There's really no past, present or future in the Field. In a parallel
universe events are occurring simultaneously. So, a person doesn't go
'back into the past' or 'into the future' because the Field is a unity
where history is not divided by concepts of time.
On 11/13/2013 9:55 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:
Re"and thank God, it is from the past. Or as you said, to paraphrase,
a parallel slipstream, of space-time, easily engaged if one is open to
whatever comes":
There's a interesting possibility raised by this line of reasoning,
isn't there? If one's present self can recall a past-life experience,
can't your past-life incarnation experience your present-day self? And
the obvious end game I'm aiming for is: couldn't you today also
experience a future incarnation?
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Yeah, I tend to see the "flashy" experiences the same way, *that* they
are happening, and how to make that relevant to daily life, vs.
getting hung up on the forensics. Practical application, whether it be
immediate, or a longer term learning.
I really appreciated your clear as day recollections of your
soul/dharmic thread/jiva's past lives. You made it come alive, with
this last recollection, horribly, yet I could really see it, and thank
God, it is from the past. Or as you said, to paraphrase, a parallel
slipstream, of space-time, easily engaged if one is open to whatever
comes.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
>
> If you had a flashback that convinced you you were Jack the
Ripper in a previous life should you hand yourself in to the
police?
> Could you count on the statute of limitations getting you
off the hook?
> Could you claim in mitigation that you weren't yourself when
you committed the murders?
I'm going to comment on this, and leave the musings below to
others. No offense, but the above stuff is way funny, and
creative, and that tickles my funny bone. But -- having kinda been
there done that with this experience -- theorizing about it
doesn't really float my boat.
I'm like that with many of my most interesting spiritual
experiences. I was there. I experienced these things, some of them
that fall into the Blade Runner "I've seen things you people
wouldn't believe" category. But I can't tell you definitively what
they were. Heck, I'm still trying to figure many of them out myself.
Maybe it's a Buddhist thang. They were never all that interested
in the "why" things are happening, only in *that* they are
happening, and how to make the best of that. I'm kinda drawn that
way myself.
> No one picked up on my alternative suggestion that memories
of previous lives could be explained not by any one individual
going through a serial succession of different life stories
but rather could be explained as someone accessing our common,
racial memory.
> By what mechanism?
> 1) Occultists talk about "shells" of the dead left behind in
the astral realm. Really, though, the shells are used to
explain what mediums access when they contact the recently
deceased. The shells dissipate over time so wouldn't explain
distant memories.
> 2) Memories are passed on through our DNA by some unknown
mechanism? (This wouldn't work for Michael's recall of being a
pious hermit in medieval France - unless he had a relapse into
sinful passions - monks don't have kids.) Of course, the
further back in time you peer the more common ancestors we all
have.
> 3) All human (and non-human) life experiences are stored in
the Akashic Records. This looks the most promising line to take.
> The advantage of this theory - that past-life memories are
simply people accessing the Akashic field - are:
> (i) It explains why more than one person can claim to have
memories of an historical figure.
> (ii) It fits better Buddhist ideas of anatta.
> (iii) It explains why Cleopatra pops up so much; her
"thumbprint" on the Akashic field is bigger than most peoples.
>
>
>
> ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@ wrote:
>
> fwiw, I figured we had all been in a previous life together
and then a healer mentioned that out of the blue about a month
ago. My intuition says Atlantis but I've not had any
experiences to confirm. Hope we get it right this time around (-:
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 10:47 AM, TurquoiseB
turquoiseb@ wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
> >
> > Sounds like a dream while being awake. Any slippage into
another time dimension makes it seem probable these dimensions
exist simultaneously with the present.
>
> Personally, I suspect this is the case. That is, that all of
these events are happening simultaneously, and that something
just occasionally enables us to step from one
pseudo-timestream to another.
>
> > I wonder what it is in our brains or in the frequency of
the dimensions called "time" that causes a momentary ability
to be able to see sine past event. And are you sure it is a
former you that is participating or simply the current you who
has slipped, temporarily, into another time frequency and can
simply see what happened back then in that spot?
>
> Again, I cannot speak to anyone else's experience, or to
theory or hypotheticals. For me, this experience (whatever TF
it was) always had a strong sense of "I" being identified with
the person whose eyes and ears I was using to witness the scene.
>
> > Whatever the case or the reason it is something I would
like to experience as long as it didn't freak me out too much
or the event wasn't too violent.
>
> There have been the occasional violent flashback, but for
some reason they didn't really freak me out. Probably the most
violent was in a basement room of the Papal Palace in Avignon,
realizing that I had not only been there before but been
tortured (probably to death) there. My "point of view" within
the room remained the same (standing in the same location
against a wall), but in the "here and now" I was just standing
there with a few other tourists, and in the "then and now" I
was strapped to the wall and the other people in the room (all
in monk's robes) were doing fairly nasty things to me. There
was -- interestingly -- no real sensation of pain. What
freaked me out the most about the flashback was seeing the
look in the eyes of the people doing this, and realizing that
they firmly believed they were doing it for the Greater Glory
of God. They were ECSTATIC, as if torturing a heretic was
GETTING THEM OFF.
>
>
> > ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@ wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita wrote:
> > >
> > > I was going to say this: If I was to find myself
suddenly in a
> > past-life - let's say in Elizabethan London - I'd take
careful note of
> > what clothes the people around me wore, what food they
ate, what the
> > houses looked like, etc. and then when I returned I'd
check against the
> > best-available historical evidence. Here's the thing
though: if you were
> > to have a past-life recall can you alter what you're
thinking or doing?
> > If it's a far-memory of "you" in a previous life is the
you that's "you
> > in the 21st century having the recall" able to change
anything?
> >
> >
> > I cannot speak to hypothetical situations like yours. I
can only say
> > what it was like for me.
> >
> > For me it was *not* like lucid dreaming, which I have
practiced and
> > gotten good enough at that I could change things in the
dream to suit
> > myself. The flashes I've had were all short-lived --
thirty seconds to
> > at most a couple of minutes -- during which I was
completely immersed in
> > the scene. I *did* seem to have some volition, in that I
could decide to
> > try to talk to someone, and pull that off, but it was not
the "I'm in
> > control of this vision" kinda thang one experiences with
lucid dreaming.
> >
> > I never sought any of these flashes, nor am I interested
in doing so
> > now. They just happened, almost always when I was in the
physical
> > location where the original events took place. That's the
part that's so
> > much FUN about whatever it is. I'm in the same room of a
castle, or in
> > the courtyard of a large city like Carcassonne, and one
moment I'm "here
> > and now" and the next I'm "here and then."
> >
> > The overall scene doesn't change, just the details -- like
what people
> > are wearing, eating, etc. I guess I could have been more
Sherlock
> > Holmes-y about it, but frankly each time it's happened
it's come as such
> > a surprise and been so thoroughly entertaining that I just
allowed
> > myself to be entertained.
> >
>
