Shirley MacLaine: I Can Remember A Past Life In Atlantis | TODAY

we're joined now by an Oscar winner Shirley MacLaine she's out with a new book about her experience shooting a recent movie and what she learned in the process it's called above the line my Wild Oats adventure Shirley MacLaine good morning good to see you really not it's been a while have you been in very good yeah learning to live with growing older a very interesting experience you look great though by the way can I just say that oh thank you no no stuff done no I think I lost 10 pounds you giant movie did you this experience was it first of all most of the time an actor and actress comes here they come to promote the movie this movie is not out yet it hasn't been released but the experience of shooting it was so interesting to you and consequential you wrote a book about it yes why okay we were doing the movie really for nothing you know how independent filmmaking is now right it's a it's a real exercise on how you react to materialism we deferred our salaries we got paid something and then deferred the rest so that the bond company would give us an OK to begin and then it all started happening these experiences your agent didn't want you to do the move nobody did it was shot on location in the Canary Islands what did you know about the Canary Islands before you got there I didn't know anything but as I was on Iberia Airlines going to do this movie I knew we had no budget for its imprimatur was the only flight that flies to the lost continent of Atlantis that uh I thought that's right up my alley I've known you for a long time so let me just bring people up to date here you are someone who truly believes you have lived past lies no question one of those past lives probably many in Atlanta Atlantis so when you got off the plane did it feel like going to any Airport or did something strike you struck me later but let me just say that you know when you get older the short term memory short term memory has its problems I've got incredible long-term memory now it's going not only to my childhood this time around it's going to other lifetimes a long time ago help me understand some never actually ask you this when when you start to have these ceilings or these thoughts connecting with a past life are they subtle moments or do they hit you like a brick with me it's subtle it's kind of emotional picture facts you know you felt this somewhere else by the way I've had past life experiences in damn near every country I've been to and you know I'm a gorilla love traveling love to travel new streets in India new temples in in Russia I can't even think of all the places that's why I travel so I was so interested in understanding Who I am what I come from it's very important to me to know that I have been other coats so there you are in the Canary Islands shooting this movie each day you didn't know if the movie could continue shooting the next day because the finances were so tough what did you learn and remember or feel about your past life in Atlantis while you were there well lots of things started happening not just to me but just together other cast members we'd be holding a glass and it would break we had trouble adjusting to the time change I went on a little trick at wanted on one of the mountains there turned around and there was this huge human about over eight feet tall golden looking at me I'm looking at him and I'm thinking this is what hit me I'm looking at another sense of time he is confused about where he is and I don't know what he is I'm not confused about where I am but I know he came from another time that happened to me when you connect with the past life surely is it comforting or can it be upsetting if it's a past life for which you were trying to balance your karma today you don't can be upsetting I mean if you killed somebody in a past life and you feel real guilty about loving them now you know does that ever happened yeah all that stuff has happened to the Part B of the interview that's that's a whole other interview before I let you go you're a news junkie yes you love keeping in touch with what's going on don't ask me about you know I was going to ask you about the election but the last thing I want to say is you don't like being called iconic or a legend and yet everyone refers to you that way well it's because I've lived a long time I've done a lot of stuff been recognized a lot of ways but I'm just basic well I might not be like everybody else but I'm I'm just happy being myself frankly don't want a lot of frills and bells and whistles like to be alone love to sit with my dogs as a regular person eat when I want to stuff everybody kind of really wants in their life and those are my same ambition that's the risk of upsetting you as we in this interview you are legendary and you are iconic and one of my favorite people to talk to he's Matt what a pleasure to see rific as always and she's gonna be back a little later with Kathie Lee and Hoda and again the book is called above the line 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Length: 5min 43sec (343 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 15 2016