Hi Mr S -

I'm one of those "regression hypnotherapists" types. (On the Visitor page I'm advertising for research volunteers if you're in my area.) Scott's right that we tend to be linear, because memory seems to be a linear progression. However, many people have lifetimes that occur in recent time, then in long past time, then in recent time, then maybe as an animal long ago, and so on. So the "linearity" kinda fades into a concept of sequences, as opposed to linear time and causality.

The second factor that seems to be involved is that when we go "into the spirit world", we actually don't go to a different "place", but simply into a different modality. (This is what I'm interested in researching.) The first aspect is that we are already all over the place. While alive, the locus of your life force is more or less centered inside your skin, but it leaks out into the world every time you do something. In other words, your skin is not the limit of your life force's embodiment. In fact, much of the space in which we exist is also being used by many others. What we call "karma" is actually just the extended actions of our life force as it circulates through the surrounding world.

The second aspect is that when we reincarnate, we don't necessarily bring all our life force into each lifetime. We tend to focus on those things that dominate our intention (defined as in the "Silly Little Finger Moving Exercise") even if that space might be shared by other actors' life forces as well, so that we bring back interaction tendencies as well as a new definition of self. Hence we also bring back "karma" in the sense of our life forces still circulating in those places.

I've been doing regressions for over ten years, but I've never specifically asked anyone to look for the maximum breadth of their awareness during a regression. My guess is that they would report that they have total access to everything as a sort of extended embodiment. Most folks report that they have "instant access" to everything in the Cosmos, but they still retain their individually unique viewpoint, and thet they are looking at stuff. This suggests that to ask whether recall is only of one person, or of everybody, or of bits and pieces of some collective spiritual Erector Set from which we build an incarnation, is going to give us a misleading answer. If everything is everything else, then all three cases are correct, but they are non-exclusive. For example, You are Me, but your view of it differs from mine because we have different viewpoints.

I have a quick "multi-dimensional viewing" technique on my web site if you want to pursue this. The site is "mind-body-spirit-hypnoclinic.com" , and is mostly oriented toward people teaching past life techniques, but the technique is given on one of the pages if you look for it long enough. Otherwise, if you're ever in the San Jose or San Luis Obispo area, give me a call and we'll have a look.

dave

Hi Robdetroit,

Nice to meet a fellow Elias reader, with understanding... 

  Rob, really like your explanation!  A great way to visualize and to easily understand the concept....

with deep appreciation,
Justin

Rob and Dora  ,nice to see you here!

Robert Monroe went to a future life of his somewhere in the year 3000 or so.  I've read of others who have seen future 'probable' lives as the future is subject to change.  I've done a retrieval about 3 years ago from the year 2013.  The program, Timeline, at The Monroe Institute takes people to past and future lives. We can access any life ourselves. It's a matter of going within.

Time is relative. There is NO TIME. It is a physical construct. We are living all lives, past, present, future, parallel, multi-dimensional right NOW. 

Love, Mairlyn

Hi MS-

Yes, I've done future progressions. Among other dismal things, Los Angeles is expected to survive for another 100 years. The problem is that definitions are not linearly developed From a single time stream Along a single time stream. There's an old Gold Coast saying, "Destiny is fan shaped,", meaning that we have lots of potential futures, all of which are valid. Just because you lived in one doesn't mean that you'll go back through it again later. Hugh Everett's "Many Worlds" model of Quantum Mechanics, developed with Archibald Wheeler, came out of Erwin Schrodinger's "Cat Paradox" . In essence, all potential futures are real, but not all realities are accessible. This makes sense. If you came from a future in which you XYZ for the first time, and then live here, then you have brought an experience of XYZ here, so it wouldn't be there as the first time in the future you previously experienced, but would be somehow different in some other future. As far as I've been able to see, what we have is a linear path through a reality that is linear and logically cumulative for us as individuals, so that yesterday implies today implies tomorrow, but that otherwise seems to be laid out in a previously defined array of possible states where all the yesterdays and tomorrows have already been defined. We are sort of travelling through them by directing intention.

By the way - I don't charge my volunteers - In fact I give them 2 hours of anything they want to work on in return for 8 hours for me. So if you're visiting San Francisco or LA keep it in mind.

Rob- I love your description. There's a famous Hindu idea called "Indra's Net". The image is that the universe is populated by diamonds, and the gleam from the facets of each diamond is reflected in the facets of every other diamond, so that in the reflections we have the image of each other, and of the world.

dave

Yea...Indras net, kind of gives an idea of how we are connected.
A little different from the wheel illustration, as that kind of explains the vastness of an individual as essence.
Our multidemensionality, and our connection in consciousness.

the wheel and indras net are difficult illustrations to merge together....hmmmm

there is always the regional areas of counsciousness outline....