As our present life includes our past lives, how can the whole (our present life) be less than the part (our past lives)? It is unrealistic not to try to extend and deepen the life which we are presently living. Past connections are only as valuable as the consciousness of the person using the connection to expand what is in existence at the present.
What many people fail to understand is that the second we connect with the past experience, we have succeeded in bringing it into the present. It is either brought in with consciousness and incorporated into the present, or it becomes an illusion. It is an illusion in the sense that the energy, which is being fed into the past, can in no way advance the growth of the individual. By bringing past energy into the present, we can expand consciousness and grow. Emotional identification with past experiences has even deeper potential for illusion and fantasy than the consciousness of a present situation.
People often dramatize to the good or bad something which they reflect upon. When there is a connection karmically, we have an inordinate capacity to project only positive quantities on the previous relationship. It is certainly good to enter into a relationship with positive feelings and to feel all kinds of warmth and love. If the connection of two people has positive quantities, then the situation around them will show increased growth.
If the past karmic connection was a negative or destructive one, it will reflect itself in circumstances around the people; one or both of them will become weak as a result of the additional energy flowing into this previous relationship. What we would like to happen because of some romantic idea of past karina or reincarnation connection is an illusion.
Emotions, particularly past connections from Time and Space, have such a strong root system – having survived over such a long period of time – that when they attach themselves to people they draw very deeply and succeed in growing at an extraordinarily fast rate.
Furthermore, such energy is only contacted after your consciousness on a spiritual level develops to a very high degree. Only then can you be aware of these past-life connections in even small ways. Because they come from the deep past, they have depth. Because of the great elasticity essential for travel through Time and Space, they have great strength. These cosmic seeds are not for amateur gardeners to play with. They take a deep consciousness and detachment to be used well.
It is always what we do not have to be responsible for that seems attractive.
The amount of spiritual work that goes into development on the physical, material and then the spiritual level gives two dimensions of soil, which can retain this energy for a third dimension.
Time and Space experiences are not for undeveloped people, who do not have the depth to hold anything with such a deep root system and with such an accelerated pattern of growth. You can raise morning glories on a terrace, but you certainly cannot raise oak trees on a terrace.
Anyone working to grow must consciously understand that the further you grow and develop, the deeper your detachment must become on an emotional and intellectual as well as a spiritual basis. You have to begin to accept the fact that things are as they are, not as you wish them to be.
You need to develop a practical, simple, and essential consciousness. Projecting, dreaming, and wanting are for people with a great deal of time and no development. It is a waste of energy to fight inevitable situations; to grow, you must change within yourself and transcend the situation. The dreams and hopes and illusions of people have to disappear as they grow. Otherwise, they can never accept the realities.
The fascination of reaching into the past should in no way hold us to the energy connection we find. This is a tremendous temptation because it is an externalized situation; even though it represents us, we are detached from it because we see Time and Space simultaneously while we exist on another dimension.
It takes tremendous courage to work dynamically in two different directions at the same time. It is as if we are trying to create two cyclones on different planes where they need each other to maintain the energy balance. It involves raising one level of energy, transcending that, detaching from it, and then opening during the surrender to any dimension where the effort of the surrender and detachment brings other energies into the void.
These cyclones, or vortexes, all contain wisdom and energy. Some are containers of people, some of knowledge of a culture, but they are again only manifestations and have a capacity to bore their way into our unconsciousness and serve as very high nourishment accepted without mind.
Some of these are such complete worlds in themselves that if they are looked at consciously, they immediately wrap the individual experiencing them into this intelligence and the person feels completely creative living within the extraordinary expansion of materialization and energy force.
The unconsciousness in us contains everything. Spirituality frees the inner content to allow it to travel until it becomes one with Time and Space and then the complete manifestation of all that was gives the nourishment.
In this Time and Space energy we do not connect the same way as we do working from a spiritual level. Working on a spiritual level we are consciously opening to receive a specific energy which has to do with the one-pointedness of existence. We are standing on the earth opening to the energy above us – energy which is at a point directly above our head.
In the Time and Space connection, as we are working in a state of suspended energy, we have to attract the force from infinity. This should manifest a connection in a particular past karma. It has no more significance in its manifestation to the earth than a noodle has in a pan of lasagna. If you get lost in the pan of lasagna, you’ll get lost in this aspect of your cosmic soul. As the distance in energy is much more vast, so are the manifestations. The more extraordinary the manifestation, the more advanced the student, the simpler it should be to separate from the manifestation. Intensity does not make truth, it only signifies dense energy.
~Excerpt from Spiritual Cannibalism
