past life
Previous earthly turn
A past life is a previous existence that one's soul supposedly inhabited before being reborn into the current body—a concept from religions and spiritual traditions that believe in reincarnation.
People claim to remember past lives through dreams, hypnosis, or sudden recognition: She felt certain they'd been lovers in a past life.
The phrase also appears more loosely to describe an earlier phase of one's current existence: In a past life, I was a corporate lawyer.
Spiritual cause and effect
- rebirthSpiritual or physical regeneration
- samsaraCycle of rebirth
- transmigrationSoul passing into another body
- soulInnermost animating essence
cycle · nirvana · moksha · dharma · destiny · fate · renewal · resurrection
Induced trance state
- tranceSemiconscious, unresponsive condition
- recallMemory retrieval act
- therapyCurative mental treatment
- subconsciousBelow conscious awareness
retrieval · visualization · meditation · catharsis · introspection · therapist · psychotherapy · unconscious
Recalled mental image
- reminiscenceRecalling past experiences
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- flashbackInvoluntary past memory
- déjà vuIllusory prior experience
retrospection · reverie · evocation · glimpse · fragment · echo · trace · impression
Distinct historical period
- epochDistinct historical period
- antiquityGreat age, ancient era
- ancientVery old indeed
- civilizationAdvanced organized human society
archaeology · ruins · artifact · relic · chronicle · manuscript · scroll · tomb
karma
Spiritual cause and effect
- rebirthSpiritual or physical regeneration
- samsaraCycle of rebirth
- transmigrationSoul passing into another body
soul · cycle · nirvana · moksha · dharma · destiny · fate · renewal · resurrection · immortality
hypnosis
Induced trance state
- tranceSemiconscious, unresponsive condition
- recallMemory retrieval act
- therapyCurative mental treatment
subconscious · retrieval · visualization · meditation · catharsis · introspection · therapist · psychotherapy · unconscious · healing
recollection
Recalled mental image
- reminiscenceRecalling past experiences
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- flashbackInvoluntary past memory
déjà vu · retrospection · reverie · evocation · glimpse · fragment · echo · trace · impression · vision
era
Distinct historical period
civilization · archaeology · ruins · artifact · relic · chronicle · manuscript · scroll · tomb · monument
lineage
Descent from progenitors
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- genealogyStudy of family descent
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
forebears · ancestors · family tree · roots · pedigree · kinship · clan · dynasty · inheritance · progenitors
- karmacomeuppance, good deeds, poetic justice, karmic debt, what goes around comes around
- paranormalghosts, paranormal, haunting, poltergeist, apparition
- afterlifeheaven, hell, paradise, purgatory, limbo
- Scientologyauditing, auditor, clear, Dianetics, engram
- existenceexistence, being, reality, actuality, nonbeing
- nostalgianostalgia, nostalgic, memories, memory, remember
past lifefuture life
Existence not yet lived
next life · afterlife · rebirth · eternal life · eternity
past lifepresent
Gift or current moment
new life · new beginning · fresh start · today · new chapter
past, life, lifeless, lifetime, lives, lifestyle, wildlife, afterlife, lifelong