According to Allan Kardec in some point in time the “Divine Spark” joins a unicellular being and that would be the first contact between body and soul. From that point on they booth will progress. So we have probably gone through the Mineral then the vegetable passing through the animal and finally reaching the Human Kind. Yet according to Allan Kardec’s work there is no regression so once the human Kind is reached we can never back to the animal kind. Some people once in the After-live due to psychological problem can take the form of an animal but He/She only looks like an animal but not really is.

"...It is possible that the regression backwards to become a rabbit was of this type, a sidetrip occurring by displacement of the viewpoint to a prior event long past, while she remained otherwise on the main forward path..."

Dave I feel this hypothesis quite possible because I think we can research along all the steps of our evolutionary path in order to find answer to our questions so it is possible that facing some difficult question She has found an acceptable answer in a VERY LONG PAST life prior to the moment She reached the Human Kind.

But who knows?

When I was a college professor of religious studies, one of my colleagues, a Hindu scholar, had two cartoons taped to his office door.

In one cartoon, a long-faced fellow in a white robe stands in front of a reincarnation desk.  The guy at the desk says, "Oh, I'm so sorry.  Jack rabbits are booked up for the next 200 years.  How about a snail darter?"

In the other cartoon, people in white robes are lining up to enter the pearly gates of heaven.  They have to walk past the guy at the reincarnation desk.  The guy reminds them: "Don't forget to get your hand stamped."

Don

HI Again-

IMHO the proof is in the pudding, so to say. I've had a great many people to siomply regress to being animals, and I dare to say anyone else would do so equally easily. Aside from my worm-self I recall a day camped out in the hills when I abruptly found myself looking down from the vantage point of a passing hawk, and then just as abruptly returning to look up at the bird.

On the basis of a dozen or two regressions where I asked people to go back as far as they could, I've gotten lots and lots of animal histories. At the same rtime, most of the histories reported to me have been congruent with time flow, so a lizard in the Jurassic would be a cave dweller in the Magdalenian (sp?) and an office woker in the present. The idea of going backwards out of temporal sequence, and out of developmental sequence, is what really fascinates me.

I have been working on a theoretical model of schizophrenia based on the idea of a mind that had adopted, in a prior lifetime, a lot of values that were based on self-negating actions (like power and control based on killing and torture, which is self-negating because ultimately we are all one). Then in the next incarnation there are big gaps where those mental properties used to be, but self-destructed because of their non-rational nature. The leftover bits and pieces thus default to long prior lifetimes, usually ones in which the psyche was much more brutal, so that efforts to create improvement are presented as threats in the present, just as we sense regret it the present for past misdeeds. This would explain the emergenbe of seemingly detached hostile personality fragments in the schizoid delusional world.

Obviously, the passage of the psyche through an orderly progression of states, plus options for rearrangements and adjustments based on the results of ongoing activities, is a central interest for mental health. I'd love to be able to do a formal experiment in this regard!

Regression is so easy, that it actually can be done with nearly zero training (I used to teach it to groups in 45 minutes). I'll post instructions on my site, so you and others can poke about here as well. mind-body-spirit-hypnoclinic.com and see for yourselves.  I'm interested in feedback, whenever you get around to trying it out.

I recall a story in which the long line at the Pearly Gates had totally stalled, because they had to wait for God to return from some outside activity. Eventually a man appeared with a stethescope around his neck, and he walking in through a side door. The line again started to move. When questioned, St Peter explained, "Well, that's how God is. Sometimes He likes to play Doctor."

dave

LightsRon, you have a beautiful story and we are all thinking it is hard to grasp. yet look at how the thread developed that u started.  . it makes me think about animals and about myself, my own stories to tell. it is not hard to understand human consciusness if u can think of awareness, pure intelligence, pure love, how this energy knows no boundaries of physical construction. I retrieved my pet duck one. I flew with it in the sky..I was..yes, as strange as it sounds, I was a blue swedish duck..just for a moment...just for the sensation of flying with wings that had never touched the sky ever before, and flew to no destination, just to fly..to feel the freedom of the outstretched wing and how the wind beneath the wings supported me, so very high up. I had to retrieve the duck you see, as it had become another animal's din din   I wanted to thank the duck for opening my heart; this it had done for me his name was Mr Blue. then, as if to confirm the authenticity of my very real experience, my daughter excitedly rushed in one day to tell me she had had a dream where she saw me as half duck, half human. although this is not, I repeat, a flattering image to see yet I understood well. I understood that love had bonded me to Mr Blue for a moment of retrieval. for I knew beyond all doubt that as we flew I was helping mr blue to continue his duckness in the duck kingdom somewhere and if I wished to visit with him again, that I would and could, so that the grief inside of me was now gone. when we love something, either animal or human there is always that grief to deal with when they leave us. thank god I can understand retrieval better these days as a fine method of evolvement.

Dave, some comments on your fine work of regression. yes, it is easy to do..but we still need people like you to keep saying this as we just don't get it yet. I once regressed my own daughter; when she couldn't get anything, I entered the imagination for her. I even saw the boyfriend she was with now, with her in this other life, for he would cling to her in this life, as she had died early in the other, before their relationship could blossom. his name was Dirk, in this life his name is Dan. I don't make it a practice to do regressions either for myself or others because its such a new concept all in all within our time of history to be accepting that we can be much more than just what our present life presents to us...and my guides have told me that I must be about the intentions why I came here and focus only on that. I will say to view the past lives has been mind boggling and also very distracting to my present life, yet at the same time, now I know how I came to my viewpoint that humanity is all ONE entity experiencing individuality for the sheer adventure, for the sheer ability to do it, for the sheer gift it is to be alive in a body exploring a multiplicity of experiences available for the asking.

I like your little jokes Dave sometimes God likes to play retriever too! ha ha ha!

love and light and a whole lotta mush coming yer way guys... alysia

Alysia I loved your duck story.

Spooky, I think pets are given to us for this very reason, we need them just as much as they need us, maybe more.   Hey, since we're on the subject of pets, let me tell you, I had a cat named Spooky when I was a kid.  I watched him being born when I was 3 and he died when I was 17.  It's a long and sad story how he died so I won't even go into it, but he did come visit me several times after his death in my dreams! 

Thanks Vicky for your "spooky" words. I like cats. (And ducks too! Dogs are not my cup of tea)  And of course I too have some sad cat stories to tell, I know that. Can really traumatize you.
bye spooky

Very long ago i hope