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Reincarnation is the belief that when you die, you or an essential part of you -soul - spirit - essence - whatever you call it - will return to earth, take up another body and start life all over again. If you believe this, you are not alone. A belief in reincarnation is essential in many of the Eastern philosophies, and in spite of what Christianity may have preached in the past, is becoming more and more accepted in the West.
Reincarnation was accepted by the early Christians. it wasn't until 551 (the time of Constatine) that it was pronounced a heretic belief by the Catholic Church. Though before the sixth century, Christians had preached the doctrine of reincarnation or rebirth, those who were foolish enough to try to do so in later years ran the very real risk of being burned at the stake for heresy. However, no amount of legislation can kill ideas and beliefs. People will just keep them inside until the time is right to speak openly about them again.
Inevitably, belief in reincarnation surfaced again, not only through poetry and other literature, but in the Christian Church as well.
Astrology and the birth chart teaches us what we came into this life to complete, our soul pathway as well as what our talents are. The birth chart is called the fingerprint of the Soul.
If we perceive our lifepath as one big learning experience, and what else could it be for, then we would realize that one lifetime is not long enough for anyone.
The belief in reincarnation, as well as the laws of Karma, which is the philosophy of as you sow so shall you reap, makes sense of the dreadful inhumanities and what seems to be unfairness of the world around us. If, as many believe, we come back not just once but many times over, and actually choose our parents, our location as well as have a say in choosing our life path and lessons, then we can see that those of us having a pretty rough time of it actually chose that life expression and put themselves into that situation in order to learn some particularly important lesson. It is important to become aware of that lesson in the present lifetime in order to strengthen your soul. as well as heal the emotional upsets caused by the trauma.
One of the biggest arguments against the theory of reincarnation is the fact that we do not remember our past lives. There is a very good reason for this. Imagine having to cope with this life and all that it brings, if you had clear memories of everything you had seen or done, and everyone you had ever met before in your past lives.
One of the winning argument for reincarnation are the child prodigies. It is argued that the only way these children could possible know and do what they do is because they remember it from another life. A threeyear old boy walked into the Museum of Natural History in New York City and began explaining about the dinasours on display. He showed intelligence and, upon careful quesioning, had information that not even the aged scientists knew.
Although we think we cannot remember our past lives, we really do to a certain extent, if only in very short flashes or deja'vu. (All this has happened to me before! ) experience is very common, and very few people will admit that they have not felt like that at one time or another. There is always that person that you feel you have met before, as well as that street you walked down or that foreign language you find yourself speaking, on occasion.
Often others feel the same way towards you - an unusual magnetic draw - but neither of you can find any conscious memory of having met before. There are also those people we meet and we feel a certain empathy. An instant liking feeling. Then there are those that we instantly dislike or even fear, and this may seem irrational. We don't understand it, we cannot explain it, but it lingers within us nonetheless.
Sometimes we discover a hidden talent. Something we have an innate skill for, but was never really taught in this lifetime.
When we begin to think about more lives than one, we inevitably begin to think about time itself in a different way. We are so used to thinking of time as linear - that it is one minute after the other - that the idea that it may not really be like this is quite startling. Remember, linear time is only an invention of ours to keep our lives on track with schedules.
Imagine for a moment that, in spiritual reality, it is not like that at all but that everything is happening all at once. There is no future or past - only this moment. Then you are truly living your future now and setting up your next lifetime as you live and relate in this lifetime - every second of the day.
Perhaps we are all living more lives than one - simultaneously - not just one or the other - but all of them all at once! This boggles the mind. Think of life as a bean bag, and the beans inside it are people, you and me and everyone else. As the bean bag is tossed, you and me and everyone else gets moved around. One minute we're in one part of the bean bag, then jostling up against another, and each toss, each jostle could represent a different life span. The life form is meeting different people and having different experiences.
Whether we believe in reincarnation or not, we find it embedded and presented to us in different guises within our culture. The fact that novelists and film-makers today so often return to the theme of reincarnation shows that it is now becoming an accepted part of our culture.
Once you begin to learn about reincarnation, you will get interested in finding out something about your own past life, or at least wonder who you may have been, where you may have lived, what sex you were, and what you may have become in the past life. There are many quiet and safe ways one can do this. All it involves is a little more awareness of both your waking and sleeping states. Also, daily meditation practice helps you to open up the channels of past life memory.
Keep a past life notebook handy. Record anything that seems like a memory from a different lifetime. Use this book to jot down your spontaneous answers to the following ten questions.
There is no urgency in answering these questions. Jot down the answers in your Dreams and Many Lives notebook as you remember the experiences.
Past Life Therapy has been recognized as a part of hypnotherapy for many years, and was recognized by Dr. Harry Aarons, (my Mentor) Skinner, Erikson, and even Mezmer. When exploring other lives under hypnosis, people can be cured of phobias which may be making their life difficult now, (such as fear of heights, enclosure, or habits like smoking or weight control) and will help them work out some difficult relationships in this lifetime. Psychologists or Spiritual Counselors who use this therapy, often with great success, argue that if going back to problems in this life can help people cure the issues, then so can delving into problems from a past life.
Maybe you don't have any problems, or none that are too serious, but would still like to know something of those other lives you feel sure you have lived.
How can we access this knowledge?
There are psychics who will claim to tell you about who and what you were. While some of them may be able to do this with the help of astrology (I am rather skeptical of this ) being told who you once were is a very poor substitute for actually living it or seeing it yourself from within. This can often become an ego trip! You can experience this for yourself by going to an professional hypnotherapist or using an audio cassette that will take you into a guided meditation, into a state of awareness, a meditative state, to another existence, or by simply becoming more aware of your natural dream state. (Such as my Healing Depression The Natural Way cassette tape or my Stop Smoking and Weight Control guided meditations.) To order Click here, go to my Guestbook and place your request.
Those who claim they never dream are not being strictly truthful; what they actually mean is that they do not remember their dreams. You can train yourself to do this. We all dream several times a night and, contrary to popular belief, it is our dreaming sleep, not our dreamless sleep, that actually does us the most good. Learn to remember your dreams and then record them. Keep a notepad or small tape recorder by the bed and jot down notes or record your dreams immediately upon awakening. When you wake up in the night, jot down the main points of your dreams. If you put down the main points, you will usually find the rest will come back to you in the morning when you read over the notes.
Take special note of any dream in color, particularly those where you are dressed in unusual clothes, if you are in a strange environment or if you are speaking a different language.
Then begin to go backwards in time, another time another space, and describe what is happening. Where are you? How old are you? What is your sex? Is it day or night? Walk into your home and describe the people. Sit down for dinner. Who is there with you. On and on until the class describes, in full detail, that lifetime. Progress to the death and describe how the body dies. This will help with understanding death and perhaps losing the fear of death.
If we can access memories we didn't know we already had in this lifetime, then why should we not be able to go back further into our past lives? One of the thing that gives this process validity is that many people invariably access memories of lives which, though they may be vastly different environments or time slots, are often quite ordinary. They are born, grow up in a family, marry, have children and die. They do not turn up as famous figures of history.
Have we lived more lives than one? Yes, I think we have, and I believe that the knowledge of these past lives can help us to understand events, people and experiences in the present life. These past life memories can also help us to heal. If we can recognize our purpose this time around, then we can get at the process of healing the Soul while bringing ourselves closer to self-transformation, with a clearer understanding of the goal. Nevertheless, never lose sight of the fact that we are living this life. This is the one of prime importance. The past life experience or memories only help to serve us in this time and space.
This lifetime is the one where we have to do the best possible job we can. Do we have to start all over again someday? Perhaps, but with more of an understanding, intelligence and empathy than we brought with us this time. The consolation is that you will not remember that you have been there and done that before-and before-and before.
You can schedule Elizabeth Joyce to come and teach a Regression Workshop in your hometown. E-mail her at: Elizabeth@Visions of Reality
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A good exercise to begin the regression experience with is present life regression. Ask the class to remember their earliest memory. Many will be surprised that they go further back than they expected. Always begin the regression with key dates in the present life - and begin from now (present time) moving backwards. Remember where you were at the Millennium change on New Year's Eve. Remember one of your happiest times in life. Remember your marriage or graduation from college, high school, remember being twelve years old, remember beginning kindergarten, remember taking your first steps or speaking your first word, then remember the womb. Many people can describe these happenings in detail.
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