Free Remembering Past Lives by Carl Llewellyn Weschcke, Ph.D. Page B

of deep meditation, self-hypnosis, astral projection, and during after-death experiences of past-lives review.
    In summary, the ultimate you—the immortal soul—is far greater and far older than the incarnating personality. Each lifetime the soul projects a new personality into incarnation, and after the life and death of that personality, its learned lessons and experiences are abstracted in the life-after-death process and absorbed into the soul. Then the process of incarnation is repeated with more growth and learning opportunities in a continuing program of becoming more than you are.
    Contrary to some sectarian teachings, there is no “judgment day” upon which the soul is assigned to eternal punishment or eternal reward. Instead, in the after-death process, the lessons of each lifetime are balanced against your soul’s greater vision, and the next incarnation is planned and prepared for. And when the time is right and the right opportunities of parents and environment are available, a new personality is given birth in a new body.
    Each Lifetime is a chapter in the Book of Life and there are many chapters and perhaps even many volumes representing different phases in the soul’s growth.
    Just as the many life-lessons are abstracted and their essence is retained by the soul, so the many personas and their memories of your current lifetime are retained in your subconscious mind. And your subconscious mind is a unit of the greater Collective Unconscious where those many personalities and their memories reside and are accessible through your subconscious mind.

    Can you remember your Past Lives?
    If “no”—Why Not?
    Our past-life experiences remain forever with us for a purpose. But rather than being automatically available to us at the beginning of each lifetime, they challenge us to retrieve them and discover their relevance for ourselves. Only then can we integrate them into our present lifetime. It’s through concentrated effort and self-dis covery that we learn and grow. It’s then that knowledge of the past becomes power for the present. It’s then that we uncover totally new potentials to be realized and enjoyed. Once we discover them, our past-life achievements in particular can build feelings of worth and well-being. We become less constricted in our self-identity and more at one with the universe.
    Dr. Joe Slate in Doors to Past Lives
    Until recent times, it was common for spiritual teachers to respond to questions about remembering past-lives by saying: “You’re not supposed to.” In other words, Live in the present and don’t look to the past in the hope you were someone famous. That’s good advice, but people today are more sophisticated than to waste time hoping to find Cleopatra or George Washington among their past lives and do instead perceive the potential power of past life memories as resources of value today.
    Please read that quoted paragraph again and realize that within one life time you now have three primary jobs:
to have new goals and new experiences which become new life lessons
to retrieve and discover pertinent lessons, knowledge, and skills from the past
to integrate past and present into your current “person-hood” as you become more than you are.
    We now live in a new age of greater opportunities and higher expectations than ever before, and more is needed from each of us if we are to meet and rise above the critical challenges of the coming decades. Yes, there are books (and speeches and sermons) forecasting “end times,” and there always is and always will be such. Yet, as you look about, you see great problems all over the world. Wars, social conflict, economic challenges, political manipulations, earth movements, extreme weather, new health threats, increased use of mass weapons, divisions between government factions, solar eruptions, explosions of criminal and terrorist activities, planetary