Remembering Past Lives
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 7 years before Aug 01, 2018
MiBeloved 7 years ago
I got an email about becoming aware of the knowledge and skills one developed in a past life.
It is possible to open the subconscious mind and take out knowledge and skills from a past life but even if one were to do this, one might find that the knowledge and skills do not convert properly in this modern cultural setting.
I am presently in South Korea. I did construction in the United States some years ago and gained some proficiency in it. However I noticed that here in South Korea, things are done in a different way.
If we regard my former experience in the United States as a past life, and my presence in South Korea as my present life, then can I recall my skill and then open a construction business here successfully.
You can see that this would depend on how much of the Korean way of construction I can integrate. A house is a house is a house is a house, but still if I were to build one to satisfy a South Korean, I would have to do it their way and that might require a whole lot of learning all over again.
In the United States, commodes and showers are not in one tiled area without a clear separation, but in Korea they are. In the United states people use bricks on the exterior of some houses in the North Eastern part of the country but in South Korea it is blocks or solid concrete.
The basic power is 120 volts in the US but it is 240 volts in Korea.
Thus getting information from a past life is one issue and the greater concern is putting it to use in the new cultural situation.
But really, why is it that someone cannot recall anything from past lives? Why is it that the present mental profile seems to be resistant to anything from the past? Why does the mind only rationalize everything in terms of what is happening right now, just as if the past has no bearing or impact on the present, when in fact the past is the parent of the present?
Like an unruly teenager, the present is always trying to disassociate itself from the past. And it tries to hold on, to delay the advance of its child which is the future.
To reach into the subconscious to take out memories of the past, one has to increase one’s psychic sensitivity and the way to do that is to practice meditation.
One should consider however that past skills are present now as instincts. Kundalini carries the past with it but only in the form of instincts. A bear woke up when it got warm in the arctic, and the creature instinctively headed for the ice floes in order to find seals to kill and eat.
The animal may not have remembered what it did last summer, but its kundalini has that memory packaged in it as instinct.
