Past Lives

[Ankh]

Were you brought up in a religion, with rules about never questioning? If so, might I suggest that you examine that?

Part of my childhood was spent in a STS environment, where orders are to be followed, and never questioned. All my childhood was spent in atheism. Would you mind to give some hints about what to look for, when examining that?

Your feelings of doubt aren't wrong. They might even be your Higher Self's way of alerting you to some distorted information. It would behoove us to pay attention to feelings of doubt, because they lead to discernment. Discernment is important.

My belief is that most of our memories are distorted in some way or other. Not all of them though! I also believe that this doubt has its grounding in its original doubt, which is doubt of self. But as you, I believe that it serves a very good purpose, that of discernment.

I also get 'dreamvisions' which are entirely symbolic in nature. They sometimes are past life memories, but usually they're not literal, but symbolic. I can get dreamvisions for other people just by hearing their voice. Sometimes my dreamvisions have been very accurate, in showing a snapshot of something that happened to another person, either in this life or in a past life. It doesn't really matter which. It also doesn't matter whether the event literally happened or not; what matters is the archetypal energies depicted in the vision, which are symbolic to the person.

So in the case of my dreamvisions, I agree with you that they might not be literally true, but the message/lesson is what's important.

Thank you for sharing this. I totally agree with you that the message/lesson is what is of importance.

However, my past life memories are different from dreamvisions. To say that a particular memory of a particular person didn't actually happen, would be akin to saying my memory of my best friend in high school didn't really happen. It happened. I remember. I remember my best friend and I recognize her.

Well, here is where my logic comes in and hit the breaks. Who I am in this life, is not who I was in those other lives. I sense the same essence, and in some memories, I can even bring forth that personality, as it is a part of me. But I am not the same person. Which means that stuff that happened in this life was experienced by current personality, and physical body, remembering it on all these levels, while stuff that happened before that, can still be put in doubt, as *I* was not that same *I*, if that makes sense to you...

But I also understand exactly how you mean though, at the same time...

It is the same with these memories. There is a distinct difference between a vision and a memory.

Totally agree with you. This is a very clear distinction that I made in my presentation of this topic at Homecoming.

The effect it has on my consciousness is the same. They say that the brain doesn't know the difference between visualization and memory. But just try telling someone that their memory of their first kiss is just symbolic.