34.
How the past becomes prologue
NOTE:
This is an excerpt from the book The
Least You Should Know About Life.
It now becomes clear that before you can take complete control over
your mind, you must free your mind from the imperfections created in
both this lifetime and all previous lifetimes. While this might seem
like an overwhelming task, it need not be when you understand what is
required. There are two main elements involved.
Imperfect beliefs
You have allowed certain imperfect beliefs to enter the four levels
of your mind. Some of these beliefs have entered in this lifetime, but
others might have been there for a very long time. This can make it
difficult to see the fallacy of such beliefs because they have become
so familiar that you do not see anything wrong with them or you think
your life could not be any different. For example, many people truly
believe they are human beings and that their minds have no power to
influence matter.
It now becomes clear that the four levels of your mind have a short-term
and a long-term component. The short-term component is what you have
created specifically for this lifetime. Here is how this affects the
four levels of your mind:
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You have a particular
sense of identity based on your family background, nationality,
ethnicity, sex etc. This short-term identity obviously will not
be carried over into the next lifetime. Instead, you have created
a more general sense of identity that you do carry from lifetime
to lifetime. Ideally, this long-term identity should be based on
the spiritual individuality anchored in your I AM Presence. Yet
it is possible to create a sense of identity that is almost exclusively
based on the belief systems in this world or what you see through
the senses. You might have forgotten your spiritual identity and
have created an identity as a material, human being or as a miserable
sinner. Thus, you might have a sense of low self-esteem that goes
back many lifetimes.
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Your mental body contains
certain erroneous beliefs about what is an acceptable way to express
your creativity or fulfill your desires. For example, you might
have accepted beliefs that undermine your ability to see or your
willingness to follow the spiritual laws. One obvious example is
the belief that the ends can justify the means, a philosophy that
has numerous versions and has been used to “justify”
the worst human atrocities. Such false beliefs make it possible
for people to kill in the name of God, even though their religion
gives the command, “Thou shallt not kill!”
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Your emotional body might
contain certain beliefs about how to express feelings, for example
that it is acceptable or unavoidable that you respond with anger
when you don’t get your way. Your emotional body is likely
to have been scarred by traumatic situations in which you generated
massive amounts of negative emotional energy. It is even possible
that severe trauma can cause a fracture or division in your psyche
that can account for severe mental illnesses, such as depression,
schizophrenia or bipolar disease.
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At the level of the conscious
mind, you might have certain beliefs about what is acceptable behavior
in this world. You might have beliefs about the acceptable or the
only way to respond to certain situations. Some of these responses
even come from the physical body, which has certain reactions programmed
into the brain and nervous system. One example is the flight or
fight response that is seen in all animals and is designed to generate
a very quick response for securing the survival of the body. If
an animal feels threatened, its first impulse is to run away, but
if that is not possible, it will fight the threat. Many humans obviously
respond this way to life, but you do have the potential to rise
above this animalistic reaction. That is why Jesus told people to
turn the other cheek instead of striking back. Obviously, your brain
also has certain drives related to the physical body encoded into
it, and this causes some people to live their entire lives in pursuit
of bodily pleasures.
It is worth noticing that
it is quite possible that you could have a conflict between beliefs
in the long-term portion of your mind and the short-term portion specific
to this lifetime. For example, you might have been brought up in a religious
family in this lifetime and have been brought up to believe that stealing
is a sin. Yet from past lifetimes you have a belief that steeling is
acceptable, which can override your short-term beliefs. Obviously, such
conflicts can create a division in your psyche that can give rise to
much confusion and suffering.
When you purify your four lower bodies from imperfect beliefs, you will
overcome such inner conflicts. You will reconnect to your spiritual
individuality and to the positive aspects of the long-term identity
built in this world. Your identity body will then reflect your spiritual
identity, your thoughts will follow your deepest inner knowing and your
feelings will stay within the framework of your thoughts, whereby your
actions will always be life-supporting. This will give you the most
coveted of all qualities, namely peace of mind that comes from an inner
sense of spiritual wholeness.
Misqualified energy
The second element from your past is misqualified energy, also called
karma. Many people are aware of karma but often think it is generated
only through actions. Yet karma is misqualified energy, and as has been
shown, your thoughts and feelings are forms of energy. It is therefore
possible to generate karma through your thoughts and feelings. If you
feel hatred toward another person, you will misqualify energy and generate
karma. Yet the karma is not as severe as if you commit physical violence
against the other person. Karma can take two forms:
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There is karma that is
the result of thoughts, feelings or actions directed toward other
people, even animals or the environment. This karma forms an energy
impulse that is sent out into the space-time continuum, the cosmic
mirror. In due time, it will be returned to you, in many cases in
a future lifetime. When it does return, it has much the same effect
as described earlier, namely selecting either the best or the worst
outcome of a situation.
If a situation has ten possible outcomes, a returning portion of
negative karma from a past life can make the worst possible potential
become an actual event. That is why people who live a perfectly
good life can still experience misfortune. It is the result of returning
karma from a past lifetime in which they did not live a good life.
Obviously, there can also be good karma, which can explain why people
who do not live a good life can still experience positive events.
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There is karma that is
the result of thoughts, feelings and actions directed against yourself.
This karma forms an energy impulse that is not sent out into the
universe but stays within your own mind. If the impulse is positive,
it will rise to the level of your causal body and become your treasure
laid up in heaven. If it is a negative impulse, it will be stored
in your long-term mind, and from there it will affect you for the
rest of this lifetime and in future lifetimes.
Obviously, such energy could have accumulated over many lifetimes,
which explains why some people are predisposed to respond in certain
ways, for example with anger. These people have accumulated so much
anger energy that it overwhelms their emotions, and their conscious
minds are not strong enough to overcome the magnetic pull of the
misqualified energy. They lose control and are blinded by anger.
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Why you can never get away with anything
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