A Practical Study of Past Lives & Reincarnation Part 2

This article entitled ‘A Practical Study of Past Lives & Reincarnation Part 2’ is the second in a 4 part series covering an extensive project by members of the Lifewave Meditation Group in the 1980s. Various people (who had been Initiated into the Spiritual Light and Sound) were regressed back to previous lives and this process revealed extensive information on the development of their own soul as well as information about the spiritual planes of consciousness and The Hierarchy of Beings. Their names have been removed to preserve anonymity. 

SUBJECT 3 

(PRE-NATAL EXPERIENCES)

Despite such higher guidance one’s path through life can be far from smooth! One very interesting part of the research material is that concerning subjects’ passages through the womb experience. All subjects, and this is in common with other researchers, were completely aware of their mothers attitudes at this time! Perhaps more surprisingly they were also aware of their fathers’ attitudes and had definite feelings about their future situations in life. The implications of this are great; in the case of  Subject 3, a teacher from Leeds, the regression reveals that the mother, at the womb stage, is quite insecure because of a rocky marriage.

Quite a small thing perhaps to an adult mind, but to the child at this stage a very major threat to existence. The psychology of such an event is subtle, the developing child drawing all its support from the mother, being obviously all-dependent upon her. In this instance the subject was able to witness quite clearly the way in which the mother’s attitude made him feel guilty. The mother was unhappy to be pregnant because of her bad marriage and this led the child into feeling that ,were it not for its presence, then the mother would have less to worry about. Such a situation had devastating effects upon him because he developed a mind with the ‘backdrop’ of guilt from the womb. Everything he attempted to do was interpreted, and still is, in a guilt-ridden manner, an attitude of mind very difficult to alter.

Many individuals have deep psychological problems, and though they may be essential for their long term learning process, can be avoided. Society needs a greater awareness of when the soul links up to the foetus and the great extent to which it ‘knows’ what is going on around it! Whilst this may cause some readers concern, then even more startling is the way in which all subjects are able to go back to see that they know their parents from the time of conception. It is at this stage that the mind is first formed for this incarnation, being based upon attitudes towards the parents. The soul is thus always conscious, passing through different states of conscious experience, birth, death, between life, conception and womb but the essence is ever the same. Not only should this information bring changes in attitudes in society, it should also serve to make one ask the vital question: “What then is the soul itself?”

Now life is for the purpose of teaching the incarnating soul ‘lessons’. These gain in perspective as one sees the total span of lifetimes that one has had. This is of great value philosophically when we realise that a painful event, such as the death of someone close, or just everyday life in general, have a purpose in the great scheme of existence. Furthermore, such difficulties are nothing against a series of incarnations that may cover several thousand years! These incarnations pass by in a great pattern of destiny that is both mystifying, yet so beautiful, one’s breath is taken away; all is for a purpose.

 

 

SUBJECT 4 

(THE PUZZLE OF OUR DESTINY)

The subject of destiny is fraught with controversy, for how can everything be planned out for us all? The answer is subtle really and with these matters it requires direct knowledge of one’s own destiny as it has unfolded over past centuries to be able to appreciate its intricacies. One may have spent a past lifetime as a builder in Greece, this may be followed as a stonemason in the Philippines, later as a civil engineer in Birmingham, but the pattern is clear. Lives are full of patterns repeated, yet more often the pattern is not so obvious, being more to do with attitudes. This can be seen quite clearly in the next subject.

Subject 4, a teacher from Southampton, who spent her last incarnation in France in the Languedoc Region. The year is 1700 and she is working in the fields, a peasant in love with Pierre, a local farm hand. Not long after this she is picked up by the military and imprisoned in a nearby town where she dies of starvation, a horrible, difficult death clearly recalled with pain by the subject showing that the 1980s are not so bad after all. We also see that Pierre, her lover, is now her present day husband.

The mechanism of such ‘repeated patterns’, in this case the lover Pierre, is obscure. However when we said that attitude is of importance earlier then we see the relevance here. It was the attitude of the subject to her lover Pierre in the last century that went unfulfilled. Thus in such an attitude lies the secret of destiny and points to facts we are at present unclear about.

We have examined the way in which man’s mind is comprised of different energies, or vehicles. The mechanisms involved in a subject like destiny are difficult because it is necessary to be able to recognise these energies in one’s own psychic nature. Unless we are quite clear as to what these energies are like, through higher meditation for example, it is difficult to understand the mechanism of the mind itself. To be philosophically correct we should say that as we progress into the higher reaches of mind, we encounter more energised forms of matter until we reach the Atmic Vehicle,  where we have pure spiritual energy, unalloyed to matter of any sort.

It is as if a ‘band’ or ‘spectrum’ exists from the physical world itself containing energy up to the spiritual worlds which are nothing but spiritual energy. It is in these higher worlds that true spiritual development takes place and must be experienced by an Initiation into such mysteries. Everything that we can know, even the highest flights of thought, are based on form of some sort, so it is difficult to appreciate the implications of such formless states.

The bodies, or vehicles contain energy to a greater or lesser degree. Higher mind is very objective, giving deep knowledge of a subject, because it has so much energy in it compared to, say, the astral body. But the astral medium whilst ‘slow’ is of great importance in containing our ‘impressions’ of life. We would say that our thoughts are astral matter, whilst it is the more powerful mental states that manipulate and actually ‘think’. Furthermore, it is the astral medium that enables us to sit in a room looking at a picture which five days later can be recalled in every detail. Lower mind has the different capability of being able to compare such impressions that make up our life knowledge.

To understand destiny it is necessary to progress a step beyond such a view of the mind and to see that we are looking at the tip of a very big iceberg. Higher psychology recognises that all situations experienced are recorded in the astral state, and this is witnessed in the total recall available to hypnotic subjects of any event. There is a close relationship between astral and physical states, the rationale being that higher spiritual energies are discharged into successively lower levels until the world itself is manifested. This indicates the tremendous powers that work through man. We would see, in a simple way, that the astral body discharges energies into the world directly creating the environment of each person. Because the astral body is a ‘slow’ medium it is discharging absorbed impressions many years, even centuries after the absorption has taken place. 

This is why we can end up with random thoughts being discharged into our minds from events in our distant childhood.More significantly we can be the witness to entire situations, manifest from the astral sphere some centuries before, as is the case with this subject. When we declared earlier that ‘attitude’ is the key to such an event, this is because this is the way of describing the relationship between astral and mental. Since the mental body can destroy astral impressions, discharging them, destiny is a series of patterns that have been accepted by this principle. In this subjects case the acceptance is because she saw her connection with Pierre to be quite desirable. Were it to have been otherwise then the mental principle with its superior energy would have modified the astral ‘video tape’, discharging the impressions, and prevented its playing back.

It should be clear why destiny is so very difficult to control! We have looked at  one event when in fact a person’s mind is filled with a constant stream of them. To control destiny we would have to be in the position to empty our astral states of all the impressions they contain. This is difficult enough but we would then have to prevent the reabsorption of any further events. Such an ability is only contained in the precepts of a spiritual mastery of all aspects of the mind and life. It is accomplished by strengthening the vehicles of the mind by having direct access to the infinite fount of spiritual energy in the higher nature; a difficult thing to accomplish.

Whilst the regressions provide a deep and fascinating insight into many areas of life, like the mysteries of destiny and the mind, they do go much, much further. Ive alluded here to the historical aspects of past life regression, something which is very difficult to escape from, since the subjects altogether passed back through aeons of time. An experience of ‘far-memory’ can be compared to a magical mystery tour into another world, rather like departing from a railway station, boarding a train which is neither bounded by time nor space. The hypnotist is like a station master standing on the platform of time and projecting the subject into the various lives that he has had.

As one peers into the scenery of the past, worlds are found which are both beautiful and mysterious, for no history book can compare with what is found there. To the regressee, it is a vivid journey into the times and places that he or she once lived in, places that the passage of time has left unspoiled. It is a sad thing indeed to find the present-day historian, complete with all his so-modern equipment, scrabbling desperately in his ruins for a never to be found glimpse of past cultures. Cultures are based upon life and the people that lived in them; man would do well to undertake a study of the essence, this life force that supports and sustains in such an unseen way. Hypnosis shows an untapped force in man that defies science as we presently know it. Hidden in his mind is the link between himself and everything that he cares to know about, showing the way to a world far beyond the scope of science’s apparatus.

SUBJECT 5

(ANCIENT CIVILISATIONS: N AFRICA)

The research that we have done has given a lot of information on the past, too much to include in a book of this kind, because we want to present more of an overview of the subject. But, for interest, here are a couple of the subjects’ experiences, which tend to reveal unusual civilisations, or unusual people. Firstly the civilisation seen by Subject 5, a medical Student from Southampton, 

“My second incarnation is in North Africa about 3,000 years ago. I left my parents at the age of ten and worked on the camel trains for some twenty years. It is thus at the age of thirty I arrive at a large civilisation on the North coast of Africa somewhere north of where Agadir exists now. The population is dark, the buildings low in structure and white in colour. Here I met a man who is a priest, who introduces me to a temple. This is a large structure, decorated with marble. I spent twelve years here being instructed in various disciplines and meeting various people that I now know. However after twelve years I leave the temple and go to Gibraltar which at this time is virtually uninhabited and I spend forty years here pursuing the temple disciplines. When I die I enter into a region of purple light where I am met by associates from the temple who have also ‘passed over’ – a very blissful experience.”

In the regression Subject 5 was able to describe quite accurately the architecture of the city, the spires and towers and the atmosphere of the whole place.

SUBJECT 6

(ANCIENT CIVILISATIONS: ISRAEL)

Next we look at the life of Subject 6, an Anthropology student from Southampton.

“This lifetime is as a man in what is now Israel, 10,000 years B.C. I am a soldier in a leather jerkin with metal discs. I have a dark, curly, square-cut beard. There are some heavy metal shoulder pads and I wear a kilt of stiff leather. I enjoy being a soldier using both sword and spear, but I prefer the spear. I do battle over many parts of the Levant and towards India-Egypt is too powerful for us.

I die aged 36 in a battle in Ahvaz (Iran) by being speared on my left side. The spear goes into my heart, I can feel its coldness, he (the attacker) had death in his eyes. I am not sad to go for I’ve done my job and quite well. I’ve learnt that courage is not being afraid of what might happen in battle, just doing it clear-headedly and technically well will save the day – most times!”

Both the lives of Subjects 5 and 6 are but a tiny fraction of the information on hand about these incarnations. The beauty of hypnosis is its ability to draw out any information the hypnotist may want, so long as it falls within the subject’s own lifetimes. We don’t want to spend time going over all the research material for that would be mere sensationalism, better to use examples to demonstrate certain key points.

Talking to the subjects, one of the main comments was about the strange illusion that our present lifetimes create. It is so easy to pass back in time, surveying possibly five lives over a two hour period, yet how strange that this happens. It is like looking at a cinema show of our past, whilst we are sitting in the audience.

The point is that it is not ‘we’ that experiences anything in the way that is thought, but the soul as it sits in the body like a driver in a car. This strange neutrality of awareness enables it to ‘drive’ into any past life state that is wished, something very exciting!

Not only does it point to the illusion of this life which is made to seem far more important and thus more difficult, but also demonstrates a tremendous power that each person has within thier grasp. In short, these hypnotic regressions show but one facet of a man’s mind, like an unmapped route to great treasures, but what of the power behind them?

When people are regressed a lot then a curious thing takes place. It is as if the barriers between lives start to dissolve away and it is possible to have a path into other ‘non personal’ wisdoms. So we find someone who lived in Greece between the years 20 A.D. and 60 A.D. may well, when showing this trait, be able to know periods firstly, just outside this lifespan; secondly, during most Grecian periods until finally any Grecian Period as a whole can be known. Ultimately such a subject can be regressed with great accuracy into any time period regardless of whether they had actually lived there!

Such a situation defeats the understanding, but man’s mind needs to be understood, so this is to be expected. It hints at a ‘size’ in man that cannot be guessed at, for means that the mind is like a wireless set that can be tuned in to any time or any place. Again, how very exciting, for if the mind is of this nature and is of such great size, we must really ask just what is the nature of man’s awareness? The world of man is thus like a fishes eye view of a pool that can be ‘stretched’ to any size. How much better to swim in the biggest, best pool that is possible!

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