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Well, another meditation and another past life. This time there was something interesting.
It was the early middle ages. I was in a dungeon next to a cell but the doors were open. Not sure exactly why I was there but I seemed to be observing. The stone floors had hay on them so perhaps the dungeon had been converted to a place for animals at one point? No animals about at the time.
A bearded man was berating one of his servants about the cleanliness of the dungeon area so I guessed this was more real then if it was some standard dungeon movie memory.
It felt to me like somewhere between the 10th and 12th century A.D. though not having studied much history I had no idea. The people looked English so I’d guess Anglo-Saxon, so I was probably English too.
I definitely remember the type of helmet I was wearing. A dome shape with pieces riveted together and a
metal piece covering the nose. So, I guess I was some kind of guard or maybe personal body guard. I have the feeling things were being planned and we were getting ready for something. Maybe I followed the bearded guy around and kept up to date with the goings on in the castle. If I had to wear the helmet it suggested that something was about to happen, though I didn’t feel that, so maybe the guy who ran the castle liked his staff dressed up.
Wanting to see if my perceptions fitted recorded history I spent some time online trying to find the helmet.
I found that this kind of helmet was around about the 9th century so maybe I was wrong about the year. I don’t think so though. Also, mine was definitely a dome shape helmet, not in the slightest bit conical, and most around that time were conical. Maybe the helmet age has been mislabelled as I saw the same helmet labelled as:
1. A Norman nasal helmet
2. A saxon warrior helmet
3. A saxon viking helmet
These all came under the banner of spangenhelm helmets.
If even historians can’t agree as to who had what helmet when, my past life regression is probably more accurate!
In any case, the reason I’m curious about my past lives is because I want to find out if there were any lessons I should have learnt in the past that I didn’t and have had to come back and repeat a life to learn them.
Interestingly, the Roman Sentry in Greece life and the Anglo-Saxon guard in England life suggests I’ve been following rules and not taking any actions unless others direct me to.
Also, the idea of travel has always appealed so maybe I joined armies in the past to travel! Never having been interested in fighting or the life of a soldier in this life suggests I probably had my fill of armies in other lives.
It’s highly likely most of us have been soldiers in past lives. The amount of soldiers the human race has created and killed in the past million years would cover the present population hundreds of times over.
I’ll try and hunt down a non-soldier related past life next time.