Reincarnation – Fact or Fiction

Peter Novak writes in The Division of Consciousness: “Half the world believes in the Judeo-Christian-Muslim scenario of heaven or hell, an afterlife containing judgment followed by eternal reward or punishment, while the other half believes in the Hindu-Buddhist scenario.” -Taoist reincarnation scenario, in which people are continually reborn into new bodies, forever forgetting their past lives and identities.”

Having processed nine Past Lives through hypnotic regression with a Certified Past Life Therapist, I will discuss the statement that we “forget our Past Lives forever.” As a result of doing the regression work, I am now aware that many aspects of my previous lives filtered into my conscious mind from the age of three. However, I quickly learned from my mother’s admonition, “Now, Dorothy, don’t get carried away,” that talking about my memories of “earlier” experiences was forbidden. Two of my past lives have been written at length. There have also been several well-documented past life recollections that have been published: Across Time and Space, Jenny Cockell, Looking for Carol Beckworth, Commander Robert Snow, Thomas Andrews Voyage Into History: Titanic Secrets Revealed Thru The Eyes of Her Builder, William Barnes, Return of the Revolutionaries, Walter Semkiw, Someone Else’s Yesterday, Jeffrey Keene, Marilyn Monroe Returns: The Healing of a Soul, Adrian Finklestein, MD.

Eastern philosophies postulate that the human being not only has the physical body, but a series of superimposed multidimensional bodies. These bodies are variously described in different traditions, but essentially include the etheric/electromagnetic body (home of the chakras), the astral/emotional body (the basic formative dimension of emotions as polarized expressions), the mental body (the sphere of abstract knowledge and concrete thought, the realm of Forms). The last is the causal body (seat of the Soul, the timeless and spiritualized agent behind the sequential human incarnations).

Physical

This is self explanatory. The physical body has the lowest vibrations and is linked to the etheric and astral.

etheric

The etheric body can leave the physical. I believe that his role is a “vital energy” body. When the body falls asleep, the etheric expands, the chakras open and we receive energy and restore our depleted supply. That is why it is also known as the vitality wrap or the health body. When I am tired and exhausted, I can lie down for half an hour, go into a trance state, and wake up feeling totally refreshed. This is not the projection of the astral body, but a charge of the etheric. If the etheric projected too much, our bodies would feel drained, not refreshed, upon returning. When I astral project, my etheric is doing its job of replenishing my body, and when I return, I am refreshed. The two are independent.

When people experience “duality”, also known as mind splitting (where consciousness resides in two places), I believe that one part of the consciousness is in the etheric and one part is in the astral.

Not everyone sees the ‘silver cord’. I have seen this cable. It has been suggested that the cord is related to etheric projection, not astral. If the cord were associated only with astral projection, we would see it every time we astral project.

I remember leaving my body and looking back at my physical body. I saw my body sitting on the chair where I was meditating. Another woman I know left her body and looked into her physical body. She saw her body, but she was in a totally different position than her physical body that she had just left. I think it was the etheric body that she was seeing. In the astral, we see the astral counterparts of the physical, but I think we can also see our etheric layer.

People who are sick have reported more out-of-body experiences (OOBEs). I think this is because the etheric is weak and the astral can be separated more easily. Both our physical and etheric bodies are magnetic in nature and influence the attraction of the astral.

When objects move, I believe it is more under the influence of the etheric body than the astral body, which does not share the same vibrations as objects in the physical. The etheric is of a higher vibration than the physical, but lower than the astral.

Astral

The astral body is aligned with the physical and is of a lower vibration when united. To disengage, frequencies must be raised. The astral body can transcend various levels in the astral plane. It reacts to thoughts and can see the astral counterpart of the physical world. It cannot affect physical objects because they do not share the same vibrations. The astral body can transcend time and space. There is a sense of separation when it is consciously projected from the body. People have reported feeling rushing, vibrations, roaring, crackling, and popping (to name a few). When we are in the astral, our filter is removed and we can see, hear and feel more. This is commonly where consciousness resides after death.

Mental

The mental body is where remote viewing occurs. When you achieve bilocation during remote viewing, there is no sense of separation as with astral projection. There is also no visual distortion as there is sometimes with astral projection (depending on where you are on the astral plane). My first “projection” was mental. I went directly from the physical to the mental body, which explains why there were no vibrations. I just involuntarily “jumped” and was several feet away. I also believe that the mental body is often independent of the physical. Unlike astral projection, when I separate, I separate from the body and travel accordingly. In the mind, one just appears somewhere and hasn’t done anything to travel there. The mental body does not contain the “junk” thought of the astral. One may be able to see partial thoughts formed in the astral (as in a partially built ship), but not in the mental. When I wake up in my mind, I am usually not close to my body and have no sense of any kind of body. The mental body also transcends time and space. Advanced remote viewers, using their mental body, communicate telepathically.

Causal:

Seat of the Soul, the timeless and spiritualized agent behind the sequential human incarnations.

Documented evidence of past lives, reincarnation and healing.

“Many Lives, Many Masters”, Weiss, MD

“Through Time Towards Healing”, Weiss, MD

Only love is real”, Weiss, MD

“Messages from the Masters” Weiss, MD

“Soul Care”, Thomas Moore

“Does the Soul Survive?: A Jewish Journey to Belief in the Afterlife, Past Lives, and Living with Purpose,” Ellie Kaplan Spitz and Brian L. Weiss, MD

Children’s Past Lives, Carol Bowman