Seattle 4 Century 19
"Although telepathy is considered highly esoteric in Western cultures, it is both ordinary and essential for daily communication among Aborigines. Sometimes their use of it frightened me." – Patrick Walsh, Dreamtime Didgeridoos – Native Sounds from Australia’s Outback Dr. David Maynard / Dr. Wilson 
This match was based on memories and on Cynthia overhearing her brother speaking to a friend named Noah in his sleep, though Dr. Wilson has never had a friend named Noah in the current lifetime. A comparison of facial structure confirmed the intuition. The fact that like Dr. Wilson, Doc Maynard was a physician who enjoyed the outdoors, and that both applied for medical training in the city of Cleveland are among a few of the interesitng synchronicities in this match. Level D Catherine Maynard / Boris  This match was based on feelings of familiarity and friendship, and on the surprising sudden realization during a conversation that this was the same person. Despite a gender change between lifetimes, facial structure remains similar (note: the portrait was located approximately 1 year AFTER the reincarnation identification was made). Boris is talented software engineer and devoted father who enjoys soccer and the outdoors. He lives with his wife of many years and their two sons. This match is another example of a nationality and religion change between lifetimes. Level B
Catherine Maynard's Mother / Kathryn (past life photo unavailable) David Denny / John The match of this Seattle Pioneer to this present day Deputy Attorney General was based on recognition of this long time friend and Godfather of the author's daughter. Level D Emily Inez Denny / Bonnie
Orion O. Denny / Robert 
The match of these Seattle Pioneers to a current life couple was based on a dream and affectionate recognition of these long time friends. Level D In the 1880s an amateur, Emily Inez Denny, a member of one of Seattle's founding families, took the robust, monocular view of settlement in a painting of Smith's Cove, on Elliott Bay. The artist is standing in the middle of a stump field, where timber is being logged to make way for future development. (The space just behind her will turn, eventually, into a chain-link-fenced compound for imported Japanese cars, fresh out of their containers.) Beyond the field lie the already substantial accomplishments of Denny's ingenious, hardworking family and friends: a handsome homestead, with barns, outbuildings, and an orchard; ships, under steam and sail, in the harbor; a locomotive hauling a line of cars on the railroad, which is carried on trestles over the shallows at the north end of the bay; two horse-and-buggy outfits, heading into town down a southeast-trending lane. The sky is dominated by a roiling billow of steam, issuing from the impossibly tall smokestack of a mill somewhere over on Vashon Island, or beyond. Emily Denny's picture, with its proud detailing of modes of transportation, makes that most poignant of provincial boasts: we may seem to live miles from anywhere, but we are really very well connected. In that respect her painting is bang up-to-date 120 years later. www.theatlantic.com on Blazing the Way
"For magical thinkers, just imagining something can bring it about. But for the rest of us, there is the inconvenient need for a plausible chain of causal mechanisms before we can grant the likelihood of any given phenomenon." - Barry Beyerstein, Brain Behavior Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University Father Victor Garrand / Richard 
This match was based on affectionate recognition and synchronicities. Cyndy found the historical photo a few weeks after recognizing the name Victor. Rich, an accommplished computer engineer, is also a Shaman who has lived in the Amazon with indigineous tribes, a personal and corporate coach, an environmental activist, and a counselor for young individuals and groups. After presenting this match to Rich, he mentioned that a clairvoyant person had told him several years before that he had been a clergyman in a not so distant prior lifetime. Level D
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