Spiritual Perspective on Time

‘Nostalgia’ Is When You Experience Parallel Lives at the Same Time

Plus, how to integrate this life, past lives, & parallel lives through vibrations of the past.

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We humans love the feeling of nostalgia. As the historical geographer, David Lowenthal, wrote:

“If the past is a foreign country, nostalgia has made it a foreign country with the healthiest visitor trade of all.” — David Lowenthal, in ‘The Past is a Foreign Country’ (1985)

The following is an edited message channeled from my Energy Group/Higher Self. The original channeled audio is linked at the end of the article. Text in [brackets] is added by me and was not in the original channeling.

Past, Future, & Present Vibrations

Nostalgia. Nostalgia is seldom considered a spiritual word because it is grounded in what is often considered to be the illusion of time.

Nostalgia is a longing to return to something remembered from the past. It is a memory that brings back a feeling of love and of connection to a place and time that you believe no longer exists — that occurred sometime in the past.

Like everything related to time, nostalgia is an energy form. It is an idea.

Every idea is a form. It is an object. It has a soul. Every idea exists as an entity. And nostalgia is also an idea.

This is because the past is an energy form. The past is an idea. The future is also an energy form. The future is also an idea.

The only real moment in time is the present moment. The only real time is the present moment. But the present moment is so short. In fact, it is infinitely short.

In a sense, the present moment does not exist either.

The present moment is infinity. It is God. It is Source. When you are in the present moment, you are in God Consciousness — you become Source.

So, it’s not that easy.

[In a sense] it is easy because you are always in the present moment. But it is not easy to conceptualize and to experience the present moment from your 3rd Dimensional [3D] existence.

But you know it is there because you experience it all the time. You can feel that it is something that is true. That is why books on “being here now” are so popular. Because people know there is truth in that.

Everything else beyond that source-moment-point is either in the past or the future. And so, you have two different types of energy, two different types of vibration, that define the past and the future.

There’s one broad category of vibrations that define the past. There’s another broad category of vibrations that define the future.

As soon as you feel that broad category, that type of vibration, you know you are dealing with the past. And as soon as you feel it for the future, you know this is something in the future — this is something you are thinking about happening at some time in the future.

So everything in that “past vibration” is on one side and everything with that “future vibrations” is on the other side of the present moment point of God Consciousness. This is part of that positive and negative duality that comes out of the 2nd Dimension [2D]. [That is why some say ”time” originates in the 2nd Dimension.]

[For more on time as an energy and vibration, see:]

Types of “Pasts”

So now we are going to deal with the past, and specifically with variations in the past.

There are many different vibrations associated with the past. It is a broad category, and it is all related.

You can feel the past. But within that, there are subtle differences between different types of memories of the past.

There are memories you hold that you are very convinced happened. And there are memories you hold that you are not so convinced happened, or you just don’t remember them as well.

There are memories that you cherish. And there are memories that you dread when they come up — things you have done that you now wish you had not done. So you have those kinds of past vibrations.

The Vibration of Nostalgia

Nostalgia is one of those various kinds of vibrations. It is a vibration of things that you have a fond memory of in one way or another. It might be a happy place. Or it could be many different experiences that you associate with that particular past place. (We’ll assume that all memories of past experiences are true.)

That is what nostalgia is. It is a certain type of vibration that you have used to create a memory scenario in this world — within the larger context of things you call “the past”.

One of the things about nostalgia is that it is triggered by things in the present moment.

Remember, you are creating the past and you are also creating the present moment. You are creating something in the present moment that you are giving this type of energy, this type of vibration, to. You are giving it a “nostalgia meaning”.

A Tree Example

For example, you see a certain tree and it reminds you of a tree in your childhood that you used to climb and play around. Maybe you built a fort in that tree.

You see this tree and you connect with it. You create a whole story around that tree. You then feel this nostalgia for your childhood and for that experience that you had in your childhood.

So now consider that time doesn’t really exist — at least linear time does not exist as you know it in the 3rd Dimension.

In the 3rd Dimension time does exist — everything occurs one after the other in “linear time”. But after the 3rd Dimension, linear time breaks down. Linear time is seen in very different ways in the 4th, 5th, and other dimensions.

As you progress into higher dimensions, linear time becomes less and less real. In fact, everything is occurring at one moment in the present moment point of Source Consciousness.

So, in nostalgia, you are creating a past and connecting it with a present that you are also creating. You are creating an entire past and present experience based on something that you see in the present.

You Are Everything

Everything that you see in the present is something that comes into your life as a part of you. You are not just the being sitting here in this particular location [in your physical body].

You are everything that extends beyond that being. You are the room you are in. You are the building you are in. You are the neighborhood and the city you are in. You are the planet that you are on. [For more on that idea, see:]

You are all these things. And everything that you encounter is part of you.

Note that when we talk about “you” in this sense, we are talking about the “larger you”, your “soul-level you”, your “oversoul-level” you. We are talking about that expanded you, not the smaller, narrowly focused “outer ego” you. [For more on the outer-ego and the inner-you, see:]

Co-Creating Reality

All this is you. And all this is being created by you — and by everything else around you. It is a cooperative venture.

When you encounter a tree, you and the tree are creating an experience. It is not just you. It is also the tree that is creating this experience. You and the tree are connecting.

It doesn’t have to be a tree that triggers that nostalgia. It could be a toy. It could be a building that you see — a street scene. It could be a food.

But you and that object are together and creating the nostalgia experience. You are experiencing it and the tree is also experiencing it.

Parallel Lives & Time Travel

You are also going back in time, you could say. But it is not “back” in time because time is of an illusion in the greater reality of things.

In fact, the nostalgia that you are creating is being created and lived in the present moment point. You are in this present moment point of your particular age, gender, and all the life experiences that you have attached to your story.

But you are also the child in that nostalgia memory. You are having a parallel experience — a parallel incarnation — as that younger child that you were, that is part of your story.

But that younger child, the whole context of that child and that tree, still exists in the present moment point of Source. It is there and you are experiencing it.

You are experiencing a parallel life. And so is the tree that you are with. You are experiencing the present life. And you are experiencing that past life.

You are experiencing two lives at once when you feel nostalgia.

You experience that every time you encounter a memory of that type. You are experiencing multiple dimensions, realities, selves, and parallel incarnations of yourself.

Your Past, Parallel, & Future Boxes

You are putting all this into a box called “the past”. This particular box is the past of a larger box that you call “your present life”. All your different ages and the different things you went through in your life are part of this box.

You can experience other lives, other boxes, that you call “past lives previous to the present life”. You call them that and that means they have a certain vibration.

You can experience other boxes that are “parallel lives to your present life”. That is another box, another type of vibration. It is not one that most humans look at as much. They tend to look at those “past” boxes more.

You can also look at a box that is “your future life”. These are possible future lives because there are innumerable past lives, present lives, and future lives for you to choose from.

Integrating This Life

So, you have that nostalgia box. You are experiencing that part of your past life.

Think about the possibility of looking at other aspects of your present life in that way. Look at the different vibrations of what you consider your present life — boxes of events and things that you associate with who you are now, and who you have evolved into through time.

This is one of the things that you can do in the 3rd Dimension that is much more difficult in other dimensions. You can more easily break things into a linear time sequence. In other dimensions, that linearity is much more difficult to manage.

By doing that, you actually integrate all those aspects of your life within yourself, as you come to know and understand them.

You can do this through photographs — old pictures that you have. They can do that.

You can do it by talking to other people, talking to your brothers and sisters, to see what they remember and how they have constructed their past lives. Maybe that will open up new ways that you can actually interpret and understand your own life.

This is a way of integrating “this life” into who you are now.

All those memories are in you, but you do not remember most of them. And you have not thought about most of them because you are trying to spend most of your time “in the present”.

But this is how you can use past lives and use this current life experience as a way to understand who you are and how the universe works.

That’s one thing.

Integrating Past & Parallel Lives

A second thing is you can start shifting those boxes into what you call “previous” and “parallel” lives.

We would suggest you stay away from “future” lives for the time being because the future tends to have lot more “possibilities”, whereas the past and present tend to be a bit more fixed.

How you identify with who you are now is influenced by how you identify with different past lives that you have had. Whereas the future is more open.

So, try looking at that as well, looking at different past lives. And try different parallel lives — although that can be also a bit challenging.

Namaste

Nostalgia. This is where nostalgia has brought us.

Nostalgia is one of those ways of understanding, of building, of creating, and of feeling the energy, the vibration, of something that you call “the past”.

We thank you for this encounter. We hope we have brought some insight into your understanding of reality as your planet ascends, and as you ascend into a New Earth.

We love you. We love these interactions with you.

Namaste.

Related

• The article above is an edited version of this ⬇ channeled message (on YouTube) from my Energy Group / Higher Self on June 14, 2021. I drew the word “nostalgia” from an “oracle card deck” prior to the channeling.

• For more spiritual perspectives on “time”, see:

• For more Channeled Messages from my Energy Group/Higher Self, see this collection of articles.

• Note that the articles in this collection are behind the Medium paywall. For paywall-free access to my articles, go to www.AlanLew.com, linked below.

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