I've been flashing back to the past, my own past, using a meditation CD - Past Life Regression with the Angels (by Doreen Virtue). I've used it three times and have had some fun and amazing results.
The first time, I was a little fuzzy on my request and I first experienced a glimpse as a life as a man dressed in fur - think barbarian - running through a forest with my companions, waving my arm at them to follow me. Then I was a young native woman, again in a forest, and I was living happily with my tribe. That life ended when I died in childbirth - I bled to death. This has to be in relation to the Period That Would Not End. Hopefully that problem is now cured. As for the first life, I haven't figured out what I was supposed to learn from it, however interesting it may have been.
The second meditation showed me another life as a man, a very jealous man. I was angry and shaking my wife for some imagined infidelity - she was innocent but couldn't convince me. I died on a battle field far from home and was sorry for my behavior. I recognized my wife as Megan and there were an older couple as well who were my parents. I see this as one source of my problems with Steve - always accusing me of imagined infidelities. Karma in action! The 2nd life in this meditation was as medieval peasant woman. I was dressed in bulky brown skirts/dress and lived in a village of crude huts made of saplings with thatched roofs. I was a healer. Our village was raided and I was killed. I was SO frustrated that my life and work had been cut short and that my death was so senseless.
The third meditation I saw myself as a woman in the mid 1800's sometime. I was in a plain dark gown with a bustle, with pince nez glasses and a small hat on my upswept hair. I was married, childless and was a college professor. This was in response to my question about my life mission - something to do with teaching adults. The last life was as a male slave in the middle east about the time of Jesus. I had on a coarsely woven short tunic and I was being beaten by my owner. I grew up and rebelled and was hanged. This may point to my need for independence and standing up to authority.
This has been very enlightening, but I need to leave it alone for awhile and process what I've been given.....even if it is fun!