Welcome Laurie.  Your mystical experience sounds wonderful and rings very true. Thank you for sharing this with us.

Namaste,
Mairlyn

Hi Laurie, I too welcome your input and resonate with it. I just recently described becoming an orb myself..involved a bit of a mini crash there, but very freeing all in all and so thank you again for joining us. love, alysia

A couple nights ago I was dreaming of huge bubbles with scenes of people interacting in each one. I know someone who has seen past lives in different bubbles.

Namaste,
Mairlyn

Laurie:

Regarding reincarnation, of course you can trust your own experience more than somebody else's interpretation of the Bible.

Laurie,

I just wanted to point out both the similarities and differences between your vision and the biblical image of souls in the womb of the divine Mother to provide you another model by which to interpret your experience.  I never addressed this issue of whether you should or should not believe in reincarnation.  But this site's thought police (e.g. recoverer and Alysia) need to chime in with their  insinuations.  Therefore, I will do what I hadn't planned to do--give you the dreaded other side of the argument about soul disks.  

No astral explorer has ever had verifications of the quality of Emanauel Swedenborg.  So his anti-reincarnational view, (reinforced by classical mediumship) of the soul disk at least warrants careful consideration here.  ES would view Bruce Moen's spin on the Soul Disk as a perversion of what actually happens:

"Kindred souls gravitate towards each other spontaneously...for with each other they feel as though they are with their own family (HH 44),"  

"There was a kind of angelic face that appeared to me, and this varied according to the qualities of affections...that were characteristic of the individuals in a particular community.  These variations lasted quite a while, and through it all I noticed that the same general face remained constant as a basis, with everything else being simply derivations and elaborations from it.  So there was shown me through this face the affections of the whole community...Not many individuals leave their own community to go to another because leaving their community is like leaving themselves or their life...(HH 47, 49)."  

"Sometimes a whole angelic community appears as a single entity in the form of an angel, a sight that the Lord has allowed me to see. . .Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael are nothing but angelic communities that are given these names because of their functions (HH 52)."  

Similary, in classical channeling, the group soul is not like the Monroe/Moen soul Disk composed of multiple selves of the same soul unit.  Rather, the group soul is composed of originally distinct kindred souls with the same purpose.  Yet this channeled conception might easily be confused with the soul Disk concept.  For example, consider this quote form Paul Beard, "Living On," p. 135:

"The group as a whole is in a real sense a soul also, a group soul, and [the discarnate person] is in very truth part of this soul.  The bond, the common purpose, will not all be seen in a flash....[but] will be carried out gradually, until the various parts are gathered together and made a whole."  

This alternative understanding may be the key to solving a significant contradiction between Bruce Moen and Robert Monroe.  Moen claims to be part of the same soul Disk as Monroe.  But Monroe is astrally informed that he has only one parallel incarnation--a female one.  He is also told that "she would seem like a long-lost sister (UJ 174)."  Moen reports no such intimacy in his earthly encounter with Monroe.  Perhaps, Moen, Monroe, and even this unknown female are distinct and separate souls destined to participate in a group soul in this Swedenborgian sense.  If so, there is no such thing as retrieving portions of one's self.

The group soul in the Swedenborgian sense gets rid of the the troubling notion of parallel incarnations from a timeless astral realm.  
Consider the contradictory nature of Seth's perspective on the timeless interval between lives.  In "Eternal Validity of the Soul" Seth says, "There is no time schedule, and yet it is very unusual for an individual to wait for anything over 3 centuries between lives, for this makes the orientation very difficult, and the emotional ties with the earth have become weak."  But Seth assumes that time is irrelevant for entities between lives.  The earth ties can only become gradually weakened if there is in fact a passage of time!  A real contradiction!

Don

I agree with Tim. I wish to welcome Laurie again here, and Don, how come you rarely say anything positive about TMI, Bruce, or Monroe?
It just makes me wonder what you are doing here on his website...how strange...

In defense of the Monroe/Moen disc doctrine, Don, if I hear about the flying caveman, priest-rapist, or other images again from Monroe, I'll go insane.  This does not invalidate his theories or claims with any certainty.  It simply means he had some spaced out experiences, and put a wacky interpretation on them. 

Don, as you well know, our subconscious brain works in images and symbolism.  Lucid dreams and OOB states may be difficult to interpret. We are constantly in danger of using the part of us Bruce calls "the perceiver," in the wrong way.  Your criticisms make sense; but his misinterpretation does not validate ES' theories or invalidate the Monroe/Moen theories.

Likewise, Swedenberg may have misinterpreted symbolism shown to him.  We are all fallible human beings.

All taken together TMI has had others validate certain aspects of the focus levels, and some of the hemi-sync data and Monroe's ideas.  Is it perfect validation?  No.  But don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.  Monroe did not have the scientific mind of ES - perhaps his interpretor was flawed.

I have not seen my disc, or reached that level of awareness.  But I won't discredit a man's theories based on a few misinterpreted lucid dreams or OOBE.

Think about it Don

Matthew