Past Lives

Past lives, or times we have lived before, are suppressed by the painfulness of the memory of those former existences.

The memory is contained in mental image pictures which, on close viewing, are capable of developing a reality “more real” than present time.

There are many interesting cases of people recalling past lives.
One was a case of a young girl, about five, who, hanging back at church, confided to her clergyman that she was worried about her “husband and children.” It seems she had not forgotten them after “dying out of” another life five years before.
The clergyman did not at once send for the chaps in white coats. Instead, he questioned the truly worried child closely.
She told him she had lived in a nearby village, and what her name had been. She said where her former body was buried, gave him the address of her husband and children and what all their names were, and asked him to drive over and find out if they were all right.
The clergyman made the trip. Much to his astonishment, he discovered the grave, the husband, the children and all the current news.
The following Sunday he told the little five-year-old girl that the children were all well, that the husband had remarried pleasantly and that the grave was well kept.
She was very satisfied and thanked the clergyman very much—and the following Sunday could not recall a thing about it!

Here is a story about 11 years old boy, who was able to recall over 50 memories from his past life (video): http://www.fox8.com/wjw-reincarnation-txt,0,1190900.story

Past lives are not the same as the theory which has been called “reincarnation” in Hinduism. That is a complex theory compared to simply living time after time, getting a new body, eventually losing it and getting a new one.
Only by higher levels of awareness does one learn, not deeper levels of unconsciousness.
An amusing sidelight on past lives is the “famous person” fixation. This more than anything else has discredited having lived before. There is always some madman “who was Napoleon,” always some girl “who was Catherine the Great.” This evidently means that the person, living a contemporary life to a famous figure, was so unsuccessful that he or she “dubbed in” the great personage.
Viewing children in the light of knowledge of past lives causes us to revise our estimations of causes of child behavior.
Evidently the newborn child has just died as an adult. Therefore he or she, for some years, is prone to fantasy and terror and needs a great deal of love and security to recover a perspective of life with which he or she can live.

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