Gordon Phinn Journey To Knowing Life between lives, Past Lives, Reincarnation
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Choices Before Birth
I reckon it was at least forty years ago when I first started seeing references in past life regression books to groups of guides that the recently deceased would consult in reviewing their recent performance on earth. Although I had discovered, or would discover, obscure books of past lives and regression work going back to at least the 1920’s (Alexander Cannon and Joan Grant), the field had not really come alive until the 1970’s with Helen Wambach’s first two books. Of course entities like Seth spoke freely and illuminatingly about the purpose of many lives, and many of us were aware that both Buddhist and Hindu teachings spoke of the phenomenon without apology. And there is no underestimating the effect of Shirley MacLaine’s autobiographical books like Out On A Limb and subsequent tv adaptations, which, with their ufo sightings and live channeling by Kevin Ryerson, bravely broke new ground for network television, and I might add, stand up well even today in 2021.
Then there seemed to be a period, at least for the new age community, when past lives and their access through regression work became the new normal and one could speak about them freely, along with spirit communication and out of body travel. In the 90’s of course, after Raymond Moody’s best seller Life After Life, the near death experience quickly became the new gold standard, with many studies appearing in a few years. That little flood inspired my own first book, Eternal Life And How To Enjoy It, which detailed my own lucid dream recall and guided tour of the afterlife realms, as I sensed there was a whole new audience for such detailed knowledge.
The life-between-life information started coming through sometime after that. From various sources as I recall, including casual conversation and emails from other practitioners like myself. It had been found that if the facilitators took the client backwards through ‘time’ to before a birth, they appeared in spirit, interacting with other spirits, living lives in families and communities, and if the right questions were asked, preparing for an upcoming incarnation.
This preparation involved discussion with close spirit friends and guides about relationships, cultures, careers and religions; incarnational challenges and issues to be faced, and perhaps re-faced if previous efforts had been deemed unsuccessful.
We also began to hear about levels of soul energy that were brought into incarnation, as the full measure would somehow overwhelm the physical ego character if employed. Figures between 20% and 70% were invoked, depending on the maturity of the soul, stages being offered as ‘young’, ‘mature’ and ‘old’.
While I would not say all of this is common knowledge, I imagine a good deal of it will be prologue to you all, and perhaps who are, like myself, pondering how we incorporate it into our ever widening vision of who we are and what is possible.
It seems to be generally accepted that major life decisions and turning points are set up carefully, with the full knowledge of guides, who can nudge us along at the appropriate ‘times’ if the excitement of life somehow strips us of the inner poise necessary.
Exit strategies are sometimes several in number, lending us flexibility in our crisis reactions. Clients have reported,… Oh, I could have died then…and then…and then, but chose to tough it out this time. It seems to be generally accepted that major life decisions and turning points are set up carefully, with the full knowledge of guides, who can nudge us along at the appropriate ‘times’ if the excitement of life somehow strips us of the inner poise necessary. Exit strategies are sometimes several in number, lending us flexibility in our crisis reactions. Clients have reported,… Oh, I could have died then…and then…and then, but chose to tough it out this time.
Other choices seem to be around picking others to (a) be our children and parents, (b) business partners, (c) brothers in arms, (d) aggressive rivals, (e) abusers and exploiters, (f) soulmates and protectors. Also included are physical challenges such as disabilities and possibly terminal diseases, various severely limiting medical and mental conditions, all to challenge our souls even farther than the already limiting conditions of the three dimensional physical plane.
So, we ask ourselves, as we survey this expanded understanding, is there anything we did not in some way before birth, choose to undergo? It would surely be a lovely way to deny responsibility and continue the blame game. Sometimes it seems our major choices, say of parents and culture, involve accepting the society and religion they have accustomed themselves to: take one get three and maybe spend some time digging out from the second two. Or, say, agreeing to a marriage with a spouse that cheated and deceived you before, as they request second or third chance to, as they say in blues songs, quit their low down ways. Or, doing much the same yourself, promising to avoid the abuse you indulged in before. There are, as one can imagine, many variations on these themes.
‘Atheistic Communism’ was set up for a variety of reasons, one being an option for those souls seriously afflicted by previous religious repression and intolerance, and so-called ‘godless humanism’ for much the same reasons. My own study of history suggest that every type of society and societal response to social, psychological and cultural problems has been tried and test-driven at some time or other. Tolerance, intolerance, flexibility, rigidity, legislation lax and severe, punishment at all levels, all seeking some imagined perfection of society that effortlessly shifts as we evolve from tribes to nations, empires and back again.
We struggle and suffer on this plane and then joyfully play in spirit. Viewed from each the other seems like a dream. Clients during regressions and guided meditations report such to me over and over again. Near death experiencers tell much the same story and have done so for the last fifty year, as do spiritualist messages from the last one hundred and fifty. So why do we take on this insanity over and over? To smooth out the rough spots, to handle it better, to quit indulging in reactive anger, jealousy and anxiety, obsessions with shiny objects and money, suicide, murder and decades long depressions, soaked in alcohol and drugs? That would be my guess at this point in the game.
Gordon Phinn's practice includes regressions (past and LBL), life readings, spirit guidance, and distance healing.
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June 18, 2021 @ 12:35 pm
I wonder about these too, how much of are life circumstances have been predetermined? How much choice we have? Did we really choose all this shit? Sometimes it seems there cannot be a valid reason for the suffering here, but things seem different from the other side.
June 19, 2021 @ 8:32 am
I know exactly what you mean. I can’t imagine that I chose some of this stuff that’s happened in this lifetime.
June 19, 2021 @ 10:20 am
Maybe not all was chosen by you personally, as I mentioned to Adrian. Think “family dramas” for example. Or political movements you have no sympathy with. The list goes on….
June 20, 2021 @ 9:05 am
I know I chose my family but I must have been drinking heavily at the time LOL.
June 19, 2021 @ 10:17 am
Agreed Adrian. One point: When we choose, you know, parents, friends, siblings for “karmic” reasons, we my have to take on some of their “stuff” that isn’t necessarily ours…addictions, criminality, etc.
Same with choice of nation. Theosophists used to talk about “national karma” that you have to accept as a precondition of birth. As a Brit born in 52 I think I knew about our Empire karma, and the commonwealth results, and other challenges, and as a Canadian since ’68, very close to the US, I am aware of America’s empire building karma, just to give two examples.
Suffering seems also to be a precondition of existence here. For me that seems to work out as coping with a good dose of humour. Or, as I like to say. “Shit happens and you deal with it.”
June 20, 2021 @ 6:58 am
Yes these ancestral issues are really hard for some people.
June 20, 2021 @ 9:50 am
Adrian, due to a number of past lives in Europe/Britain, I was/am very interested in the progress of the European Union. The first empire no-one was forced to join, and am now thinking over the upsurge in reactionary nationalism we’re seeing there. Obviously a pendulum swing that will swing back sometime.
June 20, 2021 @ 4:11 pm
I’m not sure what you mean by progress. The way I see it from Hungary, the EU is increasingly trying to become an empire, dismantling the sovereignity of its member states any way it can. Its easy to see this, thatswhy the pushback in the form of nationalism. Some people would disagree with me on this. We were not forced to join, but they surely lied to us, many of the promises have been broken. For example salaries are still 1/4 of what it is in Germany after 20 years of membership. Interesting that you can remember past lives, was it accomplished trough hypnosis or OBE exploration, maybe both?
June 21, 2021 @ 9:37 am
Okay, by “progess” I mean moving away form the nation states that were the outcome of tribalism merged for mutaul assurance, into the next stage of multi-ethnic unions that are a prelude, and maybe a long one, to the one world concept. Perhaps being politically manipulated into the EU seems like a small step from being forced into the Austro-Hungarian or Ottoman Empire, but it is a step.
Past lives? yes, many exampes over the decades…spontaneous visions during meditations, lucid dreams recalled, regression work, obe visits. My book You Are History covers all this extensively.
Also, if my ‘spiritual visions of EU etc seem politically naive, I will not argue the point: they could well be.
June 21, 2021 @ 11:00 am
Its Ok, I dont care too much about political ideologies.The discovery of our spiritual nature, past lives, ancient history, our connection to Ets, and other realms, devic, angelic, elemental and the Earth itself are far more intresting for me.
I also think increasing awarness of these could solve many of our issues that are popular in discussion today, like what could past life awarness do to a racist, who suddenly remembers a past life as a black slave. Or to a religious fanatic who believes we have only one life, and would shun everyone to hell who thinks otherwise.
I watched some of your OBE journal videos, very intresting ones. I liked the vids about Maitreya. Intresting perspectives.
Also good job on the books, I like your style. I couldnt find “More adventures In eternity” in an ebook format anywhere.
June 22, 2021 @ 6:50 pm
Yes, the increasing awareness you see and/ or hope for could solve a number of those issues, just for the reasons you mention.
Glad you enjoyed the vids, they can communicate in a way that essays struggle for. Maitreya is a special presence and I am honoured to be a messenger.
More Adventures In Eternity was not ebooked by its publisher and remains so. Print only. I have been told I have the copyright to do so myself and I might if I can find the darn pdf.
June 20, 2021 @ 9:01 am
I believe that not every single detail of our lives was preplanned. The end results, of whatever we came here to learn, were preplanned but how we get down that “path of learning” is up to us and our free will. I don’t think we always learn the lesson we came into these lifetimes to learn either and that’s why we choose to keep coming back.
I believe that when we decided to come into these lifetimes on earth we did agree to living a life where there is both dark and light and good and bad. If everything were perfect with no suffering or hardships then imagine how boring life would be. There would be nothing to gain if life were perfect.
June 20, 2021 @ 9:45 am
Absolutely, lots of “details” are left to “fate”, the ups and downs of the economy, etc etc. We come in knowing that “shit happens” regardless of the wisdom of choices, and likely we just laugh about it, knowing we’ll be stupid sometimes but that we’ll get through it all and come out the other side.
June 20, 2021 @ 2:20 pm
I agree completely, Gordon.