Today we had a discussion workshop on past lives. I have met so many people who claim experience of past lives that I think we must treat these as genuine experiences. However, our experiences are effects of our thought process, and we must treat them as such. Causes, or CAUSE, is another matter.
The metaphysical teaching is that there is One Power, One Mind - one First Cause, and that all is contained within this one. This One has created all things within its own Being. This means that we are all connected at a level of being which underlies our material existence. Our minds are individualized within a Universal field of Mind.
What does this mean?
It means that there are levels of consciousness, the highest being unitary - our personal or individual level gives the illusion of separation and the potential for separate action.
When our consciousness shifts toward the universal, or what we would view as the subconscious mind, we can tune into other individualities which resonate with ours. This occurs independently of time and space, since those are features of the lower, or material level of awareness.
Whether it is past lives, or simply other lives, there is a consciousness statre in which we can experience these, and since experience is always in the first person, we have the impression of being there - and in a manner of speaking, so we are.
It is not that we have lived certain past lives - it is that we share in the consciousness of all lives lived, as part of the Oneness of Being. Those particular life experiences which we are able to access are those which we relate to most fully.
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