PAST LIVES
Recalling Your Past Lives
Article about experiences of the Spirit World basaed upon the book "What to do whe you are dead" by Craig Hamilton-Parker..
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 The cosmic sleep/Soul Sleep helps to restore the vitality of your subtle body and increases its light. Cosmic sleep is also part of the integration process into the next world. Just as we ‘sleep on it’ in this life when we are making decisions or solving problems on earth, so too do we use this same method in the next life. We will go through some of the life review with our guides and helpers then spend a little time after each session in cosmic dleep. This is part of the spiritual integration. You may need a lot of cosmic sleep, or none at all--it all depends of the level of spiritual unfoldment you attained in earthly life.
Eventually, you will be shown beyond the immediate issues of the life you have just left and will see your situation relative to the many lives you have lived on earth before. Many of the things that have happened in this past life will be seen to be a result of karma brought forward from previous lives. For example, you may have many relationship problems in this life because you were a cheat in an earlier life. Similarly, you may have money problems in this life because you were miserly in another life. By examining your life in this context, you will gradually be shown the main lessons you should have learned from this life. An intriguing account of the judgment of the dead, that was witnessed Dr. John Hislop and recorded by Dr. Samuel Sandweiss, was given by an elderly American, Walter Cowan, who died suddenly on Christmas Day in 1971 from a heart attack
 Walter Cowan’s body was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where he was certified dead. During his life, Walter Cowan was a devotee of the Indian holy man called Sathya Sai Baba. His wife prayed to Sai Baba for her husband to be brought back from the dead. Eventually Sai Baba agreed and interrupted the life review:
“Then Baba took me to a very large hall where there were hundreds of people milling around. This was the hall where the records of all my previous lives were kept. Baba and I stood before the Court of Justice. The person in charge knew Baba very well, and he asked for the records of all my lives. He was very kind, and I had the feeling that whatever was decided would be the best for my soul.”
Walter Cowan then explains how the angels brought in many scrolls written in many ancient languages. Sai Baba examines them and makes some comments. The scrolls are the history of Cowan’s past lives:
“When they reached the time of King David, the reading of my lives became more exciting. I could hardly believe how great I apparently was in each life that followed. As the reading of my lives continued, it seemed that what really counted were my motives and character, as I had stood for outstanding peaceful, spiritual, and political activity...
After about two hours, they finished reading the scrolls, and the Lord, Sai Baba, said that I had not completed the work that I was born to do and asked the judge that I be turned over to him to complete my mission of spreading the truth. He requested that my soul be returned to my body under his grace. The judge said, 'So be it.'
The case was dismissed and I left with Baba to return to my body. I hesitated to leave this wonderful bliss. I looked at my body and thought it would be like stepping into a cesspool to return to it, but I knew that it was best to complete my mission so that I could eventually merge with the Lord, Sai Baba. So I stepped back into my body...that very instant it started all over again--trying to get my breath, being as sick as you could be and still be alive. I opened my eyes and looked at my wife and said, “You sure look beautiful in pink..."
Carl Jung’s Experience of the Life Review
 I have occasionally quoted psychologist Carl Jung’s views of the afterlife and the fact that the psyche appears to prepare the dying person for an entry into a new life. Towards the end of his life, Carl Jung had a number of visions of the afterlife that also suggest that part of the life review is concerned with an examination of a person’ past lives. At the beginning of 1944, he was taken into the hospital and experienced “deliriums and visions” as he hovered close to death. He explains encountering a “tremendous dark stone block, like a meteorite. It was about the size of my house, or even bigger. It was floating in space, and I myself was floating in space.”
The immense rock had been carved into a temple, with a black Hindu sitting guard at the entrance. As Jung steps inside this temple, he feels that everything about his earthly life is falling away from him. He has a feeling that, now, he will understand the mystery of his life. But something interrupts him:
“From below, from the direction of Europe, an image floated up. It was my doctor, Dr. H--or rather, his likeness--framed by a golden chain or a golden laurel wreath. I knew at once: ‘Aha, this is my doctor, of course, the one who has been treating me. But now he is coming in his primal form, as a basileus of Kos. In life he was an avatar of this basileus, the temporal embodiment of the primal form, which has existed from the beginning. Now he is appearing in that primal form.’
“Presumably, I too was in my primal form, though this was something I did not observe but simply took for granted. As he stood before me, a mute exchange of thought took place between us. Dr. H. had been delegated by the earth to deliver a message to me, to tell me that there was a protest against my going away. I had no right to leave earth and must return. The moment I heard that, the vision ceased.”
When Jung eventually returned to waking consciousness he was very concerned for the welfare of the Dr. H. He pleaded with his nurses to warn him. “His life is in danger, for heaven’s sake! He has appeared to me in his primal form! When anybody attains this form it means he is going to die, for already he belongs to the ‘greater company’!”
Carl Jung was Dr. H’s last patient. On April 4, 1944, Jung was allowed to sit up on the edge of his bed for the first time since the beginning of his illness. On the same day, Dr. H took to his bed and eventually died of septicemia.
My own spirit guide, Taratha, has spoken about the primal form, that we attain once we have become fully integrated into the afterlife. As far as I understand, this it is what others have called the “overself” the highest aspect of our consciousness. Taratha has also told my circle that only a fraction of our self incarnates on the earth at any one time. We are like a many-faced diamond of which only one surface is in this world at any one time. The primal self is the core personality that has lived many times before and who is fully aware of the purpose of its existence in past lives, this life, and the lives to come.
It is the real you.
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