Many of us believe in reincarnation - transmigration of souls. And no one seems to have any doubts that one can only pass from a past life to a future one. This is how time moves, isn't it?
How Pythagoras was Evrophobe
It is known that the famous Pythagoras perfectly remembered many of his former lives and willingly told others about them. So, the great mathematician claimed that in one of his incarnations he was a warrior of Troy and his name was Euphorbus. The skeptical Greeks decided to put him to shame, conducted excavations in the place indicated by Pythagoras, and … found in Mycenae, in the temple of Hera, along with numerous Trojan prey, the shield of the warrior Euphorbus, which was previously described in detail by Pythagoras!
There are a lot of examples of this kind of reincarnation: they are described in books, articles, scientific works, recorded in various centers and societies for the therapy of past lives. But what about the secrets of double birth? A well-known researcher of the phenomenon of reincarnation from the United States, Ian Stevenson, who for many years has studied the ancient teachings of the reincarnation of the soul in the world's largest libraries, claims: it turns out that it is possible to be born in the future, in the past, and in the present …
This question is of concern today not only to the mystics. Scientists have also taken up it. The information obtained after numerous studies was compared with the data of historical archives, tested for inconsistency, And some cases were recognized as unconditionally reliable by the most stringent verification commissions!
Miracles of Holotropic Breathwork
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Research of this kind was initiated by the famous psychologist Stanislav Grof. Thus, who came up with a psychotechnique, which he called holotropic breathing. In his opinion, if you breathe in and out in a certain way, you can immerse yourself in a special state in which a person sees and relives a past life. His numerous experiments clearly proved (the reliability of the patients' stories was then confirmed by the data of historical and linguistic examinations) that people could really see themselves in past lives. However, several cases were recorded that baffled an experienced psychologist.
One of Grof's patients, for example, said that he saw himself as a merchant who lived in the Middle Ages. He had his own merchant ship and often sailed the Atlantic Ocean. During one of these voyages, the ship was captured by pirates, and the merchant himself was killed. All the details of the historical era reported by the patient, as well as the detailed description of the ship, goods, sea trade routes, etc., coincided with the data of the historical archives. And this would not have been any sensation if it had not been for the next session of Holotropic Breathwork, which gave truly phenomenal results! The same patient saw another past life of his. And this time his activity was also connected with the sea, but in a completely different way: now he was a pirate. Moreover, it was he who sank the ship and even personally hanged the merchant, the owner of the ship, on the gallows. I.e,in one of his past lives, this man killed … himself! What is most surprising, and this time his story was confirmed by archival documents!
My own mother
And this kind of reincarnation paradox is not the only one. An analysis of the stories of other patients who also practiced Holotropic Breathwork showed, for example, that a man who in a previous life was a woman, during a new session, turned out to be … the husband of this very woman. That is, it turns out, he was married to himself!
The famous esotericist Jean Lilly echoes Stanislav Grof. He also conducted various experiments to immerse volunteer patients in a special state in which they could see themselves in past lives. In his famous book "The Cyclone Center" he described numerous cases, among which there was such a completely paradoxical one. He writes that during one of the experiments on himself, he saw himself as his own mother, who was pregnant with him. That is, he was going to give birth to … himself.
The usual logic of thinking, of course, protested against such a paradox and was not taken seriously by professional psychologists and psychiatrists. They made their own verdict to the experiments of Grof, Lilly, and other researchers of this kind of phenomena: either people who lived in the past with a "double life" are abnormal, and they have a split personality, or the research methods used contain errors that lead to the appearance of such information..
Eastern teachings
How to explain the existence of one individual in different bodies at the same time? After all, almost all the traditions of the East on the transmigration of souls claim that there is a certain number of corridors of reincarnation, they are parallel, stretched strictly from the past into the future and cannot intersect. Souls move along these corridors through all epochs, successively incarnating in various people. This is, so to speak, the traditional view of the problem of reincarnation, and it underlies most theories.
However, there is another view. And if we turn to the most ancient esoteric teachings of the East, we will see that the initiates of ancient times, who inherited their knowledge from disappeared civilizations, knew that a person who died now could start a new life not only in the future, but also in the distant past! And today can be born those whose past life took place in centuries that have not yet come for us. Such people, as a rule, become prophets: after all, they have the memory of the future!
Indeed, it is very difficult to understand How the split of the soul occurs, how it manages to live at the same time in two different forms. One of the theories of reincarnation says that a person's soul, especially if his life is not successful, strives to start a new one, in a familiar environment - and thus, as it were, repeat everything from the beginning, hoping that this time everything will turn out much better. However, fate cannot be fooled. The merchant died, his soul returned to the past and moved into the baby, who later became a pirate. And then … Then everything, I think, is clear. And there is no contradiction that one and the same soul, being in different bodies, can meet with itself. This is the secret of reincarnation that was accidentally revealed to us.
Ring of time
But what still allows the human soul or the higher powers that control it to freely move in any direction on the timeline? The ancients were sure that such miracles of rebirth take place because time is closed … in a ring. Wasn't the ancient emblem pushed to the same conclusion: a snake biting its tail? (And by the way, this explanation of the nature of time does not contradict the views of modern physicists. especially…).
Another sign that summarizes and conveys most fully the teaching about the vicious circle of rebirth is labyrinths. Strange structures, erected thousands of years ago, are a complex pattern of a double spiral converging towards the center, and are found everywhere on the globe. According to scientists, it was they, labyrinths, that most likely reminded people of the difficult path of the soul …
Svetlana VASILIEVA