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Reincarnation Case of Oscar Micheaux | Spike Lee: African American Filmmakers portraying Race Relations in Two Lifetimes

Proposed by: ReincarnationReseach.com Supporter

Affirmed by: Spirit Being Ahtun Re in a Ryerson-Semkiw Reincarnation Research Session

Article by: Walter Semkiw, MD

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Micheaux: The Son of a Slave Becomes a Motion Picture Producer

Oscar Micheaux was born in 1887 in Illinois, the son of a slave who was likely  owned by French immigrants. He is considered the first major African American filmmaker. Micheaux made silent movies and then transitioned to sound films, directing and producing 44 movies in all.

The focus of his work was racial issues between blacks and whites, covering the topics of racial injustice, lynching, mob violence and economic inequality.

Of interest, Micheaux, early in life moved to South Dakota, where he bought land and worked as a farmer. He wrote a novel, The Homesteader, which was in part based on his experiences in South Dakota. Homesteaders were people who were given free plots of land in the American West in an effort to develop the region.

Micheaux died in 1951.

Oscar Micheaux Reincarnates as Spike Lee, Who Propagates Movie Making to make a Difference

Spike Lee was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1957. Like Micheaux, Lee’s movies center around race relations, including the issues of poverty, urban crime and the politics of race.

In a very interesting parallel, Spike Lee named his production company 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, which appears to be an unconscious reference to his own past life as Micheaux, who bought land in South Dakota and became a farmer prior to embarking on his career as a filmmaker.

To view other cases involving the theatre arts, please go to:

Reincarnation Cases of TV and Movie Figures

Evidence and Principles of Reincarnation-Understanding Past Lives

Physical Resemblance in Reincarnation Cases: There is a similarity of facial features between Oscar and Spike.

Past Life Passions, Talent and Abilities: Spike Lee is continuing the work of Oscar Micheaux in making movies centered on racial injustice.

 

 

Reincarnation Case of Jean-Baptiste d’Alembert of the French Encyclopédie | Larry Sanger of Wikipedia, the Largest Encylopedia in the World

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Affirmed by: Spirit Being Ahtun Re in a Ryerson-Semkiw Reincarnation Research Session

Article by: Walter Semkiw, MD

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Past Lifetimes of Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales

Denis Diderot is known as the co-founder, primary contributor and chief editor of the first French encyclopedia, known as the Encyclopédie, which was first published in 1751. It was the first written source attempting to present all knowledge as it was known in that era.

In a separate post, Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, was identified as the reincarnation of Denis Diderot.

Diderot’s partner in creating Encyclopédie was Jean-Baptiste d’Alembert, while Wales partner in establishing Wikipedia was Larry Sanger.

It was logical to wonder if Larry Sanger is the reincarnation of Jean-Baptiste d’Alembert, as reincarnation research, including cases studied by Ian Stevenson, MD of the University of Virginia involving children with spontaneous past life memories that were validated, show that we incarnate with souls we have known in past incarnations.

The Reincarnation Twin Study of Ian Stevenson, MD

A dramatic example of how souls engineer being reunited with loved ones and associates from prior incarnations involves Ian Stevenson’s Twin Study. Stevenson researched 31 sets of twins (62 people) who remembered past lives in childhood that were validated. In 100 percent of these cases, the twins had close personal relationships in past incarnations. To learn more, please go to:

Ian Stevenson, MD Twin Study

Larry Sanders as the Reincarnation of Jean-Baptiste d’Alembert

In a session with Kevin Ryerson, Ahtun Re, the spirit being channeled through Kevin who has demonstrated the ability to make past life matches with a high degree of accuracy, affirmed that Larry Sanger was Jean-Baptiste d’Alembert in a past incarnation.

In addition to being an intellectual who contributed to the human fund of knowledge, Jean-Baptiste d’Alembert was also a scholar of music theory. Larry Sanger is an accomplished violinist.

Evidence and Principles of Reincarnation-Understanding Past Lives

Physical Resemblance in Reincarnation Cases: There are similarities in the facial features of Jean-Baptiste d’Alembert and Larry Sanger.

Past Life Talent, Behavior and Abilities: d’Alembert was a founding contributor of the French Encyclopédie, much as Sanger helped found Wikipedia. Both were very involved in music.

Relationships Renewed through Reincarnation: Jean-Baptiste d’Alembert | Larry Sanger reunited with his associate and co creator of Encyclopédie, Denis Diderot, in the persona of Jimmy Wales.

Change of Nationality: Jean-Baptiste d’Alembert was French, while Larry Sanger was born in the United States. Understanding that souls can change nationality, religion and ethnic affiliation from one lifetime to another can help create a more peaceful world, as most conflicts and wars are based on differences in these cultural markers of identity.

Reincarnation Cases of George S. Patton | US General James Mattis and Teacher James McColl: Karma and Split Incarnation

George S. Patton | James Mattis Reincarnation Case Proposed by: Walter Semkiw, MD

George S. Patton | James McColl Reincarnation Case Proposed by James McColl, Derived through: Past Life Memories in Childhood and Adulthood

Cases Affirmed By: Spirit Being Ahtun Re in Kevin Ryerson Sessions

From: The Past Lives and Reincarnation of General George S. Patton Jr., by James McColl

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Preface to James McColl’s Book on His Past Life as George S. Patton, by Walter Semkiw, MD

James McColl contacted me a few years ago and shared that he has memories of being United States World War II General George S. Patton.

As reincarnation research has revealed that people can have very similar facial features from one lifetime to another, I asked James to send images of himself to me. I found that as an adult, James is rotund and has a jolly face, quite opposite to the visage of Patton. On the other hand, in a photo taken when James was a child and one when James was in high school and dressed in his ROTC (military cadet) uniform, he looks very much like a young George Patton.

I also asked James what he did for a living, as people generally pursue similar careers from one lifetime to another. He explained that he is a special education teacher. In this capacity, he instructs individuals with various disabilities. This seemed opposite to the type of work that a reincarnated Patton would do.

The Reincarnation Research of Ian Stevenson, MD at the University of Virginia

A primary mission of mine is to disseminate evidence of reincarnation and in particular, the work of Ian Stevenson, MD, as this research can help create a more peaceful world.

Stevenson was an academic psychiatrist at the University of Virginia who, over a period of 40 years, studied young children who had spontaneous past life memories that could be objectively validated. In the series of 2500 children that Ian Stevenson researched, in approximately 1500 of these cases, past life memories were objectively validated. Stevenson’s cases do show that facial features and behavioral traits can remain consistent from one lifetime to another.

In addition, this research demonstrates that souls can change religion, nationality and ethnic affiliation from one lifetime to another. Most wars and conflicts are based on differences in these cultural markers of identity. Understanding that these factors can change from one incarnation to another will lead to a more peaceful world. A powerful example of change in religion and nationality involves:

Reincarnation Case of Anne Frank | Barbro Karlen

Other change of nationality and religion cases can be reviewed at:

Anne Frank | Barbro Karlen Past Life CaseReincarnation Cases with Change of Religion, Nationality and Ethnic Affliation

Ian Stevenson’s research is featured in my book, Born Again, and can be reviewed at:

Children’s Verified Past Life Memories at the University of Virginia

Ryerson-Semkiw Reincarnation Research

In addition to promoting the work of Ian Stevenson, I have worked with trance medium Kevin Ryerson, who has been featured in several of Shirley MacLaine’s books. Kevin channels a spirit being named Ahtun Re who has demonstrated to me that he has the ability to make past life identifications with a high degree of accuracy. I have worked with Kevin and Ahtun Re since 2001 and our findings are found in my books Born Again and Origin of the Soul and the Purpose of Reincarnation.

After James McColl contacted me with his story, I asked Ahtun Re if James is indeed an incarnation of George Patton. Ahtun Re told me that he is, and he encouraged me to work with James.

The Past Life Karma of General George S. Patton

I then asked Ahtun Re if James McColl’s vocation as a special education teacher is related to the famous scene in the movie, Patton, in which George Patton slaps a soldier in a medical tent who was having some sort of mental or emotional breakdown related to the horrors of war. Patton had no sympathy for this soldier, calling him a coward. Ahtun Re confirmed that James became a special education teacher to atone for the karma incurred by Patton in striking and humiliating the mentally disabled soldier.

Split Incarnation in the Patton Reincarnation Cases of James Mattis and James McColl

Reincarnation research, including the work of Ian Stevenson, MD, demonstrates that souls can animate or inhabit more than one human body at a time. I call this phenomenon “split incarnation,” while Stevenson called these “cases with anomalous dates,” as lifetimes overlapped in time.

Knowing this, I also asked Ahtun Re if there was a split of Patton who was pursuing a military career. Ahtun Re told me that this was true and shared that this split was a prominent officer in the US military, though he did not tell me specifically who this person was.

About three years later, President Donald Trump appointed Marine General James Mattis as US Secretary of Defense. When I first saw Mattis on television, I immediately had the intuition that Mattis is the other incarnation of George S. Patton, which Ahtun Re later affirmed. The physical remembrance between Patton and Mattis is striking. View the:

Reincarnation Case of George S. Patton | James Mattis 

The Past Life Memories of General George S. Patton and James McColl

One of the most common questions that I am asked is: “Why don’t more people remember past lives?” I, in turn, posed this question to Ahtun Re. His answer was that past life memories can be considered as a type of psychic gift.

George Patton had this aptitude. In his well-known poem, Through a Glass, Darkly, Patton describes multiple past lives as a soldier, warrior and killer. Does this mean that the soul of Patton will continue to reincarnate as a soldier? The answer is not necessarily. Leadership can be used for both destructive and constructive purposes.

James McColl has the same psychic gift of recalling past incarnations and in fact, the scope of his past life recall is amazing. In this lifetime, James has been a positive influence on many. Hopefully, in the future, due to lifetimes like that of James, the soul of Patton will look back and reflect through a glass, brightly.

Excerpts from The Past Lives and Reincarnation of General George S. Patton Jr., by James McColl

My earliest memories extend back to a time before my birth. As a preschooler, I could vividly recall these memories of my existence in the spiritual realm, between earthly incarnations, but over the years, they have gradually faded, and now only fragments remain. However, there is one specific pre-birth memory, which I’m able to recall in great detail. This is the memory of choosing my parents.

I recall travelling in the company of another being to observe several families from whom I was to make my selection. The only time I ever saw my paternal grandfather, James E. McColl, was on this occasion. He died shortly afterwards of a heart attack on December 14, 1968, while a patient in the hospital in Marion, South Carolina. I was not born until August 1969.

As a child, I was able to recall details of my life between lives and the preparations for my return to this world. I remember not being in any hurry to return, but knowing I needed to eventually. I also recalled visions of battlefields, destruction and smoldering ruins, and the accompanying feeling of wishing not to return to such scenes.

However, as a child I did not understand this particular memory or its significance. At some point, I became aware of the need for an individual to return to the physical world to perform a mission, which excited me enough to volunteer to go. As a child, although I tried, I never could recall what the mission was for which I had volunteered.

The Christian Upbringing of James McColl Conflicts with His Past Life Memories

I was born in Laurinburg, North Carolina and raised in a Southern Baptist home, so from an early age I was taught that death resulted in either Heaven or Hell with no mention ever of the possibility of returning to life on Earth. It was not until about my fourth-grade year in school that I was exposed to the concept of reincarnation.

My sister mentioned it at supper one evening as a subject she had studied at school in either her geography or world history class. Over the course of the dinner conversation, it was dismissed as a non-Christian belief held largely by the population of India. Long before this conversation, I was aware that I had lived before, but I believed I had only been sent back into this world to perform a mission. I believed my return was an exception and not the rule.

For this reason, I assumed I should never mention what I remembered of the time before my birth. As a child I would occasionally think about the fact that I had made it to Heaven once before, and sometimes wonder if I possibly ran the risk of being condemned to Hell upon my death for any of my actions in my present lifetime. These thoughts contributed to my strong desire to know what happens to a person, at death.

Although I was born in a Southern Baptist home, it was through a combination of my own pre-birth memories, and my mother’s influence, that I came to have a broader view of spiritual matters. Every morning at breakfast, my mother would read aloud the daily horoscope from the newspaper, and my father would often respond by saying that there was no validity to astrology. I still remember how fascinated I was when about the time I was in second grade my mother read to me an article from the newspaper concerning Dr. Raymond Moody and his pioneering research concerning the near-death experience. It was about this same time she told me an elderly man named Percy Covington (1882-1961), from her hometown of Mt. Gilead, North Carolina had used a Ouija board to receive messages from the spirit world.

Among the metaphysical experiences that I had during childhood, one in particular made a lasting impression, because of the unique way in which it occurred. Although I didn’t understand its significance at the time, as an adult I discovered that what I saw that day was a scene from my past life as Lovick William Rochelle Blair, (1821-1882), which was preserved in a photograph. Upon his death, Blair reincarnated as George S. Patton Jr. (1885-1945).  The following is my account of the experience.

A Child’s Vision of Past Life Memories

One summer day in 1972, when I was about three years old, I had been playing outside in the swing; being a warm sunny day, after a while I felt hot and thirsty.  I went inside the house and asked my mother for something to drink.  She fixed a bottle of Tang, and I carried it into the den, lay down on the cool linoleum floor, and began drinking it.

As I lay there I gazed up at the walls, and ceiling; and as I relaxed, I observed the details of the horseshoe designs on the light fixture, and the patterns in the grain of the knotty pine paneling.  In the background I could hear the antique Ansonia shelf clock; which rested on the mantle, tick tock away the minutes. My focus then shifted to the pictures on the walls.  First, my eyes rested upon the large picture, which hung above the back of the sofa; a depiction of a Swiss mountain range.  Then I shifted my eyes to the picture on the wall to my left, an Otto Kuhler print Big Mountains, Little Engines.  I gazed at it awhile, absorbing its colors and details.

A Painting of a Train Comes to Life

All of a sudden; as I was looking at it, the image came to life, the wheels on the engines began to turn round, and the train began moving down the track; smoke puffing out of its smokestack.  The space behind the glass of the picture frame began to fill with the smoke; like a thick fog rolling in, eventually concealing my view of the train.  Even at such a young age, I knew I was seeing something out of the ordinary, so with intense interest and curiosity, I continued to watch without moving, or blinking an eye.  Then; like fog, it gradually lifted, but what was revealed was no longer a scene of a train passing through the mountains.

The image had transformed into a period room furnished in what, years later, I would recognize as the American Empire style.  At first, the room was devoid of people.  Then a group, dressed in mid-nineteenth century apparel entered the scene. They gathered around a center table, which stood before a large mahogany secretary bookcase.  When everyone was in their place, all movement ceased, and the image froze as if it was a photograph.

I wanted someone else to witness this phenomenon besides myself, so I called for my mother to come see it.  I had a feeling these people were my ancestors, and hoped she could identify them for me too.  She was in the kitchen, and answered that she was in the middle of doing something, and couldn’t stop at that moment.

Thinking my sister might be in her bedroom, I asked my mother: “Where is Trudy?” She answered saying Trudy had gone to play at the home of her friend Phillip Tucker.

Curious, to see what might happen next, and not wanting to miss anything, I continued to lie there with my attention focused on the picture.  Within a few minutes, what appeared like fog, or white smoke, began to form and swirl behind the glass of the frame, until I could no longer see the people assembled around the table.  As it swirled, colors began to emerge.  When the blurry swirl of colors solidified, I was once again looking at a picture of a train passing through the mountains.

Within seconds, my mother walked into the den and asked, “What do you want me to see?” I tried to describe what happened, but with my limited vocabulary, it was difficult.  The best I could do was tell her the picture had changed from a train to a picture of some people dressed in the manner of the characters on the television programs Bonanza and Gunsmoke; the only frame of reference to the Victorian era that I was familiar with at the time.

The image, which had been revealed to me, didn’t seem significant at the time.  What impressed me was seeing the picture come to life, and transforming from one scene to another.  Briefly, I wondered if all pictures could come alive and transform from one scene to another, when nobody was looking, similar to the way the toys in the movie Toy Story are depicted.  Finally, I decided that this phenomenon was unique to the Otto Kuhler print.  I believed that it was a magic picture.  Over the next few years, I would occasionally sit and watch it for a couple of minutes at a time, hoping that I might see it transform itself again, but it never did.

Throughout childhood, I experienced a phenomenon that for the lack of a better term, I thought of as watching television in my mind, but today I know it is called spontaneous past life recall. During that same time in my childhood, I was having dreams in which I now realize I reexperienced events from multiple past lifetimes. By the time I was a college student, I had begun to read books on near death experience and would occasionally discuss what I had read with my father.

A Longing to Find a Past Life Family

It was during one of our conversations that he suggested that I might enjoy reading about Edgar Cayce. This is how I came to have a better understanding of my childhood experiences, and it, along with the book, Across Time and Death, by Jenny Cockell, reawakened in me the desire to discover my identity in a past life. In the summer of 2002, remembering a promise I had made to myself as a child, that as an adult I would someday find my past life family and let them know that I was alive, I set out to discover my past life identity.

By the end of the summer, I had not had any luck and was beginning to think I never would. Finally, in October, I had an unexpected breakthrough and discovered my identity in a past life. Another few years passed by and one day while browsing in a bookstore I happened to come across a book by the title of How to Uncover Your Past Lives. This book inspired me to continue my search for my identity in additional past life incarnations, ultimately resulting in my discovery of my past life as General George S. Patton Jr.

Childhood Past Life Memories of Being George S. Patton

George S. Patton speaking in Los Angeles

As I began to research the life of General Patton, the first thing I happened to recognize was the film clip of the speech he made in Los Angeles on June 9, 1945. I experienced this exact scene in a vision I had in childhood, as I sat at the dining table one evening waiting for my mother to finish preparing the meal and call the rest of the family to the table for dinner. However, as a child, I did not have any idea as to what it was that I was experiencing/remembering/reliving.

From the vision I remember being introduced by a man that I am now able to identify as General Jimmy Doolittle, and then standing, approaching the microphones and looking out at the large crowd as I spoke. Listening to the speech on YouTube, I believe that General Patton’s voice and my own voice are similar; the difference, perhaps, being the accent, due to Patton being a native of California and the fact I have always lived in the Carolinas.

Past Life Memories of a Ship Attack and Being Splattered with Yellow Paint

As a young adult, I had a dream, which I have discovered, was an experience from General Patton’s life. The dream occurred sometime in the mid to late 1990’s. At that time, I was in my twenties. As the dream began, I was in a small boat or landing craft on a rough and choppy sea. The little boat is being tossed about, and I felt like at any moment I could easily be tossed out of the craft and into the sea. A battle is underway and there are numerous little crafts and large ships. The waters seem almost crowded with them.

George Patton on the left, wearing a helmet, with Admiral Hewitt on the USS Augusta

The little boat I’m on pulls up next to a large ship, and despite the conditions, I’m able to make my way up rope netting on to the ship. A short time later, I’m standing on the deck of the ship, along with a few other men. We were standing next to the rail looking towards the coast, watching the battle. I recall having binoculars, through which I would occasionally observe the action.

As we stood there, we were surprised when a large ship that was moored in the harbor fired a shell directly at us. We had thought that the ship was unable to engage in the battle and thus not a threat. We heard it fire and saw the smoke coming from the mouth of one of its large guns. This was the most frightening part of the dream. I still recall thinking that I was about to be killed when the shell reached its target. There was enough time to think I’m going to die, but not enough time to actually move from where I was standing, between the time the shell was fired and the moment it made impact.

The shell hit the side of the ship, directly below the spot where I was standing. When it did, I was splashed with seawater and what appeared to be bright yellow paint. Thinking that it was going to be my last moment alive, I was surprised and relieved to have been only splattered. A young man approached and offered to help me clean and dry the paint and water off my clothes, but I politely declined and laughed off the mess. Then I proceeded back to my cabin to clean myself up. It is at this point the dream ended and I woke up. I still remember feeling rattled the entire day after awakening from this particular dream. I felt as if I had actually had a close brush with death.

Afterwards, I replayed the dream over and over in my mind, trying to determine why I would have had such a dream. It was such a realistic and detailed dream, except for when the shell exploded and rather than being killed, I was splattered with yellow paint, which seemed to me like something that would occur in a Looney Tunes cartoon.

The only possible answer I found was an experience I had in Navy ROTC when a student in the 9th Grade. I had once gone on a field trip to Patriots Point in Charleston, South Carolina, which is a naval and maritime museum that features two actual World War II era ships; the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown and the destroyer USS Laffey. The ship upon which I was standing in my dream when I thought I was about to die reminded me of the USS Laffey.

As I was researching General Patton, I was surprised to discover that this was an actual experience from his life. It occurred on November 8, 1942 as General Patton’s troops were making an amphibious assault on Northern Africa. General Patton was standing on the deck of the USS Augusta when the French ship, Jean Bart, fired upon it, resulting in Patton being splattered with yellow paint. France at that point in time was not part of Western Alliance

Past Life Memories of Slapping Soldiers

General Patton’s career was almost brought to an end by two slapping incidents that occurred in August 1943 during the Sicily campaign. For the rest of his life General Patton was haunted by the dark shadow cast by these two incidents where he had lost control of his temper and slapped and verbally abused two soldiers, who were suffering from battle fatigue. It wasn’t until after I discovered my past life as George S. Patton Jr. that I realized I had actually witnessed one of the slapping incidents in a spontaneous past life recall vision I had during my childhood. I experienced the vision sometime between August 1973 and December 1975.

It occurred one day, while I was playing in the kitchen of my parent’s home when we lived in Garner, North Carolina. Instead, of viewing the scene through Patton’s eyes, I experienced it in the third person, as if I was watching television in my mind. Now as an adult, having since seen the slapping incident in the movie Patton, I can say it was portrayed very well, because it closely matched what I experienced in my vision.

At the time I experienced the vision I had no idea I was witnessing an experience from my past life. As a child, I thought I was seeing something that was actually occurring somewhere around the world at that very moment. I failed to realize that it had occurred thirty years earlier. It did not have in any way a historical feel to it.

My father watched the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite every evening and I thought what I had seen might appear on the news that day. As I remember watching the news as a young child, it seemed to me that Walter Cronkite was always talking about Vietnam and Watergate. The images I had seen in my vision were of soldiers, so they matched up in my mind with the scenes of Vietnam I saw on the news. I remember the vision scared me, because the man had been so angry yelling, slapping the soldier and pulling his pistol on the man and threatening to shoot him.

In hindsight, I guess I was allowed to experience it in the third person, since I was a young child and it had been such an intense and frightening scene. I still remember when the vision ended thinking that the man I had seen was extremely angry, and wondered why I had been shown that particular scene.

Past Life Relationships

One piece of observable evidence, useful in establishing past life identity, is the appearance of members of one’s soul group the people with whom an individual has shared a close association over multiple lifetimes.

Based on the consistency of facial architecture from one incarnation to another, I believe my mother is the reincarnation of Annie Wilson, who was the sister of General Patton’s mother. She was like a second mother to Georgie. Annie Wilson died on November 26, 1931 and my mother; Margret Frances Parsons was born December 27, 1937. Notice in particular how closely the shape of the ear carried over in addition to the other facial features, when Annie Wilson reincarnated as Margaret F. Parsons. Kevin Ryerson has confirmed that my mother is the reincarnation of Annie Wilson.

Past Life Talent as a Rifle Marksman

General Patton was known to be a great marksman. Growing up my mother always cautioned me concerning the danger of guns. As I approached the age of twelve, I wanted an air rifle. By then many of my good friends either had, or were getting one. My parents were slow to allow me to have one, thinking I might shoot my eye out, or the neighbor’s window. Finally, I was allowed to purchase one. I was excited when the day arrived.

My father took me to the local K Mart and I bought a Daisy BB and a pellet air rifle. What amazed me was I discovered that I was a better marksman than my friends who had been shooting longer than I had. It seemed to come natural to me. I remember it crossed my mind at the time that perhaps it was a skill I had developed in a past life, maybe as a pioneer in early America when the country was being settled. This was the first times I gave the idea of reincarnation any serious consideration.

A Past Life Dream of an Exploding Lamp in the Life of George Patton

General Pershing and George Patton inspecting troops in the Punitive Expedition in Mexico

One of the parallels between my present life and my past life as General Patton involves a pressurized gasoline lamp. When I was around five or six years old, I had a dream, which I now know was of my experience as Patton during the Punitive Mexican Expedition of 1916. In the dream, I enter a tent. It is dark, so I light a lamp and it explodes in my face and sets myself as well as the tent on fire. I then quickly exit the burning tent and put out the fire.

In my present life I collect antiques and have been doing so since I was in the eighth grade. As a student in high school and college, I enjoyed going to the Florence Flea Market and looking for antiques. On one such trip, I purchased an antique Coleman Quick-Lite gasoline lamp. Shortly afterwards my father and I learned that it could be sent to the Coleman Company and restored to work. We sent it off and it came back with the pump to pressurize it. My father asked me if I wanted the honor of pumping it up and lighting it. I declined and asked him to do it.

The dream did not enter my conscious mind at the time, but I had a fear of the lamp exploding in my face, which kept me from lighting it. Years later when I began to research my past life, I came across Patton’s description of the lamp exploding in his face. I recognized it as matching detail by detail my dream. However when I purchased the lamp and later could not bring myself to light it, I didn’t connect it with the dream. It wasn’t until I read General Patton’s description of the incident that I finally realized it was interconnected. Patton recorded the following details in a letter to his wife.

I came back from the movies and having some work to do I pumped up my lamp and lit it. It did not burn well so I started pumping again while it lit. There was too much gasoline in it so when I stopped pumping a lot of gasoline flew out of the hole instead of air and caught fire. As it came it hit me in the face and got in my hair. I ran outside and put myself out. Then came back and put out the lamp and tent. Then I reported to General Pershing that I was burned and went to the hospital.

James, as a Child, Asks for a Antique Car Resembling One Patton had used in his Mexican Campaign

I have always liked antique automobiles. When I was around three years old, my Grandmother McColl asked me what I wanted for Christmas. I replied a Beverly Hillbillies’ car, which at such a young age was my best description of an old timey car from the early years of the 20th century.

She understood what I wanted and gave me a battery powered Model T styled toy car. I have come to realize that the antique style toy automobile my grandmother gave me resembles the 1915 Dodge touring car in which Patton, on May 14, 1916, led the first motorized attack in the history of US warfare. The incident concluded with the killing of Julio Cárdenas and two of his guards. It also resulted in Patton receiving widespread media attention and earning the good favor of General Pershing.

The Fatal Automobile Accident of Patton Replicated in the Life of James McColl

General Patton’s fatal car accident of December 9, 1945 appears to possess a number of similarities to my own car accident of November 8, 1988. In both cases, the accidents occurred in an identical manner. A truck approaching from the opposite direction made a sudden and unexpected left turn, bringing it directly into the path of the car in which General Patton was a passenger.

Likewise, my accident was caused by a truck approaching from the opposite direction making a sudden and unexpected left turn, bringing it directly into the path of my car. Just as General Patton’s driver had done, I immediately stepped on the brakes, but still collided with the truck. In both cases, the right front fender of the truck struck the front of the car. The front end of General Patton’s 1938 Cadillac was demolished in his accident. Likewise, the front end of my 1968 Falcon was demolished too.

General Patton was not wearing a seatbelt since they were not a standard automotive safety feature until many years later. Patton was thrown forward, struck his head and broke his neck. I was wearing a lap belt without a shoulder strap and was thrown forward striking my head on the windshield, but the lap belt restrained me enough it prevented me from sustaining a serious injury. The impact broke my skin causing it to bleed where my head made contact with the windshield, just as General Patton bled from the head wound he received in his accident.

The impact of the collision pushed the fenders against both of the Falcon’s front doors, so that I was unable to open either of them. This caused me to have to cross over the front seat and exit the car through one of its back doors, similar to General Patton having to be removed from the Cadillac after his accident through one of its back doors. It is interesting to note that the color of the staff car in which General Patton had his fatal accident was army green and my 1968 Falcon was dark green with a white top. The two large white stars painted on Patton’s car correspond with the white color of the top of my car.

For the full story of the discovery and verification of my past life as General Patton, as well as six earlier past lives, please read my book, The Past Lives and Reincarnation of General George S. Patton Jr.

Principles of Reincarnation and Understanding Past Lives

By Walter Semkiw, MD

Physical Resemblance in Reincarnation Cases: James McColl, in his youth, looked very much like a young George Patton.

Past Life Talent: Patton and James McColl both have demonstrated the gift of remembering past lives.

Planning Lifetimes and Relationships Renewed through Reincarnation: James McColl has identified his mother as the reincarnation of Patton’s maternal aunt, Annie Wilson, was like a second mother to Patton.

Split Incarnation or Parallel Lives: James McColl and James Mattis derive from the same soul, a phenomenon I term “split incarnation” and which Ian Stevenson, MD called “cases with anomalous dates,” as lifetimes overlapped in time. James Mattis was born in 1950, while James McColl was born in 1969, so an overlap of 19 years exists.

Rose, the Flower Seller, Describes, Plants, Animals, Entertainment, Architecture, Apparrel, Work, Marriage and Children in Heaven: We Should Look Forward to Death

Article by: Walter Semkiw, MD

Source: Communication from the deceased in this case was facilitated through the direct voice mediumship of Leslie Flint. George Woods and Betty Greene were present during tape recordings of Flint’s mediumship sessions and they asked questions of the deceased, who spoke in their own natural voices. Neville Randall reviewed these recordings and summarized the dialogues in his book, Life After Death. Dialogue in the article provided below has been slightly edited to make it more concise.

To learn more about the mechanism of communication with the deceased, go to: Leslie Flint and his Direct Voice Mediumship

In a Leslie Flint direct voice mediumship session that took place in 1953, a London flower seller named Rose came through. George Woods asked Rose what her existence in the spirit would is like.  

Rose describes the Spirit World and How Plants Grow in Heaven

“You’ve asked me to describe our world in a material language. I don’t know which way to start. I suppose if you could think of all the beautiful things in your world, without all the things that aren’t pleasant, you’d have some vague idea of what it’s like. Beautiful natural surroundings, you know. Flowers, birds, trees, lakes.”

Woods asked, “Is it easier to grow flowers over there than it is here?” 

“Well, you plant them, and they come up, but you don’t have seasons. You don’t need to water them. All I know is that they grow, sort of natural.” 

Woods asked, “Is your world very much like this world only much more beautiful?” 

“Mind you, I can only speak about my own particular place where I am. I mean it’s a vast place altogether. I mean there are many spheres and conditions of life, you know. But where I’m at its very much like a beautiful English countryside. But I understand there are all other forms of nature, you know, as regards to scenery and that.” 

“Have you villages and towns?” Asked George Woods. 

“There are places that you’d call towns, where there are thousands of people that congregate together, you know. But there’s no buses and trams, and all that nonsense.”

Woods: “How do you travel?”  

“Walk or if you’ve got at any distance, well you just think of the place you want to be in, close your eyes, and well, in a split second I suppose you might say, you’re there.” 

Woods: “Do you live in a house?” 

“Well, I do live in a house, but you don’t have to. But I’ve never seen anybody who didn’t.” 

Woods: “What kind of houses are there? Like here?” 

“All types of houses, dear. Some are small little cottages like you’d see in a little country hamlet, and some are quite big places where whole families live. The point is that it’s a matter of your choice of architecture and all that sort of thing. Of course, the houses are very real. I mean they are built by people over here. They didn’t just happen you know. You just you don’t just think of a country cottage and you’ve got it.”

People in Heaven Work at What They Love

Rose: “I mean here you’ve got architects and designers and so on, and they create and they build. It isn’t hard labor like it is on your side, but it’s a real formation that goes on.” 

Woods: “They don’t use money over there, do they, or anything like that?” 

“Money! You can’t buy a nothing here with money, mate. The only thing you can get here is by character, and the way you lived your life, and the way you think and act.” 

Woods: “So how do you get your architects to do your work?” 

“Well, you don’t pay him. He does it because he loves to it. He loves to design houses. The same way as the musician loves to play the violin. He’s happy to entertain his friends and people, and people who like music they form orchestras and choirs. 

Everything is done for love, and anyone, for instance, on your side who never had a chance in life, perhaps they want to be a musician or an artist, they can study over here, you see.” 

Woods: “They are doing all the things they wanted to do?” 

“That’s right. I mean after all you think of the millions of people that go through life and have to do a hard-slaving day’s work, and never have a chance to do anything they would really like to do, never get the time, or never have the background or the money or education. Over here they can take up something that really appeals to them. It’s work, but it’s a joy to them.” 

Food and Flowers in the Afterlife

Woods: “Do you eat anything?” 

”We have fruit and nuts. We have fruit trees and all the things that you’d associate with your world regarding food, but you don’t kill animals and eat them over here.” 

Woods: “What do you do with your flowers?  Do you use them to beautify places?” 

“Well, of course you can if you want to. You can cut down the flowers and you can use them in your homes, but very few people do that after a time. It’s usually people who haven’t been here long. They see the flowers and think would be nice to have a few indoors and so on. But the point is that you begin to realize it’s not necessary, and it isn’t perhaps a good thing.”

In Heaven or the Afterlife, Travel is Done by Thought

“The flowers are natural. They have a life. And it’s not the right thing because you can have all the beauty of nature and the flowers without cutting them and taking them inside. And if you’re sitting in your house and you want to see the flowers outside, you don’t necessarily have to go inside and see them. You can just sort of think about them and you can see them. I don’t know whether this makes sense to you?” 

Woods: “We would open doors or windows.”  

“Well, we don’t even have to do that if we don’t want to. I means I can sit in my chair and think to myself that I would like to go to Flint’s circle, so I just think and close my eyes and the next minute, you might say, I’m here with you. It may sound a bit farcical, a bit odd, but I can’t help that. It’s true. Time and space don’t mean anything. “

Marriage and Children in Heaven

Woods: “Do people get married there?”

“When two people really love each other and they are suited to each other, and they’re naturally happy with each other, a man-made law, or ceremony is not needed, to make them man and wife.  We don’t have marriage laws here” 

Woods: “Are there children there?” 

“Well, there are children over here, but no children born of marriages, born over here. It’s not a physical thing in the same sense that you understand it.” 

(Note by Walter Semkiw: In other Flint sessions, it is explained that when children die on Earth, they continue to be children in the afterlife and in heaven, they grow to be adults. See the case of Alfred Higgins.) 

Animals in Heaven

Woods: “Are animals tame there?” 

“Oh, tamed dear, good heavens yes. I expect that first when you come here you might think, oh dear, I wouldn’t like a lion to come to my door step, but you wouldn’t think anything of it. Animals are as tame as your pet cat is.” 

Woods: “Animals don’t kill each other, do they?” 

“No, that’s a merely a material thing, desire for food, and hunger. Material desire in that respect drives them to kill each other, but that doesn’t exist over here, because the desire for food is soon lost. There are some people who come here, at first, feel a desire to have a certain food. Well, they can have it. But they soon get out of the habit of wanting it, and after a time it all sort of passes away from them, you might say.” 

Sleep and Time in the Afterlife

Woods: “Do you sleep?” 

“Oh yes, you can sleep if you feel so inclined, but it’s not necessary. IIf you’re mentally tired, you just sort of mentally relax, close your eyes and you rest and you reopen your eyes after a time. You don’t feel tired anymore.” 

Woods: “Do you measure time?” 

“Well, I don’t know. There isn’t any measurement of time as I understand it. We are not conscious of time. I know you can’t realize, I mean you think oh well, afternoon and evening and night. Well those things don’t affect us. We don’t have time as you have it.” 

Woods: “Do you have night and day over there?” 

“No, but if you close your eyes, you go into a condition which you can call a kind of twilight.” 

Planets, Spheres and the Sky in Heaven

Woods: “Rose, have you ever visited any other planets?” 

“I have been to some of the lower spheres, dear, but I haven’t been to any planets as you understand it. Is that what you mean?” 

Woods: “Have you been to Mars and Venus?” 

“No, I haven’t been to any of them, my dear. I don’t know anything about Mars and Venus, and all the rest. Some of the scientifically minded people might know. I don’t.” 

Woods: “Is there a thing such as law and order over there?” 

“There is the natural law, dear, which we all begin to realize soon after we arrive. There aren’t any laws and rules and regulations like governments and so on, but there are common laws, which we all recognize.” 

Woods: “Are there clouds?” 

“There are clouds in the sky from time to time, beautiful effects in the sky, much more wonderful than anything you ever dreamed of, and it isn’t necessarily blue. Oh no, sometimes the sky can be green and red, or all kinds of magnificent colors. Some of the colors we have I’ve never seen on Earth. We’re not limited like you are, you see.” 

Apparel in the Afterlife

Woods: “Rose, do you wear clothes?” 

“Of course, we wear clothes, dear. People cloth themselves in the type of thing they feel happy in. Of course, in the early stages of coming over here, when a woman perhaps passes on in a particular century, they think that that particular type of dress is essential to them and for a time they wear it. But after time they realize that it’s not important.  Gradually they change their outlook and change their apparel.” 

Woods: “Well, at this moment Rose, what you have got on?” 

“I’ve got a very pretty white dress on from top to toe. It’s got a border around the bottom, it’s got longish sleeves, very wide sleeves, and a I have a kind of a belt around the middle, of gold.” 

Woods: “What is the material?” 

“It is like a kind of silk. And my hair is not short, like it used to be, it is quite long.” 

Rivers, Lakes and Swimming in Heaven

Woods: “Do you have to wash your clothes or hair?” 

“No, but you can swim. You can go into the water if you want to, but you don’t get dirty. There’s no dust, dirt or anything like that here.” 

Woods: “Do you have the sea just as we have here?” 

“Well, I haven’t seen any sea, but there are beautiful rivers and lakes.” 

Woods: “Do you have boats on them?” 

“Oh, good heavens, yes. Beautiful boats. I don’t mean great liners, but very pretty boats, like they have in Venice.” 

Woods: “Gondola type?” 

“Yes, very pretty, all festooned with flowers. Sometimes we have galas or celebrations on the water and everything is illuminated, not by electricity or gas, but illuminated by the minds of people. It’s the only way I can describe it.” 

Cities and Entertainment in the Spirit Realm

Woods: “Do you have cities?” 

‘There are beautiful cities, but they’re not like your cities, dirty and grimy and all the rest. Some of the cities are absolutely wonderful. And we’ve got plays in theaters and places with music, but of a much higher order. Everything has a purpose. There’s nothing frivolous about it. 

Yet we do laugh. We have comedy things you know too. After all, we don’t lose our sense of humor because we’re here.” 

Woods: “Are there schools of learning?” 

“Oh, great schools, museums, places where you can go and turn up all history of nations and people. All sorts of marvelous places there are. Nothing is lost, you know.” 

Talking and Telepathy in the Afterlife

Woods: “Do you talk?” 

“Well it isn’t necessary, but people do talk. But after you’ve been here a few years in Earth time you realize there’s no need to talk. You can send out thoughts that are picked up. It’s a kind of telepathy.” 

Rose faded out in the Flint mediumship session in 1953. She returned ten years later on September 9, 1963. Betty Greene recognized the voice of Rose. 

Rose: “All kinds of people come to talk to you from week to week. You always seem to attract a lot of people. Whenever you come here there’s always crowds. I haven’t had a chance to get anywhere near for ages, you know. I haven’t forgotten you.” 

Domestic Life in Heaven

Woods asked: “What are you doing now?” 

“I spend quite a bit of my time with the youngsters. I’m very fond of children. I do quite a bit with them.   

I like little quiet hours when I sit and do a bit of needlework and I read.” 

Woods: “Are you living in the same house, Rose?” 

“Yes, and I’m quite happy. I have no particular desire to move. Of course, you to get these people who all the time are wanting to get further on. It doesn’t appeal to me all that much.  

I suppose I’ll get the urge one day to shift. But why should I? I’m all right. I’ve got a nice little place of my own, all my own interest and friends.” 

Woods: “Have you got a garden?” 

“I have and it suits me. I grow my own flowers and I never pick one.” 

Woods: “You don’t?” 

“No. I let them stay in their own natural surroundings and I get the greatest happiness and joy just looking after them and watching them. They never seem to die. They’ve got vitality and life of their own.” 

Woods: “What is your house like?” 

“’It has got four rooms, quite enough for me to look after. Funny thing, you don’t ever get dirt. People tell me you only get dirt or dust in your place if your mind is wrong! I’m quite content to let everything grow and do what it wants to. The birds come into the garden. They are as tame as tame.” 

Social Life in Heaven

Woods: “Do you visit many places, Rose?” 

“Oh, occasionally to see friends of mine.  

People come and talk to me sometimes about different places and spheres as they call them. It all sounds very nice, but I don’t feel educated up to it yet. I am happy where I am.” 

Woods: “Are there neighbors around?” 

“There are people who live around and about, who are very much as myself in outlook. Probably that’s why they are there and I’m with them. We get together occasionally.  

I’m quite happy to relax and be quiet. I’ve learnt to read, a thing I couldn’t do much when I was on your side. I get books. There are people who bring me books. We sit and we talk and we read.  Sometimes we go to the pictures.” 

Woods: “Can you describe some of these pictures?” 

“You can see things that you saw on your side, pictures you were very fond of. But a lot of them have some sort of moral, they’re very interesting and helpful.” 

Weather, Grass, Corn and Giant Flowers in the Afterlife

Woods: “Are there fields and things there? Are they beautiful?” 

“Oh yes, gorgeous. Very beautiful green grass we have and I know it will surprise you if I tell you we have cornfields. Yet the funny thing is we don’t have any seasons. For instance, I have never seen any rain. Neither have I known it be hot. It’s always very pleasant. Nice, pleasant warm atmosphere. And yet I’ve never seen the Sun. So I don’t think our illumination and light can be from the sun because I’ve never seen it.” 

Woods: “Is the grass like ours or is it a finer texture?” 

“Well, it’s springy underfoot and it’s very, very nice. A beautiful green. And I’ve been to places where the flowers are so high that—oh I should think they are a good seven or 8 feet high. It’s like walking through a forest of them. And the trees are beautiful, and the blossoms on some of them are beautiful. And the perfume! The scent’s marvelous.” 

Woods: “Really? Rose, what do they do with the corn? Do they cut it, or do anything with it at all?” 

“Well, I don’t know. I’ve never seen it cut, and yet it always seems to be there.” 

Woods: “Never seen bread made from it?” 

“No, and that’s another thing. I don’t feel the urge to eat. I did when I first came here, but it was mostly fruit and that sort of thing. I suppose you lose your desire for something, you realize it isn’t so important, and then it ceases to exist for you. 

But I was one for my cup of tea, and I like it and still have it.?” 

Woods: “How do you get your tea?” 

Well, it’s a funny thing, you know. I don’t go into a kitchen and put the kettle on and make myself a cup of tea in that sense. But if I feel the need for a cup of tea, now all I can say is it’s there.” 

Music and Hobbies in Heaven

Woods: “Do you have music there?” 

‘Oh yes, I’ve been to lots of concerts and things. Beautiful music. Not highbrow, but nice, you know. Not jazzy muck but pleasant stuff. Don’t hear much of religious music.” 

Betty Greene: “You said you did needlework. Do you make any of your clothes?” 

“Yes, I do. I’ve made quite a few things and people bring me material. A very nice gentleman I’ve met over here, oh, he is a very nice man. He’s a bit highly placed, but he visits, he visits some of my friends too. And he never comes empty-handed. Oh, very generous he is. He recently brought me a beautiful place piece of stuff, a lovely shade of blue, just the color I like. He told me that the material will make a nice outfit.” 

Animals in the Afterlife can Communicate

Woods: “When you walk out in the to walk out in the country, do you see animals?” 

“Oh, I’ve seen animals in the fields, of course I have. And I’m not scared of them. Over here they’re gentle and it’s almost as if they can talk to you. I haven’t seen anything like gnats or flies, but I’ve seen butterflies that are very beautiful.”

Nothing Dies, but People can Move On to Higher Spheres

“I’m told they never die. Funny business, you don’t die you know. Nothing dies. When I first came here, once I settled in that was, I thought, well how long is this going to last, you know. I wondered how long this is going to last? I wondered if it was another sort of life where you go on for so many years, you get antique again, and then you kick the bucket. I wondered if there was anything beyond that. But there is no dying here. It is most peculiar. 

While on Earth we used to say poor old so and so, she’s gone you know. Well over here, it’s much the same. Someone will tell me that so-and-so has gone on. Of course, that means they have gone on a bit.” 

Woods: “To another sphere?” 

“Yes, I’ve lost a few of my friends like that. They’ve gone on. But I don’t know, as I am staying put.” 

Architecture and Movie Stars in the Spirit World

Woods: “What are the towns like?” 

“Oh, beautiful, I must say. Not that I live in one. But they’re beautifully laid out, I will say that. Beautiful gardens and all sorts of parks and places for children especially. All very nice. Nothing common. Nothing cheap and nasty.  

All real nice, classy stuff, but entertaining, you know. I’ve been to one or two of the theaters and seen plays. I’ve seen lots of famous people that I used to read about, as I never went much to the theater. Couldn’t afford it. Occasionally, I see some of the old stars. I’ve seen quite a few here. A lot of them still do the same type of work.”  

Woods: “How is the architecture?” 

“Oh, it’s very nice and varied, all kinds. The stone looks like mother-of-pearl. Another thing, there’s no traffic. You don’t get any cars, no motorcycles and nothing like that. People are all content to walk. Nobody rides. No need for that. No effort in walking here.” 

Woods: “But if you want to go a distance, you go by thought, don’t you Rose?” 

“I don’t know whether you go by thought, exactly. No, I suppose it is that you can sort of feel that you want to go to a certain place, and find yourself there. There’s no effort.” 

Woods: “Are there woods up there?” 

“Yes, lovely woods. It’s a wonderful place.”

We Should Look Forward to Death

“No one need fear dying. It’s something everyone should look forward to, unless they’ve got something terrible in their mind or in their background. Of course, I suppose everybody’s got some skeleton in the cupboard. But the average person has nothing to worry about coming over here. 

Even the very wicked, from what I’ve heard, although its very sad and probably in a sense it’s very bad for them, yet they don’t get lost, poor dears. They are helped and guided, and eventually come out of the dark. 

The average person has got nothing to worry about. I mean I wasn’t particularly good and I wasn’t particularly bad. But I must say I’ve done quite well for myself, and that’s why I don’t want to change.” 

Woods: “You’re very happy where you are?” 

“Yes, I am. And that’s why I don’t feel disposed to make any changes. Well, I must go. Anyway, look after yourselves. And I’m glad to hear all the good work you are doing.”

Ted Butler is Killed by a Truck, Attends his Funeral, Becomes an Earthbound Spirit Who is then Rescued by a Lady on a Tram

Article by: Walter Semkiw, MD

Source: Communication from the deceased in this case was facilitated through the direct voice mediumship of Leslie Flint. George Woods and Betty Greene were present during tape recordings of Flint’s mediumship sessions and they asked questions of the deceased, who spoke in their own natural voices. Neville Randall reviewed these recordings and summarized the dialogues in his book, Life After Death. Dialogue in the article provided below has been slightly edited to make it more concise.

To learn more about the mechanism of communication with the deceased, go to: Leslie Flint and his Direct Voice Mediumship

Ted Butler is Hit by a Truck

In a session that took place in February 10, 1964, a man named Ted Butler came through. Betty Greene asked Ted how he passed over. Ted replied: 

“I was doing my Saturday shopping with my wife in Leeds, England, and I was crossing the road and before you could say Jack Robinson, something hit me. It was some sort of truck that I think got out of control down the slope. It got me pinned against the wall and I was out. I just remembered something coming towards me, and that’s all. It all happened so sudden. I have no memory of experiencing any pain.” 

Ms. Greene asked, “How did you find yourself?” 

Ted looks Down Upon his Own Body

“Well,” Ted replied, “All I know is that I saw a crowd of people all standing looking down at something. I had a look with the crowd and saw someone who looked exactly like me! At first I didn’t realize it was me.”  

I thought, “That’s a coincidence. That fellow looks the same as I do. It might be a twin brother” 

Then I realized that my wife was there crying her eyes out. She didn’t seem to realize I was standing beside her. 

They put my body in an ambulance, and the wife got in, and some nurse. I got in and sat with my wife and she didn’t seem to realize I was sitting there at all. Then gradually it came on me that that was me lying down there. 

I went to the hospital. Of course, they put me in the mortuary. I didn’t like that at all. So I got out quick and went home. There was the wife, Miss Mitchell next door, trying to comfort her. I think that was the worst time of the lot. 

Ted Attends his Funeral

Then there was the funeral. Of course, I went to that. I thought to myself: “All this fuss and expense for nothing, because here I was.” I thought it was all very touching, but at the same time it all seemed so damn silly, because I there I was. Nobody took any notice. 

The old parson was standing there reciting away. I thought, “He should know if anyone knows. So I went and stood beside him, and kept nudging him with me elbow in the side. He didn’t take any notice at all. He just went on with his ritual. 

Then there was the gravediggers. I knew one of them, old Tom Corbett. He was a case he was, I’d many a pint with him and a laugh. He filled in the hole, and the other bloke filled in the old coffin and the grave. I thought this is a fine how do you do. I’m not staying down here with this lot, so I got out. 

Ted rides the City Trams, where He Meets a Spirit Guide who Helps Earthbound Spirits

I must have hung around my house for weeks I should think. Once or twice I would go on the old trams. At first I was sort of all mixed up. But I used to have a laugh too sometimes. If the Corporation knew I was sitting in here and not paying my fare, they would say something. 

I began to realize that everyone sitting in that tram wasn’t paying their fare either. One of the very first conversations I had was with a woman sitting next to me. I thought she seemed very sort of nice and all that. And she started up a conversation. 

“What are you doing here?” 

I thought, ”That’s a fine way to open up a conversation.” So I said, “What do you mean what am I doing here? I might as well be here as anywhere else.” 

“I know,” she says. “But you ought to be doing something, not just going up and down in trams and buses and going worrying your wife. You can’t do anything that way.”  

“Well,” I said. “It’s all very well for you. But where do you go then?”

Of course, I realized that she was dead. I thought, “What’s she doing on the same lark as me?” 

“As a matter of fact,” she says,” I’ve been coming up and down in the trams and the buses with you for some time. But you probably never noticed me until just now. I’ve been waiting for a chance to try to give you a hand.” 

“What can you do,” I asked. 

“Well,” she replied, “Don’t you think it’s time you got away from these conditions? It’s only your thoughts that’s holding you down. You want to do more than this surely, then hanging about Earth. Nobody takes any notice of you. What’s the point of it?” 

“Well, some sense in that,” I says. “It’s true nobody takes any notice. But I find it’s better than sort of-well, not bothering at all. In any case I don’t know of anything else.” 

“That’s your fault,” she says. “It’s your state of mind that keeps you down here. If you was to release your thoughts and think about things of a higher thought and nature, you’d get away from all this. Of course, I understand it’s partly due to the way you passed, the suddenness of it, and the thought vibrations of your wife and mother, and one or two others holding you down. But you ought to get away from all this. You come with me.” 

Ted’s Helper brings Him to the Spirit Realm

“Well, where are we going?” 

“Oh, I’ll take you. Don’t you worry.” 

“Well, shall we get off at the next stop?” 

“What do you mean, get off at the next stop,” she says. ”It’s not necessary to wait and get  off at the next stop. We can get off whenever we want to, once you’ve made up your mind.” 

“I don’t understand that.” 

“You should know more by now,” she says, “that although you can get in a bus and sit on the bus and get off at the stop and get on at the picking up place and all that, you don’t have to. You don’t have to do what everyone else does. You are only doing things out of habit. You’ve got to get out of those habits and realize now that these things are unimportant, and by the mere thought you can transfer from this condition.” 

“Well, I don’t know.” 

“Look,” she says, “Here’s my hand. You hold my hand, just close your eyes, and try not to think of anything in particular. Just make your mind a sort of blank.” 

So I did as she told me. I found it a bit hard. I don’t know how long we must have been before we got off. I must have lost consciousness. The next thing I knew I was sitting in a very nice arm-chair opposite this lady in a very nice little parlor. Very nice, very pretty. There was a nice rug on the floor, and a wonderful feeling of light and warmth, what I thought was the sun shining through the windows. Everything looked spick and span. The table was nicely laid out. It was just as if I had gone somewhere for afternoon tea. I thought, “Where am I now?” 

“I’ve brought you here,” she said. “You’ve realized now you’re in my little room.” 

“Oh,” that’s very nice of you. I don’t know what my wife would think of me for sitting in a strange woman’s home!” 

“Ah,” she laughed. “You shouldn’t think like that now. That’s far away from you. Now will have a nice chat and a nice cup of tea, and I’ll explain things to you.” 

“That’s very nice of you dear.” 

“Oh, by the way,” she says, “I’d like you to know that I’ve been here for many years. I came at the turn-of-the-century.” (1900) 

“Oh yes,” 

“Yes,” she says. “And I’m living with my mother.” 

“Oh, are you?” I says. “Where is your mother now?” 

“She’s out.” 

“Does she go to work?” 

Deceased Children Grow Up in Heaven

She laughed: “I suppose you could call it work, but not work in the old way. My mother was a hard-working woman went on Earth. She used to take in washing and was always doing something. Now she goes to a place where she looks after children because she was always fond of children. Little children who died in infancy or when they were very young, and she helps to bring them up and look after them. She loves that work. She’ll be back soon. So, we will have a cup of tea.” 

Ted has a Cup of Tea in Heaven

I thought, “That’s funny. I wonder if I’m going to taste it. When I used to go to my wife’s place and they were having a cup of tea, I used to think I’d like a cup of tea, but of course I could couldn’t pick up the cups, and I suppose I wouldn’t have tasted it.” 

“Oh you will here,” she said, “because you are in an entirely different atmosphere. You are in your natural conditions now, so everything around you will be natural and real. You have this cup of tea, dear, and you’ll taste it. It will taste just the same as tea you have on Earth. 

So I tasted it, and it was. 

“Well, isn’t that nice?” 

“Yes,” I says, “it’s very nice. But who’d have thought” I couldn’t help laughing– ”What would people on Earth would think of us sitting up here having cups of tea! They’d think we were crazy.” 

“People just don’t understand,” she said. “Here, according to how you get on, and as you progress, so you find things there for your needs. If, when you first come, you feel it’s necessary to have this or that, it’s provided for. But it’s only a temporary thing until you’ve adjusted yourself to the fact that you don’t need those things. I don’t normally have tea or anything like that. But since you were a guest in my house and you’re getting gradually accustomed to things, I thought it would help you.”  

“That’s very nice of you,” I said. “You shouldn’t have gone to the trouble.” 

“Oh no,”she said. “No trouble. It’s part of my work.” 

“Work?” 

Ted is Told that He was an Earthbound Spirit

“Oh yes,” she says. “I make it a habit of going down to Earth if I can help someone like you who was an Earthbound.” 

“What did you say?” 

“Earthbound.” 

“Earthbound?” 

“Yes, that’s what you was, poor dear. You was tied down to the Earth because of your state of mind and your thoughts. You couldn’t release yourself. And that is part of my job, to help people release themselves from material things. I’ve traveled up and down that tram many a time with people because I used to live in that town many years ago. I’m doing my little bit. Thousands and thousands of people do that, you know, and I’m only one of them.”

Kundalini und Erleuchtung – eine persönliche Erfahrung, von Shai Tubali

Artikel von: Shai Tubali

Nachtrag von: Walter Semkiw, MD

“Die Verkündigung des Himmels ist gekommen, damit der Vogel der Seele im Flug aufgehen kann.” Rumi

Kundalini: Gottes Mechanismus der Erlösung

 Ich möchte mit einer kleinen, selbst erfundenen Mythologie beginnen, die eine große Wahrheit enthält. Als Gott die Seele erschuf und sie auf ihre äußerst bereichernde, aber qualvolle Reise menschlicher Inkarnationen schickte, wusste Er, dass es nur gerecht wäre, sie mit einem Gerät auszustatten, das es ihr ermöglichen würde, sich selbst zu retten und eines Tages zu Ihm zurückzukehren. Er war sich vollkommen bewusst, dass die irdischen Kräfte der Schwerkraft ihn überwältigen würden, dass die physischen Gefahren eine tiefe Anhaftung an den Körper und seinen Überlebensinstinkt prägen würden, und dass die Vergnügen der Sinne darin eine tiefe Anhaftung an das Körperliche einflößen würden Erfahrung. Er erkannte, dass er eine Chance wahrnahm, indem er sie in das Tal der endlosen Vergesslichkeit namens “Erde” schickte, und dass die Distanz zwischen dem begrenzten Körper und der Unendlichkeit des kosmischen Bewusstseins einfach unüberbrückbar war.

Also, was konnte er tun? In Seinem weisen Verstand stellte Er sich einen Mechanismus vor, der in den subtilsten Kern des menschlichen Körpers implantiert werden könnte. Dies wäre ein Mechanismus, der stark genug sein könnte, um die Schwerkraft zu überwinden und die Seele von allen mentalen, emotionalen und physischen Fesseln zu befreien. Es sollte in der Lage sein, der Seele zu signalisieren, dass es auf dem richtigen Weg ist, indem es es mit der größten Form der unirdischen Glückseligkeit durchdringt. Und es wäre in der Lage, der Seele als ihrem ätherischen Flugzeug zu dienen, mit dem es den ganzen Weg zurück in den Himmel fliegen und zu seiner ursprünglichen Heimat gezogen werden könnte; seine wahre Natur als unendliches Wesen.

Als Gott über die Möglichkeiten einer energetischen Struktur nachdachte, die ein solches Wunder innerhalb des beschränkten menschlichen Körpers vollbringen könnte, näherte sich einer der kreativeren Erzengel mit dem Symbol des Caduceus, das eines Tages aus dem unterbewussten menschlichen Geist in Form von die Mitarbeiter von Hermes und das Symbol der Medizin. Es ähnelte dem DNA-Strang, der inneren Kodierung, aus der alle Lebewesen gemacht wurden. Diese Struktur, riet der Engel Gott, würde alle irdischen Energien durch eine einzige Linie ziehen und würde die Flügel der Seele ausbreiten und reaktivieren, so dass sie sich daran erinnern würde, dass sie fliegen konnte.

Gott stimmte zu und befahl, diesen subtilen Körper zu konstruieren. Er bildete ein komplexes Netz von energetischen Röhren mit einer zentralen Röhre in ihrer Mitte, die an der Basis der Wirbelsäule begann und an der Krone des Kopfes kulminierte. Innerhalb der Basis dieser Röhre pflanzte Er den Samen des göttlichen Bewusstseins, einen Funken aus Seinen eigenen Gedanken. Er wusste, dass dieser Funke ruhend bleiben würde, solange die Seele nicht reif genug wäre, um volle Selbstwahrnehmung zu erlangen und das Licht der Unendlichkeit im Körper zu leiten.

Mit Seiner grenzenlosen Geduld und Liebe würde Er auf den Moment warten, in welchem ​​die Seele zu der Sehnsucht erwachen würde, zu ihrer Quelle zurückzukehren. Wenn das geschehen ist, wird der Funke, den Er gepflanzt hat, sofort entzündet werden und seine unermüdliche Mission beginnen, das gesamte Wesen des Individuums zu spiritualisieren, von dichter Materie zu einer Selbstoffenbarung der eigenen verborgenen Göttlichkeit.

Kundalini

Ist diese Geschichte eine bloße Mythologie? Vielleicht gab es keinen Engel, der Gott befragte. Außerdem ist es überhaupt keine Mythologie. In der Tat, für die reife Seele, die sich aufrichtig nach dem Göttlichen sehnt, ist dieses subtile Gerät eine lebendige Realität, die nicht weniger greifbar ist als der physische Körper und die Erfahrung der Sinne. In der yogischen Tradition wird dieses Gerät als “Kundalini” bezeichnet. Die Erfahrung selbst, die allen esoterischen Traditionen bekannt ist, ist ein und dasselbe: die Erweckung des Funkens des göttlichen Bewusstseins, der alle Grundenergien mit sich bringt und schiebt sie den ganzen Weg nach oben, bis sie kraftvoll die dünne Barriere zerreißt, die den Menschen von der Unendlichkeit unterscheidet.

Kurzfristige Kundalini-Erfahrungen können viele Male und für viele Menschen passieren. In der Tat steigt Kundalini auf, wenn wir über den Geist nachdenken und darüber meditieren; wann immer wir von spiritueller Sehnsucht erfüllt sind und Transzendenz suchen. Damit aber der kosmische Funke vollkommen befriedigt werden kann – und vollständige Befriedigung kann nur bedeuten, dass der Funke sich wieder mit dem ungeteilten göttlichen Bewusstsein vereint hat – ist ein langer und anhaltender Prozess des zunehmenden Erwachens erforderlich, bis hin zur vollständigen Erleuchtung.

Das Erwachen der Kundalini von Shai Tubali

Als ich 20 Jahre alt war, erlebte ich den anfänglichen Drang nach spiritueller Suche. Ich habe nicht wirklich verstanden, wonach ich suchte. Es war mehr eine intuitive Anziehung zu der seltsamen Magie, die ich in den Aphorismen des Zen-Buddhismus gefunden hatte, sowie die Hoffnung, meine sozialen Ängste irgendwie zu überwinden. Mein erster bedeutender Schritt war ein transzendentaler Meditationskurs, in dem ich zum ersten Mal von Aufklärung als einer Vereinigung des individuellen Bewusstseins mit dem Bewusstsein des Universums hörte. Nur zu hören, was einen uralten Trennungsschmerz in meinem Herzen auslöste, und ich fühlte mich berufen, mich diesem schwer fassbaren Zustand zu nähern.

Kurz darauf reiste ich nach Indien, um in einem Ashram zu bleiben und jene zu suchen, für die die Wahrheit nicht Wissen aus zweiter Hand war, sondern eine direkte Erfahrung. Zum Glück traf ich dort meinen ersten Lehrer, der wie ich ein Israeli war. In Indien lernte ich zum ersten Mal – durch das Lesen einer Biographie von Jiddu Krishnamurti, der im Alter von 29 eine immense Kundalini-Erweckung durchgemacht hatte -, dass Erleuchtung keine mentale Einsicht, sondern eine tiefgreifende und dramatische energetische Transformation war. Mit diesem Verständnis begannen außergewöhnliche Zustände – wie meinen Körper von der Decke aus im Bett liegen zu sehen und nachts auf geheimnisvolle kosmische Botschaften und energetische Übertragungen geweckt zu werden -, mich davon zu überzeugen, dass ich die Tore des Unerkennbaren betrat.

Die Glückseligkeit des erweckenden Kundalini

Als ich nach Israel zurückkehrte, blieb ich in Kontakt mit meinem ersten Lehrer und für zwei Jahre wechselte ich ständig von einsamer Selbsterforschung zu Zeit mit ihm und umgekehrt. Gegen Ende dieser zwei Jahre besuchte ich eine stille Klausur, die von einem seiner erwachten Studenten gehalten wurde. Als die Stille immer intensiver wurde, wurde ich überwältigend in die Glückseligkeit des vereinigten Bewusstseins eingetaucht.

Ich würde auf dem Weg zum Frühstück oder zu meiner Hütte gehen und unkontrolliert in dieses blasenartige, allumfassende Energiefeld der Befreiung und endlosen Freude stoßen. Meine Sinne würden sich zurückziehen, als ob ich der Welt geblendet wäre und nur diese Reinheit der Einheit sehen und erkennen könnte. Das ging auch nach dem Ende des Retreats weiter: Selbst an einer belebten Straße konnte mich diese hypnotisierende Schönheit aufhalten, während die ganze Welt sich völlig in Luft auflösen würde. Mein Mantra damals war der kontinuierliche Satz, der mir selbst in den Sinn kam: “Nur das Bewusstsein ist real und nichts anderes zählt …”

Diese kurzen, aber gewaltigen Erweckungen wurden häufiger wiederholt, als ich mich einem stillen Retreat meines ersten Lehrers anschloss. Dort, zwei Tage vor meinem 23rd-Geburtstag, besuchte ich die Geburtstagsfeier meines Lehrers. Ich saß etwas entfernt außerhalb des Kreises der Feiernden und blieb still und still.

Plötzlich fiel mir die klarste Wahrnehmung dessen auf, was ich früher als “mich selbst” betrachtete. Wenn man nach innen schaute, gab es kein wesentliches Identitätszentrum. In diesem Fall wusste ich, dass das getrennte und individuelle Bewusstsein eine bloße Illusion war und nicht einmal eine sehr raffinierte. Das individuelle Bewusstsein war nur ein Bündel von Erinnerungen, die künstlich so aneinander geklebt waren, dass sie ein Phantom der psychologischen und kontinuierlichen Entität bilden konnten.

Mit dieser Wahrnehmung erwachte Kundalini und begann in meinem Rückgrat zu eilen. Der schlafende göttliche Funke sprang zu meinem dritten Auge und der Krone meines Kopfes. Kundalini brach frei durch meinen Kopf, hinaus in die Weiten des kosmischen Verstandes. Mit großer Mühe schleppte ich meinen verblüfften Körper von der Party weg und zu einer schmalen Küste, wo Kundalini mich mit einer Vision meiner wahren Natur beschattete.

Was auch immer ich anschaute, war ich selbst: der offene Himmel, die Felsen, das Meer und die jungen Männer, die am Strand Fußball spielten, das Universum als Ganzes existierte nur als eins, eine grenzenlose Einheit, und ich war das Universum und nichts Außerdem. Wellen von Tränen und Gelächter der Anerkennung erschütterten meinen Körper für einige zeitlose lange Stunden.

Zwei Tage später, an meinem Geburtstag, erhielt ich von meinem Lehrer Shaktipat, was eine energetische Übertragung von spiritueller Energie von einem Meister ist. Der Zweck von Shaktipat ist es, der Kundalini des Praktizierenden zu helfen, sich zu erheben.

Dies vertiefte nur meinen berauschten Zustand der Selbstvergessenheit. Von diesem Rückzug an begannen lange Monate der Tränen und des Lachens. Eine überwältigende universelle Liebe überwältigte meine Brust, während Kundalini unermüdlich mein Wesen von vertrauten und persönlichen Gefühlen entleerte.

Stundenlang saß ich unbeweglich in einer mühelosen und ungebetenen Meditation. Die Heiligkeit umfasste mein kleines Zimmer. Das göttliche Element erwachte, um sich selbst zu erkennen, und alles, was von “mir” übrig war, war ein ehrfürchtiger Zeuge. Nichts von dem, was ich in Büchern lese, könnte mich darauf vorbereiten; Die Realität der Kundalini ist endlos weit entfernt von mentalen Konstrukten. Ein ganzes Jahr lang, bis zum Alter von 24, trat ich diesen Weg der unbeschreiblichen Stille, in der nur die Wahrheit sprechen konnte.

Der Tod des Egos durch Kundalini

Zwischen den Zeitaltern 24 bis 26 fand der fast unerträglich intensive Kundalini-Prozess statt. Mit einem sehr jungen und unvorbereiteten Nervensystem und in Ermangelung einer ausreichenden Anleitung wurde dieser Prozess zu einer “Kundalini-Krise”. Einfach ausgedrückt: Ich habe zwei Jahre lang gespürt, dass ich sterben werde. Ich erlebte wiederholt meine Seele den Körper durch die Krone meines Kopfes verlassen. Ich ging durch viele schlaflose Nächte, die mit ungeklärten Phänomenen gefüllt waren. Ich erlebte starke Übelkeit und eine außerordentliche energetische Verletzlichkeit, in der ich spürte, dass es keine Barriere mehr gab, um meinen eigenen Körper vom Rest der Welt zu unterscheiden. Übernatürliche Fähigkeiten kamen und gingen.

Niemand – kein Heiler und kein Lehrer – konnte diesen Prozess erfassen. Mein eigener Lehrer war verblüfft, da er kein Kundalini-Meister war. Glücklicherweise führte mich das Schicksal zu meinem zweiten Lehrer, einem wahren amerikanischen Yogi, der mich großzügig unter seine Fittiche nahm. Er behandelte mich konsequent mit Shaktipat, gab mir ayurvedische Kräuter und homöopathische Essenzen und führte ruhig mein erschöpftes Wesen.

Als Eingeweihter einer Kundalini-Tradition (der Siddha-Yoga-Tradition) machte er mich schließlich bewusst, dass es sich um ein ausgeklügeltes göttliches Gerät handelt. Durch ihn lernte ich auch, dass selbst das kraftvolle und eindeutig irreversible Erwachen, das mich an der Wurzel meines Seins erschütterte, nicht genug war. Um die Vollständigkeit der Befreiung zu erreichen und die Verschmelzung des göttlichen Funkens mit der Gottheit zu beenden, musste die Kundalini viele verschiedene Arten von Blockaden beseitigen, einschließlich bedeutender Prägungen sowohl aus vergangenen Leben als auch aus dem gegenwärtigen Leben. Kundalini musste buchstäblich den gesamten Prozess des karmischen Werdens zurückspulen – um tief sitzende Eigensinne, Wünsche, Ärger und Ängste zu entwirren – bis das eigene Sein von Körper zu Geist ausreichend gereinigt ist. Auf dem Weg zeigte sich allmählich die Entwicklung meiner Seele; die grundlegenden Themen und Lektionen, mit denen ich viele Lebenszeiten zu tun hatte. Zur gleichen Zeit tauchen wichtige Lern- und erworbene Fähigkeiten aus meiner tiefsten Vergangenheit auf.

Dieser Prozess dauerte vom Tag meines Erwachens im Alter von 23 an, für einen Zeitraum von zehn Jahren. Im Alter von 33 konnte ich endlich diesen göttlichen Mechanismus in mir ganz wach aufwecken, in einer Weise, die so greifbar war wie meine physische Realität. Ich konnte den Strom subtiler kosmischer Kraft in meinem Rückgrat vollständig und direkt erkennen; ein Bach, der sich oft wie ein reißender Fluss anfühlte. Die Korrelation zwischen diesem flussartigen Fluss und einem vollständigen Einheitsbewusstsein und der Auflösung selbst der subtilsten Form des Selbst war unbestreitbar.

Als ich dies meinem Lehrer meldete, überraschte er mich mit der Ankündigung, dass sich meine Seele schließlich der vollen Befreiung näherte. In der yogischen Tradition wird dies als “Jivamukti” betrachtet, was bedeutet, dass die befreite Seele in einem menschlichen Körper existiert. Ich konnte ehrlich nicht begreifen, worüber er sprach, aber gleichzeitig konnte ich diesen Fluss des ewigen Lebens in mir Tag und Nacht aufsteigen sehen, der jedes Gefühl von Trennung und Individualität unerbittlich schmelzen ließ.

Die Zeit ist verschwunden. Erfahrung hat aufgehört. Der Durst nach Leben ist ausgestorben. Es gab keine persönliche Geschichte mehr. Meine Biografie wurde unterbrochen wie ein Buch, das mitten in einem Satz endete.

Kundalini als der Heilige Geist

Kundalini wird nicht unbedingt direkt und bewusst geweckt. Es kann von selbst erwachen, als natürliches Ergebnis jeglichen Ausdrucks spiritueller Sehnsucht und einer substantiellen Reife der Seele. Es gibt jedoch eine Vielzahl von Praktiken, die diese subtile Kraft hervorrufen und durch unsere energetische Wirbelsäule führen können.

Indirekte Kundalini-Erweckungen können auftreten, wenn man Zeit in der Gegenwart eines wahren spirituellen Meisters (Satsangs) verbringt; Stille Rückzüge und Dunkel-Zimmer-Retreats sowie Rückzüge des spirituellen Fastens und intensive Formen der Selbsterforschung oder Kontemplation über spirituelle Wahrheiten. Direkte Kundalini-Erweckungen können durch die Gnade des Shaktipat eines spirituellen Meisters oder die Praktiken des Waldbadens (dank der einzigartigen Kundalini-evokativen Kraft der Bäume) und meditative Methoden, die direkt mit dieser Energie arbeiten, wie die “Expansions-Methode”, geschehen. die ich seit vielen Jahren entwickelt und gelehrt habe.

Spinale Atmung – wiederholt atmend in die Basis der Wirbelsäule, dann durch die Wirbelsäule und schließlich durch die Krone des Kopfes – kann besonders effektiv sein. Praktiken, die den Fluss der Kundalini unterstützen, sind rohes Essen, Formen der Dehnung wie Yoga-Haltungen, Meditation im Allgemeinen, Chiropraktik und andere Körperarbeit, die die Haltung korrigieren und verbessern. Es wird dringend empfohlen, jegliche Technik zu meiden, die versucht, Kundalini in eine unnatürlich schnelle und intensive Erregung zu zwingen.

Wenn Kundalini ohne Zwang und in einem bewussten und unterstützenden Kontext geweckt wird, ist sie niemals gewalttätig oder destruktiv. Sein Ziel ist eins: das Unfassbare schaffen – eine erwachte Seele, die sich vollständig an ihre ewige und unendliche Natur erinnert, während sie sich immer noch in den Grenzen eines begrenzten und sterblichen Körpers befindet.

In einem solchen Zustand scheint es keinen Unterschied zwischen den hinduistischen Konzepten von Shiva (dem göttlichen Bewusstsein) und Shakti (dem Kundalini-Funke innerhalb des individuellen Menschen) zu geben – oder, wie Jesus kühn erklärte, sobald seine eigene Kundalini vollständig war erwachte, kein wirklicher Unterschied zwischen dem Vater und dem Sohn, denn der Heilige Geist, Kundalini, brachte sie zu einer ewig unzerbrechlichen Einheit.

Nachtrag von Walter Semkiw, MD

Ich möchte meine eigenen Erfahrungen mit Kundalini teilen. Als ich am College war, hatte ich den Wunsch, der Meditation nachzugehen, obwohl ich nicht wirklich sagen kann, warum. Wie in Shais Geschichte nahm ich Unterricht in Transzendentaler Meditation und erhielt ein Mantra zur Meditation. Ich habe das regelmäßig während meiner Collegezeit gemacht.

Als ich mit dem Medizinstudium anfing, traf ich eine Person, die behauptete, er hätte Erfahrung in der Meditation und dem Erwachen von Kundalini. Er lehrte mich, Chi Gong zu praktizieren, eine chinesische Meditationspraxis, in der man in einer bestimmten Haltung steht, um Kundalini zu aktivieren. Jeden Tag, bevor ich zu meinen Medizinschulklassen ging, machte ich eine Stunde lang diese Standmeditation. Wenn ich diese Meditation machte, würde ich Stöße in meiner Wirbelsäule erleben. Ich trage eine Brille, und die heftigeren Wirbelsäulenstöße führten dazu, dass meine Brille von meinem Kopf abfiel und einige Meter hinter mir landete.

Ich hatte erst viele Jahre später eine bedeutende spirituelle Erfahrung. Ich hatte schon immer eine Liebe zur Musik, aber ich habe nicht die feine Finger-Koordination, um ein Instrument gut zu spielen. Da ich immer ein ziemlich guter Athlet war, drückte ich meine Liebe zur Musik durch Tanzballett aus. Dieses Hobby wurde durch die Tatsache verstärkt, dass die meisten meiner Tanzkollegen sehr taugliche und attraktive Frauen waren. Meine Ballettkarriere gipfelte in einer Aufführung mit dem gesamten Orchester der Denver Symphony. Ich schätze diese Erinnerung immer noch. Klicken Sie auf die Bildvergleiche, um sie zu vergrößern.

Jahre später wurde ich Mitglied einer Ballettkompanie in San Francisco, die vom Choreografen Enrico Labayen geleitet wurde. Obwohl ich nicht gut genug Balletttänzer war, um in seiner Truppe zu sein, lud Enrico mich zu den Proben seiner Tanzkompanie ein. Ich habe es geliebt zu sehen, wie talentierte Tänzer Enrico’s Choreographie spielen. Bei den Proben hatte ich ein Buch in der Hand und wie ich es gewohnt war, hatte ich einen roten Filzstift oder Stift, mit dem ich in den Büchern Notizen machte, die ich lesen würde.

Enricos Ballettgruppe probte einen Tanz mit einer Tänzerin, die von männlichen Balletttänzern über den Kopf gehoben wurde. Die Tänzerin positionierte ihren Körper in Form eines Kreuzes. Während ich diese Vorstellung beobachtete, wurde der rote Filzstift, den ich plötzlich und unerwartet hielt, in meinen Händen jongliert und als Ergebnis musste ich rote Flecken auf den Innenseiten meiner beiden Handgelenke machen, was etwas hervorbrachte, was auf meinem Körper Stigmata zu sein schien Handgelenke. Dieses Ereignis passierte am Ostersonntag in 1996.

Ich fand das merkwürdig und verwirrend und als ich von einer sitzenden Position aufstand, wurde mir klar, dass mein Bewusstsein verändert worden war. Ich erlebte vollkommene Glückseligkeit, die ungefähr sechs Wochen anhielt. Ich habe meine Arbeit als Corporate Medical Director ohne Funktionseinschränkung fortgesetzt, aber ich war eine veränderte Person. Ich fühlte Liebe für alles und jeden. Zu der Zeit durchlief ich eine Scheidung, die strittig geworden war, aber in diesem Bewusstseinszustand wollte ich alles tun, was ich für die Frau tun konnte, die ich gerade scheiden lassen wollte. Obwohl ich dazu nicht in der Lage war, wollte ich ihr sogar das Haus schenken, in dem wir gelebt hatten.

Wie gesagt, dieser Zustand der Glückseligkeit dauerte sechs Wochen und dann verblasste er. Ich erinnere mich, dass ich zu der Zeit enttäuscht war, dass dieser Bewusstseinszustand verschwunden war und ich wünschte, dass es für immer gedauert hätte.

Ich glaube, diese Erfahrung wurde durch mein Engagement bei der Erforschung meines eigenen früheren Lebens ausgelöst, in dem Enrico Labayen in der vergangenen Zeit während der amerikanischen Revolution mein Sohn war. Außerdem waren einige der Tänzer in Enricos Gesellschaft, die ich festlegte, meine Verwandten in diesem Leben. Diese Geschichte wird ausführlich in meinem Buch vorgestellt, Rückkehr der Revolutionäre: Der Wiedervereinigungsfall und die Wiedervereinigung der Seelengruppen.

Ein kurzer Überblick über diese vergangene Lebenszeit von mir ist auf der folgenden Seite dargestellt:

Reinkarnationsfall von John Adams | Walter Semkiw

Temporäre und permanente Ergebnisse des Kundalini-Erwachens

Wie Shai Tubali oben beschrieben hat, glaube ich, dass ich eine Manifestation des Kundalini-Erwachens hatte. Als ich Shai kennenlernte, fragte ich mich, ob seine Erfahrung mit Kundalini vorübergehend oder dauerhaft war. Er antwortete mit dieser Aussage:

“Als spiritueller Lehrer ist es Teil meiner Integrität, nur das zu lehren, was auf den permanenten Auswirkungen des Erwachens der Kundalini beruht. Was vor Jahren mit 19 begann, hat sich mit der Zeit nur verstärkt und vertieft. Die permanente Wirkung ist ein kontinuierlicher Zustand der Selbstauflösung und einer Absorption im universellen Bewusstsein. Dies bedeutet, dass es keine Erfahrung als unabhängiges Ego gibt, da Geist, Herz und Körper als Teil des Ganzen funktionieren. Meine Identität ist: “Ich bin das Universum”.

Daher glaube ich, dass ich ein vorläufiges Kundalini-Erwachen hatte, das sechs Wochen dauerte. Im Gegensatz dazu war Shais Kundalini-Erfahrung viel intensiver und hat zu einer permanenten, anstatt einer vorübergehenden Veränderung des Bewusstseins geführt.

Shai Tubali ist Autor zahlreicher Bücher und er ist ein spiritueller Lehrer in Berlin, Deutschland. Um mehr über Shais Arbeit zu erfahren, gehen Sie bitte zu:

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“The proclamation of heaven has come, that the bird of the soul may rise in flight.” Rumi

Kundalini: God’s Mechanism of Redemption

 I would like to start with a small, self-invented mythology, that contains a great truth. When God created the soul and sent it on its highly enriching, but agonizing journey of human incarnations, He knew that it would only be fair to equip it with some device that could enable it to salvage itself and return to Him one day. He was fully aware that the Earthly forces of gravity would overwhelm it, that the physical perils would imprint in it a deep clinging to the body and its survival instinct, and that the pleasures of the senses would ingrain in it a deep attachment to the bodily experience. He realized that He was taking a chance by sending it to the valley of endless forgetfulness called “Earth,” and that the distance separating the limited body and the infinitehood of cosmic consciousness was simply unbridgeable.

So, what could he do? In His wise mind, He envisioned a mechanism that could be implanted at the subtlest core of the human body. This would be a mechanism that could be powerful enough to overcome gravity and to disengage the soul from all mental, emotional and physical shackles. It should be able to signal to the soul that it is on the right path by imbuing it with the greatest form of unEarthly bliss. And it would be able to serve the soul as its ethereal aircraft with which it could fly all the way back to the heavens and be pulled to its original home; its true nature as infinite being.

As God was considering the options of an energetic structure that could perform such a miracle within the limited human body, one of the more creative archangels approached with the symbol of the caduceus, which one day would surface from the subconscious human mind in the form of the staff of Hermes and the symbol of medicine. It resembled the DNA strand, the inner encoding out of which all living beings were made. This structure, the angel advised God, would pull up all the Earthly energies through a single line and would spread and reactivate the soul’s wings so that it would remember it could fly.

God consented and ordered to construct this subtle body. He formed a complex net of energetic tubes with one central tube in their midst, which started at the base of the spine and culminated at the crown of the head. Within the base of this tube, He planted the seed of divine consciousness, a spark from His own mind. He knew that this spark would remain dormant as long as the soul would not be mature enough to achieve full self-awareness and to conduct the light of infinity while in the body.

With His boundless patience and love, He would wait for the moment in which the soul would awaken to the longing to return to its source. When that has happened, the spark He planted would be ignited at once and start its tireless mission to spiritualize the individual’s entire being, from dense matter into a self-revelation of one’s own hidden divinity.

Kundalini

Is this story a mere mythology? Perhaps there was no angel consulting God. Besides it is not a mythology at all. In fact, for the ripe soul that sincerely yearns for the divine, this subtle device is a living reality, which is not less tangible than the physical body and the experience of the senses. In the Yogic tradition, this device has been referred to as “Kundalini.” The experience itself, which is known to all esoteric traditions, is one and the same: the awakening of the spark of divine consciousness which gathers with it all the base energies and pushes them all the way upward, until it powerfully shatters the thin barrier that distinguishes man from infinity.

Short-term kundalini experiences can happen many times and to many people. Indeed, kundalini rises upward whenever we contemplate and meditate on spirit; whenever we are filled with spiritual longing and seek transcendence. Nevertheless, for the cosmic spark to attain complete satisfaction-and complete satisfaction can only mean that the spark has reunited with the undivided divine consciousness-a long and persistent process of increasing awakening is required, all the way to full illumination.

The Kundalini Awakening of Shai Tubali

When I was 20 years old, I experienced the initial urge for spiritual search. I did not truly understand what it was that I was seeking. It was more an intuitive attraction to the strange magic I had found in the aphorisms of Zen-Buddhism, as well as a hope to somehow overcome my social fears. My first significant step was taking a Transcendental Meditation course, in which I heard for the first time about Enlightenment as a union of the individual consciousness with the consciousness of the universe. Merely hearing that triggered an ancient pain of separation in my heart and I felt called to move toward that elusive state.

Shortly after, I traveled to India to abide in an ashram and to seek out those for whom the truth was not second-hand knowledge but a direct experience. Luckily, I encountered there my first teacher who, like me, was an Israeli. In India I learned for the first time-by reading a biography of Jiddu Krishnamurti, who had undergone an immense kundalini awakening at the age of 29-that enlightenment was not some mental insight but a profound and dramatic energetic transformation. With this understanding, extraordinary states-such as watching my body lying in bed from ceiling level and being awoken up at night to mysterious cosmic messages and energetic transmissions-began to convince me that I was entering the gates of the unknowable.

The Bliss of Kundalini Awakening

When I returned to Israel, I remained in contact with my first teacher and for two years I was constantly shifting from lonesome self-inquiry to spending time with him, and the other way around. Near the end of this period of two years, I attended a silent retreat held by one of his awakened student. As the silence grew more and more intense, I became overwhelmingly immersed in the bliss of the unified consciousness.

I would walk on my way to breakfast or to my cabin and, uncontrollably, would bump into this bubble-like, all-encompassing energy field of liberation and endless joy. My senses would withdraw, as if I became blinded to the world and capable of seeing and recognizing only this purity of oneness. This continued also after the retreat ended: Even on a busy street, I could be stopped by this mesmerizing beauty while the entire world would completely vanish into thin air. My mantra back then was the continuous sentence which seemed to run in my mind by itself: “Only consciousness is real and nothing else matters…”

These brief, yet immense awakenings were repeated more frequently by the time I joined a silent retreat of my first teacher. There, two days before my 23rd birthday, I attended my teacher’s birthday celebration. I was sitting somewhat distant, outside the circle of celebrators, and remained silent and still.

All of a sudden, I was struck by the clearest perception of what I used to consider “myself.” Looking within, there was no substantial center of identity. At that instance, I knew that the separate and individual consciousness was a mere illusion, and not even a very sophisticated one. Individual consciousness was just a bundle of memories that were artificially glued to one another in a way that they could create a phantom of psychological and continuous entity.

With this perception, kundalini awoke and began to rush throughout my spine. The dormant divine spark leaped to my third eye and the crown of my head. Kundalini broke free through the top of my head, out to the vast expanses of the cosmic mind. With great difficulty I dragged my astounded body away from the party and towards a narrow shoreline, and there kundalini graced me with a vision of my true nature.

Whatever I was looking at, was myself: the open sky, the rocks, the sea and the young men who played soccer on the beach, the universe as a whole existed solely as one, a limitless entity, and I was the universe and nothing besides. Waves of tears and laughter of recognition shook my body for some timeless long hours.

Two days later, on my birthday, I received from my teacher shaktipat, which is an energetic transmission of spiritual energy from a master. The purpose of shaktipat is to help the practitioner’s kundalini to rise.

This only deepened my already intoxicated state of self-forgetfulness. From this retreat onward, long months of tears and laughter began. A gushing universal love overwhelmed my chest, while kundalini was tirelessly emptying my being from familiar and personal feelings.

For hours on end I would sit immovable in an effortless and uninvited meditation. Holiness encompassed my small room. The divine element awoke to recognize itself, and all that was left of “me” was an awestricken witness. Nothing from what I read in books could prepare me for that; the reality of kundalini is endlessly far from mental constructs. For a full year, until the age of 24, I trod this path of indescribable silence where only truth could speak.

The Death of the Ego through Kundalini

Between the ages 24 to 26, the kundalini process, almost unbearably intense, took place. With a very young and unprepared nervous system and in the absence of sufficient guidance, this process turned into what is commonly known as a “kundalini crisis.” Put simply, for two years I felt that I was going to die. I repeatedly experienced my soul abandoning the body through the crown of my head. I went through many sleepless nights that were filled with unexplained phenomena. I experienced severe nausea and an extraordinary energetic vulnerability, in which I felt that no barrier remained to distinguish my own body from the rest of the world. Supernatural capacities came and left.

Nobody-no healer and no teacher-could grasp this process. My own teacher was dumbfounded, since he wasn’t a kundalini master. Fortunately, fate led me to meet my second teacher, a true American yogi, who generously took me under his wings. He consistently treated me with shaktipat, gave me Ayurvedic herbs and homeopathic essences, and calmly guided my exhausted being.

Being an initiate of a kundalini tradition (the Siddha Yoga tradition) himself, he finally made me conscious of this sophisticated divine device within. Through him, I also learned that even the powerful and clearly irreversible awakening that was shaking me to the root of my being was not enough. For liberation to be complete and the merging of the divine spark into the Godhead to be final, kundalini needed to remove many different types of blockages, including significant imprints from past-lives as well as the present life. Kundalini had to literally rewind the entire process of karmic becoming-to unravel deep-seated attachments, desires, angers and fears-until one’s being, from body to spirit, becomes sufficiently purified. Along the way, the evolution of my soul gradually revealed itself; the fundamental themes and lessons with which I had to meet from many lifetimes. At the same time, important learning and acquired capacities re-surfaced from my deepest past.

This process lasted, from the day of my awakening at the age of 23, onwards, for a period of ten years. By the age of 33 I could finally behold this divine mechanism fully awake within me, in ways that were as tangible as my physical reality. I could wholly and directly acknowledge the stream of subtle cosmic force throughout my spine; a stream that often felt like a gushing wild river. The correlation between this river-like flow and a complete unity consciousness and the dissolution of even the subtlest form of self, was undeniable.

When I reported this to my teacher, he surprised me by announcing that finally, my soul was approaching full liberation. In the yogic tradition, this is regarded as “Jivamukti,” which means that liberated soul exists while in a human body. I honestly could not grasp what he was talking about, but at the same time I could notice this river of eternal life surging inside me day and night, relentlessly melting away any sense of separation and individuality.

Time disappeared. Experience ceased. The thirst for life died out. There was no more personal story. My biography was interrupted like a book that ended in a middle of a sentence.

Kundalini as the Holy Spirit

Kundalini is not necessarily woken up directly and intentionally. It can awaken by itself, as a natural outcome of any expression of spiritual longing and a substantial ripening of the soul. That said, there are a variety of practices that can arouse this subtle force and lead it through our energetic spine.

Indirect kundalini awakenings can occur as a result of spending time in the presence of a true spiritual master (satsang); silent retreats and dark-room retreats as well as retreats of spiritual fasting and intense forms of self-inquiry or contemplation on spiritual truths. Direct kundalini awakenings may occur through the grace of shaktipat from a spiritual master or the practices of forest bathing (thanks to the unique kundalini-evoking power of trees) and meditative methods that work directly with this energy, such as the “Expansion Method,” which I have developed and taught for many years.

Spinal breathing-repeatedly breathing into the base of the spine, then throughout the spine and finally throughout the crown of the head-can be particularly effective. Practices that support the flow of kundalini are eating raw foods, forms of stretching like yoga postures, meditation in general, chiropractic and any other bodywork that correct and improve posture. It is strongly recommended to steer clear of any technique that attempts to force kundalini into an unnaturally quick and intense arousal.

When kundalini is aroused without coercion and within a conscious and supportive context, it is never violent or destructive. Its aim is one: creating the inconceivable-an awakened soul, which fully remembers its eternal and infinite nature while still within the confines of a limited and mortal body.

In such a state, there seems to be no difference between the hindu concepts of Shiva (the divine consciousness) and Shakti (the spark of kundalini within the individual human being)-or, as Jesus boldly declared as soon as his own kundalini was fully awakened, no real difference between the Father and the son, for the Holy Spirit, kundalini, brought them together into an eternally unbreakable oneness.

Addendum by Walter Semkiw, MD

I would like to share my own experiences with kundalini. When I was in college I had a desire to pursue meditation, though I cannot really say why. Like in Shai’s story, I took classes in Transcendental Meditation and was given a mantra to use in meditation. I did this regularly throughout my college years.

When I started medical school, I met an individual who stated that he had expertise in meditation and the awakening of kundalini. He taught me to do Chi Gong, which is a Chinese meditative practice in which one stands in a particular posture to activate kundalini. Each day, before I went to my medical school classes, I did this standing meditation for an hour. When I was doing this meditation, I would experience jolts in my spinal column. I wear glasses, and the more violent spinal jolts resulted in my glasses flying off my head and landing several feet behind me.

I did not have a significant spiritual experience until many years later. I have always had a love of music, but I do not have the fine finger coordination to play an instrument well. Instead, since I have always been a pretty good athlete, I expressed my love of music through dancing ballet. This hobby was enhanced by the fact that the majority of my fellow dance students were very fit and attractive women. My ballet career culminated in a performance with the full orchestra of the Denver Symphony. I still cherish that memory. Click on the image comparisons to enlarge them.

Years later, I became affiliated with a ballet company in San Francisco led by the choreographer Enrico Labayen. Though I was not a good enough ballet dancer to be in his troop, Enrico invited me to his dance company’s rehearsals. I loved watching talented dancers perform Enrico’s choreography. At rehearsals, I would have a book in my hand and as is my practice, I had a red felt marker or pen that I used to make notes in the books that I would read.

Enrico’s ballet company was rehearsing a dance that featured a female dancer who was lifted by male ballet dancers over their heads. The female dancer positioned her body in the shape of a cross. While I was watching this performance the red felt pen that I was holding suddenly and unexpectedly was juggled in my hands and as a result, I had to red marks on the inside aspects of both of my wrists, creating what seemed to be stigmata on my wrists. This event happened to occur on Easter Sunday in 1996.

I found this strange and baffling and when I stood up from a seated position I realized that my consciousness had been changed. I experienced complete bliss which lasted for about six weeks. I continued my work as a corporate medical director with no diminishing of function, but I was a changed person. I felt love for everything and everyone. At the time, I was going through a divorce which had become contentious, but in this state of consciousness, I wanted to do everything I could possibly do for the woman I was about to divorce. Though I was not in a financial position to do so, I even wanted to gift her the house that we had lived in.

As mentioned, this state of bliss lasted for six weeks and then it faded. I remember that at the time I was disappointed that this state of consciousness had disappeared and I wished that it would have lasted forever.

I believe this experience was prompted by my engagement in researching a past life of my own, in which Enrico Labayen was my son in a past lifetime during the period of the American Revolution. Further, a number of the dancers in Enrico’s company I determined were my relatives in that lifetime. This story is presented in detail in my book, Return of the Revolutionaries: The Case for Reincarnation and Soul Groups Reunited.

A brief overview of this past lifetime of mine is presented on the following page:

Reincarnation Case of John Adams | Walter Semkiw

Temporary versus Permanent Results of Kundalini Awakening

As Shai Tubali described above, I believe that I had a manifestation of kundalini awakening. When I became acquainted with Shai, I wondered if his experience with kundalini was temporary or permanent. He replied with this statement:

“As a spiritual teacher, it is a part of my integrity to teach only that which is based on the permanent effects of the kundalini awakening. What started 19 years ago has only increased and deepened with time. The permanent effect is a continuous state of self-dissolution and an absorption in universal consciousness. This means that there is no experience as an independent ego, since the mind, heart and body function as a part of the whole. My self-identity is: “I am the universe”.

As such, I believe I had a temporary kundalini awakening which lasted six weeks. In contrast, Shai’s kundalini experience has been much more intense and has resulted in a permanent, rather than a temporary, change in consciousness.

Shai Tubali is the author of numerous books and he is a spiritual teacher based in Berlin, Germany. To learn more about Shai’s work, please go to:

Shai Tubali

Please also review: Evidence and Principles of Reincarnation

Another Egg, Another Life: A Tool to Stimulate Past Life Memories in Children, by Gordon Keirle-Smith

Article by Walter Semkiw, MD

Gordon Keirle-Smith has written a wonderful, entertaining book for children, entitled Another Egg, Another Life, designed to stimulate past life memories. The method used is subtle and non-directive, allowing imagination to serve as a catalyst to allow past life memories to emerge.

The book involves a penguin who, over time, understands the past lives he has had and discovers of how reincarnation works, including that souls reincarnate in groups.  Ian Stevenson, MD of the University of Virginia compiled 1200 cases in which children’s past life memories were objectively validated. In aggregate, these cases provide proof of reincarnation. Stevenson cases do show that souls plan lifetimes to be reunited with loved ones. To learn more about Dr. Stevenson’s work and cases that show how relationships are renewed through reincarnation, please go to the following links:

Ian Stevenson, MD Reincarnation Research

Ian Stevenson, MD Twin Study

Planning Lifetimes and Relationships Renewed through Reincarnation

Evidence of reincarnation can create a more peaceful world, as reincarnation research, including the work of Ian Stevenson, MD, shows that souls can change religion, nationality and ethnic affiliation from one lifetime to another. Most conflicts and wars are based on differences in these cultural markers of identity. In Gordon Keirle-Smith’s book, this phenomenon is illustrated by the protagonist incarnating as different types of penguins.  To learn more about such reincarnation cases, go to:

Anne Frank | Barbro Karlen Reincarnation Case

Reincarnation Cases with Change in Religion, Nationality and Ethnic Affiliation

ReincarnationResearch.com Mission Statement

In sum, Another Egg, Another Life, is highly recommended. By gently stimulating past life memories in children,  parents can help create a more peaceful and evolved world.

Questions and Answers

Please submit your questions to Walter Semkiw, MD at walter@reincarnationresearch.com

1. If reincarnation is real, then how can the population be so much larger now than in the past?  How can there be so many more people on the planet today than before?

Reincarnation Physical ResemblanceThe easiest way to address this issue relates to frequency of incarnation.  In the past, when the population on Earth was much smaller, souls could incarnate much less frequently.  When the population was one tenth as large compared to a more recent time, then souls could incarnate ten times less often.

As an example, in past eras a soul may have only been able to incarnate once every 1000 years, but when the population grew ten times larger over time, a soul could then incarnate every 100 years.  As Earth’s population has grown over the centuries, souls have had the opportunity to incarnate more often.  With today’s population, it appears that souls can incarnate almost continually.  In the Ian Stevenson, MD past life cases involving Suzanne Ghanem (pictured to thre right) and Daniel Jurdi, reincarnation occurred with one year.

Another way to explain Earth’s increased population is split incarnation, where one soul can inhabit more than one human body at a time.

2. Why is everyone famous in a past lifetimes?

The second question often raised is why does it seem that everyone is famous in past lifetimes?  The skeptic appropriately jokes about how many people believe they were Cleopatra in a past incarnation.

In truth, most people were not famous individuals in prior lifetimes, though famous people do have to reincarnate like everyone else.

Reincarnation Landmark Associations

cleopatraIndividuals can mistakenly believe that they were someone famous in a past lifetime for several reasons.  One, they may have known a famous person in a past lifetime and in trying to ascertain a past life identity, one confuses the famous person for one’s true past life identity.  For example, instead of being Cleopatra, one may have been Cleopatra’s adviser, friend or servant.  As the true past life identity is not historically available, a person gravitates towards a famous person who serves as a symbol or landmark for that incarnation.  I call this type of mistaken match a landmark association, in that the famous person acts as a landmark for a person’s incarnation in time and place.

Landmark associations can be made in several ways.  It can occur through a personal feeling or intuition, a psychic may tell us that we were someone famous, or we may be led to believe that we were a famous person based on a past life regression.

By the way, ironically, a contemporary incarnation for Cleopatra has been posed on the ReincarnationResearch.com.  To learn more, go to: Cleopatra Reincarnated

Reincarnation and Spirit Guides

Mistakes can also be made because a famous person may be acting as a guide to a person.  We all have spirit guides that try to help us in our lives.  Deceased relatives and people who we have had close relationships with in past lifetimes can serve as spirit guides.

Sometimes, an individual can confuse a spirit guide for one’s own past incarnation.  For example, a person may have been an assistant to Leonardo da Vinci in his art studio and in a contemporary incarnation, Leonardo serves this person as a spirit guide.  This person pursues a career in art and at times gets inspiration from Leonardo, who is coaching the person from the other side.  The person perceives a connection to Leonardo and then starts to believe that they indeed were Leonardo da Vinci in a past lifetime, though in reality, Leonardo is serving as a spirit guide.

A case that Ian Stevenson, MD researched that demonstrates how a spirit guide can work through a living person is found in the Rosario Weisz | Henrietta Roos-Weisz reincarnation case, which involves the famous Spanish painter Francisco Goya.

200GoyaReincarnationPortraitRosario and her mother took care of the aging Goya for a period of 10 years up until his death. After her own death, Rosario reincarnated as Henrietta, who had a natural talent for art. When she was 33 years old, Henrietta started to get telepathic messages from Goya and Goya started to paint through her. When this phenomenon started, the first painting was created in the dark.  These episodes were marked by Henrietta painting extremely rapidly and with great ease, which typified Goya’s method of working.

Henrietta was very aware that a spirit being was painting through her, but if she was not conscious that a spirit guide was involved, she could easily have misinterpret the situation and come to believe that she herself was Goya in a past lifetime.

Please note that spirit being involvement in reincarnation cases is frequently observed.

By the way, a recent incarnation of Leonardo da Vinci has been posted on the our web site.  To learm more, go to: Science and Technology Reincarnation Cases

Summary

It is quite easy for people to mistakenly believe that they were a famous person, as most of us do have insecurities.  Believing we were someone famous in a past lifetime can make us feel much better about ourselves.

To reiterate, most people who believe that they were someone famous in a past lifetime are mistaken.  On the other hand, famous people do have to reincarnate like everyone else.

It should be noted that it is much easier to research individuals who have been famous in past incarnations as a historical record has been left.  In the past, as little as 100-200 hundred years ago, if an individual did not do something very significant, then historical records and portraits would not exist.  If records regarding an individual’s past life do not exist, it would be impossible to find this individual historically.

It is also true that souls who have made a great impact in a prior lifetime do tend to make significant impacts in subsequent lifetimes, as these souls bring earned skills with them from one incarnation to another.  Reincarnation can explain child prodigies in this way.  As such, someone who was famous in a past lifetime has a good chance of achieving fame in subsequent incarnations.  These types of accomplished souls are easier to identify in past and contemporary incarnations.

Thus, a bias does exist, in that individuals who were famous in the past are much easier research and identify.

3. Why don’t More People Remember Past Lives

We don’t know for sure why only a small percentage of people remember their past lives. We can consider that those who do remember past lives have a sort of psychic gift, just like some people have psychic abilities while most of us don’t.

The argument has also been made that we are not supposed to remember past lives as it can be overwhelming and may compromise our ability to focus on our current lifetime. Consider how most of us have regrets about mistakes we have made, which can lead to depressed feelings. Having knowledge of regrets accumulated over multiple lifetimes can be overwhelming. In other words, not remembering past lives allows us to have a fresh start.

 

Ryerson-Semkiw Reincarnation Research Sessions with Spirit Guide or Spirit Being Ahtun Re

By: Walter Semkiw, MD

Kevin Ryerson & Meaning of Life, Walter Semkiw MD IISIS Reincarnation Case StudyCelebrity and historic figure reincarnation cases have been derived through my work with Kevin Ryerson, who is pictured to the right. In contrast, all cases presented under categories of Principles of Reincarnation, such as Physical Resemblances, Birthmarks, etc, were derived through independent researchers, with a focus on the work of Ian Stevenson, MD.

Kevin Ryerson is a world-renowned trance medium, whose fame began when Shirley MacLaine wrote about her collaboration with Kevin in her pioneering book, Out on a Limb. Subsequently, when the movie version of Out on a Limb was produced, Kevin played himself in that film. Kevin is the author of Spirit Communication: The Soul’s Path.

As a trance medium, Kevin goes into a meditative state to allow spirit beings to utilize his body to communicate with human beings. When a spirit being speaks through Kevin, the personality and voice of the spirit being emerges, which is different from Kevin’s voice and personality. After a session in which Kevin “channels” a spirit being, Kevin has no memory of what happened during the session.

In 2001, I began having sessions with Kevin and found that he channels a spirit guide named Ahtun Re, who has the ability to make accurate reincarnation matches. In my assessment, Ahtun Re was able to accurately identify past lives of individuals, as well as identify contemporary incarnations of individuals from history.

In a section of the Reincarnation Research website, I present five core reincarnation cases which serve as examples of Ahtun Re’s abilities to make accurate matches. Perhaps the most dramatic and entertaining example of Ahtun Re’s talents involve the reincarnation cases of Laurel and Hardy | Josh and Danny Bacher. When Ahtun Re confirmed this match, I knew next to nothing about Josh and Danny and more specifically, I had no knowledge that they had any affinity with Laurel and Hardy.

When I contacted Danny Bacher to tell him that he was the reincarnation of Oliver Hardy, I was amazed to learn that Josh and Danny had begun pretending that they were Laurel and Hardy almost as toddlers. From money they had earned from their newspaper route, they bought a movie camera and started to make slapstick movies as children. When they bought their first car, they made a tape of Laurel and Hardy movie music, which they played as stanlaureljoshbacherreincarnationcasethey drove around Manhattan and New Jersey. In their first Off-Broadway show, they created their own silent movie, replicating the comedic development of Laurel and Hardy. Further, Danny has been a lifetime collector of Laurel and Hardy memorabilia and he even has a pair of pants and a suit that Ollie wore displayed in his home. In other words, Danny has acquired his own clothing from a past lifetime. In addition, Josh and Danny have the same facial features as Stan and Ollie.

These correspondences between Oliver and Hardy and Josh and Danny Bacher are too great to be attributed to coincidence. I call these types of cases in which individuals are unconsciously attracted to their own past life personas as “affinity cases.” Another such case is the Dorothy Dandridge | Halle Berry reincarnation case.

Please review the Laurel & Hardy | Bacher Boys cases in detail and enjoy the Bacher Boys silent movie, entitled The Wrong Arm of the Law. In addition, view a reincarnation television pilot they have created entitled, Reincarnation Exploration, in which you will see Josh and Danny pretending to be Laurel and Hardy as children, hear testimony from their parents regarding their boys’ obsession with Laurel & Hardy, observe their childhood slapstick movies and see Danny’s collection of Laurel and Hardy memorabilia.

Please keep in mind that the Bacher Boys’ obsession with Laurel and Hardy and related behaviors occurred long before I contacted Josh and Danny in 2005 to inform them that they are the reincarnations of Laurel and Hardy. Further, when I made this contact, I had no knowledge of their lifelong obsession with Laurel and Hardy. For me, these observations, along with established principles or patterns of reincarnation, validate Ahtun Re’s ability to make accurate reincarnation matches. Their cases can be reviewed at:

The Laurel and Hardy | Josh and Danny Bacher Reincarnation Cases

I have worked with Kevin Ryerson since 2001 and Ahtun Re has demonstrated the uncanny ability to make what appear to be accurate reincarnation matches over this duration of time. To learn more about how I met Kevin Ryerson and to review the five core cases which I have posted to demonstrate Ahtun Re’s abilities, please go to the following links:

Introducing Kevin Ryerson and Ahtun Re with the Proposed Reincarnation of John Adams

Core Cases that Demonstrate Ahtun Re’s Ability to make Accurate Reincarnation Matches

To schedule a session with Kevin, which is done over the phone, go to:

Kevin Ryerson Tele-Reading

Disclosure Regarding Ryerson-Semkiw Reincarnation Cases

WalterSemkiw PresidentReincarnation cases presented in this section are based on my work with Kevin Ryerson, as well as my own evaluation, analysis and commentary regarding these cases. No affiliation, endorsement or sponsorship by the individuals mentioned as reincarnation cases is claimed or implied, except where such endorsements are specifically given.

The fact that I discern evidence of past lives of various living individuals is not meant to suggest that these individuals share my beliefs, except where specifically noted.

Some of the cases presented in the Ryerson-Semkiw section were proposed by individuals who are supporters of ReincarnationResearch.com and credit is given to these individuals at the top of the case page. All cases proposed by others were subsequently affirmed in sessions that I have had with Kevin Ryerson. I thank all those who have contributed to this body of work, which will serve to help create a more evolved and peaceful world.