Past Life Generator

Listening: Paul Bennewitz on Dreamland

Feeling: Glad to be home after the disco. A cup of tea and both kitties are nearby.

This is one of the most fun things I've ever found on the internet, and it's uncannily accurate! Find out about your last incarnation and then work out all your friends.

Here's what the Past Life Generator said for me (love the broken English):

I do not know how you feel about it, but you were male in your last earthly incarnation. You were born somewhere around territory of modern South New Zealand approximately on 1850. Your profession was medic, surgeon, herbalist.

Your brief psychological profile in that past life: You had mind of a scientist, always seeking new explanations. Environment often misunderstood him, but respected his knowledge.

Lesson, that your last past life brought to present: Magic is everywhere around you, in most usual, most ordinary incidents. Your lesson -- to learn magic and to help people to see it clearly. You are magician!

I love saying that last line like the host off Iron Chef. It has so much more impact, especially if you follow it with the image of one of the Iron Chef's twirling their carving knives while making swishing sounds in the air. See?

I sent the link to about a hundred friends yesterday and so far all the reports coming in have been hilarious. Every single one of my gay friends was a woman in their last life (and I've got a lot of gay friends), and the best ones so far were a) my friend The Merkin, who was a female Latin dancer, and another friend AJ who said he was born in the year 000 and worked as a minion for the forces of darkness. You gotta go!

On a more serious note, there is a whole branch of astrology dedicated to understanding past lives through the "nodes" in one's chart and some other fancy stuff like that.

I believe each person's bithdate is much more important than we give it credit for. It is fixed forever, and we all know that it can give us a clearer idea about who we are in this life, so why not about past or future lives? Anyway, I like that think that these little readings contain images which act like triggers. They can help us open up to a deeper understanding about who might be, and what gifts we may have brought into this life based on the lessons learned the last time around. The details you are given aren't really as important as how the images the words create make you FEEL, so keep that in mind, but most of all have fun.