Planet Earth, Reincarnation, Karma and...Lillie Langtry?
By Summer Bacon
Opening Comments from January 2010 Open Session
Let’s see, Dr. Peebles puts me on the spot sometimes. So I sent out the announcement for this Open Session, and when I read it later, I thought, “Where did this come from?”
Quote: “Summer will talk on the subject of This School Called Planet Earth, and help make sense of reincarnation, karma and how you don’t have to fit the world in order to play with it.” Yeah, right…in less than ten minutes. I’m doing that today? Okay, why not? Sure.
Well, the belief system here in my heart is that we live on a school called Planet Earth, and everything that we do in everyday life, whether it’s standing in line at the grocery store, whether it’s dealing with major, major issues and struggles in our lives, whether it’s a romp through the forest or playing in the park, everything is a school. Every one of these experiences is a classroom where we’re learning something, and we’re constantly growing.
Dr. Peebles always tells us there are no mistakes, there’s only growth, and so the belief that I have from Dr. Peebles, which made sense of my life personally, is that we’re on this school called Planet Earth, very much the way that you would attend a university. You are all really courageous to even come here, because it’s suppose to be one of toughest schools in the Universe! Now, we come here to learn certain lessons just like you do in school. I majored in English Literature. I graduated from UCLA, and maybe you guys have degrees in other things. Or maybe you decided you didn’t want to go to school, and you wanted to do something else, do it differently, and learn your lessons someplace else, in a different type of a learning environment. It doesn’t have to be in a university environment.
So, you come to the school called Planet Earth, and then you go home for a while when you transition. When you leave this lifetime, and you go to the other side, it’s like going home for summer vacation. “Boy, I can kick up my feet, mom gives chicken soup, I’m fine!” Then you decide, “You know, I’ve got to get back to school. There’s a couple more things I want to learn.” You look at your watch, get back down there, and get busy again. So, that’s where I’m coming from in this spiritual study in my journey.
Dr. Peebles told me many years ago, through Thomas Jacobson (a fantastic trance medium who unfortunately no longer does the work), something about my life, and he said, “Right now you feel encumbered. You have felt encumbered for a long time, because of the seeking to know truth, and full concepts of truth, which is impossible, for truth is always more than what one can perceive: always. The Universe is in constant change, and it’s symbol is the spiral. So surrender to that journey to your heart instead of resisting it in subtle and beautiful ways, and that is where you will not know melancholy, you will simply know more friends than you’ve ever had, more lovers than you’ve ever had, more family than you’ve ever had. For, the life around you, observing you and experiencing your energy, will not feel a requirement to fit in order to play with you. Instead they can be with you, and not fit so to speak, you understand?”
Well I didn’t understand, but it made sense. His words struck something inside of me. I was twenty-eight years old. (I’ll be fifty this year.) I was absolutely terrified of my own shadow, I couldn’t talk to people, I couldn’t stand up in a group, let alone talk face to face comfortably with people. And, Dr. Peebles told me this, and part of my fear of people, as I learned, was because I was afraid that I was going to say something wrong, that I had to fit, that I had to be like these people, that I didn’t want to offend them by being myself. What I discovered is, by being myself, I now have this! I’m with you guys, I’m in this room, it’s a beautiful day, it’s a love filled journey: I couldn’t ask for more! And so in that…what he told me there…is my life changed dramatically, because I realized I just wanted to be me, and the more I became me, sure, people fell away from my life, but I didn’t really enjoy them anyway. And, in came these droves of people that are true friends. When he said, “more family than you’ve ever known…”—family? You guys are becoming family! Bev is family! Lorina is family! Bob is family! Tom back there is family! I have so much family! I have people in my life who truly would stop everything to help me if I needed help, and I know that.
It’s such a beautiful experience! And, what I’ve discovered is there are people who don’t agree with me, and don’t believe in what I believe in. I’m not here to sell anybody on anything. This is your journey not mine. What I’m doing here is, well, you get the by-product of what I do as a Trance Medium and my studies. If you believe it, that’s wonderful. If you don’t, that’s wonderful, because you know more about who you are. So you leave here using your own discretion, your own discernment about the things that are shared here, and you make your decision. That’s up to you, it’s not up to me to tell you to believe anything. So I’m just here to share.
And, I would have “more lovers” than I’ve ever had? When Dr. Peebles told me that, I was shocked! I was like a little prude. I wasn’t like one of these hussy’s in high school or anything, and I heard that and I thought, “Oh my God, no!” But, what happened was I got married four times to four very different sorts of people that I really didn’t fit with, but somehow, because of the way I was, being so natural in being myself, I was able to fit pretty much with anybody. Now, of course I’ve learned a little discernment there. Just because I can make myself comfortable in any experience or environment with pretty much anyone doesn’t mean I have to just go fall in love willy-nilly either. I can use discernment and discretion. But, I can be with people who are atheist, I can be with people who are evangelists, I can be with total skeptics. I can do that because I’m being myself, and somehow people feel that, and they tend to trust me, because I’m just hanging out with them, not judging them.
The reason I’m sharing this is, I had another lifetime on earth that I’m aware of and it was a lifetime as the actress Lillie Langtry. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of her. I did not know who she was, but, through Thomas, Dr. Peebles verified that I was her in a previous incarnation. He didn’t tell me I was her, but I wanted to verify if, what I had discovered for myself, was true.
Here’s how I found out that I had been Lillie Langtry. I was talking on the phone with a friend back in 1988. I was managing my parents’ recording, and talking to this friend, and she said something about the fact that often times the names that we like, or are attracted to, were probably names from another lifetime. We might have had them, or knew people who had those names, Oddly enough the two names that I was very attracted to were Emily and Charlotte. I named my oldest daughter Emily. I told my friend that those were the two names that I was really attracted to, but the one name that I really liked was Lillie. As I was saying this, I wrote the name Lillie—L-i-l-l-i-e—the way that Lillie spelled her name.
Now, I would never spell that name with an “i-e” at the end, because I didn’t like ie’s. I was a child of the 60’s and 70’s and everybody was changing the y’s in their names to ie’s, and I found that to be very annoying. So, when I spelled Lilly L-i-l-l-i-e, I looked at it and said to my friend, “Oh my God! I spelled Lilly with with an ‘i-e.’ I never do that!” She said, “Maybe you were Lillie Langtry.”
I said, “Who was that?”
She said, “I won’t tell you,” and suggested that I sit down quietly with Spirit, and ask who Lillie was, and whether I had been her. I wasn’t channeling at that point, but I was on a serious spiritual quest, and I sat down and I closed my eyes and I asked Spirit, “Spirit was I Lillie Langtry?” and the answered I received was, “Yes.” Okay, whatever. And then I asked, “Who was she?” And Spirit said something like, “Actress. The most beautiful woman in the world and deeply spiritual. Had a mystical experience that scared her to death, and that is why you came back to do the spiritual work you’re doing. Lillie had proclaimed that she would become the greatest trance medium to ever walk the planet earth.”
When I told my friend this, she said, “Actress? Yes. Most beautiful woman in the world? She was considered to be, yes. No on the spiritual stuff.” And I thought, “Well, oh, okay. Two out of three ain’t bad right?”
So I weny to the UCLA library, and I tried to find anything I could on the life of Lillie Langtry. I couldn’t find anything except for two pages here, two pages there. I had a stack of books two feet tall, and I was walking like this down into the basement of the UCLA library, and one book snapped right out and fell on the floor. So I do the typical woo-woo thing to do, and picked up the book and said, “That’s probably the book where I will find the information I am looking for?” And, by golly it was. (Funny thing, but that woo-woo thing works.” I looked in the back of the book, and looked up spirituality, and I find the word, “spiritualism.” I didn’t know what that was at that time. I opened the book to the two pages in the book dedicated to “spiritualism,” and lo and behold, I discovered quite an amazing thing.
Now, before I finish the story, as I’ve already said, Dr. Peebles told me that in this lifetime I’d have more friends, more lovers, and more family than I’ve ever known. I’ve worked very hard to be a better person in relationships; Lillie Langtree was not a good person in relationships. She used people a lot. She just ran roughshod over her husband, went out with lots of different men, was a total player, and it wasn’t a pretty picture. She was truly the antithesis of everything that I have wanted to be in this lifetime. She was supposed to be the most beautiful woman in the world, and men fell at her feet. I don’t think she was all that pretty frankly. But, interestingly enough, in the book that I found, called “The Prince and the Lily,” there is this one picture of her kind of in a cameo profile. When I was little I thought, “I loved cameos,” and I couldn’t wait to see my profile in the mirror, because I knew I was just going to be exquisitely beautiful. Mind you, I was only ten at the time. Well, I opened the medicine cabinet to look at my profile, mirror to mirror, and I screamed and cried. I have the “Bacon bump” on my nose. I used to say, “I have a Roman nose ‘cause it’s roamin’ all over the place.” To me, is was thiiissss big, it was huge, and it was just devastating to me. But, how perfect to come back from that narcissistic lifetime of Lillie Langtry, and have those very things that probably were my most prominent features (the ones she was very proud of) altered on me in this lifetime so that I would have to learn to fall in love with myself in a different way. It took me years, but today I don’t have as much of a problem with my profile as I did when I was ten years old.
So, here’s the end of the story, or maybe it’s just the beginning. I’ll read an excerpt to you from the two pages in the book:
“Lillie wrote to the handful of girls that she knew to join her in an experiment with table turning in the drawing room which had been built as an addition to the cramped low ceiling rooms of the house build by her father. As she expected, he raised no objection to her séance’s. At the girls’ first session she convinced herself that the table did indeed provide intelligent answers through the rappings that produced to her touch.”
Now, when I read this next part, remember that when I had asked Spirit about Lillie, they told me that she had claimed she would be the greatest trance medium to ever walk the earth. Imagine my surprise when I read these words: “ ‘I really was the cause [of the rappings],’ she assured the Dean. A fascinating feature might open up for her! She would be a Medium, acclaimed as a living international marvel, respected by men of reputation and scientific distinction as she conjured up the past and perhaps foretold the future!”
Isn’t that a trip? And, it continues:
“So, late one night when the three girls sat together in darkness on the sofa, she felt panic stir.” Remember I told you that she’d had an experience that scared her? “ ‘Moonlight gleamed through the windows,’ suddenly she related afterwards. She heard a weird rustling like the roaring of huge wings. The sofa moved sedately across the floor from one end of the room to the other. That could only be proof that she, as she chose, she could command the mysterious forces of the Universe. She would continue her experiments even if her friends were scared half out of their wits.”
So that was her scary experience, and that’s the end of my story on that. I truly believe that that was something that happened to me. I believe that was my lifetime, and that I came back in this lifetime. I’m not standing here because I’m enlightened. I’m just learning and growing like you guys are.
So I’m going to go into trance, Dr. Peebles will come through, he’s supposed to be talking about this vibrant new energy coming to the earth…
[Note: At the January Open Session, I forgot to tell an even more remarkable part to the story of Lillie Langtry. Remember what my friend said about the names we are attracted to, possibly being names we remember from another lifetime? My names were Emily, Charlotte, and Lillie. Well, it turns out that Lillie’s birth name was Emily Charlotte LeBreton. And, on an even wilder note, my Grandmother Bacon’s maiden name was Britton. The Britton family was originally known in France as LeBreton. Hmm. As Dr. Peebles would say, “How do you like them apples?” I’m sure this is “just the tip of the iceberg.”]