Old souls (being one, knowing one)

@Animus Yes, but what’s any of this got to do with the soul? It’s all about the self, the earthly, dense, physical self.

If u mean reincarnation,I know some people who lived before and still remember things about their past life ,some of them even met their old families..I believe that most of us have live before but only few people remember their past life…one thing I noticed about all those people is that they all died in a tragic way ..

@ Animus. The soul is part of the body yet it doesn’t die when the body dies? Interesting.
The power of our brains shouldn’t be underestimated. They are the most complicated thing in our known universe. We aren’t dumb creatures with souls. We are transcendentally intelligent creatures who have lost touch with ourselves by externalizing the source of our being into such things as a God or the soul. Either that or we have adopted an atheistic worldview, and for some reason retain that we know exactly what we are and what’s possible by looking at the systems around us, all the while ignoring the possibility that we are way off. These are both plagues caused by limited human perception.
Don’t develop bias toward your beliefs people. Always challenge your own mold; you stop growing if you stop doing so.

people always say that the eyes are the window to our soul… well my eyes are very weird and I have been told that’s because I have a old soul. like @Rutger I always feel an urge to help people, even strangers. I know I’m not smarter then other people but maybe in some ways I know how to handle things without the knowledge… I know it sounds strange but its like a automatic reaction or something.
to those whom want to know what I meant with weird eyes… its very hard to explain. some people are scared of me when they look at me, others go in total trance (no I’m not a hypnosis guru) and someone even told me I burned holes in his soul with my eyes (not as a compliment, the guy was freaking out). my eyes lit up during the night times and during the day they have this deepness you can get lost in, yeah I looked in the mirror to see for myself and notice it is all true. its nothing I can turn of or on.. this has been since I was born. don’t know bout other lives but I am working on spiritual awakening so hopefully that will give me some info about my past.

I tend to agree that the “old soul” thing is just an illusion.

It’s a very convincing illusion, but an illusion nonetheless.

You can feel like you know someone so well, even if you just met them. Everything about them seems to “make sense”. I used to think it had something to do with reincarnation/spiritual knowledge, but now I think it’s just different levels of self-awareness. I tend to associate high levels of self-awareness with a certain sort of timelessness. High levels of self-awareness with some cynicism makes me think of older people.

I think it also has to do with the goals you choose for yourself. If you pick silly things to chase after, it makes you seem young and inexperienced.