QUESTION: I asked Michael Toth in a Michael chat about past lives in Paris (quoted below). Seems like a lot of lives in France! I almost don’t know what to ask about first – Revolution? I have always been drawn to Paris, can you give me some details about a resonant or significant one?

There are 7 of note and 18 lesser ones. You were present hundreds of years ago when Paris was a small village on the banks of the Seine. Again when the Romans came, as well as during some of the great ages France has known. This includes the Renaissance, the Revolution, under the Sun King as well. From forester to Regent, from washerwoman to lady-in-waiting to the Queen, and soldier to General. In certain other of the lives lived in and around Paris, there were lives where you were not from Paris, and in some circumstances not even French born and yet you chose to remain there once you arrived. This is a place that is familiar to you and yet unfamiliar as it has changed so much. There were 5 other lives of note lived in other parts of France.

FROM MICHAEL: Many of these lives do not have any particular resonance to the life that is lived today by this Personality known as "Martha." The most resonant would be one of a few concurrent lives in the late 1800s/early1900s in which your Essence rented a stable in a barn that acted as his home, so that he could pursue his painting as inspired by the growing appreciation for Picasso, an acquaintance at the time. The resonance we would see is the passion for "doing what needs to be done" as a means to fulfill creativity and expression.

(April MyMichael forum, 4/13/10)