Interconnectedness Reincarnation and Epigenetic memory

[Gallobhaí]

I wish to first discuss the manner of my awakening, and ask you to share information about your own with regard to the subject matter if it pleases you.
I am your average working class Irish citizen who was brought up in an isolated rural town and then went to art college in Dublin. Throughout this whole time I did everything I shouldn't, like everyone I knew. I was a passive attendee of an abusive church, dismissive of my family, I never read or studied, prone to anger and depression, I drank and took illicit substances in my early teens, played violent video games and was completely engrossed in trashy pop culture.
Suddenly when I turned 25, almost overnight, I felt a sort of presence with me that I couldn't understand. I got rid of my television, began impulsively buying books on world-religions, gnosticism, indigenous cultures, philosophy and psychology, gave up toxins, went vegetarian nutritionist and herbalist, got into spirituality and meditation, dedicated myself to helping the environment, and became very concerned with the human condition and caring for people and animals. I then found Druidry.
This happened completely unbeknownst to me I never even thought about any of these actions. I am now very far removed from the person I have been for the first 24 years of life.
They happened as if I was slowly being possessed by a benevolent force.
I now feel obliged to do all I can to heal, uplift and empower by increasing awareness, promoting intelligence and nurturing creativity; and caring for the environment.

The circumstance of my awakening lead me to ask; could this be down to either:
1. Interconnectedness: A cry from within the collective unconscious at this particular time, that I was susceptible to, to counteract the current climate and tribulations of our time.
2. Reincarnation: That in a previous life I may have been a Druid, Cathar or shaman, and that a previous version of myself has stepped in to save me psychically or spiritually.
3. Epigenetic Memory: That an ancestor may have been one of above and his/her memory and my own might be connected through our DNA and their spirit awoke to save me.

Anyway it got me thinking about these tree areas of discussion and how you in the OBOD community might view these fascinating subjects.
Please share your beliefs, or articles, on Interconnectedness, reincarnation or epigenetic memory in this thread.

[Ephraim Aegir]

I think that everybody has a path. You may choose not to follow it, deviate from it as much as one wants, or follow it wholeheartedly. Sometimes you don't see it, as it is unclear. I think perhaps you finally just stumbled onto yours, and it felt right for you, so you took it.

[Gallobhaí]

Yes, I am wholly glad of the path I am on I just find it very bizarre that it was a completely unconscious decision. It seems to have just happened me, I didn't choose it or even consider it.
Thanks for the reply

[mabby]

In astrology Saturn takes 29 years to return to the point it occupied at the time we are born. Saturn is the teacher, some would say the stern father. His job is to prepare us for life, for adulthood. I would say that your Saturn has done a very good job and that you have learned well. You have chosen a wonderful path and are asking big and thoughtful questions. Welcome to Druidry. Blessings on your journey.

[Aphritha]

Odd reading your story...you sound so much like my husband! About the same thing happened to him in the last year. He often speaks about his 'waking up' and thinks there's something out there that's begining to 'wake up' others, but he isn't sure what. Sometimes he says its almost as something/one supernatural shook him a good one.
As an outside observer, its been quite a show. I really do see a change, and an obvious one. I brought home my beach souveniour(long story), him caring nothing except drinking, partying, and that lovely 'incense' they used to sell in the gas stations here(banned now, with good reason). Then one day, something caught him, and Bam! He was off trying to better the community, take better care of our planet, studying the esoteric, and sharing what he knew(and asking what he did'nt, he calls it his attempts to help other wake up as well. Very fascinating..it really happened so fast.
The idea of interconnectedness seems very likely here. I do see more and more people, who were happily in front of their televisions with their excuse for food in hand slowly realizing something is amiss...I wonder where things will go from here.

[Treeshrew]

Hi, Gallobhaí, your story sounds amazing!

I can't say I've had such a dramatic 'awakening' myself, I'm more the slowly stumbling towards druidry type. I don't know about reincarnation or epigenetic memory, but I do believe that everything is interconnected in ways we can't begin to understand in our own lives.

It might be a coincidence, but I started becoming interested in doing the the OBOD course at 25 too. There is an idea of the 'quarter-life' crisis, which is all about finding and forming your true identity and deciding what you want out of life. Pehaps that's a factor as well?

[Aphritha]

It might be a coincidence, but I started becoming interested in doing the the OBOD course at 25 too. There is an idea of the 'quarter-life' crisis, which is all about finding and forming your true identity and deciding what you want out of life. Pehaps that's a factor as well?

That's a good point. It does seem alot of people discover a good portion of themselves around that time. Perhaps its because the social pressures of youth are gone and one can get in touch with their true selves more easily?

[treegod]

At the risk of being very wrong...

Personally I wouldn't contribute your "awakening" with any of these. They might have contributed, and in a sense of being a universal human experience we could say it has come from "interconnectness/epigenetic memory", but I think after all you've been through it was your time* to realise things about your life and make decisions about those. You weren't following a pattern, you were breaking patterns to create a new life for yourself.

Take this as a different perspective. My own, about my own life and what I've discovered about it. It's just food for thought, I don't have any insight into your life, apart from what you share here.

*but then I suppose it's always be time to realise things and make decisions, lol. And it doesn't always have to be an obvious change, just a gradual learning process.

[Ephraim Aegir]

It might be a coincidence, but I started becoming interested in doing the the OBOD course at 25 too. There is an idea of the 'quarter-life' crisis, which is all about finding and forming your true identity and deciding what you want out of life. Pehaps that's a factor as well?

That's a good point. It does seem alot of people discover a good portion of themselves around that time. Perhaps its because the social pressures of youth are gone and one can get in touch with their true selves more easily?

Well now that it has been mentioned, it occurs to me.... It was around the time of my 25th birthday that I attended the first circle with my grove. I suddenly realised how well it fit. Excellent example of syncronisity there. (I only realised OBOD had their own word for it recently, I had become aware of it long before).