Do We Have Past Lives?

[Gazzali]

Hi there friends

Is there such a thing as past lives? How to proof there is such a thing? Any clues? Recently, I use this site and found that I have some aspiration that is connected to the reading. After college i really want to join as a seaman and I like european countries. See my reading below:

"I don't know how you feel about it, but you were male in your last earthly incarnation.You were born somewhere in the territory of modern Scotland around the year 1525. Your profession was that of a seaman, dealer, businessman or broker."

Type out your birth here

Is this a coincidence or what? But then if past lives are true I think the universe is fair for everyone. What do you think?

[Ryan6]

No one can ever be sure. I don't know how you feel about the whole dejavu thing? It would be great to think there is something, but it will surely remain one of lifes biggest mysteries.

[MiBeloved]

If you want to research your own past lives, the sure way to do so is through meditation.
When time permits, take a look at my recent book on the subject.*


*https://www.createspace.com/Customer....do?id=3380228


Amazon.com: Meditation Pictorial: Michael Beloved: Books

[aggie]

i did it and it kind of had a common thread with what i was told by a customer of mine once. she was involved with past life regression, who after being in my presence for a while said that we were nuns together many centuries ago....this is a subject that i have always been open to.

my ex husband was dead set against this whole concept. he claimed that it was memory from ancestors that people were experiencing, not the life itself

[MiBeloved]

my ex husband was dead set against this whole concept. he claimed that it was memory from ancestors that people were experiencing, not the life itself

That is why meditation, serious meditation is necessary, for then one can calibrate one's intuition and double check any hunches, visions or supernatural experiences.
It can be done but it requires some deep introspection and clarity of consciousness within the inner world.

[Ariel Bravy]

I've had a past life regression done, and I've spontaneously remembered one or two lives out of the blue.

They feel just as real as "this life" that is arising now. In fact, they're all being lived now. Y'know, time in an illusion and so on, and it's true. It's like you can insert your consciousness into various lives at various points in time, but they all exist now. It's almost like playing peek-a-boo with yourself.

There's a really fascinating book called Soul Survivor about a little kid who starts remembering his past life as a WW2 pilot in extreme detail. His dad is really skeptical, so they go and check out all the facts and find out he's bang on about everything.

Here's the family and the kid talking about it on the news:

YouTube - Soul Survivor - Reincarnated World War II pilot? (1)

[Rhythman]

Originally Posted by Ariel Bravy

They feel just as real as "this life" that is arising now. In fact, they're all being lived now. Y'know, time in an illusion and so on, and it's true. It's like you can insert your consciousness into various lives at various points in time, but they all exist now. It's almost like playing peek-a-boo with yourself.

Not following you here. Sure, time is an illusion...it is always now. However, there are people who were alive but are now dead. Their physical manifestation is no longer here.

thanks
Rhythman

[Ariel Bravy]

Take a hologram, like one of those dinosaur ones where when you move it side to side, you see it running and chomping its mouth.

When you move it around in your hand, it looks like it's moving. Does the dinosaur actually change in that process?

Does anything exist now that didn't exist before "in the past" or do all versions of the total holographic dinosaur exist right here, right now?

Has anything really happened other than awareness shifting to a different perspective, getting a new view of the totality?

[Rhythman]

Originally Posted by Ariel Bravy

Does anything exist now that didn't exist before "in the past" or do all versions of the total holographic dinosaur exist right here, right now?

From an absolute level, I agree with you. However, "my" memories and conditioning (what make up personality and could be called the person) did not existed until now. Take a blank sheet of paper...I write on it. Sure the pencil and paper already existed, but now the content of the paper has changed. Now I burn the paper. Where are the words on the paper?

Originally Posted by Ariel Bravy

Has anything really happened other than awareness shifting to a different perspective, getting a new view of the totality?

I can go along with this. I guess all this really depends on what you mean by "past life".

Rhythman

[Ariel Bravy]

Originally Posted by Rhythman

I can go along with this. I guess all this really depends on what you mean by "past life".

Yeah, it really does. From a linear time perspective, past life is a good term. From the perspective of eternity (which means NO time, by the way, not really really long time) everything is simply NOW. Thus, instead of calling them "past lives," it would be more accurate to call them "multiple simultaneous incarnations.

Originally Posted by Rhythman

From an absolute level, I agree with you. However, "my" memories and conditioning (what make up personality and could be called the person) did not existed until now.

They haven't yet existed as a manifest reality until now. Before "this moment," if you will, they simply existed as one of the infinite possible realities that all literally literally exist here and now.

The classic example is a film strip, and having awareness (or a tv screen or movie screen) only be able to "see" one frame at a time, yet they ALL exist right now.

The appearance is "creation happening," but what's really happening is simply shifts in awareness.

Originally Posted by Rhythman

Take a blank sheet of paper...I write on it. Sure the pencil and paper already existed, but now the content of the paper has changed. Now I burn the paper. Where are the words on the paper?

In an alternative parallel reality that is not currently manifest. So it has basically fallen back into the Unmanifest.

How to actually *jump back* to that reality and find out what was written, that's a cool question too.

It seems like part of this awakening of human consciousness is that we're first becoming aware of the fact that things like everything being now, us all being one, the law of attraction, the higher self, psychic powers, and all this other stuff... we're just now becoming aware of how much of this is actually available.

One of the next stages would be, "Okay, if this stuff is possible, even on a theoretical level if nothing else, then how do I actually USE it in a practical way?"

It seems like we're evolving by leaps and bounds, and yet taking baby steps along the way. Today we see people experimenting with the law of attraction, learning to listen to the higher self, getting enlightened, recognizing the illusory nature of time, and so on.

It's a sort of awakening and experimentation stage. "What happens if I do this? What happens if I try that? Let's find out!"

We may not consciously know yet how to actually DO everything yet and jump around from parallel realities consciously and whatnot, but we are slowly learning as we play around with this.

Bit by bit we are figuring it out.

[themaster]

Originally Posted by Rhythman

Not following you here. Sure, time is an illusion...it is always now. However, there are people who were alive but are now dead. Their physical manifestation is no longer here.

This is incorrect.. (least by my understanding) the people that are dead are still alive in the NOW.. there just no longer apart of this universe were in.. you know that joke that says elvis is alive.. well he still is.. same goes for michael jackson.. their all still alive.. it's just that there incarnation is not a part of the universe were currently sharing.. and damn there goes another universe

[Ariel Bravy]

Yeah, from what I understand about other civilizations who vibrate much higher than humanity, the distance between "alive" and "dead" is much smaller and so there's much less of a gap and separation between what we call life and death. Thus it's much easier to communicate with beings in other frequency realms.

Kinda like how it's be easier for water to relate to steam than for ice to relate to steam, despite they are all the same in essence, just at different vibrational levels.

I recently found out about a friend of mine who'd died of cancer. When I found out, I quietly connected to his energy and was immediately connected to an immense sense of radiant unconditional love, warmth, and well-being. I'll certainly admit that it's not as tangible as physical reality, for sure, but there still is a connection "across the gap" to a certain extent. <3

[Echo xing]

I always think if i did something bad in my past life so that i was punished in this life now...sounds crazy huh?
mmm..something it says very right on that website that..
''Your brief psychological profile in your past life:
Such people are always involved with all new. You have always loved changes, especially in art, music, cooking.''
i really love art though.
so i kinda belive that ei..

[Aleksander Krstic]

Perhaps PM Erin about it?

[Ilikedeadpeople]

Ive been reading a book called "Old Souls" by Tom Shroder. It investigates people who experience past lives, and not surprisingly, the focus is on people from cultures that embrace reincarnation as part of their religion. The greatest number of cases reviewed are from India. Its pretty fascinating- the person who believes to have lived past lives is openly accepted by the family of the person who has died and passed into the new bearer of the soul. I think this is common all over the world, but their religion is a catalyst that lets them embrace reincarnation faster than WASP Americans would.

Personally, Ive had 2 past lives and will have another, and they are getting closer together in years. I hope this indicates that I am raising my spiritual awareness.

[Rhythman]

Originally Posted by themaster

This is incorrect.. (least by my understanding) the people that are dead are still alive in the NOW.. there just no longer apart of this universe were in.. you know that joke that says elvis is alive.. well he still is.. same goes for michael jackson.. their all still alive.. it's just that there incarnation is not a part of the universe were currently sharing.. and damn there goes another universe

Interesting theory themaster. What do you base it on?

Thanks
Rhythman

[Ilikedeadpeople]

I agree with themaster- the dead are in a parallel universe, but they grow, think, develop like we do. My dead dad and I converse about things that are happening right now, and the topic changes, because he is still "alive". We make plans, then the plans change, we make different plans, we joke around, we make fun of other dead relatives, its as if he were right here. He didnt stop existing when his body quit.

[ethereal]

I'm still kind of confused about the whole time idea and simultaneous living through all your past lives.

Everything exists NOW in the Unmanifest, and all past lives exist simultaneously, but not everything exists in the Manifest. Do past lives exist NOW in the Manifest as well? Or when time "passes" the Manifest changes according to conditions and past lives do not exist anymore?

Another way of putting it... I've heard that Creation is continuous and the universe is expanding at the speed of light...does that mean Creation includes all of time up to now? Are past lives still "alive" in Creation or is Creation just the slice of the film that we are aware of now?

I guess what I mean is, is the Manifest a slice of the film or a roll of film that increases slice by slice?

[Rhythman]

Originally Posted by ethereal

I guess what I mean is, is the Manifest a slice of the film or a roll of film that increases slice by slice?

The Manifest being like a "slice of film" fits well with the scientific theory that matter cannot be created or destroyed.

Rhythman

[themaster]

Originally Posted by Rhythman

Interesting theory themaster. What do you base it on?

It's not my theory.. it's my teacher’s theory.. I choose to accept it as fact..

Time is a illusion if you could accept that fact/idea then you would understand everything is right now.. even though we have the illusion of time/pacing seconds/hours/minutes/days/weeks/decades.. they are all just ONE MOMENT

[Gazzali]

Originally Posted by ethereal

I guess what I mean is, is the Manifest a slice of the film or a roll of film that increases slice by slice?

A good proposition. I think it is a slice and part of the entire film. Once gone is not gone for good as the entity is in everyone's memory. If the universe is created from one 'spot' it is logical we all came from the same spot. As it expands we expand as individuals. When we are gone from this physics, our physical 'self' is permanent. The 'self' is permeable to any entity where it is allowed. Science has yet to proof this.

[Hyperchiller]

There are some amazing cases. Check out Youtube.

Even if it was real - which I believe they are, what's important is what you do in this life.

[simpo]

I strongly believe in past lives. However, I beleive that in each individual lives, the individual is different.

[Indy107]

I just found the Youtube videos of Soul Survivor: The Reincarnation of a WWII Pilot last week. This is an amazing story, based right here in America. That led me to read Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian Weiss. I read the entire book in a day, which I usually don't do any more - but I simply could not put it down.

If you're really interested, or questioning the existence of past lives / reincarnation - check these out. They will make you think.

[frajilthunder]

For some of the best evidence of reincarnation, google Dr Ian Stevenson. He devoted his professional life to the study of reincarnation and has ammassed hundreds of cases. Some of the more compelling are of children who have birthmarks that correspond to the fatal wounds of the person they claim to have been in past life.

[Ilikedeadpeople]

Thunder-
Yes, Stevenson is the guy who I was talking about above when I mentioned this book.

Ive been reading a book called "Old Souls" by Tom Shroder. It investigates people who experience past lives, and not surprisingly, the focus is on people from cultures that embrace reincarnation as part of their religion. The greatest number of cases reviewed are from India. Its pretty fascinating- the person who believes to have lived past lives is openly accepted by the family of the person who has died and passed into the new bearer of the soul. I think this is common all over the world, but their religion is a catalyst that lets them embrace reincarnation faster than WASP Americans would.

[Ilikedeadpeople]

YouTube - Dr. Brian Weiss Pt.1

Heres a link to a you tube 11-part interview between Art Bell and David Weiss about present, past and future lives. Weiss is a psychiatrist who stumbled upon past lives during hypnosis and then pursued the topic.

[Mogget]

I do Past Life regressions through hypnosis - personally i think Past Lives are a really useful metaphor and can be pwerful tools for healing and for learning... but do I BELIEVE in them... no. I don;t need to, I get all the use I need form them without having to believe they are true.

[Ilikedeadpeople]

Mogget- Thats interesting- what about past lives makes you say, "no way."?

[Mogget]

Originally Posted by Ilikedeadpeople

Mogget- Thats interesting- what about past lives makes you say, "no way."?

Nothing about them makes me say "no way" ... it is one of those areas where I neither believe nor disbelieve because to me it has no relevance on this life: whether or not it is 'true" or merely a useful metaphor doesn't change how I feel or how I live... I hope that makes sense? Like whether or not bigfoot is true - interesting? yes - important to me personally? no.

With Past Lives I find I can get all the useful componants without having to believe... and that works for me.

If I have a PLR client who believes I simply leave out all the "metaphor" language so I don't rain on their experience... with clients who are a bit iffy like me I give them the options, and the experience, and let them decide which way they go.