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An excellent example of reincarnation … is it true? His story is worth another look. You decide.

Retired Assistant Fire Chief Jeffrey Keene stumbled upon evidence he says suggests he was Civil War General John B. Gordon in a past life. Furthermore, Keene’s fire crew seem to strongly resemble men who fought under Gordon.

In 1991, Keene and his wife visited Sharpsburg, Md., to look at antiques. Keene felt compelled to visit the field nearby where the Civil War battle of Antietam was fought, explained by Dr. Walter Semiw  in an article outlining his work with Keene.

Semkiw received his medical degree at the University of Illinois–Chicago and trained in psychiatry at the University of Colorado–Denver. He is an expert on reincarnation with the Institute for the Integration of Science, Intuition and Spirit (IISIS). He posted his research on Keene on IISIS.net. 

Keene wandered along a portion of the battlefield known as the Sunken Road while his wife stayed in the car. He was inexplicably overcome with emotion. In addition to the overpowering emotions, he had trouble breathing and the whole experience made him wonder if he was having a heart attack.

It passed, and he walked back to the car mystified at what he had just experienced.

At a friend’s party, he talked to a psychic. She asked him if he believed in reincarnation and he told her about his experience. As they were talking, the words “Not yet,” appeared strongly in his mind and he was compelled to say them.

Later, he found a Civil War magazine in his home that he had bought but never read. With a new interest in the subject, he decided to flip through it, and as he skimmed the pages, the words “Not yet” in quotation marks jumped out at him.

The magazine article told the story of General Gordon, who had emphatically repeated “Not yet,” while holding his troops back—during the Battle of Antietam, along the Sunken Road.

Keene also recognized the face. It looked startlingly like his own.

As Keene researched Gordon’s life, he found that some of the soldiers who fought under Gordon looked remarkably like the men on his fire crew in Westport, Conn. He also discovered parallels between marks on his body and wounds Gordon had received, and between events in his life and Gordon’s life.

For example, on Keene’s 30th birthday, he felt an immense pain in his jaw and face and went to the hospital. The cause of the pain was never determined and it subsided in a little while. A documentary filmed by Sci-Fi obtained medical records corroborating Keene’s account of his visit to the hospital. Gordon was 30 years old when he was shot in the face. 

“I don’t worry too much about whether people think this happened to me,” he said in the documentary. “As far as I’m concerned, it’s proof to me.”

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Points of interest:

 http://www.ial.goldthread.com/keene.html

Birthmarks corresponding to John Gordon's battle scars:

Dr. Ian Stevenson has researched the apparent correspondence between birth marks and past-life physical traumas. Jeff Keene bears on his face three marks, not related to any physical trauma in this life that he can recall, which correspond in character and position to battle scars John Gordon carried. The position and shape is not an exact "overlay" match, but they are quite close. Both men had a star-shaped mark on their foreheads above the left eye, tilted slightly to the right side of the head.

 

According to one account, John Gordon received a grazing blow from musket fire on his forehead, which was not serious but bled profusely. Mr. Keene suggests that this mark on Gordon's forehead (image right) may have come from this incident. (Note the smaller star-shaped mark on Mr. Keene's forehead, image below, has a known history).

 

The most serious wound that Gordon received, at Antietam in the "Sunken Road" (where Keene had his spontaneous flashback experience), was a bullet that entered the left side of Gordon's face under the eye, and came out at his right cheek, tearing up that side of his face as it slowed down and emerged. Surgery repaired most of the damage, but scars remained on the right cheek (image bottom-right) and there was a pronounced hollow under Gordon's left eye (image top-right). In most photographs, he is turned so this side doesn't show, and in many photographs the scars on the right cheek are retouched. Mr. Keen bears marks, one of which looks like a long scar, on his right cheek (image bottom-left) for which he can remember no physical cause, more readily visible under certain lighting conditions. He also has a clearly visible flat or slightly sunken area under his left eye only (not his right) in exactly the same spot as Gordon's hollow.

  

Mr. Keene's case contains a number of fascinating coincidences. One of them is described in his book, "Someone Else's Yesterday," as follows:

"One night many years ago, after a union meeting at Fire Headquarters, my brother Jack, a co-worker Joe Valiante and myself went to the local V.F.W. We had a few drinks and left shortly after midnight. In the parking lot I started getting a pain in the right side of my jaw down my neck and out to my shoulder. The pain grew steadily worse; so much so that I told my brother to drive me to the hospital. Having been a medic, I knew the pain might be a sign of heart attack, even though I was not having chest pains. At the Norwalk Hospital emergency room they ran some tests, E.K.G.s and such and could find no cause. I remained there for an hour or so and the pain slowly subsided and then vanished altogether. I remember the date that this all happened...at the stroke of midnight it was September 9, 1977, my 30th birthday.

"With Gordon's fifth wound at Sharpsburg, the bullet entered just below his left eye, traveling through his face and exiting the right side almost severing the jugular vein. This is the same area where I had the pain. At the time Gordon was wounded at the Sunken Road, September 17, 1862, he was 30 years old."

Stephen Sakellarios
Producer, "In Another Life"