#71 12-06-2006, 07:22 AM
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I guess I have gotten so used to working with past lives and higher intelligences.
I assumed that there were many people in the world thoroughly acquainted with the Akashic records. Perhaps I am mistaken. Please be open-minded.
Many of my readings do correspond with the data from well-known trance channelers and hypnotherapists, but they are not always exactly the same.
I'm just comparing data, so that we can ensure some accuracy in the future and be more confident about the past life information we receive. Because I work with past lives every day, I have a professional interest in validating the information at my end.
#72 12-06-2006, 07:46 AM
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You were very brave, and quite thorough in your historical references. It never ceased to amaze me how knowledgeable you are in the matters of history.
Having you here is a history lesson at times.
I cannot change my observation. I don't believe you hurt anyone brian, but you skirted the edge with some people. You are dealing with the Human Spirit, and Spirits. You do know that the initials of your handle is, b.s. Sorry about that.
I often wonder what Ms MacLaine thinks of my assertion that she was an 18th Dynasty Pharaoh.
I have this in me because it was pointed out to me, and I remember the story.
The Memory came to me first. Late 01' It came rushing back like a torrent, and flashed before my eyes like a vcr movie in fast forward.
It was a week or so after. I was at my in-laws place. There was this AARP magazine on the table, and as my x spoke with her mother I leafed through it, and here was this article about Shirley MacLaine. I read through it. I was more interested in the pictures. I remember there were only a couple of pictures. I looked at her. I got this feeling of admiration.
We got home, and I went to the little room that served as my hobby studio.
I sat down and meditated a bit, about Ancient Egypt. I had only just learned of an 18th Dynasty, and Horus As Woman. Suddenly I was struck so hard with a particular memory.
A memory that had to do with Love, and Admiration. A memory that lead into events that were epic. Oh My God did I begin to cry! It clicked. For me it clicked like the piece of a puzzle completing a picture.
I remembered who I was. Menkephere. I remembered who my Mother was. A person I had great love and admiration for.
So maybe it's just like an egg hatching, and a duckling emerging to follow the first being it sees around as it's mother.
I cannot and will not force the issue. I have the story and will continue it to it's completion.
It is real neat this web site is here. Coming here has gotten me through allot of adversity.
Whether or not Shirley MacLaine is Hatshepsut I suppose is not relevant. I only seek to honor her with the memory of a person I Loved, and Admired in a different world then this one.
Shirley MacLaine fits the bill.
Love, Michael, The Valkyrie
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#73 12-06-2006, 08:58 AM
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I cannot change my observation. I don't believe you hurt anyone brian, but you skirted the edge with some people. You are dealing with the Human Spirit, and Spirits. You do know that the initials of your handle is, b.s. Sorry about that.
I believe I am dealing with truth. I hope so. I'm not afraid to test that truth. When we are quick to make up our minds about something, we are sometimes dealing with wish-fulfillment. There are often many ways of looking at things. If I have an alternative viewpoint or a different past life reading, my guides will ask me to pass it on. It does not mean other people are wrong and I am correct. My guides are really saying continue to seek the truth in an open-minded manner. They encourage us to juggle our thoughts in some way, so we can grapple with the higher truths. I believe reincarnation is a lower truth and that healing is a higher one.
#74 12-06-2006, 09:30 AM
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We must remember that channeling is part of human experience and Buddhist monks are also human beings.
A Japanese Tendai Buddhist named Mikao Usui claimed to have discovered Reiki after long meditation, fasting, and prayer. We could consider him a channel for healing Reiki energy. Is this channeling?
I have stated before that when we channel Reiki energy, we channel healing energy and channels of information from our higher guidance.
Usui wrote that by mystical revelation he had gained the knowledge and spiritual power to apply and attune others to what he called Reiki. Mikao Usui said that he had the ability to enable people to enhance their access to the energy through certain initiations. Usui taught that his attunements to Reiki enhanced and refined a person's pre-existing ability to connect with Reiki. Through such initiations, students are said to become clearer channels for Reiki, and thereby improve the quality of treatments that student (or practitioner) provides.
Mikao Usui's Reiki method spread widely. Correspondence courses over the Internet even offer distance training. To achieve a complete education in the "Usui method of Reiki Healing," three courses are necessary: the 1st degree course, the 2nd degree course, and the master course. The specific content of each of these courses varies widely from one teacher to another, depending on personal philosophies. A typical set of courses is something like the following:
First Degree Reiki courses are claimed to teach the basic theories of how to work with Reiki energy. The channel through which Reiki energy passes to the practitioner is said to be widened through an initiation by the teacher, permitting the Reiki energy be strong enough to effect healing.
Students learn hand placement positions on the recipient's body that are thought to be most conducive to the healing process.
In the Second Degree Reiki course, a symbol for mental healing is taught, purportedly enabling students to treat even deeply ingrained problems like fears, depression, addictions, and the like. Students are instructed on how to direct Reiki energy to a certain point in time, to a specific person or place, or a specific issue. The issue can be something like an individual's particular health problem, or it can be a more abstract or general issue such as world peace. Practitioners say that this is possible using three symbols taught at the second initiation. The claim is that this skill allows the Reiki channel to be opened even wider.
As part of the master course, usually the Third Degree, students become a Reiki "master" through the third initiation; they learn how to initiate students and have the option of teaching Reiki courses themselves. The student learns a further "master" level symbol in this course as well as the method of attuning others. In some cases the third level is broken into smaller stages of attunements from the teacher; the attunements for the first, second, and third level may also be administered in stages. A teacher has completed practical training when told that he or she has the ability to attune others to all degrees and has been given the final fourth Reiki Master symbol that is used in attunements.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiki
In my experience, which has NOT been with past lives, channelled messages, etc......it has become clear to me that I am channelling. I am uncertain about people's use of the word, tho'. For me, it has been a potential to open my consciousness and allowing the Truth to be perceived. Realizing "the Universe within"....Rather than reaching out to spiritual entities, I have looked as deep as possible into the nature of things of this reality.
Channelling, for me, has become an experience of the universe within "talking to" the universe "outside".
Channelling in my experience is not something one does, but something one Is.
Reiki IS becoming a 'passive channel' clear of 'blocks', but it is also possible, once the illusion of self, personality and free will has been seen for what it is - a big charade - one begins a process of a certain actualization. This actualization is the work of the Divine in action.
At a certain point, it is very much an individual affair with permissions for WILL and INTENTIONS to become consciously applied in a very individuized way, rather than just passively allowing 'whatever for the highest good' to go through. The truth is realized in the healer and the client at one time in an exchange of "perceived otherness".
This is the highest goal of TRUE MAGICK and what Aleister Crowley was teaching with Thelema--this is why his insistance on Conversation and Knowledge of the Holy Guardian Angel as the work of highest importance to the solitary practitioner.
Reiki is a great thing and a wonderful tool, if we don't get lost in the whole idea of being "special healers" when we begin. Once Divine Will is setting into the body (through a series of initiations and activations) one becomes very conscious of the fact that he or she IS "God's Hands".
This has also been the same place I have received Divine Knowledge - which is never POSSESSED, but what one Is. The whole problem is getting past the idea that we are separate in the first place. This is where good healing begins, I think anyway.
I believe ultimately reiki starts as a path to "healing", but TRUE HEALING is something else than we ever first perceived it to be...
True healing for me is moving consciously closer to Truth in every moment on many levels of being and knowing. Knowledge in and of itself is absolutely useless and dead if not combined with CREATIVITY - which is our divine birthright. Creativity does not mean making crafts or doodling on a piece of paper. It means being conscious co-creators meeting at a place of integrity and Truth.
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#75 12-06-2006, 09:30 AM
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#76 12-06-2006, 09:48 AM
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At a certain point, it is very much an individual affair with permissions for WILL and INTENTIONS to become consciously applied in a very individuized way, rather than just passively allowing 'whatever for the highest good' to go through. The truth is realized in the healer and the client at one time in an exchange of "perceived otherness".
This is the highest goal of TRUE MAGICK and what Aleister Crowley was teaching with Thelema--this is why his insistance on Conversation and Knowledge of the Holy Guardian Angel as the work of highest importance to the solitary practitioner.
When we see our karmic debt clearly with the aid of past life knowledge, we know we have to change. We then have active choices to make.
Crowley has been a close friend of mine in a number of incarnations. David Icke has said very nasty things about him that are not true.
Our ideas should be kept very flexible or we become dogmatic. We certainly must not consider ourselves special. That's an ego thing.
#77 12-06-2006, 09:56 AM
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When we see our karmic debt clearly with the aid of past life knowledge, we know we have to change. We then have active choices to make.
Crowley has been a close friend of mine in a number of incarnations. David Icke has said very nasty things about him that are not true.
Our ideas should be kept very flexible or we become dogmatic. We certainly must not consider ourselves special. That's an ego thing.
Thank goodness someone understands Crowley without perception that he is a mad Satanist---
I read recently that "the astral" is a dimension which is the shadow side of earth as we "know it", (or vice versa -- the earth is a shadow of the astral). Is 3-D and 4-D a platform of illusions of separation, where one can participate with entitities and phenomenon? Is 5th Dimensional Consciousness more of a unified dimension in the light? Is it a MUST for someone to arrive at the 5th dimension of consciousness by way of direct experience with the 3rd and 4th combined? It seems in most of my work, I have not spent too much time with the 4th dimension - which I perceive to be work with spiritual entities, past life information, and various "otherwordly" phenomenon.
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#78 12-06-2006, 10:02 AM
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Electra H,
With all the knights Templar stuff and the Holy Grail, I'm sure we must have known each other in many interesting times. I'm not into Magick this time around, but would like to hear more about your views about 4th and 5th dimensional consciousness.
#79 12-06-2006, 10:12 AM
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What I think, is 4-D is where people can "get lost" because they become distracted with new and otherwordly experiences, such as OBEs, entities (ghosts and "ascended masters"), past life perceptions, psychic abilities and such. I think my understanding of this information could also be very infantile - as I have tried hard to not let studied information taint my own EXPERIENCE, which is quite different in many ways.
5-D - where I believe earth to be heading (the LOVE dimension) - is all about the Light. Living in the light, free energy exchanges, seeing equality, a more even distribution of energy---which flows to service "the All".....no death, maybe "individualized" but more energetic understandings and perception than occurs on an earth of perceived "rock like things" - even people we see as this.
Light beings living in the light of love----
Hope that makes sense. I would love to hear other views as I am now ready to explore this.
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#80 12-06-2006, 10:19 AM
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Ah, yes. I think I will start focusing on the 5-D stuff more. Thanks for that timely reminder. We do tend to get distracted, don't we?
#81 12-06-2006, 03:35 PM
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You know, as I was reading this thread I was thinking of what a coincidence that Aleister Crowley was brought up after the posts about Toulouse Latrec and his models. Aleister Crowley published a poem called "La Legende de l"Absinthe" under the pseudonym of Jeanne LaGoulue. LaGoulue was a famous Moulin Rouge dancer that Toulouse Latrec painted frequently. LaGoulue is credited with inventing the Can Can. Weird coincidence, huh? The Legend of Absinthe
Apollo, who mourned at Hyacinthe's demise,
Refused to concede this victory to Death.
Much better that the soul, adept in transformation,
Had to find a holy alchemy for beauty.
Thus with his celestial hand he drained and crushed
The subtlest harvest of the garden goddess,
The broken bodies of the herbs yielding a golden essence
From which we measure out our first drop -- of Absinthe!
In lowly hovels and in glittering courts,
Alone, in pairs, drink up this potion of desire!
For it is sorcery -- as one might say --
When the pale opal wine ends all misery,
Opens beauty's most intimate sanctuary --
- Bewitches my heart, and exalts my soul in ecstasy
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#82 12-06-2006, 03:56 PM
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The left hand path of Crowley
My feeling is that Crowley created a philosophy that contain a lot of truth but a little bit of error, with the intention of leading people astray from the path of Christhood.
"The truth will set you free".
Jan Egil
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#83 12-06-2006, 05:30 PM
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You know, as I was reading this thread I was thinking of what a coincidence that Aleister Crowley was brought up after the posts about Toulouse Latrec and his models. Aleister Crowley published a poem called "La Legende de l"Absinthe" under the pseudonym of Jeanne LaGoulue. LaGoulue was a famous Moulin Rouge dancer that Toulouse Latrec painted frequently. LaGoulue is credited with inventing the CanCan. Weird coincidence, huh? The Legend of Absinthe
Apollo, who mourned at Hyacinthe's demise,
Refused to concede this victory to Death.
Much better that the soul, adept in transformation,
Had to find a holy alchemy for beauty.
Thus with his celestial hand he drained and crushed
The subtlest harvest of the garden goddess,
The broken bodies of the herbs yielding a golden essence
From which we measure out our first drop -- of Absinthe!
In lowly hovels and in glittering courts,
Alone, in pairs, drink up this potion of desire!
For it is sorcery -- as one might say --
When the pale opal wine ends all misery,
Opens beauty's most intimate sanctuary --
- Bewitches my heart, and exalts my soul in ecstasy
That poem is a spooky holy mystery.
Thanks OP.
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#84 12-06-2006, 07:11 PM
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Hi Electra,
He was/is a spooky guy......OP
I am very interested in Montmartre and the Moulin Rouge era especially the whole bohemian scene. Above is a picture of LaGoulue aka Louise Webber.
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#85 12-06-2006, 08:29 PM
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Hello OP - *Feel connected to the bohemian scene*
Regarding AC--It is interesting and maybe even disturbing. This is why it has been my lesson to stay away from the personality and the practitioner and derive the essence from the teaching.
I am not a practitioner of ANYTHING or a believer in any theology -- hope this clarifies my previous discussions. I rely solely on my own experience, spontaneity and awareness. This I have found to be of most value. Currently I am exploring philosophy, for I feel it important to be well versed in a multi disciplinarian way.
Getting back to the discussion on past lives, something else I wish to clarify: In saying that these phenomenal things are not my experiences, is NOT the same as saying I am discrediting those who work in these fields or have these experiences. I just haven't personally.
I had one past life regression which at the time seemed very real. I bursted in tears for all the LOVE I felt. This love being my key memory of the regression, I decided to focus my attention on this, rather than who, what, where, and how often..lol..
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#86 12-06-2006, 09:32 PM
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Hi Electra,
I know exactly what you are saying and I understand. I went through a period in the 1990's when I would wake up early in the morning and then fall back asleep into a lucid dreaming state and I remembered many past life experiences. I remembered dying in childbirth, I remembered being raped, I remembered being impaled by some kind of spear, I remembered being strangled.... a lot of seemingly traumatic things but in every case I felt a warm bliss like I was watching it and I would say "Am I dead?" to myself. I also started looking at people around me and remembering them like my husband and who they were. It was all really dreamlike and I didn't attach any emotions into it. Two years ago I went through a "dark night of my soul" and felt suicidal. I couldn't move through my block and I quit painting for eight months after 11 years of continuous painting. I contacted Brianstalin and he gave me a past life reading. All of a sudden I was reading a biography of a person that lived my memories and she had a name. My life directly before this has impacted every minute I have lived as Leslie and the information I uncovered healed me. It wasn't pretty but I fully understand when Brianstalin refers to our glossing over and murky perceptions about who we are and have been. The ego is there to protect us even if it doesn't always allow the truth that is in the akashic records.
It is like ignorance is bliss. I glamorized past lives until I was hit in the face with the cold water of truth but like Janus said in her post "The truth will set you free."
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#87 12-06-2006, 10:01 PM
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Hi Electra,
I know exactly what you are saying and I understand. I went through a period in the 1990's when I would wake up early in the morning and then fall back asleep into a lucid dreaming state and I remembered many past life experiences. I remembered dying in childbirth, I remembered being raped, I remembered being impaled by some kind of spear, I remembered being strangled.... a lot of seemingly traumatic things but in every case I felt a warm bliss like I was watching it and I would say "Am I dead?" to myself. I also started looking at people around me and remembering them like my husband and who they were. It was all really dreamlike and I didn't attach any emotions into it. Two years ago I went through a "dark night of my soul" and felt suicidal. I couldn't move through my block and I quit painting for eight months after 11 years of continuous painting. I contacted Brianstalin and he gave me a past life reading. All of a sudden I was reading a biography of a person that lived my memories and she had a name. My life directly before this has impacted every minute I have lived as Leslie and the information I uncovered healed me. It wasn't pretty but I fully understand when Brianstalin refers to our glossing over and murky
perceptions about who we are and have been. The ego is there to protect us even if it doesn't always allow the truth that is in the akashic records.
It is like ignorance is bliss. I glamorized past lives until I was hit in the face with the cold water of truth but like Janus said in her post "The truth will set you free."
OP
OP Thanks for sharing that! I am sure this sharing is important right now, in a peculiar way. Pat showing up and discussing karma and you sharing this seems an important indicator for me. I am sure you are correct to say about the others in our lives and how they have played different roles over and over. There is one person in particular that I have just simply gone through total mystical heaven and hell about--that would be of interest to me to explore and understand. I have no idea where to begin. I have searched the ethers and the depths of my soul to remember-- with no avail. It always makes me wonder if maybe I have done something to him that I don't want to recall--and why this life has been just sheer torture about it all.
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#88 12-06-2006, 10:10 PM
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I bursted in tears for all the LOVE I felt. This love being my key memory of the regression, I decided to focus my attention on this, rather than who, what, where, and how often..lol..
Yes, yes, yes. That's it Electra!! It didn't matter who you were, if you were a King, Queen or pauper. All that matters is that a lesson was learned. And you learned the big one!! If everyone can feel that 'love' that you are describing while in regression, just once, that is all they'll ever need, because in that 'love' all the questions are answered.
So happy for you!
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...The ego is there to protect us even if it doesn't always allow the truth that is in the akashic records.
OP
Hi OP,
Also, your HS and guides will only allow the part of the Akashic Records that you need to see. So, it's not that it isn't allowing the 'truth' per se, it's allowing what they feel is to your best interest. Seeing more than you need may not be beneficial to you and that’s why your guides are there to assist you and the exact reason the need to be called in each and every regression.
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#90 12-06-2006, 10:14 PM
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Yes, yes, yes. That's it Electra!! It didn't matter who you were, if you were a King, Queen or pauper. All that matters is that a lesson was learned. And you learned the big one!! If everyone can feel that 'love' that you are describing while in regression, just once, that is all they'll ever need, because in that 'love' all the questions are answered.
So happy for you!
Dear LS - I was just playing with the idea of knowing more. Hmmm. Will consider.
It is about the LOVE isn't it? And the misconception of LOVE is the problem here, (in this particular situation). Love is not what we think it is, and for some reason-- I keep forgetting what it IS. lol thanks for reminding me with my own words...
love you XX
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#91 12-06-2006, 10:23 PM
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Dear LS - I was just playing with the idea of knowing more. Hmmm. Will consider.
It is about the LOVE isn't it? And the misconception of LOVE is the problem here, (in this particular situation). Love is not what we think it is, and for some reason-- I keep forgetting what it IS. lol thanks for reminding me with my own words...
love you XX
Electra,
While my clients are being regressed, and I facilitate their crossing over time, it is then most often that tears come to their eyes and they understand just what IT is all about. Love is the word that is used as that is what word they have been taught for such a caring feeling, but they always want to describe how intense and powerful this emotion is.
You say you played with the idea of wanting to learn more. There's no harm in that. But once you understand that operating from this universal feeling of love is the key to life, the rest is just the sprinkles on the ice cream!! Of course, trying to operate from this place of love 24/7 is inhuman. We'd be on the altar with Buddha, Jesus and all the other masters if we did that !!!
LOVE you too !!
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#92 12-06-2006, 10:25 PM
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somebody just sent me this:
http://www.themiracletimes.com/Grea...tory/Page_1.htm
check out page two too.
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#93 12-07-2006, 05:03 PM
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And may I suggest that you look more closely into the Buddhist philosophy - (it is not a religion.) and it isn't about past, it's about the present, the moment, the NOW!
This is my understanding of Buddhism and is based on what others have taught me.
Buddhism was a philosophy, but now it has been turned into a religion. When we continually live in the present moment, we detach ourselves from the illusion. Our minds are focused in sitting meditation "Samatha"(concentration meditation) and this powerful focus is used in "Vipassana" (insight meditation) or mindfulness to keep us rigidly tied to the present moment. Insight meditation is done at all times, even while asleep (except when we do concentration meditation, of course). Mindfulness means that we constantly question who is the thinker of our thoughts and who is the doer of our actions.
Sudden flashes of insight are obtained. To be in the NOW means to understand who we really are. That means we must know our past lives and future life time possibilities. Without such knowledge we cannot know who we really are and what our current responsibilities are. To prove we are living in the NOW, we must understand our past lives and acknowledge responsibility for those actions that have created our present lifetime environments and circumstances.
I'm not saying I believe this or that I practice in this way. It's just what I was told.
#94 12-07-2006, 06:05 PM
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The Meaning of Life
The fundamental questions - Who am I? Where have I been? Where am I going?
Apparently Buddhist meditation can help us to answer all of these questions. It has been suggested that Christ went to Alexandria, Egypt to study Buddhism.
#95 12-07-2006, 07:27 PM
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Theories
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Being very close friends with people like Dr Georgina Cannon, Dr. Michael Newton, both internationally recognized hypnotherapists, Suzane Northrop, James van Praagh, and John Edward, who all talk to dead people, I have asked about your theories which I have read on these boards. Perhaps you could explain why they disagree with you?
Well, are they really qualified to assess my readings?
If I build a wall and want to check that it was built correctly I would ask a builder, preferably an experienced bricklayer. I could ask a fireman or postman, but would their opinions be useful?
I often double-check with 2 people in my neighborhood, who can read the Akashic Records. I think that is being responsible.
Hypnotherapists are skilled at working with the human mind. I believe their realm is the subconscious which seems to act as a barrier to even deeper realms of the mind.
Can we hypnotize someone and get them to answer any question about the Universe we live in? Would they tell us where UFOs come from or who makes crop circles? If they could it would mean that hypnotherapists could plug right into the universal energy field where all information can be found.
Assuming that the Akashic Records do exist, (because how else could Edgar Cayce do his readings?), where can we find them? I don't think we can find them within the human mind.
If your hypnotherapist friends have located the Akashic Records and can provide alternative past life readings, I would be happy to compare them with mine.
I, myself, like to keep an open mind about these matters and welcome some alternative input so we can all try to check out what all this past life information is really about.
I don't deal with theories, only information.
How can we validate or dismiss this material? I know that this information facilitates healing and may have little practical use beyond that.
Healing belongs to the present moment and not to the past.
#96 12-07-2006, 07:35 PM
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Talking To Dead People
It is possible to communicate with deceased energy, but the information from the Astral Realms may not be of a very high quality. I was taught to communicate with the higher selves of the souls that have passed on and a lot of surprising information can be gathered this way. We can also communicate with living people using the same methods and distant healing can be applied.
#97 12-07-2006, 08:23 PM
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Originally Posted by brianstalin
Hypnotherapists are skilled at working with the human mind. I believe their realm is the subconscious which seems to act as a barrier to even deeper realms of the mind.
Can we hypnotize someone and get them to answer any question about the Universe we live in? Would they tell us where UFOs come from or who makes crop circles? If they could it would mean that hypnotherapists could plug right into the universal energy field where all information can be found.
Assuming that the Akashic Records do exist, (because how else could Edgar Cayce do his readings?), where can we find them? I don't think we can find them within the human mind.
If your hypnotherapist friends have located the Akashic Records and can provide alternative past life readings, I would be happy to compare them with mine.
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I assumed that I was done with this thread, but what amazes and actually disturbs me is when people spread MYTHS about hypnosis. YES MYTHS. I can speak for many hypnotherapists that we work very diligently daily to break myths regarding hypnosis. I ask that from now on, when you quote your knowledge that you actually know from what you are speaking. It is doing my field an injustice.
You claim to know so much about Edgar Cayce. Well, maybe you should read more on him then. Might I suggest your well quoted wikipedia.
Edgar Cayce was brought into his trances by being hypnotized. YES,
HYPNOTIZED. His assistant was a hypnotist, then his son aided him. From what I remember (I haven't time to look in my old class notes and verify), he worked with a hypnotist his entire trance career. One of the people I have studied under is very well versed and has studied Cayce's work many years. He uses (as I do sometimes) a trance induction that Cayce, himself, refers to. The photo below is from my office wall and is a representation of what Cayce described while in hypnosis. You can see at the top the Akashic Records.
You might also look into the work of Dolores Cannon. Shirley has interviewed her also. She is a hypnotist and is very well respected in the UFO, Crop Cirlce, Nostradamas field. AND YES, she uses hypnosis to do all this.
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#98 12-07-2006, 08:44 PM
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Yes, I'm quite aware that hypnosis kick-started Cayce's healing career. I'm not against hypnosis. I just want to know how we can ensure that we get clear and accurate information without subconscious fears, wishes and desires getting in the way. There are many myths about everything. Can hypnosis answer all of our questions about the Universe? If not, why not?
Is it the fault of hypnosis or does the fault lie with us?
#99 12-07-2006, 08:52 PM
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Yes, I'm quite aware that hypnosis kick-started Cayce's healing career.
It was not a Kick Start. It was used throughout. That is 'how' he got into trance.
Why do you question hypnosis as such. How can you question hypnosis, but place such value upon Cayce's work. When you really should be defending hypnosis instead of questioning it, if in fact you do value Cayce as you constantly refer to.
If you agree that Cayce had access to the Akashic Records, then why wouldn't any other person in hypnosis?
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#100 12-07-2006, 09:03 PM
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Edgar Cayce
I only question hypnosis because of my personal experiences with it. In the future I might explore the subject further. I do admit that my knowledge is limited in that area. I do value Cayce's unique abilities. Can you hypnotize just anybody and get them to read the Akashic Records?
Can anyone under hypnosis suggest treatments for illnesses just like Cayce did?
#101 12-07-2006, 09:08 PM
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Can they give life readings? Can they raise the consciousness of our planet just as Cayce did?
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Are you not suggesting that collective humanity on the whole can be hypnotised into a higher consciousness?
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I only question hypnosis because of my personal experiences with it. In the future I might explore the subject further. I do admit that my knowledge is limited in that area. I do value Cayce's unique abilities. Can you hypnotize just anybody and get them to read the Akashic Records?
Can anyone under hypnosis suggest treatments for illnesses just like Cayce did?
But, you haven't been formerly and/or properly training in hypnosis or regression, from what I've read here.
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Can they give life readings? Can they raise the consciousness of our planet just as Cayce did?
In his readings, Mr. Cayce, tells us that at the superconscious level, we can gain access to the Akashic Record, a chronicle of everything that has ever been thought, said, or done by everyone who has ever lived. The Akashic Record, also referred to in the reading as the Book of Life or the Book of God's Remembrance, can be thought of as the revelation of the Creator's all-encompassing wisdom and knowledge.
Reading Number 2533-8 asked, "What is the Book of Life?" ANSWER: "The record that the individual entity itself writes upon the skein of time and space, through patience - and is opened when self has attuned to the infinite, and may be read by those attuning to that consciousness."
The following excerpt from Chapter 11 of "Edgar Cayce on Channeling Your Higher Self" by Henry Reed (Copyright 1989 by The Association for Research and Enlightenment, Inc.) describes Mr. Cayce's hypnotic journey to the Hall of Records. (A verbatim account of his waking description of his journey in the trance state taken from comments he made at a public lecture.)
"I see myself as a tiny dot out of my physical body, which lies inert before me. I find myself oppressed by darkness and a feeling of terrific loneliness. Suddenly I am conscious of a white beam of light. As this tiny dot, I move upward following the light, knowing that I must follow it or be lost.
"As I move along this path of light I gradually become conscious of various levels upon which there is movement. Upon the first levels there are vague horrible shapes, grotesque forms such as one sees in nightmares. Passing on, there begin to appear on either side misshapen forms of human beings with some part of the body magnified. Again there is change, and I become conscious of gray hooded forms moving downward.
Gradually, these become lighter in color. Then the direction changes and these forms move upward and the color of the robes grows rapidly lighter.
"Next there begin to appear on either side vague outlines of houses, walls, trees, etc., but everything is motionless. As I pass on, there is more light and movement in what appear to be normal cities and towns.
With the growth of movement, I become conscious of sounds, at first indistinct rumblings, then music, laughter, and the singing of birds.
There is more and more light, the colors become very beautiful, and there is the sound of wonderful music. The houses are left behind, ahead there is only a blending of sound and color.
"Quite suddenly I come upon a hall of records. It is a hall without walls, without ceiling, but I am conscious of seeing an old man who hands me a large book, a record of the individual for whom I seek information."
On other occasions, Cayce "felt himself to be in a bubble traveling through water to arrive at the place where he got the information" according to records in the A.R.E. library. In another instance, he "went up and up through a very large column"; passing by all the horrible things without coming in contact personally with them, and came out where there was the house of records. It, the column, wound around a
wheel like the Rotarians have. He felt very secure traveling that way.
(End of excerpt.)
According to the readings, contact with both the subconscious and the super-conscious is possible for all minds making the infinite wisdom of the super-conscious available to each one of us. To communicate with these levels of consciousness, we need the ability to put our egos aside and attune ourselves to God, the universal source. In Edgar Cayce, this ability was developed much more highly than in most (the readings attribute this to his many lifetimes as a healer); but the sources that he drew upon and the information he obtained are available to everyone.
It goes with the same ideas regarding anything. If we practice enough, we will produce better results.
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#104 12-07-2006, 09:20 PM
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Can they give life readings? Can they raise the consciousness of our planet just as Cayce did?
Reword your question. I'm not sure I understand. Did Cayce raise the consciousness of our planet?? If so, then why wouldn't someone else be able to?
Believe me, I am not putting myself in his realm. But hypnosis as a whole (remember, we are talking alpha/theta brain waves, that’s all) is amazing.
Just like any form of meditation of any other practice that slows the brain to a place where the subconscious mind and above can be reached.
Let’s not forget hypnosis is only a ride to somewhere!! We can take many other busses!
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#105 12-07-2006, 09:22 PM
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Are you not suggesting that collective humanity on the whole can be hypnotised into a higher consciousness?
Hypnotism is nothing but a vehicle to slow down the brain waves into an alpha state or slower. If everyone in the world meditated at once, don't you think it could change the world?? I do.
Michael, as a smaller example. I have lectured to a large group of battered women in using self-hypnosis for change, self-esteem and relaxation. After the workshop, the energy of the entire room changed. The stress, anxiety and all around energy in the air was much calmer and relaxed. Now imagine that a billion times that. Do you think it could change and raise vibrations?? I do.
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#106 12-07-2006, 09:42 PM
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As I understand it we can all view the Akashic Records using gentle meditative states. Can hypnosis be used to view the Records? Can anyone become a Cayce under hypnosis? My understanding is they cannot. Our chakra systems require cleansing and energizing first and after that hypnosis is unnecessary. Theta brainwaves are necessary for psychic tasks.
#107 12-07-2006, 09:50 PM
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Please read this thread. It’s been stated in many different ways. First you question the accuracy of anyone reading the A. Records, now you say it is.
Read up a couple posts, I quoted Cayce's readings.
As I stated prior, many times, a gentle meditative state is an avenue to get your brain waves slowed. Slowed means into anything below a Beta which would be Alpha, Theta, Delta, etc.
Can anyone become a Cayce under hypnosis. The question should be can anyone read the records under hypnosis. Yes. As Cayce stated and as I have successfully done with clients.
Can anyone become Liberaci (sp) ?? No, but many people, if practiced enough, can be good at piano.
I don't know what waves are needed for psychic stuff. That's not my bag.
Can I get people into theta? YEP. Do it all the time.
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#108 12-07-2006, 10:16 PM
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Our chakra systems require cleansing and energizing first and after that hypnosis is unnecessary.
If you review Cayce's regression ways and scripts, he cleanses and clears the chakras as he is going.
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#109 12-07-2006, 10:28 PM
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Hypnotism is nothing but a vehicle to slow down the brain waves into an alpha state or slower. If everyone in the world meditated at once, don't you think it could change the world?? I do.
Michael, as a smaller example. I have lectured to a large group of battered women in using self-hypnosis for change, self-esteem and relaxation. After the workshop, the energy of the entire room changed. The stress, anxiety and all around energy in the air was much calmer and relaxed. Now imagine that a billion times that. Do you think it could change and raise vibrations?? I do.
It would be quite wonderful. Our whole planet going into a meditative state.
Yes, Then the Galactic cultures watching us would come down here and make contact. It would be that simple.
As I read what you wrote, LS, I thought of John Lennon doing his song Imagine.
I so wish it could be so! As I observe the behavior of the people out on the streets of Seattle, which is a mild city compared to some others....
I don't Meditate. I Pray.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okd3hLlvvLw
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I so wish it could be so!
I don't Meditate. I Pray.
Me too. Sometimes that all you can do !
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#111 12-08-2006, 12:26 AM
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Please read this thread. It’s been stated in many different ways. First you question the accuracy of anyone reading the A. Records, now you say it is.
Read up a couple posts, I quoted Cayce's readings.
As I stated prior, many times, a gentle meditative state is an avenue to get your brain waves slowed. Slowed means into anything below a Beta which would be Alpha, Theta, Delta, etc.
Can anyone become a Cayce under hypnosis. The question should be can anyone read the records under hypnosis. Yes. As Cayce stated and as I have successfully done with clients.
Can anyone become Liberaci (sp) ?? No, but many people, if practiced enough, can be good at piano.
I don't know what waves are needed for psychic stuff. That's not my bag.
Can I get people into theta? YEP. Do it all the time.
I mean can people under hypnosis read the Akashic Records in their entirety and do life readings for other people in that state? People can use their creative imagination to get into the Akashic Records, but there will be a lot of additional stuff that cannot be verified as with the Bridey Murphy story.
Buddhist Monks have not resorted to hypnosis to unlock past life memories.
Many blockages must be dealt with in a slow and gentle manner and after that clear past life memory arises naturally. Hypnosis might pull memories out prematurely and screen memories be produced by the patient as a safeguard to cope with the new and strange information.
What happened to gently, gently, softly, softly?
#112 12-08-2006, 12:33 AM
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If you review Cayce's regression ways and scripts, he cleanses and clears the chakras as he is going.
Cayce intuitively knew what he was doing. Cayce had the past life experience of doing this sort of thing.
When patients are under hypnosis, do they understand the necessity of this procedure and do they know how to accomplish this?
#113 12-08-2006, 12:37 AM
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Even if patients do understand the importance of this, do they have the skills and support (direct angelic guidance) to carry out the procedure successfully?
#114 12-08-2006, 12:40 AM
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Edgar Cayce was not hypnotized
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BS
You claim to know so much about Edgar Cayce. Well, maybe you should read more on him then. Might I suggest your well quoted wikipedia.
Edgar Cayce was brought into his trances by being hypnotized. YES,
HYPNOTIZED. His assistant was a hypnotist, then his son aided him. From what I remember (I haven't time to look in my old class notes and verify), he worked with a hypnotist his entire trance career. One of the people I have studied under is very well versed and has studied Cayce's work many years. He uses (as I do sometimes) a trance induction that Cayce, himself, refers to.
Cayce was not hypnotized. His assistant was not a hypnotist, and he did not work with a hypnotist his entire career.
Cayce put himself into a sort of sleep as he called it himself. The difference between this and hypnosis I can't tell, but he was definitely not hypnotized by others during his career.
As far as I remember he was in contact with a hypnotist while young for a very short while, in connection that he lost his voice. He regained his voice through that, and this occation stimulated his own inducing of his unconscious state where he was able to do his readings. Reading the Akashic Records was part of it.
Just had to clarify this, as Cayce has been one of my favourites for more than 35 years.
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#115 12-08-2006, 12:43 AM
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Cayce intuitively knew what he was doing. Cayce had the past life experience of doing this sort of thing.
When patients are under hypnosis, do they understand the necessity of this procedure and do they know how to accomplish this?
Even if patients do understand the importance of this, do they have the skills and support (direct angelic guidance) to carry out the procedure successfully?
If the hypnotist is a Reiki channel, I think that would be a great support for the patient. Unfortunately, not all hypnotherapists are Reiki channels. Reiki and hypnotherapy might work well together in some cases.
#116 12-08-2006, 12:48 AM
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Cayce was not hypnotized. His assistant was not a hypnotist, and he did not work with a hypnotist his entire career.
Cayce put himself into a sort of sleep as he called it himself. The difference between this and hypnosis I can't tell, but he was definitely not hypnotized by others during his career.
As far as I remember he was in contact with a hypnotist while young for a very short while, in connection that he lost his voice. He regained his voice through that, and this occasion stimulated his own inducing of his unconscious state where he was able to do his readings. Reading the Akashic Records was part of it.
Just had to clarify this, as Cayce has been one of my favourites for more than 35 years.
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Yes, that is my understanding, too. Cayce was a remarkable fellow. We must not be surprised if hypnotherapists claim him as one of their own.
#117 12-08-2006, 03:39 AM
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"Their own?" Give me a break. I'm too intelligent to even entertain a response of such a ludicrous statement.
The quote in the previous post was a quote from a book that is carried in the A.R.E. I stand by what I wrote.
Sorry, if we disagree, Jan. I stand by what I've been taught.
Let us all not forget, once again, that hypnosis is the ride to get the brain waves lower. There are many ways to get there. It can also be stated that meditation is a form of self-hypnosis. The main concept here is being washed away and once again, the English language is being played.
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Hypnosis might pull memories out prematurely and screen memories be produced by the patient as a safeguard to cope with the new and strange information.
What happened to gently, gently, softly, softly?
Once again, BS, you are ill-informed. I suggest proper training. I refuse to further inform you regarding this matter. What you say you are, obviously, you are not. You've said you hypnotize people. Well, with all the questions regarding procedures that you should know if you hypnotize people, it concerns me that you don't know the answers. You would know then that there is no 'pulling' and it is a very gentle pleasant experience. You continue to spread myths and I refuse to entertain your discussions further. Please for the sake of your clients (not patients) get training.
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#118 12-08-2006, 03:42 AM
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Any self-induced altered state could be interpreted as a form of self-hypnosis, but there are other factors to consider, too.
While Cayce sometimes describes particular meditation techniques of sitting or chanting ("Arrr--eee-oommm" which is strikingly similar to popular Hindu mantra "Hari Om") the crucial element is that of opening up to divine influences. The Search for God books say that "Through prayer we speak to God. In meditation, God speaks to us." Cayce's concept of meditation has some aspects in common with Hinduism or Buddhism (the chakras, kundalini) but is most similar to Christian versions of New Thought. The symbolism of the Book of Revelation, he says, is based on meditative experiences.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce
Meditation is a slow and gentle awakening. Meditation does slowly dissolve away our ego.
His lifelong secretary, Gladys Davis, took down virtually all his readings, and they are recorded and indexed in the Association for Enlightenment and Research, established in Virginia in 1932 to study Cayce's work. In all, he gave 14,879 readings, well over half of them for people concerned about their health. Over a period of forty-three years, he read for more than six thousand people. In 1933, when he had been exercising his powers for thirty-one years, he explained that he still understood very little about what he was doing. "Apparently," he said, "I am one of the few who can lay aside their own personalities sufficiently to allow their souls to make this attunement to a universal source of knowledge -- but I say this without any desire to brag about it. In fact I do not claim to possess anything that other individuals do not inherently possess. Really and truly, I do not believe there is a single individual that does not possess this same ability I have. I am certain that all human beings have much greater powers than they are ever conscious of -- if they would only be willing to pay the price of detachment from self-interest that it takes to develop those abilities."
http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/phoebe.htm
Are we really detached when we seek past life knowledge or spiritual development? My past life readings posted here have been given freely and in return I received further information that was of great benefit to me.
Further knowledge of self and the responsibility that entails. I don't need anyone to believe my readings. I encourage people to question and test them. It's important to understand that we can all see our past lives for ourselves and get to know our past life connections with everyone on the planet. The problem is when we do see our past lives, we suddenly learn that we have a lot more responsibility than we ever realised.
Not everyone is ready for that.
#119 12-08-2006, 03:51 AM
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We must not be surprised if hypnotherapists claim him as one of their own.
Cayce's work grew in volume as his fame grew. He reluctantly asked for voluntary donations to support himself and his family so that he could practice full time. He continued to work in an apparent trance state with a hypnotist all his life. His wife and eldest son later replaced Layne in this role. A secretary, Gladys Davis, recorded his readings in shorthand.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce
HA, so I guess if I am to believe all of your wikipedia mumbo, then this too is valid.
I guess "WE" can claim him as one of 'ours'...
I'm so done.
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#120 12-08-2006, 03:59 AM
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Any altered state can be called hypnosis or self-hypnosis if no-one else is around. Cayce was not special because of hypnosis. If that were the case we would all demand to be hypnotized in order to become special like Cayce.
#121 12-08-2006, 04:13 AM
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But Cayce said that wouldn't work, because we are, generally, unable to lay aside our personalities.
I'm not anti-hypnosis. I am very curious about any altered mental state and its potential benefits. I do promise to seek proper training if ever I decide to take a closer look at hypnotic regression as a means of healing and past life recall.
I do admit to having very limited knowledge in that area and am grateful for your insights.
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#122 12-08-2006, 06:02 AM
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Any self-induced altered state could be interpreted as a form of self-hypnosis, but there are other factors to consider, too.
While Cayce sometimes describes particular meditation techniques of sitting or chanting ("Arrr--eee-oommm" which is strikingly similar to popular Hindu mantra "Hari Om") the crucial element is that of opening up to divine influences. The Search For God books say that "Through prayer we speak to God. In meditation, God speaks to us." Cayce's concept of meditation has some aspects in common with Hinduism or Buddhism (the chakras, kundalini) but is most similar to Christian versions of New Thought. The symbolism of the Book of Revelation, he says, is based on meditative experiences.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce
Meditation is a slow and gentle awakening. Meditation does slowly dissolve away our ego.
His lifelong secretary, Gladys Davis, took down virtually all his readings, and they are recorded and indexed in the Association for Enlightenment and Research, established in Virginia in 1932 to study Cayce's work. In all, he gave 14,879 readings, well over half of them for people concerned about their health. Over a period of forty-three years, he read for more than six thousand people. In 1933, when he had been exercising his powers for thirty-one years, he explained that he still understood very little about what he was doing. "Apparently," he said, "I am one of the few who can lay aside their own personalities sufficiently to allow their souls to make this attunement to a universal source of knowledge -- but I say this without any desire to brag about it. In fact I do not claim to possess anything that other individuals do not inherently possess. Really and truly, I do not believe there is a single individual
that does not possess this same ability I have. I am certain that all human beings have much greater powers than they are ever conscious of -- if they would only be willing to pay the price of detachment from self-interest that it takes to develop those abilities."
http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/phoebe.htm
Are we really detached when we seek past life knowledge or spiritual development? My past life readings posted here have been given freely and in return I received further information that was of great benefit to me.
Further knowledge of self and the responsibility that entails. I don't need anyone to believe my readings. I encourage people to question and test them. It's important to understand that we can all see our past lives for ourselves and get to know our past life connections with everyone on the planet. The problem is when we do see our past lives, we suddenly learn that we have a lot more responsibility than we ever realised.
Not everyone is ready for that.
Right I'm done here. I have fulfilled my obligations concerning passing on information. Many thanks to our hostess Shirley Maclaine, Brit and others.
I'm sorry about my tabloid journalist approach to past life readings. My guides say that I am allowed some margin of irresponsibility when it comes to demonstrating the ease in which past life reading can be done. We can all do this and a lot more besides. No matter what you think of me, my readings and my claims - just remember Edgar Cayce.
Cayce's words are very interesting and give us all something to think about.
"Apparently," he said, "I am one of the few who can lay aside their own personalities sufficiently to allow their souls to make this attunement to a universal source of knowledge -- but I say this without any desire to brag about it. In fact I do not claim to possess anything that other individuals do not inherently possess. Really and truly, I do not believe there is a single individual that does not possess this same ability I have. I am certain that all human beings have much greater powers than they are ever conscious of -- if they would only be willing to pay the price of detachment from self-interest that it takes to develop those abilities."
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Whether Edgar was hypnotized or not during his mission...is not overly important to me.
Though...as far as I have understood, he used a self-induced technique to enter his unconscious state. His assistant (whether his wife or others) did not hypnotize him, but only communicated the questions to him that was relevant. Questions from patients/customers or other kind of readings.
His unconscious state was thus ...you might say...entered through self-hypnosis, and reading of the Akashic Records (Book of Life) was probably done by his Higher Self...or superconsciousness.
This reading might be established by various techniques I suppose, but one must communicate at a certain high level where the Records are readable.
And Cayce was a master at this.
Whether the Akashic Records are read during a regression I do not know, but it is possible to have access to at least part of one’s own "book" in this "Library of the Souls".
To me BrianS seems to be able to access parts of this Library. His accuracy and reliability is to each and everyone to decide, but I myself find the cases that he has presented here on this forum very interesting.
BrianS does not claim 100% infallibility, and says that there is always room for error. And I agree that even Cayce made errors.
I feel now maybe as an advocate for both sides of sometimes opposing parties in this forum.
I feel that this forum…and this thread gives many of us a chance to be extra tolerant of others views, even though they might differ from our owns. And neither Sherrie or BrianS or Adrian should feel that they are unwanted here.
To me...highly the opposite. I think it would be a definite loss if BrianS now leaves us. His insights and scope is wide, and although some of it is controversial, I feel that his role might be important in helping us widen our knowledge and sometimes act as a catalyst in opening our own potentials.
And constructive responses from others here at this forum might help him keep a steadfast aim in seeking the highest truth.
To me, no doubt that different viewpoints is important as constructive input during our progress on the ladder of Life. If we only want the best for both our self and others, we will be shown the Truth. A truth that might differ somewhat individually, dependent on what stage each is on...in Life's mysterious Journey.
Thank you.
Peace be with you.
You too BrianS...and I hope you reconsider, just as Sherrie and Adrian…and maybe others here have done.
In Joy about life and its wonderful possibilities and unlimited experiences.
Jan Egil
Norway...in this universe.
Last edited by janus212 : 12-08-2006 at 08:30 PM.
#125 12-08-2006, 07:55 PM
osiris
Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: D
Posts: 4,544
Hey Brian.....
Ditto what janus said!
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