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Theosophy
Theosophy - asynthesis of science, religion and philosophy  A brief history of Theosophy.Theosophy as known to the modern world was founded by the Russian initiate HelenaPetrovna Blavatsky in New York in 1875 as an attempt to spread divine truth to theintellectually advanced part of humanity. However, "the Ancient Wisdom" hasalways existed in the world, either openly as Theosophy is taught today, or in the past,in Egypt, Greece and Atlantis where there were great temples and initiation schools run bythe Earth's Hierarchy, or hidden, as in the Middle Ages amongst the alchemists,Rosicrucians and Freemasons, who were persecuted by both the clergy and the secularpowers who (rightly) felt their power threatened by the truths which these hiddensocieties represented. What is Theosophy?Theosophy is "A synthesis of science, religion and philosophy", and its mottois: "There is no religion higher than Truth". Practically, Theosophy presentsitself today as a vast spiritual and cosmological system which seeks to investigate andexplain Cosmos and man's role herein, both on the basis of occult research (research basedon extrasensory perception, be it clairvoyance, clairvoyance, visions, telepathicallyreceived messages or memories or visions retrieved through hypnotic regression, i.e. fromhigher states of consciousness) which is taught by a number of Theosophical groups (seethe links list: click here) around the world. Leading figures in TheosophySome of the most important figures of Theosophy in this and the former century have been:H. P. Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Helena Roerich, Charles. W. Leadbeater, Geoffrey Hodson,Alice A. Bailey, Corine Heline and Dion Fortune, and currently operating we have teachersand writers such as Torkom Saraydarian, Benjamin Creme, Michael Robbins and AsgerLorentsen. (See the literature list: click here). Theosophical teachingsWhile Theosophy is an ever-expanding science, a dynamic living teaching, which originatesin the cosmic mind or the being which we call God, represented by myriads of beings onmany different planes of existence and levels of consciousness and development, mostTheosophical groups today base their understanding on the teachings which were giventhrough Alice A. Bailey in the 1930's and 1940's from her Tibetan teacher, Dhjwal Khul.These books present a spiritual cosmology which describes the universe as a vast, livingbeing, containing myriads of other living beings within it, all evolving towards higherand higher states of consciousness and experience. The Great PlanTheosophy explains how evolution on the planet Earth follows a certain scheme, the GreatPlan, which is laid out from higher planes of consciousness. The Great Plan for this Earthis part of the plan for the evolution of the solar system, and so it continues upwards,plans within plans and cycles within cycles. On this Earth, the Great Plan is implementedby the Earth's Spiritual Hierarchy, also called the Great White Brotherhood, and it wasthe Hierarchy that founded the Theosophical Society through Helena Blavatsky and beganreleasing Theosophy to the public in 1875 as a part of their work for the enlightenment ofhumanity. The HierarchyThe Hierarchy consists of perfected men and women who have finished the cycles ofreincarnation on this planet or another, and have learnt to master their human andspiritual nature and the forces of the three lower worlds - the physical, the emotionaland the mental. They express perfected love and wisdom (seen with human eyes, for there isalways a higher standard of perfection which can be attained), and have chosen to remainhere on the Earth to serve humanity's and the Earth's growth. Some of the Hierarchy'sMasters are known from their earlier incarnations: The Master Jesus from his incarnationin Palestine where he helped to anchor a vast impulse of love and founded the Christianreligion, and from his later incarnation as Appolonia of Tyana. Buddha is known from hisincarnation as Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism; Kuthumi from his earlierincarnations as Pythagoras, one of the great teachers of Ancient Greece, and as Francis ofAssisi, one of the greatest saints of the Catholic Church, and Mary is known from herincarnation as Mary, the mother of Jesus. The work of individual members of the Hierarchy is described in many books, for instance::C. W. Leadbeater: "The Masters and the Path"; Alice A. Bailey: "TheExternalisation of the Hierarchy" and Asger Lorentsen: "Man's InnerStructure". Other well-known Masters of the Hierarchy are Hilarion (known from hisincarnation as St. Paul, who helped to spread Christianity in Asia Minor), Sct. Germain(known from his incarnation as the Count of Sct. Germain in the 18th century and theinspirator behind most of the Freemason and occult lodges in Europe), Morya (who was theinspirator, together with Kuthumi and Dhjwal Khul, behind the foundation of theTheosophical Society) and finally Maitreya, known from his earlier incarnation as Krishna,and as the real inspirator behind Christianity, since it was him who overshadowed Jesusduring the last three years of his life in Palestine. Maitreya is known as Maitreya Buddhain the East, and as Christ in the West, and he is the leader of the Earth's spiritualHierarchy and embodies the heart centre of this planet. The Earth's Spiritual Hierarchy: Cosmic laws: The Law of reincarnation, the law ofevolution and the law of karmaApart from the teachings about the structure of the universe and the function of theEarth's Hierarchy, Theosophy describes in great detail a number of universal laws whichgovern our lives, as well as the lives of lesser and great beings. One of them is the lawof reincarnation which simply says that human beings (as well as many other life forms) gothrough many cycles of physical incarnations in order to evolve, gain experience and grow,until a state of perfection is achieved. When we have learnt all there is to learn in thephysical realm, we become a Master of wisdom and graduate from the Earth school, free tocontinue our service and evolution here or at another place in the universe. Connectedwith the law of reincarnation is the law of evolution, a basic universal law, whichdescribes how every unit of consciousness evolves towards and strives for higher states ofbeing, experience and self-expression. These two link with the law of Karma (or the law ofcause of effect) which states that whatever any life unit sends out through its actionsand thoughts, it will receive again - "as you sow you shall reap". These lawsgovern our personal lives as well as the life of cosmic, together with other cosmic lawssuch as the law of love, the law of mercy, the law of periodicity and the law of contrastsThe Seven RaysAnother important part of theosophical teachings is the teaching about the seven rays. TheSeven rays are divine intelligences or energies which permeate this solar system,emanating from the seven stars of Ursa Major (the Great Bear) and going to the seven starsin the Pleiades (the Seven Sisters). It is said that all living beings within this solarsystem is characterized by one or several of these rays and their qualities, for instancethis solar system is a 2nd ray system (the second ray expresses the qualities of love andwisdom), while the planet Earth is a 3rd ray planet (active intelligence). Anyperson will have his personality on one of these 7 rays, and the personality again is amixture of physical/etheric body, astral body and mental body, each of which has its ownrays. Much can be said about a person's character, potentials and development problemsfrom his rays, and therefore, the science of the 7 rays will form an important part of thepsychology of the New Age. Within this field, a pioneer work has been done by MichaelRobbins with his book "The Tapestry of the Gods", and also by Benjamin Creme wholists the ray structures of many famous people at the end of his books (Maitreya's Mission I - III). The 7 Rays coming to the Earth The Rays and their qualitiesAs we have seen, each of the seven rays is a divine energy or quality:1st ray: expresses will or power2nd ray: expresses love and wisdom3rd ray: expresses active intelligence4th ray: expresses beauty or harmony through conflict5th ray: expresses concrete intelligence or science6th ray: expresses idealism or devotion7th ray: expresses order or ceremonial magic All beings in the solar system "belong" to one or severalof the seven rays - each individual has a personality ray, a ray of the physical body, aray of the emotional body, a ray of the mental body, a soul ray and a monadic ray, andthus his spiritual structure is really a mixture of different ray qualities, expressingthemselves through his various bodies or vehicles.As perfected beings, we will express the qualities of one of theseven rays primarily. For instance, Hilarion is the Chohan (Master) of the 5th ray whichgives him a major responsibility with inspiring scientific work on this planet, whileMorya is the 1st ray Chohan, and has the task of inspiring and guiding leaders,politicians and statesmen to see and follow the right visions and make the right decisionsin accordance with the Great Plan for the Earth. Maitreya and Kuthumi work on the 2nd ray- the ray of the teacher - of love and wisdom, and therefore with religion and education.The Christ spirit is the essence of all true religions on this planet. Religions are guidelines for evolving humanity Theosophy sees itself as a synthesis of science, religion and philosophy, and seeks toshow the similarities in the world's religions, knowing that all religions are given fromthe Hierarchy as a teaching to humanity, adapted to humanity's culture and stage ofdevelopment at any given time. The religions express the same divine truths in their core- as much as humanity is ready to assimilate at that moment. For instance, Gautama Buddhashowed humanity how to gain freedom from desire by transmuting it to aspiration and desirefor wisdom and understanding, while Christ taught us about the importance of love,forgiveness and compassion as a means to achieve peace in the world and to reach theKingdom of God, i.e. the state of consciousness of an initiate, the Nirvana of Buddhism.In modern time this is being realized more and more, and There is a strong tendencytowards the common understanding, that the God of all religions is the same, and the goalof all religions also the same, namely to establish love, brotherhood and right humanrelations on this planet, and this shows the great progress which humanity has made in thepast centuries, the strong effects of the sufferings of the past 2,000 years and thestrong, spiritual energies which are now flowing to the planet.  The law of cycles - transition to a New AgeThe law of cycles, another important universal law, tells us that thingsevolve in cycles, smaller cycles within larger cycles. In physical life, the small daycycle - day and night - mirrors the longer cycle of summer and winter, and the largercycle of incarnation - discarnation, birth and death. Similarly, planets themselvesalternate between being in incarnation (a planetary manvantara) or out of incarnation (aplanetary pralaya), and the same is goes for solar systems, galaxies and even largerunits. Many cycles have a specific meaning in connection with the human kingdom, forinstance the cycle of the root races. All people on this planet now belong to the fifthroot race, the primary focus of which is the development of the concrete mind (the 5thprinciple), but to different sub-races. For instance, the white/Caucasian race is the 5thsub-race, the Asian the 4th and the black/African the 3rd, and the new 6th sub-racewhich isnow slowly coming into incarnation will have a better ability for intuitive thinking andhelp to overcome the current divisions within humanity, in science, religion andphilosophy on the basis of universal, intuitive and holistic thinking and understanding. Another important cycle for humanity is the precession of the equinoxes. At springequinox, the sun will be seen from the Earth within one of the12 signs of the zodiac, andthis position changes very slowly, so that it moves through the whole of the zodiac in26,000 years. It stays for about 2167 years in each astrological sign, and In each ofthese periods, human culture is influenced by the spiritual energies of that particularastrological sign. Cyclic changes in human cultureThe transition to a New Age, of which so many people speak, is illustrated symbolically bythis movement of the sun. For about the last 2,000 years, the sun has been in Pisces, andthe planetary civilisation has been strongly influenced by the energies of Pisces and ofthe 6th ray of devotion or idealism. The positive qualities of this ray can be seen inmany of the world's religions - in the intense devotion and mysticism of Christianity inthe Middle Ages of Europe and in the lives of many great mystics and saints, and strongadherence of humanity to certain religions or ideologies. The 6th ray influence expressesitself in its higher aspects as intense devotion and love for an ideal or an object. Thelower aspects (i.e. when people express the 6th ray energy in a distorted way) arefanaticism, self-righteousness and emotional "clinging" to an object , and thesequalities have also been prevalent in the many religious and ideological conflicts of thelast 2,000 years. Since 1675, the 7th ray of order or ceremonial magic is slowly coming into manifestationin the planetary culture, and the strong shift of energies in the late1960's was the firsttime when the incoming 7th ray was stronger than the outgoing 6th ray. The years afterthis have been full of conflicts, but the new rhythm will gradually and inevitably takeover as the years pass by.Whenever a new ray comes in and an old one goes out, the same pattern repeats: Thestructures and the civilisation which was built on and vitalised by the old energy beginto lose vitality and crystallize, as the ensouling energy goes out (in the same way thatpeople may crystallize and stagnate in old age if they don't have a vital inner, spirituallife), and the new incoming energy inspires visionaries and reformers who fight toestablish its new rhythm. This creates a conflict between the old, well-known, establishedand crystallized structures and powers, and the new germinating impulses which containsthe seeds of the new life.In out age, the conflict takes place between the old structures of the 6th ray (expressedfor instance in parts of the traditional religions and in politics and the educationalsystem when it is based on competition and separatism) and the new impulses of the 7th raywhich tend to understand things holistically in interconnected systems, and to approachreligion through understanding and investigation rather than through mere faith anddevotion. When society has been organised along the patterns of the incoming 7th ray (theenergy of freedom is one of the basic qualities of the 7th ray), there will be a betterorganisation and distribution of the world's goods and raw materials, and humanity willhave a more universal and holistic outlook on the world and humanity's place in cosmos.Gradually, the Earth will open for contact with other planetary civilisations, and atransfer of knowledge and information will take place which will enable us to solve thepresent ecological, economical and political problems which are largely a result ofegotism and a much too short and harrow perspective in our planning of things. The Age of AquariusThe Earth is presently undergoing great changes as the incoming 7th ray becomesmore and more dominant,establishing a new rhythm on the planet, and the old structures of the Age of Piscescrystallize and die. The 7thray stands for internationalisation, global co-ordination and organization and a practicaland scientific outlookon things, and as its energies permeate the world society, our culture is becoming moreand more governedby reason and organisation.The change of frequency and rhythm on a planetary level is extraordinarily strong in thisperiod, because theplanet Earth itself is rapidly moving towards a planetary initiation and expansion ofconsciousness.Humanity as a collective unit is the planetary throat centre, and it is our task toreceive the light, love andinspiration from the higher light worlds and bring it down into manifestation on thephysical level of the planet,so it can express the same beauty and perfection which is found on the inner levels. Thisis the creation ofwhat is known in Christian terminology as "The Kingdom of God".Because of the planetary initiation - the Earth raising its level of consciousness -strong cosmic energies are coming to the planet to assist the Earth and humanity in thedifficult birth process - the birth of cosmic consciousness.The purpose of these energies are to assist in the creation of a planetary civilisation oflight - an enlightenedsociety which is in harmony with the cosmic laws and which respects and loves all kingdomsof nature:a society in which the human inhabitants express love and good-will towards each other andwhere wars,hatred, crime, pollution and physical and emotional suffering has been eliminated throughhumanity's intelligentco-operation with the Hierarchy and the different advanced civilisations from otherplanets which are nowcontacting the Earth.Transfer of souls to other planetsAccording to my information, a certain percentage of the Earth's present population willbe transferred to otherplanets during the transitional period between the present society and the comingenlightened civilisation (which, according to Martinus' information will be a reality on the planet no later thanin 3,000 years).This transfer takes place because these souls would not thrive under the new conditionsthat the planet willoffer its inhabitants. Those who still need to experiment and experience violence,suppression, abuse of others, hatred, excessive egotism etc. etc. will have to seek it on other planets in the future,in the same way as a number of souls have been transferred to the Earth from other planetsbecause their civilisations did not allow such forms of self-expression.This "migration", combined with the present "immigration" of highlyevolved souls (both from the Earth's "native" population who have been out ofincarnation, waiting for this period, and from other planets) through physical birth, and the incoming cosmic light energies will create a rapid change and betterment inthe planetary culture.This is not to say that the transition to a better world society will be effortless andeasy - as we all know there are still many problems to solve on the planet, and it is we -humanity - who must solve them. But once higher and better visions and energies come inand replace the old selfish and sometimes highly destructive patternsof civilisation, rapid progress is possible.As a thought experiment, we could imagine what would happen if the world's arms budget wasused for constructive purposes instead of manufacture and development of deadly weapons.In current prices, the world's total arms budget for 14 days is enough to bring the entirethird world up to the same standard of living as the Scandinavian countries. The problem is not a lack ofresources, but a wrong use of theavailable resources, and this is what the new world society will change, on the basis of aspiritual and humanitarian vision. (See the page on a new world economy: Future WordEconomy) The New Age - Utopia or reality?Most of us can agree that the above visions are desirable for humanity and forthe Earth, but are they realistic?Are these the dreams of hopeful, but naive religious people who hope that a divine powerwill interfere withhumanity's imminent doom, or are they realistic analyses, based on an understanding of thecosmic laws thatall units of life follow, and on an understanding of the Earth's place in a cosmic schemeof development?To me, after 10 years of study of spiritual science, the answer is easy: This is not anutopia, but a reality whichwill manifest, and the things that are happening all over the world at present are justthe preparations for thelater stages of our civilisations.Let me look at some of the foundations of the world picture of spiritual science:It is evident that for "cosmic forces" and a "planetary Hierarchy" tobe influencing humanity's civilisation, there have to be other intelligences than thehuman in the universe, and there have to be other dimensions of existence than thewell-known physical dimension of our daily life.Is there? This is a question that both para-psychology and Theosophy has researched formany years, and theamount of evidence for the existence of the spiritual world is overwhelming - sooverwhelming that those who want to denounce it have a very hard job, at leastif they begin to look at the evidence (but they don't *S*).Evidence for the existence of a spiritual world:Throughout history and the many different cultures, we find references to bothangels, fairies and "little people",as ingredients in the world's religions in folk-lore, myths and fairy tales. There havealways been people who have said they could communicate with and see these beings, andwhile they were feared and persecuted inthe Middle Ages, and often ridiculed during the later materialistic epoch, they were oftenrevered in ancient times where humanity was more emotionally and spiritually connectedwith the inner worlds.Today there are many skillful clairvoyants and psychics who are able to get accurate visualand audio information from the inner worlds (take a look at the collection of devapictures and the descriptions of them, for instance page 1 page 2 page 3 page 4page 5), and while they possess these for humanity unusual skills, they are also able tofunction normally and intelligently in the physical world. Geoffrey Hodson, the author of"The Kingdom of the Gods" was a British soldier during WW I, where he servedwith distinction, and Eskild Tjalve, the Danish author of "Devas - the world of the angels and nature spirits" worked for many years as a civil engineer before he began working with spiritualscience.Other psychics work more with communication with human beings on the inner levels - the"dead", and I have often witnessed such conversations, channeled through apsychic, with people's deceased friends or family, where information comes up which thechannel couldn't possibly get from other than spiritual sources.The existence of the spiritual world was proven already by the Spiritist Movementat theend of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Another example of contacts with the spiritual world are the so-calledNear Death Experiences (NDE's) orOut of Body Experiences (OBE's). As the years have gone by, and psychologists,para-psychologists andprivate and public institutions have taken interest in the phenomenon (thanks tohumanity's God-givencuriosity and desire to learn), mountains of personal experiences have been documented andinvestigated.On the Internet there's an entire web-server dedicated to this kind of research: After Death CommunicationsApart from that, extensive research into these and related phenomena have beencarried out but C. W. Leadbeater, Geoffrey Hodson, Howard Murphet, Robert Monroe andElisabeth Kübler-Ross, to name a few.See the subject of reincarnation in the literature list for further reference: Clickhere A thorough investigation of these sources should provide ample evidence for thoseinterested to learn, that there is in fact a spiritual world. No amount of evidence willconvince the person who does not meet the factswith an open mind and the desire to learn. Personally, I have always been able to registerthe subtler vibrations of the higher worlds, and through years of meditation and study theability has bettered and become more precise, so I have an advantage here from my ownexperience, but even the person who has no amount ofspiritual sensitivity can see the overwhelming amount of evidence based on hundreds ofother people's experiences.The world religions and the afterlife:Another interesting facet of this is the similarity found in many of the world'sreligions in the description of the "afterlife". If you look atBuddhism, there is a fairly clear concept of reincarnation here, and of the factthat the consciousness of the deceased stays in a light-world,"devachan", for a period before the next incarnation.In the Tibetan book of the dead, there are both instructions about what to doafter death if you want to raiseyour level of consciousness and maybe "escape" another rebirth (I donot really believe this is possible, except for the souls who are so advancedthat such rebirth is no longer considered a necessity), and about how to seekout the right parents when the time for rebirth comes. The description ofdevachan in Buddhism looks very much like the description that the Spiritistmediums gave of the "summer land", where most of the spiritsthey communicated with were staying, and indeed the Spiritists, being aware ofthis fact, sometimes referredto this inner world as devachan, as is also the case in Theosophical books.Hindus believe in reincarnation, too, and also within Hinduism there aredetailed accounts of the processes of afterlife, for instance of how strongpassions may be a burden for the soul in the afterlife, who has to go through aprocess of cleansing. The inhabitants of the higher worlds in the afterlife aredescribed in a system of Gods, demi-Gods, angels and devils, which, when youlook closer at it, can well be seen as a symbolic representation of the 7subplanes of the astral plane which is described within Theosophy.The old Greeks believed in an afterlife, too, and apparently in reincarnation(so many civilisations did and does; I wonder whether it is only in modern timewith its materialistic philosophy that large numbers of people have begun tobelieve in the non-existence of an afterlife?). Hades was the name of thekingdom of the dead, and the soul entering this had to be ferried over the riverStyx, the river of forgetfulness. When/if the soul was to leave thekingdom of Hades again, it was given water from the river Styx to drink, andthis caused the soul to forget its experiences in the kingdom of the dead.Symbolically, of course, this means that the reincarnating soul loses the memoryof its past lives before the new incarnation. The fact that some people doremember their past lives (some Greeks may have done this and told so publicly,I don't know) would have been explained at that time by saying they somehowavoided drinking the water, while the esoteric explanation is that the memoriesare stored in the unconscious, and meditation, hypnosis or other forms ofpsychic training allows you to delve into these memories.If we look at the old Egyptian religion (which was really a mythical expressionof the scientific facts that were being taught the initiates in the Egyptiantemples), the concept of the afterlife is also clear here. A person isconsidered as having two souls, one mortal and one immortal, and the immortalsoul must be weighed on the scales of Horus and proven to be free of sin to passinto the heaven worlds. Sinful souls are said to undergo terrible sufferings.Christianity has taken over many Greek (and Jewish) religious concepts, so itsno wonder there are great similarities here: In Catholic thought, the pure soulsenter the heavens directly, the lost sinners go directly to hell, while theimpure ones have to stay in the purgatory for a while to be cleansed, beforethey can enter the heavens. If you compare with the Theosophical research (C. W.Leadbeater's studies), it appears there is a lot of truth in these ideas, foraccording to him, souls with very pure energies to move on to the higher astralor mental planes very quickly, while those with lower vibrations stay for aperiod on the lower astral planes, experiencing what could well be described asa purgatory, while negative vibrations are being removed from them. "Lostsouls" is not really a concept found in Theosophy, however, although itcould be said that very evil people will stay at the lowest astral planes forsuch a long period that this could be described as "hell", before thenecessary purification has taken place. Finally, mystics such as Jacob Böhme and Emmanuel Swedenborg have givendetailed descriptions of the inner worlds quite alike those of Theosophy, and itis evident that their advanced spiritual development made them useful asreligious messengers to humanity at that time. Following that tradition ofmystics, we reach people like Rudolf Steiner, C. W. Leadbeater, Geoffrey Hodsonand Martinus in the 20th century, who have done extensive clairvoyant studiesand research into the matter of life after death (the three first), or who waspresented with the information as intuitively revealed facts (as in the case ofMartinus).Looking at all this, what stands out to me is the marvelous continuity in thework which is being done in teaching humanity about the facts of afterlife, andthe way in which truth is interwoven in myths and legends so as to present theoccult facts in symbols, to those who are not yet able to appreciate the fullmental and intuitive explanation.Reincarnation - fact or fallacy?Turning to the matter of reincarnation, experiences in my own life havenow made it rather obvious to me that we all reincarnate. First, there's thetheoretical basis of Theosophy, Anthroposophy and Martinus' Cosmology and allthe evidence and research offered herein. Secondly, there are a number of bookswritten by people who remember their past lives with great clarity (clickhere to see the titles), and there are methods by which many people (alsoatheists) have been brought to remember their past lives, usually through a formof hypnosis or meditation. Apart from such direct, personal experiences, it ispossible for clairvoyants to tune in and receive information about the pastlives of others, and this is how I have obtained information about my own pastlives. In my case, it has been part of a therapeutic process where the work hasbeen to heal traumas, both from this and from past lives, and whenever strongemotions have been coming up, the clairvoyant healer who was assisting me, hasbeen able to see where they originated and thus explain them. In many cases, ithas been emotions of such an extreme nature that I could find no basis for themin the present life, while the past life scenario offered a perfect, logicalexplanation. When working with traumas from the present life, my helper has alsobeen able to tell me where this or that problem originated, and in this case Ihave always been able to remember and confirm the situation. With the pastlives, it is different, as the "proof" lies more in the feeling ofidentification of a part of me with the described situation, for instance thelife of a Jewish scribe or priest around 2000 years ago, whose personality Isuddenly felt very strongly in me (compare this with Steen Landsy's descriptionof the period in his present life when he wrote the book about his past lives).Finally, I now have a number of clairvoyant friends who are in the process ofremembering, discovering and healing their past lives, and this makes it easy tosee the patterns that are being healed, and how experiences and traumas frompast lives are layered in our consciousness just like experiences from thepresent life, and with the same effects, good or bad.To elucidate how past-life memories are being researched using hypnotictechniques, and the question of how to distinguish between actual memories andfantasy or wish-fulfillment, here's an excerpt from Asger Lorentsen's book:Man's spiritual journey (translated from Danish; the book is not available inEnglish, although I might do it if I get enough requests). Take good note of the13 points he lists to support the validity of past life memories; they arepretty hard to argue against.Hypnotic regression therapy:"....in writing this book I have used a method of exploring deeper areas ofour consciousness, which has not been used very much as yet (1982). I have beenusing this technique for several years, and have thus been able to test theoccult ideas about man's spiritual structure, the meaning of life, the law ofkarma, which I have studied theoretically.In this form of occult research, the scientist leads other people to there-experience of repressed memories using a suitable technique, which allows theclient to retain his/her daily consciousness throughout the process.The technique brings up memories from deeper and deeper layers of theunconscious, and after a variable period of "training", memoriesappear which can be placed in time back into history. This gives us a newperspective, since it makes it possible to work with the ideas of reincarnationand eternal life in a new way, as all people seem to have memories of pastlives, which they can be brought to remember again, regardless of theirreligious philosophy prior to the session. Past lives can be experienced byeverybody after a period of training and release of painful childhood traumas.Memories of past lives are experienced like a film, with more or less clarityand sense of emotional identification.As people work their way through the repressed experiences from past lives, itoften heals them from psycho-somatic diseases, unconcious fear-patterns andneurotic patterns of behaviour. Likewise, they often experience things whichthey would never consciously, or "in their wildest imagination" havethought possible.The reasons why I have interpreted the experiences from the "reincarnationlayer" of our subconsciousness as authentic expressions of actualexperiences, and not as unconscious imagining or experiences from a collectivesubconsciousness are as follows:1) All people can experience this, whether they believe in past lives or not. 2)The experiences are sometimes very violent and painful. 3) The person whoexperience them sometimes has the same sense of identification with theexperiences as with repressed experiences from childhood in the present life,which can be objectively verified. 4) The technique which is used, the way inwhich the memories appear and their whole nature is identical to similarrepressed memories from the present life. 5) People who experience such memoriesoften experience how surprising details force their way into their dailyconsciousness and remain there, in spite of their attempt to reject or deny thememories which have been experienced. 6) When the technique is used for goingvery far back in time, the client may experience a state of mind which iscompletely new to him/her and which contradicts the logic of the dailyconsciousness (for instance the experience of an original state of unity withoutany sense of time). 7) The client's religious attitude may change on the basisof strong experiences of religious attitudes from past lives. 8) There areexamples where the memories brought up during such a session have been verifiedby clairvoyants who see other people's past lives with their "innereye" as a film. 9) There are examples where historical information, broughtup through regression therapy, has shown to be correct even though the clienthad no prior knowledge of it. 10) There are examples where several persons, whodo not know each other, describe the same episodes seen from each their angle,i.e. as if they were in incarnation together. 11) It appears that experiences ofreincarnation can be linked together in a time-line with a logical connectionbetween each life, and a gradual personal evolution governed by cause and effect(karma). 12) After observing the past life experiences of a number of people,you can see how the same basic patterns and the same stages of development arefound with all persons, even if they have no knowledge of other people'sexperiences. 13) These basic patterns and stages of development combine tocreate a comprehensive history of evolution, which is similar to the descriptiongiven by occult scientists and clairvoyants, who reached the same conclusion bytotally different means."Click here to read a text I wrote some years ago about proof of reincarnation: TextcollectionTheosophical links: Look at the links page:Links Click here to go back to title page: |
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