Impetus for the collection of antique weapons

[drac2k]

I share your "connections to these artifacts," for the reasons that you stated and if you humor me I will add another one;a "common collective unconsciousness ," that we are all wired into, that links each and everyone of us.
Example:
I am the most difficult person to buy a present for;I will often l tell family members "don't worry about it, I don't need anything." This was unacceptable to my wife, who bless her heart keeps trying and so one year she purchased for me a psychic reading. I told her that I wasn't interested about hearing about the future, it would get here soon enough, but she was undaunted,and she told me it was a reading of past lives;my attitude changed, I thought this would be fun.
I met the psychic, an older woman who took my hand, looked me in the eyes and began to tell me about past lives; she didn't ask me a single question prior to her reading.I almost hit the floor, when she said she saw me surrounded by swords,and that in the 18th century, I was a famous Philippine sword maker.People would travel hundreds of miles to purchase my jeweled
weapons.
The reason why this surprised me was that for some reason, I have always been especially drawn to Indonesian and Philippine weapons and I don't know why, particularly since I am a fairly large white male of Northern Italian and Austrian heritage and prior to my collecting, no interaction with anyone from the Philippine community.