Reincarnation Research
This body of work explores the possibility that identity extends beyond a single lifetime, examining recurring patterns across time through artistic research, intuitive inquiry, and symbolic analysis. It exists as both a research practice and a metaphysical art project, engaging questions of continuity, memory, and perception.
Drawing on an evolving dataset of more than 260 case studies, the project investigates perceived correspondences between contemporary individuals and historical figures. Reincarnation functions here not as an established fact, but as a framework for inquiry through which recurring traits, roles, relationships, and life themes can be explored.
While inspired by diverse philosophical, religious, and esoteric traditions surrounding reincarnation, the project does not seek to prove or disprove any particular worldview. Instead, it approaches reincarnation as a lens through which questions of identity, continuity, memory, and creative inheritance can be explored.
The process combines intuitive practice with historical research, symbolic interpretation, karmic astrology, and pattern analysis to explore possible continuities across lives and cultures.
At its core lies the hypothesis that identity may leave traces—visible in behaviour, creative expression, relational dynamics, recurring symbolism, and sometimes even physical resemblance. As these observations accumulate, broader constellations of relationships begin to emerge.
The interactive constellation (which can be found here) forms a central element of the project, mapping relationships between historical figures while inviting visitors to explore how identities, influences, and recurring dynamics appear to cluster across history.
This work functions as an evolving system, continuously expanding through new data, connections, and interpretations. Alongside this, the projects below translate these patterns into different forms, from case studies and lectures to articles and readings, each offering a different entry point into the same underlying structure.
The Soul Constellation Map is an evolving interactive archive exploring how identities, relationships, archetypes, and cultural dynamics may reappear across different historical eras. The project emerged through years of individual case studies exploring recurring identities, relationships, and symbolic patterns. Each case gradually expanded into broader historical research, tracing connected figures, cultural contexts, archetypal motifs, and […]
Lineage, Continuity, and Myth-Making at a Cultural Threshold Presented as part of the Vision Lab Salon Series (February 2026), organized by Vision Lab — an interdisciplinary arts and research collective originally founded at Harvard Divinity School. “Lineage, Continuity, and Myth-Making at a Cultural Threshold” is a hybrid lecture-performance by Stephanie Smit (Giek), founder of Reality […]
Decoding the Past | Artistic Reincarnation Research Lecture Lecture development initiated at Aetheria Residency, Crete (May 2025) — premiered at Occulture Conference Berlin 2025. “Decoding the Past” is an artistic reincarnation research lecture by Stephanie Smit (Giek), founder of Reality Cult. The lecture explores soul continuity, cultural memory, symbolic identity, and the transmission of esoteric […]
Exploring Soul Echoes Through Time Over the years, I’ve conducted more than 250 past life readings (each taking approximately 2–3 hours), working with a wide range of individuals, often talented people. These sessions form a deeply intuitive and layered research process, combining symbolic perception, pattern recognition, and energetic sensing to trace recurring lifetimes, archetypes, and […]
Were You Jim Morrison in a Past Life? Why do so many people believe they were Jim Morrison? Across dreams, psychedelic experiences, online forums, intuitive memories, tarot readings, hypnosis sessions, and spiritual communities, the figure of Jim Morrison repeatedly reappears — not only as a musician, but as a myth, projection, archetype, and symbolic identity. […]
In my ongoing reincarnation research, one theme keeps surfacing again and again: the way gifts, talents, and creative callings ripple through time. Just as faces carry echoes of where a soul has been before (see the Facial & Soul Recognition page), and just as lives sometimes overlap or interweave in complex patterns (explored further on […]
🜂 RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS — REINCARNATION, MEMORY & IDENTITY I am building an ongoing body of research through writing—exploring reincarnation, memory and identity across time. This collection of articles explores reincarnation research from both an artistic and investigative perspective, focusing on past life memory, collective identity and recurring patterns across lifetimes. These texts move between […]
POPE FELIX V → LEONARDO DA VINCI The transition from ecclesiastical authority and institutional spirituality into Leonardo da Vinci marks a profound karmic shift away from governing divine systems externally toward directly studying the intelligence embedded within reality itself — transforming spiritual authority into visionary observation, artistic embodiment, and the pursuit of experiential truth. Leonardo […]
CARDINAL LOUIS ALEMAN -> ISABELLA D’ESTE Isabella d’Este’s chart carries extraordinarily strong signatures of cultural influence, political intelligence, artistic patronage, spiritual continuity, and karmic responsibility connected to institutions of power, intellectual preservation, and collective refinement. The chart is remarkably dense with interlocking grand trines, kites, oppositions, and tension configurations, suggesting a soul operating at the […]
Layered Lives, Walk-Ins & Overlapping Incarnations Time is not a line. And identity is not a single mask. In my past life research — through over 250+ readings and energetic transmissions — I’ve encountered something that breaks the usual rules: bodies who died later while already being reincarnated (check out examples in my research below). […]
Tracing Reincarnation Through Astrology: Morrison and Giek This analysis explores the astrological continuity between Jim Morrison and the artist known as Giek, who may be his reincarnation. Through the lens of karmic astrology, it investigates the parallels between their birth charts, uncovering soul-level patterns that stretch across lifetimes. The focus lies on planetary signatures, nodal […]
A note on my current Past Life Research method The videos below offer examples of earlier Past Life Readings. Since these were recorded, my method and the structure of the research have evolved significantly. My current process begins with an in-depth questionnaire about your life, experiences, relationships, recurring patterns, wounds, interests and intuitive resonances. I […]
While astrology alone cannot prove that Johann Sebastian Bach reincarnated as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, when combined with psychic insights from the Akashic Records and a deep past life reading I conducted, it presents a compelling case. This discovery arose through a deep intuitive connection, striking me with poetic irony given Goethe’s crucial […]
Through my personal research, guided by my psychic abilities and access to the Akashic Records, I have discovered something profound: John Dee might very well be the reincarnation of Leonardo da Vinci. This revelation came not through conventional methods but through intuitive insights and the deep connection I hold with the spiritual realms. I have […]