Rodger Woolger was a Jungian Analyst who got into exploring past life hypnotic regression. He describes how he got interested in this when he had a spontaneous past life flashback during a Buddhist meditation retreat.
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Brian Weiss is another famous past life regressionist.
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A worthy companion . . .
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Thank you for sharing these videos, really fascinating.
If you can have visions and psychic flashes of the Future, makes total sense the same thing can be said about the past.
I think the Buddha remembered all his past lives after enlightment under the Bodhi tree.
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Cool Synch, I was thinking about this yesterday!
How ,I wonder if one of my great great grandfathers soul (was partially (or fully) reincarnated with mine. He was an immigrant Ferrier, and got killed by a horse when a car spooked it. At Christmas I was shown for the first time a 100 year old document of his âFerrierâ certificate.
I try to stay the hell away from horses hoves and backsides.
I have also been complemented more than once on my ability to connect with these amazing BeingsâŚ
Master Holecek says multiple âsoulsâ can reincarnate in one body.
Pretty mindblowing!
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Wow, I hadnât heard that one before!
Ultimately all âsoulsâ are connected in One consciousness, so ultimately it may be hard to determine where one soul ends and another begins.
If we think in terms of fractal flow patterns, such as a tree or a river, that may be more accurate and more Buddhist, than thinking of souls as separate objects, like little rocks that move down through time.
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No doubt. And the more the soul is purified of karmic traces, the more difficult it becomes to discriminate this: See Christ, Buddha, Mohammad, etc, etc.
Soul is a word that ruffles some panties in Buddhist circles, other Buddhist Masters use it with no issue.
Yes.
Again I am no expert, and I dont have any good answers, just questions. One that deffinitly has lingered in my mind is:
How did the Buddha remember ALL his past lives, if there is no Soul Essence tied to the Being?
How can Merit be tied to a Being if there is no immortal soul essence that carries on?
How can Karma be tied to the Being if there is no immortal soul essence that carries on?
Why do so many faiths believe in Heavens and Hells, or eternal places of reward, vs eternal places of Punishment?
How can dead loved ones spirits and dead spiritual masters visit us in dreams if there is no Soul?
Pure lands sound a whole like like Heaven to me.
Muslims believe in 7 levels of heaven, each getting you closer to the Throne of God. They also like the Buddhists believe in âMeritâ that you can build up over a lifetime, and even transfer to those who have wronged you to save them from Hell.
I think these faiths have far more in common than most people realize, the problem is peoples primitive concepts of the faiths, not the deep realizations of them.
No doubt there are differences, but I think on the most important teachings they seem to harmonize nicely.
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But think of a soul not as a noun but as a verb. As a âsouling process.â Not a rock like-object but a river of consciousness flowing with the Tao.
The Buddha was process-oriented, not thing oriented. Impermanence, like a flowing river. Everything flows eventually, even the rocks. Theyâre just flowing at a much slower speed. Iâm not going to be in this form forever, flow on like a river my friends, and eventually our flow patterns may flow into the Ocean of Oneness/Emptiness.
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Hereâs the Taoist lowdown on water. Taoism is sometimes called the Way of the River, because itâs about following the natural flow of the Universe as a process:
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Yes difficult to put in to words, but still doesnt give any satisfying answer to these questions:
No, not so much solid like a rock, but paradoxically stronger than this:
immortal and indestructable, yet still very fluid like Ether water.
Made of the same âMatterâ as God
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"The Two Treesâ
âBELOVED, gaze in thine own heart,
The holy tree is growing there;
From joy the holy branches start,
And all the trembling flowers they bear.
The changing colours of its fruit
Have dowered the stars with merry light;
The surety of its hidden root
Has planted quiet in the night;
The shaking of its leafy head
Has given the waves their melody,
And made my lips and music wed,
Murmuring a wizard song for thee.
There the Loves a circle go,
The flaming circle of our days,
Gyring, spiring to and fro
In those great ignorant leafy ways;
Remembering all that shaken hair
And how the wingèd sandals dart,
Thine eyes grow full of tender care:
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart.
Gaze no more in the bitter glass
The demons, with their subtle guile,
Lift up before us when they pass,
Or only gaze a little while;
For there a fatal image grows
That the stormy night receives,
Roots half hidden under snows,
Broken boughs and blackened leaves.
For all things turn to barrenness
In the dim glass the demons hold,
The glass of outer weariness,
Made when God slept in times of old.
There, through the broken branches, go
The ravens of unresting thought;
Flying, crying, to and fro,
Cruel claw and hungry throat,
Or else they stand and sniff the wind,
And shake their ragged wings; alas!
Thy tender eyes grow all unkind:
Gaze no more in the bitter glass.
â William Butler Yeats
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"Let the Eye pf your Heart be opened
that you may see the Spirit and behold invisible things"
-Ahmad Hatif
(12th century)
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âAs the deer longs for running streams, so my soul longs for you, O Godâ
Psalm 42.
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"The âpath of surrenderâ raises the question:
To what or Whom do we surrender?â
Essentially one yields to the heartfelt recognition that:
âI belong to More than myselfâ"
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-Melinda Powell
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@NightHawk999 âKarmaâ has to do with a chain of causality. Think of a row of dominos where you knock one over, and that one knocks over the next one and the next one knocks over the next one and so forth. Do all of the dominos share the same âsoulâ? I donât think so but ultimately they are all One as everything and everyone is an aspect of the One.
Or to go to my metaphor of the soul as a river of process. If pollution happens upstream, it may flow downstream quite a ways until itâs finally cleaned up.
Yet each river has itâs own essential quality, even if itâs always flowing and changing. A salmon finds itâs way back to the river where it was born because it recognizes the smell of itâs essence. So there may be some essential qualities that remain the same and other aspects that always change and flow.
I think it would be rather boring to be a changeless rock.
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The Dharma of Mr. Rogers:
âIn the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what eternity is made of â moments when we human beings can say âI love you,â âIâm proud of you,â âI forgive you,â âIâm grateful for you.â Thatâs what eternity is made of: invisible imperishable good stuff.â
-Fred Rogers
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