at age 14, after being enslaved. I became very powerful in a span of five or six years, but  a captain whom I and several hundred men rebelled against killed me on Oct. 14th, 1692.  After most of the other rebels had been killed or had retreated I remained abandoned by my crew, and I was dying from a massive blade wound to my stomach.  However I was killed the day after the battle occured.  The captain tied my arms and legs together and pushed me into the Caribbean Sea where I met my death.  In this past life I felt a burning desire to hurt anyone whoever opposed me, and now I'm just about as passive as possible.
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    I've had this vision or dream for as long as I can remember.  It takes place in the Caribbean and I strongly sense it is Cuba.  It is the very early 1700's.  There is a huge house-- like a hacienda or plantation-- on this very high hill.  The house is in a Spanish style and is quite imposing.  It is made of gray stone that is very weathered.  The hill is vibrantly green and the sky is very dark like a thunderstorm is approaching.  There are fields growing sugarcane in the distance.  I am a young woman, maybe about twenty, riding a white horse at the bottom on the hill.  I sense that I am or have become an outcast and unwanted in the town.  I meditated on this image and believe that I lived in the imposing house, and brought some great shame to my family when I had became involved with a roguish man who you might call a pirate.  I think that I might have become pregnant, but I am not sure.  The pirate abandoned me and I was overwhelmed with shame and despair.  I think I committed suicide. I think my name might have been Isabel or Isabella. I've always had a great affinity for oceans and ships and also for the Tropics.  Also, I think this life explains why I'm obsessed with pleasing my family and try to seek their approval.
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  Hello! I went to a seminar on past life regression with Dr. Brian Weiss. For the last portion of the seminar, he did a group regression. Not knowing what to expect, my mind was totally open. This is want my first experience showed:
    I am on a cliff overlooking a busy harbor in the Caribbean. I think it is Jamaica, but at this point I am not sure. The next scene, I am standing on the dock that I had seen from above. It is a busy area, with a ship just having come into port. There is a parade of slaves unloaded cargo from the tall ship tied up in the dock. They seem to be unloading sacks of flour or cotton. I am only observing this. I am a woman, I'm not sure how old, maybe 20. I think I am British. I can feel the corset around my ribs, along with all of the under clothes. I am holding a parasol to shade the sun. I can feel that it is warm, but the parasol is shading the direct sun off my face. I think I am a 'mail order bride' and I am waiting for my 'husband' to pick me up. The next scene I see is a bedroom scene, with the 2 of us just getting ready for the events of the day, nothing extreme.
    The next scene is the one with the most impact. I am laying in a mahogany 4 poster bed in a plantation style house. I know this is my house. There is sunlight shining in the room through the window, but not directly on me. It is in the afternoon. I am alone in the bed, but there is a man sitting on a chair beside my bed, holding my hand, caressing my hand. I think the comfort he is trying to give me is more for his benefit than mine. His thoughts are all about anger, what will I do without you, how can I live without you. Although I was a mail order bride, we do fall deeply in love. I can't see how old I am, but I think it is still rather young maybe 30. With all of the fevers that were carried, many people died young.  Then I am rising above the scene, so I have passed on. At the moment I die, I can feel everything he is feeling. His pain, grief, sorrow, but most importantly, is the most incredible wave of love wash over me. It makes my eyes well up several months after this whole experience.
    Now the validation for the time and place for me came in the most unusual way. I'm not a huge movie fan, but I had a very strong desire to see Pirates of the Caribbean. I have always loved pirates and the Caribbean. I had taken my nieces with me. In the opening scene of Pirates, there is a bay. I gasped, as I recognized that bay as the one in my regression. The movie was set in Port Royal, Jamaica, which was razed by an earthquake in 1692. That would make my lifetime, sometime in the late 1600's. Everything else matches. The most truly overwhelming part is that the 'man' in that lifetime, is someone I met 3 years ago, who lives in a different country. I don't see him very often, but each time I am in his arms, I know that I have been there before, many many times, through many other lifetimes. I have since had another past life experience with him in which he dies in my arms, in a time of battle, somewhere else in an island setting. Those details aren't as strong. It is a battle scene in a harbor as well. There are canons and gunfire, pure mayhem all around. We are on a cliff
overlooking the battle below. I am a woman, his wife, wearing a long dress, with many petticoats. I think it may be closer to the 1880's or 90's, judging by the attire. I am sitting on my knees with him in my arms, his head in my lap. He is delirious, I am screaming for someone to help us, but with all of the mayhem, my cries for help go unheard. He dies with his head in my lap. I find the whole past life experience an incredibly addicting, but positive addiction. I have learnt so much about fears and phobias through this. I can't wait for the next one! Cheryl

Central America
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3.  I'm not sure of the exact year, but just before Cortez arrived, Mexico.  Twenties, male.  I was Aztecan.  A priest, but not very high ranked.  Priests had more rights than most.  I recall standing atop a step pyramid, looking over the forest/jungle, having had word that Quetzalcoatl (Cortez) was coming.  I felt a great sadness, and thought the world was ending.
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    I went to this Medium and accidentally started telling me about a past life. She said I had lived in the 1700's, in a town near the one I live now (in Central America) and used to be a very important trading Port in the Spanish colonies.  I was young and married to an older wealthy man, but was not happy. Because of that I was having an affair with another man my age and was maddly in love.  That younger man is in my life right now and she described him without she even knowing he existed in the present. My husband found out and had the man killed and I didn't do anything to stop it even though I loved that man very much.  Which accounts for the fact that in this lifetime I can't cheat my dates even if it's not a serious relationship, I rather end everything before doing such thing because the fact terrifies me.
    As for the man I loved, he can't seem to manage to compromise himself, he is rather a solitary man.  The only girl that's always around him is me. For a reason or the other fate seems to bring us together in the most strange ways. We keep meeting over and over again for the past 15 years (we where 13), and have deep feelings for each other but he acts as if he is terrified of me. 
    She said I'm supposed to pay that karma I owe him for having him killed so we can both be free again to make our lives (I'm a solitary person too only one boyfriend so far and few dates and no he wasn't any of them).  The sad part is we are really compatible and even share the love for Wicca (something unusual in a latin american country) but apparently we won't be together in this lifetime either.  I need more info. on what happened to me and him to solve this mystery.  ... Artemisa