REINCARNATION/PAST LIVES AT THE MOVIE THEATRE?

I haven't seen nor can I recommend it, but this movie has grossed $1.5 million at the US box office, and $11.3 million worldwide:

THAT TIME I GOT REINCARNATED AS A SLIME THE MOVIE: SCARLET BOND

From the summary, possibly translated from the original Japanese:

“Corporate worker Mikami is stabbed by a random killer, is reborn to an alternate world. But he is reborn as a slime. His thrown into this new world with the name Rimuru, he begins his quest to create a world that's welcoming to all races.”

(For the record, I have never had a client report having a Past life as a slime.) 

According to Wikipedia, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime is a 20 volumeJapanese fantasy novel series. The books spawned an amine series, with a 3rd season recently announced. The film version was released in November 2022. 

Also, one of the breakout films at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival was Past Lives. It is described as an "aching, deeply romantic debut feature" from writer/director Celine Song but has no connection to Past Lives other than the title. But it got my attention. 

BRAD STEIGER & PAST LIFE MEMORIES OF OTHER WORLDS

How could I resist a dollar paperback with the title, THE FELLOWSHIP - SPIRITUAL CONTACT BETWEEN HUMANS AND OUTER SPACE BEINGS? Author Brad Steiger has over 100 books on paranormal topics in his resume, so I would be intrigued by whatever I found from his body of work.

But this book sat on my shelf for years and then magically made its way to my coffee table, where I picked it up and found this quote in the chapter titled : “Cosmic Soul Mates and Past Life Memories of Other Worlds.” Now I know why I picked up this paperback and held on to it.

Steiger has a multi-planetary, cosmically attuned perspective on Past Lives:

If one accepts the eternality of the soul and its evolutionary progression, why must such a return to the source of all that is be limited to physical expression lived only on the planet earth?

If one accepts one God/intelligence for the universe, why should each soul not experience that divine handiwork, wherever it manifests itself?

If one accepts a progression of lifetimes as opportunities for growth and for learning, why should we be confined only to the ‘classroom’ of planet earth?

Brad Steiger, The Fellowship (Ballantine Books, 1988) 134-135.

Food for thought. What if our souls are not confined to the classroom of planet Earth? Those Other Lives—Past or Future—can be accessed in the same way we explore any Past Life Journey. All that’s required is an intention and a greater willingness to "trust the first image" if it shows us something unexpected. This is the one of the areas I've been researching in my personal sessions during the period when public gatherings weren't happening. Stay tuned for more of the next step forward in "running" Past lives.

AUTHOR/EDUCATOR ALETHEIA SUGGESTS 11 SIGNS YOU'VE REINCARNATED

Thanks to author and educator Aletheia for compiling this list of:

11 SIGNS YOUR SOUL HAS REINCARNATED MANY TIMES

Aletheia's position is:

…although it is not necessarily 'you' or 'me' who has experienced reincarnation and past lives, the ever-present soulful essence within us has.

I'm not in total agreement with her list. I never considered Empathy and Intuition as strong reincarnation indicators, as many people on the spiritual path have this enhanced sensibility.
I appreciate this list drawing my attention to "feeling older than your age." Never thought about this as a sign, but it's food for thought.
And #11 is worth the investment a few sessions.*

See if any of these resonate with you as possible signs of a Past life echoing into your present incarnation. 

1) Recurring Dreams

2) Out-of-place Memories

3) You Have a Strong Intuition

4) Déjà vu

5) You’re an Empath

6) Precognition

7) Retrocognition

8) You Feel Older Than Your Age Reflects

9) You Have a Great Affinity for Certain Cultures/Time Periods/Environments

10) Unexplainable Fears or Phobias

11) You Feel as Though this Earth Is Not Your Home*

https://lonerwolf.com/awakened-soul-reincarnation/

*Number 11 is interesting to those familiar with Dolores Cannon's later work. This has become an area I’ve been exploring in my personal TimeLine Journeying sessions. More to come in 2023.

ARTICLE: CHARLOTTESVILLE SCIENTISTS CHALLENGE OFFICIAL REALITY

That’s a headline designed to get my attention. Especially the subtitle:

Reincarnation, meaningful coincidences, and NDEs require a new paradigm.

Bernard D. Beitman M.D. is the author of MEANINGFUL COINCIDENCES and a member of the faculty at the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) at the University of Virginia, the only academic parapsychological unit in the United States. I applaud his approach, especially his inclusion of Reincarnation as a topic worthy of further study as we “re-conceptualize human identity.” Beitman stresses the importance to humanity as we confront what worldwildlife.org sees as our 6th mass extinction:

Science needs new paradigms about how reality works to be able to effectively address the many challenges to human, animal, and plant survival.

Scientism, which sees the universe as a logically knowable, predictable, controllable, and undirected process, has become a belief system, much like a religion, rather than continuing the basic intention of science—to systematically ask questions about how anomalies can be understood and used.

Scientism is not wrong. It is limited. The curiosity and openness to anomalies and their relevant data have always been part of the scientific approach to reality and need to be part of the new evolving science. The findings of NDEs, reincarnation, and synchronicity research require us to re-conceptualize human identity. NDEs suggest that people can be conscious when their brains are not functioning. What, then, is consciousness separate from the brain? Children who remember past lives are hinting at the possibility that some aspect of oneself survives bodily death. Meaningful coincidences suggest that we are imbued with untapped abilities while also being guided by currently mysterious forces.

It’s encouraging to read about faculty professionals confronting the belief system of scientism which would dismiss my Past and Future lives work as unworthy of serious consideration. Next door to be pushed open: Species-ism! (More to come on that)

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/connecting-coincidence/202211/charlottesville-psychiatrists-challenge-official-reality

INTERESTING CONSCIOUSNESS STORIES IN THE NEWS- DECEMBER 2022

Cephalopods Can Pass a Cognitive Test Designed For Human Children

https://www.sciencealert.com/cephalopods-can-pass-a-cognitive-test-designed-for-human-children

Cuttlefish were shown to have the ability to pass the "marshmallow test." In this delayed gratification test, a child is seated in front of a marshmallow and told they can have one marshmallow/snack immediately, OR wait 15 minutes and have 2 marshmallows. (Full disclosure: If they used chocolate as the snack, I totally would have failed this test at any time before age 50.)
With cuttlefish, it was waiting for their preferred snack, shrimp, instead of crab meat.
(One of my favorite movies, Arrival, used cephalopods as the model for the advanced alien species that "arrived" in large craft over multiple countries.) 
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https://www.insider.com/identical-intertwined-twins-been-cleared-of-cheating-in-an-exam-2022-12

Identical college twins were accused of cheating in an exam by signaling. They won $1.5 million in damages after a jury decided they hadn't cheated because their minds were connected.

Twin sisters Kayla & Kellie Bingham were formally accused of cheating at Medical University of South Carolina because the faculty  thought "the similar scores they'd got in an important exam were more than just a coincidence."

Kellie told the council that their answers had been highly similar since first grade. She said they'd graded within a fraction of a point of one another at high school. Their SAT scores had been identical. They'd received the same score when they'd taken tests on different days and in different locations.

A professor at their college before law school wrote in their defense. He said in a letter that they'd submitted the exact same answers — some right, some wrong — for an exam that he'd supervised in 2012. They'd been sitting at opposite ends of the classroom, the professor wrote. 

Professor Nancy Segal “who founded the Twin Studies Center at California State University, Fullerton, told the jury about the "very close intertwining" of twins. She said that cheating complaints against twins are "common" in academia.”

'Identical twins just have this kind of understanding that goes beyond what we typically think of as a close relationship.'

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ARTICLE: HUMANS HAVE BEEN WEARING BEAR SKINS FOR AT LEAST 300,000 YEARS

I love it when scientists discover information about our deep past that aligns with what myself and my clients discover in Past Life Journeys. When exploring a more primitive timeline, animal skins and hides are the most common response when asking about what the past life personality is wearing.

The study, published by researchers from the University of Tübingen, and the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (SHEP) in Tübingen, examined traces of bones from a cave bear, found in the Schöningen archaeological site in Lower Saxony, Germany.

These researchers found evidence of skinning or striping of hides in places that do not have much meat.

“The find opens up a new perspective”, says Tübingen Professor Nicholas Conard, head of the Schöningen research project. “Animals were not only used for food, but their pelts were also essential for survival in the cold. The use of bear skins is likely a key adaptation of early humans to the climate in the north.”

I’m not overly concerned with finding documentation or scientific proof of costumes or practices in ancient societies. But it smoothes the way for “trusting the first image” when scientists make discoveries that back up information received in multiple Past life sessions.

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/12/humans-have-been-wearing-bear-skins-for-at-least-300000-years/145635

Fun Facts about Reincarnation, thanks to Matt Miksa

Author Matt Miksa found these facts when researching his novel, Don’t Get Close, available on Amazon:

• According to Gallup, reincarnation appears to be making a comeback (pun intended). 65% more people believe now compared to 20 years ago

• 36% of Catholics and one in four Protestants believe in reincarnation, also based on that Pew Research

• Dr. Jim Tucker, psychiatrist and past-life researcher at the University of Virginia, analyzed over 2,000 cases of remembered past lives. "30% of the cases he studied involved a past life of someone who had died a natural death. These cases were evenly split between males and females, reflecting the general population. However, of the remaining 70% of cases, where the past life ended in an accidental or unnatural death, a whopping 73% involved males." Considering that men's dangerous jobs lead to far more men than women dying unnaturally, "Dr. Tucker reasoned that someone may be more likely to remember a past life if it ended in a violent or unnatural death." (This tracks with my experiences with clients, especially in the first session.)

• The University of Virginia Division of Perceptual Studies investigated those unnatural deaths—people who believe they were murdered or accidentally killed— and found that “subjects in over one third of these cases exhibit an intense fear of that particular cause of death. For some, their elevated level of anxiety resembled that of a patient suffering from PTSD after a traumatizing event.”

• Some good news: those same UV researchers found that nearly one in ten people who remember a past life exhibit a skill related to that former life.

• More good news: Kim Tucker also found 26% of people who remember a past life demonstrate some other form of ESP.

• Sorry, more bad news: 58% of people who remember drowning in a past life have an extreme fear of water. Dr. Jim Tucker speculates this may be because “drowning victims spend more time in the process of dying” than victims of other unnatural deaths. (This lends credibility to the importance of exploring and clearing the emotional state of our final moments in past lives.)

• Back to the good news: 20% of people who remember a past life also remember something from the time between death and rebirth. (I call this the Non-Physical Experience Between lives, and in my sessions, it’s more like 75% because we actively explore the NPE.)

• 2% of people who remember a past life can accurately describe their funeral.

  Thanks to author Matt Miksa, who found these facts when researching his novel, Don’t Get Close.”

SCIENCE FICTION AUTHOR ARTHUR C CLARKE WEIGHS IN ON "TIME"

In my upcoming book Past Life Journeying, I write about Bruce Goldberg, a hypnotherapist whose presentation at a UFO conference I attended in 2020 opened the Time door for me. This opened my mind to the possibility that, as Goldberg explains in his book, Past Lives, Future Lives Revealed: 

“...because all time is simultaneous, the cause of a present-day problem could very well rest in a  future lifetime.”

Imagine my surprise when I was inspired to read Arthur C Clarke's Childhood’s End.  Clarke. who worked with Stanley Kubrick on the classic film 2001, wrote this in 1953 (!):

“'You already had proof that time is more complex than your science ever imagined. For that memory was not of the past, but of the future…It was as if a distorted echo had reverberated round the closed circle of time, from the future to the past. Call it not a memory, but a premonition.'

The idea was hard to grasp, and for a moment Jan wrestled with it in silence. Yet he should have been prepared; he had already received proof enough that cause and event could reverse their normal sequence."

My Past (and now Future) Life Journeys are providing me with “proof” about the complexity of Time. I'm beginning to appreciate writer Jacques Vallee’s opinion that rather than better science, maybe we need better science fiction.

AINSLIE MACLEOD ON "WHY ARE PAST LIVES SO AWFUL?"

I’d previously posted this excerpt from Ainslie Macleod’s blog in my newsletter:

“Anyone who thinks children are born as a blank slates clearly has never been around one.” But there’s more wisdom there:

I said it in my first book, and it’s worth repeating here: anyone who thinks children are born as blank slates has clearly never been around one. 

Your soul comes into each life with plans, goals, and millennia of experience, like a computer that comes out of the box loaded with software, games and apps.

With multiple lifetimes of experience behind it, you’d think your soul would have all the answers. Sadly, that’s not the case.

Your soul is on a long journey here on the earthly plane, coming back time and time again to pick up new knowledge, and to learn what it is to be human.

https://ainsliemacleod.com/why-are-past-lives-so-awful/

NDE RESEARCHER DR SCOTT TAYLOR ON THE NON-PHYSICAL UNIVERSE

British podcaster Howard Hughes is always a great interviewer on his “The Unexplained” podcast. In May 2022, he spoke to Dr. Scott Taylor about a topic based on his own life: the Shared Death Experience. Dr. Taylor had a life-changing encounter at the bedside of a dying loved one, where he “watched” (with closed eyes) as the spirit of his late girlfriend’s son lifted out of the body by his mother. Dr. Taylor was then allowed to interact with the reunited mother and son.

Howard was asking him about life on the Other Side of death:

The main purpose in coming into physical existence is to experience contrast….In the non-physical world, there isn’t such a thing. Everything is connected to everything else. And so you have instant access to the knowledge of the universe. And it’s this strange place where you have this individual consciousness…You know, “I am Scott Taylor.” And at the same time, I am also a part of the collective that is the human race…The non-physical universe is run by the words “Both/And” as opposed to “Either/Or.” In physical matter/duality, we're here and I’m me, and Howard is Howard, and we’re different, and we’re separate. But in the non-physical reality, the reality of the unity universe, I am me…you are you, but we are also together. We are also part of the same collective that is the human consciousness. So Both/And runs that, and down here, it’s Either/Or where we recognize our separateness.

Dr. Taylor is the former president and executive director of the Monroe Institute who wrote his doctoral thesis on “Near-Death Experiences: Discovering and living in unity.” In November 2022, he’’ll be conducting a 5 1/2 -day Near-Death Experience Intensive. This online retreat utilizes Hemi-Sync, the Monroe Institutes binaural beat sound technology to “takes you to the powerful and sacred spaces visited by NDE and SDErs.” (Referring to Near Death Experience and Shared Death Experience):

During this first-of-its-kind NDE immersion, you’ll gently explore the non-physical universe by visiting the realms encountered by NDErs.

HYPNOSIS + IMPROV = "HYPROV" LIVE ON STAGE IN NYC

Here’s an Off-Broadway play in NYC that is either a step forward or giant leap backward for Hypnosis. An experienced hypnotist, Asad Mecci, teams up with an equally experienced Improv pro, Colin Mochrie from the TV show, “Who’s Line Is It Anyway?” for an off-Broadway show they call “Hyprov.”

Mecci and Mochrie combine their talents for a show that explores creativity in the absolute weirdest way possible — Using hypnosis to turn 20 audience members into an impromptu Improv group, regardless of experience (or talent.)

Mecca’s thought process is ”while new improvisers take a second to think about what to do, hypnotized performers just react, because they have ‘the part of their brain that deals with self-criticism wiped clean.’”

I have my own thoughts on people having parts of their brains wiped clean but this show has already toured internationally and is now Off-Broadway until the end of October. Video below:

A FUTURIST AND POKER CHAMPION"S TAKE ON THE UNIVERSE

I follow a podcast by AI researcher Lex Fridman whose interviews are always fascinating even when I don’t agree with him. I was listening to a recent interview with Liv Boeree, a self-described “Science Broadcaster, Futurist and Poker Champion.” They were discussing Game Theory when her description took a turn for the cosmic:

Lex: So everything’s a game.

Liv Boeree: …The Universe, what if it’s a game and the goal of the game is to figure out either how to beat it, how to get out of it. Maybe this Universe is an escape room, like a giant escape room, and the goal is to figure out…pull all the pieces of the puzzle, figure out how it works, in order to, like, unlock this…hyperdimensional key and get out beyond what it is….And you level up. Like us becoming inter-planetary would be a level-up. Or us trying to figure out how to upload our consciousnesses…That would probably be a leveling up. Or spiritually - humanity becoming more combined and less adversarial and bloodthirsty, and us becoming a little bit more enlightened. That would be a leveling up.

If one of the questions most asked about pursuing Past Lives is “Why do this work?” Liv Boeree may have delivered a great answer:

“To Level Up. To unlock this hyper dimensional key and get out beyond physical reality.”

That was one minute of a 3 hour discussion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF-E40pxxbI

QUOTES AND DEEP THOUGHTS AUGUST 2022

Thomas Mann from the opening of his mythologically-conceived tetralogy, Joseph and His Brothers:

‘Very deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless? ... No matter to what hazardous lengths we let out our line they still withdraw, again and further into the depths.’

Thomas Mann, Joseph and his Brothers (Everyman’s Library, 2005) Preface.

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Email from the Ananda organization, devoted to carrying on the work of Paramahansa Yogananda:

"The Masters work in very long rhythms to bring about the spiritual evolution of the planet."

- Nayaswami Jyotish

(An interesting take on Time with a capital-T?)

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PAST LIVES, ABDUCTIONS, & "COLLECTING INFORMATION" FROM JOHN MACK

An excerpt from “The UFO Abduction Phenomenon: What Might it Mean for the Human Future?

We have no place for past-life experiences in the Western view of reality, for we have lost our connection with these dimensions of consciousness. Many abductees experience themselves as having a double identity, both alien and human, and we do not understand within our physicalist/materialist paradigm how they can pass from one form to another.

(I) have encountered many past-life experiences among abductees. At a certain point when they are reporting, let us say, an infantile abduction experience, an abductee may say sadly, something like “I have returned here again,” or “I’m back.” If I ignore the “again” or “back,” nothing adverse will happen, except that we will talk more about their childhood experiences, which is, of course, what we tend to do as therapists. But if I pick up the “again,” or the “return,” then what usually will come out is a past-life experience that may be reported with as much authentic feeling as biographical experiences in this lifetime.

I have talked with Thomas Kuhn, who wrote the classic book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. about how scientific paradigms change. He gave what I think is good advice about how to approach my research. He said, “Just observe. Drop all your categories as best you can. Put them aside and just collect raw information. Don’t worry about words like ‘happening,’ or ‘didn’t happen,’ ‘exists’ or ‘doesn’t exist,’ ‘inside’ and ‘outside,’ ‘real or unreal,’ ‘internal or external.’ Put all that aside and just collect information.

(Developed from a talk first given at Interface, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 23, 1993 (and given again at the 24th Annual MUFON Symposium)

http://johnemackinstitute.org/1993/04/ufo-abduction-phenomenon-what-might-it-mean-for-the-human-future/

A MYSTICAL POEM BY A YOUNG JANE ROBERTS

Today is tomorrow, and present, past,

Nothing exists and everything will last.

There is no beginning, there was no end,

No depth to fall, no height to ascend.

There is only this moment, this flicker of light,

That illuminates nothing, but oh! so bright!

For we are the spark that flutters in space,

Consuming an eternity of a moment’s grace,

For today is tomorrow, and present, past.

Nothing exists, and everything will last.

A note by Jane’s husband, Robert F. Butts:

This is the second and last verse of a poem Jane wrote in April, 1952, when she was 23 years old. Even in this immature work, which she produced 11 years before she was to initiate the Seth material, her mystical nature was asserting its innate knowledge.*

And maybe an example of Jane’s future work channeling Seth “echoing” backwards in time to her younger, curious writer’s awareness?

• A Verse From “Summer is Winter”:

  Jane Roberts, The “Unknown” Reality, Volume 1 (A Seth Book) (Amber-Allen Publishing, 2012) Preface.

"RECENTERING SETH" BY JOHN FRIEDLANDER

Cliff Dunning: If we create our own reality, there’s also the script we came in with as a soul incarnating into this body. And that script supersedes our wants and desires, it seems like. Is that correct?

JohnFriedlander: Well there are tensions and contradictions that are just intrinsic. And nothing is like a billiard ball, isolated into and unto itself. So you are the center of your consciousness; your soul is the center of its consciousness. You are part of it; it is part of you. You expand in all directions when you die, you do not get gobbled up by your soul….One direction you go off in is to become part of your soul. But you also explore unfinished business of this personality, so it isn’t just the soul that’s eternal, the personality is eternal. You’re part of the soul, the soul is part of you but you go off in other directions, the soul goes on in other directions. So yes, the soul has a very strong set of agendas, and those can be a profound constraint for your doing certain things that you want to do.

I heard the above in an interview with John Friedlander on Cliff Dunning’s excellent Destiny podcast. It led me to check out John’s new book, RECENTERING SETH. John was a member in the original 1970s living room sessions with Jane Roberts when she was channeling Seth. His new book has an awesome subtitle:

Teachings from a Multidimensional Entity on Living Gracefully and Skillfully in a World You Create But Do Not Control

This excerpt jumped out at me from the preface:

The sublime and the horrifying aspect of human consciousness is that we lose track of its very nature, which is that consciousness wants to have experience. As humans, we want to have pleasant experience, but consciousness itself wants to have experience. Seth talks about the very nature of consciousness being to explore every dimension. Now that is a far more radical statement than you might initially imagine. And humans, even as alienated as we are from the nature of consciousness, want to have experience too; we want to have all experience.

The idea that consciousness wants to have experience may be one of the keys to understanding why we’re here in physical bodies in linear time — because our consciousness wants to have experience. And as Richard Grossinger explains in the foreword:

We have entered a body to experience an aspect of creation that spirit can’t encounter as spirit alone.

More jewels to come from this book. John Friedlander’s website is:

https://psychicpsychology.org

MORE "TRUST THE FIRST IMAGE" EXAMPLES

I sensed a teachable moment reading an article titled :

40-foot wave of molasses razed Boston community more than a century ago

This appeared on accuweather.com describing a 1919 catastrophe that occurred when a 2.3 million gallon tank of molasses burst, destroying a town and causing 11 deaths. From the article:

Most of the time, the word "flood" means a torrent of water rushing into a populated area, destroying property and taking lives. It might come from a river, a lake, runoff from heavy rainfall or a surge from an ocean, but it's water all the same.

However, floods with no water at all do happen, and they have devastating impacts not only economically but on the environment. Of the earliest in recorded history two stand out: The London beer flood in 1814, and the Dublin whiskey fire in 1875.

Incredibly, this happened again recently:

(I)n 2013, a tank in Honolulu Harbor filled with 233,000 gallons of the stuff spilled into the Pacific Ocean.

Imagine the Past Life Journeyer whose senses are telling him that their community life was disrupted with either they or their loved ones dead or dying from a flood. But how to trust the image when the flood isn’t water? What if it’s either thick and gooey, or smells like beer or whiskey. It would be all too easy for that person to think, “I must be making this up.” I don’t pursue this work for the purpose of gathering historical data, but knowing that uncanny and anomalous tragedies occur suggests some of us carry these traumas in our Soul’s record. Especially when death echoes into our present life as health or addiction or relationship issues, we have to be willing to look beyond the expected to the challenging and abnormal.

UPDATE ON HISTORICAL MESOAMERICA HUMAN SACRIFICE RITUALS

Because of my previous post about the Aztec Priest, this article about scientific examination into drug use in MesoAmerican human sacrifice rituals caught my attention. Once again, I am not searching for historical verification, but it’s always illuminating when science clarifies a mystifying event. In the case of the Aztec Priest, (as always a placeholder name, not a historical designation) scientific research points to the significant use of drugs in these rituals, and the historical basis for their importance.

Capacocha rituals served different purposes for different parts of the Empire. Local communities organized them to prevent natural disasters like droughts, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions…It is believed that Inca children consumed psychotropic substances in order to get in touch with the supernatural during the moments leading up to their sacrifice. This would make sense considering that, after their deaths, their contemporaries would go on to worship them as mediators between the world of people and the world of huacas. 

In reality, however, it seems more likely that the victims were given these drugs to make them more compliant, as well as to help with the anxiety and depression they must have felt upon realizing their days were numbered. Evidence for this is both anecdotal and scientific. For one, several Spanish observers wrote that the drugs were used to dull rather than heighten the senses of the victims.

(Reinhard and his co-authors conclude this) suggests the children were given drugs not to induce visions but improve their mood.

It’s affirming to receive historical verification of the use of these ritual sacrifices to “prevent natural disasters such as droughts.” From my notes:

I knew in my heart that I was a showman, that I had no control over the crops or the weather. I also knew that someday bad weather and a failing crop would have me become the sacrifice…

I did wonder why the Aztec Priest didn’t report on how the chosen sacrifice victims were given drugs in preparation for their ceremony, and my thought was, “That wasn’t the High Priest’s job. He had other people to select and prepare those chosen.” I remember how it was stressed that:

I had guards to do the dirty work of opening the chest cavity so I could access and remove the heart.

Unless there is more to the story and I was only given what I could handle at that time. I remember my present-day discomfort upon learning about how much death was involved in that “job,” and I felt my “Other” life personality’s pain and his constant drug use* to cope with that horrific aspect of his position. When an article like this comes to my attention I use it as an opportunity to revisit and ask more questions about an “Other” life. Or just add to the ever-growing list of questions on file.

https://bigthink.com/the-past/inca-ayahuasca-human-sacrifice/

*I thought I wasn’t drawn to the Ayahuasca experience because of all the vomiting involved. I did a few Kambo sessions and puked enough to fulfill my regurgitation quotient for my present life.

DID DICK SUTPHEN KNOW ABOUT THE AWARENESS TECHNIQUES?

I found a collection of Dick Sutphen’s recorded work on YouTube , including a “Viewing Past-LIves Workshop” and was intrigued by a title - “The Ascension Technique.” Sutphen’s description of this method tracks exactly to the opening of the Awareness Techniques:

I call the technique used in the album ‘The Ascension Technique’ because it requires you to imagine or fantasize that you are ascending to the top of a house or the building you are in, and then to a height of 500 feet in the air before receiving special instructions to descend into a past life. Now I understand that a variation of the technique was developed in the mid-1960s and used by a few practitioners who became very excited about the dependability of the method. I first became aware of it in the mid-1970s and began to use it experimentally, especially as an alternative astral projection technique. Over the years, it has been one of many variations of past life regression I’ve used in seminars. And again, I’ve always liked it because it always seemed to work for everybody. Now neither I nor several friends who conduct regressions know exactly why the technique is so effective, and I guess it doesn’t really matter. What you are interested in are results…

He refers to a “variation” of the technique from the 1960s before praising it for its “dependability” and how “it seemed to work for everybody.” But once again, no mention of the Awareness Techniques or the work of William and Diane Swygard. From Awareness Techniques Book 1 (and the Original Instructions on my website) - the client is instructed to go stand in front of the building where he lives and describe the door, door knob, windows, etc. 

After he sees and describes to you these objects, tell him to, "Go quickly and stand on the roof of the building and look down into the road (or yard) in front.Tell me as soon as you are there.' Ask him to see and describe such objects as cars, road, trees, etc. When this is completed, tell him to go about 500 feet up into the air and look down. (One in a hundred may object at this point but remind him quickly that he is still safe in the room.) Then repeat the request. " Tell me as soon as you are there.'

Apparently the Original Instructions were making the rounds of the community of people pursuing past lives, since Sutphen also mentions “several friends who conduct regressions” but no one credited the authors William and Diane Swygard even as they built businesses selling recorded versions of this induction. I am a fan of Dick Sutphen’s work and have written about his innovations so I’m not trying to discredit him. I’m just one of the many people who:

liked it because it always seemed to work for everybody.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09FhTiYm2r0&list=OLAK5uy_lZlo7JuxfilIGjYUuQa5k2zhPb_vGxdR0

JEFFREY MISHLOVE & SURVIVAL OF CONSCIOUSNESS AFTER DEATH

Jeffrey Mishlove, speaking with Simon Brown on his Past Lives Podcast 6/20/22, speaking of Robert Bigelow’s support for research for the survival of consciousness after death. Mishlove is the host of the long-running Thinking Allowed interview series, first on PBS for 15 years, and now continuing online as New Thinking Allowed. He is also the winner of the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies essay contest to “summarize the best evidence available for the survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death.”

“JM: I can imagine that if there are, let us say, thousands of planets in the galaxy or in the universe that have sentient intelligent life, that we’re..this planet is probably on the low end of what conscious human beings are capable of accomplishing. We’re too caught up in accumulating material benefits for ourselves at the expense of the whole, at the expense of the planet itself.

Simon Brown: In all of your research…has any bit of information came up that really surprised you?

JM: I would say this: that maybe the frontier, the most far out area, is to look at the relationship between (the) survival of consciousness and UFO related phenomenology. There seems to be a connection between the Afterlife and hyperspace. You know if you’re going to travel on an interstellar vehicle, at least if you’re a human being, the distances are so great, even traveling at the speed of light you can’t get very far….So I imagine that civilizations capable of interstellar space travel have mastered hyperspace. And I think that an understanding of hyperspace requires understanding the relation between hyperspace and consciousness. And that also means understanding the Afterlife. I think the afterlife occurs some “place.” The Buddhists call it the Bardo Planes. I think the mathematics of hyperspace may get us to have a more precise understanding of the nuances of the Afterlife and its relationship to the unconscious mind. And, surprisingly, its relationship to UFO phenomena.

Mishlove’s response about the connection between the survival of consciousness and the UFO phenomenon definitely caught my attention when I heard it while driving and listening to the Past Lives Podcast. But Mishlove makes the leap to “a connection between the afterlife and hyperspace,” in line with his idea that “the afterlife occurs some place” and the mechanics of interstellar travel. I feared he was stuck in materialism in assuming a location in some form of physical reality rather than a state of consciousness, but he pulled back from that ledge with his comment on the need for “a more precise understanding of the nuances of the Afterlife and its relationship to the unconscious mind.” Still the implication of a connection between the UFO phenomenon and “Post-material consciousness” is an area that researchers (and experiencers) such as Whitley Streiber have explored in the UFO field, and has a foothold in the Past and Between lives field going back to Dolores Cannon and Bruce Goldberg whose work I have written about on this blog. Layer on top of this the work of researchers such as Michael Masters, whose book “The ExtraTempestrials” I am currently reading, exploring the link between the UFO phenomena and Time Travel. 

I feel this new terrain is a natural extension of my past lives work, and I have personally researched my own pre- and post-human timelines and personalities that occur beyond what Cannon calls the “Earth School”  — before and after incarnating on this current planet, which may be only one of the many planets where we experience physical incarnations once we open ourselves to the immensity of our soul’s journey from the beginning of this Universe. But I am still processing this material and haven’t written about it…yet. It’s encouraging to hear leading thinkers like Jeffrey Mishlove giving expression to ideas that would have been too, too far out even a few years ago.