Shared Memories, Healing Past Life Trauma

[cloud potato]

Do you feel like the past lives you've identified with are you? Or are they someone else? What about the idea of sharing memories with entities from the past, who are maybe still alive in some way? I don't know how to articulate my thoughts well enough on this just yet... But... I have a feeling I have mistakenly identified my self with a past life when the reality is that I may have shared some kind of telepathic connection with a being about an ancient past, who is in some way still alive... And somehow, I no longer feel as identified with the emotions from this, unexplainable event, that once guided my subconscious(for years). As if, I am no longer attached to the past life- or to the ideas once shared. There is still a great sympathy, and deep down, a hurt heart. But... I am not so attached anymore. And I think somehow, healing has taken place, in unspoken realms- in ways that indicate a life beneath this life.

...Has anyone felt something similar, to the ideas presented above? If they even make sense.

Thanks. 🤗

 

[baro-san]

I was thinking similar thoughts just this morning ... Excepting they were about my passed-on parents, family, acquaintances. As I evolved, and my perspective on reality and life changed, some of the emotions I felt changed too. In my case it isn't about healing, but about looking at the past more like remembering a movie or a book I liked, and remembering those characters that I felt more involved with. Also, it is more about those souls / entities behind the people I knew than the people themselves, understanding the difference.

 

[cloud potato]

Also, it is more about those souls / entities behind the people I knew than the people themselves, understanding the difference.

Thanks Baro-San. I do think there is a difference. I appreciate your time and thoughts.

 

[fireflydancing]

I think all speculations might be true at the same time. Sounds weird, I know.
In my thoughts, there is a Higher Self. This Higher Self creates a new persona from itself every time this Higher Self wants to experiment with life on Earth. So, my past lives are me and not me at the same time. We are One, but not exactly equal. After death, our Spirit reunites with our Big Potential. Our energies including the astral body, remain in the astral planes (until they disintegrate).

My current 'me' has quite an overlap with several recent past lives, so it is easy for me to tap into their old energies, relive them, and heal for the sake of all. They are me, they are different versions of me, we are all made from the same source, like a hologram.

My current work in progress is to find a way to easily communicate with my Higher Self. I am trying to find out the relationship between Big Me and Little Me, and how it works. Sometimes I get answers in heavy dreams and very occasionally I hear words.
It's not easy to even formulate questions that match exactly what I try to ask. So one time, I messed up in my head, formulating, getting distracted, getting stuck in thought loops, and finally admitting that I am hopelessly incapable of formulating sharp questions about what I wanted to know (I just want to know how it all works), including afraid that Big Me has plans for me in the future that I might not like and dozens of other thought loops. Then suddenly, I heard the words in my head "But I am You". So funny and so deep food for thought.

 

[cloud potato]

Thank you Firefly, I really like your ideas.

What do you think happens when we disintegrate? I feel a strange sense of accepting the possibility that I will turn to dust.

 

[fireflydancing]

Ha, ha, we ourselves don't disintegrate. WE* just return to our Higher Self, our own meltingpot, we'll become whole by returning. It's our ego energy, our emotions, including traumas that we leave behind. There is no room for ego and emotions in the Higher Spirit Realms. This debris will be left in lower astral realms.

(*) = our awareness

What do you think happens when we disintegrate? I feel a strange sense of accepting the possibility that I will turn to dust.

Your quirks, your angers, your fears, your pains will be left behind. Your Spark of Spirit will go home. So yeah, ego will turn to dust eventually.

When you reincarnate before those energies are gone, you'll be able to pick them up as past life memories, past life traumas and so forth. Your new You and those old energies carry the same blueprint.

 

[baro-san]

My current work in progress is to find a way to easily communicate with my Higher Self. I am trying to find out the relationship between Big Me and Little Me, and how it works. Sometimes I get answers in heavy dreams and very occasionally I hear words.
It's not easy to even formulate questions that match exactly what I try to ask. So one time, I messed up in my head, formulating, getting distracted, getting stuck in thought loops, and finally admitting that I am hopelessly incapable of formulating sharp questions about what I wanted to know (I just want to know how it all works), including afraid that Big Me has plans for me in the future that I might not like and dozens of other thought loops. Then suddenly, I heard the words in my head "But I am You". So funny and so deep food for thought.

You got your answer: your higher-self IS you!

You can't "communicate" with your higher-self; you can only become to some degree it, while you're still incarnated. It is like when you have a lucid dream: your dreaming-self can't communicate with your awake-self; your dreaming-self can only become to some degree your awake-self, while still dreaming.

You got your answer, but couldn't interpret it, because of your current beliefs about reality.

When I ask questions, I expressly instruct my subconscious to leave aside all my beliefs and expectations, in order to reduce distortions.

When I can't formulate a question, I ask: what should I ask?

In my thoughts, there is a Higher Self. This Higher Self creates a new persona from itself every time this Higher Self wants to experiment with life on Earth.

Instead of a higher-self, I think in terms of an entity that allocates parts of itself to experiencing for the purpose of learning and growing toward fulfilling its potential (which is infinite). Each incarnational part keeps reincarnating until the original goal / purpose of the entity was attained. I call whole-self one such part, including all its incarnations (this is probably close to your concept of higher-self). I call personality each incarnation of the whole-self. Each personality has an inner-self that interacts with the inner-reality, and an outer-self that interacts with the physical reality. Between them there is that personality's subconscious. None of these are "unconscious".

You can communicate with your subconscious, but not with the other personalities, whole-selves, entity. You can communicate with other entities and their whole-selves and personalities.

You can also communicate with your inner-guide, which is an entity that is assigned to guide your current personality. You, as your inner-self are aware of that, but in most cases, the outer-selves that are incarnated in this historical period forgot about it, or better said, have been hypnotized by the beliefs they were raised with, which are a far distortion of reality.

This is why one essential step on one's spiritual quest is to get working connections with his subconscious and inner-guide.

Surely, there is much more about it, but I believe that everybody should find out directly by working only with their own inner-guide, and largely ignore everything that others (dogmas, gurus, sages, ...) claim to be the truth.

 

[baro-san]

So yeah, ego will turn to dust eventually.

In my understanding, nothing gets destroyed. It is like a DVD collection, but which keeps being "alive" in an optimum state. The more remarkable DVDs can even be lent or reassigned to other entities , and some of personalities and whole-selves can even becoming entities by themselves. Entities evolve too, ad infinitum. Everything is a structure of consciousness gestalts, with free will of choice of every element and gestalt.

 

[baro-san]

(I just want to know how it all works), including afraid that Big Me has plans for me in the future that I might not like and dozens of other thought loops.

At each inner level (inner-self, whole-self, entity), there is a very strong need and desire to evolve, to grow, no matter what, with confidence, no worry, no wondering how will it get done, no thought that something might go wrong, with complete trust in the process. There is an understanding that it is a school.

From this perspective, our human suffering is not a consideration. Suffering is a feedback for us that there is a lesson to learn, a challenge to overcome.

When we decided on a specific incarnation, we had a general idea of the difficulty of the challenges we'll face, and we believed we're up to the task. But, if we were too eager, too confident, we might end up with a painful lesson in humility.

 

[fireflydancing]

Thank you very much for your replies. I am reading them over and over again, as a tool to find my own formulation. It's a process that keeps on going.
So many thoughts and memories come to the surface. I'll take my time to digest. I highly appreciate your effort to reply to me.
The process of finding my own way is key and it is very interesting to receive reflections from someone who is close to my own thoughts and still different. I am very aware that we as who we are now (humans in a body) won't be capable of grasping the entire reality/truth and that is ok. Just the process of trying is 'gold' in itself.

What stands out in your words is that we can't communicate with our 'Higher Self' (the way I formulate this concept) and it seems to pinpoint my problem. Yes, there seems to be a kind of communication but not like a dialogue. Doesn't work. What I do perceive is better described as energy flow in circumstances. Like the manifesting principle. Although I didn't manifest consciously the outcome. For example, in January this year, I was actively trying to start communication (read: trying to get a dialogue) with my Higher Self. Didn't work but a few months later I realized that in the same month, I had started to spin raw wool with a spindle (out of the blue) and later bought a spinning wheel, which all gave me more than great joy. This contains so many spiritual levels for me. Spinning wool connects me with my past lives and at the same time it is meditation and it also connects all my loose ends inside of me. Spinning yarn is also a spiritual concept in several religions.

 

[fireflydancing]

You got your answer, but couldn't interpret it, because of your current beliefs about reality.

Yep, this is a real problem. This happened before. I once had a spiritual experience in which I was awake and my awareness was lifted up by a Presence to a realm very high up. Like we were somewhere in the Universe and in a safe spot at the same time. I was 'talking' to the Higher Self (or entity in your words) of a friend of mine. This entity wanted me to reconsider a certain decision (in real life) by giving me all the information I could grab on. He told me about my origin. Although I couldn't formulate sentences in that environment, I still had the 'power' to ask questions. I really did ask about the relationship between the Big Self and the Little Self. They really tried to make me understand but I was not able to get it. At that moment in time, I thought that we, the little selves, were like puppets in a play by some master puppeteers. This was strongly denied. I don't know how to word it because this conversation was not in language words. They made me feel that everything that happened to the Little Self, had direct consequences/relationship to the Big Self. There was no separation.

I also asked what happened when/if the little selves became too conscious about life/reality/relations etc. That would spoil the game of amnesia and separation. (I asked it in a sarcastic mode) The Presence (who had adopted a human body, dressed in a way that they thought would be comfortable to me (like a French writer/philosopher from the sixties, but I didn't buy it, lol) waved with their arm and turned their head following their arm towards the infinity of the Universe and telepathically I heard: Well, then we start all over again. (creating new worlds, new circumstances)

The fun thing is that at the end of the 'conversation,' we kind of bargained a deal. I've never, ever heard something like this could be possible. But it happened and worked out as we agreed.

 

[baro-san]

Spinning wool connects me with my past lives and at the same time it is meditation and it also connects all my loose ends inside of me. Spinning yarn is also a spiritual concept in several religions.

To me, spinning wool seems to be a self-hypnosis induction, that puts you in a trance propitious to contacting your subconscious, and further your inner-guide.

 

[baro-san]

I really did ask about the relationship between the Big Self and the Little Self. They really tried to make me understand but I was not able to get it.

In my experience, when I ask a question and I get no answer, that means that I asked based on a misconception. So, I reformulate, or ask what would be a better question to ask.

Maybe there is nothing close enough to your idea of "the Big Self and the Little Self", so there was nothing that could be answered simply.

 

[baro-san]

I also asked what happened when/if the little selves became too conscious about life/reality/relations etc. That would spoil the game of amnesia and separation. (I asked it in a sarcastic mode)

Actually, my understanding is that we are supposed to be aware of what we are and why we are here, and to maintain a working connection with our inner-guide. It just happened that on this version of reality that society moved away from that, and hypnotized itself into believing that there is nothing else besides what the five senses provide.

There were various attempts, under inner guidance, to unhypnotize the masses: spiritual movements, religions, individual who shared their glimpses from altered states of consciousness, but largely it didn't work. On one hand, most attempts were affected by major distortions, on the other hand unhypnotizing is very difficult, as the subject has no idea that he might be hypnotized and what he perceives might not be so. Add to it unbridled emotions and intellect, and you have no chance to wake up, to become lucid. Ask Jesus how it went for him.

 

[baro-san]

"It takes a lot of courage and a lot of determination, and the desire to let go and let yourself have some fun, in order to find out who you are and why you are here, and I expect you to put forth the effort.

If you will forgive me for the analogy, imagine that your present self is like a suit of clothing that you have put on, and when you are looking for the nature of reality, imagine that you take this suit of clothing off in the same way that a child discards its clothing before playing in the water in the springtime. The self that you put by will be there when you return, no one will steal it. Then let yourselves go and be joyful."

— Seth, ECS2 ESP Class Session, December 29, 1970