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Hollywood action hero Steven Seagall was recognized by a Buddhist priest as the reincarnation of a 17th century Buddhist disciple from eastern Tibet. Celebrity reincarnation stories are a dime a dozen.
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The story may seem strange, but celebrity reincarnation stories are a dime a dozen. Sylvester Stallone believes he was once a Guatemalan monkey and Loretta Lynn believes she was once a Cherokee princess who served as a mistress to a powerful king. Then there is the story of Glenn Ford, an actor who starred in more than 100 Hollywood films and is especially famous for his roles in cop movies, war stories and westerns.
Ford became interested in reincarnation while doing a movie on the Dutch psychic Peter Hurkos. In December 1975, he underwent a series of hypnotic sessions in which memories of his past lives came flooding back. Ford learned that a few lives ago he was a nineteenth century Scottish music teacher named Charles Stewart. Stewart loved horses, as did Ford, but where Stewart was a piano virtuoso Ford couldn’t play a note. While under hypnosis and thinking about his life as Stewart, Ford was able to play Mozart.
Academy award-winning actress Shirley MacLaine describes her past lives in her 1983 book, “Out on a limb”, which was made into a five hour TV special. It follows her affair with Gerry Stamford, a British socialist politician, and a married man. MacLaine said he awakened in her a spiritual hunger. She later meets David Manning, an amateur painter with an interest in Eastern spirituality. At a Los Angeles bookstore, Manning introduces MacLaine to literature on metaphysics, reincarnation, and New Age philosophy. At first she is shy about embracing her spirituality. But that changes, thanks to Manning. In a pivotal moment, while standing on a beach on the Pacific Ocean, Manning lifts both arms to the sky and shouts: “I am God! I am God!”
Later she meets Sture Johanssen and Kevin Ryerson, two mediums who reveal experiences from their own past lives. Ryerson provides a metaphysical explanation for MacLaine’s attraction to Stamford: 300,000 years ago they were married in the mythical city of Atlantis. Manning then persuades MacLaine to come to Peru with him and search for spiritually-enlightened extraterrestrials. “Plato professed to know that other civilizations such as Atlantis existed,” MacLaine explains on her website. “Most of our great thinkers have professed to have had an intuition or guidance that they couldn’t describe…I have discovered knowledge of other physical lives, relationships that felt as if they had been in place forever and foreign soils that felt like home.”
Hollywood action hero Steven Seagall has starred as an ex-CIA operative, a retired Special Forces soldier, a Navy SEAL and a vengeful gun-toting environmentalist. He has also spent more than 20 years studying with high Buddhist priests in Japan and Tibet and was recognized by one Penor Rinpoche as the reincarnation of a holy 17th century Buddhist disciple. When asked if he had memories of past lives, Seagall answered: “If you practice [Tibetan Buddhism] and practice and dissolve into the emptiness with the practice and you are concentrating on bodhicitta more than anything else, you will probably start to slowly dissolve the veil of who you think you are into your true nature, which is a combination of all your lives. We just have to remember them.”
And in the end all that takes are some past-life hypnotic sessions, such as the ones Glenn Ford was so fond of. A second session revealed that in an even earlier life, during the time of King Louis XIV, Ford was a member of an elite 17th century French cavalry unit. His name was Launvaux and he came to a violent end. An aristocrat accused him of committing adultery with his wife and hired a skilled swordsman to challenge him to a duel. Launvaux lost. While under hypnosis Ford perfectly described the location of the stables in the palace at Versailles. In a final hypnosis he went even further back, remembering a past life as a young Christian martyr, killed by lions in the Colosseum in third century Rome. In less notable lives Ford was a 17th Century Royal Navy sailor who died in the Great Plague and a cowboy in the early American West.
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