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Never in the existence of humanity has so much writing been produced and so much communication been generated as now. All of it is meant to transmit information, thoughts and ideas to other human beings. The purposes for doing so can vary considerably though, such as for instructions, record keeping, teaching, creative story telling, entertaining, reporting events, expressing opinions and beliefs, or even expressing the word of God, etc. In all these cases the communicator has to consider his responsibilities, which are different for the different applications. For instance for record keeping it would be accuracy and for reporting events it would be truthfulness. For some of the quoted examples the responsibilities are quite considerable as in the case of teaching or expressing the word of God.

Teaching often involves  young receptive minds which are likely to uncritically accept everything which is transmitted. Therefore, are we teaching the truth about reality or opinions about reality, i.e. our perspective? Considering how much most teachings have changed with time, we must assume that much of past and present teachings are based on opinions and beliefs. The question is though: Was or is it ever stated as such? Or in other words do we point out the alternate views too and the need for the student to apply his own mind? Taking it a bit further into the media world, do newspapers and TV stations state their affiliations and political stands of view so that we are protected from drawing the wrong conclusions? Do societies and their governmental organs express balanced views which allow for positive change? It certainly was not the case under fascism and communism. It does not appear to be true for capitalism either considering recent world economic events.

Possibly the greatest responsibility is carried when we consider what we call ‘the Word of God’. Although at the core are spiritual teachings, the messages were invariably received by human minds, understood by human minds, transmitted by human minds, and finally interpreted by human minds. To say it is the true word of God can only be an assumption and not a proven fact. We should rather say: This is our interpretation of what we believe we understood. This is obviously a huge difference because in the first case exclusivity is claimed, dogma is created, and discussion is virtually forbidden; in the second case the message is accepted as very important but subject to scrutiny and discernment and is left as our responsibility to wrestle with and make our own. But let me add her quickly – being aware of my own responsibility now –this is entirely my opinion and belief.  

I was prompted to explore this issue because of information I had received when writing my book ’75 Lives of Haran – New Insights into Reincarnation’. I had been made to understand that communication always affects other consciousnesses and is therefore a huge responsibility to consider. One of the great sins is to mislead in particular the ignorant and vulnerable which would involve serious karma. As we all know this is often conducted quite blatantly. Maybe it is time to take our responsibilities more seriously.

Haran

haran@global.co.za

http://haran.magix.net/website

CAN WE CHANGE THE PAST?

Our first reaction would be ‘impossible, it is a closed book, it happened’. However, we do believe that we can change the future; and here I do not talk about generating our future through our decisions, but about changing our future, such as not getting involved in an accident. This appears possible because some people have intuition or visions of the future, and knowledge of it allows us to make decisions to prevent getting in the predicted situation. We thereby changed the future and generated a feed-back loop from the future to the present and back to the future. Why should this then not be possible with the past? I was confronted with this question from some past life regressions presented in my book ’75 Lives of Haran – New Insights into Reincarnation’, and here are my thoughts on the matter.

Spiritual teachings tell us that time as we understand it does not exist and that everything actually happens simultaneously. According to this, time is simply a construct for our linear mind to cope with reality. Therefore, the past and the future do not exist and everything happens in the now. All of this is extremely difficult if not impossible to grasp. However, quantum physicists quite happily create higher dimensional realities through mathematical formulae which are entirely outside our comprehension and which even they can only describe via analogies. Therefore, the principle of entering unknown and difficult to comprehend territory is not foreign to us.

Coming back to the posed question, when everything happens in the now, then we only have to accept that everything is not only interconnected forward but also backward, and everything influences everything else. Another way to imagine interactions with the past are based on the concept of alternate lives (see my discussion ‘The enigma of alternate lives’). Normally, we would just observe or experience a past life in regressions, but sometimes we seem to be able to interact with it in such a way that the life from then on follows a different route and thereby changes the present. If we consider the existence of alternate lives then we must assume that both the original version and the alternate version pre-existed already before we observed it, we just shifted our observation to the alternate version which has already become our time-line. Therefore, instead of creating a new time-line in the past we may just be observing a pre-existing one. Thereby the causality in our time-line is maintained. Both scenarios could explain how it is possible to change the past.

Haran

haran@global.co.za

http://haran.magix.net/website

THE ENIGMA OF ALTERNATE LIVES

The issue of alternate lives appears to have first been brought up by Jane Roberts in her Seth books and more recently again by the Kuthumi channelings of Michelle Eloff (www.thelightweaver.org). My understanding of it is as follows. Every choice we are faced with in life results in at least one avenue which is not being followed. In case of major decisions this means that potentially a completely different life could have been lived and other experiences could have been made. Don’t we sometimes think ‘I wonder how my life had turned out if I had taken another decision then’? Take for instance the spouse you decided to marry, or the profession you decided to pursue, or the job offer you decided to turn down.

The teachings say that these alternate lives do exist at another level of reality. Complicating things even further, these other lives by themselves are also confronted with choices and decisions and therefore generate further alternate lives. Since we all do it, other realities are created for us to interact with. This generates entirely different histories which explains why information from past life investigations can be in conflict with what we understand as ‘our’ history. Our history simple represents one specific time-line from myriads of other time-lines we are not consciously aware of. Also, no matter which time-line we find ourselves engaged in, they all appear as the only reality to the consciousness experiencing it.

The principle of alternate lives therefore creates a mind-boggling array of life experiences which would appear to cover any variety possible. And in this may be the explanation for its existence. We just need to imagine how the power that created our world of physical reality, call it God or All-That-Is, might want to explore this world via our consciousness. Why should it just be the narrow windows of life we are aware of? Would it not make a lot more sense to think that it should be everything possible? This could even include the fantasies which we engage in and then abandon, or the fiction books we write, or the scientific fictions we create. All these may be creations which continue to have their own lives.

 The above is one of the issues I was confronted with when I worked on my book ’75 Lives of Haran – New insights into Reincarnation’.

 Haran

haran@global.co.za

http://haran.magix.net/website

THE NEED FOR AND BENEFIT OF GUIDANCE IN OUR LIVES

As human beings we are often dependant on guidance in our lives, particularly when we are young.  However, this guidance is only as good as our parents and teachers, which means mostly imperfect. As we grow up further, this role is taken over by personal experience, which is – as we all are painfully aware – a tough teacher, and this does not even guarantee that we understand and accept the lesson, at least not immediately. 

Therefore, there is an ongoing need for guidance, which all spiritual teachings tell us is always available, however, we have to ask for it, which means we must at least become aware that we require a higher perspective to discern the hidden patterns in our life experiences and the effects of the universal laws which govern our physical existence.

One source of this higher guidance is past lives research which reveals the bigger picture, the purpose of our other lives, and the lessons learned. Thereby we obtain the tools to understand our present life and regain control of how to live that life consciously.

From my own explorations (see my book ’75 Lives of Haran – New Insights into Reincarnation’) I distilled a number of insights which may also be relevant to you. Here are some examples:

-   Don’t make limiting assumptions about yourself and your capabilities. If we engage life as a victim we can never fulfill our aspirations. We need to fully and unconditionally accept that our happiness is in our hands, and only in our hands. Only once we have tried out new challenges do we realize what we are capable of.

-   Don’t reject your role in life as unsatisfactory or unimportant. All roles are necessary and form an integral part of all life. You explore completely unique life aspects which no other consciousness can repeat.

-   Don’t judge others just because they don’t see life your way. The difference between us is mainly the beliefs we built up from our life experiences.

-   Although life is very much about learning, accepting responsibility for our decisions, and coming to understand the difference between wanting something for short-term self-gratification and needing something for long-term well-being, i.e., not having a personality perspective but a soul perspective, life is also about enjoying it, living it, experimenting with it, and celebrating it and our achievements. We need to do that more often, and in a more conscious manner.

 Haran

haran@global.co.za

http://haran.magix.net/website