Thank you to author Kate Maryon for answering this week’s Reincarnationist Q&A! Kate is the author of ‘Shine’ (HarperCollins) – her second book, ‘Glitter’ comes out in September and ‘Sparkle’ in March 2011…

THE QUESTIONS:

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

Mmm, I would say a sense of peace. Friends have often said that they like spending time with me because I’m calm and peaceful, my internal experience of it is a feeling of serenity/spaciousness. Although I don’t practice any religion I’m always very at home in monasteries, temples, churches etc. When I was in India once I heard some chanting drifting out onto the street and just had to follow it. The sound lead me to this huge tent, which was full of about a thousand Hari Krishna, I felt totally at home. I lay down in the middle of the space and just soaked it all in. It would have been an okay place to die. I also have an attraction to the sound of bells, any sort of bells, I love them.

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

Fear of snakes, definitely.

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

Mmmm, tricky, I don’t really have any heroes but if I were to pick someone I think it would have to be Mother Theresa. I really resonate with her ability to be touched by suffering.

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

Ooooh, I’d like to bring my mum back from the dead (she died 14 years ago) and get the inside goss on the subject, then I’d have Doris Stokes and Jesus and of course a wonderful feast.

What do you think happens when we die?

MMmm, lovely question, I often wonder about this. I imagine there to be a sensation of allowing all the holding on to life to slip away, which I guess might feel like a sense of deep relaxation and peace, a kind of settling back and back and back and back and so far back into yourself that you’re just here, no longer attached to your physical body, but with a strong sense of the vastness that is the hugeness of consciousness. I imagine there must be some force, stronger than the life force, that invites you, kind of pulls you closer. And maybe a sense of lightness and an experience of merging back into truth.

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

Someone who was born into love – I’d love to experience what it might be to have a safe, held and wonderfully carefree childhood. That’s something I missed.

 

For more information about Kate and her books, please visit her website:

www.katemaryon.co.uk

 

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