This is a truly powerful post. And having shared some of those heart-rending, gut-churning experiences with you, I can completely empathise.

When we contemplate for a moment the disharmony and destruction mankind has endured through history, and then realise that you and we have lived through and experienced those times, it is no wonder that are current incarnations can be so influenced by the density.

As you rightly and importantly say though, there is no point trying to seek out these experiences by doing past-life-regressions until our destiny takes us there. Only then, are we likely to be sufficiently evolved to be able to endure the karmic effects and yet still right ourselves in the storm.

When this happened to me, I remember a powerful line in a song coming to me "tie yourself to the mast my friend, you know the storm will end". In my darkest hour, it kept me sane, it kept me centred.

And this is the key to processing karma. Always finding our centre. Letting the pain wash through us, bathing in it, drinking it in through every pore, until finally, the dam breaks, the dross is washed away and we expand into the cosmos.

As you also point out Trin, sometimes karma will be experienced more gently. And how do we know if we're being influenced by it? Watch for incidents where our emotional response to a particular incident suddenly seems to blow up out of all proportion. This is a likely indicator. We don't need to create the exact circumstances of the past life, we just need to feel that energy.

Indeed it's not at all necessary to relive the exact details of the past. To do so risks forming an identity around that energy. Remember what we really are, is what we feel ourselves to be right here, right now, in this moment.

Karma is our path to salvation. Embrace it when it arises, and at the same time, keep watching for the key that unlocks the door and lets go of the past forever!

Chris

this is a powerful sharing - thanks for posting it!
It raised a question for me, and that is how can people differentiate between a strong pattern or distortion (and its influences) that was created in this life time (early childhood for example) and one created in a past life (assuming such a thing is not always accompanied by visions or past life memories)? Is it just a question of intensity? I believe I've experienced influences of both, and generally they've felt pretty different, but there have been times when the influence/situation is more subtle and the root of it not always clear.
Presumably sometimes there's a cross over (past life karma influencing and building conditioning in this lifetime).
Another question of course is... does it matter? do we actually need to differentiate between the two, or to recognise which of our experiences are karmic or not? rather as you suggest we can just observe, surrender and work with/through whatever arises without trying to label it, and when we have a more obvious karmic experience we just work through it in the same way.

Thank you for the question Ben.

In my experience, patterns and 'distortions' happen because of our karma. So yes there most certainly is a cross over from one incarnation to the next. Patterns/distortions usually seem to be created in this life time because of karma that first started in a past life. On the other hand they may be created afresh during current experience. That wouldn't automatically make it easier to process.

I don't believe that it is always necessary to know when the distortion/karma first originated. It doesn't always serve us to be party to such details. In my experience we are shown what we need to see and the rest is superfluous. The important factor is whether or not we can let go of our attachment to it.

I would say that, in my experience, the intensity is not a valuable gauge when it comes to working out where the karma started from. Intensity tends to be related to our level of attachment rather than the time frame.

Does that answer the question? Please feel free to ask or exchange more. It a great topic

Trin
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Hi Ben,

Great questions and very pertinent ones as people begin to process their karma of the ages.

I find myself in a place where I tend to feel and know people's karma. Not all the time nor with every person, but rather when they are at a stage to process it.

What I observe is that someone can be engaged in a fairly 'normal' kind of situation but suddenly it can take on seemingly monumental importance. Anyone from the outside looking in might feel that person is getting things quite heavily out of perspective.

The karma creates mirroring experiences to the past life event. So for example, someone might remember being at war and being quite horribly injured (as happened to me), now a fairly innocuous accident (say a twisted ankle), suddenly sparks off the energy taking the person through the experiences of the earlier event.

If we are watching synchronicites and following the inner pull, a picture will be painted of the situation. So for example I was drawn into a church and my attention directed to a monument to the fallen in the 'great' world wars. Then I was drawn inexplicably into a blind alley where my attention was drawn to a person hobbling on crutches through a narrow alley way. The inner knowing landed that it was a message meant for me. This had all been sparked off by a deep consciousness body massage which began in my lower back, but started releasing shooting pains through my body as the massage progressed to my legs.

It soon became clear to me that I'd strayed into a minefield and been blown up. Which is really interesting because I served in this lifetime as an Officer in the Royal Engineers where one of my roles was to breech minefields! You see this is exactly how it works - if we look at the past incidents and experiences in this life, there will be many clues as to what took place.

The karma helps us unfold new gifts. So for me, I remembered at the time I'd had a strong trust in the divine but I'd not trusted myself in how I could integrate that into physical feeling and application - I tended to live on blind faith. So in the event, my right leg (representing the spiritual connection) was only partially scathed, but the left one (representing the physical connection) was completely lost.

Another amazing synchronicity supporting this happened as I acquired a new car at the same time as I was processing the karmic imprint. Within a short space of time, the left tyre was completely shredded followed shortly afterwards by a slow puncture in the right tyre!!! You see this is exactly how synchronicity works - absolutely EVERYTHING has a message and NOTHING happens by chance. There are signs everywhere pointing to greater self realisation.

What transpired for me as a direct result of the karmic event, was that I couldn't fully feel universal life energy right down to my toes. Although I quickly learned to trust implicitly in Right Action, there was a lack of surety about my ability to bring about Right Outcome into the physical world through the left side of my body. That has now changed as a direct result of dealing with the karmic imprint.

In general, even though we may not recall the exact situation or details, people may feel the whole pain and tightness again in their body. If they experienced emotional suffering at the time, that could come back through in equal measure this time.

So if a person is tending to react completely out of proportion to the situation, it tends to point towards karmic experience as opposed to just an ordinary distortion.

They are challenging experiences indeed!

Chris

thankyou both for the illuminating responses!

thanks Trin - its interesting to consider how distortions/attachments in this life can be interwoven with those not processed from other lifetimes. and presumably this goes for the effect (on individuals) of collective karma too - in regards the patterning/conditioning of society?
Another thing that came out of your post was that its possible for people to become attached to 'the glamour' of their potential past lives or past life experiences (probably before they really get involved in the nitty gritty of processing them!). It seems like the idea of past lives has been glamorised to a certain degree in some spiritual circles (e.g. when one person believes they were a well know historical figure or an emperor or something and 'invests' or attaches to that identity) and I imagine that this rather than help process associated karma may in fact just bolster the experience to be worked through! Perhaps that's why we're only shown what we need to see, as you say...

'In my experience we are shown what we need to see and the rest is superfluous. The important factor is whether or not we can let go of our attachment to it.'
It feels an important point.

Chris, thankyou too for such a powerful example of how karma and past life experiences can affect and be reflected into this experience, on many different levels.

The main points I took from your post were that
"The karma creates mirroring experiences to the past life event" and that through synchronicities we can see what these events are all about and how to process them.
and that such an incident may arise out of a seemingly 'everyday situation' which can then appear from the outside as if an individual is getting things "quite heavily out of perspective", the incidence seeming to take on great importance, because energetically that's what it feels like.

So by watching our feelings and the synchronisities (of course!) around what is unfolding, we may be able to receive a deeper understanding of the influence or event (whether karmic or not) and if we remain unattached and surrendered in it, we can discover how to process and move through it, and then we can work through and release it.
thankyou both for sharing

Ben

Ah yes Ben, it's seems so common that people get caught up in the details of past lives or as you say the glamour of being a recognised figure.

In my experience the purpose of remembering is either to let go so that we can evolve or to recall information that is helpful to our current incarnation.

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Hi Chris, Trin and Ben

This is really interesting reading, so thought I'd add my own experience into this.

I started having past life flashbacks as a child, possibly triggered by emotions, but it was only as an adult that I started to appreciate what they were and why I had them. I've never been intentionally regressed and yet have triggered quite a few past life flashbacks when the time was right for me to remember and release the emotions. I found that rememberng these lives and finding the mirror within helped me release the corresponding issues which helped move forward on my path.

I haven't been anybody famous or influential but I have been some amazing people in their own right who's experiences and lifetimes have taught me so much in this.

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Hi Michelle,
Thank you for sharing on my thread here. I haven't found many others who have spontaneously regressed into past lives. It's wonderful to know that you have naturally found a way of working through these.
Trin
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