Robert's past life?

[Robert Bruce]

G'day SteppenWolf!

You may be surprised to hear that I have never actually investigated past lives, mine or anyone elses.

Did you know that the Deli Lama does not remember any past lives...

I suggest you read my online article 'Reincarnation, not so simple', as this gives my view on past lives, which is an extremely complex issue to say the least.

Take care, Robert.

[Ashfo]

I've always thought that not everyone has a past life.

There is so much population growth currently that I dont believe there are enough past lives for everyone.

I myself dont believe I have one.. I have never felt any inclination to remembering past events whatsoever and I feel "new"

But that could just be cos I'm only 15


I'd be interested to see what you think/know about past lives SteppenWolf.


- Ashfo

[Grenade01]

Man I wish I could remember my past lives..thats the coolest thing ever!
all the techniques ive read about though just seem like normal meditation...
its like relax breathe and you know do this and that

i do all that anyway when i meditate

maybe its just the intent or something...but............

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[cainam_nazier]

I personaly believe that some people have lived before, but not everyone.

I do not think that it happens as often as one may think.  Or maybe it is that only a few are re-incarnated back into a human.  Some may go into an animal.  But it is apparent to me that thier are many people who have walked the earth before.  You can tell by looking at them and seeing how they view things and how the world affects them.  It is really an interesting subject to me.  

I think that only very few people actually remember anything from thier past lives.  For most that remember anything at all it is only brief images and feelings like deja vu, or in thier dreams.  Only a select few remember thier previous lives and only because for some reason they need to.  This being of course out side of regresion.  The information is indeed locked any in side the mind but the normal person cannot access it with out help.



David Rogalski
cainam_nazier@hotmail.com

[SteppenWolf]

Robert - Thanks for the reply as I was worried you might have thought the question was a little nosey.  Interesting to hear about the Dalai Lama - I must look into that!  Yes, I've read your article and I fully aggree with you, except that I would personally place more emphasis on the common model working for the majority of people.  It is important to note the exceptions though.

Ashfo - I think most people by about 20 or so can reflect and see that their soul isn't completely new and seemed to come with all sorts of odd little preferences which weren't shared by one's immediate family and friends.  I didn't think it could be real until I saw a BBC documentary on past life regression where the details from a woman's past life regression didn't fit the history books until they did a bit more research and found her information was completely correct, though it hadn't seemed so at first.  My mother when she was crash-dieting in her mid 30s started recalling dim details and incidents from 5 past lives, though she didn't tell anyone until years later.  My sister has also had at least one past-life flashback.  I have made this subject one of my many minor obsessions and made a web page about it:
http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=Crecy's+reincarnation+faq+

Grenade!  How are you?  Yes - to me remembering past life details would be as cool as astral travel - both of which I completely suck at!!!  Meditation is one thing but there is other stuff required too.  I bought a kick-arse book over the weekend which my mystical sister put in my hand.  I'd been after it for at least a year and nobody else knew - yet another cool coincidence.  Anyway what I've read so far seems excellent and I highly recommend it.  Ted Andrews has lots of books in Amazon and they get very high ratings.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0875420222
Even better, the guy who sold it to me mentioned an excellent regressionist who is a university lecturer in my town!  I have been looking for someone reputable for a while and I couldn't believe my luck.
I'm quite open about my interest in reincarnation and I get all sorts of people telling me about past life experiences and I also get some amazing ones emailed to me too.  

Seems to me that here are plenty of people who seem to have no major past life "resonance" until they get onto a serious spiritual path and then they they get flashbacks.  Wicca seems to be good for this - so many serious Wiccans have had past life flashbacks it's not funny.  I even could tell what one guy's past life was once by just looking at him, and he confirmed it.  (Waffen-SS).  Don't know how it happened but there must have been some bloody amazing energy around them that day.

David - Yep, not everyone's soul seems to have the same history.  There is all sorts of talk of the occasional animal past life, UFO past life and also of rare people from the race angels who have a go at being human for whatever bizarre reason.  As the Yogis say, there are plenty of worlds around and perhaps we can swap between then from time to time.  As one dies out, perhaps another one flourishes?  Interesting idea...

Cheers,
SteppenWolf http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/images/icon_Smile.gif" border=0>

[Grenade01]

Hmm Interesting
Ill have to read that book...
I already got like 5 lined up for this summer (this is my finals week)
but Ill have to put it on the list
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[Tom]

A few years ago, I found a technique. At the end of the day before going to sleep, it is to review your experiences going through them in reverse order. Maybe the last thing you have done was getting into bed. Before that, brushing your teeth. Maybe some reading before that from a cheap novel. Maybe before that some time on the internet. The natural tendency is to get stuck on something and then go forward. Maybe something was left out and you'll skip back (ahead) to include it. The idea is to go back and review everything in the opposite order that it happened. Then when you get to the beginning of your day, there were dreams from the night before. Those, too, get reviewed in reverse order. When you get good at this, it will be possible to remember to the point of being born and then before being born but still in this lifetime. Finally, the stage between lives is recalled and the life before this one. That is how the technique is supposed to work. I never got to the point of being able to remember waking up on the morning of the same day, but I never gave it a fair chance.

[SteppenWolf]

Hi Tom -

Yeah - that's a technique a friend was telling me about which supposedly Aleister Crowley was suggesting was a good one if people could keep at it long enough.  Unforuntately it's supposed to take a couple of years to perfect and I think that turns most people off.

Cheers!  http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/images/icon_Smile.gif" border=0>

[SteppenWolf]

Wow!  I just got this from a guy on another forum and it is very inspiring indeed as far as DIY past life regression goes.  Note that this guy actually finds that to have a good session, he has to create his energy body duplicate (yes he gets the vibrations etc) and then starts interrogating himself, or visualises his past life appearance etc.

Cheers,
Steppenwolf

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For what it's worth, here are the steps I do for self hypnosis:

The first thing is just relaxation. I try to lay still essentially putting the body to sleep while the mind relaxes but stays entirely alert.

I typically just think about how my body isn't moving and is totally relaxed thinking about various parts (in no particular order) and if everything goes well, I get a feeling that the floor just opened up beneath me, (people say they feel like they are "floating" instead, I "sink" backward into the bed.) People who feel they reincarnated from Nazi German all sink, I guess its the type of people we are. =)  Just kidding.

Anyhow, I can usually tell within the first 5 minutes of relaxing if I will get a "good session" by telling if my thoughts are wandering around like before I go to sleep. ( I tend to try meditation when I am too tired, I'm not too smart) If my mind is all over the place and not focusing on a relaxing single thought, I tend to follow the road of sleep rather than meditation.

Back to the sinking... I feel as if I am floating slightly beneath and behind my body. (somewhat like being inside the mattress if I was physical...) I am totally aware of my surroundings, but I don't seem to care, it is so peaceful and relaxing in the trance that its like I know what's going on around me but its not important that I care... Even my wife tossing and turning next to me doesn't bother me once I'm in this state.. I only seem to revel how powerful that trance is that I can just turn it off.. I think of this stage as "bi-location"
(probably wrong term, but seeing that I suck at remote viewing, I figured I would steal it.)

Now, typically here comes my biggest problem, I can't focus on one thing to pursue... Do I want to try to astral project?  Do stupid arm raising parlour tricks, look into past lives, slow my heartbeat?  It's like a kid in the candy shop... =)  

Anyway having a clear focus for past lives is essential. Most people have many, so images will come flashing and flashing until you "tune" one like a T.V. channel. Then once I tune into one I'm looking for, I think of a question to myself.

Everyone's ability is different, you have to focus on what you can "pull"... I was amazed how my wife can pull images so clear, she can describe them in perfect detail...(she can pull them so clear in fact, that she has since stopped doing P.L.R.- she still believes, but doesn't want to try, so I don't force her.) For me pictures and images are too vague and blurry, but I can "feel" certain things... The problem is I can tune into emotional things much easier, How I felt, pride, honour, love, fear. For me it opens up in the days after the session more than it does immediately. One time I was walking at work, I thought about the vague images I saw and said out loud "That's it! Oh my god!  It was all because of..." For me the hypnosis isn't what I'm after, it's the mental images and "knowing" afterward.

And here is the weirdest part... Just in your everyday normal life just pay attention to the "things" people say to you, pictures you come across and even shows to do with your past life on T.V.

People must tune into your vibrational rate after you open a part of yourself up. One of my friends in my current life came up to me after I did a regressions session and out of the blue started talking to me about how he wanted to go see the U-505 (here in Chicago) doing something together we
have never done or even talked about in the past. Or the number of times I have been asked by people who don't know me "You were in the navy right?" (I have never been in the navy and have never shown any interest, in the US navy at least =) Its just strange... I can't explain it... If someone else has a theory ... please share!

Meditation has one problem, the information is somewhat pure but your mind still "filters" what it thinks you can handle or what it expects to see.

And BTW ... names and numbers are extremely difficult.  In my German past life I have only ever gotten 1 number (the type XI U-Boat and 3 names, a first name and one of which I think is a Luftwaffe Gruppe name (why I have no idea , but I am still looking). The third is even
a bigger mystery.

Anyway some people are good at names and dates, but I think across the board they are the hardest if not near impossible for everyone to get.

After you have pulled all the information you can think of.. Just tell yourself to open your eyes and wake up... (If you want to try something really weird look at your hands after you come out of a really good session... I swear you feel like an alien...)

That's it....

BTW I first used a Past Lives Hypnosis CD produced by willy Sutphen and it works really good, (but takes a long time).

As far as being a natural ... not even close, my greatest anger is that I only get these good sessions about 1 out of every 4 or 5 tries.  So don't give up!

Talking to people, I think many fall into this trance once in a while without trying, The key is to control it and do it when and where you want it.  

I find myself in a trance trying to figure out something and asking myself over and over... I respond to my own thoughts saying "No, that's not it." It's like trying pieces of a jigsaw puzzle until you finally find one that fits. Then its like the relief of a lifetime.  The problem is, I would say about 90% of the impressions I get make sense while the other 10% is garbage that needs to be filtered. And keep a journal... You would be amazed how much crap comes through that you throw out of your mind only to have it make perfect sense months or years later.

I can't astral plane, I try multiple times, but I think I'm too scared if it actually would happen. My sinking feeling puts me only about 5-6 inches away from my body, not enough to even concentrate on
expanding.

S.

[SteppenWolf]

G'day from Kiwiland, Robert!

I am a big fan of yours and have just joined the forums recently.  I'm a bit of a reincarnation nut too and I just know that a person like yourself just has to have discovered his previous incarnation by now - even if you prefer to play down such ideas because we are all one when you dig deeper.  (As a paid-up Theosophist I am totally sold on that idea too of course.)

However I think who you were last time round is just so interesting to see how things work in life - how some people keep steadily on the same track from life to life, while others make huge mistakes in one life and then redeem themselves in the next.

I enjoy reading your articles on your wonderful mystical experiences so much and would just love to hear about your past life feelings - if it is something you feel you could share.

Cheers,
Richard