The truth behind past lives, parallel lives and future lives

I enjoyed reading our writers talk about their belief systems regarding past lives, parallel lives and future lives this week.  The topic has always been one of great interest to me.

Some people simply believe in reincarnation—from a young age there’s an innate understanding that they’ve been here before, or known things they have no business knowing.  For me this manifested in a few simple moments throughout  my childhood.

Me and my soul kitten, Briar Rose

I recall being four or five and thinking, fiercely, that I was so happy I had been born a human rather than a cat (which at that time, and in many ways still is my favorite animal).  I had no concept of reincarnation… but I felt certain at that moment that I had once been a cat and was happy to now be human.

I was sheltered in a small Catholic school, but even as a tween I recall arguing with a friend that there was no such thing as hell.  That a god that loved us as much as our god surely wouldn’t send us to hell, but would be more likely to send us back to Earth until we got it right.  Also, I continued, if a truly good person went to heaven but didn’t feel as if they had completed their work here and wanted to return to do more good for others, why would God keep them in heaven instead of letting them return.  Surely an all-powerful God would have the ability to send someone back if s/he wanted.  And by the same token, how could someone who felt an incredible need to do more good on Earth be at peace in a place that is supposed to be all-peace?

These were things I not only intuitively knew in my heart to be true, but that I felt fiercely about.  There were no books or readings or influence from anyone in my life to give me insights like this.  Instead it simply made sense to my adolescent brain… and it still does.

Future lives, on the other hand, have their own flavor.  They began to make sense to me after watching the series “Lost.”  Don’t laugh.  The way I look at time, the timeline of my life, and the possibility of past, present, parallel and future lives shifted immensely, and the show (which I Netflixed all at once over the course of a couple months) put a lot of the pieces of my multiple belief systems together. 

When we experience a lifetime has absolutely nothing to do with when that life happens chronologically.  Our future lives may have already happened, or may be happening now.  Changing our past doesn’t change our future… changing our life changes our life.  Period.

As for parallel lives, I have my mother to thank for that… as I couldn’t even wrap my brain around the concept until she said one day in passing, “maybe that woman seems so familiar because you know her in a parallel life.”  That statement had me strung up for days.  But in the end, parallel lives aren’t that conceptually difficult for a dreamer and a writer like me.  I live many lives at once… and who’s to say I remember them all?  Part of me believes I am the guide for some of my most powerful guides in a parallel life where they are physical, and I visit in spirit.  And who’s to say it’s not true?

Me and my soul sisters, Grace and Carol

Other instances have confirmed my belief in past and parallel lives.  Incredible emotional upheavals as a result of scenes in books, television and film, intense moments of deja vu, people I know too well after having known for only moments (you know who you are!), and partners that I know I’ve worked with before, over and over.  There are the visions, too… like the time I walked down a pier off a boat, having stepped foot in Seattle for the first time ever (someplace I’d wanted to visit for no particular reason since I was a young child)… how curious that my first step in Seattle was off a boat and my vision was of walking down a pier to meet my husband, Pat. Except in my vision he wasn’t my husband, we looked completely different, and there was an incredible sorrow of loving him but not being able to be with him.  The feeling almost brought me to my knees… and even Pat agreed that it was a strange feeling walking down that pier together.

our first view of Seattle

Then there are the parallel lives when friends and I meet in dreams, have similar dreams on the same night… but those are stories for another blog…

What are your experiences of deja vu, past lives, or your understanding of parallel lives?  The more we share our unbelievable beliefs, the clearer the picture becomes.

Past life regressions and future life progressions - what they are and how they help!

“… Death is merely a pause to reflect on the progress of your eternal self so far." –VERONICA

This quote has been excerpted from Inner Whisper, Volume 1, Issue 15 by April Crawford, a Open Deep Trance Channel for an entity named Veronica

(http://www.innerwhispers.net/transition15.html).

Reincarnation by Dana Bree

Whether you believe someone can channel a spiritual entity or not, the words are something to be considered and give us a degree of confidence when considering our own inevitable death.

In Past Life Regression, I assist persons who seek to understand and release the karmic reasons for their present fears, proclivities or idiosyncrasies. Is that scar on your back the result of a wound from a past life?  Does your fear of water that has been with you for as long as you can remember, the result of an experience in a prior lifetime?  Exploring these issues can release the fears and the pains of psychic wounds.

But sometimes clients are just curious.  Curious about where their soul has been, if anything they find will resonate with their own present selves, like an interest in Celtic culture or an affinity for the arts,  or if they have known their friends or lover in another lifetime.  These aren’t monumental questions but people are seekers and I am happy to assist them on their journey.

When I do a regression it is as if I am viewing a movie and the client is the star.  If it wouldn’t be distracting to the process, I would probably bring popcorn.  

And then there is Future Life Progression. There are different meanings for Future Life Progression. Some Future Life Progressionists bring their clients forward to a future lifetime in which they were successful in mastering all their lessons and living their true life’s purpose. Then the client brings the energy of that future lifetime back into this lifetime to help them accelerate spiritual growth.

When I work with a client in Future Life Progression, I do it differently.  I have the client imagine looking back to the present from their own future. I show the client what their life will be like at some point in the future, a future in which they have achieved everything they want. The client is then asked to 'enter into' that future self, to get into the mind of that future self and to learn what that future self did in order to make it all happen. By visualizing the future and thinking about how it was achieved, the client becomes open to change their life. You can create your own future and change your life.  Wouldn’t you like to take a peek at your future or possible future and pick the one you want to enter.  Future Life Progression permits you to do that and then assess the skills you needed to acquire to get there.

I see my role as a coach to help my clients achieve their dreams by recognizing they possess the knowledge they need to move forward.  I am so blessed to be able to help people in this way.

The Connection of Parallel Lives

I’ve never been sold on the whole ‘you live, you die, and that is it!’ idea.  As a very young child I’ve felt a connection to some higher force, a spiritual being who watched over me and had a plan for my life.  At that age I didn’t know what it was or what it meant, and it took several years of self discovery and spiritual journeys to finally realize where my beliefs stood.  I’ve met countless people that cover both ends of the spectrum; from adamant atheists to deeply devoted Christians.  I’ve also met Hindus and Muslims, New Age spiritualists, Pagans, and others who simply didn’t wish to be labeled but walk on their own spiritual path.  We may be different from each other, but there’s a common thread connecting us all.  The belief that life is precious and unpredictable.

What is the meaning of a lifetime?  Can it be measured in more than moments or years?  Does the lifetime we currently live have more meaning than what we witness from day to day?

To most historians or scientists, a lifetime is a linear progression of a living being.  I like to look at lifetimes in a more detailed observation.  Lifetimes are happening millions of times through the spectrum of time and space.  Our life is parallel to billions of others, each one running its course on tracks that never meet or that clash head first into one another.  Our bodies live this current lifetime and label it the present, but the continuum of our entire existence isn’t limited to the restraint of time.  The past is what we see when we look as far back to the day we were born.  Our future is the years we have yet to live until we reach the end of our journey. But is there more?

My personal faith system has given me many answers to the span of life as a whole.  As a Catholic, I’ve embraced the promise made on a a cross.  This belief shows me that lifespans as we understand them aren’t entirely precise.  My afterlife is a continuation of my earthly pilgrimage and it has no end in sight.  That means that while my body will cease to exist in the earthly realm, my soul—which has been in me even before my birth [“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you” (Jeremiah 1:5)]”—will travel throughout time in a new, infinite realm.  But, if one looks at this with the traditional lifetime glasses, then it’s easy to label this idea as present (our current life) and future (new, eternal realm).  This is where I go back to ‘my soul has been me even before my birth’.  I believe that God has had a plan for us before conception and birth.  This plan revolves around lives living in parallel unity with millions of others, many dependent on mine. 

It’s pretty overwhelming to think how our lives are intricately entwined with others.  In the spectrum of life spans, the choices we make or do not make, directly impact others and their current and future lives.  This means that by our decisions we influence parallel lives that are strictly dependent on our own journey.  We carry a huge responsibility on our shoulders, yet we can’t consciously begin to understand that phenomena.  But that’s the beauty of it all, isn’t it?  To be part of something so great and so incomprehensible is one of the many parts that make up our life journey.