According to the theory of past lives and reincarnation, our everyday sense of linear time is a distortion of what is really going on. In fact, everything that ever happened in any of our past lives, and everything that ever will happen in any of our future lives, is actually all happening at once in an eternal Now moment. According to this view, everyone we meet in life, even strangers who pass us on the street who we don?t even bother to nod to, all arrange to people one another?s lives. In other words, the people we meet are like the actors in a play, who all get together; rehearse; put on a performance; and then disband when the play is over. The majority of people find by running past lives and probable reality regressions that their other lives are usually either full of unremitting suffering and hardship; or else of chicanery and selfishness. It can make you humble to understand than within your own heart there is a drunkard, a psychopath, or a killer, no matter how privileged and pious you believe you are. Moreover, they are not that far underneath the surface. Similarly, you will see lives in which you were admirable: loving, wise, and courageous. And the feelings of these lives connect directly to your own better side now: they confirm you in your direction and sense of purpose.
Past life therapy can bring a lot of the flotsam and jetsam of the subconscious up to your conscious mind. This is useful because this is your heart of hearts talking to you, telling you truths which normally you would take for granted or ignore unless they were specifically pointed out. Everything has its origin in conscious mind; and it can only be dispelled or controlled by conscious mind. Running past lives and probable realities is one way of getting at this information. One thing past life therapy teaches us is that there really isn?t any such thing as good or evil; everything just IS. And our purpose in incarnating in a given lifetime is to feel feelings. So many people run away from their feelings: they cover them over with busyness, or drugs, or hiding from themselves in other ways. On the other hand, this can also be considered a purpose in life ? they also serve who only stand and wait. People who feel timid or defeated such as the Warren Schmidt?s and Willy Loman?s also have a purpose in life. Moreover, that purpose is not any less noble than the purpose of a Buddha or Jesus. It is merely some people?s purpose in life to suffer pain; or suffer boredom; or suffer meaningless. We see in past life therapy that indeed the great majority of our own lifetimes have been like this. There is no such thing as a life wasted, or a lesson wasted (although there certainly are wasted opportunities).
Sometimes people ask what the purpose is of past lives and a present life of unremitting suffering or pain? Why do innocents suffer genocide, disease, war, grinding poverty, massacres, starvation? What lesson is to be learned in having to suffer, unmerited, catastrophic pain and fear? The answer to this question is that it is sometimes the person?s true purpose to suffer. That?s just the lesson to be learned in this lifetime. Viktor Frankl, speaking of his experiences at Auschwitz, put it thusly: "... When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task; his single and unique task. He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden."
Bob Makransky
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Past life therapy is very useful for getting a handle on what we truly feel inside. Our past lives and realities reflect on what it is we are doing in this one.
