Simultaneous Selves

Thinking differently about reincarnation

Before we entered physicality, we were spiritual entities. An entity is an individual piece of God. The original All That Is, or the original creator of our universe, or the original one-ness, or God, was a bored and lonely God, who split itself up into many, many pieces. This gave that original God, not only companionship, but a way to experience the universe it created. The plan called for each of these entities to individuate into their own fully-realized Gods, capable of all things the original God was capable of. This original God did not just want entities that it could lord over. It wanted Gods that it could co-create with.

So this original God split itself into many, many pieces, and each of those pieces (entities) began the long and arduous process of individuation. The process of individuation calls for knowing the universe and knowing the self, so these entities spent a few gazillion years joyriding the universe, checking out every nook, cranny, and quasar. The process of individuation cannot be complete, however, until the entity experiences physicality. After all, physicality is part of the universe just like all the other dimensions. This was the tricky part of the individuation process. Luckily, there was a certain planet designed specifically to facilitate this portion of the individuation process. It is a very magnetic planet that eventually draws to it every entity that is ready to finish the individuation process. It is called planet Earth.

When the first entities came to this wondrous planet, they realized that they could not just step into the physicality of the planet, because they needed a physical vehicle in which to hold the entity, and there were no physical vehicles available that could hold the grandness of an entity. So the first part of the process of stepping into physicality was to create these vehicles. The creation of these vehicles had to be carried out within physicality and its fundamental laws of duality. This meant that the necessary vehicles could not be poofed into existence, but they had to be evolved. A vehicle capable of holding a fully-realized entity could only be created through an extended process of evolution. This process has taken many gazillions of earth years, although to the entities, it seemed like just a few minutes.

Linear time as we experience it here in physicality does not exist outside of that physicality. It is unique to our dimension. Outside of physicality, there is only the ETERNAL NOW. (Actually, there is a sort of universal time, as measured by the in-breath and out-breath of God, but it is so expansive as to be almost unfathomable. In universal time, the entire history of planet earth takes about three and a half minutes.) Time, as we know it, does not exist. There is no time, only space. (And the Eternal Now) What do gods do? They create. In order to create something, you need space in which to create it. Within physicality, in order to create something, you have got to grow it. A sculptor does not just poof his work of art into existence. He starts with basic materials, then sculpts and shapes those materials into the vision of the end product. For this, the sculptor needs a lot of space. He needs a space for the basic materials to be in, and he needs a space for each of the successive stages of the sculpture to be in. The barely-started sculpture is in one space, the half-finished sculpture is in a different space, the almost-finished sculpture is in another space, and the finished work of art is in yet another different space. The attempt to link together all these spaces is what we call time.

In order to create the perfect vehicle, an entity needs a whole lot of space. Like the sculptor, the entity needs a space for the material to be gathered, spaces for each phase the vehicle goes through in its creation, a space for the finished product, and then also a space for the finished product and the entity that created it to merge and become one. So the entity proceeded to lay out all these thousands of spaces, and then proceeded to put a little bit of itself into each space. Remember, the entity is operating from out in universal space where there is no time. It is entering all these spaces simultaneously. Since it had to create a vehicle, the entity had to split itself into thousands of pieces and put a piece in each one of these spaces, or phases of evolution. The entity also kept a portion of itself out in universal space in order to oversee the whole process. This portion sees the whole process as happening lickety-split. The portions that were split off and put into a particular space no longer see the perspective of that part of the entity that is still in universal space. It sees everything from the perspective of the space it was put in. Each one of these spaces can be called a past, present, or future life (depending from which space you are looking). To the part of the entity still out in universal space, it is all happening at the same time. Some entities have as many as 40,000 spaces in physicality in which they have put a part of themselves (40,000 past, present, and future lives!). The average is less than that, though.

To the entity, it seems like it is creating one body and it does not take long at all. It merely has to split itself up into thousands of pieces (while keeping a portion of itself outside of physicality), live each one of those lives (simultaneously), and then, almost poof-like, a vehicle has been created that can hold an entity. (The sculptor steps into the sculpture.) And stepping into that sculpture is the next step, but that is the subject for another discourse.

Time is a biological function. Our bodies work on time, but our spirit or that part of our entity outside of physical reality does not. When we see things from the perspective of our bodies, we are limited to seeing things from the space that body happens to be in. From that perspective, everything seems chronological since we have been using the process of birth, growth, and death (the medium in which we are sculpting) in our process of evolution. When we see things form the perspective of our spirit or that part of our entity outside of physical reality, everything is happening RIGHT NOW! It is just happening in many different places by many different parts of the same entity.

Now, Joe Newage sitting in his home in the new millennium reading the internet, may have had a ‘past-life’ as a glassblower in 15th century Florence, but he is not the same person as that glassblower. He is, however, a part of the same entity that that glassblower is a part of. This is an important distinction. You see, neither Joe nor the glassblower, are capable of fully holding that part of the entity that is in their respective spaces. Since those parts of the entity cannot fully inhabit the bodies of either Joe or the Italian glassblower, what is happening in their respective spaces is an interaction between spirit and flesh. In the space where these two forces interface, something is created that I will call a psyche. This psyche can be called the self, or the person we are in a given space. Since the psyche is a product of the interfacing of spirit and a certain body (space), and since every space and everybody is different, so, too, is every psyche different. The entity, however, remains the same.

What so many of us are doing when we try to connect with a ‘past-life’ is to connect with the psyche of that past life. That psyche is a totally different psyche than ours is today. But at the same time both psyches were created from the same entity. So it stands to reason that the best way to connect with our ‘past-lives’ is through our entity. Reconnecting with our entity is what we are all trying to do. In the process of evolving these bodies, not enough of our entity has been able to interface with our biology to maintain its influence, and we have sort of forgotten our entities. This separation is the root of our longing. When we connect to our entity, we connect to all those other pieces of the entity. When we connect with the entirety of our entity (and not just the piece that is in our space), then we proceed with the individuation process. Then our lives are no longer just an interface between an entity and a body, but they will be both. We will then be fully-realized Gods walking in flesh. And that is what we came to this planet for.

Author’s note: I wrote this piece around twenty years ago. It shows where my thinking was way back then. If my thinking was still the same now then I certainly would not have evolved much over the last twenty years.

I told Mark Kelly that I would share something about simultaneous time and simultaneous selves so I dug up this piece but after rereading it I realized that it did not show any of the changes in my thinking over the last twenty years. I realized that I would have to rewrite the whole darn thing. I’m lazy. That would be a major undertaking.

So I decided to present it as is. It was a sort of starting point for me twenty years ago so I thought it might be a good starting point for possible subsequent discussion on simultaneous lives and time. Much of what has changed in regard to my thinking is in terminology but there are also conceptual changes. Back then I was still rather scientifically ignorant. I didn’t know much about singularity, big bang, quantum entanglement and such. Now that I know a tiny bit more about that stuff I can see how it all applies but not necessarily as I laid it out twenty years ago.

I originally wrote this in response to questions about the true nature of reincarnation and “past-lives,” which I was very much into back then due to personal experiences. While I feel that we all have “other lives,” I feel that our mainstream concepts of reincarnation are all wrong and that this has a lot to do with our skewed concepts of time. I was exploring “other lives” at the time and through that exploration I came to realize that it is not what we think it is. It is so much more.

To fully elucidate my current thinking on the subject would involve writing a whole book about it, which I am not inclined to do both because I don’t currently have the time and also because my thinking is still not fully complete on the subject. (My thinking is constantly morphing.)

So I decided to present this piece as a possible starting point from which to delve into the subject. I invite any questions about any portion of the piece and I will share how my perspectives have changed (or stayed the same). Since I wrote this twenty years ago I lost a lot of interest in simultaneous lives but through questions I can tap into what I learned. Ask away.