While having a whiskey nightcap with my missus last evening we got into an interesting discussion on past lives and the romantic way in which they are often portrayed. For eample, if I had a pound for every 'former temple priestess' out there I would be shopping at Harrods. Anyways, this subject came up once when I was on a hedgewitch course in Glastonbury a few years back and I put forward the point that if we live through lives to further our soul's development then I must come to the fact that in earlier lives I probably did bad things. Maybe even very bad things. Did I steal? Kill? Murder? Probably is the answer if one is honest.
So let's be frank and not put 21st century values on times gone by as they really often are inappropriate. As for my fellow hedgewitchy compadres they found this very hard to take. I don't think I was flavour of the month that day. But truth is not a flavour, especially with regards to spiritual and magical matters. It requires courage.
One of the many adages that was left to us in Celtic literature is 'to live life courageously.'
So maybe we all need to take a look in the mirror.
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