Past lifes Stored within the Causal/Soul body

[Polaris8]

As I understand it our past life memories are stored in the permanent atom of the soul body or what some may term the causal body. The causal /Soul Body is named "Causal" because it is the originating source of each new personality that reincarnates in each lifetime. It is the source of your manifested present personality, causing it to be and exist.

When your present personality ends, the eternal essence of you is absorbed and goes inward into the next inner body which would be the astral. Soul will then spend time on various levels of this dimension of reality until the same process occurs once again and soul drops the astral body and goes further inward into the mental body. Then after some time has been spent on the mental dimension soul will drop the mental body and finally return to full consciousness within the Soul/Casual Body which is the eternal part of you. The Soul Body is immortal as it exists beyond time space and matter during your soul journey through the many incarnations or lifetimes within the lower worlds of duality which are the physical, astral and mental dimensions.

So each time we reincarnate we receive a new mental, astral and physical body which have no memory of these prior lifetimes. However the karmic actions from the past are carried over to later be expressed in the new lifetime. This is because the permanent memories and karmic actions of these other lifetimes are stored within the soul body itself. But since the new incarnated ego has no memory of this it will in essences get a clean slate each time. This process is how the soul/consciousness itself evolves. At least In my opinion.

This is one of the reason why children have an easier time remembering their past lives is because their inner bodies are still developing along with their physical one. Having not yet lived in this world all that long allows them easier access to the connections within the soul body’s permanent atom and its memories of other lifetimes lived.

As the child grows older this becomes less and less possible as the present personality is now taking hold and is more grounded into the physical world. In time these memories fade all together. In a way this is has it should.

As nature is kind by not allowing us to normally have memories of these other lifetimes so as to prevent any harm it may cause both mentality and emotionally to the present personality now being lived.

I find the process of reincarnation itself a wonder way of souls journey in learning about the inner self. I feel we are all here in this physical plane because the soul must know itself by it's own experiences.

Peace and love.

P.

 

[KenJ]

Welcome Polaris8,what you stated fits pretty well with my understanding, where/how did this construct come from for you? The thing that is left unanswered is how an incarnation of several incarnations/cycles ago can remain, and in your view, does the entire 'soul' inhabit the body each time? If so, what is it that remains behind the veil?

 

[Polaris8]

Welcome Polaris8,what you stated fits pretty well with my understanding, where/how did this construct come from for you? The thing that is left unanswered is how an incarnation of several incarnations/cycles ago can remain, and in your view, does the entire 'soul' inhabit the body each time? If so, what is it that remains behind the veil?

Thank you for your warm welcome. Part of how I came about all this is thru an NDE many years ago. I am almost 60 yrs old now. At the time I did not believe in reincarnation. However that experience forever changed all that. Since then I have had on and off OBEs of which I still can not control at will They are usually trigged by lucid dreaming. Also I have study over the many years different spiritual paths and ways of thinking that help explain my experience I had back those many years ago.

The whole process of reincarnation and karma is basically the evolution of the soul’s consciousness and expansion in awareness. The laws of Karma are simply the laws of physics in motion. For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction. This law applies to all life within the lower worlds of duality. For everything is soul and apart of spirit throughout the cosmos. For we all come for the source of all that is in the cosmos that which man terms as God.

However karma is not a system of punishment or reward as many in the west would like to think but a learning tool for the soul to know the self and master and handle its own density through spiritual growth and maturity by lessons and trials which the higher consciousness sets up for the self. In between lifetimes soul will reside on one of higher dimensions either the astral or mental planes before manifesting back into physical. For it is here most of the learning is done.

When soul reincarnates back into the physical dimension our lower consciousness which is the lower ego is expressed and manifested within the material world of matter. The higher states of awareness are usually block out until such a time the soul evolves more in conscious awareness to handle such information. Each lifetime lived is then added to the expansion of consciousness and awareness of the inner self and over time the soul evolves into what many would call an old soul.

By then a old soul has a larger perspective of life, and has less interest in playing the material game. They tend to be more detached, and see themselves and others within a much larger more boarder context to the grand scheme of life. Seeing the whole picture in this way makes old souls seem calmer, more peaceful and centered. However they may appear passive or weak to the other souls who are at different stages of development.

At this stage they are ready to cycle off the planet all together leaving the cycle of reincarnation behind at least within the physical dimension anyway. They will only return to the earth plane again as a transcendental soul, which shows up on the planet as a buoyant, balanced being with has easy access to higher centers and states of consciousness. These teaching of the transcendental soul, whether verbal, by example, or by leading in action, is centered on the greater connectivity of the universe. Souls like this have been known throughout human history, Jesus, Buddha, Ghandi, and Lao Tsu to name a few.

I hope this helps some. Thru living life each day I still learn more and more along the journey home. As do we all.

Love and peace Ken J.

P.

 

[KenJ]

Thank you for your response Polaris8, the results from your NDE is a lot clearer than mine, as I actually don't recall much of anything other than wondering how I survived having been hit on the top oh the head by a brick that had fallen from twelves stories above me with only a cloth cap on my head (and the neck fracture that wasn't found until years afterward). I share your understanding about "Love and Peace" however and think it is part of my learning experience.

Your use of 'Old Soul' is confusing as it seems to denote both a separate soul and a reference to someone here after many cycles; is that different than my thoughts of the 'soul energy' splitting where only part of it inhabits each new body?

 

[Polaris8]

Ken J,

Sorry for the confusion. Some people call this soul ages. However; it really does not have anything to do with age as we understand it as human beings because soul (the core essences of who we are) has no age as it is eternal just like god. It is more like stages of soul development that the individualized soul goes thru in its spiritual development in awareness as it unfolds and grows as a spiritual being. This process however takes many lifetimes to achieve not just one. From infant stage to transcendental or infinite which Christ, Buddha, the Dalai Lama, to name a few became and walked this earth to teach by example.

We all go thru these different stages as we unfold which is why there are so many different religions and spiritual paths on this planet. A good website to check out is
google Michael Teaching soul ages. It will explain it better then I can. Got to go for now but will check back later.

Enjoy speaking with you. Love and light to you always.

P.

 

[Foram]

Polaris8 and KenJ, I love this discussion. Keep this going please. I dont know if I am an old soul or not but I just know that I absolutely love to read this stuff.

 

[KenJ]

I understand the term concerning 'Old Soul' relating to the stage of advancement but my question was also about whether or not you saw the soul-energy as being divisible or if you think the entire Soul-energy occupied the new vehicle. I think that most people would like to think of themselves as Old Souls since it indicates achievement or wisdom.

My understanding of our other 'bodies', like astral, is very limited although I can feel myself expand when I meditate.

 

[Polaris8]

I understand the term concerning 'Old Soul' relating to the stage of advancement but my question was also about whether or not you saw the soul-energy as being divisible or if you think the entire Soul-energy occupied the new vehicle. I think that most people would like to think of themselves as Old Souls since it indicates achievement or wisdom.

My understanding of our other 'bodies', like astral, is very limited although I can feel myself expand when I meditate.

KenJ, Sorry for the late responds. Been very busy with work mostly as my job transferred me here to the bay area a few months ago. To answer your first question I believe (but not certain) that when we incarnate a portion of our soul awareness is manifest as the lower ego and personality into the lower worlds for both education, and to add experience to the overall soul essence of our being. Our higher self (the soul if you will) is aware of all this during the soul journey into the new incarnation. Because after all we are at this moment the total sum of everything we have every experienced as soul up to this point. What many don't realize is that we live not only a lifetime on the physical dimension but also cycles of lifetimes on the astral and mental dimensions as well.

While incarnated we have a physical, astral, mental and soul (causal body) during these cycles. When we die we shed the physical body first along with the etheric which is used as a blueprint of sorts for physical manifestation of matter and to circularity prana the life force between the physical and astral bodies. After the physical is shed, consciousness then centers itself in the astral body. This is where many of us will start our afterlife first on the astral plane. There we live a lifetime on the astral where all the unfilled desires, emotions, and aspirations are realized. So anything that was not realized or fulfilled emotionally on the physical plane must by karmic law find it's fulfillment then on the astral plane. There all those desires and emotional are worked out by the lower ego. A good book to read on this is the Astral Body by Arthur Edward Powell (September 27, 1882 – March 20, 1969). He also wrote books on the mental and causal body in full detail.

Anyway when all those emotions have been worked out we then shed the astral body, much like the physical. The lower ego withdraws from the astral and takes with it all experiences it had in the physical and astral life and goes into now the mental body. Here cosmic consciousness is found. For now we are working with the pure mind. Both concrete and abstract thought occurs within man's mental body. During this time a lifetime is also spend here on the mental plane for hundred if not thousands of years. For most of humanity spends a good portion of their after life on the mental plane. After a lifetime is spend on the mental plane then the soul sheds it's mental body and withdraws back into the causal/soul body. Taking with it all of the experiences it had in the lower worlds of duality which we the physical, astral and mental.

For here soul is above time and duality itself. The causal or soul body is the true or eternal shelf. And is the first true heaven world that is pure spirit. From here all possible realities that could or ever be realized in the lower worlds are realized here as a singularity. This is where the soul will make it's decision if another incarnations is need again for more experience. This is also where the entire Soul-energy is centered at. Jesus spoke of this place as the heaven of eternal day. For the light of this dimension is tens if not billions of times brighter then our own sun. If the soul does choose to take on another lifetime then the whole process starts all over again from here. Then a new mental, astral and physical body will be created from the sub-atomic particles of these inner bodies as karmic patterns from the last lifetime along with the physical body in the form of DNA which is the karmic blue print of actions stored from the past lives there we lived up to this point. The lower ego will now sever as a portion of the soul being manifest back downward into the worlds of duality, time, space and matter for more experiences.

Did your head just spin? Most people when they die arrive on the astral plane thinking they are in the heaven. And compared to the physical world it is. For most souls do not know any better. However there are many other dimensions of the inner worlds; heaven if you will that are far above the astral. For Jesus said ( In my fathers house are many mansions I go and prepare a place for you.)

Sorry for babbling on as I do.

Love and peace.

P.

 

[KenJ]

I appreciate your clear summary and opinion, and I hope that @Foram is also gratified. I have read of a similar descriptions of the cycles that you so well summarized, thanks. I agree that we spend a lot more experiencing of 'life' in the other dimensions that is difficult to grasp here in this time-structured portion of our experience, I think that most people don't realize that aspect of the cycles.