New Project Explores Why So Many Believe They Were Jim Morrison in a Past Life
A new reincarnation research project is raising questions both mystical and satirical. Why do so many people believe they were Jim Morrison in a past life?
Launching this week, IWasJimMorrison.com is a project by Reality Cult that blends soul research, astrology, and intuitive channeling with a wink toward cultural myth-making. At its core lies a curious phenomenon, across forums, spiritual circles, and dreams, many individuals have reported memories, visions, or intuitive feelings that they were once The Doors’ frontman.
“This project began as a curiosity,” explains artist and reincarnation researcher Stephanie Smit (aka Giek). “Over the years, I’ve uncovered more than 250 past lives, including 22 of my own. My research so far suggests reincarnation is linear, one soul, lifetime after lifetime. But then comes the puzzle, how can so many people sincerely feel they were Jim Morrison? IWasJimMorrison.com is my way of exploring whether these are literal past-life memories, fragments of a soul, or echoes of a larger myth that keeps rippling through culture.”
Key research questions
The site investigates themes such as:
Can a soul truly split across multiple people, or only move linearly from life to life?
Do birth charts carry karmic patterns that confirm intuitive past-life memories, talents, and recurring emotional or behavioral themes that echo across lifetimes?
Are people recalling an actual incarnation, or tapping into Jim Morrison as an archetype of rebellion and mysticism?
Could fragments of Morrison’s essence echo through others, as soulmates, karmic threads, or symbolic memory, or are they tuning into a universal consciousness where his myth still vibrates and evolves?
About the method
IWasJimMorrison.com combines Hermetic tools (tarot, intuitive channeling), karmic astrology (birth-chart comparisons), and cultural analysis to track possible reincarnation echoes.
Participants are invited to submit their birth data and intuitive impressions, anonymously if preferred, which may contribute to future publications, installations, or collaborative research.
This intuitive framework also resonates with emerging scientific perspectives on memory and identity. For instance, biologist Michael Levin’s recent preprint, Ingressing Minds: Causal Patterns Beyond Genetics and Environment in Natural, Synthetic, and Hybrid Embodiments (2025), proposes that aspects of cognition, memory, and talent may ingress from fields beyond DNA and environment. Though still speculative, Levin’s model opens space for understanding how information could move across lifetimes or embodiments, an idea that aligns with Reality Cult’s exploration of the “soul field” through reincarnation mapping and karmic astrology.
About the project
The idea of gathering data from people who believe they were the same soul was first sparked by one of Smit’s collaborators, the founder of Black Sky Society. Building on that initial impulse, Smit developed the comparative birth-chart analysis method to trace karmic patterns between claimed incarnations. Now co-leading Black Sky Society, she continues to evolve this inquiry into a more structured research practice, using standardized intake forms, anonymized participant case files, and collaborative datasets shared within the collective for comparative study, while Reality Cult remains the creative foundation where her mystical, artistic, and performative methods take form.
Smit’s broader writings on reincarnation and cultural memory are published through her articles at Brainz Magazine.
Availability
IWasJimMorrison.com is now live. To learn more or participate in the project, visit here.
About Reality Cult
Reality Cult is an independent art and research platform founded by artist and reincarnation researcher Stephanie Smit (Giek). It explores reincarnation, karmic astrology, and the evolution of consciousness through experimental performance, visual storytelling, and exploratory soul research. Bridging mysticism and method, Reality Cult seeks to illuminate the hidden mechanics of memory, creativity, and identity across lifetimes.
Media contact
Stephanie Smit (Giek)
Artist, Mystic & Reincarnation Researcher
