From: suzych@swcp.com   
      
   In article <6E15d.29516$bL1.1407676@news20.bellglobal.com>, "alice"   
    wrote:   
      
   > "Crowfoot"  wrote in message   
   > news:cj1rl0$dua$1@iruka.swcp.com...   
   > > In article ,   
   > > kimbawlionATaolDOTcom@127.0.0.1 wrote:   
   > >   
   > > > On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:57:22 -0400, "alice"  wrote:   
   > > >   
   > > > >yes, i have reason to expect that reincarnation is a reality.   
   > > > >i was once visited by a spirit of sorts during a quiet,   
   > > > >soul-searching   
   > > > >moment   
   > > > >spirit of sorts - my apologies but you didn't leave a name!   
   > > > >and the entity took me on a bit of a (what i think was a)   
   > > > >reincarnational   
   > > > >trip   
   > > > >in which i ended up getting frightened, at which point he/she/it let   
   > > > >me   
   > > > >down   
   > > > >easy.   
   > > >   
   > > > My first experience out of the ordinary was a trip led by someone who   
   > > > showed up in much the same way. Mine wasn't a reincarnational trip--I   
   > > > didn't get that memory until a couple of years later--but it was a   
   > > > sort   
   > > > of   
   > > > vision of "reality", a vision of beauty and light, a knowledge of the   
   > > > interconnectedness of everything, and a loss of my fear of   
   > > > dying--which   
   > > > really amazed me at the time because I hadn't even been aware of it   
   > > > and   
   > > > how heavy a load it was.   
   > > >   
   > > > He didn't leave a name, either. His love was his calling card, and   
   > > > with   
   > > > further experiences I've surmised who he is... someone from my past.   
   > > >   
   > > > >i was shown/re-lived a life about 150-200 years ago in the area   
   > > > >where   
   > my   
   > > > >ancestors lived, so i am inclined to think it was me.   
   > > > >i re-lived the life in an astonishing way, not just from her   
   > perspective   
   > > > >but from that of everyone involved, all at once.   
   > > > >and i am a rather skeptical person, i don't believe anything.   
   > > > >i wouldn't have thought it so before, but what is called   
   > > > >the akashic records really does seem to exist.   
   > > > >at the end of the experience, i saw the person's card,   
   > > > >in what seemed to be an endless row of cards.   
   > > >   
   > > > I have not seen anything like the Akashic records, so the concept is   
   > > > still   
   > > > strange to me. A great number of people say it's real, and I can't   
   > > > say   
   > > > it's not, but I don't fully "get" it.   
   > >   
   > > Nothing to get; it's just like a gigantic library of all the everything   
   > > that has ever been, and sometimes some people get to do a little   
   > > studying there.  Mostly I think we (very sensibly) ignore the place   
   > > and/or are not let in because remembering too much would interfere with   
   > > clear perception of the present life and unencumbered decision-making   
   > > here -- too much echo in the chamber to hear the music that's actually   
   > > being played.   
   > >   
   > > On the other hand, people doing current lives which they have chosen to   
   > > have active, unscripted spiritual facets apparently make use of visits   
   > > to or from the Akashic plane in the ongoing shaping of the current   
   > > life.   
   > > We just don't all do that all the time, and in most lifetimes most of   
   > > us   
   > > probably don't do it at all.  I think the Akashic records are there for   
   > > consultation *between* lives, when you're thinking about what to take   
   > > on   
   > > next -- then, an overview of your own lives and those of others you   
   > > often interact with would probably be pretty useful.   
   > > --   
   > > Crow   
   >   
   > i'm trying to think what i gained from that experience.   
   > it makes me think that we are much more than any   
   > one particular life.   
   > what we are is not just any particular life or experience.   
   > it is really impossible for me to live a life now where   
   > i am not influenced by what i have seen.   
   > it appears that we have just conveniently forgotten   
   > who/what we really are, for the sake of this experience.   
   > it is really quite a wonderful and remarkable thing,   
   > now i don't think i mind 'forgetting' my self, for the   
   > sake of the reward to my self, knowing full well   
   > that i am going to awaken from this little journey,   
   > having benefited from the experience, in a very   
   > profound way, i'm sure we all do to the extent   
   > that it may cause a growing awareness in each of us.   
   > but it must take so many lives, yet i have heard   
   > a story of someone who 'do it all' in one life.   
   > that really doesn't seem possible.   
      
   Theoretically, I suppose it could happen, but what would be the point?   
   I don't think we come here just to touch down and then zip away again,   
   never to return, but to take the time to really roam around and explore,   
   experience, make mistakes, study and learn at our leisure to get the   
   full flavor (including the bitter parts) of something that simply is not   
   available in anywhere else *but* on the physical plane.  We come *here*   
   to do *this*, not to escape from doing this -- that's my reading, anyway.   
   When we're done doing *this*, then we clear off and go do something else   
   somewhere else that builds on what we've done here, but isn't the same.   
      
   I have a friend who can be maneuvered into admitting, in close and   
   trusted company, that not only is he and Old Soul, he's an Oldie on his   
   last go-round, and that he can remember, when he bothers to, most of   
   his previous lives (but why bother, when you get all the "time" you need   
   to review the whole bunch in detail after this one is over?), and that   
   there have been lots -- a couple hundred, I think (he's also leading a   
   very low-profile, quiet life this last time, trying not to incur any   
   karma that might hold him here for another go-round in which to have to   
   come back to pay it off).   
      
   That includes a lot of false starts (a round of typhus hits your village   
   when you're six weeks old, or the Cossacks come through busting babies'   
   heads against walls, that kind of thing), and a lot of interruptions (a   
   firing squad in Spain for me, last time out, in my early thirties, so I   
   came back fast and tried to pick up some of the earlier threads), and   
   a few "resting" lives where you just go herd goats for thirty years in   
   some hills where nobody fights any battles while you're there.  Think,   
   *amplitude*, and remember that your Essence, the basic soul of you that   
   puts on a mask of "this personality" for each individual lifetime, is   
   not in a hurry.  We masks get in a rush because from close up, the   
   individual life can be pretty hairy and the thrills start looking pretty   
   threadbare very soon. I'm sure it looks very different and less wearing   
   from In-between-lives, which is part of how we walk ourselves into such   
   appalling messes once we're down here -- we saw what might be coming   
   from up there and indeed have come to meet it, but we really don't get   
   the *impact* until we're jolly well IN it, up to our necks -- and then   
   the only way out is through.   
      
   Just my view.   
   --   
   Crow   
      
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