Have you had a past life experience? A time in your life when you had major déjà vu? Where time seemed to stand still for a moment and you saw flashes of another time. And you were there during that other time?

My past life flashbacks started when I was in my early teens. My first flash was of myself as a sailor. That flashback to another life was a bit unsettling. I fell into the sea during a storm and drowned.

Powerful Past Life Experiences

It wasn’t until a few years later when I was 22 that I had another past life experience. This one occurred as I was driving back to Southern California after visiting San Francisco with two girlfriends.

We were in Central California, and I suddenly had the urge to pull off onto a side road. I told my friends I wanted to find a nice spot to stop and eat a snack. As I made my way off the road, I felt compelled somehow, as if someone else drove the car.

When we came to a lush meadow, I gasped and stopped the car. Getting out and standing at the edge of the road, I marveled at the gorgeous site in front of me. Glowing in the afternoon sunlight was miles of green meadow dotted with trees. And in the distance farmland.

What Past Life Experiences Can Teach You

While the beautiful site in front of me was a true feast for my eyes, I have to say that the feeling that engulfed me of pure wonder and joy and contentment is what took my breath away. Until that very moment, I hadn’t had such an intense, overpowering feeling of happiness and tranquility in this lifetime.

While I’d always loved plants and had started gardening at the age of 7, the experience felt like something much deeper, much more meaningful, much more purposeful, even.

As my friends got out some snacks and sat at the side of the road looking out over the meadow, I simply stood there and gaped. As I looked at the wondrous scene, I grappled for the reason the scene in front of me affected me so deeply. I didn’t get the answer that day, but I did become even more enamored with Mother Nature and her great strength and beauty. (It was also hard for my friends to convince me to get back in the car to make our way home to Southern California!)

How Past Lives Shape Us

Today, I know that when I saw the meadow, I connected with a past life where I had been at one with Mother Nature. I connected with my own soul in the guise of a past life as a farmer who lived off the land and who loved the land as his own—for I was a male in that lifetime.

That experience, which I know now was divinely time, has answered many questions for me in this lifetime. It explains my immense love of plants and my feelings of oneness with the earth. It has also taught me that I can revisit those feelings of pure joy and peace and tranquility by simply connecting with Mother Nature and Mother Earth.

Have you had instances in your life when you’ve felt such an affinity to a certain place or time or music or taste, even? If so, please feel free to comment and share your experience.

And when you do have such past life experiences, cherish and even nurture them. For they are a true calling from and for your soul.