Explanation Of The Ether

Is anything faster than the speed of light?

Yes, the speed of Thought.

Light is an electromagnetic radiation that travels in a wave form, exciting atom after atom in turn to pass the information on as to the frequency of each particular wavelength, red, blue, yellow, or light may travel in a stream of particles, whatever.

All of this happens fast, in fact, in one year light will travel six million million miles, that is VERY fast but nowhere near as fast as the speed of thought. If you and I were telepathic, and one of us were six million million miles away and I sent you a thought, you would receive it immediately . Now, THAT is fast. The same conversation with flashlight, even a very powerful one picking out Morse code, would take a very long time.

As mentioned earlier, light travels in a coarse zig-zag time-consuming manner as any scientist will tell you but how does thought travel and through what medium? I'll try to explain. Do you remember the chrome ball bearings, each suspended in a line of 5 or 6 - it makes no difference how many - and when you pull one out from either end and let it go, the one on the other end instantly pops out? That is how thought travels.

The use of the ball bearings is only a simile, but what is it that these ball bearings represent? the answer to this is: ether.

Not the substance used by doctors for cleansing, but the stuff that is known to modern science as the space between particles. Space between particles?

At this point a few well known scientific facts must be stated.

Fact 1. A block of iron is about as solid as you can get but iron, the same as everything else, is composed of atoms. An atom has a nucleus surrounded by protons and electrons that spin around it. The size of the nucleus in proportion to the electrons and protons is about the same as between the Sun and the planets. Scientists know this to be fact.

As you can appreciate, there is a lot of space between these particles. This space is called the ether. Sound waves, radio and TV transmissions all pass quite happily through solid objects because they are at a different frequency - or level of vibration. If we could project ourselves to the frequency of TV, Radio or mobile phones, the air would be full of these signals and we would know what they look like.

Fact 2. Humans - and everything that has 'life' - has an etheric body which looks identical to the physical body but functions at a higher frequency. In fact, it is at the same frequency as the ether. Could this be where it derives it's name? Scientists know that we are electromagnetic in origin. Most advanced medical tests assess electrical impulses in the brain and elsewhere in the body to find areas of activity or lack of it that may be causing a problem. Our thoughts register activity in the brain. This activity can be seen with modern medical equipment but not the 'thought' itself. The thought operates at an even higher frequency but it is quite real. The thought registers in the ether.

Because Mankind has been denied Spiritual knowledge for so long, this sixth sense has become under developed and under used by most people. However, don't worry, there is no chance of it 'falling of.' I say most people because some do develop this awareness. Most Governments have as part of their security department, remote viewers.

These are people who learn and then train how to tune in to this higher vibration by the use of meditation, or other mental protocols, and travel through the ether to spy on each other and on selected targets.

There are many books on this subject written by well-respected people. Many well0known mediums, Doris Stokes, Stephen O'Brian, etc, as well as healers like Harry Edwards, Sia Baba and of course Jesus, all used this facility.

So, where is it? It is here, all around us but we cannot see it because it is at a different vibration or frequency...just like radio or TV signals. So what? you may say.

Back to the speed of thought. In the ether, thought is reality. It is transferred instantly through the ether because everything is ether at that level, including you and your surroundings. Remember the chrome ball bearings? Because the balls are touching, energy is transferred from number 1 to number 7 instantly,there is no loss of time...just as in the ether. The balls don't go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 - they go 1-7 in-out...step in #1 and step out #7.

In this environment our selves are ether. If we want to go to the planet Mars, we simply think it and it happens. Think Mars 1 and arrive on Mars 2. The distance doesn't matter. All this happens because we are in the ether and are part of it... all the same substance.

Moving on to sound...which is found in a much lower vibrational level than light - and therefore travels much slower because it uses a physical medium to travel through: air or solids.

If one could increase the frequency of the sound to closer to that of light, then it could travel at closer to the speed of light...the perfect example is radio.

It has happened already, if man can do this with sound then the possibilities for other things are there. The British lad who hacked into U.S. military computers said they were developing a craft that had an engine that worked on VIBRATION. He did not know how, or if, it worked only that it was being developed.

What Is The Ether And How Does It Work?

The article by Sir Oliver Lodge describes the ether as being one million million times more dense than water, and that one cubic inch would weigh a million tons if it were material in atom form that we are familiar with. That brings us to a conclusion that I will expand upon after these following pieces of information.

An article in the Psychic News by an eminent doctor tells us that any - and every - cell in the body has the ability to manufacture any enzyme or hormone that is needed for the well-being of its host. Every body carries the cancer potential but the process is just waiting to be turned on or of. The mechanism that controls these functions is the DNA.

The DNA, acting on instruction from a source of intelligence, instructs the cell to manufacture or activate. It isn't known weather the cell has the blueprint or is just following the recipe given to it by the D.N.A., the important thing to note is that the cell has access to supreme intelligence and the ability to arrange, at the atomic level, the protons and electrons, etc. in the right order to have the desired effect. In short, creation is taking place courtesy of the intelligence that it has access to. Silver Birch once said "a cell does two trillion things a second, you could not hope to understand."

One more thing. It is always said "as above, so below." On a modern computer you can save lots of pictures but comparatively little sound. The reason for this is that pictures contain one dimensional images with little information: this dot is blue that dot is yellow. Sound, on the other hand, is three dimensional at least, with instrument, definition, volume, and tone depth etc. ...and takes up vastly more computer memory.

This is how I believe it works in the ether.

If you were one side of the room and I on the other, the space between us would be filled with air atoms. These atoms are one million million times LESS dense than the ether. The ether is a solid block of intelligence but still a solid block that material bodies do not penetrate. What happens is this...

Just as on a TV when images move across the screen, the dots or pixels are told what color to be at any given time. And so it is with our bodies...but in three dimensions.

Each 'molecule' of ether receives the information from the individual bodily intelligence as to what it will be at any given time. Cells, as we know, can create and change substance at will, and it is this will...this intelligence...that travels through the ether giving the illusion of movement.

Physical mass does not move, only the information of the swirling mass of atoms that make it what it is.

As the metal in the electric cable waits for the electricity to pass along it, so, too does the ether wait for energy and intelligence to pass though it.

All that exists has life...and a level of intelligence of mind that defines its identity and integrity at an atomic level - be it a stone, a book or a human body. A chair, even though it is 'inanimate', is still a swirling mass of atomic mind. All that has form has intelligence that is life itself.

In the article by Sir Oliver Lodge, he describes how light, if it were not to reflect on anything would be invisible at least to the naked eye. All we see is the reaction of light. So it is with matter: we register only the reaction of individual intelligence with our five senses.

Thought and life itself in the spiritual realms transcend these limitations for we then become part of the ether, part of this supreme intelligence that knows all. And if we want to go to the planet Mars, we just think the intention and step out the reaction, however many million miles away.

     

Artificial Intelligence - End of jobs or a new beginning?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is advancing so rapidly that even its developers are being caught off guard. Google co-founder Sergey Brin said in Davos, Switzerland, in January that it “touches every single one of our main projects, ranging from search to photos to ads … everything we do … it definitely surprised me, even though I was sitting right there.”

Intelligent machines are taking over thousands of jobs, and being qualified is no longer enough to keep your job. Earlier this year, consulting firm McKinsey and Co. released a study that said 51% of all jobs could be automated in the next 20 years. Even specialized professions like medicine, law and banking are feeling the heat of Artificial Intelligence (AI). A few months ago, investment bank JP Morgan made the news by introducing intelligent machines to review financial deals that once kept employees busy for thousands of hours. Diagnostics and other decision-making skills previously thought of as the exclusive preserve of human beings, will soon be better handled by machines

The long-promised AI, the stuff we’ve seen in science fiction, is coming and we need to be prepared. Today, AI is powering voice assistants such as Google Home, Amazon Alexa and Apple Siri, allowing them to have increasingly natural conversations with us and manage our lights, order food and schedule meetings. Businesses are infusing AI into their products to analyse the vast amounts of data and improve decision-making. In a decade or two, we will have robotic assistants that remind us of Rosie from “The Jetsons” and R2-D2 of “Star Wars.”

This has profound implications for how we live and work, for better and worse. AI is going to become our guide and companion — and take millions of jobs away from people. We can deny this is happening, be angry or simply ignore it. But if we do, we will be the losers. As I discussed in my new book, “Driver in the Driverless Car,” technology is now advancing on an exponential curve and making science fiction a reality. We can’t stop it. All we can do is to understand it and use it to better ourselves — and humanity.

Rosie and R2-D2 may be on their way but AI is still very limited in its capability, and will be for a long time. The voice assistants are examples of what technologists call narrow AI: systems that are useful, can interact with humans and bear some of the hallmarks of intelligence — but would never be mistaken for a human.  They can, however, do a better job on a very specific range of tasks than humans can. I couldn’t, for example, recall the winning and losing pitcher in every baseball game of the major leagues from the previous night.

Narrow-AI systems are much better than humans at accessing information stored in complex databases, but their capabilities exclude creative thought.  If you asked Siri to find the perfect gift for your mother for Valentine’s Day, she might make a snarky comment but couldn’t venture an educated guess. If you asked her to write your term paper on the Napoleonic Wars, she couldn’t help. That is where the human element comes in and where the opportunities are for us to benefit from AI — and stay employed.

Nearly 20 years ago, in 1997 former world chess champion Garry Kasparov had played chess against IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue. The match was a watershed for AI and an extraordinary technical feat. Strangely, although Kasparov lost, it left me more in awe of the incredible capabilities of the human brain than of the machine. His account of the Deep Blue match itself is fascinating. Famously, Kasparov stormed out of one game and gave antagonistic press conferences in which he protested against IBM’s secrecy around the Deep Blue team and its methods, and insinuated that the company might have cheated.

 In Deep Thinking, Kasparov offers an engaging insight into his psychological state during the match. To a degree, he walks back on his earlier claims, concluding that although IBM probably did not cheat, it violated the spirit of fair competition by obscuring useful information.

Then, he sets out the details of that titanic event in his book Deep Thinking.

In his book, he acknowledges that he is a sore loser but was clearly traumatised by having a machine outsmart him. He was aware of the evolution of the technology but never believed it would beat him at his own game. After coming to grips with his defeat, 20 years later, he says fail-safes are required … but so is courage.

Kasparov wrote: “When I sat across from Deep Blue twenty years ago I sensed something new, something unsettling. Perhaps you will experience a similar feeling the first time you ride in a driverless car, or the first time your new computer boss issues an order at work. We must face these fears in order to get the most out of our technology and to get the most out of ourselves. Intelligent machines will continue that process, taking over the more menial aspects of cognition and elevating our mental lives toward creativity, curiosity, beauty, and joy. These are what truly make us human, not any particular activity or skill like swinging a hammer — or even playing chess.”

In other words, we better get used to it and ride the wave.

In Deep Thinking, Kasparov also delves into the renaissance of machine learning. He highlights the radical differences between Deep Blue and AlphaGo, a learning algorithm created by my company DeepMind to play the massively complex game of Go. In March 2016, AlphaGo defeated 18-time world champion Lee Sedol, widely hailed as the greatest player of the past decade.

Whereas Deep Blue followed instructions carefully honed by a crack team of engineers and chess professionals, AlphaGo played against itself repeatedly, learning from its mistakes and developing novel strategies. Several of its moves against Lee had never been seen in human games, which upended centuries of traditional Go wisdom by playing on the fifth line early in the game.

Most excitingly, because its learning algorithms can be generalized, AlphaGo holds promise far beyond the game for which it was created. Kasparov relishes this potential, discussing applications from machine translation to automated medical diagnoses. AI will not replace humans, he argues, but will enlighten and enrich us. His position is especially notable coming from someone who would have every reason to be bitter about AI’s advances.

Human superiority over animals is based on our ability to create and use tools. The mental capacity to make things that improved our chances of survival led to a natural selection of better toolmakers and tool users. Nearly everything a human does involve technology. For adding numbers, we used abacuses and mechanical calculators and now spreadsheets. To improve our memory, we wrote on stones, parchment and paper, and now have disk drives and cloud storage.

AI is the next step in improving our cognitive functions and decision-making.

Think about it: When was the last time you tried memorizing your calendar or Rolodex or used a printed map? Just as we instinctively do everything on our smartphones, we will rely on AI. We may have forfeited skills such as the ability to add up the price of our groceries but we are smarter and more productive. With the help of Google and Wikipedia, we can be experts on any topic, and these don’t make us any dumber than encyclopedias, phone books and librarians did.

A valid concern is that dependence on AI may cause us to forfeit human creativity. As Kasparov observes, the chess games on our smartphones are many times more powerful than the supercomputers that defeated him, yet this didn’t cause human chess players to become less capable — the opposite happened. There are now stronger chess players all over the world, and the game is played in a better way.

Adaptation, Resiliency & Risk-Taking

 “No matter how many people are worried about jobs, or the social structure, or killer machines, we can never go back,” he concludes.

Kasparov’s intelligent advice in his book is worth quoting at length:

“The willingness to keep trying new things — different methods, uncomfortable tasks — when you are already an expert at something is what separates good from great. Focusing on your strengths is required for peak performance, but improving your weaknesses has the potential for the greatest gains. This is true for athletes, executives, and entire companies. Leaving your comfort zone involves risk, however, and when you are already doing well the temptation to stick with the status quo can be overwhelming, leading to stagnation.”

Disrupting Education

Kasparov is particularly concerned about how a deep underlying conservatism and resistance to experimentation has become a chronic problem within the traditional educational system. “The prevailing attitude is that education is too important to take risks. My response is that education is too important not to take risks,” he says.

Kasparov says, even though they often receive little encouragement from the older guard, who often still resist the new methods of learning. “We need to find out what works and the only way to do that is to experiment,” he argues. “The kids can handle it. They are already doing it on their own. It’s the adults who are afraid.”

Learning by Doing

 “There will be redistribution of jobs. Many jobs today — like drone operators or 3D printer managers or social media managers — they didn’t exist 10 years ago, 15 years ago. No doubt in 10, 15 years, there will be many jobs, maybe the best-paid jobs, that don’t exist today, and we don’t even know how these jobs will look. I think that’s natural. All we have to do is realize that this process is inevitable, and we have to prepare us mentally, but also to have some sort of safety cushions to help people that will have great difficulty in adjusting.”

Much like looking out over the chessboard and pondering the wisdom of our next move, we cannot be frozen into inaction because of fear. We must be willing to make that next move. And then another, and another. And then we must learn from our experiences, and especially our mistakes, if we hope to prosper. “To keep ahead of the machines, we must not try to slow them down because that slows us down as well,”

Kasparov concludes in his closing chapter. “We must speed them up. We must give them, and ourselves, plenty of room to grow. We must go forward, outward, and upward.” -Wise advice from the greatest of all grandmasters.

Yuga Theory from book -The Holy Science

Sri Yukteswar's Insight on Yugas

In the introduction of his book 'The Holy Science' in 1894, Sri Yukteswar explains the basis of Yugas and corrects the general perception that the present age is Kali Yuga. He explains with examples that we have entered Dwapara Yuga and human consciousness is gradually ascending.

Basis of Yugas 

The basis of Yugas is the celestial movement of the planets. Because of the inherent magnetism involved in planet movement, the effect of this magnetic attraction changes along with the movement. The change in magnetic field influences the human consciousness. As the planets move in cycles, consciousness also moves in cycles, from a low to high and then again from a high to low. Yugas are divided into four - based on the evolution of this consciousness.

Sri Yukteswar mentions that according to oriental astronomy:

• Our earth and other planets move around the sun and the sun moves around a dual (Aakash Ganga) along with its planets. Present science has not discovered this dual yet though there were some observations about a second sun in the universe.
• The sun also has another movement, it moves around a grand center called Vishnu Nabhi, the divine source of magnetism.
• One revolution of sun around it's dual as well as grand center takes 24000 years.
• During this movement, when the sun is nearer to the grand center the intellect of the Universe is fully developed and when it is far most, the intellect is least. This happens in a cycle depending on the revolving motion of the sun and each half cycle of ascending or descending takes 12000 years.
• This half cycle of 12000 years is divided into 4 yugas with varying periods as below:

The 4 Yugas

The four yugas are as follows:

1. Kali Yuga: The first in the cycle with least consciousness. The duration is 1200 years. As mentioned above, here the sun is far away from the grand center or Vishnu Nabhi.

2. Dwapara yuga: Consciousness evolves to first level and the human consciousness can understand electric and magnetic properties of nature. We are presently at this stage. Proper Dwapara Yuga started in 1899 and we can find that after that, there have been many developments in the areas of electricity, electromagnetic waves, computers, internet and telecommunications. The duration of Dwapara Yuga is 2400 years.

3. Treta Yuga: Consciousness evolves further and human beings can understand the magnetism of celestial forces and how they influence the universe, our relationship with higher consciousness etc. The duration of Treta Yuga is 3600 years.

4. Satya Yuga: The sun is nearest to the grand center in its cycle and so magnetism is highest. In this age, the consciousness gradually develops to the full and human being can comprehend every subtle energy at the peak of Satya Yuga. The duration of Satya Yuga is 4800 years.

The above four yugas form one half cycle consisting of 12000 years (1200+2400+3600+4800). As the cycle continues, again Yugas retreat in the reverse order and consciousness also drops. This cycle continues. Minsobooks made an effort to represent this movement in the following diagram: 

Some examples for the Yuga or consciousness cycle

We have heard about pyramids in Egypt and wonder how they were built when there was no technology developed. Or in India how yoga and chakra system was developed and how saints got deep insights about the nature of the creation. In China, acupressure was developed long ago, based on the internal energy of the body and how to treat diseases based on the energy circulation. Many more such developments across the world surprise us as we generally think that human beings must have a lower intellect in the 'past'.

The truth related to the examples above, is, they happened in a different yuga when the consciousness was higher in the cycle. Approximately AD 500 was least in the cycle and this explains crucifixion of Christ due to ignorance when the level of consciousness was very low.

Does this mean that we are puppets of time?

Absolutely not. Time has an inherent influence on us but we also have a free will to put effort and develop our understanding and consciousness. We can't take the excuse of time or yugas for our bad or unreasonable deeds.

Infact, astrology also developed based on the same celestial movements. However human beings got the power to use the mind and will power to get better and we need not resign to our fate dictated by astrology. Sri Yukteswar who himself, was a great astrologist said 'Superstitious awe of astrology makes one an automation, slavishly dependent on mechanical guidance. The wise man defeats his planets - which is to say his past'. Read more about Sri Yukteswar's views on astrology.

The message is very clear. It is helpful to know the understanding of external influences like Yuga cycle. However we need to put our own effort to develop our consciousness instead of depending upon the time.

Kali yuga

Many believe that this is Kali Yuga. Being the end of four Yugas, it is also believed that Kali Yuga is end of the world. Does this mean there is a truth in end of the world ?

• This is not Kali Yuga but we are in the ascending Dwapara Yuga as Sri Yukteswar explained. That means our consciousness is gradually increasing.
• The four yugas are in a cycle. Even when it is end of the cycle in Kaliyuga, another cycle starts  again with ascending Kali Yuga, Dwapara Yuga etc.
• Any division of Yugas or any calendar does not indicate a strict cut-off by date - just as we say winter comes in December does not mean it actually starts on December 1st. Because of this Sri Yukteswar explains that the change from one Yuga to another, or a shift in consciousness, is a gradual transition and the transition period is called Sandhi (Sandhi literally means conjunction or connection in Sanskrit, in this case represents the transition period. Every Yuga has 10% transition period on both sides).
• Because the present Yuga is in ascending cycle of consciousness, the end of the world is not near by. However it seems that the references to end of a cycle in the Mayan calendar do indicate a major shift in the consciousness which already started happening.

Many Lives, Many Masters (Book on REBIRTH)

Background

Many Lives, Many Masters is a true story. It involves a known psychiatrist and his female patient and how he helped her through past life therapy. This entire incident changed both their lives. Past life therapy was not something that was practiced at that time.

As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Brian Weiss, M.D. from Columbia University, spent years in the disciplined study of human psychology, training his mind to think as a scientist and a physician.​​

He held steadfastly to conservatism in his profession, distrusting anything that could not be proved by traditional scientific methods.

For the first time, he came face-to-face with the concept of reincarnation (Rebirth) and the many tenets of Hinduism, which, as he says in the last chapter of the book, “I thought only Hindus… practiced.”

For 18 months, Dr. Weiss used conventional methods of treatment to try and help Catherine overcome her traumas. When nothing seemed to work, he tried hypnosis, which he had found to be “an excellent tool to help a patient remember long-forgotten incidents. There is nothing mysterious about it. It is just a state of focused concentration.

Under the instruction of a trained hypnotist, the patient’s body relaxes, causing the memory to sharpen . . .  eliciting memories of long-forgotten traumas that were disrupting their lives.”

During the initial sessions, the doctor regressed Catherine back to her early childhood as she strained to bring out isolated, deeply repressed memory fragments.

From the age of five, for example, Catherine recalled swallowing water and gagging when pushed from a diving board into a pool; from age three, a memory of her father, reeking of alcohol, molesting her one night.

RECALLING PAST LIVES

Catherine then went on to recalled her past life memories, which proved to be the main cause of her recurring nightmares and anxiety attack symptoms. In a series of trance-like states, she recounted her living 86 times as a human in different places on this earth as a male and as a female. She clearly recalled each birth – her given name, her family, appearance, the area where she stayed, and how she was killed by drowning, stabbing, or illness. The interesting thing was that in each life time she experiences events making progress towards fulfilling all the agreements / and all of the Karmic (from Hindu concept of Karma) debts that are owed.

CHANNELING MESSAGES FROM MASTERS

Catherine began to channel messages from ‘the space between lives’, which confined amazing revelations about Dr Brian’s very own life. Acting as a channel for information from highly evolved spirit entities called the Masters, Catherine revealed many secrets of life and death. She provided important information on the mysteries of the mind, the continuation of life after death and the influence of our past life experiences on our present behavior.

Dr. Brian’s doubts was further eroded when she began to channel messages from “the space between lives," messages from the many Masters (highly evolved souls not presently in body) that also contained remarkable revelations about his own family and his dead son that Catherine could not possibly have known.

Dr. Weiss had often heard patients talk about near-death experiences in which they floated out of their mortal bodies guided towards a bright white light before reentering their discarded body once again.

But Catherine revealed much more. As she floated out of her body after each death, she said, “I am aware of a bright light. It’s wonderful; you get energy from this light.”

Then, while waiting to be reborn in the in-between-lives state, she learned great wisdom from the Masters (Devdoot as per Hinduism) and became a channel for transcendental knowledge.

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Catherine told Dr Brian after her death in one life……..from the book –

"I feel free . . . free," Catherine gently whispered. "I'm just floating in darkness . . . just floating. There is a light around . . . and spirits, other people."

I (Dr Brian) asked if she had any thoughts about the lifetime that had just ended, her life as Christian.

"I should have been more forgiving, but I wasn't. I did not forgive the wrongs that people did to me, and I should have. I didn't forgive the wrongs. I held them inside, and I harbored them for many years. ... I see eyes . . . eyes."

"Eyes?" I echoed, sensing the contact. "What kind of eyes?"

"The eyes of the Master Spirits," Catherine whispered, "but I must wait. I have things to think about." Minutes passed in tense silence.

"How will you know when they are ready," I asked expectantly, breaking the long silence.

"They will call me," she answered. More minutes passed. Then, suddenly, her head began to roll from side to side, and her voice, hoarse and firm, signaled the change.

"There are many souls in this dimension. I am not the only one. We must be patient. That is something I never learned either. . . . There are many dimensions. ..." I asked her whether she had been here before, whether she had reincarnated many times.

"I have been to different planes at different times. Each one is a level of higher consciousness. What plane we go to de-pends upon how far we've progressed. . . She was silent again. I asked her what lessons she had to learn in order to progress. She answered immediately.

"That we must share our knowledge with other people. That we all have abilities far beyond what we use. Some of us find this out sooner than others. That you should check your vices(sins) before you come to this point. If you do not, you carry them over with you to another life. Only we can rid ourselves . . . of the bad habits that we accumulate when we are in a physical state. The Masters cannot do that for us. If you choose to fight and not to rid yourself, then you will carry them over into another life. And only when you decide that you are strong enough to master the external problems, then you will no longer have them in your next life.

"We also must learn not to just go to those people whose vibrations are the same as ours. It is normal to feel drawn to somebody who is on the same level that you are. But this is wrong. You must also go to those people whose vibrations are wrong . . . with yours. This is the importance ... in helping… these people.

"We are given intuitive powers we should follow and not try to resist. Those who resist will meet with danger. We are not sent back from each plane with equal powers. Some of us possess powers greater than others, because they have been accrued from other times. Thus people are not all created equal. But eventually we will reach a point where we will all be equal."

Catherine paused. I knew these thoughts were not hers. She had no background in physics or metaphysics; she knew nothing about planes and dimensions and vibrations. But beyond that, the beauty of the words and thoughts, the philosophical implications of these utterings—these were all beyond Catherine's capabilities. She had never talked in such a concise, poetic manner. I could feel another, higher force struggling with her mind and vocal cords to translate these thoughts into words, so that I could understand.

                  Of course, all of the people interviewed about their near-death experiences returned to their bodies. There is a striking similarity in their stories. They become detached from their bodies and "watch" resuscitation efforts from a point above their bodies. They eventually become aware of a bright light or a glowing "spiritual" figure in the distance, sometimes at the end of a tunnel. They feel no pain. As they become aware that their tasks on earth are not yet completed, and they must return to their bodies, they are immediately rejoined to their bodies and once again are aware of pain and other physical sensations.

Catherine told Dr. Brian after her death in another life……..from other chapter -

"I'm floating . . . away from my body. I have no body. I am in spirit again." said Catherine.

Dr. Brian replied "Good, Rest. You've had a difficult lifetime. You went through a difficult death. You need to rest. Restore yourself. What did you learn from that lifetime?"

"I learned about hate . . . senseless killing . . . misdirected hate . . . people who hate and they don't know why. We are driven to it ... by the evil, when we are in physical state. . . ."

"Are you waiting for something now?"

"Yes . . . I'm waiting to go into a state of renewal. I must wait. They will come for me . . . they will come. . . ."

"Good. I would like to talk with them when they come." We waited for several more minutes. Then abruptly her voice was loud and husky, and the original Master Spirit, not the poet Master, was speaking.

"You were correct in assuming this is the proper treatment for those in the physical state. You must eradicate the fears from their minds. It is a waste of energy when fear is present.

"To be in physical state is abnormal. When you are in spiritual state, that is natural to you. When we are sent back, it's like being sent back to something we do not know. It will take us longer. In the spirit world you have to wait, and then you are renewed. There is a state of renewal. It's a dimension like the other dimensions.

The Master Spirit was silent. I pondered the meaning of this incredible message. I knew I was successfully getting rid of Catherine's fears, but this message had a more global meaning. It was more than just a confirmation of the effectiveness of hypnosis as a therapeutic tool. It involved even more than past-life regressions, which would be difficult to apply to the general population, one by one. No, I believed it concerned the fear of death, which is the fear deep within the volcano. The fear of death, that hidden, constant fear that no amount of money or power can neutralize - this is the core.

But if people knew that "life is endless; so we never die; we were never really born," then this fear would dissolve. If they knew that they had lived countless times before and would live countless times again, how reassured they would feel. If they knew that spirits were around to help them while they were in physical state and that after death, in spiritual state, they would join these spirits, including their deceased loved ones, how comforted they would be. If they knew that guardian "angels" really did exist, how much safer they would feel.

If they knew that acts of violence and injustices against people did not go unnoted, but had to be repaid in kind in other life-times, how much less anger and desire for vengeance they would harbor. And if indeed, "by knowledge we approach God," of what use are material possessions, or power, when they are an end in themselves and not a means to that approach? To be greedy or power-hungry has no value whatsoever.

Catherine stirred and began to whisper. "Someone named Gideon, someone named Gideon . . . Gideon. He's trying to talk to me."

"What does he say?"

"He's all around. He won't stop. He's some type of guardian..... something. But he's playing with me now."

"Is he one of your guardians?"

"Yes, but he's playing . . . he's just jumping all around. I think he wants me to know he's all around me . . . everywhere."

"Gideon?" I repeated.

"He's there."

"Does it make you feel safer?"

"Yes. He'll be back when I need him."

"Good. Are there spirits around us?"

She answered in a whisper, from the perspective of her super conscious mind.

"Oh, yes . . . many spirits. They only come when they want to. They come . . . when they want to. We are all spirits. But others . . . some are in physical state and others are in a period of renewal. And others are guardians. But we all go there. We have been guardians, too."

"Why do we come back to learn? Why can't we learn as spirits?"

"Those are different levels of learning, and we must learn some of them in the flesh. We must feel the pain. When you're a spirit you feel no pain. It is a period of renewal. Your soul is being renewed. When you're in physical state in the flesh, you can feel pain; you can hurt. In spiritual form you do not feel. There is only happiness, a sense of well-being. But it's a renewal period for . . . us. The interaction between people in the spiritual form is different. When you are in physical state . . . you can experience relationships."

"I understand. It will be okay." She had become silent again. Minutes passed………..

Catherine told Dr. Brian after her death in another life……..from other chapter -

"Yes, I'm floating." She died and had entered the spiritual state again.

"Do you know now what you needed to learn? It was another hard lifetime for you."

"I don't know. I'm just floating."

"Okay. Rest . . . rest." More minutes passed silently. Then she seemed to be listening to something. Abruptly she spoke. Her voice was loud and deep. This was not Catherine.

"There are seven planes in all, seven planes, each one consisting of many levels, one of them being the plane of recollection. On that plane you are allowed to collect your thoughts. You are allowed to see your life that has just passed. Those of

the higher levels are allowed to see history. They can go back and teach us by learning about history. But we of the lower levels are only allowed to see our own life . . . that has just passed.

"We have debts that must be paid. If we have not paid out these debts, then we must take them into another life ... in order that they may be worked through. You progress by pay-ing your debts. Some souls progress faster than others. When you're in physical form and you are working through, you're working through a life. ... If something interrupts your ability ... to pay that debt, you must return to the plane of recollection, and there you must wait until the soul you owe the debt to has come to see you. And when you both can be returned to physical form at the same time, then you are allowed to return. But you determine when you are going back. You determine what must be done to pay that debt. You will not remember your other lives . . . only the one you have just come from. Only those souls on the higher level - the sages - are allowed to call upon history and past events . . . to help us, to teach us what we must do.

"There are seven planes . . . seven through which we must pass before we are returned. One of them is the plane of transition. There you wait. In that plane it is determined what you will take back with you into the next life. We will all have ... a dominant trait. This might be greed, or it might be lust, but whatever is determined, you need to fulfill your debts to those people. Then you must overcome this in that lifetime. You must learn to overcome greed. If you do not, when you return you will have to carry that trait, as well as another one, into your next life. The burdens will become greater. With each life that you go through and you did not fulfill these debts, the next one will be harder. If you fulfill them, you will be given an easy life. So you choose what life you will have. In the next phase, you are responsible for the life you have. You choose it." Catherine fell silent.

This was apparently not from a Master. He identified him-self as "we of the lower levels," in comparison with those souls on the higher level—"the sages." But the knowledge transmitted was both clear and practical. I wondered about the five other planes and their qualities. Was the stage of renewal one of those planes? And what about the learning stage and the stage of decisions? All of the wisdom revealed through these messages from souls in various dimensions of the spiritual state was consistent. The style of delivery differed, the phraseology and grammar differed, the sophistication of verse and vocabulary differed; but the content remained coherent. I was acquiring a systematic body of spiritual knowledge. This knowledge spoke of love and hope, faith and charity. It examined virtues and vices, debts owed to others and to one's self. It included past lifetimes and spiritual planes between lives. And it talked of the soul's progress through harmony and balance, love and wisdom, progress toward a mystical and ecstatic connection with God.

There was much practical advice along the way: the value of patience and of waiting; the wisdom in the balance of nature; the eradication of fears, especially the fear of death; the need for learning about trust and forgiveness; the importance of learning not to judge others, or to halt anyone's life; the accumulation and use of intuitive powers; and, perhaps most of all, the unshakable knowledge that we are immortal. We are beyond life and death, beyond space and be-yond time…….

VOICES OF MASTER SPIRITS (Devdoot)

Here are some of the teachings that were received through Catherine during ‘the space between two lives” by the Voices of the Master Spirits:

•  ” We have assignments to learn and become God-like through knowledge then we can rest, and then come back to teach and help others”.

• “We must share our knowledge with other people. We all have abilities far beyond what we use. . . . you should check your vices(sins). . . if you do not, you carry them over with you to another life. . . when you decide you are strong enough to master the external problems, then you will no longer have them in your next life.”
• “Everybody’s path is basically the same. We all must learn certain attitudes while we’re in physical state. . . charity, hope, faith, love. . . we must all know these things and know them well.”
• “Everything is energy. . . Humans can only see the outside, but you can go much deeper. . . To be in physical state is abnormal. When you are in spiritual state that is natural to you. When we are sent back, it’s like being sent back to something we do not know. In the spirit world you have to wait, and then you are renewed. It’s a dimension like the other dimensions. . . ”
• “The fear of death. . . that no amount of money or power can neutralize”. . . remains within us. “But if people knew that life is endless; so we never die; we were never really born, this fear would dissolve.” We have “lived countless times before and would live countless times again. . . and spirits are around us to help while in physical state and after death, in spiritual state.”                                   We and our deceased loved ones would join these guardian angels.
•  “Violence and injustices against people are noticed and repaid in kind in next lifetime.”
• “Everything comes when it must come. A life cannot be rushed. . . we must accept what comes to us at a given time. . . life is endless. . . we just pass through different phases. There is no end. Time is not as we see time, but rather in lessons that are learned.”​
• After death “we get to the spiritual plane, we keep growing there, too. When we arrive, we’re burned out. We have to go through a renewal stage, a learning stage, and a stage of decision. We decide when we want to return, where, and for what reasons. . . Our body is just a vehicle for us while we’re here. It is our soul and our spirit that last forever. . . ”

·        “Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not stick to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.” 

·        “One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.” 

·        “For truly we are all angels temporarily hiding as humans.” 

·        “More learning can occur when there are many obstacles. A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul's growth. You may have chosen the more difficult life so that you could accelerate your physical progress” 

·        “Often we take personally the slings and arrows of our 'abusers'. But frequently we are merely the interchangeable pawns of their own fixed dramas. Anyone else in your position would have received the same treatment. There is nothing especially harmful or negatively noteworthy about you.” 

·        “The reward is in doing, but doing without expecting anything...doing unselfishly.” 

·        “Understand the nature and influence of repeating patterns, from childhood experiences or even from past lives. Without understanding, patterns tend to repeat, unnecessarily damaging the relationship”

·        “Sometimes, soulmates may meet, stay together until a task or life lesson is completed, and then move on. This is not a tragedy, only a matter of learning.” 

·        “To reach back and help, and expect neither reward nor even thanks because that is what spiritual beings do.” 

·         “Everything will be clear to you in time. But you must have a chance to digest the knowledge that we have given to you already.” 

·        We get to the spiritual plane, after death. There we keep growing too. We reach there exhausted, drained and have to undergo a renewal stage. We also go through a learning stage and a decision stage. A decision is taken when to return, where to return, and for what reasons to return. Our body is just a conduit (channel) for us while our stay here. Our soul/ spirit on the other hand last forever.

·        “We also must learn not to just go to those people whose vibrations are the same as ours. It is normal to feel drawn (tense) to somebody who is on the same level that you are. But this is wrong. You must also go to those people whose vibrations are wrong … with yours. This is the importance … in helping … these people.” 

REINCARNATION / re-birth

Dr. Weiss believes, that under hypnosis, his patient was able to concentrate on the part of her subconscious mind that stored past-life memories, or she somehow tapped into the Collective Unconscious, which is the energy source that surrounds us containing the memories of the entire human race.

REINCARNATION (re-birth) IN HINDUISM

Dr. Weiss’s experience and Catherine’s transcendental knowledge might inspire  disbelief in westerners. However the concept of rebirth, cycle of life and death, and this divine knowledge is natural for Hindus. The holy ‘Bhagavad Gita’ and the ancient Vedic scriptures contain this wisdom; the teachings form the primary tenets of Hinduism. Dr. Weiss’s mention of Hindus acknowledges a religion that has already established all of his new-found experience

REINCARNATION IN BUDDHISM

The concept of reincarnation familiar to Tibetan Buddhists, too. His Holiness the Dalai Lama says that his body is like a garment, which he will discard and move on to accept another. He will be reborn, and it will be the duty of his followers to find him. For Buddhists in general, a belief in karma and reincarnation is shared with Hindus. 

Conclusion

Many Lives, Many Masters makes for an unstoppable read. Though many things stated in this book may not be edible to many but these things do happen. Past Life Regression is a fully fledged treatment these days and people do recollect their past lives.