Quote:Science and the exploration of consciousness are showing us that there is a universal oneness or connectedness that we all may tap into. The idea that if I go to focus 27, I will suddenly have my memory restored, and will know that I have lived 388 times, and remember it all is silly. I think it more likely that the 387 souls may have been associated with mine, but part of what I am.......part of what we all are is based on our consciousness at the present state and time. If you merge me with the memory, thoughts, etc of 387 former minds, then I am no longer myself - perhaps I would be more, but I would not be me.
Matthew, I'll have to disagree with your analysis of the current science on this, or I may be reading different science. I believe you're referring to quantum mechanics. The way I understand it, many current quantum theories tie us all together by way of entangled particles (EPR experiement & Bell). It's good stuff, but I don't think you can infer from it that we don't retain distinct individual souls on the other side. If we were all just disposable probes for the mothership (all consciousness), and our exploration was just so much utilization of existing "oneness" created by our quantum entanglement, we would have such shared consciousness with ALL beings. We don't. You don't hear about people viewing through animals, being animals, having animal experiences or otherwise successfully comunicating with animals as animals other than as human to animal (i.e. "I" communicated with the dog, we understood each other, etc). I don't think you can disentangle us on a quantum level with animals or any other matter in the universe, for that matter (sorry for the pun), SO one must either assume we are distinct spirits without species identity, stay that way for the most part while trying out different shells and something else is at play, or somehow the quantum mechanics of oneness distinguishes among species (which would really suggest more intelligence at work than even I am willing to concede).
If going to Focus 27 restores memory of all experiences, it doesn't necessarily mean it was restored from nothing. It could mean it was the individual all along who's spirit never left; whose spirit recalls clearly all 387 other lives as if it took no time. In that case, it's really more like waking up from an 80 year dream but in a non-space-time plane, so it happened instantly. Not so hard (or silly) when one has 10 or 26 dimensions to work with.... or when one doesn't have more dimensions, but has "ether" (wave-matter theory). Why would it be difficult for a spirit in non-physical plane with no space-time to have a dream that was us? Seems like it ought to work both ways.
My dog had a dream that he went to heaven where he played hard every day, ate as much as he wanted, chased wildlife, slept, and barked when he felt like it. I know the dream lasted over a decade in my time because I got to play God in his dream. I know this because he worshipped me.