--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > one of the reasons > I like the "multiple realities" theory is that it > helps to explain subjective experiences that I and > others have had of "past life flashbacks." > > Interestingly, when such flashbacks occur, at least > to me, the subjective experience of them is *not* > that they happened in the past and I am "remembering" > them. It's that they are happening Right Here, Right > Now, and that for some reason I am just tapping into > them, as if I had accessed a separate-but-equal > timeline which is still going on. > > Surely you've heard raps from physics or the New Age > about the theory that time does not exist, and that > everything is happening at once in an eternal Now. > According to such theories, time is the illusion. > > This is *exactly* what the "past life flashbacks" > that I and many friends I know who have had similar > flashbacks feels like. It feels as if we have some- > how "shifted timelines" and are experiencing Right > Here Right Now something that *theoretically* may > have happened in the past, but *feels* as if it > is still happening.
My mother once described two such experiences to me. I wonder if she had others? Thanks for the description. I had not realized they were as common as you present them to be.