Hello friends, I would like to introduce myself as a 23 year old male from a Southeast Asian country. Nice to hear about this forum, I have read it for 6 months and gained a lot of useful knowledge.
Six years ago, a spiritual teacher from my parents said that I am an old soul. I even laughed at this idea, because my life was so bad, and I kept thinking that an old soul would have an easy life because they had so many reincarnation experiences.
However, for the past 1 year, I have seriously researched this topic through many online sources. I have many traits that are quite similar to an old soul. For example, I sympathize with other people’s feelings, even if it’s a movie or a song it can make me cry. Or when I come across a poor person, I get overwhelmed without knowing why. I want to help them but I have no money. All my life I have struggled with depression, anxiety disorders, and personality disorders. Since childhood I have always been eccentric, unusual and often teased for being shy. I used to study hard and study well but fap and games have ruined me for the past 10 years, leading to unemployment and disorientation.Of course I have changed a lot as I grow up, but more and more I want to be alone to meditate. concentration and reading. Of course that was just the intention, since I still fap and games, smoking is like an addiction.
I have read many sources to determine the traits of old soul, but they are inconsistent, so I want to ask you how do you know if you are an old soul. Because I’m going through an existential crisis, where I don’t know what my purpose is to live. That’s why I thank you very much for any information you can share with me.
The article is long and translated by google, so thank you for reading it all.
You sir are an empath my friend, personally I’m the same. I get so energy sensitive I can feel peoples energy through them right away that’s why some places like school overwhelm me, I’m able to feel the negative energy surge from songs movies and tv shows. But it’s honestly also a really good feeling, what I did was be positive as I can and stopped doing bad habits such as masturbation, idk which field did it for me but I don’t even think about porn anymore or get any satisfaction of erection from it. Also my man be grateful, even though your depressed and anxious, there are people who are in need of food and shelter, who are starving and barely living yet they are more happy than us. Our world has became so materialistic and even I will admit to myself that I am that same way but I’m still young and living I wanna see myself as a full human potential. Life is gonna go like you want it go my guy
yes thank you for fast reply. I also think im an empath, because a sentence from a person can make me think a year (overthinking), and sometime it really hurt. I used to think it is because of shy personality, but when i grown up, i still feel the same, after serve our national army for 2 years. But the question is about old soul or not. BTW thank you so much!
I sadly can’t tell you about your own soul and if someone can, ask him to tell me something about mine lol
but the best and fastest way to find things out and get confirmation right now, I think, is Echoes of the Past, I saw something on it, some things I could explain, some not.
Either way with constant use you will get profound insights on your past life reincarnations and more.
Of course you have to meditate while playing it.
And what I think is, all these souls who know Sapien Medicine and want to learn truth, are old indeed, and powerful at that. Tho I may be wrong, but I think Captain Nemo took on a big big role in this life to provide us souls in search for truth and our “mission” to make a better world awesome tools man.
And of course helping in general all those people out there!
For purpose to live, and if you are ready to commit, you can buy the BPIL in life, read about it, and it may even tell you more about yourself. Depending on your path of course. But truth will come from within and meditation, control of mind and will will show you everything. Be willing to learn and evolve and many things await you.
I will tell u the truth that im curious. But there are different reasons: I wanna know my spiritual teacher is correct or not, and if i am an old soul, i will focus on fields that connect to my higher self, it also can gimme some motivation in life - at one of my darkest time…
You know man, even without having a old soul, connecting to the higher realms is always good lol
we all are fragment of gods consicousnes, that’s what our souls are. I advise you to get BPIL when the shop opens up.
We all are curious, but being curious won’t give us answers, I asked around and wanted to know “Oh man what is my soul and how old is it and where is it from and what it do and what it can and what does it like to eat and when do I can play mario cart with my higher self”
Nobody can tell you that, at least they couldn’t me, or didn’t want to, either way it’s not on them to show me MY truth, tho Insights from people help a lot.
If you seek truth and want freedom, enlightement is the key.
And here’s a good way to get started, it’s up on you to do the work.
To OP: I also understand that sometimes having a convenient and existing label to describe a collection of characteristics is helpful for some people. Maybe they can feel validated about something they’ve always known or felt, but needed confirmation from others. However there are good but also not so helpful aspects to building an identity around it.
I mean, me too, I got Echoes of the Past, so I can have some context. But I also tell myself it’s just a story. “True” or not, it has the same use to me as a fairytale. That is to say, there is some use, as stories can inspire and teach. But best not to get too attached to how “real” it is. I don’t think there’s a definitive yes or no, black and white answer to something like this anyway.
It’s like having a nice CV (your past) but displaying a different performance in your current position (your present). What’s on paper, however impressive your past accomplishments were, won’t be as important as the actual work you do right here right now.
Hi there,
I’ll say right away, I don’t recall which material I’ve read exactly, but roughly i think an old soul just represents this soul ideal that you have more wisdom, knowledge, insights, etc. So you can check yourself out and see if you regularly seem to recognize truths that are deep and meaningful to you and to the situation.
Then again, more important is what you do with this knowledge that you are an old soul (there are many ways)
Purpose to live is some sort of combination of what you genuinely enjoy, what touches your heart and what feels truly meaningful to you. These answers are very g general because they tend to be very personal.
