Answering Questions

About simultaneous selves

These are responses to responses from my article, Simultaneous Selves

Do you believe it’s possible for anyone to attain that godhood on earth, or does it have to occur during a specific incarnation period after a certain amount of spiritual work has been done throughout all the incarnations? — Timothy O'Neill

My perspective is that completing the individuation process and attaining or realizing our divinity can ONLY happen while in a physical body. That is why our human lives are so important. That is what we’re here for. And it can happen at any time.

Our holographic reality is one based on duality. This includes physicality itself. Heaven, purgatory, hell, and other spooky places we go when we lay down a body are still part of physicality! Our reality has both a dimension of physical form and one of non-physical form. That is the dynamic at play in what we perceive as our reality (or universe). There is also the realm of formlessness that is outside of this universe — and also superseding this universe. We can call it the Raw Universe. That is where “God” is and where we will be able to go once we have fully individuated and realized our divinity. But we can only do that through a body so when we lay one body down we go to the spooky places in order to orchestrate getting a new body in order to try again to attain that divine “godhood.”

(Some background: The H2O Metaphor)

The Lakota used to point to the sky and say that that is where heaven is. They were correct. Those spooky places in the non-physical half of our dimension are mostly located in the atmosphere surrounding our planet. They actually help keep our atmosphere intact. Even though we may not have a body the planet’s gravity keeps us attached to the planet allowing us to experience as many lives as it takes to finally individuate as a fully-fledged god when we will finally be able to “ascend” out of this dimensional reality and re-enter the Raw Universe from which we originally came.

I don’t see incarnations as being sequential or linear. It is not like our educational systems where you go from kindergarten to high school to college and finally graduate. Graduation can occur in any life whether we see them as past, present, or future.

I have mixed feelings about the term, spiritual work. It sounds like a job. When our Creator created the singularity that resulted in our holographic reality it chopped up a bunch of pieces of itself and put those pieces into the singularity hoping that those pieces (us) would eventually develop into our own gods. Our Creator was creating Creators. It was an experiment. Our Creator created a new kind of universe that would serve as a medium for creating new individuated Creators.

In order for those pieces of the Creator to realize their own Creatorhood the one and only “chore” was to learn how to love themselves into existence.

…do you have any conscious awareness of your other lives? — Timothy O'Neill

Back in the early 1980s I met a fellow who I took an instant liking to. He was very metaphysically minded and so was I so we could talk for hours. Soon after I met him I learned that he was a clinically trained past-life regression therapist. At that point in my life I had already read a lot about reincarnation from standard perspectives such as Eastern thought as well as the Edgar Cayce Readings. I had had feelings about possible other lives and experienced a few snippets that I thought might be other-life related but I had never experienced a clear ‘visit’ to any of those lives.

One evening we were talking and I told him how my girlfriend had just dumped my sorry ass. I was really confused about it because I thought it was the most perfect relationship; that she surely must be some kind of “soul-mate.” Out of the blue she just dumped me.

He said that there was maybe some past-life connection between us and asked me if I wanted to undergo a past-life regression to find a life in which our karma originated. So I said, sure.

It was a mind-blowing experience. I was fully transported into the body and mind of a man living a thousand years ago in Japan. I could see what he was seeing clear as day. He was a Zen Buddhist monk who fell off the Zen Buddhist wagon and fell madly in love with a woman — who fell madly in love with him. He was seriously confused as he tried to reconcile his monkhood training and what he thought was carnal lust. He finally dumped the woman and went back to the monastery to commit suicide. As I looked through that man’s eyes at the woman I instantly knew that she was a former life of the girlfriend who had just dumped me. (I turned this into a story here: Past-life In Japan,)

That regression was very helpful to me in this current life but I never had another regression with this man. But that is what opened me up. Over the next twenty-some years I went through many other regressions and experiences that enable me to eventually connect with around two dozen other lives.

Needless to say my life was never the same. But I got to a point where I just couldn’t take anymore of it. I didn’t want to learn about any other lives — and I knew that I had only scratched the surface. I needed to take a long break and try to assimilate all I had learned.

I lost all interest in connecting to other lives but having done so was very beneficial and I learned a lot — especially in regard to what can be termed soul-connections with others.

I understand the hub and spoke approach, whereby you only access the other splinters via the centre. In other things you have written you showed an awareness of the other spokes without going via the centre. Can you elaborate? — Mark Kelly

While going through our entity that all of our other lives are connected to is one way to connect with those other lives, it is not the only way. I think I mentioned this before somewhere but there is a specific portion of our brain that also connects us to other lives. We found this problematic so in our early evolution we created a membrane around this spot in the brain to block it from our awareness. If it wasn’t blocked we would have constant contact with our other selves and that would be like having thousands of voices in your noggin. We can’t concentrate on our current life with so many voices in our noggin so the membrane was helpful but it is also the reason we don’t ‘remember’ our other lives upon entering a new life.

This membrane can be breached, however, through hypnosis or other clinical means such as the regression I had with the fellow back in the 1980s. It can also be breached through ecstatic trance states and even psycho-tropic plants. One of the many regressions I had occurred after eating psychedelic mushrooms. The others came through trance states and ceremony. A couple came through sweat-lodges and vision quests I experienced while immersed in Lakota spirituality. And there was one other experience that I just don’t know how to describe. (It involved the famous Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull.)

Timothy also asked if I had ever experienced a connection with a ‘future’ life and the answer is no — at least not that I know of. All the other lives that I’ve connected with were in the past as seen from the perspective of linear time. So maybe some of them felt a connection with a ‘future’ life: Me. I can’t say for sure.

Another thing I learned through my other-life experiences is the concept of soul-groups. That deserves a whole new discussion of its own.

I tend to get a little bummed out when talking about reincarnation. I spent almost twenty years studying it, immersing myself in it, and then I was done and moved on. That’s how I am with all philosophies and concepts. I dive into things, take from it what I can then move on. I don’t want to get stuck in anything. My perspectives on reincarnation are certainly not complete and that’s okay with me. Just thinking about it seems to activate things that I don’t want to think about. Sometimes I think it would be nice to be like most everyone else who completely denies and discounts reincarnation and therefore refuses to even think about it but then I realize how much I learned and I couldn’t live in denial for long.

I learned that our other lives really do have a strong impact on our current life. I also learned that almost every time I connected with an other life I saw how they died. I committed suicide in at least two other lives and let me tell you that is something I would never in a million years consider in this life. Karma-wise, it is one of the stupidest things anyone can do. But hey, we’re here to experience it all.

I also died from drowning at least three times. That may explain why I had such a hard time learning how to swim when I was a kid.

In my current life I’ve always had a strong aversion to knives. Every single knife in my kitchen is dull. Over time I learned that I had died at least five times from swords or bayonnets. I can’t stand watching sword fights in movies.

In one life I was a fierce warrior who killed hundreds if not thousands of people. In this life I am an extreme pacifist. I don’t even kill spiders. I have an empty Grey Poupon jar that I use to scoop them up in to take outside and release them.

In one life as a white man I made a habit of cheating Native Americans and in another life I was a Native American fighting white men. In at least three other lives I was a (non-medical) healer. I died of acute alcoholism in another life. I was a slave in at least two lives. I’ve been a musician and a sculptor. In one life I died when I was only five years old and my mother in that life would be my daughter in another life who died at the age of six. Oh yeah, I was once a bible-thumper.

In one life a man shot me in the face with a pistol. That really hurt — especially since I didn’t die from it. The reason the man shot me? Because his wife was cheating on him with me.

We all have many themes running through our many lives. It’s good to learn this because then we can choose in our current lives whether to continue with or stop some of these themes. Among my numerous themes is infidelity. That’s one I chose to end.

Another theme is spirituality and religion. I put an end to the religion part of that but I chose to embrace the spirituality part.

Another theme is healing, which I was forced to accept and continue with and which on occasion I have mastered.

In the life just before this one in linear time my other self died from complications from a stroke. While on his deathbed a friend of his came to talk with him and asked him what his biggest regret in life was. He replied that he had always wanted to be a writer and his biggest regret was not pursuing that.

Okay, I’m just blabbering now. Here are more stories of my mine on Medium that have reincarnation as a theme….