This is a question and answer page where Codependency therapist/Spiritual teacher/author of Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls, shares his experience, strength, and hope by posting (anonymously) the questions he receives by e-mail and the responses which he sends back.   This page covers some far out Metaphysical stuff including The Eternal Now, parallel dimensions, memory, previously unpublished quotes from The Dance of Wounded Souls Trilogy  Book I “In The Beginning. . . .”


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Old soul asked:

Thank you for your reply. I know that we all have a particular mission to accomplish, that we, old souls are being guided towards truth and harmony. I feel that the deja-vues we experience are a regurgitation of our subconscious minds, a residue of a past life, exposing itself as a message of some sort. I would like to know if it's plausible that we might be living the same life in a parallel World, where our twin soul resides; that every emotion and  thought of pain and pleasure we endure now is to remind us that we exist in this world and that the superposed world is the reward to come.

I am going to answer your questions mostly with some quotes.  This first one is from a column I wrote called Christ Consciousness - which can be found on the web page Jesus & Christ Consciousness:

"The term "old-soul" refers to the stage of consciousness evolution an individual has attained by this lifetime - it does not mean better than, or farther along than, those who do not have to do the healing. There is no hierarchy in the Truth of a Loving Great Spirit. Those who appear to have low, or no, consciousness in this lifetime are simply doing their healing in another space-time illusion parallel to this one. All old-souls are born at a heart-chakra level of consciousness and therefore have more sensitivity, and less capacity for denial, than other people. In other words, the gift of having access to Truth and Love carries with it the price of greatly increased emotional sensitivity."
(Column "Christ Consciousness" by Robert Burney)
So, yes I believe that there are other parallel worlds or dimensions which our consciousness has/is experiencing.  Part of the reason for that is that space and time are themselves illusions.  Here is a quote from my book Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls.
The Universal Creative Force, as I understand it, is the energy field of ALL THAT IS vibrating at the frequency of Absolute Harmony.  That vibrational frequency I call LOVE.  (LOVE is the vibrational frequency of God; Love is an energy vibration within The Illusion which we can access; love is, in our Codependent culture, most often an addiction or an excuse for dysfunctional behavior.) 

LOVE is the energy frequency of Absolute Harmony because it is the vibrational frequency where there is no separation.

Energy moves in wave-like patterns; what enables movement is the separation between the valley of the wave and its peak.  The distance from peak to peak is called it’s wavelength.  It is a law of physics that as vibrational frequency rises, as it gets higher, the wavelength gets shorter.  The frequency of LOVE is the vibrational frequency where wavelength disappears, where separation disappears. 

It is a place of absolute Peace, motionless, timeless, completely at rest: The Eternal Now. 

The Peace and Bliss of The Eternal Now is the True Absolute Reality of the God-Force.

Time is an illusion with The Illusion - just as space and separation and individuality are illusions.  Here is another quote from Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls.
We have all lived multiple lifetimes.  We have all experienced every facet of being human.

We are now not just healing our wounds from this lifetime, we are doing Karmic settlement on a massive scale, at a very accelerated rate.

Karma is the Loving, wonderful law of energy interaction which governs human interaction.  Like the other levels of Universal Law, it is about cause and effect.  In this case, “what you sow, you reap.”

Karmic Law dictates that every action of cause on the Physical Plane is paid for with a consequence of effect on the Physical Plane.  In other words, no one can end up in the hole, or in some hell in an afterlife. (Hell is here on earth, and we have all experienced it already.)

We who are doing this healing are about to graduate from the school of Karmic human experience.  Any minute now . . . or any lifetime. 

What graduation means is that we can be released from the Karmic merry-go-round, from the Karmic dance that was necessary because of polarization and “reversity.”  It does not mean that we will cease to exist;  that would be a pretty hollow victory indeed. 

What I believe it means is that when peace prevails, when the thousand years of peace begins, when a balanced, harmonious, Spiritually-aligned world evolves, then we can come back and play with all of our friends.   With our Kindred Spirits and our Soul Mates, and in union with our Twin Soul.

Since there Truly is no time and I believe there is a place where we exist in Love, Joy, and Perfect Harmony with our Twin Soul, our soul mates, and our Kindred Spirits - then yes, I believe there is a parallel world/dimension where our consciousness exists in it’s fully evolved state.  That place is an environment of even greater Joy and Bliss because of the pain and sorrow that we have experienced here.  What we have experienced here allows us to fully realize the Joy & Bliss - again a quote from Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls.
Another of the purposes for being here is to fully realize the incredible gift of eternal existence in ONENESS in a state of Joy and Bliss.  It is not possible to fully realize, to appreciate, to be grateful for, Joy and Bliss, unless one has had some experience of some alternative.

Now I happen to believe that God went overboard with this experience stuff.  I, personally, from my human perspective, get very upset with the God-Force for having such an active imagination.  I mean, really, did all of this have to last quite so long and be quite so complicated?

I happen to believe - and I have shared my belief and my feelings with my Higher Power on many occasions - that my Higher Power works very slowly.  I am not at all crazy about my Higher Power’s sense of timing.

And I have informed my Higher Power many times in very graphic terms that I feel as if I am being given far more opportunities for growth than I think I need.  In fact, there are days when I choose to call my Higher Power “fucking asshole,” which my Higher Power finds really amusing and cute.

But my Truth is - from the depths of my heart, from my highest levels of honesty - my Truth is, that in those moments when I experience the Joy and the Bliss, the incredible feeling of peace within that I have been able to achieve through my healing process, I can tell you that to me it was all worth it. 

All of the pain of this lifetime and all of the other lifetimes. 

It was all worth it to Know and to Love.

After our mission is complete at this level: Will we remember this life? Will we be able to look back at our existence? Will we use what we have learnt here?

I believe that on some level we are completed with the evolution process, we remember what it felt like here, we can look back on our existence and be grateful for awakening to the Truth. Learning is remembering and the Truth will set us free to fully realize that we Truly are direct extensions of, manifestations of, The God Force/Goddess Energy/Great Spirit  - reflections of LOVE.

Who knows for sure?

What does “know for sure” mean?  On a very deep level I believe it is the Truth.   It is what resonates deep within me,  in my heart and soul.  On a practical level it doesn’t really matter to me - what does matter to me is that it is functional for me, it works.  It works because this Spiritual Belief system helps me create the space within me to believe that maybe I am worthy and Lovable.  It works for me to help me to relax and enjoy life more.  It is the Truth which I choose to believe because nothing else that I have ever heard, read, or thought of makes more sense or makes my life easier and happier. 

To me, there's something just as important as Joy, Love and Life, it's Memory.

Ah memory.  Here are a few quotes from my Magical, Mystical, Spiritual Fable The Dance of Wounded Souls Trilogy  Book I “In The Beginning. . . .”
 

“It’s so beautiful here, and peaceful.  This is a real place then - not just someplace I visualized in my imagination?” 

“All imagination is memory.  Often the specifics of detail are modified to fit your current frame of reference, but it is memory nevertheless,” communicated my unicorn.  This was a new and mind boggling concept for me and as I tried it on for size she very casually dropped an even bigger bombshell on me. 

“This meadow may exist in a lifetime that you lived thousands of years ago, or it could be a memory of a place in your future.” 

“My future!”  I exclaimed. 

My Higher Self had done it again. 

Chapter 4 

I had not even started to digest the concept of all imagination being memory, and here she was talking about memories of the future.  My Higher Self does this to me all the time, reveals some new and startling perspective that requires me to redefine how I look at some aspect of reality as I understand it - and then before the dust of my old, shattered definition has settled, She/He adds something even more mindboggling on top of it. 

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“Memories of the future are possible,” I heard myself saying, “because in God there is no time.  God exists in the Eternal Now.  Linear time, and the concepts of past and future, are illusions within the Illusion.” 

“Bingo.” 

“So that must mean,” I continued, “that on some level all of this has already taken place.  Because God exists in the Eternal Now - all of the billions of years of all of the Creation Dreams must have been manifested and experienced in the moment that God projected forth the thought form.” 

I stood and started pacing again as the information kept coming. 

“And since there is no change within The Holy Mother Source Energy - then there never really was a time when God was alone.  The moment of the projection of the dream-movie is the moment that has always been.  I, the Ego-consciousness ‘me’, am just experiencing that moment as a linear journey.”  I stopped abruptly and whirled around towards my unicorn.  The Light of inner understanding was focusing on a facet of Truth that I had never been able to grasp until that moment.  “That’s how time works!  Time does not move forward with us just along for the ride.  Consciousness experiences the evolutionary process as linear and that creates the illusion of time.  When we wrote earlier that time only exists in relationship to the individual Ego - I did not really understand what that meant.  Now I am beginning to see, past and future don’t exist for anything else in the illusion except human Ego-consciousness.  Everything else is just ‘being’ in the moment - animals, plants, rocks, this stream, - they are just being what they are, they have no consciousness of time.  They are conscious, just as all energy and energy fields are conscious, but they have no consciousness.  They are just perfectly what they are supposed to be.  Only humans have the ability to intellectually define themselves in relationship to other things - so only humans can have a conception of time.  Our intellectual ability to define reality as we experience it is what gives us the perception that time exists.” 

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History of the Universe
Part III 
In The Beginning
(Lights......Camera......Action) 
In the beginning of Creation Dreams, The Holy Mother Source Energy projected forth vibrationally, within the heart of ALL THAT IS, a thought form. 

(This sentence contains within it the genesis and totality of creation.  The thought form is the theoretical concept, the idea, which contains within it the totality of the experience of alternate realities - if such realities could exist.  The moment of the projection of the thought form is the Eternal Now.  In that moment, all possible alternate realities are experienced by the Eternal I AM - simultaneously and instantaneously. In that moment, the individual units of intellectual consciousness are created, experience evolution, and return to consciousness of - awaken from the dream to - the ONENESS of ALL THAT IS.  There is no before, no after.  The moment of awakening to fully realized Eternal Joy and Infinite Bliss in ONENESS at LOVE, and the beginning, are the same moment - the Eternal Now. 

The Eternal Now is, of course, impossible for a soul in body to comprehend intellectually.  It is, however, possible for you to feel the Truth - for an echo of the memory of the Truth to ‘strike a chord’ within your being.  It is this reverberation within you, this emotional communication, that is the Light that will lead you to consciousness of your path.  You are perfectly where you are supposed to be on your personal path - and the reason you are reading these words is because you have already begun your awakening process. 

As your awakening process unfolds, you will be able to tune into the vibrational frequency of Love, Light, Truth, and Joy on a more consistent basis.  You will spend relatively increasing percentages of your linear space-time adventure experiencing Love and Joy.  You will not, however, experience ‘happily-ever-after’ in your present lifetime.  Happily-ever-after does exist - but not on this plane of existence.  It is the echo of the memory of happily-ever-after that has caused you to yearn for it in this lifetime. 

One of the reasons that the experience of being human has been so difficult for souls is that on some level, in the deepest part of our being, we know that this is not home   and we think that we must have done something wrong to have been sent here.  That is why it is so important for us to remember that we are Spiritual beings having a human experience.  This is an adventure that we can celebrate and cherish once we start remembering the Truth, and stop giving power to the illusion.  The whole point in telling this story is to help you remember so that you can stop enduring this experience and start celebrating it. 

So, in pursuit of that goal, we will now look at the creation from several perspectives in an attempt to remind you that it is all unfolding perfectly according to God’s plan.  We will describe the beginning in terms that relate most clearly to human experience.  The details of how The Creation would have taken place if it had, remember it’s an illusion, a dream, are impossible for humans to comprehend, and are inconsequential.  In other words, we do not have any need to know how it happened.  What is necessary, is to expand our perspective and become open to concepts of God and creation which are larger than those we have been taught.) 

In the beginning, The Holy Mother Source Energy projected forth vibrationally, within the heart of ALL THAT IS, a thought form. 

This thought form was the idea which is creation.  Contained within this thought form was all of the information necessary to produce the dream of creation within the imagination of God.  This thought form was a method of communicating information which - not only introduced the concept of communication and created the possibility of communication - was the first communication. 
 


“In the beginning was the Word.”

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The prologue and first chapter of this Magical, Mystical, Spiritual Fable can be found on the web page: 

The Dance of Wounded Souls Trilogy  Book I “In The Beginning. . . .”



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This material is copyright by Robert Burney 1998.  Quotations in maroon are from Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls by Robert Burney (Copyright 1995).  Quotations from columns & articles (Copyright 1996, 1997, 1998) written by Mr. Burney are noted and in blue text. Blue text material that is not in quotes is from Robert's upcoming book Wounded Souls Dancing in the Light (Copyright 1998) unless otherwise noted.   Quotations in this color are from The Dance of Wounded Souls Trilogy  Book I “In The Beginning. . ..” (Copyright 1999)