Yes, that is my impression also, that this is definitely a rigged
game.  I have it listed as great cosmic dilemma #2.

I don't know how many times I have read NDE stories in which it was
explained that "you will not remember some of this when you
return". Or, stories of returnees wishing that they could remember
more than they did, but some of it had faded or was not available.

Or, there was one story of a person going up the tunnel and having
huge loads of information downloaded into her during her trip up,
until she protested, stop, I can't take any more of this. The
missing information that was taken away, for her Earth trip, was
being restored. This was being dumped into her on the presumption
that she was going to heaven to stay, but when she arrived, it was
decided that she was not going to stay, so some of the information
was then deleted again, for the trip back to earth.

I have heard the entity who does the deleting referred to as
"the angel of forgetfulness". But this activity is one of the
things that shows me that there is a spiritual authority present in
the afterlife, someone is in charge. Like if God actually exists and
does anything, this is one of the things he or some authority
system does: erase the memories of new arrivals. There are definitely
rules present. And someone, maybe a panel of judges, decides that a
soul must return and finish a job, an assignment.

It reminds me of doing lab work when I was taking the course in
Physics. That is not research. You are repeating what was done long
ago for the exercise of going through a scientific procedure to
get a result. It also reminds me of the contests in engineering
school to build something like a robot out of a limited list of
materials. Each competing team must use what is available in some
way to perform some task. Like, when you come to Earth, you must
use what is available here to do whatever.

I have also heard it argued that erasing memories enhances the new
life by enabling a fresh start. Like, first love can happen anew
as a thrilling experience without the memories of failed loves in
previous lives. But somehow we benefit from some of what we
learned, that comes up from the unconscious, ways of coping and
understanding from before. This is a rather intricate thing, like
what is instinctive knowing anyway? And how much previous
understanding is supposed to be available? If some is denied, how
much is permitted?

Sometimes the previous knowledge is not deleted, and you can then
get a musical genius like Mozart. Or a person who remembers a life
on another planet. I know of a case like that.

Mendel, perhaps it could be argued that you are breaking the rules
by getting access where access is denied. But I don't think it is
that strict. There have always been a few mystics who seemed to be
allowed access, and could get to secret knowledge, oracles that
people could consult. I have even wondered if this too might have
been part of the game, but it does not seem particularly organized.
Some can and some cant get to the higher levels. I know people who
do have access, like you, linn, and a list of others.

I have heard it argued that if we could remember our purpose, then
this would interfere with our carrying it out, somehow. That it was
part of the game that the person was supposed to go through a lot
of life and life exercises on the way to carrying out that purpose,
not merely do some task and then return.

This has always struck me as an imperfect process. Like, what are
the rules if any about access? And how much is permitted? What
secret information would be beneficial to the overall plan, and
what would not be beneficial? Who decides that? And what is the
overall plan anyway? It all seems very approximate, haphazard.
Like an experimental game, to try for some effect: lets see what
happens if we mix it all up together. Lets see what lessons might
come out of it.

(Incidentally great dilemma #1 is why do they preach love in
heaven, but do not practice it in the design of Earth, with all its
germs, viruses, and horrible creatures, and indifference to the
suffering of man or beast. That is for a later post.)

I don't think any knowledge is meant to be suppressed (or hidden) it is only depressed feelings which suppresses  knowledge.

All it takes (to remember) is believing ... with positive feeling!

Now that sounds like a song doesn't it - Spooky could compose a number for us here!

Lots of love to all.

I like the saying that we don't access to all the knowledge or we choose to forget in order to 'not spoil the movie' 

I think of the movie metaphor when I'm watching a movie and you know something is going to happen to a character whether it be positive or negative but the character doesn't know and they don't acknowledge that they are in a movie or are being watched. Of course its just acting and fictional but its an interesting way of thinking about it. Maybe the spirits that are around us, guiding us and watching us feel the same kind of situation. With their timeless perception in a realm where there's no linear time they would know what is going to happen to people based on the actions they make but most do not believe we can communicate with them or aren't even aware of the idea.

The other suppression of afterlife knowledge is the suppression of the scientific studies of paranormal phenomena and the many forms of convincing evidence i.e. Remote Viewing, Direct Voice and Materialisation Mediumship and many other forms. They aren't taken seriously by most hard nosed scientists because they contradict the current materialistic mechanistic paradigm that prevails in most areas of so called 'science'. It also makes me wonder, If I may take the liberty of asserting my beliefs on them may I ask why would they choose to not so much forget as to absolutely deny their soul nature? 

On a side note I've ordered some of Bruce's books and CD's the home study pack and I'm really looking forward to learning how to do what many of you have been doing. Despite my great interest in the afterlife subject I'm just getting towards the whole lets try to astral travel and things like that. Any advice for a newcomer?

There is No Death and there are no dead

Never Say Die 

hi back again (loaded topic!)

Mendel said: Recently, I offered someone to go visit them astrally to pick up some piece of information to prove I could visit them. Even if I can prove to this *one* person my prowess as a projector and the reality of what I'm talking about, I still have 6 billion people to go. Exhausting prospect to say the least..
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heres an image of Mike: relax a little, you are not doing this alone. if we all were at the same level of understanding, we'd all be a bunch of clones with no reason to help each other..
you're looking for miracles: definition of a miracle performed: Miracles are performed by those who temporarily have more for those who temporarily have less.

each time you do a retrieval, in essence, it is a miracle to their eyes to be believing.
another thought: sometimes you give your gift and it is not received.
JC said "Your faith has made you whole."
One cannot give a gift, and expect a return, or its not a gift in truth if something is expected of the other.

gotta go  read the rest of what you started up here Mike!

Hi Mendel-
Some frightened souls fail to release their attachments and remain semi-earthbound as they reincarnate. They very often have spiritual sensitivity, perhaps are aware of spirits around them, and often their past lives bleed through in the form of dreams or fears etc. 

Personally, I think that it is a blessing to not be forced to remember acutely how badly we messed up in the past. I would think that recollection of life as eg. Stalin or Hitler would be overwhelming. It would be quite sufficient to have to deal with the mind set that created their purges (and remains as samskaras) without having to actually look at all the millions of suffering souls - although that probably occurs at death anyway. Ugh!

dave

Doing a take on Elite's thought here, I think of astral flyers like night flyers..the mind soars out into other areas of thought and symbol. Since it's a realm under study we're pioneer type spirits. think of the pioneers who forged a trail to California physically. There was no roads bult. It was bumpy. People dropped like flies, in their 20's and 30's.

it's just part of the game to be getting flack, or opposition to new ideas. Mike has always been the greatest night flyer, so he will probably get the greatest opposition. love, alysia

sure Mike, no prob, hey, you should put another link to your website here, as it's got a lot of information that newbies might want to check out. I'm serious. love, alysia