AboutSandra Sparks Expertise I can answer questions on reincarnation, personal past life research, famous past lives, and alternative memory theories (otherwise known as: if it's not reincarnation, what is it?) I DO NOT DO PSYCHIC READINGS - there is no quick answer to who you may have been in a past lifetime. But I can help you find the ways to uncover the past life memories you have within.
Experience I have written a workbook for past life recall called Going Past, which will be re-issued in an updated version in the near future. I run a discussion group called The Reincarnation Cafe, and a comprehensive website called The Reincarnation Compendium. I have just launched a youtube channel called Far Memory, http://www.youtube.com/farmemory which offers a selection of videos on past life recall.
Publications I have new books coming out within the next few months on Amazon.com: "Psychic Sensibility," which is coming out in June 2009, and "The Waterhouse Witch," which is an account of my own past life discoveries. For other writing, you will find the most pertinent examples on the internet, at the Reincarnation Compendium: http://home.earthlink.net/~reincarnationcafe, and at The Chip Coffey Message Board, for which I am the moderator: http://chipcoffey.proboards45.com/
Education/Credentials My work in reincarnation developed as I researched my own past lives, and discovered the best ways for conducting personal past life recall. I have been writing regards reincarnation and related matters since 1997, primarily on the internet.
Question "Ever since the death of actor Heath Ledger I have been fascinated with him, feelings of love, I cannot get him out of my mind. I never knew about him as an actor until his death then all of this started happening. I also have dreams of him. What do you think it is?"
Answer This is not a question about reincarnation, in your case, but I will answer it.
This is something many people go through when someone who is famous dies, or goes through something that transforms them in some way. It's called archetypal identification. There is something about Heath that touched you deeply when his death threw him into your attention, and the more you have learned about him, the more you identify with him.
Going through archetypal identification can help you realize things about yourself, but be careful: holding onto such an identification too hard, too much, and for too long can become an obsession that gets in the way of living your own life.
Please excuse this next part, to tie things in to reincarnation:
There are people who do identify strongly with someone in history who has died, then come to believe that he or she was that person in a former lifetime. This condition is most apparent in the multiple claims of having been a member of the Romanov family, a passenger on the Titanic, Marilyn Monroe, and others who have left a vivid mark on our collective consciousness. One of the ways I use to see if a person is going through archetypal identification, or is possibly remembering a past life, is how much detail is given in an account of that life. If there is a lot of detail, especially if that detail is straight out of books, or on the other hand can't be verified, it's archetypal identification. If the recall is in fragments, just small secens and pieces of things, but among those pieces are rare and unusual things that can only be verified by digging into records - then it is far more likely that person is remembering a former lifetime.
Back to your situation with Heath: his death also left me with a keen feeling of attachment to him, as did the death of Miranda Richardson, recently. No one wants to see a talented person, who has given so much and worked so hard, die. It is the ultimate frustration. If we identify frustrations in our lives with the tragedy, that identification can run very deep and strong.
On the other hand: the biggest archetypal identification going on at this moment, is not with someone who has died, but with someone who finally has a chance to live her own life to the fullest: the Scottish woman who is becoming a famous singer after a life in obscurity, Susan Boyle. I identify with her, personally, because much of our lives are like the other's. I am so happy for her I identify with her transforming moment, and it gives me hope.
I hope this has all made sense to you. Let me know if you have any other questions...
