Peeking in on a Past Life: Reincarnational Bleed-Throughs

I was lying in bed one night, quite wide awake, but with my eyes closed, waiting for sleep.  I started to see geometric symbols passing through my mind’s eye.  “This is strange”, I thought, “I wonder what’s going on”. 

At first I thought I might be dreaming, but on examination, I knew that I was fully awake.  Suddenly, I was in a cave with about twenty people, who appeared to be Bedouins.  However, I also had the feeling that the cave was in Spain in the 14^th Century.   The people were sitting in a circle, and I felt that they were having a meeting of some kind; that it was some sort of secret society.

As I watched, my eye was drawn to a young girl of about fourteen.  She had large dark eyes, but was otherwise unremarkable.  Without consciously trying, I seemed to be pulled towards her and suddenly I was, looking out through her eyes.

I “knew” that she was one of my reincarnational selves (I’m not sure how).  I also knew that she didn’t speak, although she was quite capable of it - a “condition” known nowadays as elective or selective mutism.  

Interestingly, even though I was out of my body, in another time, and then inside another body, I never had any sense that I might somehow lose myself.   Throughout the experience I was very much aware of myself as myself, and even though I saw this young girl as part of me, I was also aware that she had her own identity and destiny, which were different to my life purposes.   And, I felt absolutely no fear; just intense curiosity and excitement.

In the next instant I returned to my body, and lay there thinking, “Wow! What was that?”  The experience didn’t fit in with traditional ideas of reincarnation.  If this girl had lived long ago, how was I able to visit her as if her life was happening now?  And clearly, time was behaving in an unusual way as well. I also wondered about the symbols which preceded the experience.  What did they mean?    

Some kind of synchronicity was clearly in operation too.  I knew about elective mutism, having read Isabel Allende’s “House of Spirits”, where the main character does not speak for some years (it’s many years since I read this book and internet synopsis don’t mention what is, IMHO,  Clara’s most interesting character trait) .  For some reason, I’d been fascinated by this idea, following it up with further research.

At this stage in my life, I’d read many books on “spirituality”, and explored a number of religions.  I always felt I was left with unanswered questions.  The books spirituality on just seemed to repeat the same old dogma, regurgitating ideas from Buddhism and spiritualism with great authority but little real understanding or explanation.

When I found “the Nature of Personal Reality”, I clearly heard a voice say, “You need to read this book”, but resisted, because I was just so bored with the same old same old stuff.  I saw the book, and heard the same words at least half a dozen times before I finally acquiesced and decided to give it a chance.

Seth discusses these experiences, which he termed “reincarnational bleed throughs” in Session 669 of the Nature of Personal Reality (Roberts, 1974, pp. 443-449), saying they’re actually not that uncommon.  However, most people will simply dismiss them as imagination or dream material.  Because we’ve been taught the information that comes to us through imagination is not to be trusted (i.e. it cannot be truth, therefore it must be “lies”), we fail to recognize the vast amount of useful data that appears to us through this source. 

He suggests we utilize this information in solving our immediate problems.  When I analysed my experience, I looked at it in terms of my current life.  I was struggling with my own inability to assert myself verbally in relationships.   Although I’m not sure how the experience helped with the problem, it did give me some idea of its origins.  I do know that now, I do make more of an effort to speak up when someone is unkind or tries to put me down, so while the result may have been intangible, it was, nonetheless, real.  The more tangible result was that it led me to question traditional ideas on reincarnation and time.

Seth also explains the appearance of the geometric symbols prior to the experience.  He says that when we’re born, information linking us to our reincarnational selves is symbolically encoded in our subconscious.  These symbols can be used as pathways (or stepping stones) to knowledge of our multidimensional existence, and are intended to assist in expanding our conscious awareness. 

The experience was profound and thought provoking.  It is a memory I’ll always treasure.

In my next post, I’ll discuss the apparent time paradox involved in this episode.  As always, you r comments are welcome.

Here’s thinking….