Shakespeare The Bard of Old and the Bard Renewed Shakespeare
To many, William Shakespeare is the world's greatest playwright. Shakespeare has achieved immortality through his works. We all, though, are immortal as souls and as recent reincarnation research has demonstrated, we can reincarnate very quickly, even within a year after the time of death (please refer to the cases of Suzanne Ghanem, Daniel Jurdi and Barbro Karlen/Anne Frank). As such, we would expect that William Shakespeare has had several lifetimes since his sixteenth century incarnation. In Born Again, the most recent lifetime of the bard is explored. Two incarnations of Shakespeare in preceding eras have also been identified through the work that Kevin Ryerson and I have been doing. These four incarnations of the soul of Shakespeare will provide a wealth of material for literary scholars in the future. For more information on cases solved through Kevin Ryerson, please review the following page on this site: http://www.johnadams.net/cases/samples/Walsch/index.html
Who was Shakespeare? Shakespeare's birth date is unknown, but records show that he was baptized in 1564, which most presume to be his year of birth. William was the son of John and Mary Arden Shakespeare. John, his father, was a prominent town official of Stratford, a municipality a hundred miles northwest of London.
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William grew up in Stratford, though little is known about his childhood. It is thought that he was educated only through grammar school. When William Shakespeare was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway, who was eight years older than he and already pregnant with a child. Their daughter, Susanna Anne, was born several months later in 1583. Twins, a boy Hamnet and a girl Judith, were born to the couple in 1592. Hamnet died of an illness at the age of eleven.
In 1592, Shakespeare received an infamous and historic insult from the writer Robert Greene, who called Shakespeare "an upstart Crow,” unworthy to be considered as being in the same league as other accomplished playwrights of the time. This remark indicates that even by 1592, when Shakespeare was 28 years old, he was already drawing attention as a writer. In 1598, there is record of Shakespeare appearing as an actor. In addition to being a playwright and actor, Shakespeare was also a sharp businessman and became well to do. Having the means to pursue his career in the theatre, Shakespeare moved to London around the turn of the century. At this time, in 1600, Shakespeare was 36 years old.
In London, Shakespeare worked as an actor, writer and became a partner in an acting company known as The Lord Chamberlain's Men. When James I became the monarch of England in 1603, James became the sponsor of Shakespeare's company, which was now known as The King's Men. Shakespeare retired in 1611, producing his literary legacy from the early 1590's to 1611, roughly a period of twenty years. He died in 1616 at the age of 52. Shakespeare wrote his own epitaph:
Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear, To dig the dust enclosed here, Blest be the man that spares these stones, But cursed be he that moves my bones.
In contemporary times, William Shakespeare has been identified as the late August Wilson. Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare's spouse, reincarnated as Wilson's surviving wife, Constanza Romero. After his death in 2005, the Virginia Theatre on Broadway was renamed the August Wilson Theatre. August Wilson's plays often focused on what it was like to grow up African American at a time when the United States was segregated. Wilson's mother was African American and he grew up in a poor black neighborhood in Pittsburg.
Wilson was self educated. He spent so much time at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburg that the library gave him a bachelor's degree, the only degree it has ever awarded. This sheds light on one of the mysteries involving Shakespeare. Scholars have long wondered how Shakespeare acquired such a great fund of knowledge, as reflected in his works, when he never received any higher education. We now see that the soul of Shakespeare has a great capacity for self learning. Just as August Wilson made his second home the Carnegie Library, Shakespeare was self educated too.
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I once asked Ahtun Re, the spirit guide channeled through Kevin Ryerson, who has demonstrated the ability to make accurate past life matches, why the soul of Shakespeare chose to incarnate in such challenging circumstances, in a poor, single parent home in an economically deprived neighborhood of Pittsburg. Ahtun Re told me that the soul of Shakespeare felt that the story of African Americans living in segregated America had to told, and Shakespeare knew that he had the skills to tell that story.
More about the case of William Shakespeare/August Wilson can be found in Born Again. Other prominent theater and film personalities whose past lives are featured in Born Again include contemporary playwright David Mamet, UCLA Dean of the School of Theatre, Film and Television, Robert Rosen, actors Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise, and director Steven Spielberg.
