October 5, 2009

• Why humans don’t remember past lives

• The issue of time

• All That Is is a single entity

God is indeed with each of you. You’re guided, you’re directed, you’re comforted, you’re encouraged, and you’re strengthened by God’s love.

You have many questions, all of which are so important, for these questions arise out of your desires to understand more fully the impact, the meaning, the implications of what is shared with you through these loving communications.

The question of context comes to the front of your issues. As long as we have worked with you and continue to work with you, it is our desire and our commitment to help provide meaning in your lives, not just meaning in terms of what you need to do now or to provide meaning in terms of generalities. We wish to find ways of connecting you more vitally with the lives you have been given. Each of you has in any single moment one life, a life that has purpose, a life that can clarify God’s omnipresence. Each of you has experienced previous lives. The nature of those lives is much different from the lives you are experiencing now—indeed the lives of all human beings. Since the nature of human life changes over time, it becomes even more important for each of you to understand with clarity why you are given a life and what you are to draw from that experience.

No two human beings have the same interactions with life that surrounds them. For every human being life has a different meaning. For the artist, the carpenter, for the writer, the musician, the teacher, for whatever activity one is engaged in, certain elements of life take on greater or lesser significance. These elements have been and continue to be part of God’s total creation. You interact with a portion of that totality in a way that has meaning for you.

You do not experience life from the perspective of a previous life, for what is to be learned, what is to be gained, is now different. You are given life at this point in your spiritual development because of what this life can mean for that development. You choose to interact through understanding or through rejection and denial. But what life offers is a kind of buffet created as a part of all that is by God. You choose to give value to this form of nourishment. Someone else chooses to grow through a different means of nourishment. The point is, it is God who provides all that is on the table, but it is human beings who choose what to consume and what to leave alone.

The thorny issue of context is an issue of your awareness of what God has created. Some individuals are more easily aware of various layers of creativity than others. Some individuals go through phases in their lives with great sensitivity toward what God has created, but they may go through other phases in their development in which there is a kind of rejection. It may be a willful inability to go forward, a denial of that potential. It may be less willful but equally void of the vision that is needed, for whatever reasons. Two lives will be very different, they will seek different objectives. Each life may change in its objectives. What you seek is indeed different from what you sought many years ago, and what you seek in the future may be different from what you seek now.

No goals are without value. Some goals benefit all. Some goals are given value by an individual because they only benefit that individual. Wherever these goals exist, they do have meaning for the individual. You do not seek goals that have no value to you. They may or may not be in concert with what God wishes all to pursue, but for whatever time those goals are seen to be valid, they do serve a purpose.

You learn, everyone learns through their own actions. You learn what works; you learn what doesn’t work. You learn what creates; you learn what destroys. Both learnings are important. If you develop an understanding of what truly destroys and you are seeking God’s presence, that which you have learned becomes a deep motivation for a rejection of such goals and a welcoming of Light.

In order to grow through these decisions that you make, it is most appropriate that you are not overwhelmed, singly focused on the nature of previous lives, for those previous lives provided their own lessons, and it is because of those lessons that your souls, your spirits, have felt that your current life is the next step toward God. Your lives are a step toward God. They are not detours. Some lives bring great pain and suffering to others, but that also serves to give meaning to the lives of many, for what can be learned by such destruction? Where can the spirit move forward? Where is growth possible? Where are the opportunities to renew love? Nothing in the human condition is wasted, for it is not God’s wish that human life and spiritual development are fully wasted.

There is in every spirit’s association with human life something that draws the spirit closer to the Spirit Center that is God. You know that you do not create…you merely transform. Your lives are designed ultimately so that transformation toward God is a reality.

It is our considerable effort to help connect you to the existence of spirit. That is our purpose. It is for that reason that we lovingly guide you and protect you. That is our purpose at our stage of spirit development. We are in effect a lens, a spiritual lens through which God’s light is focused. It is through your guides that you see the path more clearly. All human beings are guided. There is no individual who lives, however long or short, outside the realm of guidance. We are here because you must ultimately learn the beauty and reality of the spiritual and the temporal. Both experience life hand in hand, even when a human being is unaware of that relationship.

Knowing of your past can lead to dwelling on what is irrelevant to what you view as the present. The past is the present. The past is the future. There is no time, but you exist as human beings, and then you exist as human beings, and then you exist as human beings at the same time as you exist as spiritual beings, and exist as spiritual beings, and exist as spiritual beings. There is no real change. There is in reality no time when you used to live as human beings as opposed to now existing in such forms.

There are many experiences of the spirit that cannot be fully understood in human terms. Perhaps one can say there are parallel lives, lives that exist simultaneously and yet they are separate, but they all belong to the same whole. You are no different from your neighbor in the same way you are no different from what you like to refer to as the past. Both the past and the present are in reality the same.

As spirits we occupy no physical place, and therefore as spirits we do not exist separately in the past and in the present. We exist. Sometimes there is an awareness of this parallel current existence, and sometimes there is no concrete evidence. Many people go through their lives with neither interest nor understanding of this dualistic manner of life, and that is perfectly acceptable. But since the spirit occupies no space, the spirit occupies no time.

The issue of time and space is far beyond the understanding of humankind. It is merely enough to say there is no past, but there are many forms of the present. Transformations are transformations in the present, from one form of energy to another, both in the present. Human lives that you view as being in the past are human lives in a different kind of life-form, a different transformation.

God is. It is not that God was and is and will be. God simply is. Your spirit, your own soul is. It is being transformed. Its energy evolves, but there never was a past per se. For human beings the concept of past, present and future is very helpful, for it acknowledges that there is more to your own existence than you are currently aware. You’re all being transformed, you’re all being changed, but you’re not being recreated. The changes that take place are changes in energy, changes in awareness, changes in potential, but they are still you.

The transformation from a larval state to a butterfly is still the same entity. The caterpillar is not in the past, the butterfly in the future. They are not two separate entities. They are the same entity transformed. Imagine the butterfly perceiving itself to be a caterpillar in a previous life. There is no benefit to the butterfly in understanding what it was to be a caterpillar, for the reality is the butterfly and the caterpillar are the same.

It is exactly this way as you try to understand previous human life. It is still you. You have been transformed but the transformation does not change the reality that it is you. A human being in one form is associated with a given spirit and in another form may be associated with another spirit. But the human being is only an entity of transformation. Indeed since all spirits belong to the same single Spirit Center, we cannot actually say that human beings have a different spirit in a previous life from that which accompanies them in the present life. The spirit in a previous life is a different form, a different transformation from the current life, as you label it. But the spirit is still the spirit.

You are the same person you were years ago as students in a school, yet you look different, your view on life is different, you seek different goals, you appear different in all ways, you act differently, but you are the same person. Life therefore is a life of transformation. Spirit growth is a matter of spiritual transformation. The connection between spirit and human life is permanent, and it is in itself a single entity. Your spirit is felt to be permanent, but nevertheless you and your spirit guide, you as human beings and all of us as spiritual beings, are really the same single entity. Your neighbor is the same single entity in a different form, but the same single entity as you.

We wish you to become loving because you cannot hate what you are. You cannot hate another. You cannot judge another because there is no other. That person you see across the room is you. All that exists, All That Is, is a single entity with many transformations. In as much as you engage in your lives with that understanding, you will always feel God’s guidance. You will always feel the illumination of All That Exists surrounding you and accompanying you on your journey.

You are blessed in your growth. You are blessed in your searching, and you are blessed with the love that is permanent.

Amen.