Not believing one way or the other about Reincarnation or having multiple life experiences Ricky did not set out to look for a past life, he sort of stumbled onto it.

Somehow along his way in life Ricky came to know a man who with the aid of hypnotism could bring people to recall past lifetimes.

I believe Ricky came by this man via a friend or relative and one thing led to another and Ricky thought it would be interesting to see if he could recall another life experience.

Ricky was not all that trusting that any of this could work and certainly did not know if it would work on him. The man who did the regressions was a small man who did not seem able to handle a man like Ricky. Ricky standing 6ft 5” in height felt less than confident this slight man could carry off the exercise of having him fall and be caught plus other practices used to create the state needed to bring him to the place he could recall another life. He went along with it and allowed this man to see if he could bring out a past life remembrance from his regression session.

Ricky does not recall the session other than coming out of it. He was surprised to learn he had a full recall of an entire other life!

Ricky told a detailed life of a man who died in 1892 in Tring England. His name was Edward Collins. He was 34 years old when he died. He had a wife and two children both girls. By trade Edward was a printer. He did not have a glamorous life. He was neither a rich man nor poor, just an average man for the time. Ricky told them during his regression that he remembered always being ashamed of his dirty stained fingers. Working as a printer he could never remove the ink from his hands and spent his life always trying to hide his black dyed fingers.

Ricky said he stepped in front of a horse drawn coal cart, which ran him over and died instantly in 1892 at the age of 34.

Ricky was astonished he gave all these details during his past life regression. He did not recall being a King or famous person but a simple printer.

One incredible detail of the regression was that Ricky was told that as Edward he told them that the day he was buried his wife at the time forgot to place a pin of hers in his coffin before they closed it. She was frantic about it and they had her toss the pin down when lowering the coffin into Edwards grave.

Instead of falling upon his coffin this pin missed its mark for a second time and ended up lying in the ground about a foot down in the ground on top of Edwards coffin. It has remained there all these years.

Time passed and Ricky and his now wife seemed to forget about this past life memory until they decided to take a small holiday near the town of Tring where this man was supposed to have lived and died. Ricky could not resist the temptation and arranged to tour the town on this holiday.

The town of Tring did not seem at all overly familiar to Ricky. He did ask around and found that an old cemetery was located near to where they were stopped. Ricky could not resist looking while in this town in that old cemetery to see if by chance there was a Edward Collins buried there around the time he forecasted in his regression.

Ricky and his wife walked about the graveyard looking at all the old worn out headstones when they came upon it. There right in front of their eyes was the stone for Edward Collins died 1892 age 34. To say Ricky and his wife were stunned is an understatement.

Ricky stood there looking, was he looking at himself, his old body? The sensation of it all was like none other he had before. He did not know to laugh or cry or stand or sit. What Ricky did do was drop to his knees and start to dig. His wife was shocked and immediately began to question Ricky. “Ricky!” She gasped, “What in the world are you doing? Stop that” His wife bent down next to him while Ricky kept digging “ If this is all true that pin will be right here and I am going to find it. The worst thing will be a bit of dirt taken out that I will just shovel back in. I am going to dig down about a foot”

Ricky didn’t have to go the whole foot, about 10 inches down he found it. A very antique looking pin, just lying there in the dirt, right where he predicted it would be during his regression. Ricky and his wife just stood there looking at the old dirty pin in Ricky’s hand and at each other.

Ricky keeps this pin in a box on his dresser in his bedroom. His wife does not feel right wearing it, they just hold on to it. Ricky’s adventure has been a life changing one. I have to say Ricky’s adventure has given me cause to think as well. I will never doubt those odd feelings I have been to a place before or recall a sight or smell I have never known before. I will however consider I simply was there at another time in a different life.

Ricky understands now why he has always had a obsession with keeping his hands clean. He also always feels as if his hands are dirty when they are not. Without question a carry over from the printers stained fingers.

Ricky is known to be overly concerned about crossing the street, in fact Ricky has been known to have pulled a few to safety who stepped into the road in a dangerous fashion. It all now seems to make sense to Ricky.

Thinking about this story made me realize why in my own life I fear height so much or recall the smell of wood burning in a fireplace as second nature when I have a gas fireplace in my home!

The picture of the pin above is the actual pin Ricky dug up that day!