Here are a few thoughts on reincarnation, and on reincarnational experiences and archetypal incarnational memories. Then there is a poem called “School,” about incarnational memories. Then after that, my own memories of other incarnations, to which I have appended text-to-voice recordings in many different voices. Here are the text-to-voice programs I used …
After that are writings on the influence of past (or concomitant, alternate) lifetime Soul wounding on current lifetime experiences.
Image: “The Return of Persephone,” by Frederick Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, 1891, a mythological painting, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederic_Leighton_-_The_Return_of_Persephone_(1891).jpg … This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author’s life plus 100 years or less … DESCRIPTION: Leighton depicts Hermes helping Persephone to return to her mother Demeter after Zeus forced Hades to return Persephone … CREDITS: LMG100045 The Return of Persephone, c.1891 (oil on canvas) by Leighton, Frederic (1830-96); 203×152 cm; Leeds Museums and Galleries (City Art Gallery) U.K.; English, out of copyright
Image: “The Return of Persephone,” by Frederick Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, 1891, a mythological painting, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederic_Leighton_-_The_Return_of_Persephone_(1891).jpg … This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author’s life plus 100 years or less …
DESCRIPTION: Leighton depicts Hermes helping Persephone to return to her mother Demeter after Zeus forced Hades to return Persephone …
CREDITS: LMG100045 The Return of Persephone, c.1891 (oil on canvas) by Leighton, Frederic (1830-96); 203×152 cm; Leeds Museums and Galleries (City Art Gallery) U.K.; English, out of copyright
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In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!
According to School of Theosophy theories, astral matter is segregated into concentric shells in the astral body of a person after they pass on. And these are slowly worn down, and worn off, until the person is in a very high astral plane, starting with the coarsest astral matter, which makes the person perceive only the coarsest of astral planes … and then wearing off into the very fine astral matter of the heaven worlds.
I have channeled a new timeline theory that you can read more about in my blog, under the category: Timelines – multitemporality… By corollary, my timeline theory offers an alternate theory regarding astral reality, which I will describe below.
I offer this by way of explanation about the differences between people’s points of view, in the development of theories about the way things are, and how, from a certain perspective, a theory (such as the concentric ring theory of the Theosophists) is perfectly valid; whereas, from a different perspective (perhaps from an expanded perspective) … a theory such as timeline optimization and timeline merges, timeline loops to the past or the future) is more helpful for humankind.
Image: “Projection of a Calabi–Yau manifold, one of the ways of compactifying the extra dimensions posited by string theory,” by Lunch, 24 July 2007, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calabi-Yau.png … CC BY-SA 2.5 Generic
Image: “Projection of a Calabi–Yau manifold, one of the ways of compactifying the extra dimensions posited by string theory,” by Lunch, 24 July 2007, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calabi-Yau.png … CC BY-SA 2.5 Generic
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You know, in the old days we had a prevalent theory of the Universe where the Sun revolved around the Earth. It was the Roman citizen Claudius Ptolemy who proposed this model of the Sun revolving around a stationary Earth. I expect that Ptolemy was standing on Earth, and noticed what seemed to be the Sun revolving around the Earth.
For a long time … for about 1,400 years … this geocentric notion of the nature of the Universe was pretty much universally held by humankind. And then came along Nicolaus Copernicus, in 1543, who proposed that Earth revolved around the Sun.
Now this was important … first of all, because it was truer for a greater variety of beings in the Universe … such as, for instance, the Solar devi, who had a different perspective on the motion of celestial bodies than did we humans on Earth … or such as the Angelic Realm, which could see things from a totally different perspective as well. (The devi are, in fact, one branch of the Angelic Realm.)
And also, this more helpful theory of a solar-centric earth-solar relationship helped humankind to predict various sky events that were difficult to explain, according to the old theory.
So here we have an example of one theory … from the point of view of one person … and accepted by humankind, for a long time, as being helpful; and another theory … somewhat more refined … from a different perspective, supplanting that later on.
The same is true, as I understand it … although I do not know much about it … of String Theory as a predictive tool. There were two theories … General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics … preceding that, which partly explained what was going on. And then, String Theory has been put forth, that explains a good deal more.
Multidimensional, multitemporal theory is an advancement over the notions of cause and effect, as a model for the Universe. Multitemporality and multidimensionality … working with timelines and working with dimensions … offer humankind many more possibilities in terms of self-evolution than did previous theories of cause and effect.
When we look at the history of religious doctrine, the notions of heaven and hell and purgatory are like these other ideas that are valid in their own way, but only from a certain perspective. And the reason for this is, they offer a person a slice of reality based on only one timeline … and further: Only one moment in the astral life.
Basically what happened is that some great prophet or sage, or maybe a number of them, in centuries past, viewed what was happening when people passed on … in what state they found themselves, once they were released from physical form into astral form … depending, as we know, upon the coarseness or refinement of their astral matter.
So those people wrote down, as truth, that a person who lives a life that coarsens his astral matter, finds himself in great suffering when he passes on; and that a person who lives a very saintly life, where the astral matter becomes very refined, finds himself in a heavenworld when he passes on; and then there are those people, in between, who end up in purgatory … Very valid, from the standpoint of that one moment in time, when we pass on.
As I understand it, this belief is held by Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, and Theosophists, although, of course, with significant differences in teachings as to what may occur for the Soul thereafter.
Audio B4 (covers 2 sections)
Image: “Pencil mixed with natural photo-textures and digital color. Also features original writings by Charles Darwin from ‘The Origin of Species’,” by Ade mc Ade McO-Campbell, 1 January 2010, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Force-of-change-evolution.jpg … CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported
Image: “Pencil mixed with natural photo-textures and digital color. Also features original writings by Charles Darwin from ‘The Origin of Species’,” by Ade mc Ade McO-Campbell, 1 January 2010, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Force-of-change-evolution.jpg … CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported
There is the notion put forth by Hindus, Buddhists, and Theosophists, each in their own way, of the evolution of the Soul from the astral plane, into the mental plane … and the time spent learning, the time spent in absorption of the Soul lesson of the incarnation there. Then there is the choice of a new incarnation, and a new Soul lesson.
Moving on, into multitemporality, there is a notion that, at the same time … in the same instant of the Now … we are living out all these incarnations, as eternal Souls.
So we can switch from incarnation to incarnation, any time we want.
We can switch, within an incarnation, to the beginning or the end of it.
We can switch also dimensionally, as far as quality of our existence is concerned.
We can switch spatially, from presence on Earth to presence in any solar system, to presence in everything at once,
In our expanded perspective, we have causality within a timeline, which holds the timeline together.
We have the possibility of complete Free Will as to where we place our Awareness … on what timeline or on what dimension we place our Awareness … so that our Soul experience becomes whatever we wish it to be.
This decreases the importance of cause and effect on our Awareness. We are no longer trapped within cause and effect, within a causal reality.
We exist more in the realm of free will and of the All.
These are features of the space time continuum choices of which we can avail ourselves here on Earth for the next 2,000 years, during the Great Age of Light now underway. So I say: Best to take advantage of these tools, and learn what we can about this new way of viewing reality! Let us see what it has to offer us in terms of Soul wisdom and Soul learning.
–revised and excerpted from: Link: “On Refinement of Scientific Theories,” by Alice B. Clagett, published on 5 August 2016; transcribed on 10 February 2019 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-5ZP ..
In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!
Previously entitled: “Tiny Anthologies: Incarnational Memories” … and … “Tiny Anthologies: My Incarnational Memories” … and … “Tiny Anthologies: My Memories of Other Incarnations”
Compiled from prior blogs on 10 February 2019; most recently revised on 1 March 2023.
REINCARNATIONAL EXPERIENCES AND ARCHETYPAL CULTURAL MEMORIES
I was walking with the Sierra Club just now, in the mountains, and then I fell a little behind, and so now I am walking on my own. I bet they will wait up with me a little bit later on, though. That is usually the way.
I just thought I would mention something another member and I were talking about, while we were walking. And that is, the way to hold reincarnational experiences.
It is kind of a hard topic to talk to another person about because a lot of people do not believe in reincarnation. That is just their mental filter: They do not believe. Other people have memories that have woken up, in them, about past incarnations … And they believe in reincarnation. And there are people of a psychological bent, who believe that reincarnational memories are really the archetypal memories of mankind, of humankind.
So over however long you believe humankind have existed … and that range is from millions of years, to two thousand years … or maybe less, for all I know, depending on your mental filter … whatever that length of time may be, the psychological theory goes that there are certain deeply implanted memories, and all the people, say, in one culture, have certain archetypal images which they feel could appear like past lifetime.
There is at least one other point of view about this; and that is, that we exist in the Now … in a medium that really contains neither time nor space … and that all these memories that we have, are not of the past or future lifetimes, but are all happening right now, multidimensionally, at the same moment in the Now. And that is the theory to which I subscribe.
To get on with that story from the beginning of this blog, my fellow Sierra Club member and I were talking of my idea of starting an incarnational scrapbook, so every time I came across the memory of an incarnation … or an archetypal memory, as the case may be … I would look for a picture that reminded me of that lifetime, and make a scrapbook that contains pictures that remind me of all my incarnations.
Would that not be a cool thing? It would be a wonderful learning tool for families that believe in reincarnation; they could teach their children to start a scrapbook like that.
So there is that story about incarnations, and different ways of holding them, and how we can all agree to disagree … or agree to agree in some way … about things that we hold differently because of our mental filters.
–revised and excerpted from Link: “Incarnational Scrapbook,” by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 12 February 2015; published 16 February 2015; revised on 10 February 2019 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-6vW ..
In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!
Previously entitled: “Tiny Anthologies: Incarnational Memories” … and … “Tiny Anthologies: My Incarnational Memories” … and … “Tiny Anthologies: My Memories of Other Incarnations”
Compiled from prior blogs on 10 February 2019; most recently revised on 25 February 2023.
I thought I would tell you about a vision I had years ago … the same year that my mother passed on …
I had an experience of very deep Soul anxiety, many years ago. I remember lying in bed for three days, feeling that I could not move, and that there was nothing at all that I could do about it. And that had to do with the experience of deep grief that I was feeling.
And during those three days … from which I eventually arose, a completely different person … during that time of transition, I had a very deep vision one night. I fell into a vision of being in a time tunnel, and of experiencing a lifetime … not the current lifetime, but another lifetime … as sounds of Rites of Passage [or alternatively, as ‘Archetypal Sounds’].
There were only four; and those summed up the entire lifetime …
I heard the wail of a baby being born … the first cry of a child …
I heard the ecstatic cry of a woman, as she climaxed during intercourse …
I heard her cry out in anguish as she gave birth …
And I heard the last sob of breath, as she passed on, from physical, into astral form …
And those sounds disappeared down the tunnel of time that I envisioned, They disappeared and whirled away.
Image: “The River,” by Carla Lovato … https://i.etsystatic.com/5581158/r/il/eedccd/79572444/il_570xN.79572444.jpg … DESCRIPTION: Flowing diagonally through the image, from upper right to lower left, is a watercourse with the faces of 11 men and women in it. Top left: A full moon shining over a barren, craggy landscape. Bottom right: A tree with a thick trunk and strong roots. Imprint: “copyright Carla Lovato” … COMMENT: This image was eerily close to that I saw in the vision described below, except that I saw a river that was a time tunnel. Archetypal Sounds floating swiftly along, and the time tunnel was flowing out away from me, from outside my bedroom window. –Alice B. Clagett
That was an incredible experience. Ever since then, I have taken into account what this society so frequently overlooks: The milestones of the evolution of a human life. And I feel that, in future, these milestones will receive more recognition, through Ceremony, in human society.
And surely it should be so, that the entire community would recognize …
the child reaching puberty;
the rite of union, whether it be through marriage or however it should evolve in future;
the rite of birth … that is another wonderful experience that deserves nurturing … it deserves some people in the community helping a pregnant woman, and helping after the birth, I feel … and honoring that experience, so that the child can have a good start in life.
and the rite of death … that that milestone should no longer be veiled in secrecy, but rather, celebrated in joy.
–revised and excerpted from Link: “Incarnational Touchstones,” a vision by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 10 August 2016; published on 13 August 2016; transcribed on 6 October 2018; revised on 23 June 2020 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-60X ..
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In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!
Previously entitled: “Tiny Anthologies: Incarnational Memories” … and … “Tiny Anthologies: My Incarnational Memories” … and … “Tiny Anthologies: My Memories of Other Incarnations”
Compiled from prior blogs on 10 February 2019; most recently revised on 25 February 2023
What bookish notion schools a bairn
rapt, like a crayfish by a languid bourne?
What did that crawdad ever learn,
that it knew not on finding form?
How, in fact, shall I take in
all the beings that I am?
How frisk the veil of by and by
where tens on tens of folks be I ?
— one just borning and the next full grown
— one soft cocooning, in carnation’s womb
— one swift careening through an astral gloom
turning, hand outstretched, to angelic lumen
Now regal male decked rough, reared up full wild
Now just past childhood mother cradling her own child
Guerrero here, there carpenter or nun
Pagan, Christian, wondering One
Trying, falling, free, then bound
yearning, spurning, missing, found!
How may we reckon age or race or wealth?
How learn the weight of wisdom of our Self?
How find a mooring in this place, that time
when placeless timeless Hearts toward God incline?
He is the flower of the Soul
His the enthralling, star-spanned role
His is the basket that all lives enspline
He is the teacher, He the rhyme
–from Link: “School,” a poem by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 1 July 2018 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-9ty ..
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In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!
Previously entitled: “Tiny Anthologies: Incarnational Memories” … and … “Tiny Anthologies: My Incarnational Memories” … and … “Tiny Anthologies: My Memories of Other Incarnations”
Compiled from prior blogs on 10 February 2019; most recently revised on 25 February 2023.
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