Here is a question Sri Harold Klemp has been asked about understanding Spiritual Experiences.
Read on for clues that may help you.
Q: I would like to see my past lives. How do I go about this?
A: It is easiest to trace past lives through a study of your dreams.
To awaken such past-life dreams, make a note of things you greatly like or dislike. Do that also with people. Then watch your dreams. Also note if a certain country or century attracts you. There is a reason.
When we practice the Spiritual Exercises of ECK faithfully, the Inner Master will open us up to those things that are important to see concerning past lives. Most of them need not concern us. No matter what we were in the past during any other life, we are spiritually greater today.
The wealth and position we enjoyed in past lives mean nothing unless we know how to lift ourselves from materialism into the higher worlds. This does not mean to shun the good things of this life—family, home, wealth. God loves the rich man as much as the poor. We get no special benefits if we fall for the negative tricks of asceticism or unusual austerities.
We live the spiritual life beginning where we are today. We look to see the hand of Divine Spirit guiding us toward the greater consciousness, which leads us to becoming a more direct vehicle for Spirit.
—A Modern Prophet Answers Your Key Questions about Life, Book 1
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The Law of Karma
Past & Present Lives
By Sri Harold Klemp
We are each the sum of all our thoughts, feelings, and actions from this life and every lifetime in the past.
The past is a fascinating study. Even more so is learning of a present condition that saw birth in a past life.
To celebrate their wedding anniversary, a couple took a cruise. A port of call was Mexico. The couple went to see the Mayan ruins at Tulum, took many pictures, and also bathed in the turquoise waters nearby. The cruise was a happy, memorable event.
But it proved to be more than a physical journey.
Soon after their return home, both the woman’s husband and her father became ill with the same problem, congestive heart failure. They were taken to the same hospital, the same floor, and shared the same doctor. An interesting quirk of timing and location.
On top of that, the wife, four months before the cruise, had been brought to that very hospital and saw the same doctor, because she too had a heart problem.
A small world indeed.
The woman who wrote this account to me is a student of Eᴄᴋᴀɴᴋᴀʀ. She reports that it was an obvious spiritual lesson of sorts. But what?
The Past-Life DreamShe asked the Mᴀʜᴀɴᴛᴀ, the Inner Master, for an insight.
Then came a dream. It showed her a past life when she, her husband, even her father, and the doctor were Mayans. On the day of a great festival, crowds of people in bright colors and feathers filled the streets around the temples. The doctor was a high priest. He was at the top of the temple stairs performing human sacrifices. The Mᴀʜᴀɴᴛᴀ spared her the experience of reliving her family’s and her own death.
The dream was clear. The priest who did human sacrifices in those ancient days was now their doctor. His field of service today was to heal hearts, not rip them out.
That’s how the Law of Karma deals with misdeeds.
A bright sidelight to the dream is that she had a healing. She no longer needs to take any heart medication.
The Past-Life LessonMany of our dreams relate to past lives. Once we come to that realization, we can begin to access the experiences that lie hidden within our memory banks.
And, yes, it is possible to bring hard-won lessons from past lives into the present for a better understanding of our situation in life today. The spiritual exercise of the HU song can pull aside the veils that shade your inner vision.
For the spiritual student, it’s all about liberation. It’s about experiencing the freedom, joy, and wisdom of Soul.
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