the goals still ahead. In no one lifetime can you do it all, but a part of your being is a personal planner (or trainer ,if you prefer) who, with the help of certain Intelligences or Spirit Guides, develops a basic plan for your next life.
This is not a fixed plan pre-determining every detail of your life and destiny but a general outline that provides the basis for structuring the components of your next personalityâthe general attributes of the Causal, Mental, and Astral Bodies, and from this a model is formed into your Etheric body that becomes the matrix for your birth physical body. As part of the personal plan, there is selection of the environment that will be helpful to the fulfillment of your plan.
All of this culminates in a potential planetary pattern for the birth moment, and the opportunity provided by available parents. But, as you can see, no plan is perfect â you canât get all the details to match perfectly with your goals. Itâs no different in that regard than any business plan, book outline, battle plan, or even your vacation plan. Some opportunities are not available during appropriate time slots, sometimes the unexpected happens, and so forth. As we know: Thatâs Life!
Just as you can explore individual past lives, you can explore that last âlife-between-livesâ to better understand the plan for your present life. Do you really want to? Would it actually be beneficial? Remember, you canât change it from that perspective. Your current life is real, not theoretical. Every day you make changes and adjustments to your life plan based on perceived realities and opportunities. You canât do that from âthe other side.â
With reincarnation, your perception changes as you realize that you are not limited to just one life, rather each life is part of a continuum that is your real lifeâall your past and future incarnations, all your lives-between-lives, and that which is part of your re-existence and all that is beyond the need for incarnation. Rather than being limited by your body, you become Unlimited Consciousness.
Putting It All Together.
Thatâs what the ability to remember your past lives provides. You have the ability to tap into the continuum of your previous lives and to eventually have all the skills and essential knowledge at your conscious command.
No, it will not be the storiesâ of those livesâthe life of a barmaid in eighteenth-century France, or the short life of a Roman soldier or the even shorter life of a Russian revolutionary. You wonât remember life as Cleopatra or Henry VIII, or live again as an American patriot or die of hunger in ravished Pacific islands during World War II. Even though true, those are just stories, no longer of any importance.
What are the real lessons of past lives? You learned Love, Sacrifice, Courage, Honor, Dedication, Persistence, and more. You learned to live for an Ideal. You learned the value of a Plan. You learned to Balance the singular with the plurality, to balance feeling with wisdom, to balance urge with foresight. You learned to live with Nature rather to than to abuse the Mother who nourishes all who live on Earth. You learned to run the distance, rather than to limit your steps. You learned to see the future, not just tomorrow, to become farsighted not shortsighted, to see the whole and not just a part, to bathe in the whole spectrum not just a single color.
Your Consciousness is a whole, of which each personality is only a unit, is one with all consciousness, and yet you will never be lost within that totality for you have earned your individuality. You will always have an identify even as you work on behalf of the totality that is the Life, the Consciousness, and the all-comprehending Being of all the Universe, visible and invisible and beyond anything knowable.
Memories are of the past, the present, and the future, for when you become timeless the future becomes the present