ALL LIVES ARE SIMULTANEOUS

          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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