Cosmic Memory and the Big Bang
Parallel III
I finally arrived in our solar system by coming through a ray of light and descending into the Sun. --- Thakur Anukulchandra
Historical Gifted memories parallel Thakur Anukulchandra's memory of coming in as a ray of Light.
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Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (1836-1886), enlightened master, India) - At the time of his chief disciple Vivekananda's birth, Ramakrishna saw a shattered ray of divine energy flash across the sky from Benares to Calcutta where Vivekananda was being born at the same instant. Ramakrishna jumped in joy and announced, "My prayer is answered. You have taken a body for my sake."
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Plato's Republic (Ancient Greece) Greek philosopher Plato pictured creation as three zones: ethereal, aerial, and material. He said the soul's journey to Earth begins in the ethereal universe, its birthplace.
At the end of Plato's Republic (~400-300 BC), a warrior named Er, who "died" in battle, observed a towering band of light resembling a rainbow, only brighter and purer. It seemed to be a passageway by which souls journey back and forth to Earth. Most western scholars, who lack insights from the discoveries about near-death experiences (NDEs), tend to interpret Er's experience as merely an allegory, yet it offers striking parallels to modern NDE accounts being reported by thousands of people.
As recorded in Plato's Republic, the warrior Er reentered his body after a twelve-day NDE and reported the following:
Once I regained consciousness, I related the story of the soul's 1,000 year journey between one human life and the next. My near-death episode began in the region where individuals who had just completed their earthly lives experience a life review. I watched as judges overseeing the process sent mature souls to Heaven; whereas souls who lived at cross-purposes with universal law went to a nasty underground prison (Tartarus), there to pay their penalty.
Like the rest, I took my turn to stand before the judges; they surprised me and advised: "Er, you are not here for judgment. You have come as Earth's messenger and must return to mankind to tell them of the other world."
My assigned task began in a great meadow where I mingled with a gathering of souls like a festival crowd. For seven days, I listened closely as souls recounted experiences taking place over the past one thousand years: the shining souls related beautiful visions of Heaven, whereas soul dwellers from the underworld, who were still covered with dust and grime, wept as they related all that they had suffered.
I then observed how this entire company of souls prepared for another human birth. To begin with, I ascended with them through a heavenly gate and traveled to the outer rim of the sky. We eventually reached a luminous column stretching through Heaven and Earth, the axis of the cosmos by which the universe revolves. This cosmic pillar, a towering band of light, resembled a rainbow, only brighter and purer.
Within this scene, both the souls who had spent 1,000 years in the heavens or in Tartarus [Hell], began preparing for their next lifetimes. First, souls leisurely previewed a set of tablets inscribed with life patterns of every living creature and condition. The total number of scripts available exceeded the number of souls in the assembly so that everyone had the opportunity to choose a good life.
Before the souls picked out the cosmic contracts which pleased them most, an overseer threw lot numbers amongst the assembly. The number the soul picked up determined the order in the queue for selecting a new life. Number one had the first choice, and so forth, according to the numbers held, until all had chosen.
The overseer next warned, "You are free to choose and will be held responsible for your choice. Let not the first choose carelessly, nor the last give up hope. Even the last soul to pick a cosmic contract will find a tolerable life lying here, if he chooses with intelligence."
I noted that some souls selected conditions of their next life more wisely, and others less wisely. Pleasurable lives easily tempted less mature souls. Young souls blindly grabbed cosmic contracts without examining the fine print such as - great wealth followed by bankruptcy, or years of sensual pleasure followed by years of pain.
Dispositions formed in previous lives definitely influenced the soul's preference. The first soul in line illustrates this principle. He settled upon the life of an absolute dictator. Having made a hasty decision, he noticed that he was fated to eat his children, among other evils. He beat his breast, blaming God, the stars - everyone except himself. In this case, he had been virtuous in a previous life, yet his virtue had been merely "customary" without foundation upon consciously realized principle.
Wiser souls took time to contemplate previous experiences before making a decision. Souls who had suffered in Tartarus, on the average, seemed to plan more wisely than souls coming down from Heaven.
Odysseus, the clever king of Ithaca, serves as another prime illustration. Although Odysseus had emerged victorious in battle after suggesting the stratagem of the Trojan Horse, he encountered obstacles in returning to Greece following the Trojan War. Odysseus wandered with his men from place to place for an entire decade. They had countless adventures: the sorceress Circe turned them into swine; they nearly succumbed to the temptations of the land of the Lotus-Eaters and the insidious song of the Sirens; they barely survived the dangers of the passage between Scylla and Charybdis; and they encountered the fearsome one-eyed giant Polyphemus.
I observed how Odysseus reflected upon the hollowness and uncertainty of fame, the batterings of endless journeys, and treacherous adventures. This time he decided to look for an easier lot with less heartache and tragedy. Sure enough, he picked up the cosmic contract for a quiet man's life, the one that had been rejected by the other souls. Although Odysseus happened to be the last to make a choice, he said, "I would have done the same even if I had drawn the first lot."
In another instance, Orpheus recalled how he had been murdered by a woman in his previous life. As a consequence, Orpheus' hatred of women influenced his decision to be reborn as a swan rather than entering a woman's womb.
Besides humans choosing to pass into animals in the next life, I even noted that animals changed into one another and into humans.
I witnessed one final step prior to the take off spot for the return journey to Earth. I marched with the assembly of souls through a burning heat and frost across the Plain of Lethe. At last, when we arrived at the River of Forgetfulness, some of us felt compelled to satisfy their thirst. Foolish souls drank more than the rest. The more they drank, the deeper they slept - and the more they forgot of their divine heritage.
Unlike the rest, I chose to forgo the waters of Lethe in order to remember all that I had seen and heard. I remained wide awake at midnight to witness a lightning and quaking of the universe to awaken the souls, propelling them to the waiting wombs of their earthly mothers - leaping upward like shooting stars.
Twelve days had passed since I had "died" on the battleground. Yet before I knew it, I had opened my eyes and found himself on the funeral pyre, not knowing by what means I had gone in and out of my body.
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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873, England) Novelist, playwright, and politician, who coined such phrases as "pursuit of the almighty dollar" and "the pen is mightier than the sword."
My soul descended into its dark sarcophagus from its eternal, star-like sphere.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, USA) essayist, poet, and leader of the American Transcendentalist movement.
The human soul is a ray from the source of light which comes into the human body, as into a temporary abode.
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Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda (1978 - , Tiruvannamalai, India), an enlightened master and modern mystic, was in a state of complete awareness on his journey into his physical body.
Nithyananda described his birth process on January 1, 1978 as a sequence of three scenes, of three kshana. (Kshana is a measure of time. The Hindu concept of time is not chronological, measured by the movement of a pendulum. Kshana is the time between two thoughts and varies individually based on state of consciousness.)
The first scene was one of perceiving a light, a flame that emanated from some place in South India. The second scene was himself, the energy, floating into that light. The third scene was conscious awareness of Arunachala, the place, the mountain, and the deity at Tiruvannamalia. He knew he had arrived.
It was neither dark nor light-filled; an independent color covered planet Earth. Suddenly a bright and brilliant light appeared from a region, which I now see as Southern India. I entered into that light in the form of a brilliant meteor. An explosion of light occurred. The very next sight that I perceived with my inner eye was Arunachala, and I knew that I had assumed the body once more; I had entered the womb of my mother.
It was a conscious birth. I entered into the body at 11:45 pm. Within 45 minutes I was fully aware of being in my body. I was conscious of all that was happening around me. It was a joyful experience.
Nithyananda was born on January 1, 1978 at 32 minutes past midnight in Tiruvannamalai in South India. According to his parents, he never cried at birth; his spirit was so relaxed and comfortable, the doctor had to tap the baby to make sure it was alive. There was no pain in the birth to the Being.
Gifted memories from a Cosmic Cradle interview parallel Thakur Anukulchandra's memory of coming in as a ray of light.
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Beverly Anderson (20th - 21st Century U.S.A.) mother, clairaudient, clairvoyant, and spiritual healer.
I recall previous lives. And I remember the in-betweens (the heavenly life between each earthly life). They are just as tangible as earthly lives. They are another form of being that is not squashed together in such a small package. Because when you are "there" and not currently occupying a shell, a package - we do not lose or change anything about ourselves except our fear. Fear is a function of survival incorporated in the humanness of our bodies
To ask, "How do I remember?" is like asking, "How do I breathe?" There is no difference. There is no stop in time and space for me. And the veil is not really there. It is our brain's perceiving the veil as existing that cuts us off from our superconscious memory, our true higher self - other than the little piece of us here that we are trying to school right now. So I don't like the phrase "the other side of the veil" because there is no veil. Heaven is simply there and our minds obscure it. Our mind is designed to sense sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch, and is so preoccupied with maintaining and protecting the body, that it tends to be a good cap on accessing collective consciousness.
My continuous conscious memory extends back to the moment when I was created as an individual spark of God. I remember when God initially spun me on my merry way and said: "Have a good time. Come back when you are all done." My journey began at the Source.
It is difficult to verbalize what happened when my soul became individuated. I remember coming from the "All That Is," as a projectile of light. I remember being spat out, pushed out like a projectile and I was screaming through the universe as a spark of light, like a little star. I knew that I was going somewhere, but I did not know where. There was no fear, just a feeling of sheer exhilaration. I clearly remember stars whizzing by, but there was no sensation of movement as we know it as humans. There was no density, no up or down, no left or right, no time, no sensations of colors, sound, or heat. You just were. . . . pure energy . . . surrounded by comfort and ease. . . . wonderful.
I haven't a clue as to "when" that was. There was no time associated with that because there was no space. Space did not mean anything. You just were. So that is the best human description I can give.
Conclusion
Since the earliest recorded times, the image of the human soul as a traveler, a sojourner in a foreign land, or the wandering heir to a forgotten inheritance, appears in various religious texts, philosophical discourses, poetry, and tribal legends. Age after age, the same idea repeats itself: we pre-exist as superconscious beings in a world existing out of sight.
As we see from previous examples, Gifted Memory of the soul's pre-earthly home and journey to Earth answers questions about life prior to conception: what kind of life is it compared to the life we know here? Was our soul merged with God? Did we dwell in the sky, the Earth, or in a world of light? Reports vary according to cultural background, yet they all portray preconception in glowing terms.
The phenomenon of Gifted Memory validates that we are spiritual beings having a human experience in the physical body and not simply human beings having a physical experience. Individuals who share their Gifted Memories are blessed messengers of a higher reality . . . no matter whether these individuals provide complete reports or glimpses.
Whereas we find accounts of Gifted Memory scattered throughout diverse cultures on earth, no where is Gifted Memory and the superconscious state experienced and described more fully as it is in India. It is unfortunate that western psychology has ignored this inner dimension of our being and chose to heavily focus on abnormal psychological states of unenlightened people. In some cases, psychology has brushed aside reports of higher consciousness as mental disorders.
The Western psychologist Carl Jung visited India and had made an appointment to meet sage Ramana Maharshi. In his diary Jung explains that he cancelled meeting the enlightened sage the night before. Jung said he feared all his vested interests in his understanding of human psychology would be proved to be a lie. Jung had no courage. Imagine what evolutionary direction he could have taken Western culture if he had not acted like a politician.
Gifted Memory is another way the enlightened beings inspire us to go beyond our limited body/mind and experience the superconsciousness of who we really are. We will never solve the problems of humanity if we do not have knowledge of higher states of consciousness and how to reproduce them. As the 2nd century Gnostic Theodotus advises: - "What liberates is the knowledge of who we were, where we were, whereinto we have been thrown, whereto we speed, what birth is, and what rebirth."
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