MEDICINEMAKER, HANK WESSELMAN'S 2ND BOOK

I’ve just finished Medicinemaker - Mystic Encounters on the Shaman’s Path, Hank Wesselman’s 2nd in what became a 4 book series. Wesselman’s “journeys” to his Future self, Nainoa, continued even after he left his Hawaiian home and returned to the mainland to teach in San Diego, California. This book provides further insights into the process of accessing another consciousness that both is and is not our present self, yet feels both comfortable and compatible. Medicinemaker, and Wesselman’s 1st book, Spiritwalker, do it so well, I am recommending them to people interested in Past Life Journeying.

As I wrote previously when discussing Spiritwalker, we receive information about our Other lives—their personalities, their language and culture—through multiple modalities, and Wesselman describes this beautifully:

Within these states, I have learned a lot about him and his world visually through his eyes, experientially through his actions in his level of reality and time, and cognitively through the veil of his culturally determined perceptions, judgments, interpretations, memories, and opinions. His thoughts and feelings had an alien quality, a foreignness, that was very distracting it first. I came to realize that this was due to the profoundly different "shape" of his mind, determined largely by his experiences since birth in his own slice of reality and within his own culture.

Insights like this can be helpful to someone new to this path:

I tried to control his movements. His body responded with confusion to two separate sets of commands. Somehow, despite my own confusion and excitement, I managed to figure out the problem, and so I became completely passive. I am merely "sat within" and observed…

In the process, I discovered that if I wished to look at something, Nano would very shortly walk over and look at it. If I wanted to know something, it would obligingly appear in my mind…and in his. Although Nainoa’s language is different from any that exists today, I was able to receive the gist of meaning of his thoughts and words, as the shape of his knowing was translated into mine, a process I am still trying to understand fully.

By this point in their interactions, Wesselman and Nainoa have accepted their presence in each other’s lives, though neither is able to consciously connect to their Other self. In this 2nd book, the Future self, Nainoa, has embraced the presence of his “ancestor,” Hank Wesselman, and is basically running his Past life as an anthropology teacher in late 20th century California.

We tend to think of ourselves as individuals, as singularities, but we are really composites of many energetic and spiritual lineages that stretch back across time to all of our ancestors…

‘We’ are actually a singularity within which two separate selves exist in two separate time frames.

This not yet an experience I have had, though I’ve extended an open invitation to my Past and Future selves to visit and ask questions. The implications of this “back and forth” for the contemporary theories of quantum physics are mind boggling. For the concept of Block Time to be correct, all events—past, present, and future—already exist but cannot be changed. Any interactions between “future” Nainoa and “past” Wesselman would have had to be “already included in their histories” as described by Eric Wargo in his Time Loops.

Although Wesselman doesn’t directly address the concept of Simultaneous Lives, he recognizes how this operates:

Only about 20 to 25% of my life force energy was associated with my current physical embodiment.

Like many contemporary Past Life practitioners, Wesselman posits the majority of our consciousness is actively involved in the realm of the Non-Physical:

The realm where the spirits reside is largely a level of information. This every day world here is a level of action, a level on which many things are possible…

Wesselman’s interactions with his Future self, along with his studies of Michael Harner’s work, blend with his Nainoa’s own shamanic training to reframe the death of the physical body and what I call the Non-Physical Experience Between lives:

With the demise of our physical bodies, our energy body does not die. It exists in a free state at that point, carrying many of our feelings and memories within it…

Each of us is like a knot along a cord that includes an immensely long succession of knots that, in turn, are woven into the living, spiritual net-like matrix of humanity. Each string of knots is a continuously reincarnating lineage that grows and changes as it travels through time…

MedicineMaker ends with Wesselman picking up his pen to write after asking “for input from my esteemed friend.” I look forward to the next chapter in the shared Journey of Hank Wesselman and Nainoa.

Eventually we will all achieve levels of experience and awareness that allow us to remain merged with the source. .. When we reach that stage, we no longer need to return to life on the physical plane. Such highly evolved ancestral spirits often take on the task of guiding human destiny to some degree with their collective will, so we are still in relationship to them in a way. Each of us is actually in relation to a cluster of such soul spirits, and we confer with them many times during that period when we are in the spirit world between lives…This is …our responsibility—to grow in beauty and wisdom positively and deeply so we can contribute to the greater good of the human spirit.

"SPIRITWALKER" & THE SPONTANEOUS FUTURE LIFE EXPERIENCE

<SPOILER ALERT - for anyone considering reading this book, originally published in 1996, return to this page after you’ve finished Book 1>

I’ve been reading Hank Wesselman’s Spiritwalker - Messages From the Future (Bantam 1996) after it was recommended by Trevor Lewis for it’s depiction of a man accessing his Future life. Even more interesting, Wesselman accessed a series of Future Lives spontaneously when he was living in Hawaii in the 1980s. (There were eventually 4 books in total written from his ongoing experiences)

That in itself is fascinating. I’m always appreciative (and envious) of people who discover their own Adjacent Lives in a vision or flash of insight, and location seems to be the most common trigger for these awakenings.

An interesting sync is that Trevor Lewis recommended Spiritwalker as I am compiling my Future life sessions with George whose story, while fascinating, had become so extreme dark sci-fi that I had considered writing it as fiction. Wesselman tells how he struggled with the method to tell what he was learning about Nainoa, his Future self:

…my first impulse was to write a novel, a fictional narrative, within which I could safely reveal what I have learned without jeopardizing my scientific reputation…Yet my story is not science fiction, nor is it imaginative fantasy. It happened as I will tell it to you in this book. I cannot hide or disguise my experiences.

Wesselman’s struggle with explaining his experiences to an audience whose inexperience reinforces their skepticism resonated with me and my attempts to capture my Future lives and their parallels to my Present life.

So how does one present information of this sort without sounding like a candidate for certification in a mental institution? I offer it as I perceived it. My creative imagination is undoubtedly involved to some extent in this reconstruction, because I have had to compose a framework in which to express these extraordinary experiences, yet I did not make up this trip out of whole cloth…I have chosen to write Nainoa's life like an adventure story because that is very much how I experienced it. In this story another man's life and my own form a double helix, a twisted ladder whose edges consist of two lifelines, Nainoa's and mine, with rungs of connection between them at various intervals along the continuum.

Hank Wesselman is a very good writer and I recognize his struggle to tell a story that defies logic. But what I most appreciated in Spiritwalker were the details of his Other life sessions, which occurred most often at night and on their own schedule, and how they resonate with my own early excursions using the Awareness Technique. Mirroring the directions given before a Past Life Journey, to “see through the eyes and hear through the ears,” Wesselman describes his connection to the personality he is continually drawn back to, Nainoa:

I had really felt as though I were inside Nainoa’s body, seeing through his eyes, hearing what he was hearing.

Later he dives deeper into his own awareness of this Other Life personality:

While I was merged with this man, it was as though I were him, and yet my personality had not dissolved, nor had his. The two of us existed simultaneously within one physical body. His personality remained distinctly separate from mine, and he had seemed completely unaware of my presence within him while I was “there.”

Wesselman discovers how differently Time operates when in this state:

I had been "there" for at least 16 to 18 hours of his time, yet by the dream’s end, less than five minutes had elapsed in my time.

Congruent with my own Past Life Journeys, the information comes into awareness through a variety of sensory modalities:

…most of what I learned about him, his world, and his recent history arrived in my mind as disjointed blocks of —to me—completely new information. I absorb these blocks as if I were transferring information from one floppy disk to another. The information appeared in the form of impressions, feelings, thoughts, opinions, ideas, and memories, and would suddenly materialize as a series of vignettes in my awareness.

(Wesselman was writing this in the 1990s when floppy disks were the main mode of storing and transferring digital information. But it’s a beautifully descriptive metaphor.)

It is only after the first few sessions that Wesselman realizes he is this Nainoa, but that Nainoa is his Future life, who is alive on a dramatically different planet Earth thousands of years beyond his own late 20th century timeline:

I had journeyed across space and time to merge with the consciousness of another person, one who lives right here on the earth, in ordinary reality, but in a slice of the future that is profoundly different from the reality that exists today… From Nainoa I had learned that a sudden rise in sea level's was connected to the collapse of western civilization.

Wesselman is influenced by the Shamanic training he pursued with Michael Harner. I am simpatico with the impact that Shamanic Journeying had on his work, in helping him to understand his experiences:

I seemed to be making what Michael Harner would call an extended "middle world" voyage, traveling to another place in ordinary reality, but traversing time to get there….Were Nainoa’s and my state of mind equivalent to the expanded awareness of traditional shamans? Was this marvel possibly only because each of us was a suitable contact for the other? In what ways were we suitable—because of our intentions to know and explore without preconceptions or goals, for the empirical experience?

Spiritwalker details Wesselman’s efforts to find a framework for the interactions between his 20th century self and what he determines to be Nainoa’s 5,000 years in the future. This parallels my own upheaval in trying to grasp the non-linear nature of our Soul’s progression:

Yet I also began to consider that Nainoa might actually be one of my reincarnations living a future live 5000 years down the road. Could this be what a true ancestor-descendent relationship represented? Could reincarnations depart from genetic lineages and move randomly between different lines through time?

*SPOILER ALERT*

(For those who haven’t finished the book and are considering reading it)

A further sync with my own Journeys occurs when Nainoa has his own psychic impressions of an Other life, in the Western world before it’s collapse, and the inconceivably strange vehicles, buildings, and other structures such as metal bridges. This sets up a back-and-forth between these two Time Traveling consciousnesses that sustains the narrative brilliantly. (It is only in my 2023 sessions, after dozens of sessions exploring one of my most spiritually advanced lives, the monk I call Maleek, that I had the experience of my Adjacent life personality recognizing my presence and acknowledging my participation in their training.)

That Hank Wesselman would be a natural for Past (and Future) Life Journeying is shown by his willingness to relate traumatic Other life experiences to his own:

Because I could “receive” Nainoa’s cognitive and emotional processes, I was able to measure my own response to this experience against his.

Later in Spiritwalker I recognize evidence of looping between Future and Present lives when Wesselman recognizes the terrain that Nainoa is traveling through in the SouthWestern US, since Wesselman lived there as a child.

Something else is important here: I was familiar with the valley where Nainoa was injured. I knew with certainty where he was.

Simultaneous lives—present and future—interacting with emotional effects on both sides of the equation; non-linear Soul progression, recurring significant personalities; healing energies sent through Time: the recognition of Future influences on our Present TimeLine- all of these are dealt with engagingly in Spiritwalker-Messages From The Future. Thanks to Trevor Lewis of thrivingempath.com for suggesting this book.

ARCHEDON & THE CONTINUUM OF EXISTENCE

I’m intrigued by a webinar which combines commercial Artificial Intelligence applications with data from out of the body experiences. This was brought to my attention by an email from IANDS - the International Association for Near-Death Studies. I was surprised by their emails offering multiple presentations by channelers, but I guess that is where most people get their information on the Between Lives experience. (Instead of directly accessing this state in a Past Life Journey.) But I follow their research, as I do the SoulPhone Foundations work, which I’ve posted about previously.

But this month’s presentation caught my attention: The Continuum of Existence by Archedon:

Many years ago, Archedon’s out-of-body experience produced a direct encounter with Source in the higher dimensional realm (HDR). Currently, after tabulating the precise descriptions of hundreds of visitors to that HDR realm from across the globe, Archedon has articulated the nature of reality in a new validated model — The Continuum of Existence!

Now using a data-driven model based on accumulated near-death and similar experiences from initially hundreds of available narratives, that model continues being validated as new experiences are constantly being added using an enhanced AI capture technology. “The Continuum” model is thus demonstrating the reality of a spiritual model supplanting the materialist model that science and human-belief systems have used for millennia.

HDR is a new acronym for the Higher Dimensional Realm. I dug deeper into Archedon, the author of a forthcoming book on this topic:

Archedon is a father of five and a pioneer in the hydraulic construction industry…His forthcoming book offers a path to achieve high confidence in a Higher Dimensional Realm Reality. This framework, The Continuum of Existence, using AI technology, has potential to revolutionize philosophy and theology. He was gifted with a profound and highly rare “type” of NDE-like Experience, and he will share the unique message from that excursion. The “aftereffect” of that temporary relocation to the Higher Dimensional Realm initiated this research. Recently, additional “Experiences” have contributed to the offered insights.

Last month I bailed on a presentation at Contact in the Desert on the use of AI in compiling data in the UFO/UAP field. The presenters didn’t seem to recognize the concept of “garbage in, garbage out.” What they bragged was the latest version of ChapGPT (not yet available to the public) delivered the worst sort of zero discernment internet pablum on the topic. No attention was given to weighting the quality of the information. Apparently, in ChatGPT world, if it’s on the web, it must be true.

Since Archedon’s webinar is based on “accumulated near-death and similar experiences from initially hundreds of available narratives,” I’ll be attending and on the lookout for the influence of YouTube and TicTok “data” in their model. More to come on this topic.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (OR ALGORITHM INTELLIGENCE?) AT CONTACT IN THE DESERT 2023

In June I attended Contact In the Desert, which USA Today once called “the Woodstock of UFO conferences.” But it was only when describing my trip that I realized I’d only attended one lecture that was UFO related*. Maybe because the theme was “SCIENCE + FUTURE” and the headliner was Graham Hancock, known more for his Netflix series, Ancient Apocalypse. Timing was not on their side, since on the Monday morning after the conference, the news story broke through the Debrief of David Grush’s revelation of captured UFO craft and bodies going back to the 1930s. But the conference seemed focused on the recent revelations of AI technologies, and a surprising number of talks about DMT. (We were in the California desert, so maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised?)

I attended a workshop by Dr. Jeffrey Long, founder of the Near-Death Experience Research Foundation (nderf.org) which they describe as, "The perfect mix of science, community, spirituality and service!" 

With this title, how could I resist?
NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES: ENCOUNTERS WITH NON-EARTHLY CONSCIOUSNESS AND EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE

NDERF describes an NDE as:
"A lucid experience associated with perceived consciousness apart from the body occurring at the time of actual or threatened imminent death."

I had not heard of this phenomena until a few weeks ago  but am now up-to-speed thanks to Dr. Long's presentation, which featured a live phone call with a woman who had this experience during one of her 3 (!) near death experiences. (It's amazing how many people report experiencing this multiple times.) 

I also caught half of Sarah Cosme’s presentation, which featured audio excerpts from the session featured in her latest book, A HYPNOTIST’S JOURNEY FROM THE TRAIL TO THE STAR PEOPLE. I consider this progress when two of the most revealing and insightful presentations at a UFO conference concerned Past Lives and Life Between Lives.

The other non-UFO related lecture was by Dr. Paul H. Smith, ESP AND ALIENS: IS THERE A LINK? Paul Smith is one of the pioneers of Remote Viewing, which I have been investigating for its proximity to my Past & Future lives research. Dr. Smith’s mention of Ingo Swan’s experiences in Remote Viewing gave me the opportunity to ask him a question about Ingo’s work. ((I’d need to do a whole post about Remote Viewing to explain that, and that’s now on my to-do list.)

*That was a workshop by Daniel Sheehan, THE CONTENT OF THE POST-CONTACT “NEW PARADIGM HUMAN WORLDVIEW” and it was as intense as its title. I gave up trying to keep up with the flow of amazing information and bought the CD to study when I arrived back home. The gist was a deep dive into a subject I’ve been researching since I saw Sheehan speak a few years ago, Species-ism: The idea that humanity will have to adjust to any “disclosure” of the UFO/UAP phenomena because the advanced technology behind the phenomena points to a civilization much more advanced than ours, while we’re still attempting to travel to the stars using combustion technology (calling you out, Elon!)

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…