Dreams of past lives and dreams about reincarnation. Is it possible to remember our past lives and former reincarnations through dreams. Reincarnation info.
Extract from 'Remembering your Dreams'
by Craig Hamilton-Parker
Past
Life Dreamscapes & Reincarnation
Once you have eliminated dreamscapes
that have clear symbolic meaning you are left with
a number of locations that cannot be explained. There's
a certain "grand dream" feeling that often
accompanies these dreams. Even as the dream is taking
place you may have a feeling of awe and wonder. You
awaken knowing that this dream is very special and
that it relates to something about your distant past.
There's an inescapable feeling that the dream is about
a past life.
REINCARNATION
DREAMS
In most cases it is impossible to prove beyond doubt
that a dream relates to a past life experience. How
much easier it would be if you could simply dream
all the facts then prove them with public records
of births, marriages, and deaths. I have listed some
intriguing examples of past life cases in the sidebar
to this section. However, in most cases dream revelations
about past lives
are likely to remain unproven. I suppose it finally
comes down to a gut feeling, an unshakable knowing
that comes from deep within you.
There are certain dreams you are likely to have had
that cannot be explained away as symbolism, metaphor,
or allegory. In my own dream records I have cases
I am convinced are about past lives. For example I
had many dreams about being a shaven-headed monk when
I was a child. At the time I had never heard of Tibet
or the doctrine of reincarnation.
In particular I would have a dream about walking around
in a circle on what looked like high walled tower
. Together with other monks, I chanted mantras. The
scenery was spectacular. I would awaken feeling tremendously
inspired. I have also had recurring dreams about dying
of exposure near a dried-up riverbed, which I now
believe to be the source of the Yellow River in Mongolia,
a place where there were many Tibetan monasteries.
(My wife often jokes that I feel the cold too much
for an incarnation of a Tibetan.)
Although I do not follow the Buddhist way today, I
feel that Tibetan wisdom and teachings still influence
me. It may explain why I was born with mediumistic
powers and how easily I grasp Tibetan Buddhist and
Bon ideas that many people find hard to understand.
Perhaps the strangest past life dream I had was about
being chased from behind by raging dogs. A small group
of people and I are near a castle. Our way is blocked
by a moat. As the dogs catch up with us, soldiers
start attacking us from behind with swords. There
is a lot of noise and commotion. I can smell fire
and blood. I feel a terrible pain in the back of my
neck. There is searing pain, then nothing.
When I met my wife, Jane, who is also a medium, we
talked about our dreams and were amazed to discover
that we had this same dream in common--right down
to the smallest detail. Neither of us knows the historical
time period it relates to, although it hints at the
Medieval era, when mediums
were persecuted as witches. It could of course all
be fantasy, except that Jane, myself, and our daughter
Danielle each have the same brown birth mark at the
top of the neck just under the hairline. Perhaps we
three are beheaded soulmates?
Why
don't we remember our past lives?
Spontaneous recall of past lives may be a rather dubious
privilege. Suppose you were now able to have unfettered
access to all your past life memories and were to
discover that you were one of the worst monsters in
history. What if you discovered that you were Genghis
Khan, Hitler, or Stalin? Worse, perhaps, you realize
you have spent lifetimes as a child abuser or village
idiot. How would you feel? How would you deal with
the horror and belated remorse? You would probably
feel so depressed and discouraged, you would have
no strength to keep on.
Moreover, imagine how much karma your life now and
in the future would be subject to. You would have
a mountain of misfortune to deal with. How could you
deal with it? Perhaps you would live in fear of retribution
for past sins. You would probably feel hopelessness,
guilt, and shame and find it tremendously difficult
to get on with your life. People don't like to remember
things that are unpleasant or evil.
Fortunately cosmic law protects you with forgetfulness
and gives you a second chance. People need to be protected
even from comparatively innocuous past lives. Take
for example the story of Shanti Devi, in the sidebar
near this section. Twenty-five years after the events
described, a reporter sought out Shanti to ask her
about the case. She was working a quiet life as a
government employee. She was not keen to talk about
the case. "I do not wish to revive my past lives,
either this one or my previous existence in Muttra,"
she confessed. "It has been very difficult for
me to bury my desire to return to my family. I do
not want to open that closed door again."
Past Life Suffereing
You may ask yourself the question: "What
have I done in a past life to deserve this suffering?"
But you forget that it was you who chose to take on
the life you have today. Perhaps in a past life you
were a king, queen, president, or rich person. At
the end of your last life you may have decided that
seeking fame, power, privilege, or wealth are futile
pursuits. Perhaps you enjoyed your status and came
to the end of that experience. You learned what you
needed to know.
When you last died you passed down the tunnel of light and let go of everything you were. What survived is
the essential you, the part of you that the Hindu
philosopher Sri Aurobindo called the psychic
being. After a period of rest in the afterlife, you
made the decision to take another earthly life. This
time you choose new lessons to learn based on your
karma and desires. You can only be free of rebirth
once your path is set to the Divine.
Your task now is to fulfil the destiny you set for
yourself. You must work to learn the sometimes-hard
lessons you have set. You do not remember your past
lives because these memories might hamper your spiritual
progress. They could cause feelings of guilt or yearning
for experiences past.
The memories in your unconscious are immortal. Although
the memory of your past lives has vanished from your
mind, if the appropriate brain cells were awakened
you would be able to remember everything. Very often,
these silent areas of the mind are opened during sleep
and the memories awaken during dreams.
Past Life Habits
The habits you cultivated in past lives have created
your physical, mental, and emotional makeup in this
life. You also bring forward into this life your past
karma which determines the kind of physical form you
will have as well as your personality traits. Even
your sex is determined by your self-chosen tendencies
in previous lives.
By knowing your past lives, you can gain an understanding
of yourself and the traits that are influencing the
course of your life. Most people never analyze themselves,
so they are continually stuck in a rut of established
behavior. They are guided by their likes and dislikes,
all of which are habits brought forward from previous
lives.
The objective of a self-aware person is to be in control
and not to be at the mercy of his own tendencies.
Knowing about your past lives can help you establish
new habits and help you get out of physical, emotional,
mental, and spiritual ruts. Few people try consciously
to change themselves. They are stuck with preconceptions
that they are sinners or weak or are temperamental,
and so on. These are all habits established in past
lives.
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