previous life
Before this incarnation
Previous life refers to an existence believed to precede one's current incarnation, central to religions teaching reincarnation: In a previous life, I must have been a sailor.
More loosely, it describes an earlier phase of one's actual life that feels distant or disconnected from the present: Back in my previous life as a lawyer, I worked eighty-hour weeks.
- reincarnationSoul's rebirth after death
- pastTime already gone
- karmaSpiritual cause and effect
- karmic debtOwed for past actions
- soulInnermost animating essence
old soul · memories · déjà vu · regression · ancient · ancient Egypt · former · incarnation · spirit · flashback · Buddhist monk · Egypt · monastery · samsara · haunting · forgotten · ancestral · transmigration
previous lifefuture life
Existence not yet lived
next life · afterlife · rebirth · life after death · here and now
previous lifenew life
previous, previously, life, lively, lifelong, lifelike, lifeless, lifetime