A medium’s recent experience with a Mayan mother — I’m not sure if I connected or recalled a past life.

Content warning: Historical mentions of child sacrifice, grief.

Hi everyone, I’m sharing this because I need to get it off my chest and I’m hoping for perspective, validation, or simply to feel less alone.

I’m a medium and have had this gift since childhood, though I didn’t learn how to use it properly until my twenties. I’ve had experiences before where I’ve “connected” with people/energies and sometimes I wonder if those were actual connections, memories, or something like past-life impressions. I’ve never fully come to a conclusion about any of them.

Last week I had an experience that felt especially vivid and raw. I encountered (or recalled a past life) a woman connected to the Mayan culture. What she, or the memory, said stuck with me: “I haven’t thought about my boys in a millennium, and I hope I don’t have to think about them for another.” I even had to look up the length of a millennium to make sure I understood what I was hearing, because it felt so precise.

The experience felt incredibly real. I felt deep sorrow and grief; I cried for a long time. I also had very specific details come through: the boys were six years old when they were sacrificed, and they were twins. I even saw a flash back memory in video form of them running ahead of me playing and laughing( I cried writting that memory recall which makes me strongly think this is a past life recall).Because it felt odd to me, I researched Mayan practices (I didn’t previously know the specifics of young boys occurred), and I found historical accounts showing that child sacrifice did occur in some Mayan contexts, including instances where young boys were involved. They were all recently found in h last few years in an old water cavern like area. There were reports of sacrificed twins in the archaeological record I read where those sacrifices were found.

I don’t know what to make of this. Was I connecting to a spirit who wanted me to understand her pain? Was I experiencing a past life memory? Or something else entirely? The emotion was so strong that it’s stayed with me. This story continues to stay with me. Sharing this feels like a way to process it and maybe learn from anyone who’s experienced something similar.

If you’ve had experiences like this, especially feelings so intense they leave you physically shaken, I’d love to hear what you think. How do you differentiate between a connection and a past-life memory? How do you process and ground yourself after something that powerful?

Thanks for reading. I appreciate any thoughtful responses.