THE MOST IMPORTANT INSIGHT that past life regression offers is the realization that you are an immortal being. You are a soul here and now, which means that you never die. Something that would significantly help the planet would be for individuals to wake up to their immortality. Evidence of our immortality is reflected in many cases of accurate past life recall.
As we deepen in the awareness of our immortality, it slowly dawns on us that we are merely role-playing here. The goal of this game of human life is to find happiness. We search outside of ourselves for a while until a turning point in the soul’s evolution steers our focus inward. As we deepen our search, we can experience peace, lightness and love, until one day realizing that these states are not states at all, but characteristics of the deepest part of our being, available when we’re free of the mind’s buzzing turmoil.
Eckhart Tolle points out that the key to this freedom is to take the focus off of the content of our minds and place it on the eternal “beingness” or pure, unfiltered conscious-awareness that provides the backdrop of all of our mind’s content…the part of you that can be aware of a passing mood or thought. Yet, forgetfulness happens repeatedly, and again we identify with the human part of us that is burdened with our opinions and worries until we once again remember the truth of our being.
The human experience is one of forgetfulness, and also of getting lost…lost in the world of the mind and all of our beliefs about what’s true, about who we are, and things on the to-do list. This is my challenge, as it is for most of us.
A natural quality of waking up to the most permanent part of you is acceptance. As we live from surrendered acceptance, we can fully participate in the ups and downs that life offers without wanting to escape or be fearful. There is a natural acceptance of “what is,” even if it brings unwanted emotions, because it becomes safe to fully feel emotions.
When you know you’re role-playing, any emotion can be a rich, textured experience, even the grief from loss. I know people who won’t allow themselves to love again because of the pain of loss. Past life regression usually unveils the illusion of loss, making it safe to love, and feel hurt, and then deeply love again. It also cuts through the illusion of fear, allowing you to know what it would feel like to securely live from your full potential, free of any limiting beliefs and subtle anxieties that hold you back.
A natural acceptance of others’ beliefs is an important, key by-product of identifying with our true immortal selves, given the diversity on our planet. Nobody’s beliefs or dogmas, including our own, need to be taken personally. It’s recognized that all beliefs are products of the human conditioning process, and who and what we ultimately are transcends all beliefs. Then we can accept one another. We don’t have to agree with or even like each other’s limiting beliefs, but there can be a recognition that beneath all beliefs there is something in common….we are immortal, we come from the same energy source, and we have each blindly forgotten this truth.
Yet, that’s not a problem, because it’s that way by design. It’s the play of the divine Oneness, also known as God’s “Lila” in the Hindu tradition, that we’re all a part of. The goal of this play is to awaken to who we really are, and, therefore, out of our judgments of ourselves and others.
Adyashanti says the best indicator of our spiritual growth is how accepting and tolerant we are with those of opposing belief systems. From the vantage point of the highest dimension of yourself, there is no effort to accept, you are acceptance itself because everyone and everything else is a part of you, whether they’re conscious of that fact or not. Furthermore, it’s impossible to be separated from this part of you, as it’s the backdrop of your beingness. It merely gets overlooked during the human hypnotic experience. A deep inner journey, whether self-guided or guided, can make this evident.
It has been said by many that it is imperative that we wake up to our immortality that transcends all of our worries and judgments about ourselves and others. When we can sense and know the sameness beneath our differences, then we can realize that we are all one consciousness, albeit lost and operating through seven billion unique filters of programming and conditioning, resulting in various degrees of suffering. The natural emotion that arises from this realization is compassion. The differences that divide can be washed away by a mere perception shift towards truth and away from the illusion that is mind-created.
As Thich Nhat Hanh says, “We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.” That which divides is illusion. In fact, the only thing that separates anyone from all of their divine qualities is an illusory thought and perspective. This is not a philosophy, but a truth that can be known only in one’s own direct immediate experience.
Deep inner journeys such as past life regression can help you remember not only the truth of yourself, but everyone. What is the next level of evolution that your soul is nudging your personality to experience? Go within and find out.
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I must say – i have to write it down – i feel very, véry lonely and also scared upon learning this newfound truth. It is like finding God but without having a church that is socially accepted to come to. How can this truth be so big, but yet to have so few people around me to discuss it with. Which, i recognize, is one of my greatest challenges; to accept myself even if others wouldn’t accept me or my beliefs. I am hoping this truth will find a more comfortable place within me and i believe it will because it is clear to me why it is so unsettling upon discovery, after all: this awakening is asking me to leave bevind what i think i knew. No biggie! 😉