Gary, you wrote this message June 12 asking about experiences with reincarnation. At the time I didn't feel moved to answer but as I read further in your book, on page 300 you wrote about Phineas Quimby and Mary Baker Eddy, and I had to laugh.
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On my 18th or 19th birthday my father took me to NYC and gave me a gift of a karmic reading with Neva Dell Hunter. This was around 1962. She was a channel for Dr. Ralph Gordon who said he had been Dr. Phineas Quimby in his last lifetime. When Neva Dell would go into a self-induced trance, he would announce himself as coming from the "5th plane and 17th chair". Purportedly he was on the level of the 7th plane, but he came down to the 5th plane to be able to communicate. This was all completely fascinating to me as a kid. The purpose of the reading was to give me information on lifetimes that touched upon?work I had chosen to do in this lifetime. The only famous purpose that I had had contact with as far as a teacher of God was Joseph in Egypt. I was also a Hebrew woman there. I became part of Neva Dell Hunter's inner circle. I had been brought up Unitarian, but my horizons expanded to include Unity thinking - science of the mind - mixed in with reincarnation. We developed
something called aura balancing. It helped me to listen inwardly and was helpful to me later. Later I got to know a number of spiritual and healing national and international leaders and found out behind the scenes that they are "human" and subject to anger and fears, etc. I had another "spiritual" karmic reading as I became more "advanced". I know longer have the tapes for these readings but some of the lifetimes I remember, and they have proven to be good allegories for me.
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Years later, my daughter and I were going through a difficult situation, and my husband/her father, who?"died" when she was 15 mos. old,?came through to talk to us. The medium he used was Psychic Circle - a board game. He told us we should not be playing with it, but that it was the only way he could contact us. He helped us at a time when we needed it the most dealing with problems we were having. At the same time he put my mind to rest about his death and moved me with his love. He told us about past lives we had had together. He told me I had been a teacher, and I was not surprised. In another we were married and farmers in England. He has not incarnated again yet as he says he is waiting for me. We also had contact with my father who was really bored without a body and anxious to be incarnated again. I was dubious at first that this was really my deceased husband, but when he answered correctly some questions in a way I had even forgotten, and seeing the mannerisms
of his speech, etc. I believed. For instance, I asked him the name of our goat. I had in mind the goat Sally, but he answered Katie. Turns out that Katie was the name of the other goat whose name I had forgotten. My daughter had been a baby, but it was she who was the medium for the answers. All this was great help for us. He gave us advice and told us things that were going to happen that did and helped us through a hard time. I realize this is all a dream within a dream. bit it helped us in a way we needed at the time in a way that we could relate to. I think of it sort of like Pursah and Arten coming to Gary in a form that helped that was a form he was comfortable with. It was a way of showing us that we were not alone - that we had help.
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If I use the metaphysics of the Course, I can recognize that there is no world. This means that not only is there no life that I think I see right now, but there is no death and living again with people I can remember in this lifetime nor is are there many lifetimes that I do not presently remember. And yet it is part of the illusion that is my classroom - other seeming segments - illusions within illusions for which I can be grateful for the lessons they teach which seen rightly are all a help to me. So I use these experiences I have as they come along, but part of the lesson, too, I think, is that they are no more special nor have any more meaning than the person I speak to on the elevator - or even don't speak to on the elevator. That is not to minimize at all, but to say how every moment holds a chance for the Atonement - a chance for seeing Christ's face.
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Linda
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garyrrenard wrote:
For those of you who may be too young to remember Carnation Instant
Breakfast, I apologize for the pun. Am I dating myself? (Hee hee) In
any case, even though ACIM teaches that reincarnation is impossible
because the body isn't real (so we must just be dreaming that we're
living these different incarnations) it also says on P.61 of the
Manual for Teachers, "All that must be recognized however, is that
birth was not the beginning, and death is not the end." Arten and
Pursah talked a lot about different lifetimes, past and future,
including theirs and even a couple of mine. They always reminded me
at some point that like the entire universe, these lifetimes are only
dreams within a dream. I think that like with Buddhism and Hinduism,
an interest in reincarnation is a major part of most people's
spiritual path at some point, and it
certainly was mine. I'd like to
hear any experiences you may have had in this area, whether in
remembering past lives or what your thoughts are on this subject.
Love and peace, Gary.
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