The Inner Being
Each person — and probably everything created in every species — has a unique destiny, one for which skills are forged over countless incarnations, perhaps even in various parts of the Universe not remembered by the currently incarnate being. When we descend into the third dimension, where we are now, we drink the waters of Lethe and forget much of what we knew well when our consciousness was predominantly focused on the other side of the veil. What survives the passage into the new incarnation are certain proclivities and interests. These explain the existence of child prodigies and attractions to certain hobbies and professions as well as likes and dislikes of people, foods, colors, etc. It might be fair to say that our “good karma” lets us remember just a little, but it is actually mostly the pressure of destiny speaking to us through affinities.
Today’s post is not, however, about destiny but rather the carryovers that affect our bodies and emotions. My motivation for sharing this at this time is the reckless insanity of violence of all types: random, politically motivated, and even medically sanctioned. To give this a context, I might mention to new subscribers — and remind readers who have been following my work, sometimes going back over half a century — that I died in my last life of Nazi bullet to the spine.
I have relived this event in altered states of consciousness and collected bits and pieces of the story. From my perspective, working in the Underground was dictated by humanitarian issues. It had nothing at all to do with politics, but rather everything to do with saving children from senseless premature death. I was in my 30s at the time, incarnate in a body bearing considerable resemblance to my present one. What I saw was that two soldiers kicked in the front door of my house. I was standing on the stairway and died almost instantly when the bullet hit my spine, my last word being Friedrich, a three-year boy who had carved his way deep into my heart. I asked a psychic once why anyone would take such a terrible incarnation. The response was, “So that you would have the love and courage necessary to take on the risks you were taking.” I always have tears when I think of his sacrifice.
The bond reveals the interconnectivity of karma; but the fact is, there is much more to address. I was apparently born with a hole in my spine. This was only discovered late in the 60s when a radiologist asked me if I had been hit by a bullet in Vietnam. I said, “No.” Perplexed, she said, “You’d remember, wouldn’t you?” I suggested she got my film mixed up with someone else’s. This event took place in the small hospital in Kona, Hawaii, and she said I had been the only x-ray patient that day.
Now, we have a story that spans a century and two different lifetimes. I can tell you that the pain has been there ever since I could remember, i.e., starting very early childhood.
The conclusion is that the suffering humans inflict on one another is not necessarily something that disappears when we leave our bodies. In the regression work I do, I have found injuries that can sometimes be traced back hundreds of incarnations.
The Yin and the Yang
How can this be? It is because the body and the subconscious memories are magnetic so they cannot transform themselves. They can only be modified by a radiatory energy. This concept is something I published back in the 70s in a special edition of The American Theosophist. To make it as clear as possible to those who have not thought this through, Yin is receptive and cannot really initiate. It can discern and discriminate, but its options are basically to accept or reject. Yang, of course, hates rejection; and the causal energy that is deflected is a sort of rogue energy in quest of grounding.
My experience as a facilitator of recall is that we can induce a very safe altered state of awareness in which “lost” memories are brought to a conscious level. Where there is a deeply entrenched physical or emotional pattern, therapy around the historic causes and their consequences can help to transform the wounds and ease the suffering.
This said, I would be remiss if I failed to mention that new experiences, that are vastly different from the painful ones, can overwrite some of the opinions held by the subconscious. However, there can also be backsliding if the new experiences reinfect the older patterns. Working with an objective therapist, a friend who really knows how to listen, or someone who is capable of generating the magic that shifts our patterns from dissonant to harmonious can often resolve ancient wounds.
More than half of my life has been devoted to exploring both the subconscious and superconscious parts of ourselves. This involves inducing an altered state of consciousness and providing prompts to individuals to explore. It is important that there is nothing suggestive about the prompts. Usually, I try to evoke a neutral scene and then ask the subject to describe what he or she sees. I generally start with a child, maybe 4-5 years old. We discover who lives in the home; and almost without fail, the other members of the household are recognized, meaning we incarnate in groups and continually interact with those who are already known to us. Obviously, this gives incentive to create the best possible relationships with everyone around us.
If there is an injury or illness, it is nearly always related in some manner to an event in a previous life. For example, one person saw herself on a sort of pilgrimage to a holy place. In humility, she crawled on her knees over cobblestones, cacti, anything else on the journey of many months to her destination. In another lifetime, she died of a poisoned arrow to a knee, and in this one had melanoma in the same area the arrow had struck.
This in no way suggests that melanoma is related to a toxic experience in a past life, merely that her vulnerability was focused in the knees . . . and, perhaps also had a connection to her piety and spiritual path.
Because of religious persecution, many people have suffered because of their affiliations. Whether we are talking the Crusades or Inquisition or Holocaust, it must be absolutely obvious that prejudice can be deeply entrenched . . . and dare I add senseless. Almost all of us are indoctrinated at an early age, usually by people who have neither the moral character nor wisdom to qualify them as guides for others. Unfortunately, their flaws do not seem to diminish their influence so we reach the point of psychopathic persuasion such as is going on now in Gaza.
Whether I am speaking as a philosopher or therapist, it is obvious to me that the only safe path is the path of harmlessness. Therefore, the militants and those with excessive power should be ignored. For the sake of one’s own soul and the future incarnations of everyone, do not cause anyone else to suffer. It is really this simple.
This concept goes well beyond the heinousness of war. It includes poisons in our air, water, food, and even medicines. It includes how we treat animals and people whose customs and beliefs are different from ours. More importantly, if you take the simple examples given today of injuries and death, it must be obvious that death by aerial assault that leave victims charred is going to have repercussions on both the perpetrators and sufferers for countless incarnations to come.
It is time to renounce violence!
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