The Robin Hood Thing

In a recent post I mentioned some of my interactions with the famous Arthurian wizard Merlin, mentioning how when I first found out he was working with me as a Spirit Guide (and had worked with me through a number of lifetimes) one of my initial thoughts was, "Oh great!  It's the 'Robin Hood thing' all over again!"  I didn't go into detail about 'the Robin Hood thing' then because I wanted to stick to one tangent at a time, so I figured that now was probably a good time to explain.

It all started about 5 years ago with a simple question for Jeshua at a monthly channeling meeting...

Jeshua: Beloved songbird, how are you in this evening?

Patrick: I’m doing really good (Good) I didn’t come with a big dark private secret question or anything, but I got kind of a…I’ve been doing some research—I don’t know for how many years, but I was just wondering what you had to say about Robin Hood.

Jeshua: (Laughing) Very good question. Well, I’ll tell you. I see Robin Hood right in front of me (Laughter) Strange that you should ask. Strange that you should be interested and do some research. Were you part of the merry band? (I could see that, yes) Yes, I could see that also, because it is true. Were you Robin Hood? (I don’t know if I’d go that far, but…) You can claim it (Are you serious?) Of course I’m serious. When have you known me to joke? (Laughter)

Patrick: All the time. Wow, I wasn’t expecting that.

Jeshua: You were. It was a lifetime that you lived. It is a lifetime that you are somewhat emulating even in this lifetime. There is a kinship, a feeling of familiarity with it and a desire to return unto some of those times in a certain way, however it would fit in to these times.

Patrick: That’s why I want a little cabin in the woods and... (Yes, and to live off in the woods; to ride free) And that’s why I’m so into archery and everything like that (Oh, yes) Okay. Wow. I’ll have to process that for awhile, but thank you! (You will have fun with it)

And with that I was instantly inducted into the ranks of those who claim to be Cleopatra, King Arthur, or take your pick of any other famous historical figure, in a past life. Crap! What was I suppose to do with that?

Now had it been Cleopatra, or even King Arthur, I could have easily discounted it.  I don't  hold the same resonance with either of them and so would just dismiss it as something 'interesting' but not to expend much energy on. But Robin Hood?  Here was way too much resonance to ignore -- Not just the fact that I'd always loved archery (yes, always -- tho I had no idea where that came from), and similar things, but perhaps more significantly, the deep sense of honor and chivalry I held before I even had words for it.  There are many ways I have felt out of place in this century, and the last, and that I feel more comfortable in the Middle Ages than this current one, which is why I've been active in the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism -- a medieval recreationist group) for so many years.  It truly felt like a home-coming when I discovered such a group existed. 

And I could go on and on about similarities, synchronicities, etc, but my purpose here is not to convince you -- Just to give some background of why it makes sense to me.  And it's not just me. I remember my girlfriend at the time, who was at this particular Jeshua meeting, just nodded, saying that it made so much sense because I had such strong sense of justice.  And that has pretty much been the same reaction I've gotten from the friends with whom I've shared this little secret.  Someone will ask if I have knowledge of or memories from any past lives.  I lower my head sheepishly, and shyly reply, "...yes."  Inevitably they press for more info, so I tell them, and the inevitable response is, "That makes so much sense!"

So what does it all mean or how does it affect me?  Well, at some point in this quantum Universe where we are all one, the whole idea of past lives breaks down because ultimately there is only one of us here, so we have been everyone and everything that has ever existed.  So from that standpoint, everyone was Robin Hood in a past life.

Then, making it a bit less ethereal, time is an illusion, so all our past, present, and future lives, are happening simultaneously with a give and take, back and forth so that whatever you do ripples backward and forward in time, affecting all your various lives. The best book I have ever found to explain this is The Education of Oversoul 7 by Jane Roberts (medium and author of the Seth books).

But to bring it down to it's simplest, I really think of it in terms of resonance, as I've already mentioned.  It's more a matter of who I am at my essence resonates deeply with the Robin Hood mythos.  Am I Robin Hood?  No.  I am Patrick.  I am a 21st Century shamanic cartoonist, with my own lessons and my own path, with enough idiosyncrasies of my own to deal with without bringing someone else's into this lifetime.  I may have connections to, and ripples of influence from, a famous semi-mythical medieval man, but I am not him. 

My favorite way of thinking of it is what one friend told me.  It's not so much that I lived as Robin Hood, but that Robin Hood lives in me. 

Still, there are times when I'm in the woods somewhere when I feel all the errant parts of me fall back into place, and I have to catch my breath from the sheer magnificance of the scene because I recognize the timeless forest from between the worlds overlaying and underlying whatever trees I am standing amongst.  And for a moment I am home in Sherwood.