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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.
*
“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.”
*
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.”
*
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
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