This is an update to an update, hopefully the first of many as I expand my comprehension of the concept of Simultaneous Time. I located a copy of “ANSWERS FROM A GRANDER SELF,” a 1993 book that collects the information received by Tam Mossman after he started channeling a “discarnate entity” that seemed disinterested in having a name, so they settled on James. This book was brought to my attention by Michael Talbot in his “YOUR PAST LIVES - A REINCARNATION HANDBOOK” which included an entire section on something I would have been very dismissive of not too long ago, that of PAST LIFE EXPLORATION WITH TRANCE ENTITIES. Mossman was the editor for Jane Roberts’ books and was present for several years of her channeling sessions, so he was mentally prepared when he felt his consciousness being turned down, “like a rheostat,” at a dinner party one evening. The book’s chapters cover material such as YOUR THOUGHT CREATED WORLD and YOUR TRUE BEING AND ABILITIES IN YOUR PRESENT BODY, but the best of the James material collected in this book refers to past lives, something Talbot noticed where he describes how:
…many of the discarnate entities that are manifesting in trance mediums today are entities of impressive wisdom and intelligence and are frequently in possession of information which could only be obtained by paranormal means. They are also, almost without exception, bursting with information about the subtle mechanics of the reincarnation process.
It took someone of Talbot’s credentials to open my awareness to this “wisdom and intelligence” and that’s what drew me to Mossman’s book. Some of these “subtle aspects of the reincarnation process” include reframing past lives as “adjacent lives” which I have mentioned previously. In a chapter interestingly titled REINCARNATIONAL CONFIGURATIONS: THE ULTIMATE LIFE FORM, James goes a step further:
I do not prefer the term lives, for lives begin and end. EXISTENCES GO ON FOREVER!! (emphasis is the authors) That… is my message: adjacent existences!
It doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, and I won’t be renaming this site “THE ADJACENT EXISTENCES PROJECT.” (Not to mention that Google searches for me would slide to zero.) But each reframe expands my consciousness towards a more comprehensive appreciation for the concept of simultaneous time, and I love that the word “adjacent” lends a concrete, “right next door” quality to an extremely subtle concept. I’ve been adding “adjacent existences” to my descriptions to my clients to see how they react. It’s never going to replace “Past Lives” but it’s “time” for a revision.
