My Name Is Isobel - A Past Life Experience

In early 2005 I began having "dreams" that were complete, story driven and made sense. Not the usual type of disjointed dreams humans normally have. These dreams told the story of a young girl who lived in a castle in Scotland many years ago.

The first dream repeated several times. The young girl is in her nightgown huddled next to a large wardrobe in her bedroom. It is in the early morning hours when the castle is usually still sleeping. The fire in the young girl's room is almost out and she notices that her servant girl
is missing from the room.

The girl listens as an attack against her castle is being carried about by the British. She could hear shots, banging and her family and servants screaming. The girl was praying that someone would save her when her bedroom door was thrown open and a man on horse rode into the room.

This castle had at least two floors. The hall below and two staircases on either side of the hall leading to the bedrooms upstairs. The man, wearing chain mail had rode his horse up the stairs and into the room of the girl. The man gestured towards the girl with his hand and yelled at her to come.  He pulled her onto the back of his horse and began forcing the horse down the stairs and out through the double outside doors that were open. They made a desperate dash for freedom through the woods and up some hills or mountains. During their get-away the girl was shot through her left side and the musket ball went through her into the knight. She suffered scratches and there was much blood.

When I woke up from these dreams I was scratched, bruised and bloodied. 

I continued to have this dream and several others that told me much about the future of the girl. I was exhausted and terrified by these dreams. I sought out a past life regression specialist and after several weeks found someone locally. I made my first appointment and had my regression and I went straight into the life of this young girl.

The first thing I said was "My name is Isobel" and this is the story of what to her.

Isobel lived in Scotland hundreds of years ago at a time when guns were being used for warfare in addition to cannons and swords. Isobel is a happy girl and her family is loving. Isabel has particular quirk for a girl of her time. She does not want to marry. Her mother has had several horribly painful and difficult pregnancies and labor. Isabel has sworn that no man will put her through that. She speaks with her mother and father about this desire and eventually they give in. They are more indulgent than most parents and they remind themselves that they have several other lovely daughters who surely will want to marry well.

Isobel is about seventeen when this unanticipated attack occurred in the middle of the night during a snowfall. After being rescued by the English knight named Gerard they make their way to a village some miles away and manage to evade their pursuers. They take refuge with a couple who have a small son. Their accommodations are much poorer than Isobel is used to but she is so grateful to be alive that she says nothing. In the village she and Gerard are treated for their wounds, fed and rested. Isobel stays in the cottage while Gerard and several men from the village go back to the castle to look for survivors. They return at some point with a few cousins and soldiers that survived and they are given shelter in the village. Isobel and Gerard actually share a pallet on the floor when sleeping and it is apparent that Isobel knows Gerard well.

Once the survivors are able to travel they leave the village to return to the castle to salvage what they can. Isobel is given a moment alone in the castle, some of the roof has been burned away and the sun is shining into the great hall. Isobel dances in the light, twirling with relief at being  alive and at the same time feeling guilty. She is able to retrieve some clothing and shoes.... enough to get her to Edinburgh where she will live with her Aunt Isabella and her Aunt's three small daughters.