It seems the subject of reincarnation has gained momentum in recent years. As people search the depths of their consciousness to learn more of who and what they are, past lives are adding an invaluable dimension to that search for answers.
As a result, a substantial offering of books on the subject have made their way into both alternative and mainstream circles on bookshelves everywhere.
Here a some of the most popular titles on the subject:
One Soul, Many Lives - First Hand Stories of Reincarnation and the Striking Evidence ofPast Lives - Roy Stemman
Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives - Brian Weiss
Same Soul, Many Bodies: Discover the Healing Power of Future Lives through Progression Therapy - Brian Weiss
Children's Past Lives: How Past Life Memories Affect Your Child - Carol Bowman
Return From Heaven: Beloved Relatives Reincarnated Within Your Family - Carol Bowman
Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives - Michael Newton
Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Lives - Michael Newton
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Soul Journeys is a comprehensive, thorough examination of reincarnation, covering beliefs throughout history, and startling cases of past lives documented by researchers and scientists.
Discover the past lives of famous people such as rock star Jim Morrison of the Doors, authors Marion Zimmer Bradley, Taylor Caldwell and Joan Grant, psychic Edgar Cayce and General George Patton.
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In a recent telephone chat with author Rosemary Ellen Guiley, we were discussing the topic of reincarnation and she stated to me that from her research in the last several years, there’s definitely been an increased interest in the subject.I had to ponder that for a moment – “why now?”Well, with all the buzz about 2012, the shift, the desperate need to discover how to raise our individual and collective vibrations, here and now – why would we be focusing on the past, or more aptly, past lives?
And then it dawned on me – Could it be that we are feeling a need to reconnect with the understanding about rebirth because on some unconscious level we feel that the earth is about to reincarnate herself?
This spawned a conscious download for me; an epiphany that indeed the earth; this shift that is being so widely discussed (and felt) on our planet is in the process of reincarnating and we with her!
Highly revered past life regressionist, hypnotherapist and author of The Convoluted Universe books, Dolores Cannon has repeatedly stated what her dis-carnate information sources have told her is a definite forming of a new earth…
“The earth is getting ready to go into its next incarnation. It will change its vibration and frequency.” -Dolores Cannon
As such, we are being called to change our energetic frequency as well and thus incarnate into what has been called 5 dimensional or “5D” beings.The real mind-bender however, is that this reincarnation will occur without the death of the body as we know it!But that’s another discussion, entirely!
So perhaps this yearning to know more about the reincarnation process is an inner pull toward our own inevitability during this most unprecedented point in human history.
Cannon, among others have emphasized the point that our planet and in fact all things are alive and conscious – even “inanimate” objects, as paradoxical as this may seem, have consciousness – moreover, everything that we see and experience are not only conscious, but are on some level connected to us, and as such we resonate with all that is – including and especially the earth.So if the earth is about to rebirth herself into the 5D, we too are primed for such a transition.
How this is happening (and many feel that this transition is currently underway) still remains a mystery.Because humans tend to have this incessant need to see things progress in a linear fashion, one thing occurring after another, with definite demarcation points, we risk missing the grand unfoldment that is happening not linearly but spherically, sort of like the peeling back of an onion.Perhaps we are reincarnating (and the earth) right before our very eyes!
Time and Our Reincarnational Selves
When we think of time, it is nearly impossible to imagine existence without events - rebirths included, unfolding in succession.Past, present and future are but notions of the illusion of reality, many have asserted.I for one happen to resonate with this idea of time as illusion, perplexing as this may seem.So if indeed time is a mere construct, then how can reincarnation even exist?The very word itself assumes an incarnation that happens one after the other.
From the landmark channeled material, by Jane Roberts, the entity for which she brought forth, named “Seth,” had this to say as it relates to the reincarnation process…
“Reincarnation, as it is usually explained, in terms of one life before another is a myth, but a myth enabling many to partially understand facts that they would otherwise dismiss – insisting as they do upon the concept of a continuity of time.” And in another statement he says, “…your various reincarnational existences in a large manner co-occur.”
In other words, our presuppositions about reincarnation may be simply misunderstood.Perhaps a reframing of our language to describe this process as co-incarnation would be better suited to the reality of how this works.
Interestingly, Cannon corroborates this idea about simultaneous existences, both as they pertain to us and to the earth.Although many have labored to understand how this sort of bifurcation of our planet will take place, she has insisted that the two will indeed co-exist – the old world will spawn a new incarnate paradise.Further, some of us will remain on the “old earth” and some will “go to” the new.All of this of course will be decided based on who can raise their frequency to match that of the new earth…or maybe we already have.
These concepts about reincarnation (co-incarnation) can be challenging to a mind trained in linear thought.That said, on some level it is quite possible that we know this process, that part of us which is beyond the corporeal structures we believe ourselves to be.Either way, something tells me we are in for an adventure which no “past life” could ever match.As Cannon has often said…
“This will be the greatest show on earth!”
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To hear more about what Dolores Canon has to say about the new earth, listen to this interview courtesy of Lilou Mace.
Dolores Cannon's Revelations: New Earth, Frequency, ET Souls, Waves, How to Shift
Learn more about Dolores Cannon's "revelations" with these titles:
...Also make sure to check out "Seth Speaks" by Jane Roberts. You can find this title on my "wheel" of recommendations by scrolling down this page!
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The grandmother of a little boy from Thailand made a fervent request while she lay dying.“When I come back, I want to be a male.”When the woman eventually passed away, her daughter-in-law took some white paste and drew a broad line on the back of the deceased woman’s neck in hopes that one day she would be identified in her next life.
White "birthmark" is visible to the eye in this photo of Cloy.
The little boy, named Cloy was born just a few years after his grandmother’s passing. Clearly noticeable at his birth was a white line on the back of his neck, as if someone had drawn it directly onto his skin.
As he got older and could communicate, he began to state emphatically that he is his grandmother!His adamancy grew, even to the point where he exclaimed that the rice field which his grandmother once owned belonged to him!
In some Asian countries, there is a common practice that involves marking the deceased with ash or paste so that when the soul is reincarnated, the relatives can recognize them from the designated marking.
Although markings (birthmarks) or even deformities of the body are less documented among the cases of past life evidence, they do occur.The details are still quite nebulous as to where birthmarks originate from, although roughly 80 percent of all babies are born with some sort of mark or discoloration on their body.Sometimes the marks fade over the years and other times they remain.
In my recent article, The Phenomenon of Animal Reincarnation, I drew from my own personal encounter with what I suspect to be the rebirth of my beloved Persian cat Paws (now Clover Paws), in which the new kitten displayed the same identical birth mark as my former cat.Both eventually faded over time.This encounter has inspired me to explore further into perhaps one of the more profound clues as to the validity of reincarnation.
The late Dr. Ian Stevenson, a pioneer in parapsychology research and particularly the study of the past lives of children authored a seminal work which was published in 1993 in an academic journal entitled Birthmarks and Birth Defects Corresponding to Wounds on Deceased Persons.In it he stated, “Among 895 cases of children who claimed to remember a previous life (or were thought by adults to have had a previous life), birthmarks and/or birth defects attributed to the previous life were reported in 309 (35%) of the subjects. The birthmark or birth defect of the child was said to correspond to a wound (usually fatal) or other mark on the deceased person whose life the child said it remembered.”
Although the aforementioned case of the little boy Cloy whose mark seemed to emanate from his previous life as his grandmother was not the result of a violent infliction of some kind, it still leaves clues as to how the physical remnants of a former incarnation can carry over into the next life.
Still, according to past life research, it appears that many of the documented cases of reincarnation yielding physical marks or scars corresponded with a violent or traumatic account of the reincarnated individual which most often led to his or her death.
Dr. Jim Tucker, medical director of the Child and Family Psychiatry Clinic and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Medicine at the University of Virginia’s School of Medicine who wrote the book, Life Before Life – Children’s Memories of Previous Lives along with Dr. Stevenson, said “Certainly, I think birthmarks and birth defects argue that there is something that has carried that trauma with it to another life and affected the fetus.”Tucker’s data indicates that physical trauma in one life can carry over.
Out of 2,500 cases that Tucker studied, roughly 2,000 of them involved cases of traumatic death.For some reason, the mind seems to have the ability to record and recall, vividly past trauma and inflict it on the new body.In a strange but not so uncommon correlation, I have read of cases of individuals who encountered violent episodes in their dream states, only to wake up with wounds; scratches and even blood stains that corresponded to the violence encountered in the dream.
In some way, what is intimated here is that the consciousness of the individual has the ability to manifest (or be a conduit for) a physical marking, be it from a previous life or a violent scuffle in the dreamscape!
Can we remember a previous life from our birthmark?
This is a curious phenomenon – that of the origin of birthmarks.Would it be possible to somehow use our birthmarks as a reference to a possible remembrance of a past life?
Before we rush to answer this question, let us assume that many if not most birthmarks are simply minor anomalies of the skin during the forming and development of the fetus or even resulting from the birthing process itself.But if you felt somehow more drawn to or simply inquisitive about a particular birthmark you have, perhaps you can divine its meaning and elucidate as to whether this may be a clue as to your previous incarnation on earth.You might take a photo (or have someone take a photo for you) of the particular mark, print it out and simply meditate on it, recording the visual of the mark in your mind and recalling it up during meditation.Similarly, you might focus on the image of the mark just prior to falling asleep and request a dream that might leave some clues as to its origin.Or you could see one of many good past life regression therapists who might suggest working with your birthmark as a focus for hypnosis.My surmise is that there are quite a few creative options here.
One caveat, however.Before you embark on such an adventure as discovering your past life, be certain that you want to know the life you previously led.Curiosity for curiosities sake can often prove to be less desirable than you might have expected.Obviously make your decision to explore this other life of yours with total responsibility.On the other hand, if you choose to go forward, you may discover a pertinent clue as to who and what you are today and how to be a better you!Nonetheless, this is certainly a fascinating subject to explore.
Tucker says, “The explanation for how this carry-over (memory) occurs, largely remains to be elucidated, but in general terms, the ideas that consciousness is not purely a creation of the brain; consciousness can be considered a separate entity from the physical brain and continue on in another life.”
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