Tuesday, January 10, 2012

reincarnation: is it real?

As a hypnotist, I've experienced and guided many clients through past lives and future lives. When I was doing radio regularly, reincarnation (and dreams) was always one of the more lively and popular topics. Usually when the topic comes up, one of the first questions asked was:  "Is it real?"


In those days, instead of stirring the hornets nest, I'd say something like "As a hypnotherapist, I don't care whether it's real or not. When I do therapy around whatever the problem whether it's in a past life or not it takes care of the problem."  These days if you asked me that question, I might give you a more forceful answer. :)  These days you'd get something like, "ya know, 99% of the world's population believes in reincarnation." And then if pressed I'd tell them I have indeed experienced past lives and future lives and I do indeed believe they're real. 


In fact, I went deep into hypnosis and hypnotherapy because I was having bleed through from past lives into this life and I needed to see and experience some of those past lives for myself. My very first hypnosis session that was guided by someone other than me was for past life exploration. That past life bleed through would continue for me until a few years ago when some intensive energy work finally cleared the causes and then re-established those natural boundaries that most are born with that block the bleed through. 


It's quite interesting to me to note that reincarnation is validated by the Kabbalah, Reiki and other energy healing modalities, hypnosis and hypnotherapy, Wiccans, Witches, Pagans, and many of the world's religions. 


For years I've been explaining this as simply as possible to interested folks using a hub-and-spoke (wagon wheel) metaphor. In this elegant analogy, the hub (center of the wagon wheel) is the higher self / soul self / soul and each spoke on the wheel leads to a different life. The only place where Time actually exists is on the outer rim of the wheel where each of the lives is taking place; the center where the soul / higher self lives is outside of time. 


Now realize that all of those lives, however many there might be, are going on simultaneously---all at the same time. The reason your subconscious knows about them is that because for it all time is NOW; it doesn't experience past, present, future or linear time. In essence, it is connected to the higher self / soul self like concentric circles---the conscious self is the outer most circle, then the subconscious inside that, then the higher self / soul consciousness (also known as the supra-conscious) self at the core. 


Because all the lives exist at the same time and not in a linear fashion for the higher self / soul self all the work you do here in this life on your spiritual self and raising yourself and your vibration higher----in Kabbalah you change the world by manifesting changes in yourself and helping others to change---also helps raise the vibration and spirituality in your other lives and other versions or aspects of YOU. Interestingly, the Kabbalah also verifies that here in this reality is the only one of the 10 dimensions that experience time and space. The only one.


If you do any type of energy healing, most of you know that you can intentionally "send" distance healing not only to other physical people in your time, but that you can also send healing to all aspects of that person in whatever life they are in, in whatever time (as well as to specific situations or relationships, which can be quite helpful if you have a lot of karma going on with someone) they are in.


What was surprising to me is that Kabbalah teachings also validate reincarnation and that time only exists in this dense physical reality! Well, I mean it did...and it didn't. Because what I've noticed time and time and time again is that the Universal Truths (and I believe reincarnation is one of those) show up in the world's religions and philosophies no matter what tradition you're looking at, which is really kind of cool. The Truth has a way of making itself known. :)


Some traditions say we'll ALL continue to reincarnate until a critical mass of us is enlightened enough to bring the entire population UP at the same time. Some modern channeled entities (Kryon; you can listen to him here:  http://www.kryon.com/k_freeaudio.html) says that critical mass isn't nearly as large as you think:  It's only 1/2 of 1% of the population. That's not a lot. It's entirely do-able in our lifetimes here and now.


I'm going to a live Kryon channeling in the Boulder on Saturday afternoon (Jan 14th) and I'll share info about it after here. 


As for all of you other "old souls" out there (and I know you're reading this and hitting it from around the world (which blew me away when I first saw it!) I *know* there are enough of us to hold the light to do it!  


Interestingly again, the Kabbalah says something like "As always, what is true for a single human soul is also true for all humanity. As long as anyone of us falls short of transformation, we will continue to participate in the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth –as will humanity as a whole, until the critical mass of truly enlightened people comes into being to eradicate pain and death forever."  (Read more here:   http://www.kabbalah.com/wisdom/reincarnation)


It is very similar to the story of Kwan Yin, a goddess closely associated with some advanced Karuna /  Tibetian Reiki. Kwan Yin who was born of a tear from Buddha had achieved enlightenment and was on the verge of entering nirvana when she heard the cries of humanity and its pain. So strong was her empathy and mercy and love of us that she turned away vowing not to enter until we could ALL enter nirvana together. So she returned to us and helps us, like all the other ascended masters and teachers and angels we call on. Like the angels, she comes to anyone who calls on her and she's at your side instantaneously. 


And on that note on this evening of the full wolf moon, I wish you all Light Blessings until next time.  :)