Remembering Past Lives (2 page)

Together, the conscious and subconscious minds, along with the superconscious mind, form the personality discussed earlier. Together, they form a
unit
of consciousness.

Consciousness is like a great ocean, sometimes called
Universal Consciousness,
or the
Collective Unconscious.
The Collective Unconscious contains all past memories of your present and past personalities, and also—more distantly—those of all others and of all that has ever happened.

Following the analogy of consciousness as a great ocean, think of your present personality as a small village port on the world ocean. With the right tools and technologies—in this case, a ship and navigation equipment—a unit of your personality can, like Columbus,
sail the ocean blue.
But without dependable tools and technology your chances of reaching your chosen destination (or any at all) are very, very slim, while with navigation tools you can reach any destination of choice.

Instead of discovering a New World as Columbus sought, your goal is to recover valuable memories and skills from past life achievements. It is like recovering from a serious bout of amnesia and becoming who you are. To explore your past lives you need both a tool and a technology, a vehicle for a unit of your consciousness and a method for directing that unit of consciousness. Columbus had a ship and navigation technology

Why can't you easily remember your past lives?

Essentially it is because you are now
Personality Number 1,001
(just to assign some arbitrary number as an identifier to illustrate the point) and your Past Lives are identified as numbers 0001 through 1,000. These one thousand personalities are substantially different identities from Number 1,001 and that is a problem.

Yes, it is true that past life memories sometimes appear in dreams or even spontaneously in connection with some current event, and particular skills from a previous life sometimes surface—
usually just
temporarily
—in response to extreme current need, but what you really need are procedures that enable you to access your past-life memories as easily and specifically as file folders in a file cabinet or—better—to select from whole rooms along your soul's Past-life Corridor to see or even re-experience individual complete lives.

Like Columbus sailing the ocean blue you need a technology in order to travel and navigate among your past lives. The great secret is that
all technology imitates real life and the real world
within which the desired action occurs. Your past life memories reside on the Astral Plane, and you need to send a unit of your astral consciousness to that section of the astral world where those memories reside and then navigate among them.

This is not astral projection or the out-of-body experience requiring a different technology than the one we are about to describe. You are not projecting your astral body, but you are extending part of your consciousness on a symbolic journey to …

Your Past-Lives Corridor

Dr. Joe Slate, retired chair of the psychology department at Athens State University, developed such a consciousness-accessing technology and has lab researched and tested many past-life regression procedures with the help and participation of university faculty and students.

Lab research is descriptive of the scientific technique of detailed analysis and thorough testing of theory and multiple individual experiences to arrive at a comprehensive understanding of the subject and reliable methods for personal usage. This is the method of science evolving into technology developing into applications that are convenient and safe for anyone to use.

Dr. Slate is a leading pioneer in today research and development of techniques for understanding psychic powers and their development into reliable psychic skills for personal psychic empowerment. He established the parapsychology curriculum at Athens State University and is one of the founders of the Parapsychology Research Institute and Foundation supporting not only the study of paranormal phenomena but the advancement from knowledge “about” into “how to” application.

It is important for you to understand just how important to your life the subconscious mind is. Because we refer to it as “subconscious” or even (still correctly) as “unconscious,” it is easy to misunderstand its importance and its tremendous depth as a resource for you that goes well beyond the subject of this book, but you will find more about that in other books in this series.

With respect to the remembrance of past lives, we are less interested in the stories of those lives than in the lessons and skills learned so that we advance upon the foundations of past achievements, just as we do within our current life. As evolving souls, each lifetime offers new opportunities to achieve higher levels of personal development. Progress and growth are the fundamental reasons for birth and rebirth.

The cumulative experiences of each lifetime, and of each after-life, remain forever with us as critical growth resources. They together provide the master key that unlocks our understanding of our past and provides the foundation for the planning of our future life as well.

Our transition to afterlife at the end of each lifetime is characterized by a phenomenon called “the preservation of peak growth.” Through that process, we instantly regain at our transition the highest peak of our past growth. That preservation of your growth peak empowers you in afterlife to reach even higher levels of growth and fulfillment and even to continue works in progress and bring them into fruition.

All of this is resident in the subconscious and is accessible through processes of intervention.

The spontaneous channels of subconscious enlightenment reflect the important relevance of the abundant growth resources existing in the subconscious. Through your interactions with the subconscious, you can expand awareness of your past lives and generate a totally new growth process. You can generate healing interactions with the best of healers and therapists—those existing within the self. You can resolve deep-seated conflicts, extinguish phobias, and initiate totally new growth processes. Though it may seem too good to be true, you can generate a rejuvenating interaction with the subconscious that promotes better health and fitness, slows aging, and even erases the physical signs of aging. All of these possibilities and more are available to you when you tap into that vast country of resources existing in your subconscious.

While spontaneous channels often provide crucial glimpses into the subconscious, structured step-by-step programs are now available to facilitate that important process. Among them are hypnosis, sleep intervention programs, various meditation approaches, and a host of tools and techniques. It's through these programs that we can directly access the subconscious sources of knowledge and insight related to our personal growth and development.

Where is the subconscious mind?
Of course it is with you all the time, but it is also “located” on your astral level of consciousness. This astral consciousness is engineered by your imagination and empowered by your intention under the direction of feeling or will. Imagination gives
form
through which specific aspects of astral consciousness are organized into desired
information.

In hypnosis, your imagination is guided to form the Past-life Corridor and intention populates the individual rooms with your past life memories, experiences and lessons. The process is described in the following several paragraphs.

Self-hypnosis and Past-life Regression

Nothing can adequately explain the fullness of our existence, but past-life enlightenment through self-hypnosis comes close. As the evidence continues to build, both in the controlled laboratory and in real life, it becomes increasingly clear that reincarnation and past-life enlightenment are essential, not only to our understanding of our existence but also to the fulfillment of our potentials as evolving souls.

During hypnosis, a fully developed skill unknown to conscious awareness will occasionally emerge spontaneously, a phenomenon called “hypnoproduction.” Examples include highly advanced technical skills, breakthrough scientific concepts, and fluency in another language, all possibly acquired in another lifetime. Unfortunately, hypnoproduction is sometimes short-lived, with the skill remaining in subconscious inactive form following the trance state. Nevertheless, hypnoproduction illustrates the enormous possibilities of probing the subconscious mind through self-hypnosis.

Your past experiences are unique to you, and you have sole ownership of them. In our labs, our top goal was to develop workable tools for self-discovery of those experiences, and once given the tools, you could explore for yourself the past-life experiences that are presently relevant to you.

Among the most effective self-hypnosis programs for past-life enlightenment is an adaptation of a procedure called Past-life Corridor, which uses a combination of age-regression and past-life regression. The procedure introduces the concept of a Past-life Corridor of many doors, with each door representing a past lifetime. Approximately one hour in a relaxed, comfortable setting free of distractions is recommended for the full program. The two companion procedures described below were developed in the labs at Athens State University. With all the self-hypnosis procedures developed by Dr. Slate, you alone remain in charge.

Past-life Regression Self-hypnosis Procedures

The first procedure, a self-hypnosis strategy known as EM/RC, incorporates eye movement (EM) and reverse counting (RC) into a procedure designed to induce a trance state conducive to past-life regression. This procedure accepts the premise that within each of us is not only a master hypnotist but also a master teacher, therapist, healer, and psychic, all of which are receptive to our probes. Our task is to find ways of getting in touch with those powers.

The second procedure, the Past-life Corridor, was developed as a self-regression strategy for use in concert with eye movement and reverse counting. The Past-life Corridor, as we will later see, contains doors representing each of your past lifetimes as well as your preexistence and life between lifetimes. Each door is a living gateway to your past. When used together, the two procedures provide the essentials for successful hypnosis and regression to your past life in its totality.

Specifically designed to induce a hypnotic state that facilitates past-life regression, the first procedure incorporates age-regression to an early childhood experience which then becomes the springboard for past-life regression using the Past-life Corridor. Later during the trance, the same childhood experience becomes the portal for re-entry into your present lifetime. It is important to keep in mind that you are the keeper of that portal, and you can re-turn to it at any time during the regression experience.

All the strategies presented in this book and others in this series are self-administered throughout. They are based on a simple three-fold premise: first, you know yourself better than anyone else; second, all your past experiences exist within yourself as an integral part of your being; and third, you are your own best hypnotist and past-life regression specialist All the re-sources you need are within yourself and now accessible to you.

Together the two procedures can put you in touch with that knowing, innermost part of yourself and safely guide your probes into your past. With practice, these procedures can empower you to discover whatever you need to know at the moment about your past. Beyond that, they can reveal the relevance of your past to your future. They provide an invaluable path to self-discovery with signposts to guide you all along the way.

Our past-life studies using these procedures suggested over and over again that there exists a higher intelligence that knows what lies behind each door. That intelligence can illuminate a particular door in the Past-life Corridor and draw your attention to it. That intelligence knows that out of a given past lifetime of experience, a certain experience can hold critical relevance for you at this moment in your life. It can reveal that segment, or it can present a past lifetime in its full scope. But best of all, that higher intelligence is within yourself—it is a part of you. It can point the way for you to go, but it's up to you to embark on the journey.

Guided by that higher intelligence within, you can experience through these procedures an overview of all your past lifetimes from which you can choose a particular lifetime to explore, either as a spectator or active participant. Once you've selected a particular lifetime, you can experience a small but relevant segment of it, or you can move backward or forward within that lifetime to experience it in its greater fullness. Upon return to the corridor after a particular past-lifetime experience, you can, should you decide to do so, open the between lifetime door at the corridor's end to discover relevant afterlife experiences for that particular lifetime.

On a practical note, these procedures should be used only in a comfortable, safe, and quiet setting completely free of distractions. They should never be used under conditions requiring alertness and vigilance, such as while driving or operating machinery. It is important to read both procedures in their entirety before starting. You will find them easy to follow, but practice is usually required to maximize their effectiveness. Here are the two procedures which together require approximately one hour.

EM/RC and Past-life Corridor Regression Program

Step I. EM/RC Preliminaries

Begin the Eye Movement/Reverse Counting procedure by settling back into a comfortable, reclining position with your legs uncrossed and your hands resting at your sides. As you become increasingly relaxed, take in several breaths, inhaling deeply and exhaling slowly. Develop a slow, rhythmic breathing pattern as you clear your mind of all active thought. Notice your sense of peace with yourself and the world.