Reincarnation is most often associated with eastern (mysticism and religions) of Asia. However, some people of Christian faiths have their own stories of (rebirth) to tell. One British woman started to question her protestant (upbringing) after becoming convinced, she had lived before. From a very young age, Jenny Cockell says she was (plagued with) visions of her death. They would come to her at night as she slept, the feelings often (lingered on) to haunt her during the day. These were not visions of a future death, but one (in the recent past). Jenny was born in 1953 in southern England. (On the surface), her life was like any other child’s in the village of St. Albans; but underneath, Jenny's life was different. “When I was a child, I would think about my previous adulthood to my previous childhood. And as I was growing up, they didn't (seem incongruous in) anyway, it was just (ordinary memory), and it was just a normal part of my life. Until of course, I realized that other people did not have quite the same experiences.” What Jenny (remembered with) precise detail was the life of a young Catholic woman named Mary, who (struggled to raise eight children) in Ireland.”
“I knew it’s the turn of the century up until the 1930s, and it wasn’t, you would think it would be from historic cues looking at the costume, the dress, perhaps the lifestyle. It wasn’t. I just knew. Yes, though as I looking back at it, (the whole historic cues) were there, but I would not, as a small child, I wouldn’t have recognized them anyway.” Her most vivid memories, she says, were of Mary’s death, the images (played in her mind like a movie on a large screen). She saw a stark hospital room, a simple window. “I remember seeing the body on the bed in the room, not wanting to leave. I just wake up often at that point, when I left the body. Ur, night after night, and wake up in tears, because I knew I couldn't change it. I knew it had happened.” Jenny's mother didn’t know what made her five-year-old daughter cry at night. Her first clue came after Jenny attended Sunday School for the first time.
Vocabulary:
protestant: n. 新教, 新教徒adj. 新教的, 新教徒的
plague: to cause pain, suffering, or trouble to someone, especially for a long period of time He was plagued by eye troubles.
stark: desolate and bare; grim; cheerless The landscape was grey and stark
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