Re: Past Lives? How? FURTHER TO MY FIRST POST:
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Rob
September 09, 2008 at 03:51:50:
In Reply to Past Lives? How? What about this then.. posted by Rob September 09, 2008 at 03:09:26:
Psychic Medium Jason Powell is a natural born Psychic Medium ________________________________________ and has been communicating with the souls of the afterlife his entire life. Jason's abilites as a psychic medium are considered to be incredibly rare. The information he receives from the other side is unlike anyone else in the world. Often considered to be the best psychic medium in the world today. ________________________________________ Jason Powell Jason's abilities of mediumship and second sight have gathered widespread acclaim all across the world. Jason is currently working on his first book entitled "Never too late to say, Hello" and will be published in 2008. ________________________________________ Jason is a featured guest on radio shows all across the country. Jason also is incredibly accurate in missing persons and murder cases. Group Reading (Up to 6 people at one time): $1200.00 Quick Facts: The souls of the other side often tell Jason that there is no such thing as reincarnation. Our souls move on to another plane, but never come back to this earth. If you have ever had a spirit describe the afterlife, what is it they communicate? Do they still believe in Heaven and Hell? They tell me there is no Hell. They have let me see parts of the other side, but I have not see enough to really give an in depth tour by any means. Do spirits ever speak of “spiritual spheres of evolution?” If so, how many are there and what are they like? They speak of 7 levels. The lower 2 being for people like murderers and rapist. Spirits loved ones on the higher levels can come down to see them, but they cannot go up. How do spirits appear to you? Could they be mistaken for living people based on their appearances? They are different for me. I know when they are spirits and when they are real people. Do police often call on you for help, or do you get information that you send to them unbidden? I have often helped the police in other states. I never contact them with information, as I just feel weird about it. Most recently worked on the Johnnia Berry case. Does negativity truly block psychic abilities? Not at all, doesn't block mine. Have you experienced any other physic phenomena, such as: astral travel/out-of-body experiences, precognition (knowing events before they happen), retrocognition (knowing things that have happened in the past), bilocation (being able to perceive far-off places), derma-optical perception (“seeing” colors by holding you hands over something), levitation, psychokinesis/telekinesis {moving objects with the mind), psychometry (“reading” objects), telepathy (mind-reading), etc? If so, how often do these gifts occur and when was the first time you noticed them? Bilocation, precognition, out of body, psychometry have all occurred to me. I can control them all at will with the exceptions of bilocation and [out-of-body experiences]. Bilocation has only happened a couple of times in my life and I was not thinking of anything and had no control over it. Have you ever come in contact with a spirit entity that has never been in human form? If so, what was it like and were you given any messages? Yes, from what the other side tells me "spirit guides" are people who have lived on this earth and have passed on. What people call "Angels" have never lived on the earth and never will. They have always been a part of the other side. The majority of skeptics believe that mediums and psychics are using cold reading, using generalized statements that illicit a response that can be interpreted to obtain information. What is your reaction to this? I agree with the skeptics. I think many mediums do that. If you will watch John Edward on his show he will say something like this: "I have a man here who claims to be like a father to you, has your father passed on?" Then 5 minutes later he will say. "They are telling me that dad's dad has passed on and is there." Well if they are telling him that, then why did he have to ask if the father was passed on to begin with? Even guides who are filled with love also have these memories, but these guides, it must be remembered, have not gained omniscience, and what may have seemed true to them in earth life, can still seem true to them until many "centuries" and even (depending upon the desire for spiritual development) "millennia" in the World of Spirit have passed and they have progressed even further into the knowledge of God. It must be remembered that the soul takes his or her deep-seated convictions across the Veil and enters the appropriate state according to the relevant stage of advancement. These are some reasons for the person or disembodied spirit, believing they have lived before on the earth. It is up to the individual what they will believe, of course, and if spirits return and tell them they remember past lives, it is not surprising that those who listen to them should believe them. But it must also be remembered that deep convictions are taken over with physical death, and the belief concerning ever-recurring earthly reincarnation can remain with the progressing spirit even while he or she advances through the spheres, until a point is reached where the literalism is exchanged for symbolism with regard to this belief, and a higher realization is made their own. The mistake should not be made of thinking that seemingly powerful guides are anything like omniscient, or indeed omnipotent, even if they appear to be to some on Earth. . No matter how loving, bright, powerful and knowledgeable a guide may appear to those in the flesh, those who are just a few 'spheres' distant from the earth would appear loving and bright and powerful and knowledgeable to mankind on this earth which is, in comparison, in semi-darkness. Yet, the inhabitants in the sphere just immediately above those seemingly bright and powerful and loving guides, would appear very brilliant and powerful and loving to those guides just immediately below (if they have not sufficiently lowered their vibrations to the next sphere beneath) - and so on. Things must be kept in perspective. The freewill is never interfered with, and even if the guide has been in the Spiritual World for thousands of our years, if that guide or guides hold the firm conviction that there is 'ever-recurring-earthly-reincarnation', then the knowledge available to those guides shall be interpreted accordingly. The soul does not change in the transition, the philosophical attitude of mind built up, sometimes with great effort, is dominant, and such a person goes to where others with similar attitudes exists. There are no barriers to stop them coming back to use mediums on the earth plane who are on a similar level of vibration. So, one can find mediums who see no other way but ever-recurring-earthly-reincarnation who receive messages from spirits who can see no other way either, because they are in a world where they live with like spirits for the time being until they have renewed the desire to learn and seek further. The Spirit World is an enormous place with literally unlimited size, and accommodates all types of attitudes as is necessary. So one must always, at all times, be aware and test the spirits. FROM THE ZODIAC MESSAGES: Q: "Do you assert that persons can be ignorant and untruthful in the Spiritual World? Does not their entrance into that World at once enlighten them and make lying an impossibility?" A: "Persons enter the Spiritual World with precisely the same character, enlightenment and disposition as that with which they leave your world, and go into a sphere for which they are fitted. And there they remain until, mentally, morally and spiritually advanced, they are fitted for a higher sphere. You in your world have persons of all sorts and classes. So have we in our World; persons depraved, ignorant, cruel; others, not so morally bad, but ignorant of God and truth; some, partially enlightened, but exhibiting good traits of character and desire; others, better, wiser, nobler, and so on, until a class of spiritual beings is reached, so exalted in knowledge and excellence that many of us have never, as yet, seen them." Q: "Then I gather from your teaching that a person who has but just entered the Spiritual World may not be much better off than in this world?" A: "As regards his character, on entering our World he is exactly what he was on leaving yours; good or bad; godly or ungodly; ignorant or enlightened; or in any condition that lies between these extremes. What you call the act of 'dying' does not alter the character of the person; he that is unjust will be unjust still; he that is filthy will be filthy still; he that is righteous will be righteous still; and he that is holy will be holy still. As regards, however, his surroundings, he is better off with us than with you. Every sphere of spiritual life, even the lowest, is interpenetrated by influences and ministries of good flowing into it from higher spheres. Consequently, from the lower spheres there is a constant emigration of spirits who are responsive to the good, and these pass to higher planes of life and thought." Q: "Are all in your World readily responsive to the leadings and impulses of good?" A: "No, not any more than persons in your world are. Some have shaped such characters while in the earth-life that for long after they come to us they remain insensible to good, and only along the highway of bitter experience can they rise to the better... ...Some, on the other hand, have developed such noble characters on earth as to start in Spirit-Life in a high sphere, and these pass easily onward." Children who haven't developed a strong sense of "self" tune into memories that aren't their own, and hypnotized adults have their own sense of self "turned off" and so they are able to tune into other folks memories. And as far as physical manifestations of past lives…perhaps they are just examples of thoughts being things and consciousness creating reality. The purpose of life is to become a separate, unique, individual then reincarnation would seem to contradict that idea because it would lead to schizophrenic souls. Some people seem to ‘believe’ that because of a scar it MUST be true...but this is merely doing the same thing that they accuse reductionists of doing, except in reverse. I suspect that it is a time-based misreading of "interconnection". Also, when people say they felt that "I" had all these past lives, I think the I is not the I they think it is, but the “I” of interconnection, the “I” of universal presence incarnating in myraid forms everywhere. Because there are no absolute boundaries to this "I" it seems in an NDE as if it is THEY personally." FROM A PROFESSIONAL MEDIUM: This week I published my podcast interview with Dr. Dean Radin. You can listen to it at AfterlifeFM Profiles. In the interview, Dr. Radin and I briefly discuss reincarnation and materialization mediumship. I stated that I tend to agree with former Apollo 14 astronaut and IONS founder, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, in that reincarnation may just be "misappropriated clairvoyance." I personally don't believe in the reincarnation story. I've been a medium for 25 years or so, and the question of reincarnation was answered to me quite clearly. . I have a spiritual guide that has died over 150 years ago (historically verified), and they come around almost daily. FROM ANOTHER MEDIUM: I am a member of the Spiritualists' National Union which is possibly the largest Spiritualist organisation in the world. Its philosophy is factually based and does not, therefore, include reincarnation. SNU mediums are not allowed to put forward the concept of reincarnation from Church rostrums as part of its philosophy. Silver Birch contracts himself on this subject; in one book he says yes and in another no. Reincarnation is not a teaching of the leading spiritual education bodies world wide. FINALLY: I am here, Luke. I want to tell you tonight of the mystery of the birth of the soul in the human being. All souls which enter into mortal bodies are, previous to such advent, real, living existences, and made in the likeness of the Great Soul, though not having the qualities and potentialities of that Soul, and also, not having the form of individualized personality that they have after they become parts of the composition, or form, of the mortal and spiritual bodies of human beings. The soul, in its existence prior to becoming an indweller in the mortal body, has a consciousness of its existence and of its relationship to God and to other parts of the Great Soul, and more especially of the duplex character of its being; and by this I mean the sexual differences in the two parts of the soul, which, in the way that they are united, constitutes the one complete soul. When the time comes for this soul to become an indweller in the mortal frame, the two parts that I speak of separate, and only one of the parts enters at the same time into a mortal and never into the same mortal; and while this separation is necessary for the individualization of each part of this one complete soul, yet the two parts never lose that interrelationship, or the binding qualities that existed before their separation, and which continue to exist thereafter, and in the great future, after the work of individualization shall be completed, will come together again and reunite in a complete one. This separation may exist a longer or shorter time, depending upon the similar development of those similar qualities that is absolutely necessary in order that this coming together in the original one, as it were, may take place. While, as I have said, this soul before its separation has a consciousness of its existence, and when its duplex character leaves it, or rather leaves the two separated parts, and thereafter, until its reentrance into the spirit world, does not again return to these parts (sic). But in order to regain this consciousness, it is not necessary that both of these parts at the same time shall come again into the spirit life, for if one part becomes a spirit, free from the physical body, and the other part remains in the mortal body, that part that comes into the spirit world may receive the awakening to this consciousness, depending upon certain conditions and developments . It often happens, that both these parts will return to the spirit world, and yet, for a long time, live as spirits without having a restoration of this consciousness, because of various reasons that may exist. The conditions of the development of the two parts may be so vastly different that the realization of this consciousness may be wholly impossible; and very often it is the case that when these two individualized parts are informed that they are the soulmates of each other, they will not believe that information, and live on in utter indifference to the fact. But ultimately, the consciousness of their relationship will come to them, because their development, no matter whether intellectual or spiritual, will tend towards the awakening of this consciousness, which is always present with them, although dormant. Now, as to what this soul is in its constituent parts or shape or form prior to its separation for the purpose of becoming an inhabitant of the mortal body, we spirits are not informed and do not know. We are often present at the conception, and also the birth of a child, and realize that a soul has become enveloped in the flesh, but we cannot see that soul as it enters into that home of mortal environment, because as to us it is invisible and has no form; but after its lodgement in the human body we can perceive it and realize its existence, for then it assumes a form, and that form varies in different incarnations, or in the incarnations in different humans. We have never seen the Soul of God, although we know that there is this Great Oversoul, and hence we cannot see the soul of any image of the Great Soul until it becomes, as I say, individualized. I know that men have often wondered and asked the question as to the preexistence of the soul that has been incarnated, and what qualities and attributes it had during its preexistence, and as to these particulars I wish to say, that we spirits, although we are inhabitants of God's Celestial Heavens, have little information, though we know that the soul, and I mean the complete soul in oneness, has an existence prior to its becoming individualized. You may ask, how we know this? Well, it will be hard to explain this to you, so that you may comprehend, but this I can say, that we spirits of the higher soul development can, by our soul perceptions, understand the existence of these souls as images of the Great Soul, and the qualities of these images are such, that while we cannot sensibly, as you would say, see these souls or their dualities, yet we are conscious of their existence. To use an illustration, that is not altogether appropriate, you understand that the wind blows, yet you cannot see it. And we further understand, and such is the result of our observations, that when the soul, and keep in mind that I mean the two parts when I say soul, once becomes incarnated and assumes an individualized form, it never thereafter loses that individuality, and hence, never again returns to its condition of pre-existence, and can never again become reincarnated in the existence of any human being. There is no such thing as reincarnation, and all the theories and speculations of men upon that question, which conclude that a soul once incarnated can again become incarnated, are wrong, for the incarnation of a soul is only one step in its destined progress from an invisible formless existence to a perfected spirit. A soul in this progress never retraces its steps - it is always progress, though sometimes stagnation takes place - but continues as an individualized spirit until it reaches its goal in fulfillment of the Father's plan for the perfecting of His universe. This is a subject that is difficult of treatment for several reasons, among which is the fact that we spirits, no matter how high our attainments, do not have the information in order to give a full and complete description of the soul and its qualities prior to its incarnation, and you mortals are not capable of comprehending the full truth as we may try to convey it to you. I have made this effort to give you some faint idea of the soul, as you are in good condition tonight to receive my ideas, but I realize how inadequate my attempt has proved to be. But from it, you can understand that the soul has an existence prior to its finding its home in the physical body, that it is duplex and has a consciousness of the relationship of its two parts, that after it has received the experience of the mortal life and received an individuality, it returns to the spirit world, and that at some time that consciousness will come to it again, and the two parts will become one, unless in the development of these separate parts have arisen barriers that may prevent their reuniting. And further, that this soul will never again retrace the steps of its progression and become reincarnated. I will now close, and with my love and blessings say good night. Luke Buddha no longer teaches reincarnation. I am here, Your own true and loving Helen. Well, sweetheart, you have been much interested in the book (The Birth of Buddha) you were reading, and there are some wonderful statements contained in it, and which, as you must see, are fables; for never did the things related happen. There are in the spirit world a great number of spirits who believe in and worship Buddha, and who are satisfied in their beliefs and their manner of living and the places in which they live. None of them are in the Celestial Heavens, but are in several spheres of the spirit world according to the development of their moral natures and their natural loves. I have never seen the founder of this sect, but I am informed that he is in the sixth sphere and is a very bright spirit and pure, and still engaged in teaching his doctrines. But of course he has changed in some of his doctrines, notably the doctrine of reincarnation; for all the spirits of his followers on earth remain in the spirit world, and never become reincarnated. Well, I do not know whether we can have him come and write or not, but we will make the effort sometime in order that he may tell you himself of his present beliefs and condition of bliss. Well, you will be able to do that and it may have some effect. But you have so many other things to do at this time that I do not think we will have him come very soon. Your own true and loving Helen I have been present for some time and have listened to your conversations on the various sects who are expecting a great teacher and others who look for a reincarnation and if it were not so serious to the welfare of mankind, it would be very humorous. But the matter- is too serious to deal with in a humorous vein and I will say a few words as to the utter falsity of both of these beliefs. There will appear no such great teacher as is expected. Of course, many may appear on earth claiming to be such a teacher and they may declare some moral truth that may be beneficial to mankind but these teachings will not be such as these people may expect a great teacher to make known and the result will be that if the world had to depend on such teachings, it would be very little if any better than it now is, for there is only one course of truth and in order for any great teacher to teach such truths, he necessarily will have to have a knowledge of such truths. So I say that these people who are expecting some earthly teacher to arise and come to them with a knowledge of truth will be greatly disappointed, for it is impossible that any man will ever come in some mysterious and godlike way be endowed with this knowledge. The souls of these people are longing for the truth and not having a knowledge as to how it may come about are willing to conjure up in their minds some being that may possibly burst on the world and enlighten them in those truths for which their souls are longing and wishing. No, they will never in all time and eternity learn what they so anxiously desire from any great teacher of the kind that I have named and they expect. As to the others who are equally misguided and who believe that their salvation or future condition of happiness and perfection depends on reincarnation, I must say that they are now, and will be, disappointed just as will the first class that I mention. This doctrine of reincarnation is a false and misleading one and will never enable any man or spirit to live the second time in the body as a mortal. It is so utterly absurd that it is astonishing that men can believe that such a thing can be and besides, if they will only think seriously for a moment, they will realize that there is no necessity for man to live again on earth, for the surroundings and things that prevent the progress of man to perfection are so detrimental to his progress that it would not assist him one particle, in acquiring such progress, to have to undergo a second incarnation. When the spirit leaves the body, its possibility for progress then becomes greater than ever existed on earth, though some spirits for long ages do not take advantage of such possibilities, yet they exist, and earth life can afford no means equal to them for making this progress towards what these people call Nirvana. Some day the truths will become so plain and easily understood by mortals that these beliefs will of their own weight, and I mean weight that absurdity gives them, that they will cease to exist.You may be somewhat surprised that I write on these subjects, but you must know that I am an angel of the Celestial Heavens and have a work to do, and being present, I requested the privilege of writing and it being granted, I did so.I know what Divine Love means and what progress means, as I came from the lowest hells and found no necessity for reincarnation, and you may be assured that if my condition of suffering and darkness could have been gotten rid of by reincarnation, I would have reincarnated centuries before I was relieved of my awful condition. I have met spirits who said they believed in the doctrine, but strange to say, none of them had ever been able to reincarnate though they persisted that they felt assured that other spirits had who were just in that condition that permitted it, and that they would when they became in a condition that was suitable, but I have noticed that these spirits never got in that suitable condition, but progressed in the spirit world and now say that they were mistaken and are thankful that there is no such thing as re- incarnation. Well, the race will die and a new race will arise on earth, but in the new race there will not be any who have been reincarnated. I want to stop now, so thanking you, I will say good night. James Lamlestia (an ancient spirit) discusses reincarnation and theosophy. I was an inhabitant of India when that country was not known of to modern nations, and I lived near the great Himalaya Mountains on a plain that was then fertile and peopled by a vast number of inhabitants who worshiped the Gods of whom the later Brahmans have written in their sacred books. It may seem surprising to you that I should come and write you, and the explanation is, that I became in rapport with you tonight at the meeting of the Theosophists. I saw that you were psychic and that I could communicate to you through the medium of the pen. There were many spirits present who, when mortals, lived in that far away country, and were, and are now believers in the mysteries of the occult as claimed to be known now by those who profess to be leaders of the Theosophical movement. A number of their names were mentioned by the lecturer; and these spirits were attracted to the meeting by reason of the similarity of beliefs which the mortals present possessed, and they, the spirits, possessed. I, also, was present because of that attraction, for when on earth I was a great believer in these doctrines, and especially those that teach reincarnation and karma, and I still believe in these things. Although I have been a spirit for many centuries, yet these earth beliefs cling to me and hold me to the binding force of their truths, as I conceive these truths to be. Many of those present, whose minds I could read as they thought, believe in these doctrines, but very few of them have any conception of what are the truths taught by such philosophy. Even the lecturer has a very slight comprehension of the scope and import of these teachings, and her attempt to explain the objects and workings of the principles of true theosophy was a very inefficient effort, for in order for her to be able to teach these doctrines, it is absolutely necessary that she have a knowledge of the same, which she does not have. No, the knowledge that she, and many others like her, have, as to the fundamentals of this philosophy or religion, if it may be called such, is very superficial, and the fact that it is a system of mysteries, of which they have discerned, in a few instances, the explanation, causes them to conclude that their grasp of the scope of this philosophy is greater than it really is, and affords them a kind of satisfaction that arises from the consciousness that some mysteries which the world knows not of, they know. She spoke about the great Masters being in India, who have a full knowledge of these mysteries and, in certain conditions or circumstances, will be able to and will initiate the searcher into the esoteric meaning of these great truths. Well, these Masters know something of mysticism and of occult powers and principles, but such knowledge is not sufficient to qualify them as teachers of the great truths of theosophy, as I understood and now understand these truths. We have in the spirit world and have had for long centuries, communities of theosophists, who believe and teach to whomsoever will listen to these doctrines, and many of these spirits attempt to teach mortals by impressions and thought transference these truths of ages, but with indifferent success; and, hence, for most of those who think they would like to understand this philosophy, the great attraction is the mystery, which they believe, because of its being a mystery, must contain the truth. The progress and understanding in the search for the key to the opening up and solving of these doctrines, and the supposed mystery in which they are shrouded, is very slow, and we who have been, as I said, for centuries engaged in this great effort have never had demonstrated to us the existence of our supposed truths; and we are still plodding the weary way, supported by the faith that at some time light will come to us, and that which has so long been enveloped in darkness will come into the pure light of understanding and comprehension. But as yet, very few of these mysteries have been solved, and the truths supposed to be concealed therein been manifested, and to some of us doubt has commenced to rear its head and cause disappointment. Such being the case with us, what can these mortals who are groping in speculation and discord expect to succeed in disclosing? Tonight, I heard the lecturer declare that Man is God potentially, and that when he develops into perfection he will become God. Never was there a more delusive and untrue declaration of a supposed fact ever uttered, for we who have lived in this invisible world long enough to have had come to us the realization that we are gods, all know that we are only and merely the spirits of men who lived on earth many years ago, and believed that when in the far distant future by our own exertions in renunciation, we would become gods. No, such is not the fact. And this I must say, that in all the centuries of my spirit existence, never have I known a spirit or the soul of a spirit to reincarnate, and in this my disappointment has been grievous. Many spirits of our association have become perfect through renunciation, and yet they have remained spirits and progressed to the highest heavens of our possibilities (the Sixth Sphere). Yet, strange as it may seem in view of this experience, we still, to a more or less degree, cling to our old beliefs in reincarnation, thinking that there is something else, that we know not of, to be done in order for reincarnation to become the destiny of our souls. Sometimes I think that my beliefs in this particular must be wrong, for in comparing the condition of mortals, the most advanced in their mind and soul development, I realize that they are not in a small degree the equal of us in development, and then I wonder and, wondering, cannot understand what good could be accomplished or what improvement made in our condition for progressing, should we again enter mortal bodies. As true theosophy taught, as we conceived it, reincarnation was a supposed process of purification, and necessary in order that the spirit could attain to a state of perfection and freedom from everything that defiles his soul and prevents that soul from arriving at the blissful state of Nirvana, which means only that condition of soul where no longer reincarnation is necessary or possible; and when I know that many of our spirits - one time believers in these doctrines - have arrived at that condition and entered a state of perfect happiness, I hesitate longer to believe, and only hold the faith because I fear that the experience mentioned may be the results of special circumstances. But if I cease to believe these teachings, what shall I believe? No one can tell me that this reincarnation will not take place, and I fear to surrender the belief. I further believe that in order for the workings of karma, as the doctrines hold, reincarnation is necessary - that only in the mortal body could I do the reaping that my sowing demands, and yet, I see and know that karma has been and is working in this spirit world, to the extent that the reaping has all been accomplished, and the spirit made perfect, and this without any reincarnation; for as I have said, never have I known or heard of the reincarnation of a spirit or of anything that is connected with or represents the spirit. Of late I have been much in cloudland as to these beliefs, and in my desire to find the light, I have visited the meetings of the theosophists in all countries, and especially in India, where the Masters who are supposed to have the full knowledge and enlightenment live, and in hope of finding the light, but all to no avail. My desires and longings cry for the light, but none can be found. Tonight, I was attracted to the meeting where I saw you, and realizing that I could express to you my feelings and doubts, made a rapport and came home with you for the purpose of doing what I have done. I know from your condition of mind that you do not believe in these doctrines of the theosophists, and that your beliefs are of a different kind, and are new to me, although I have heard of the doctrines that are the objects of your faith. There are spirits with whom I sometimes come in contact, who attempt to tell me of another way to a higher heaven than the one that I know of, but as they are mere babes in comparison to my ancient existence, I do not listen to them, and hence I am not acquainted with their teachings.
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