“Those who cannot remember the past are
condemned to repeat it.” (George Santayana
(1863-1952)
Summary
In this workshop we will discuss and explore
“reincarnation dreams” of different types,
focusing on four different kinds of
reincarnation dreams: 1.Classic; 2.
Ancestral; 3. Cosmic; and 4. Metaphorical.
Participants can also fill out a “Cosmic
Dreaming Questionnaire,” and try out a “Tuning
into a Past Life” dream task.
Introduction
Have we lived before, in different bodies
and at different times? After our physical
bodies die, will we live again, reborn into
new bodies and new lives? Many major
religions and cultures have accepted
reincarnation, in one form as another, as a
given. For a long time, this subject
remained outside the domain of science, but
that situation has recently changed through
the accumulation of evidence that both
indirectly, and directly, supports this
hypothesis.
First, research in parapsychology has
produced solid evidence that mind can
transcend the space-time limitations of the
physical body and senses. (See Dean Radin’s
Conscious Universe
for an in-depth discussion of this research,
and its implications.) Because of a
skeptical reception from many in the
scientific community, as a rule these
studies take place under the most stringent
and rigorous scientific standards, far more
so than research studies in just about any
other discipline. In respect to dreams, a
series of controlled scientific studies in
the 1960’s at Maimonides Dream Laboratory
demonstrated that subjects could repeatedly
tune into randomly selected external targets
through both dream telepathy and dream
precognition. A meta-analysis of
post-Maimonides studies of psi-dreaming by
other researchers confirmed this effect.
In 1995 the CIA hired Dr. Jessica Utts, a
professor of statistics at the University of
California, Davis, to evaluate a series of
remote viewing experiments done at the
Stanford Research Institute. She concluded:
"Using the standards applied to any
other area of science, it is concluded that
psychic functioning has been well
established. The statistical results of the
studies examined are far beyond what is
expected by chance. Arguments that these
results could be due to methodological flaws
in the experiments are soundly refuted."
Although the evidence that mind can
transcend the limitations of space-time does
not directly support the idea of
reincarnation, it does make the idea far
more plausible. However, much more direct
evidence exists, through well documented
investigations of children who claim to
remember previous lives. Over thirty years
ago Dr. Ian Stevenson, a specialist in
psychiatry who became a world-renowned
scientific investigator of reported
paranormal events, published
Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation.
Since then he and others continued to
carefully and meticulously document cases of
this kind - more than 2600 cases in all.
They collected specific information from the
children's accounts, and matched it with the
data of their claimed former identity,
family, residence, and manner of death.
Aside from information matches, some of
these children also had birthmarks or other
physical markers, such as missing limbs,
correlated to the condition of the body
whose past life they claimed to remember. It
seems important to note that a high
percentage of these children, over 50%,
remembered past lives that ended in violent
death. Although Stevenson certainly would
never make the claim that his research
proved reincarnation, the evidence that he
and others collected at the very least makes
a compelling case for keeping an open mind.
He summarized his findings in less than 200
pages (but with enough in the way of details
and photographs to give you an idea of the
quality of his research) in a book titled
Where Reincarnation and Biology
Intersect, but also published
a more complete and detailed report of his
findings in a two volume monograph of well
over 2,000 pages. After his death in 2007,
The Journal of Scientific Exploration
devoted an entire issue to Ian Stevenson's
life and work. After reading through his
monographs, and getting a better idea of the
quality of his work, I think he deserved it.
Some Different Kinds of Reincarnation
Although the idea of
reincarnation might at first seem simple, it
actually can take on a multitude of forms.
For the
purpose of this workshop, we will limit
ourselves to three different kinds of
reincarnation: “Classic”;
2. Ancestral; and 3.
Cosmic.
“Classic”:
One’s essential being survives death of the
physical body, spends some time in a
non-physical state, then reincarnates in a
new human body as an infant on Earth.
Incarnation occurs in an orderly fashion in
linear time, in sequence, to a “soul”, a
single non-dividing unit of evolving
essential being. Variations of this would
include non-human rebirths, on Earth or
elsewhere.
Ancestral:
Based on the biological idea that
we have lived before through our ancestors,
and that we will live again in our
descendants. This type of ”scientific”
reincarnation requires a continuity of
consciousness, if only at an unconscious
level, between ancestors and descendents, or
the carrying over of information from one
generation to another in some way – perhaps
through information encoded in DNA or in
some other aspect of our physical bodies at
present unknown. If we live in 11
dimensions, as Superstring theory predicts,
rather than the 3 + 1 dimensions usually
assumed, this leaves a lot of room for
information storage. And while scientists
have a good idea as to the information 3+1
dimensional DNA encodes, the properties of
11 dimensional DNA, or of 11 dimensional
bodies, seems unknown.
Cosmic:
As I wrote earlier, parapsychology indicates
that mind can transcend the space-time
limitations of the physical body and
senses. Some models of consciousness posit
that although humans have separate
personalities, that at the deepest level we
all share the same greater Self.
As a metaphor think of our
waking selves as leaves upon a tree -
although the leaves differ from one another,
they all belong to the same Tree and share
the same trunk and roots. In this model,
telepathy would not involve transfer of
information over a distance between separate
minds, but of simply accessing information
by going within to find what another part
of
the ‘Greater You’ already knows. Many
physicists, in attempting to explain psi,
have proposed that psi operates in a
non-local way, which means that the distance
between perceiver and target, whether a
foot, a mile, a light-year, or a trillion
quadrillion light-years, literally makes no
difference. And even if we do not take into
account those who have lived here before,
Earth currently has a population of almost 7
billion people that we could potentially
tune into. And if we don’t restrict
ourselves to Earth, our galaxy alone may
have half a million Gaia like planets
(habitable planets where life emerges and a
full biosphere develops) we might tune
into. And with well over 100 billion
galaxies in the observable universe, that
just seems the beginning . . .
Different Kinds of Reincarnation Dreams
By their very nature, even
dreams about our waking lives often present
information in distorted and fragmentary
forms. The same will of course hold true
for dreams of past lives as well. A vivid
and emotionally compelling dream about a
life in the Middle Ages, might incorporate
anachronistic elements such as cell phones
and automobiles, just as an incongruent
elements often show up in a mundane dream
about going to work in your office. The
appearance of such elements does not
invalidate the possibility that you may have
tuned into a past life, anymore than they
invalidate the existence of a waking
physical reality office.
Of course, not all reincarnation dreams will
prove as evidential as others. Even dreams
rich in detail may remain unverifiable, in
that historical documentation of specific
details may prove hard to come by even
today, when given the wealth of information
available online, verification of details
has become easier than ever before for the
non-specialist. Still, you might well
uncover generic matches in respect to
clothing worn, tools used, the style of
buildings seen in your dreams that matches
historical information of the period.
Matches to unexpected elements have greater
evidential value than to expected elements.
If your dreams include the names of people
and places this can also help, but unless
they seem well documented, confirmation
might well prove impossible. However, even
when evidential confirmation proves elusive,
some reincarnation dreams have elements –
the vividness and realness of the
experience, the depth of emotions felt, etc.
- that can make them personally compelling,
and even unforgettable.
To the three types of
reincarnation discussed above,
Classic, Ancestral,
and Cosmic let me add a
fourth type, Metaphorical.
Dreams often carry messages for the dreamer,
and while it does not seem impossible,
dreams in which we see ourselves as famous
historical figures – whether Cleopatra,
Genghis Khan, Pocahontas, or Benjamin
Franklin - seem unlikely to have factual
basis as examples of “classic
reincarnation”. With almost seven billion
people alive on the planet, and let’s say
about ten thousand really famous past lives
to choose from, a simple calculation makes
the odds of having a match to one of these
through chance alone pretty much akin to
that of winning the lottery. The same
argument applies to a lesser degree for
having a past life in which one lived as a
member of the aristocracy, rather than as a
serf or slave. Of course, if one has lived
hundreds, or thousands, of lives, and
developed at least a limited ability to
choose ones next incarnation, the odds
improve.
Metaphorical
(reincarnation) dreams can highlight
important information about the dreamer in a
way that the present personality may more
easily understand and accept. If the
dreamer believes in reincarnation, he or she
may more easily accept the information as
valid, of becoming empowered and allowing
themselves to take on the attributes of a
“positive past life”, or of taking
responsibility for overcoming the attributes
of a “negative past life”. As such,
reincarnation dreams may effectively convey
information to the present personality in a
way that minimizes guilt and maximizes
empowerment.
Of course, reincarnation dreams can belong
to more than one category - some might
belong to three or even four. It does not
seem unreasonable to assume that an
individual might choose a “classic”
reincarnation in the same family – in fact,
a number of the children interviewed in Ian
Stevenson’s cases apparently did just that.
One might indeed have lived as one’s own
ancestor. And even a clearly metaphorical
dream might use cosmic dreaming as a means
of tuning into an actual person’s life,
rather than creating one from scratch. And
if we have lived as often as some people
speculate, the dreaming mind might have a
lot of “classic” past lives to choose from.
The resonance factor alone would not only
make the dream message more emotionally
compelling, but might also include
evidential details that would add
considerably to its impact.
How this workshop will work:
First, to get a feel for
how your own dreaming style relates to
potential reincarnation dreams, fill out
this short questionnaire:
Cosmic Dreaming Questionnaire
How often do you
have:
Observer Dreams? (like watching a
movie)
Never__ Rarely__ Sometimes__ Mostly__
Always__
Embodied Dreams? (a participant,
localized in a body)
Never__ Rarely__ Sometimes__ Mostly__
Always__
Dreams in a body closely matching
your physical body?
Never__ Rarely__ Sometimes__ Mostly__
Always__
Dreams in a body different from your
physical body?
Never__ Rarely__ Sometimes__ Mostly__
Always__
Different age?
Never__ Rarely__ Sometimes__ Mostly__
Always__
Different sex?
Never__ Rarely__ Sometimes__ Mostly__
Always__
Different race?
Never__ Rarely__ Sometimes__ Mostly__
Always__
Different species?
Never__ Rarely__ Sometimes__ Mostly__
Always__
Non-biological body - energy cloud,
ball of light, etc.
Never__ Rarely__ Sometimes__ Mostly__
Always__
If you feel comfortable doing so, after you have filled
out this questionnaire please post the
result on the
“Once and Future Dreamer” workshop
thread. Also on this thread, we will
discuss in greater detail the four types of
reincarnation dreams, as well as different
methods for effectively incubating
reincarnation dreams and working with them.
If you have already had a reincarnation
dream, and would like to share details,
please post your dream reports and comments.
For the first three days of the
workshop, I request that participants to
focus their reincarnational dreamwork
efforts at night on the dream task described
below.
Dream Task: Tuning into a Past Life
Incubation
Instructions: Before going to
sleep, request that your dreams present
information on a past life in which you will
see or relive an event in which you learned
an important lesson, relevant to your
present life situation. Use an affirmation
and a visualization to make this request.
(For example, “Tonight in my dreams I
will clearly see / a past life of mine with
a lesson for me”) If you awaken during
the night, repeat the affirmation, but use
your last dream to set up a "hot off the
press" visualization. (For example, see
yourself in the dream you just had, but
imagine that you find a doorway or gateway.
Imagine walking through that gateway to
another time, and another life . . . fade
out.) When you write your dreams down, pay
attention to unusual dreamscapes that show
up, especially if they represent a
historical time and place. Record as
completely as you can what you looked like,
clothing worn by yourself or others, tools
used, the style of buildings, etc. As
accurately as you can write down the names
of people or places, and of unusual words.
Record your experiences and/or the
information that you get in your dream
journal in as much detail as possible - use
illustrations to depict your experiences if
appropriate. Act on your dreams by seeing
if you can find any evidential matches
through an online search with respect to
specific details, such as place names, etc.
Lucid Dreamer's Variation:
When you next gain lucidity in a lucid dream
(where you know that you dream while you
dream) look for a doorway that you can use
as a portal to the past. Once you find one,
stand in front of it, and set up the
intention that when you walk through the
doorway, you will walk back into a past
life, where you will see an event in which
you learned an important lesson, relevant to
your present life situation. I suggest that
you chant an affirmation to help you focus
your intent. (For example,“When I walk
through this door I will clearly see / a
past life event with a lesson for me.”)
Then walk through the doorway . . .
Alternatively, instead of looking for a
doorway, find a dream mirror (or any other
reflective surface, like a pool of water, or
a polished metal surface) and use it as a
scrying tool to show you an event from a
past life. Again, I suggest that you chant
an affirmation to help you focus your
intent. (For example, "Mirror, mirror
that I see / Show a past life event with a
lesson for me!") Record your
experiences and/or the information that you
get in your dream journal in as much detail
as possible - use illustrations to depict
your experiences if appropriate. Act on
your dreams, by seeing if you can find any
evidential matches through an online search
with respect to specific details, such as
place names, etc. Also, look for the
appearance of possible past life selves in
all of your dreams. Often, after
rehearsing lucid dreaming tasks before you
go to sleep, relevant information will show
up even in your “ordinary” dreams - even
when you do not succeed in becoming fully
lucid.
A Note on the Presenter’s
"Reincarnation Dreams"
In my dream groups I've noticed that while
many participants report that they usually
dream of themselves in ways that closely
match their waking physical reality
experiences, that even these people
occasionally report dreams in which they
became someone else, or even something else,
and experience the world from a very
different perspective than in their waking
lives. In my own case, I've experienced
myself in dreams as many different beings -
age, sex, race, and even species. Often not
only does my dreambody differ from its
waking physical reality counterpart, but so
does my dream personality and memories.
However, through all this, my essential
sense of self somehow remains the same - "I"
remain "me", my dreambody, personality and
memories seem no more "me" than does the
clothing I wear or the car that I drive. I’d
estimate that in 80% of dreams my dream self
differs significantly in some way from my
waking physical reality self.
Although I believe that some “reincarnation
dreams” present aspects of one’s present
personality, for others this explanation
proves inadequate. Instead I favor different
interpretations, in that I experience while
dreaming parallel selves, past lives, future
lives, and even other dimensional lives, and
that tuning into different locations and
different beings throughout the Multiverse
just seems a routine and normal activity for
my dreaming Self. And after many years of
such experiences, I've finally come up with
an answer to the perennial "Why do we
dream?" question that rings true for me.
Dreams provide "food for the soul",
reconnecting us to our greater Selves and
allowing a therapeutic release from the
constraints of a time-space bound existence
that reminds us, if only unconsciously, of
the illusion of separateness.
Supplementary Materials:
Additional
Resources and References for Further
Exploration
The Appendices present accounts of a
few of the author’s own “reincarnation
dreams”:
Appendix 1 “A Past Life Pavilion”
Appendix 2 “Meeting A Past Life
Self From Long, Long, Ago”
Appendix 3 “My Most Recent Past
Life? / Experiencing My Oversoul”
Appendix 4 “A Contract Negotiation
For My Next Incarnation”
Additional Resources and References for
Further Exploration
LINKS:
”A Field Guide to Skepticism” by Dean Radin.
Chapter 14 from his book The
Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of
Psychic Phenomena
http://www.utdallas.edu/orgs/idea/pdf/Skepticism_Field_Guide.pdf
"Psi-Perception in Dreams: Next Stop -
the Twilight Zone" by Ed Kellogg, Ph.D.
Presented at IASD's Second
PsiberDreaming Conference,
September 21 - October 5, 2003.
http://www.asdreams.org/telepathy/kellogg_pdc2003_001.htm
“Psychopompic Dreaming: Visits With
Those Who Have Passed On?” by Ed
Kellogg, Ph.D. Presented at IASD's Third
PsiberDreaming Conference,
September 19 - October 3, 2004.
http://www.asdreams.org/telepathy/2004kellogg_psychopomp.htm
“Edgar Cayce and Reincarnation: Past
Life Readings as Religious Symbology” by
J. Gordon Melton. A critical analysis
of the Cayce readings that uncovered some
unexpected anomalies.
http://www.ciis.edu/cayce/melton.html
Challenge 1: Tuning
In to Your Optimal Self/Branching Parallel
Universes (pdf) "Quarterly
Lucid Dream Challenges" (published the
September, 2004 issue of The Lucid Dream
Exchange)
http://www.dreaminglucid.com/challenges/ldechallenge1.pdf
To access links to other papers and
presentations of the author, check out his
IASD member page at:
http://dreamtalk.hypermart.net/member/files/ed_kellogg.html
BOOKS
Interesting Perspectives on Reincarnation
and Reality
The Esoteric Teachings: A
Christian Approach to Truth,
and The Esoteric Practice:
Christian Meditations and Exercises
by Stylianos Atteshlis, known as Daskalos,
"The Magus of Strovolos", in the Kyriakos
Markides books), (1992, 1994). Highly
recommended.
The Magus of Strovolos
by Kyriakos Markides, Arkana Books, 1985. A
fascinating description of the teachings and
experiences of "Daskalos" (Dr. Stylianos
Atteshlis), a renowned mystic and healer who
died in 1995. His account of the afterlife
has many similarities, and some differences,
to that of Emanuel Swedenborg. See also
Homage to the Sun
and Fire in the Heart
by the same author.
Edgar Cayce’s Story of Karma
by Mary Ann Woodward, Berkley Books, 1971,
Cayce ranks as the most, if not the most,
respected and influential proponent of
“classic” reincarnation of the 20th
century. The book does a good job of
covering his teachings, and includes a great
deal of relevant material from the many past
life readings that he gave to clients while
in trance.
The Nature of Personal Reality
(A Seth book), by Jane Roberts. Even with
all of the channeled material now available,
few measures up to the originality, depth,
and mind-stretching effects of the teachings
of Jane Robert’s Seth. (See Jane Robert’s
Oversoul Seven
series for an entertaining introduction to
many of Seth’s concepts in a fictional
format)
Relevant Scientific Research
1. Ullman, M., Krippner, S., and Vaughn,
A.,(1973) Dream Telepathy:
Experiments in Nocturnal ESP,
Penguin Books, Baltimore.
2. Sherwood, S. J., & Roe, C. A. (2003).
“A review of dream ESP studies conducted
since the Maimonides dream ESP programme”
Journal of Consciousness Studies,
10, 85-109.
3. Utts, J., (1996) “An Assessment of the
Evidence for Psychic Functioning “The
Journal of Scientific Exploration,
10(1), 3- Page 3-30.
4. Radin, Dean., The Conscious
Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic
Phenomena. Chapter 14,”A
Field Guide to Skepticism,” available online
at:
http://www.utdallas.edu/orgs/idea/pdf/Skepticism_Field_Guide.pdf
5. The Journal of Scientific Exploration
22(1), 2008. After his
death, JSE devoted an entire issue
as a tribute to Dr. Ian Stevenson's life and
work. (Ian Stevenson, M.D., formerly Carlson
Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the
Division of Personality Studies at the
University of Virginia.)
6. Stevenson, Ian. Reincarnation
and Biology: A Contribution to the Etiology
of Birthmarks and Birth Defects Volume 1:
Birthmarks, and
Reincarnation and Biology: A Contribution to
the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth Defects
Volume 2: Birth Defects and Other Anomalies.
For a summary of this research, in less than
200 pages (but with enough details and
photographs to give you an idea of the
quality of this research) see his
Where Reincarnation and Biology
Intersect.
Fiction
“The Last Enemy” (short story) by
H. Beam Piper.
Available online at:
http://www.cmadras.com/252/252l1.html
Initiation by
Elizabeth Haich
The Education of Oversoul Seven,
The Further Education of
Oversoul Seven,
and Oversoul Seven and the
Museum of Time by Jane Roberts
The Reality Matrix
by John Dalmas
Movies:
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
(1988)
Defending Your Life (1991)
What Dreams May Come (1998)
Appendix 1
“A Past Life
Pavilion”
11 50 (Lucid)
“ . . . I go down the stairs to the living
room, and find a group of older English(?)
men and women waiting for me. Apparently
they sit on some sort of judgment or
advisory panel. They direct me over to a
“mirror” so that I can see my past
incarnations. Looking in the mirror, I see
a blue-eyed, horse-faced, lantern- jawed
man, who somehow seems feminine looking.
This changes into another figure, more
similar to my present body. Then a woman
appears, at least 9 ft. tall and of
apparently another race. When I touch her
breasts it feels as if I touch myself.
Several more transformations . . . in one I
wear a blue cloak and mask and hat, that
together make a sort of helmet. He looks
very impressive - I feel real sense of power
in this one. Taking off the man’s helmet, I
see a face similar to my own.
Next I see a tall woman, about my height
with her dress up above her hips, her vagina
up much higher than in humans and with 6 in.
or so of space between the insides of her
thighs. I touch her, but she warns me away
because she has a disease (I think she knows
unconsciously that we share an identity) I
notice the scabs then and feel disgusted
when I see her eat one. I let her know I
understand and love her, but shake off the
scales from my hand, and spit out some from
my mouth.
I see several other transformations, and
then go back to the advisory group where we
have a discussion. A man shows me many
pictures of myself in past lives, some
apparently with him. I see a blond Scottish
man, who died young, and another from Italy.
. . . I tell the man I want to know my
purpose in life. "Very commendable", he
says, but nothing else. A woman comes over
and gives me advice about women,
relationships in general, and sex."
(Note: I had this dream 8
years before the movie Defending Your
Life came out)
Appendix 2
“Meeting A Past
Life Self From Long, Long, Ago.”
38 174 (Fully
Lucid) “ . . . In an apartment, in
darkness. . . . I experience a veil wrapped
around my head, which obscures my vision
further. I become fully lucid, and try to
turn on the lights by flipping light
switches, which worked earlier in the
dream. I also chant “Bright Light!, Light
Bright!” a few times, and the space lights
up. The apartment looks smooth and modern,
newly painted, with a circa 1920s look,
illuminated with greenish light.
Remembering my task, I chant: “By the
power of Alkahest, let my most powerful past
life healer manifest!” Nothing much
happens at first, but eventually I see the
figure of a man, with his back towards me.
He turns around, and I see a tall black man,
old but tough and powerful. His eyes seem
missing or a dull black. I ask him if he
seems my most powerful past life healing
self. He answers, “Yes” in a friendly
voice. I ask when he lived. He says “Long,
long ago.” This warns me, as it may mean
that he (an earlier “me”) may not yet have
developed ethics. He adds that he “lived at
the time of (during the reign of) Ferdinand
the younger.” I ask his name, and he says
“Filter.” I repeat the word aloud to make
sure I heard him correctly. He then
proposes doing a healing on me and puts his
left hand on my face. Sparks of red energy
come out of his hand, and he started a
chant: “Nux Am It Tee Ha __ __ __ __.”
I repeat it aloud, to help me memorize it
(only partially succeeding). I wonder if he
works at healing my eyes to improve my
eyesight.
However, instead of experiencing a
healing I find myself pushed away from him.
I end up in a dirty, crudely built hut, with
a mud floor. Below me I see a small
overweight black man/chief, a black woman,
and a pig-like monster, who jumps up and
tries to bite me where I float in a sort of
transparent OBE body. When I appeared in
the hut, the man peered towards me, asking
“Max? That you? Have you returned?” I
wonder if I’ve gone to some sort of astral
hell, and if “Filter” has tried to change
places with me. I try to send a lightning
bolt at the pig creature, which usually
works in lucid dreams, but nothing
manifests. I realize I should try loving
the creature, but feeling a bit
apprehensive, I can’t manage to feel any
love towards it. A very real, unpleasant,
place for me in which I seem relatively
powerless. I continue floating, and then
simply make a slight intentional effort to
return to physical reality. Somewhat to my
surprise, this succeeds.” RWPR.
Comment: “Filter” seemed a
very powerful entity. I sensed no evil in
him, but a very strong sense of self, of
egotism. I also realized that whatever
abilities and power he had, I had also, and
more - from what I’d gained from the lives
after his.
Appendix 3
“My Most Recent
Past Life? / Experiencing My Oversoul”
In the first part of the dream, I tuned
into?/remembered? the afterlife of a man,
perhaps my last incarnation, existing in a
sort of Earth bound or Earthlike limbo, who
had just "woken up" to his having died, some
29 years after his murder. In the second
part, now Fully Lucid to Super Lucid, I
somehow spontaneously become part of a
greater entity on an “Oversoul” level -
experiencing myself as puppeteer rather than
puppet:
40 08
Part 1. “I seem a young
man, about twenty, slim, dark straight hair,
wearing a cap. I’d lived in New York City,
from 1900 to 1920 or so, but had died 29
years ago with my sister. A man had killed
us, justifying our murders because he needed
to make some money. I’ve just “come to” and
realized that I’d died. As a ghost, I find
and confront the man who killed me, scare
him off the top of the building - he falls
and dies. He looked surprised to see me
after so long - I understand I‘d appeared to
some people the night of my murder, but not
since then. I feel justified in doing what
I’ve done.
“I return to the discarnates/friends I’d
spent the last 29 years with, in a very
pleasant magical place at night. Now that I
realize that I’ve died, I decide to explore
this afterlife city. I see a sort of
parade. I and some other discarnates jump
onto a sort of bench vehicle, hitching a
ride, believing ourselves invisible. But
the vehicle detects our presence, shuts
down, the little girl driving turns into a
guard, clamps and manacles appear - a sort
of trap. We get shunted off to a
purgatory-like prison.
“As the other prisoners/discarnates get led
away, I realize that my manacle has come
loose. I make a break for the door, but the
guard catches me. The gatekeeper/warden
says in a calm pleasant voice, “Maybe he
does not belong here. Let’s check.” He puts
a small blue chain about my left wrist, but
rather than engaging, it just falls off.
This settles it apparently. I do not belong
in the prison, so they let me go.
Apparently “my act of vengeance” (on my
murderer) registers more as justice than
vengeance.
“Once outside the prison they want to assign
a young girl to me, as my helping spirit.
The boy objects (at this point “I” have
become detached, and mostly observe). He
says he could not stand it - as he would
probably fall in love with her, as he had no
girlfriend in his physical life. His mentor
(the warden?) doesn’t push him, but
eventually out of curiosity the boy looks in
on the girl, as she races a boat-truck down
a road. He intervenes, distracting a cop by
creating a ghost truck as a diversion, which
the cop chases until it disappears. . . .
Later at an outdoor cafe I (now the boy
again) sit with a group of discarnates at a
table. The girl sits down, acting as if she
can see us, takes our orders as a waitress.
I use the opportunity to snag the order of
sodas from another table, levitating it
over. We all drink by levitating our
glasses, one woman exclaims happily that she
can feel “bubbles in her toes” after
drinking. The girl (Dale or Gale?) looks
surprised at the levitations, but her
fantasy gave us permission to manifest in
physical reality in some way . . . “
Part 2. Fully to
Super Lucid "He/I
now sits at a large desk or an impressive
table. He/I seems in charge
of a group of incarnates and disincarnates,
a sort of Oversoul. He/I
feels extremely competent, self-confidant,
and powerful, but He/I
still takes orders from an even Higher
Level. Out of a clear tube He/I
gets hundreds of cards relating to
instructions for different sefiroth, blue
cards, green cards, orange cards. He/I
feels a sense of having Eternity to work in.
Now I (the Ed Kellogg part), become fully
lucid. Although I feel very curious about
the cards, and even though it might not seem
appropriate ("the tail wagging the dog") I
decide to try taking advantage of this
opportunity to do my predetermined task. I
chant SHH AHH MASHH (Shamash, the Hebrew
word for the Sun). As I chant I intend
Integration, for me to tune into the
Oversoul entity and become one with it. I
feel a powerful vibration on both sides of
my head, like two speakers over-volumed and
ready to blow. My head feels ready to
explode or come apart from the powerful
vibrations. I intend the bridges (connecting
pathways on the Tree of Life), and manage to
chant Shamash one more time before returning
to waking physical reality."
Comment: This bare bones
account needs some commentary. First, both I
(Ed Kellogg), and the disincarnate man,
belonged to the group of entities over which
this “Oversoul” had charge. In the dream
report, I used the term “He”
in “He/I” to indicate the
Oversoul part of our overlapping
consciousness, but as a pronoun “He,”
even emphasized, doesn’t quite fit, as this
consciousness did not seem masculine in the
usual sense, just immensely powerful.
Although awkward, “He/It”
makes a better fit. His/It's
attitude (which I felt) seemed benevolent in
a purely nonattached way - He/It
cared about his charges as parts of a larger
picture but had little concern for their
individual well-being as such. And as far as
their physical well-being went,
He/It cared no more about the
duration of their physical lives, or the
state of their physical bodies, than you or
I might care about that of a pair of paper
shoes. (The disposable ones they give you at
health spas to walk around in. Once the
shoes have served their purpose, or show any
wear, you throw them away and get another
pair if you need one. And you do so without
slightest thought or regret for the fate of
those shoes.) The Oversoul lived in Eternal
time and could not view the physical
situations of his charges as they did.
Unless the physical condition of their
bodies had to do with the greater purpose or
pattern, it simply had no relevance or
importance.
Up to the point of this super-lucid dream I
had a vaguely anthropomorphic concept of my
"Higher Self". I felt that His/It's
concerns had at least some kind of
similarity to my own, and that if I could
find some way of communicating my needs to
Him/It, It would respond in
a positive fashion. After this dream I
realized that living in Eternity, that the
purposes of this "Deeper Me", had very
little to do with my own temporal and
physical concerns. Not out of a lack of
caring or compassion, but simply through a
fundamental difference in viewpoint. Some
might argue that I could have come up with a
similar insight if I'd taken the time to
consider the matter logically. Granted, but
this misses the point. After this dream I
did not understand this in a tentative or
abstract way - I knew it experientially and
with certainty.
Appendix 4
“A Contract
Negotiation For My Next Incarnation”
34 27 (Sub-lucid)
“I talk with a man, an authority figure,
about my next assignment/incarnation on
Earth. He wants me to sign a contract - I
refuse. The terms seem unspecified and he
won’t tell them to me. Also I feel
incomplete, sub-lucid, I don’t have full
access to my memories and mind. I feel
angry and frustrated because he obviously
tries to take, and in the past has, taken
advantage of this. I tell him I want to
remember all of my past lives and to control
my future life. He offers me 50% control of
my future life- but I remember that for this
life I already have 55%. He offers me less
control than I already have this time
around, dishonestly promoting it as a deal
because he expects I will not remember. He
will not reply or respond to my demand for
full memory. I refuse to sign.
“I weep bitter tears at the
relationships sundered by ignorance. People
who only meet casually in a lifetime, who if
they could remember their past lives would
fall weeping with joy into each others’
arms. I find my Aunt Betty, who had died
years ago, now a young woman, and we embrace
each other tearfully and joyfully,
frustrated and angry that in life so much of
our feelings for each other remained masked
by ignorance and forgetfulness brought about
with reincarnation! Why!
“I sit at a table and talk with friends
about this - why we get these boring lives,
why not “Star Trek” or “Wizard” type lives
and realities. These choices seem available
- in fact, I feel certain I’ve picked a
wizard reality in the past - but the powers
in charge use ignorance and memory blocks to
get us to “choose” the lives they want us to
live - for their own purposes. I want to
remember fully before making any decisions -
no more clouded awareness. I refuse to
sign.”
Copyright - All Rights Reserved - Ed
Kellogg, Ph.D. 2008
