UPDATE FROM THE SOULPHONE FOUNDATION & POSTMATERIAL PHYSICS

I've been following the work done by the SoulPhone Project but not because of their fascination with creating a device to communicate with the deceased, which they lovingly refer to as "post-material persons (PMPs) — those who have transitioned from earth." It's their willingness to explore topics like the area of "post material physics" they mention in their newsletter:

Good but slow progress continues on the SoulPhone Project.  The R & D team agrees that part of the challenge is the unprecedented level of sensitivity for sensors that detect the signal / presence of postmaterial persons.  Another challenge is that 'postmaterial physics' -- perhaps the first written use of this term that may someday be a branch of existing physics -- may differ from that of humans. 

From my past lives perspective, it’s a given that physics operates differently after the death of the physical body. I recognize that Gary Schwartz, PhD may be operating from the need to raise money to fund the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health (LACH) at the University of Arizona where the SoulPhone Foundation operates. Holding to the guidelines from the physical sciences may assist fundraising, but I fear it will hold them back in exploring what I call the NPE - the Non-Physical Experience between lives. I recognize they are attempting to create a physical interface, eventually a keyboard, to communicate with the dead, en route to what their name describes, a SoulPhone app “to be used with any smart personal device.”

The physical sciences require physical proof, so their first step seems to be the SoulSwitch, apparently a device to measure a Yes/No response from a PMP. But reading their update alerted me to another area that fascinates me: establishing communication with collaborators from the postmaterial realm-

Hypothesized postmaterial collaborators (HPCs) include ‘deceased’ people who were stellar scientists, inventors, entertainers, and teachers while living on earth.  They want to help those of us who are experiencing life from an earthly perspective.

I’ve been intrigued with the possibility of collaborators from the postmaterial realm, or non-physical sources of wisdom, since my personal experience with this phenomena in 2020 but I haven’t written about this yet. This was a part of my Past Life Journeying book until the latter stages of editing, when I decided to focus on the instructions and tips on accessing Past Lives. In summary, after a session my client surprised me by saying, “oh this is for you.” What followed was a 5-minute “download” of information informing me that:

  • Time doesn't operate the way we assume it does.

  • All our lives are happening at the same time

  • All our lives—Past, Present & Future—are interacting at all times, so that

  • Healing one life sends healing to all our lives.

This was the breakthrough for me that led to the discovery of my Future life “George” and reframed how Time functions. This led to my next step, TimeLine Journeying, seeing all our lives as one stream that switches from the Physical to the Non-Physical and back.

Knowing that the SoulPhone Foundation’s work was based in part on postmaterial collaborators made me realize they are much less attached to the paradigms of physical science than their newsletters would suggest. But the webpage on these Hypothesized Postmaterial Collaborators (HPCs) took an unexpected detour. Dr. Schwartz’s wife, Rhonda Eklund Schwartz, is an “evidentiary research medium,” which I’d never encountered. According to author Joy Sackett Wood:

Evidential mediumship is when a spiritual medium provides clear facts related to a person’s loved one and proves their continued existence in spirit, either through an individual reading or a group demonstration.

Schwartz claims to be working with a postmaterial “A-team (of) scientists, inventors, business persons, lay people and entertainers — some whose names you would recognize.” The information they receive is then validated by “evidence” provided by Rhonda Schwartz and ten other evidential mediums through readings, research, and “signs and synchronicities.” This is much deeper into the Woo than I was expecting or am comfortable endorsing.

It’s worth noting this research is being conducted at the University of Arizona in Tucson, though the SoulPhone Foundation seeks funding through their newsletter to support research and publication. I’ll be paying attention to the SoulPhone Foundation’s research as I continue my own explorations of Non-Physical sources of wisdom.

FAVORITE QUOTES JULY 2023

Purgatory is sh#tsville. You’re stuck with the body you had on Earth when you died.

Author James Elroy in his novel Widespread Panic

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I was sick of memoirs and the swagger of survivors, the way they mounted the past above the mantel for all to ooh and aah over.

Author Dan Lepucki in her novel Woman No. 17

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“As in many places mistaken for heaven, the guy at the top mistook himself for God.”

Jessica Winter, New Yorker magazine, THE UPPER WEST SIDE CULT THAT HID IN PLAIN SIGHT

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There’s no perfection in art, only degrees of graceful failure.

Author Alex Pappademas from his book on Steely Dan, Quantum Criminals

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And re: the writers strike:

…in the machinery of late stage capitalism, labor is not people. Labor is a box in a spreadsheet.

Anonymous, Strike Diary 5/27/23, The Hollywood Reporter

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(Lots of AI material in the news)

Imagine simplifying complex realities into something that is readable for a machine that is totally dumb.

Milagros Miceli, a researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute in Germany who studies data work.

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To reduce “intelligence” to an elaborate application of statistics sounds insightful but isn’t, no more than reducing “life” to a set of chemical equations.

The Imitation Game by Ken Liu, Slate 6/24/23

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Artificial intelligence is actually really stupid, considering it can only repackage ideas that already exist, and using it solely to create content is a hilariously bad idea.

Kevin Hurler, Gizmodo, 6/7/23

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& the last word from singer/songwriter John Mellencamp:

You only have so many f#cks to give in your body, so don’t give a f#ck about what’s not f#ckworthy.

John Mellencamp, What I’ve Learned, Esquire magazine

TWO NEW FILMS DEALING WITH TIME

I heard about 2 new movies coming out which take a non-traditional approach to time and, in the 2nd case, Past Lives.

In a review posted on Daily Beast for the film, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, writer Esther Zuckerman notes:

…this time around is all about time travel. The eponymous “dial of destiny” is the “Antikythera,” an invention created by Archimedes that can supposedly create fissures in time.

Interesting that time travel is featured in a film that may be most known for de-aging actor Harrison Ford in what may be his last performance as “Indy.”

Then there’s a film just been announced, the “psychological thriller Past Lives, from director Simeon Halligan”:

Written by Dean Lines and Ray Bogdanovich (Hounded, The Banishing), the pic follows Jason Frey (Emile Hirsch), an investigative reporter who reluctantly agrees to attend a hypnotism event with his pregnant wife Claira (Antonia Thomas). Under hypnosis, Jason witnesses a murder through the eyes of a killer. Haunted by what he has seen, Jason uses past live regression techniques to investigate a series of unsolved murders from the eighties while unwittingly reawakening a psychopath's killer tendencies.

For the record, no one I’ve ever guided has ever “unwittingly” reawakened any of their past lives psychopathic tendencies.

And this category in the 2023 BAFTA* awards caught my attention:

Reality and Constructed Factual

*British Academy of Film and Television Arts

   *JUNE 2023 DEEP THOUGHTS*

   


The past is never where you think you left it. 

- Katherine Anne Porter, Ship of Fools, 1962

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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream. 

- Edgar Allan Poe, 1875


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A kid, he said, is like “an alien who just got off a spaceship and is looking around.”

- Steven Wright, comedian and author of Harold, a novel written from the viewpoint of “an average seven-year-old third grader growing up in the 1960s.”

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I believe that the reasons to open more of our potential are that:

-- it is in your true nature to do so

-- the world needs us to do it. Each one of us that opens more of our full potential is changing the collective consciousness of humanity.

-Art Giser, energeticnlp.com

1970 MOVIE MUSICAL ABOUT REINCARNATION

In 1970, a film was released, directed by Vincente Minelli & based on a hit Broadway show, “On A Clear Day You Can See Forever.” I finally caught up with it, fascinated by the idea of a movie studio green lighting an expensive movie about reincarnation with a major box office star, Barbra Streisand. It included a mention of possibly accessing Future lives (in the most cynical way)!

The film concerns a psychiatrist who is treating a patient, Daisy, who is so incredibly suggestible to hypnosis that she goes into a deep trance while another person is being hypnotized in a demonstration class. The client, played by Barbra Streisand, just wants to quit smoking but keeps going back to a 19th century life as a glamorous seductress trying to escape Dickensian poverty. The psychiatrist Marc, played by French actor Yves Montand, is baffled and dismissive of reincarnation. That is, until further treatments open him to the possibility that something real is occurring in his office sessions.

The shift I didn't expect comes when the psychiatrist is forced to either stop talking about his reincarnation work (which somehow causes near riots on the campus of the school where Marc teaches) or resign. The college president informs Marc that an aging rich donor, Mr Stratton, wants him to continue his studies, and even open a permanent department devoted to reincarnation. 

The college president, Mr. Mason is played by comedian Bob Newhart: 

Mason: But Mr. Stratton wants proof. It occurred to him that if it’s possible to identify one’s previous incarnations, it might also be possible to determine one’s future ones. In which case Mr. Stratton could leave his money to himself. 

Marc: Meaning, if he can’t take it with him, he’ll come back and get it?

Mason: Yes. Well, what do you think, Marc?

Marc: It’s the chance of a lifetime. Of all my lifetimes. You’re not happy about it, are you?

Mason: No, I’m not happy. I think reincarnation is appalling. It kills ambition, perpetuates human misery, and propagates false hopes. And is obviously a pack of lies.

Marc: Then how can you accept his proposition?

Mason: I may be wrong. 

It never occurred to me that a scientific materialist, like the college professor, could think that opening ourselves to the possibility that we have lived many lives, and may live many more after this one, could:

  • kill ambition

  • perpetuate human misery

  • and propagate false hopes.

    There is a tearjerker of a song that features these lyrics:

What did I know/

Where did it go/

What did I have/

That I don’t have now?

Obviously the composer Burton Lane and screenplay author Alan Jay Lerner had a more optimistic view about the reincarnation experience. Daisy leaves her uptight fiancee for a chance at love with her rich hippy stepbrother (!?) played by Jack Nicholson in an early role. And the cynical psychiatrist has his mind blown (and consciousness expanded), going back to his wife a changed man. The songs are great, and Barbra Streisand is an incredible singer. I found this on Hoopla but it’s not available on the usual streaming platforms at the moment. Worth a watch.

PS - In 2021, when I was only able to watch the YouTube excerpts, I wrote about the source material for the play:

https://pastlivesproject.org/the-past-lives-project-blog/a-1960s-reincarnation-musical



Remote Viewing Instructor Lori Lambert Williams on Slumps

I’m currently reading Boundless: Your How To Guide for Practical Remote Viewing by Lori Lambert Williams after hearing an interview with her on the Astonishing Legends podcast. I am not interested in learning her Remote Viewing (RV) technique but found some of her advice to students matched perfectly with my Past and Future Lives Journeying.

One area that is worth sharing is her take on the inevitable slump that someone goes through when pursuing any new activity. I worked through a rough slump in my person sessions, and know from experience how being in a slump can be part of the learning curve:

There are certain milestones that every remote viewer experiences, and some of those are pleasant, some of those are not so pleasant. Like slumps, for example.

Slumps are true in anything you try to learn, whether you're trying to learn the violin, or the piano, or martial art, or yoga, or whatever. You go through periods where you kind of have a step backwards, you go two steps forward, one step backwards. It's the same thing in remote viewing. Students will go through a period called a slump. And we've discovered that what's happens when the slump occurs is that something's getting worked out on a subconscious level, and you might not even be aware. It's subconscious, so you're not aware of it.

It could be something way deep in your psyche that's gotten worked out, that you now have a resolution for. And so, slumps are really important.

Also, our brains are processing what we’ve learned in our down time and when we’re sleeping. Allowing for that interval, even that it can be frustrating, can be seen as part of the acquisition of a new skill, like Past Life Journeying.

Another piece of advice that translates to PLJ from Williams’ advice for RVstudents:

…our mantra that we repeat all the time is describe, don't identify. The nouns you're going to come up with are suspect because nouns name things, and they come from the left brain.

Remote Viewing uses drawing and sketching the “target” to gather information, so identifying can mislead the process into analytical thinking. In PLJ, this can manifest as applying our modern 21st century perspective on ancient scenes, so I’ll be adding “describe, don’t identify” to my guidance.

A PAGAN PERSPECTIVE ON PAST LIVES FROM JOHN BECKETT

Pagan, Druid, and Unitarian Universalist John Beckett writes about reincarnation from his unique perspective on his Patheos.com site. Inspired by a tweet, he asks,

“If you believe in reincarnation, what do you think (or hope) your next life will be like?”

His reply:

I’ve come to the conclusion that the most likely scenario is a time of rest and reflection in the Otherworld, followed by some form of reincarnation in this world. But I’ve given virtually no thought to what my future life might be like.

Since I’m now exploring Future lives in addition to deep dives into the past, I appreciated his Pagan/Druid perspective. Beckett broke it down into sections:

  • I don’t think we get to choose

  • I want to continue what I’ve built in this life

  • I think that means coming back quickly

  • I hope for an easier childhood

  • I hope I don’t get distracted by the times

  • Both of these could be satisfied by an earlier awakening

  • I hope for what I’ve had in this life: a few good friends

  • To be human is to wonder.

The only area I might disagree with Beckett is thinking he needs to get back quickly to continue the work from his present life. My experiences with Simultaneous Time have shown me this is not an issue, since the original of that “life’s work” could possibly be in the linear Future, and it’s completion in the distant past. But his reasoning is admirable:

If I’m going to continue the big work of this life, I think that means I need to come back fairly quickly. There aren’t enough people doing this work now. I’ll be needed sooner rather than later.

Even though I don’t have an inclination to Pagan or Druid philosophies, I agree that we need more people doing this deep inner work now.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbeckett/2022/03/what-will-your-next-life-be-like.html#disqus_thread

Thanks to MM who sent this to me.

APPLYING REMOTE VIEWING TIPS FOR FUTURE LIFE JOURNEYING

I seem to have opened a door with my last post about Remote Viewing. For those who are unfamiliar, Wikipedia describes Remote Viewing as “the practice of seeking impressions about a distant or unseen subject.” In my last post, Stephen Schwartz mentioned how he hated that term and preferred to describe it as “accessing non-local consciousness.” Since Past Life Journeying could be characterized as accessing non-local consciousness, I am noticing the overlap between these two modalities.

I have previously referred to my shelf elves...those mysterious beings who bring the perfect book to my attention at the perfect time. Now I seem to have that same helpful energy working for me in the podcast realm…Podcast Pixies? I am grateful they guided me to the Astonishing Legends podcast. In the hundreds of episodes on astonishinglegends.com, I clicked on an interview with Lori Lambert Williams because the title “Boundless Remote Viewing” got my attention. Williams is a teacher of Controlled Remote Viewing, one of the many offshoots of the original RV process, with what she claims are thousands of students, both online and in person.  I listened (and took notes) as Williams explained how to use CRV to “awaken and harness your ability to access information and solutions.” 

The first hint that Williams was syncing with my work was a reference to the power of the intention of the “tasker,”who is the person who is conducting the CRV session. In my last blog Stephen Schwartz, also a Remote Viewer, said:

We know from the experimental research that the intention and beliefs of the questioner influence very strongly the remote viewer. 

Lori Williams said something similar:

I believe the intention of the person that we call “the tasker”…plays a huge role in the outcome that the RVer gets, because you can think of us as an old wagon wheel. Think about an old wooden wagon wheel. We consider ourselves as the outside of the wagon wheel, like each spoke is unique…But really at the core, we’re all connected at the hub of the wheel, and that’s where we all become the same….And the hub is the representative of that. And so I feel like, when we’re all connected, that's why that intention comes into play and we are able to come up with the answer. 

She describes some aspects of her CRV process that can be applied to Past Life Journeying, which is when I started taking notes. (The Astonishing Legends crew provides transcripts for all their podcasts, for which I am grateful.) As my first rule in Past Life Journeying is borrowed from my experiences with Gail Gulick’s Shamanic Journeys: Trust the first image. In CRV, Lori Williams advises: 

…our mantra that we repeat all the time is describe, don't identify. The nouns you're going to come up with are suspect because nouns name things, and they come from the left brain.

In PLJ, we start with “look down at your feet and tell me what, if anything is covering your feet.” In conventional past life journeys, we will have a visual sense, or get a verbal prompt, describing either bare feet or some material covering those feet, whether cloth, animal skin, rubber, etc. When we expand into the uncharted territory of Future Lives, whatever is covering our feet may not necessarily be similar to what we wore in the past or present, and we need to open ourselves to unique footwear and clothing. Using CRV’s “describe, don’t identify” can be helpful in this regard. 

Williams describes “milestones” in the progress of people in her programs, taken from her experience with hundreds of students:

There are certain milestones that every remote viewer experiences, and some of those are pleasant, some of those are not so pleasant. Like slumps, for example.

Slumps are true in anything you try to learn, whether you're trying to learn the violin, or the piano, or martial art, or yoga, or whatever. You go through periods where you kind of have a step backwards, you go two steps forward, one step backwards. It's the same thing in remote viewing. Students will go through a period called a slump. And we've discovered that what happens when the slump occurs is that something's getting worked out on a subconscious level, and you might not even be aware...It could be something way deep in your psyche that's gotten worked out, that you now have a resolution for. And so, slumps are really important.

Williams noticed that students who accepted slumps as part of their process and worked through their disappointment went on to excel in CRV. I never thought to address slumps in the deeper applications of PLJ, although I have experienced them myself. It took me months of effort to run a past life by myself (and I offer a template for conducting solo sessions in my Past Life Journeying book). I never thought of my “slump” as a time when stuff was being worked out on the subconscious level, although the progress I made afterwards would point to stuff being processed deep in my psyche. 

There is a 2nd interview with Williams in my podcast queue, and the transcript for that episode opens with this quote from Remote Viewer Joseph McMoneagle:

Being able to alter your belief in what is real is critical in learning to RV (Remote View.) 

Being open to altering your belief in “what is real” aka consensus reality, is critical to progress in advanced Past Life and TimeLine Journeying.

Boundless Remote Viewing transcript:

https://www.rev.com/transcript-editor/shared/TuMRjvJCnd-2a_BOGSJxEnDz9KJv1i4CkhLg6daWYzjulvyoYkLPsn7QkNUogWrODn4vwKRheo60unJBibtGch4lOzA?loadFrom=SharedLink

JOHN MACK'S 1994 BOOK "ABDUCTIONS" & PAST LIVES

I have always been intrigued by the interconnection between my Past Lives work and my fascination with UFO phenomenon. The first time this came to my attention was when I saw researcher Rey Hernandez speak at the 2019 Contact in the Desert conference. Hernandez, at the time one of the co-founders of astronaut Edgar Mitchell's Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial and Extraordinary Experiences, or FREE, featured lots of data and screens full of numbers logging the accounts of contactees, including this:

26% of contactees have received information about past lives as a result of their contact

(Hernandez is now working with CCRI - the Consciousness & Contact Research Institute)

On a 2023 road trip and listening to the Our Strange Skies podcast, I heard another reference to Past Lives in connection to the UFO phenomena. This was from an unexpected source:  John E. Mack’s 1994 book Abductions- Human Encounters With Aliens. Checking out the book, I was surprised to find 28 references to Past Lives in the book! The publication of Abductions got Mack in so much trouble it almost cost him his job as head of the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He had to go to court to fight for his job and won with the help of noted attorney Daniel Sheehan.*

But the Past Lives angle was superseded by the spiritual connotations of people’s experiences, and linked up with what I was experiencing in my latest research and in my personal sessions.

I will devote more attention in this book to the transformational and spiritual growth aspect of the abduction phenomenon that has been the case in other literature on the subject.

I have come to appreciate how simpatico I am with Mack’s methodology, even though he uses a “modified version of hypnosis” including breathwork based on Stanislav Grof’s research. Mack wins me over with this:

I explain to the abductee at the beginning of the session that I am more interested in their integration of their recalled experiences as we go along than in “getting the story.” The story, I explain, will take care of itself in due time. 

I advocate that the most important question to open a session can be, “What do I need to see next?” Mack seems to be using this same approach:

I found that the psyche’s own wisdom would take the experiencer where he or she needs to go in the trance and that the healing, integrating, and information-gathering process is better served by not “targeting“ a specific…event.

Mack is a trained psychiatrist and scholar who understands the importance of allowing his client to tell their own story, and I was never concerned about any leading questions, although only excerpts were included in the book. 

The abduction phenomenon, I have come to realize, forces us, if we permit ourselves to take it seriously, to reexamine our perception of human identity and to look at who we are from a cosmic perspective…

This “cosmic perspective” becomes the main takeaway from the book, and what drew me to explore his work. As a scholar, he categorizes: “experiences reported by abductees for which we can conceive of no explanation within a Newtonian/Cartesian or even Einsteinian space/time ontology.”

The Past Lives angle was mentioned most prominently in the section titled, “Types of experience during abductions that appear to be related to personal growth and transformation.”

Past lives are experienced during the sessions with strong emotion appropriate to what is being remembered…Complaints, or simply observations of being here on earth “again,” of being “back,” or having “returned,” are voiced (about which I then inquire). The past lives that are recalled seem to have relevance to the personal development or evolution of the experiencer.

I would offer that all  Past lives have relevance to the personal development/evolution of the experiencer, but it is gratifying that Mack, who was not conducting past life regressions in his practice, came to this conclusion. I have heard from clients what he calls “complaints” being voiced about having to be returned to Earth “again.” I addressed this in my Past Life Journeying  book as my surprise at discovering a Future life:

Because I’ve been one of many people who declared, “This is my last life. Let me finish my work here and go ‘home.’ I am not coming back to this planet.”  

I also refer to many clients expressing this same emotion after accessing that sense of “home” that Mack reports. 

Because there was so much information in Mack’s Past Life reportage, I had to break them down to bullet points to address them adequately:

  • Past life experiences provide abductees (and the investigator) with a different perspective about time and the nature of human identity

  • Cycles of birth and death over long stretches of time can be relived, providing a different, less ego derived sense of the continuity of life and the smallness of an individual lifetime from a cosmic perspective

  • Consciousness is experienced as not coterminous (sic) with the body; the notion of a soul with an existence separate from the body becomes relevant

  • Once the separateness of consciousness from the body is grasped, other kinds of “transpersonal” experiences become possible

  • The frequency with which past life experiences are recalled during the hypnotic regressions relates also to the idea of expanded identity, i.e., In some sense the human spirit or soul is not limited to this lifetime, but may have extended over hundreds and even…thousands of years

  • Past life recall becomes particularly powerful when it makes it possible to see…a continuity of personal growth over more than one lifetime

  • A number of abductees with whom I have worked experience at certain points an opening up to the source of being in the cosmos, which they often call Home, and from which they feel they have been brutally cut off in the course of becoming embodied as as a human being

  • Related apparently to this opening to the divine source is the experience that some abductees have of great cycles of birth, life, and death, repeating over long stretches of time

  • This may become particularly apparent when past life experiences are relived and the abductee is permitted to recall the actual experiences of death and rebirth. 

    (This last point seems to refer to a session focused on accessing a past life rather than Mack’s ongoing abduction research.)

I have seen in my clients/participants, and experienced in myself, this “transformational and spiritual growth aspect” from deeply exploring Past and Future lives. That Mack saw this in individuals who reported abductions by, and ongoing contact with, what appeared to be extraterrestrial beings is equal parts challenging and uplifting. (And I recognize that Mack published  Abductions in 1994!) 

I offer Past Life and TimeLine Journeying as a safer, more controlled method of accessing this “cosmic perspective” alluded to by Mack in Abductions. 

*I watched Sheehan’s workshop at the 2001 online version of Contact In The Desert, (the “Woodstock of UFO events,” according to USA Today. It has inspired my ongoing examination of “Species-ism.”

STEPHEN A SCHWARTZ ON WHY EDGAR CAYCE WAS WRONG ABOUT ATLANTIS

I ran across this video on YouTube, an interview with Stephen A. Schwartz on the Next Level Soul Podcast. Schwartz has been Remote Viewing the future timeline of 2050 and 2060 and is about to publish his findings. But his take on why he disagreed with Edgar Cayce on Atlantis is idiosyncratic:

We know from the experimental research that the intention and beliefs of the questioner influence very strongly the remote viewer. The people who asked him (Cayce) the question were all Atlantis fanatics….So the researcher’s intentions and attitudes have an effect on the ability of the remote viewer to get information because in the non-local…in the “Great Google in the Sky” as it were, inaccurate information…that’s strongly believed is part of the information architecture.

There are 2 thoughts worth unpacking here. This is an area I have wondered about but never heard anyone examine: the role of the questioner in Remote Viewing. (Schwartz hates that name and prefers to call it “accessing non-local consciousness.” ) But Schwartz claims it can “very strongly…influence” the remote viewer, or whoever is looking for the information. This could explain the “feedback loop” that can occur in groups doing this kind of work, where the questioner’s beliefs affect the remote viewer, who then reinforces the questioner’s opinions, closing off any hope of keeping an open mind.

Schwartz, who jokingly refers to remote viewing as searching “the great Google in the sky,” suggests that inaccurate information, like in the above example of the strong beliefs of the questioner, then becomes part of what he calls “the information architecture.”

So if a Remote Viewer, and I’ll expand this to a channeler, can deliver inaccurate information when influenced by a strong belief system in the people asking them questions, and that inaccurate info is then “filed” in “Sky Google” - the Akashic Records, how vital is our “discernment muscle” when dealing with information from non-physical sources? This influencing is an open question I’ll be exploring.

Regarding Schwartz’s Remote Viewing of Future timelines: In the interview, he acknowledged his own limitations in doing this work with a mention of Jules Verne’s futuristic novel, Paris In The Twentieth Century, which wasn’t published in Verne’s lifetime. He saw this book as an example of our inability to look too far into the future because the information can exceed our ability to process it. Verne looked at Paris in the future and saw modern technologies, “automobiles, fax machines, elevators, even mega-corporations,” that were too unbelievable for his publisher. The book sat in a box until it was discovered and published in 1994…96 years after it was written.

As someone who has been exploring a Future TimeLine, I recognize the pitfalls. But I can rely on the personal connection to my Future self, “seeing through the eyes and hearing through the ears” of this 29th century personality, and take a “just the facts” approach to what I call the “science fiction reality” of that era. Schwartz gives a great interview, I look forward to the publication of his book.

PAST LIFE JOURNEYING COVER ARTIST RPJ ON HIS PROCESS + PAST LIVES

I had the great good fortune to work with artist Red Pill Junkie on a break from his multi-year project The UFO Tarot deck. Now that the cover proofs have been submitted to BookBaby, my choice of self-publishing hand-holders, RPJ ( as he is known) posted about his design process on his website:

https://absurdbydesign.wordpress.com/2023/03/22/commission-past-life-journeying/

I learned a lot from reading this, as we only communicated by email and have never spoken. RPJ is an excellent writer who contributes to the Daily Grail website, my first stop for news on the fringes of the mainstream and even alternative media. My favorite line from his post is:

Reincarnation researchers are not thinking fourth-dimensionally.

I learned that RPJ only took the project after reading the sample I sent him and realizing I was dealing with that “4th dimensional” aspect in my book: Time, always respectfully spelled with a capital T.

An amazing sync appears in this post as RPJ is describing his design process and choices he made for what I call the “costumes” of the past life personalities he is depicting. When it came to “future guy”—the representation of my Future life personality from the 29th century shown on the far left—RPJ made an interesting choice:

…if our society keeps moving in the same direction, the next centuries will see the rise of ‘cyborg-like’ interphases designed to augment the capabilities of human beings; which is why I gave this guy a sort of ‘cybernetic lens’ in his right eye.

From my original notes on the session where I discovered my “future guy,"’ whom I nicknamed “George,” after the dad in the 60s futuristic cartoon The Jetsons:

- had bionic eye/computer chip by choice

That’s a big wow! I didn’t include that in the chapter on “George” in Past Life Journeying because I only hinted at his existence, introducing George as an example of what is possible with the Past Life Journeying technique plus a reframing of Time. The bionic eye, which is in fact in George’s right eye, is one of the details that requires a deeper dive into the details that I am working on for book 2.

RPJ referenced an article I’d written about but not yet posted (another sync?):

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epvgjm/a-growing-number-of-scientists-are-convinced-the-future-influences-the-past

You can read my take on being “retro-curious” here.

I’d love to work with RPJ again but I expect his amazing artwork with the UFO Tarot deck will launch him internationally, and too famous to work with self-published authors. I continue to follow his writings at dailygrail.com and his artwork at https://absurdbydesign.wordpress.com.

RETRO-CURIOSITY - MORE SCIENTISTS CONVINCED THE FUTURE INFLUENCES THE PAST?

A March 16, 20223 article on vice.com by Becky Ferreira featured this headline:

A growing number of scientists are convinced the future influences the past.

But what if this forward causality could somehow be reversed in time, allowing actions in the future to influence outcomes in the past? This mind-bending idea, known as retrocausality, may seem like science fiction grist at first glance, but it is starting to gain real traction among physicists and philosophers, among other researchers, as a possible solution to some of the most intractable riddles underlying our reality.

This topic has profound implications for Past Life Journeying and the healing that I believe results from both releasing old traumas and recovering skills and insights from our timeline. This article alerted me to the work of Kenneth Wharton, a professor of physics at San Jose State University, who has published research about retrocausality. Wharton:

“I’ve found our instincts of time and causation are our deepest, strongest instincts that physicists and philosophers—and humans—are loath to give up.”

From the article:

“Even though it may feel verboten to consider a future that affects the past, Wharton and others think it could account for some of the strange phenomena observed in quantum physics, which exists on the tiny scale of atoms…

(R)etrocausal models also open avenues of exploring a “time-symmetric” view of our universe, in which the laws of physics are the same regardless of whether time runs forward or backward. 

…these paradigms envision cause in the past and effect in the future as a forward flow, but retrocausality raises the prospect that these elements could be reversed. It may seem eerie to our brains, which process events sequentially, but the history of science is also littered with examples of human biases leading to bad conclusions, such as the Earth-centric model of the solar system.

It’s important to emphasize at this point in time, whatever that means, that retrocausality is not the same as time travel. These models don’t predict that signals or objects—including human beings—could be dispatched to the past, in part because there is no evidence that we are currently being deluged with any such future messages, or messengers. 

“You have to be very careful in a retrocausal model because the fact of the matter is, we can't send signals back in time,” Adlam explained. (Emily Adlam, a postdoctoral associate at Western University’s Rotman Institute of Philosophy sturdies retrocausality.)

Why is this relevant? Because once you’ve connected to a past life and explored that personality, your present life is the future of that life. The mere fact of accessing a past life is altering the trajectory of that life, since healing energy sent to your past life is affecting us in the present. In fact, if my information is correct, it’s affecting all of our lives…past, present, and future. It gets trippy at the deep end. But this formerly “too far out” discussion is happening regularly in physics labs, as this article shows.

I devoted an entire chapter in my upcoming Past Life Journeying book to Eric Wargo’s work and Time Loops, his 2018 book. Time Loops alerted me to retrocausation—the concept that the future influences the present—so I was glad to see that the discussions about Time (now always respectfully spelled with a capital T) are ongoing. I now proudly refer to myself as, in physics professor Kenneth Wharton’s words, “retro-curious.”

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epvgjm/a-growing-number-of-scientists-are-convinced-the-future-influences-the-past

THE "EASY RESURRECTION OF MEMORY"

Nayaswami Devi, writing in the Ananda Sangha Worldwide email:

“Many have been My births, O Arjuna, and many also yours. I remember all of Mine, though you remember yours not.” These words from Sri Krishna to his disciple in the Bhagavad Gita show a divine memory of the soul’s eternal nature.

 

Memory, in its highest expression, is much more than remembering what is on a grocery list. It is the soul’s ability to transcend the limitations of time.

 

Paramhansa Yogananda spoke of the “easy resurrection of memory” through which he brought to mind past experiences with his guru, Sri Yukteswar. With a trained and heightened sense of memory, we can meld past, present, and future into the eternal now. Patanjali, the ancient authority on yoga, described spiritual awakening as smriti, which means “memory.”

Ananda is the organization continuing the message of Paramahansa Yogananda. There are some of the many references to Past lives in Yogananda’s writings and the ancient Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita.

TIME TRAVEL AS AN EVIL INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY?

How’s this for an investment pitch:

The fantastic financial opportunity to profit from the anticipated breakthrough of time travel to the past... 

Space is not the final frontier. It's time, the most misunderstood concept in physics and philosophy. Understanding it and how its manipulation (sic) can lead to unimagined opportunities for wealth and survival in the face of all the threats discussed by experts…

Reading on, you’ll discover these people are evil.

The ramifications of having the ability to mine and exploit resources, worldwide, in the past, without any oversight or control, has been analyzed for its implications for commercial exploitation - not only here and now in the present, but at other times in other worlds. These are the unheard of opportunities that time travel to the distant past will afford investors who get involved now.

I thought they were promoting a tech solution to the world’s problems. No, they’re soliciting funds to use Time Travel technology to “mine and exploit resources…at other times in other worlds…without any oversight or control.” Clicking on their “vision” link:

If successful, we will be selling the rights to private mining and other resource harvesting firms to travel to the past for the commercial importation of minerals, lumber and other resources, for millions and millions of $.

Unbelievable. The good news is that the blog on the site hasn’t been updated since 2021 so maybe Marshall Barnes crawled through a wormhole and was eaten by a dinosaur.

FOREIGN ACCENT SYNDROME

I can’t claim a direct connection between Past Lives and foreign accent syndrome, but this article got my attention. From BMJ Journals, Volume 16, Issue 1:

A man in his 50s with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer, receiving androgen deprivation therapy and abiraterone acetate/prednisone, presented with an uncontrollable ‘Irish brogue’ accent despite no Irish background, consistent with foreign accent syndrome (FAS). He had no neurological examination abnormalities, psychiatric history or MRI of the brain abnormalities at symptom onset.

This may be more of a human brain anomaly as the man is reported to have friends in the UK, but I always have to consider the emergence of an Adjacent/Past Life personality when I hear these reports. Food for thought…

HAPPY 25TH ANNIVERSARY TO THE HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSE CONCEPT!

An article in the February 2023 issue of Scientific American alerted me to the 25th anniversary of the Holographic Universe principle. Along with many people who don’t read scientific journals, I became aware of this concept from Michael Talbot’s book from 1991, The Holographic Universe. Talbot’s work re-emerged in 2020 when I found a copy of his previous work, Your Past Lives - A Reincarnation Handbook (1987.)

These books greatly aided in expanding my concept of Time, and I devoted a chapter in my upcoming Past Life Journeying book to the unpacking of his contribution. My February 2023 desert “drive-about” seems to have opened another door into Talbot’s work and influence. This started with Anil Ananthaswamy’s article on the 25th anniversary of the Holographic Universe concept.

Next, I heard Talbot’s name mentioned in the January 23, 2023 episode of Rob Kristofferson’s Our Strange Skies podcast. Episode 137: The History of Alien Abductions, Part 7: Whitley Strieber, Part 2 dealt with Whitley’s lesser known post-Communion publications,Transformation: The Breakthrough and Breakthrough: The Next Step. Apparently Whitley was in communication with Michael Talbot while those books were being written, and while Talbot was dealing with the illness that would take his life in 1992. I found a copy of Breakthrough through Abe’s Books and it’s on its way.

Next, a trip to Las Vegas Books delivered a copy of Talbot’s 1981 Mysticism and the New Physics. I have been looking for a copy of this for my now growing Talbot collection since this, along with his 1987 Beyond the Quantum, are out of print and not available in the Kindle format.

Then a search for Talbot’s name guided me to a reminiscence from Toby Johnson, another author who knew Talbot from that 90s time period, and a link to an article apparently written by Talbot, The Universe as a Hologram, which summarizes the Holographic principle. These are my notes from that article:

Bohm believes the reason subatomic particles are able to remain in contact with one another regardless of the distance separating them is not because they are sending some sort of mysterious signal back and forth, but because their separateness is an illusion. He argues that at some deeper level of reality such particles are not individual entities, but are actually extensions of the same fundamental something…

According to Bohm, the apparent faster-than-light connection between subatomic particles is really telling us that there is a deeper level of reality we are not privy to, a more complex dimension beyond our own that is analogous to the aquarium. And, he adds, we view objects such as subatomic particles as separate from one another because we are seeing only a portion of their reality.

Such particles are not separate "parts", but facets of a deeper and more underlying unity that is ultimately as holographic and indivisible as the previously mentioned rose. And since everything in physical reality is comprised of these "eidolons", the universe is itself a projection, a hologram…

In a holographic universe, even time and space could no longer be viewed as fundamentals. Because concepts such as location break down in a universe in which nothing is truly separate from anything else, time and three-dimensional space, like the images of the fish on the TV monitors, would also have to be viewed as projections of this deeper order. At its deeper level reality is a sort of superhologram in which the past, present, and future all exist simultaneously.

This suggests that given the proper tools it might even be possible to someday reach into the superholographic level of reality and pluck out scenes from the long-forgotten past. What else the superhologram contains is an open-ended question. Allowing, for the sake of argument, that the superhologram is the matrix that has given birth to everything in our universe, at the very least it contains every subatomic particle that has been or will be -- every configuration of matter and energy that is possible, from snowflakes to quasars, from blue whales to gamma rays. It must be seen as a sort of cosmic storehouse of "All That Is.” Although Bohm concedes that we have no way of knowing what else might lie hidden in the superhologram, he does venture to say that we have no reason to assume it does not contain more. Or as he puts it, perhaps the superholographic level of reality is a "mere stage" beyond which lies "an infinity of further development”…

…if the concreteness of the world is but a secondary reality and what is "there" is actually a holographic blur of frequencies, and if the brain is also a hologram and only selects some of the frequencies out of this blur and mathematically transforms them into sensory perceptions, what becomes of objective reality?

Put quite simply, it ceases to exist. As the religions of the East have long upheld, the material world is Maya, an illusion, and although we may think we are physical beings moving through a physical world, this too is an illusion.

We are really "receivers" floating through a kaleidoscopic sea of frequency, and what we extract from this sea and transmogrify into physical reality is but one channel from many extracted out of the superhologram. This striking new picture of reality, the synthesis of Bohm and Pribram's views, has come to be called the holographic paradigm…

Thanks to the “greater forces at work” for bringing Talbot’s work back into my awareness.

This suggests that given the proper tools it might even be possible to someday reach into the superholographic level of reality and pluck out scenes from the long-forgotten past.

I am proposing Past Life Journeying IS that “proper tool” to “pluck out scenes from the long-forgotten past.” And maybe the not yet discovered Future?

A FASCINATING CONVERGENCE OF PAST LIVES AND THE UFO PHENOMENA

I have numerous sources for paranormal news, with the Daily Grail as my favorite. But I recently rediscovered Coast to Coast, now online with host George Noory. “Coast” was formerly the late night AM radio home of Art Bell, and I spent many hours listening to his show driving home from gigs in the 90s.

On a recent show, George Noory spoke with "the Holistic Hypnotist" and author, Sarah Breskman Cosme. I was familiar with Cosme as I've seen her listed as presenter at UFO conferences, which lately have been including speakers on Past and Future Lives. (Yay!) Cosme is a Level 3 QHHT practitioner continuing the work of Dolores Cannon, exploring the further edges that Cannon wrote about in her later years.

From coasttocoastam.com:

In the latter half (of the show) author and master hypnotist Sarah Breskman Cosme revealed hidden knowledge she's gleaned from various hypnotic sessions...

Cosme has concluded that the various types of aliens said to be visiting our planet represent future versions of humanity from different timelines, and they are coming back to check on us. The Greys, she detailed, have an avatar-like (non-physical) body, and bred out their emotions because they thought they were a hindrance. On one timeline, Earth was destroyed, and humans moved out into space, and after a millennia, they evolved into what the Greys look like, she explained.

Regarding Atlantis, what she learned from hypnotized clients is that the ancient Atlanteans warred with another civilization, Lemuria, over powerful crystals that were given to the Lemurians by the Star People.

I had read Cosme’s first book, A Hypnotist’s Journey to Atlantis, in which her client went back to Atlantis during a past life regression. Cosme is following in Dolores Cannon’s footsteps as both a practitioner of Cannon’s QHHT but also in devoting an entire book to one client’s timeline. The Atlantis book explored their lifetime in that “mythical” land over multiple sessions. I advocate for this multi-session deep dive when this information comes to the surface. For Cosme’s client, this resulted in a “miraculous” healing as the result of clearing up unfinished business from a Past life.

Cosme has since published two more books, A Hypnotist’s Journey to the Secrets of the Sphinx, and A Hypnotist’s Journey from the Trail to the Star People which I have not read.

This crossover from my two favorite areas of study, Past Lives and the UFO/UAP phenomena, is now happening regularly. Cosme is just one of the practitioners mining these depths. I first became aware of this trend through Linda Backman's work, and her 2018 book, Souls On Earth: Exploring Interplanetary Past Lives. Dr. Larry Dossey's blurb for the book is compelling:

It would be naive to suppose that intelligent life exists only on Earth. Dr. Linda Backman's groundbreaking book offers credible evidence of evolved interplanetary souls incarnate in human bodies. Souls on Earth presents a critical understanding of the gifts and challenges of such advanced beings.

In an interesting sync, I just posted a quote from Brad Steiger about this topic from his 1988 book, The Fellowship: Spiritual Contact Between Humans and Outer Space Beings which explores this same concept:

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?

My personal sessions have taken me outside of the Earth classroom. I am still processing the information from these multiple sessions; stay tuned for more details. Email me at: timelinejourneying@gmail.com if you’ve had any of these experiences you’d like to share.

Update: In an email from the 2023 Los Angeles Conscious Life Expo, this title for Caroline Cory’s presentation jumped out of the list:

Achieve Universal Consciousness:

Your True Non-Human Lineage and Higher Purpose

AUTHOR/SCIENTIST ROBERT LANZA'S NEW NOVEL, "OBSERVERS"

American scientist and author Robert Lanza has a new book out, Observer, incorporating his ideas into a science fiction novel with award winning author Nancy Kress. From an interview with George Noory on Coast to Coast:

"One of the premises of the novel is that death isn't the terminal event we think, 'rather it's just a break in our linear continuity of space and time,' he remarked. Lanza compared our experience of time to a record album, where we can only hear the music in the present where the needle is playing, yet the past and future exist simultaneously on the whole LP.

In another metaphor, he explained the observer effect as like a TV set – if you have it turned off, you don't see the image, yet if a neighbor has their set turned on, the picture exists for them...Lanza argues that time is actually created by the observer, and the way that we process and remember information. One fascinating possibility he related to the observer effect is the development of time travel, which he speculated might come into existence within the next 20-100 years.”

(Observer has been added to the ever grow list of books I want to read.) 

Another archaeological find updates our understanding of the ancient past

From Atlas Obscura.com:

THE MOST LAVISH MESOPOTAMIAN TOMB EVER FOUND BELONGS TO A WOMAN

And her clothing tells an important story, says archeologist Rita Wright

The first hurdle in Past Life Journeying is trusting the first image and then following the information received when we connect to a Past life personality wearing the costume of their era. Things are very different in the 3rd decade of the 21st century, but previously it might have been easier to dismiss a Journeyer, male or female, who connected to their past life as a female ruler.

So I love it when information that challenges the historical record finds its way to my inbox. In this article from Atlas Obscura, writer Sarah Durn speaks to archeologist and textile expert Rita Wright, professor emerita of anthropology at New York University, "who is the first to ever study (Queen) Pu-abi’s garments based on the only surviving image of her. Her findings have just been published in the new book Art/ifacts and ArtWorks in the Ancient World."

Rita Wright:
"...if I hadn’t studied Ur’s ancient women, I would have thought that the entire country was ruled by men and that all of the things that occurred in civilization, the beginning of civilization, was about what men did. And now I know that’s just one part of how civilizations develop."