Cinematic Karmic Aversion Syndrome

Ah..not CKAS…i get something more like CK’PLS’ – CK ‘Past Life Syndrome’….neither aversion/revulsion, more like recognition and an accompanying sense of enui about it..been there done that vibe. After all one one has lived through enough time and space you could chalk it up to having gotten around to most things at least once! Ah…though for me anything that has swords, horses and battle…. and bang….i am right back in the thick of it….and sometimes i swear it has a smell attrached to being transported into that what i can only presume is a ‘memory’ for the want of a better word…the horses, the men and the blood and other bits not worth mentioning. Not sure why or how the sense of smell thing happens but that I could definately develop an aversion to and live without that! Problem is it is not consistent….only rarely happens….so on the whole I am mainly like …meh!

Me too ! Cannot stand the Victorian era . Makes me feel claustrophobic.

The double standards and the poverty and all that taffeta.

I have a lot of stuff about Native American stuff. Not so much aversion as resonance. I had a meditation once where I saw a native ancestor, female. About a year later I was looking for something (love zombie-ing, I think) in an old email address and I came across an email from my now deceased uncle, a geneticist and genealogist about a Choctaw woman who married into our family, leaving her people, in the 1800s.

So that’s my explanation for that one. I call on her a lot.

Totes believe in past lives, though. Pretty sure I was murdered by a mob including a lot of people I thought were friends. Oh! And I was told my daughter and I spent a bunch of past lives in cross cultural exchanges among tribes in the Arctic, around the Bering Sea. So… sure, maybe. That resonates. (I mean, I try not to get too hung up on any particular story – I’ll remember it all when or if I need to, in this life or after. But as long as the stories feel useful, I’ll use them.)

But when I think about movies, other than an early resonance with everything featuring indigenous North American culture I’m mostly like “ugh, period movies are all so bad.” Just too Virgo to power through anachronisms. I mean, sometimes I’ll do it, but I don’t have to like it, lol.

Oh yes – never wanted to go to Germany due to WWII “other life” recollection. I don’t use the “past life” jargin due to my belief in non-linear time so this is my terminology. Of course Ancient Egypt EVERYTHING all the time since I was a wee tot, however.

I get mad at Egyptian-era stuff. There were other societies then. They didn’t write everything down.

Anything New England creeps me out.

Absolutely real for me – and I’ve always wondered why certain filmic eras made me want to go jump off a bridge. Industrial era, urban poor in the dank cold UK or US – technically overlapping alot with Victorian, but most of the Victorian era stuff doesn’t bother me nearly as much. I know my lineage goes back to English/Irish immigrants coming to the US in the mid 1500s, so I imagine there’s a bit of genetic memory there too. The American Colonial scenes make me freak out a bit, and I cant even handle the witch hunting stuff.
What’s so interesting is that I always interpreted these aversions to evidence that I had past lives *elsewhere* – as in, there’s no way that stuff could have been my heritage because it was so uncomfortable. I’m so much more drawn to ancient Egyptian scenes, for instance, or anywhere that looks hot and dry. It makes perfect sense that I was ALSO in those wretched dark factory alleys – stressed out indeed.