M.J. Rose

Thank you to Natasha Dern, host of The Buddha Lounge Show, for her thoughtful answers to our Reincarnationist QA.

The Reincarnationist recently posted about an article Natasha published on Huff Post, Do You Believe In Past Lives? I recommend you read her piece if you have not yet done so. It’s a great read, especially for Reincarnationists.

Also, M.J. will making an appearance on Natasha’s show in the near future and I will be sure to let you know when this happens.

THE QUESTIONS:

What is your most marked characteristic that you believe could be a
hold over from a past life?

A: There are several but one of them is my absolute LOVE of Paris. I
visited there a few years ago and the feeling that came over me was that I
was home. My reaction was not that of a tourist seeing it for the first
time and being in awe of such a beautiful city but it was deeper than
that, almost like a memory. I even visited Napoleon’s apartment and the
feel of that time period felt so familiar. I think whatever kind of
lifetime I experienced there must’ve been an extremely happy one.

What is your principle defect that you believe may be inherited from a
previous incarnation?

A: Let’s just say I’ve gotten a taste of my own medicine.

Which of your favorite heroes do you think you could have been and why?

A: Women throughout history who have been bold fascinate me. The fact that
they were brave enough to live on their terms despite the period in which
they lived and the inevitable societal backlash for the choices they made
as women is extraordinary. They demanded authenticity and the right to be
who they were. I wish there were more women like that today to demonstrate
to the rest of us how important being true to who you are is rather than
becoming a carbon copy of another.  Modern women have learned to imitate
and not individuate.

What three people from history would you like to have over to dinner for a
discussion about reincarnation?

A: Yogananada, Dion Fortune and Madame Blavatsky

What do you think happens when we die?

A: I don’t think we die but move on to a different level of reality. Why
would reincarnation be so hard to believe? Here on earth, we get to travel
and explore other countries and cultures, learn and grow from those
adventures – why would it be any different for the soul? Why wouldn’t the
soul want to travel and explore other galaxies and planets for its own
enjoyment and purposes? All of creation is at its fingertips.

When you come back next time, who (or what!) would you like to be?

A: More of myself.

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“With a foreword by Steven Forrest (in which he calls the book “cutting edge”), this work explains my unique brand of evolutionary astrology. How I approach it is informed in important ways by what I have learned from Ascended Masters and spirits of the deceased about the multi-life journey of the soul. Why souls pick the lives they do, what is karma and how to change it, what is the relationship of the soul to its many lives…all this and more is explored and then applied to birth charts and life stories to bring them alive…”

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THE QUESTIONS:

What is your most marked characteristic that you believe could be a hold over from a past life?

I know my passion for research and sharing what I learn is a hold over from my soul’s other lives. Until I found karmic/evolutionary astrology I craved understanding why people did and chose what they did, and I’m sure in my many other lives I’m searching around for a tool that can help me figure that out!

What is your principle defect that you believe may be inherited from a previous incarnation?

We all come in to any life with specific and general fears based in deeply painful experiences in our other lives. I do not consider that we come in with defects but that we are in each life challenged to overcome extremes of fear in order to become empowered and live what our souls come here to do. I am definitely hampered in some ways at some times by fear as are others, and I do what I can to accept the challenge to overcome it and heal.

Which of your favorite heroes do you think you could have been and why?

Wow, that’s personal! I am aware of two of my soul’s other lives in real-life data terms, but I don’t share that info. Though I admit to identifying sometimes with alternately the most compassionate and the least compassionate of leaders.

What three people from history would you like to have over to dinner for a discussion about reincarnation?

Gosh. That is tough. For starters, the people in relatively early Christianity who wrote reincarnation out of the doctrine. I’m sure I could find three in that group to have over for a good old fashioned pancake dinner.

What do you think happens when we die?

I’ve been shown the process and lead through two of my soul’s lives’ previous deaths so I can see how they lead to my present life. You can read about this in my new book The Soul’s Journey I: Astrology, Reincarnation, and Karma with a Medium and Channel.

When you come back next time, who (or what!) would you like to be?

Someone with a little more willingness to flow with the soul’s bigger plan. Someone more willing to trust the perfection in how things are unfolding. It is who I’m stretching and growing into now – I vote for me to keep it up into next lives!

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