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ALL LIVES ARE SIMULTANEOUS
One day a few years ago, while I was
still working as a corporate lawyer, I decided to stop by a Barnes & Noble
near my office. It was lunchtime, and I wanted to see whether there were any
books that might catch my eye before heading back to work. As I browsed through
the shelves in the New Age section, I saw one of my favorites, The Nature of Personal Reality by Jane
Roberts. The book felt good in my hands when I took it off the shelf; then,
just as I began to open it, a thought popped into my mind.
Put
your personal card in the book.
I had learned not to question such
moments of intuition, but to follow them with playful curiosity. However, even I had to admit that this thought made no
sense. Still, I reached in my purse, pulled out a card, and tucked it between
the pages. As I put the book back on the shelf, another thought came up.
Whoever
buys this book and finds your card will be a very special person.
This thought felt foreign, as if it
came from someone else—someone who knew much more than I did. There was a sense
of something mystical surrounding the words very
special person. My soul recognized the feeling, but my mind could not
explain it.
Months later, after I had completely
forgotten about the incident, I received an e-mail from a man named John. He
explained that he had gotten the feeling that it was time to read The Nature of Personal Reality again. So
he went to the same Barnes & Noble I had gone to, across the street from
his own workplace. He picked up the very same copy of the book I’d had in my
hands, and my card fell out.
Who
cares? he said to himself. But for reasons unbeknownst to him, he kept the
card anyway. When he got home that night, he visited my website. After reading
for just a few minutes, he e-mailed me. Something was pushing him to do it, he
said; it was almost automatic.
Among the thousands and thousands of
words on my website, one phrase had made an impression on John. In a blog entry
I had written six months earlier, I’d mentioned that at work I felt like “a
spirit undercover.” At that time, I was still working as a corporate lawyer in
a large firm on Park Avenue. I was good at my job, but as a “good lawyer” I
felt that I couldn’t share my private spiritual interests—and therefore, my
true personality—with my colleagues. I was afraid that I would be judged,
misunderstood, ostracized, or worse. It was that feeling of being alone that
made me feel like a spirit undercover—I was working covertly to bring positive
energy, cooperation, balance, and light to the office, where such qualities
were not given priority. John recognized the same feelings in himself, so he reached
out to me. He wanted to find a soul to share with—someone who understood. I
definitely did!
John told me that he was a single man
in his mid-20s who had embarked on a spiritual path a few years before but felt
very lonely with no family or friends walking beside him. I then shared my
experiences with past-life regression, explaining that what people learn during
regression is always perfectly aligned with where they are and provides healing
in the most unexpected ways. In my excitement, I offered to regress him, and he
was curious enough to say yes.
I had been passionately talking about
regression with every family member and friend I could, and I had regressed
many of them. But with John it was different; I’d just met him, after all. When
our appointment came, I was nervous. My voice was shaky as I began guiding him
into calming his body. Luckily, as I relaxed him, I too began to relax. I had
no idea that I was about to encounter the first—and perhaps the most
surprising—lesson I would learn from past-life regression.
He Said What?!
After
I helped John go within himself, I asked him to tell me what he saw, felt, and
heard. He described standing in front of a barbershop on a cobblestone street.
He commented that the lampposts on the street had shades. He was wearing a
suit—brown pants, a vest, a striped shirt, and a brown jacket. To complete the
ensemble, he had on dress shoes and a hat he described as a “newspaper boy’s
cap.” He was in his early 30s, and his name in that life was John, too. (Although
he had different names in the lifetimes we went through, I will continue to
refer to him simply as John to make it easier to follow.)
The session continued with me asking
John various questions. When telling me about the development of his life, John
was very specific with names and dates. He was a successful banker living in
Brooklyn, New York, and he had a son and a daughter with his wife, Katherine.
We saw the birth of his son in 1940 and scenes from his daughter’s wedding in
1963. We discovered that his son was killed in a car accident in 1957. John
remembered thinking on his daughter’s wedding day that she could have found a
better husband. Over the years, he and his daughter lost touch, and life became
very lonely when his wife died in 1971. After years of feeling cut off from the
world, and then losing his fortune due to poor investment decisions, John
committed suicide in 1978.
The main lesson John was meant to learn
in that lifetime was about loneliness and the consequences of suicide (which we
will discuss at much greater length in Chapter 6). After John’s soul rose from
his body, he went to the spirit side and was met by his spirit guide. John and
his guide discussed the need for him to be reborn and to confront the issues of
loneliness he was unable to bear during the life he’d just abruptly ended. He
experienced himself being reborn very quickly … and told me that the year was
1950.
He
said what?! the question screamed in my mind. Oh, my God!
A wave of panic and disbelief washed
over me. John was lying on the bed in front of me, and I was sitting on a
nearby chair, trying to hide my shock. We’d just relived the life in which he
was born in the early 20th century and died in 1978—and now he was telling me
that in his next life he was born in 1950!
My mind protested. No, no, no! This is impossible! This is not how time works. This is not
how reincarnation works! Time is linear. Only after a soul completes one life
does it go on to another. None of this makes sense!
I was in a state of shock. I attempted
to stop breathing and disappear into the chair. I was afraid my very breath
would betray me, and he would sense my panic. I worried that my racing thoughts
would influence him and interrupt the scenes flowing through his mind.
The silence seemed to last an eternity.
My heart was hammering in my chest.
John’s words continued to reverberate
through my mind, and I thought, What do I
do? What should I say?
Just
wait, said a voice from deep within me. Let
him speak first.
I waited. The lack of air was hurting
my lungs. I attempted to take the quietest breath I had ever inhaled.
Thankfully, John broke the silence.
“She is showing me off to her
girlfriends,” he said. “So many women … too much perfume, too much makeup. I am
crying. I don’t like this at all….”
I took a deep breath, relieved that he
had continued narrating what he saw. John told me that in this second life he
was a mixed-race child in the South who had been adopted by a rich white
family. John’s parents had been trying to have a child for a while before they
settled on adoption, yet his father could not accept that his son had darker
skin. They never became close, and John was always afraid of him.
One day, when John was four years old,
he came home with a black eye. He had been beaten up at school by kids who made
fun of him for being adopted. His parents began fighting about it, his father
insisting that they never should have adopted him. This became a point of
contention, and when John was 13 years old, his parents divorced.
John and his mother moved to New York
City. He befriended other boys who were darker skinned like him; they formed a
doo-wop group and sang on the corner in front of the local candy store. John
was not interested in studying, so he became a construction worker and was
integrated into an all-white construction crew. He really liked a girl named
Suzanne, who wanted to marry him and have a family. But John felt that since he
was just in his 20s, he was too young to marry. He traveled to Los Angeles and
never went back to New York.
There were many incredible events in
John’s second life, yet none of them seemed to affect him emotionally. In fact,
he did not seem interested in very many things. I noticed that he wasn’t too
concerned about civil rights, being adopted, his parents’ fighting, or going to
school.
In California, John led a very simple
life. He worked, ate, and slept, and was generally content. But the thought of
not marrying Suzanne pained him every single day. Looking at the last days of
his life, John said to me, “I am really old. I am in my 90s. I live in a
nursing home in California. I spend most of my time sitting there, staring at
the window. Time wasted …”
From our present-day point of view,
John was experiencing both a past life and
a future life. Given that in this life he was born in 1950 and was seeing
himself in his 90s, it was clear that the nursing-home scene was some time in
the 2040s. To make matters even more perplexing, John—as the person he is
today—was born in the mid-1980s. This adventure in timelessness continued
through four more lives, all of which took place in roughly the same 130-year
period—between the 1910s and 2040s.
John’s Other Life Plans
After John’s second life he realized
that, by living his life so simply,
he hadn’t learned anything. The time spent in that incarnation felt like wasted
time, and he decided next to experience a life that would teach him how to
love.
In this third life he was born in
Tennessee on July 3, 1946. (I noted the date in my mind, still wondering how he
was having all these overlapping lives.) John had a large family, but he was
closest with his twin sister, Jan. She was a tomboy, while he was timid,
emotional, and very studious. Growing up, Jan was one of the pretty girls in
school. John described himself as a dork, but nobody picked on him because of
his sister. Half of the guys liked her and the other half were afraid of her.
The first time John and Jan lived apart
was when they went to college. He went to the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT), and she went to the University of California, Los Angeles
(UCLA). In his second year of school, John learned that his sister had been
raped by a man from her college. There was no question in John’s mind what he
needed to do, so he dropped out of MIT and moved to Los Angeles to take care of
her. He was happy that he could be there for her.
One day, shortly after arriving in
California in 1967, he was rushing home to bring Jan something from the bakery
and was fatally hit by a car as he crossed the street. His sister could not
bear losing him so soon after undergoing the trauma of rape, so she swallowed a
handful of pills and committed suicide.
After John’s soul went to the spirit
side, he did not reincarnate immediately, but waited for Jan. She created a new
life plan that allowed her to integrate the emotional issues that had caused
her suicide. After she successfully completed that life, they were ready to be
born again together. What followed is a story that always melts my heart.
In this fourth life, John was a young
musician in New York City. He was single, and his parents had passed on and he
had no siblings. Every night after practice with his jazz band, he would stop
by a diner near his home to grab a bite and hopefully sneak a peek at this
waitress he liked. He was shy and nervous by nature, so even though the
waitress would always smile at him, he never really talked to her.
One day John finally gathered the
courage to introduce himself, and she said her name was Lauren. He asked if she
would like to get a cup of coffee with him, and she said yes. She told him to
come back at midnight when her shift ended, but he fell asleep while waiting
for the appointed hour to come. When he woke up at 3 A.M. he panicked, worried
that he had missed her. He rushed to the diner to find that she was still
waiting for him. She pretended to scold him but in truth she was very happy to
see him. Their relationship developed quickly, and within six months they were
married.
Lauren went back to school and became a
teacher. She and John never had children, but they did everything together and
really enjoyed one another. They went to Paris for their honeymoon and had a
great time. For their 25th anniversary they went back to the “City of Light,”
and although they were a lot older, it was no different. Lauren was always
goofy, and because she never cared what others thought, John was able to let go
and have fun. Then she passed away from breast cancer, and John was left alone.
I asked him whether it was difficult for him. He said, “It wasn’t as bad as
you’d think. We had so many memories. We did so many things.” A year later he
died from a heart attack.
As he was drifting away from the scenes
of that life, John said to me, “Her name was Lauren, right? I always knew there
was something else, but I could never put my finger on it. She was really Jan.”
Our names and relationships may change, but the love we have for one another
always brings us together, life after life.
When he went to the spirit side, John
met his guide, who was always there awaiting his return. This time, his spirit
guide showed him that it was time for him to teach. John hesitated but took the
opportunity to do just that in his fifth life.
He was born on an Army base in Texas
during the Vietnam War. His mother was always worried that her son would grow
up without a father, and sure enough, John’s father did end up being killed in
the war. Here again, John gave another time marker with the Vietnam War, which
meant that his fifth life also overlapped in time with his other lives.
Following the passing of his father,
John and his mother moved to New York City. John remarked that even though he
was close to his mom, she was more focused on her fears than on the quality of
their relationship. He was a good son, an all-American kid: good in school,
good at sports, good-looking, and popular. As he grew up he became very
successful in the financial world, but his love was art. He loved drawing and
writing poems and stories.
John’s mother never really liked any of
the girls he dated. He said, “God forbid if I were to go out with somebody. I
would feel bad. She always seems so worried anyway, so I don’t want to worry
her more.” John spent the last couple of years of his life with a sweet woman
named Nancy, and his mother had to accept that Nancy would have to do. John
passed away in his sleep when he was in his early 40s, and his mother started a
school fund with his money. Because she did not have to worry about him anymore
after his death, John remarked that she was doing better.
Once John transitioned into spirit
after this life he recognized that he didn’t really teach anyone anything.
Determined to do better, for his sixth life his soul chose a life in Japan, in
which he was a girl named Kiyomi. Kiyomi’s parents passed on during a car
accident and she was left to take care of her younger sister. Kiyomi became
pretty successful—a well-known music producer who also owned a chain of
restaurants—and she continuously donated her money because she believed it was
not good to have too much. John relived the sixth life very quickly. The scenes
were fast-forwarding through his mind, and because of that he did not give me
any dates during this regression. Later, I asked him to ascertain the time
period for what he’d seen and he said that the life had taken place around 1980
to 2010.
Once in spirit, John was greeted by his
guide, who said to him, “It’s good that you gave your money away, but what did
you teach? Giving the money away didn’t teach anyone anything.” John recognized
that something was missing because he had not done a good job of teaching.
John had relived six lifetimes, and I
knew it was time that we invite his Higher Self to speak to us. I was eager to
ask how it was possible that all six lifetimes had taken place in the same
130-year period!
Parallel Lives
Once clients see their other lifetimes,
I use my guidance to help them expand their consciousness and connect to the
highest levels of love, light, and healing. I then converse with the Higher
Self about all the issues and challenges the person is facing in his or her
present life.
The Higher Self is the nonphysical
extension of us—the part that knows the bigger picture and is always there to
guide us to our greatest and most fulfilling life. By merging the mind’s energy
with the vibrations of the Higher Self, we become
our Higher Self.
When I connected John with the energy
of his Higher Self, I wanted to know how it was that all six lifetimes he
experienced were taking place simultaneously. Here is an edited transcript of
what I heard:
Mira:
In the lifetimes we explored today, the lives were overlapping in time. It
really doesn’t match up with how we people think about time. How is John
supposed to think of them?
John:
It is really just a matter of accepting. He is half-in and half-out.
Half-holding-on-to-what-is-normal and half-not. That is what’s causing the
divide between the thinking that time is linear and time as nothing.
Mira:
What is time, then?
John:
Time is infinite.
Mira:
So does it serve any purpose that we people think in terms of time?
John:
It works for Earth. It’s needed for you guys.
Mira:
Can you explain parallel lives to me, because I would like to deepen my
understanding. Does a soul split into these different lives simultaneously?
Does the main soul stay where it is?
John:
Yes. A fragment soul goes to every one of those experiences.
Mira:
Were all these real experiences?
John:
They were all real because the main soul still experiences all of them.
Although I had never heard this before,
it felt familiar—like something I had long forgotten. It felt as if I had
remembered a great truth that had been lost through the centuries. John’s
Higher Self explained that time is a concept that works for people on Earth,
but beyond our realm time is infinite. To us it may seem that lifetimes are
consecutive, but in truth all the lives an Oversoul experiences are occurring
simultaneously.
We are multidimensional. There is so
much more to us than what our five senses tell us. It is through the adventure
of living and opening up to all other realms of our being that we become more
and more aware of the magnificent creation that we are.
John’s Higher Self explained that every
incarnation is a fragment of the Oversoul. As I mentioned in Chapter 1, the
Oversoul is an energy consciousness that is comprised of all the souls you have
ever been and ever will be. It creates fragments of itself because it desires
to know itself by experiencing life from many different perspectives. When the
Oversoul chooses to learn about a specific theme—let’s say the lesson of
love—it creates energy splits of itself, or different lives, each of which
explore and experience love.
No learning of a lesson is complete if
it is one-sided. One could never know about love without learning about
abandonment and loneliness, for example. The Oversoul learns just as much about
the theme of love by experiencing a life full of loving, nurturing
relationships as it does by experiencing one full of relationship dysfunction.
Only by studying every perspective does the Oversoul gain the full knowledge
and experience of a subject.
This is the nature of the Oversoul.
This also is the nature of All That Is: to create, and to expand its awareness
through its creations. Every fragment formed by the Oversoul is a soul in
itself.
Even though we speak of individual
souls as fragments of the Oversoul, it is important to note that each soul is
complete and whole unto itself. This point was made evident to me during a
later regression I had with a client named Lisa (you will read more about her
later in the book). Lisa also experienced lives that overlapped in time, and
her Higher Self explained that even though each soul is a fragment, there is
nothing lacking about any of them. Each soul itself has consciousness and the
ability to exercise its free will, choosing its experiences in the different
dimensions of existence. Despite fragmenting itself, the Oversoul is whole and
complete. Just as every drop in the ocean has the properties of the entire
ocean, so does the soul as it relates to the Oversoul.
This understanding also provides an
explanation of the structure of existence. The fragments that compose an
Oversoul are called “counterpart souls” because they are one another’s
counterparts, sharing the same Oversoul signature vibration. A group of
Oversouls comprises a soul group. During each of the next levels of existence,
the Oversoul resonates at a higher vibration than it did during the previous
level of existence, and the individual nature of the counterpart souls
diminishes. Simultaneously, the merging of consciousness becomes greater and
greater all the way to the One.
Therefore, at the highest vibrational
level, you and I—and all human beings who live and have lived on the planet—are
part of the same Oversoul, the same one energy we call God. From that
perspective, we people share an Oversoul with rocks, plants, animals, and
water. We all stem from the same profound love. We are all brothers and
sisters.
All Incarnations Exist Simultaneously
An Oversoul creates its fragment souls
in order to grow through them, and all of these different souls exist
simultaneously. To put this in a simple analogy, you can think of the souls as
the fingers of a hand that all exist and function at the same moment in time,
while the hand itself is the Oversoul. Another image is that of a train and its
cars. The train’s cars all travel on the track simultaneously, each holding its
unique passengers, activities, and conversations, just like the separate lives.
Together they form the train, or the consciousness that comprises the Oversoul.
To explore specific themes and grow to
its fullest potential, an Oversoul may choose a very large span of time as its
playground; its soul lives could take place over hundreds of years. When
revisited during a regression, these lives tend to be consecutively ordered, with
no overlap in time, so we feel that we’re purely experiencing “past” lives. The
progression of the lives thus seems to fit into our linear understanding of
time. As was the case with John, however, it may serve the Oversoul better to
explore its themes and create all its lives in a short span of Earth time. When
those lives are revisited during a regression session, we experience some or
all of these lives as overlapping in time, just as John experienced his
parallel lives. This is the profound learning that John’s session gave me: the
lives that the souls create all exist in the same concurrent moment. From the
point of view of the Oversoul, all incarnations are happening simultaneously,
in this very moment! Lives are not past, present, or future—they are
simultaneous.
People previously thought that the
cycle of reincarnation operated as follows: A soul is born, and incarnates. Its
body dies eventually, and the soul returns to the dimension between lives.
There it determines how well it did in life, and then chooses to be born again
in order to work on the same or different lessons. The cycle continues from
there until the soul perfects itself and merges with God consciousness. In
other words, we saw reincarnation as the linear progression of a singular soul.
We used to think of any “other” lives as “past lives” of the same one person.
Future lives were hardly ever looked into because, according to our
understanding, the future hadn’t happened yet.
But because our minds are now able to
better process multidimensional thinking in space and time, we are ready to
transcend these simpler explanations offered by so many generations of our
predecessors. Outside the dimension of our Earth reality, time operates by a
different pattern. It is not linear—it is simply and always now. Thus, each
life is both still unfolding and has already been completed in the
present moment.
John’s session was a true spiritual
education for me. The concept of parallel lives is novel within the world of
past-life regression; in fact, it’s on the cutting edge of our spiritual
awareness as a whole. During my session with John I felt like an explorer,
venturing into uncharted dimensions of knowledge. At the time I was not aware
of any other regressionist who had come across this information in his or her
work. Up until that point, I hadn’t read any books that talked about the
simultaneity of existence. If I had encountered it somewhere, it had flown over
my head without my understanding the concept or consciously processing it. Not to
mention that John was my very first client outside of my beloved family and
friends! I felt immense gratitude that Spirit had deemed me ready to facilitate
a session of such great importance.
After my session with him, I wanted to
tell the whole world about parallel lives, but I was hesitant. Who was I to
revolutionize our understanding of reincarnation? After all, I was a corporate
lawyer representing publicly traded companies—not a spiritual guru!
Yet, every chance I had, I shared my
findings. You could hear the enthusiasm in my voice whenever I talked about the
simultaneity of existence. My revelations prompted inspired conversations
wherever I went. Talking about John’s regressions—and the truth about how our
lives operate—filled me with great excitement. In those moments, I felt I was
locking into the energy of my true self, that I was fulfilling my purpose of
inspiring people and bringing light into their lives.
In time, I realized that both the world
and I were ready to share this information. I now know that I am always given
what I am ready for, and only when I am ready for it. By allowing myself to
share my discoveries, I have grown into the person I am today—a person who can
stand up and present new ideas to the world. Spirit never doubted me, and was
only lovingly waiting for me to gain the confidence to share what I have
learned.
It is clear to me that the Universe is
yearning for this new shift in thinking. Everywhere, people are taking steps in
the direction of the Light. We are making great progress in assimilating and
applying subtle metaphysical knowledge. And, most important, we are stepping
out of our comfort zones to rediscover life in new and exciting ways. The
understanding that time is simultaneous can assist all of us in our spiritual
progression and expand our awareness of how we create our own realities.
Conscious Awareness of Concurrent Lives
You may wonder why you aren’t
consciously aware of other concurrent lives you are living. The explanation
lies in our brain’s capacity to process information. Neurologically, we are
only able to tune in to the present life we know; it helps us maintain a
coherent sense of self. How confused our egos would be if they were able to
simultaneously receive input from all of our counterparts! Our brains filter
out a large amount of information surrounding us in our daily lives as it is:
of the 400 billion bits of
information our brains process every second, we are aware of only 2,000.
Imagine what it would be like to have
an input even a few times that! The information would overwhelm us, leaving us
incapacitated. One might wonder, Am I a
factory worker in Harbin, China? A camel-riding Bedouin? An ancient Hawaiian
kahuna? Who am I? Rare are the cases where people are consciously aware of
the other fields of existence where they dwell. Children are sometimes able to
spontaneously connect to other lives, but even in those circumstances the input
is brief. They may receive a burst of information in one moment, and in the
next moment reorient to the reality they know as their own. People may also
connect with other lifetimes in dreams, because the dream state provides a safe
container for the ego to explore.
Even though we’re not consciously aware
of it, we are constantly communicating with our counterparts and our Oversoul.
We are subconsciously always in touch, and we communicate in our dreams. And
even though we don’t consciously recognize it, we are forever being influenced
by the lives of our counterparts. Their preferences, experiences, thoughts, and
conclusions affect us. We learn from the ways they explore their themes, and
they learn from us. We assist each other. It might show up as unexplainable
attractions toward particular types of music, foreign countries, or foods. For
me, it is the love of miso soup. I could eat miso soup for breakfast, lunch,
and dinner, day after day, and never tire of it. It came as no surprise to
discover that my Oversoul has created a life in Japan that I strongly connect
with, which is exploring similar themes to my life here and now.
EXCERPT FROM-Beyond past lives : what parallel realities can
teach us about relationships, healing, and transformation by Mira Kelley.
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