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WHO HAVE YOU BEEN? You have lived before. You have a past identity. You have the memory of last life. You have memories of the lives you lived. |
But how do you tap into those memories and restore who you were? How can you recall last lives when you cannot recall being four years old?
If you have some awareness that possibly you lived before, then that is a start.
Is it possible to improve memory? Yes. Is it possible to extend memory, improve it, so it works better? Yes.
So, why is my memory unavailable to see back then.
Read On....
So, how do you improve your memory?
Read On....
Technical
article: By
L. Ron Hubbard
"How
do people know they have lived before?" you might well ask.
It has to do with memory and forgetfulness.
If a person improved his memory sufficiently, he would be able to remember everything he had been.
If a person is forgetful, he often can't even remember what he had for breakfast yesterday. If a person lives many lives and if he had forgotten it, if you improved his memory enough, he would only then begin to remember.
People forget things if the memory is too painful to them. By gradually reducing the pain of remembering, people become willing to recall their memories.
The character of life and life energies has been a specialty with me in research since I was at university.
Knowing about life would also have to include knowing about death.
A broad vista must lie behind this unknown. No scientist can tell us with any certainty what death really is.
For some years I have worked on this from time to time. When we were fighting the Germans, I suppose like a lot of us, I got used to seeing death, and right after the war we did enough research on it to know that science knew nothing about it, really, except that bodies just ceased to function.
Ever since, it has continued to interest me, as I think it interests all of us. Certainly it concerns all of us.
Some people, it would seem, don't really want to know. To them I say, it's just another field of research, why are you so upset about it?
In research you don't believe things. You find out if they are true or false.
Someday we will know much more about this. Just now, from evidence to hand, I would say that the priest and minister have more evidence in their favour than the scientist, who, in a rather boorish way has been trying to sweep away religion for the past few decades.
I noted when the book of case histories (Have You Lived Before This Life?) was released, some of the national press became very upset with it.
The first task of a scientist is to write down what he finds, not what he hopes will be believed. Truth is not determined by its appeal but by the evidence.
I think it's time science stop trying so hard to penetrate the craters of the moon or blow up Earth and started to study something a little closer to home - man. Then maybe we'd have less crime, less accidents, a lessened chance of war.
Apparently even in this world, it takes a brave man to start studying man. But I feel it's time we knew a bit about ourselves. Maybe we'd lead happier lives. And maybe we'd have a better chance of preventing or surviving the next war if we knew what made us function.
But that's a very serious line of thought and research is not that grim.
It is certainly more interesting than simply sitting and waiting for the day the atomic bombs may fall.
L. Ron Hubbard
HOW DO
PEOPLE KNOW
THEY HAVE LIVED BEFORE?
THEY HAVE LIVED BEFORE?
"How
do people know they have lived before?" you might well ask.It has to do with memory and forgetfulness.
If a person improved his memory sufficiently, he would be able to remember everything he had been.
If a person is forgetful, he often can't even remember what he had for breakfast yesterday. If a person lives many lives and if he had forgotten it, if you improved his memory enough, he would only then begin to remember.
People forget things if the memory is too painful to them. By gradually reducing the pain of remembering, people become willing to recall their memories.
The character of life and life energies has been a specialty with me in research since I was at university.
Knowing about life would also have to include knowing about death.
A broad vista must lie behind this unknown. No scientist can tell us with any certainty what death really is.
For some years I have worked on this from time to time. When we were fighting the Germans, I suppose like a lot of us, I got used to seeing death, and right after the war we did enough research on it to know that science knew nothing about it, really, except that bodies just ceased to function.
Ever since, it has continued to interest me, as I think it interests all of us. Certainly it concerns all of us.
Some people, it would seem, don't really want to know. To them I say, it's just another field of research, why are you so upset about it?
In research you don't believe things. You find out if they are true or false.
Someday we will know much more about this. Just now, from evidence to hand, I would say that the priest and minister have more evidence in their favour than the scientist, who, in a rather boorish way has been trying to sweep away religion for the past few decades.
I noted when the book of case histories (Have You Lived Before This Life?) was released, some of the national press became very upset with it.
The first task of a scientist is to write down what he finds, not what he hopes will be believed. Truth is not determined by its appeal but by the evidence.
I think it's time science stop trying so hard to penetrate the craters of the moon or blow up Earth and started to study something a little closer to home - man. Then maybe we'd have less crime, less accidents, a lessened chance of war.
Apparently even in this world, it takes a brave man to start studying man. But I feel it's time we knew a bit about ourselves. Maybe we'd lead happier lives. And maybe we'd have a better chance of preventing or surviving the next war if we knew what made us function.
But that's a very serious line of thought and research is not that grim.
It is certainly more interesting than simply sitting and waiting for the day the atomic bombs may fall.
L. Ron Hubbard
[Editor's Note: this article was written in March 1960 for The Observer, a British news magazine.]
Q. So how do you get into the memory of a past life?
A. Get the idea that memory is like a film strip, and it has to run through a machine to view it. But that strip is dirty, and the dirt is pain. You can send that memory strip so far back until that pain, or dirt, clogs up the motors and the memory machine just refuses to operate. That is what has happened to you. But, if you were to clean up that memory strip, clean away the pain, you would be able to go back further. But the more you go back, the more there is to clean - all down that memory strip. You will easily get back one or two lifetimes, but there is that pain again, and you have to clean it up too.
What is that pain? That pain is the upset, the misemotion, injustice, all those things done to you. That is what needs to be cleaned up. Emotional pain.
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(Technical
article on past lives.)
PAST LIVES
PAST LIVES
Past lives, or times we
have lived before, are suppressed by the painfulness of the memory of
those former existences. The memory is contained in mental image pictures which, on close viewing, are capable of developing a reality “more real” than present time.
Where a person has been tortured or killed without adequate reason, the injustice of it causes him or her to protest by holding in suspension in time the picture.
To restore the memory of one’s whole existence, it is necessary to bring one up to being able to confront such experiences.
A person with amnesia is looked upon as ill. What of a person who can remember only this life? Is this then not a case of amnesia on a grand scale?
Psychosomatic illnesses such as arthritis, asthma, rheumatism, heart trouble, and on and on for a total of 70 percent of man’s ills—and women’s too—are the reaction of the body against a painful mental image picture. When this picture is cleared away—if it is the right picture—the illness usually abates.
Actual fevers and pain, etc., can turn on just by restimulation of mental pictures in a person.
The recovery of whole memory could be said to be a goal of processing (another term for auditing, the form of spiritual counseling unique to Scientology).
Past lives are “incredible” only to those who dare not confront them. In others, the fact of former existence can be quickly established subjectively.
There are many interesting cases on record. One was a case of a young girl, about five, who, hanging back at church, confided to her clergyman that she was worried about her “husband and children.” It seems she had not forgotten them after “dying out of” another life five years before.
The clergyman did not at once send for the chaps in white coats. Instead, he questioned the truly worried child closely.
She told him she had lived in a nearby village, and what her name had been. She said where her former body was buried, gave him the address of her husband and children and what all their names were, and asked him to drive over and find out if they were all right.
The clergyman made the trip. Much to his astonishment, he discovered the grave, the husband, the children and all the current news.
The following Sunday he told the little five-year-old girl that the children were all well, that the husband had remarried pleasantly and that the grave was well kept.
She was very satisfied and thanked the clergyman very much—and the following Sunday could not recall a thing about it!
Past lives are not the same as the theory which has been called “reincarnation” in Hinduism. That is a complex theory compared to simply living time after time, getting a new body, eventually losing it and getting a new one.
The facts of past lives, if you care to pursue them, are best seen from the viewpoint of the person receiving spiritual counseling in the hands of a competent Scientology practitioner. The hypnotic handling of such is not advised. Only by higher levels of awareness does one learn, not deeper levels of unconsciousness.
An amusing sidelight on past lives is the “famous person” fixation. This more than anything else has discredited having lived before. There is always some madman “who was Napoleon,” always some girl “who was Catherine the Great.” This evidently means that the person, living a contemporary life to a famous figure, was so unsuccessful that he or she “dubbed in” the great personage. A practitioner who runs into “Beethoven,” after a while finds the person receiving spiritual counseling was really the handler of a street piano in that life—not Beethoven!
But all rules have exceptions, and a practitioner once found someone who claimed to have been Jim Bowie, the famous frontiersman who died at the doubly famous Alamo in Texas. And after much work and great skepticism found he really did have Jim Bowie!
Viewing children in the light of knowledge of past lives causes us to revise our estimations of causes of child behavior.
Evidently the newborn child has just died as an adult. Therefore he or she, for some years, is prone to fantasy and terror and needs a great deal of love and security to recover a perspective of life with which he or she can live.
Life is never dull in Scientology. The motto is—What is, is, not what we wished it were.
Q. With regards to pain in your past life, how do you know that pain is real?
A. Ever been really hurt emotionally? You feel it like a lance went through your heart, or you were hit by a train? A girl or guy has walked out on you? Maybe a husband or wife has left? Maybe a child has died, been killed? Maybe you have been unbearably betrayed? You have the emotions of that with you now. It is real pain. You know it.
You have to remove this pain to recall better. You certainly know when you are doing that. You feel the upset, the betrayal, the loss. It is very real. It involves anger, grief, hate, apathy, and eventually cheerfulness. Well, so it is as you go back into time. You will experience these exact same emotions, but for memories way back. They carry the same misemotion.
Q. WHY BOTHER WITH YOUR PAST LIVES?
A. You and what you do now is determined by what you did then. Until you can find out what happened to you, and what you did, you are merely a puppet to the past.
Your past plays you like a wind up doll. You think you have a choice in life? You think you are in control? Hardly. You react and act predictably, acting out your part in life's play. You will make mistakes again which you made before, unless you finally break the strings that bind you.
Do you ever wonder why you want to hurt your mate when she or he left you? What was the compelling force then? It was something, and real, and it has its roots in your past.
Ever feel you could be a great leader and somehow life wraps around you with failure?
Ever see your world fall apart after you had it beautifully created all around you?
Ever had a great job, only to see it collapse to dust, time and time again?
Ever have a dream partner but know this relationship too will die like the last one? You just know it will. And it does?
Ever made decisions that went against you, and you made them knowing they were wrong?
Want all this reversed?
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ON
PAST
LIVES
An Introduction
An Introduction
Past
lives, or times we
have lived before, are suppressed by the painfulness of the memory of
those former existences. The memory is contained in mental image pictures which, on close viewing, are capable of developing a reality “more real” than present time.
Where a person has been tortured or killed without adequate reason, the injustice of it causes him or her to protest by holding in suspension in time the picture.
To restore the memory of one’s whole existence, it is necessary to bring one up to being able to confront such experiences.
A person with amnesia is looked upon as ill. What of a person who can remember only this life? Is this then not a case of amnesia on a grand scale?
Psychosomatic illnesses such as arthritis, asthma, rheumatism, heart trouble, and on and on for a total of 70 percent of man’s ills—and women’s too—are the reaction of the body against a painful mental image picture. When this picture is cleared away—if it is the right picture—the illness usually abates.
Actual fevers and pain, etc., can turn on just by restimulation of mental pictures in a person.
The recovery of whole memory could be said to be a goal of processing (another term for auditing, the form of spiritual counseling unique to Scientology).
Past lives are “incredible” only to those who dare not confront them. In others, the fact of former existence can be quickly established subjectively.
There are many interesting cases on record. One was a case of a young girl, about five, who, hanging back at church, confided to her clergyman that she was worried about her “husband and children.” It seems she had not forgotten them after “dying out of” another life five years before.
The clergyman did not at once send for the chaps in white coats. Instead, he questioned the truly worried child closely.
She told him she had lived in a nearby village, and what her name had been. She said where her former body was buried, gave him the address of her husband and children and what all their names were, and asked him to drive over and find out if they were all right.
The clergyman made the trip. Much to his astonishment, he discovered the grave, the husband, the children and all the current news.
The following Sunday he told the little five-year-old girl that the children were all well, that the husband had remarried pleasantly and that the grave was well kept.
She was very satisfied and thanked the clergyman very much—and the following Sunday could not recall a thing about it!
Past lives are not the same as the theory which has been called “reincarnation” in Hinduism. That is a complex theory compared to simply living time after time, getting a new body, eventually losing it and getting a new one.
The facts of past lives, if you care to pursue them, are best seen from the viewpoint of the person receiving spiritual counseling in the hands of a competent Scientology practitioner. The hypnotic handling of such is not advised. Only by higher levels of awareness does one learn, not deeper levels of unconsciousness.
An amusing sidelight on past lives is the “famous person” fixation. This more than anything else has discredited having lived before. There is always some madman “who was Napoleon,” always some girl “who was Catherine the Great.” This evidently means that the person, living a contemporary life to a famous figure, was so unsuccessful that he or she “dubbed in” the great personage. A practitioner who runs into “Beethoven,” after a while finds the person receiving spiritual counseling was really the handler of a street piano in that life—not Beethoven!
But all rules have exceptions, and a practitioner once found someone who claimed to have been Jim Bowie, the famous frontiersman who died at the doubly famous Alamo in Texas. And after much work and great skepticism found he really did have Jim Bowie!
Viewing children in the light of knowledge of past lives causes us to revise our estimations of causes of child behavior.
Evidently the newborn child has just died as an adult. Therefore he or she, for some years, is prone to fantasy and terror and needs a great deal of love and security to recover a perspective of life with which he or she can live.
Life is never dull in Scientology. The motto is—What is, is, not what we wished it were.
PERSONAL
COMMENTS ON PAST LIVES
Prior to my knowledge and use of Dianetics I had thought that past lives was the subject of reincarnation and that it was all a matter of belief. After my first Dianetic session - in which I re-experienced a past life, I realized that past lives are not a matter of belief but a matter of awareness. GL Actor
There is no doubt in my mind that L. Ron Hubbard's research has definitely confirmed that every individual, including myself, eventually see events which are not of this life-time in counseling. JP M.D.
I was 23 when I first ran into Scientology. I received some Pastoral Counselling, and discovered that I hadn't lived only one lifetime. I recalled places I'd been and things I'd done. i found that as I discovered more of my past there was more of me here to look forward to the future. The interesting thing about this is that I wouldn't have believed it if someone had told me what I'm telling you. JLC Tennis Coach
In all the years that I had looked at the subject of Past Lives they never became totally real to me until I had some Scientology Auditing (counselling). At that point, with the help of a Scientology Auditor (counsellor0, I was able to actually look at who I was in past lives and perceive all the surroundings with excellent perception and have lots of fun doing it.. I even regained old abilities in music that had gotten lost along the way. SC Jazz Musician
( See further below for more comments)
THE PHENOMENA OF DEATH
(EXCERPT)
L. Ron Hubbard
(EXCERPT)
L. Ron Hubbard
Death
is in itself a
technical subject. You can with considerable confidence, reassure some
husband whose wife has just died that she got out all right and she is
going some place to take up a new body. If you got there while that
person could still communicate with you, in the last moments, you'd
find they usually have something spotted, something planned.The person doesn't just back out ordinarily and forget all about it. They back out of it with full identity and hang around for quite a while. They're usually there for the funeral, certainly. They very often hang around their possessions to see they're not abused. And they can be given upsets if their wishes aren't carried out with regard to certain things. It used to happen that thetans (the Scientology term for the life-force or spirits) would punish people for not carrying out their wishes after death. People then said this was superstition, and science was against superstition. Well its quite interesting that we have turned around the other way finding out what's science and what's superstition and we find out that a being is capable of almost anything providing it is within his ability to execute.
(For more read the full essay in Have You Lived before this Life? by L. Ron Hubbard.)
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SCIENTOLOGY
TECHNOLOGIES
L. Ron Hubbard
L. Ron Hubbard
Scientology
technologies
used in therapy differ greatly from hypnotism. In hypnotism the aim is
to put the patient to sleep and make him as irresponsible as possible
for his answers. In Scientology, the reverse is true -- the patient is
made more and more alert, more and more responsible and truthful.A "past life," for instance, brought out of a patient by hypnotism has little value since it is taken from an irresponsible subject. A "past life" recovered by Scientology techniques is detailed by a fully alert, responsible person who, by heightened powers of awareness, has direct and full knowledge of anything that has occurred to him. Therefore, if this were simply a recounting of forty-one experiences taken from hypnotized people, it would have little value4. But forty-one experiences recovered from fully alert people with no hypnotism, suggestion, or persuasions of new scientific value and casts a different light on the possibility of 'past lives."
In the first place, none of these people were told to recover a life. They were asked....
(For more read the full essay in Have You Lived before this Life? by L. Ron Hubbard.)
PERSONAL COMMENTS ON PAST LIVES
It
is very
natural for me to understand now that past lives are a
natural and logical consequence of one's existence through time. It is
proven so simply in Scientology, which, in my opinion, is a subject
that provides one with the ability to reason purely without the fixed
ideas that have afflicted most of the past religions and present day
"science."
VA PhD
Nuclear Engineer
Before i started studying Scientology, I had heard of the idea of past lives but I had never heard of any proof. It was just something to speculate on. I was in for a surprise when I received Scientology counselling. Not only did I discover with certainty that I have lived previously many lifetimes, but I saw how the unpleasant occurances from past lifetimes caused me trouble this lifetime.
PC
Tennis Professional
I, myself, being of a generally skeptical nature, was extremely doubtful of past lives at first. After all, I reasoned, anyone could create fantasies of past experiences, fabricated of bits and pieces of data and a fertile imagination. However, in the course of Scientology counselling, I found that I was not making up these experiences and that they carried considerable emotional charge along with them, in a way that manufactured stories would not have done.
Present time lifetime hang-ups and neuroses do not resolve without finding their roots in past life experiences, and they do uniformly resolve when these experiences are located.
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Article: By
L. Ron Hubbard
What's
this thing called a soul? That's the livingness, the beingness, of a
person. That's all there is alive about him. Only let's not anchor it
down with a lot of past twists of definition. Let's put it into this
wise: let's say the word soul
is life, is the spirit, is the thinkingness, is the awareness or any
such term which communicates to you the meaning of life and vitality.
Because it most closely approaches what Man has understood to be the soul, it's a very easy thing to use this term. But because this term is misleading, in Scientology it is called the thetan. Now, the crux of the whole problem lay in an understanding of the fact that a man was not mass. A man was not his body. A man was not a being like a woundup doll. He was not a collection of meats and bloods which coursed and flowed.
Like a little child will play with a doll, the livingness of Man is the thing which makes the doll have a game. And that doll would have no game without the livingness of that child. You see that clearly? The doll would simply lie there and wouldn't even say "Mama." But with the child playing with the doll, the doll becomes enhanced with livingness. It seems to talk, it seems to walk, it seems to want and not want. It seems to communicate and not communicate. And that is the activity of the doll.
And why does it have this activity? It's because a child is playing with the doll. A child has a game there centered around the doll. And we remove the child from the room, and the child is gone no more than a split second and we have an awfully inanimate doll. It has no life.
So this thing is capable of thought and thinkingness. It cares whether he lives or dies, it's capable of thought and thinkingness and further tests demonstrate that when a man's dead, the child has left the room. And that's all that's happened: Somebody didn't care to play with the doll anymore. Somebody didn't patch it up again.
All the way up to that point, this somebody or this thinkingness or this somethingness which cares whether it lives or dies or whether things live or die, was willing to posture and animate this doll. And then one day didn't care to anymore and the doll has lain in a corner ever since, unmoved.
And there, actually, we have the explanation. You understand that by this explanation we do fantastic things. In a thoroughly scientific way, we simply raise a person's ability and his IQ and everything else. Nobody has ever worked with this item that way before. Nobody has ever done this sort of thing before, and we're doing it today in Scientology.
And when we look this over, we discover there's a sort of gradient scale of being there, a gradient scale of presence, a gradient scale of caring, a gradient scale of being there, a gradient scale of being able to participate in the game called "life." And we find, oddly enough, that when the livingness goes, there is nothing but deadness. And the livingness is goodness, and when it starts to depart, it leaves nothing but the impulse, whatever it is - an impulse which cannot differentiate between good and evil.
And all we have to do is get this livingness, this beingness, to look a little harder, care a little more, be willing to participate a little further - he gets brighter, he gets better, he gets more capable. And not only that, but his motives get better otherwise since his motives, himself, natively, are very good motives. It's only the machine motives that are bad. And so the more he participates with the game, the better the game gets.
L. Ron Hubbard, 1955
WHAT IS
THE SOUL?
What's
this thing called a soul? That's the livingness, the beingness, of a
person. That's all there is alive about him. Only let's not anchor it
down with a lot of past twists of definition. Let's put it into this
wise: let's say the word soul
is life, is the spirit, is the thinkingness, is the awareness or any
such term which communicates to you the meaning of life and vitality.Because it most closely approaches what Man has understood to be the soul, it's a very easy thing to use this term. But because this term is misleading, in Scientology it is called the thetan. Now, the crux of the whole problem lay in an understanding of the fact that a man was not mass. A man was not his body. A man was not a being like a woundup doll. He was not a collection of meats and bloods which coursed and flowed.
Like a little child will play with a doll, the livingness of Man is the thing which makes the doll have a game. And that doll would have no game without the livingness of that child. You see that clearly? The doll would simply lie there and wouldn't even say "Mama." But with the child playing with the doll, the doll becomes enhanced with livingness. It seems to talk, it seems to walk, it seems to want and not want. It seems to communicate and not communicate. And that is the activity of the doll.
And why does it have this activity? It's because a child is playing with the doll. A child has a game there centered around the doll. And we remove the child from the room, and the child is gone no more than a split second and we have an awfully inanimate doll. It has no life.
So this thing is capable of thought and thinkingness. It cares whether he lives or dies, it's capable of thought and thinkingness and further tests demonstrate that when a man's dead, the child has left the room. And that's all that's happened: Somebody didn't care to play with the doll anymore. Somebody didn't patch it up again.
All the way up to that point, this somebody or this thinkingness or this somethingness which cares whether it lives or dies or whether things live or die, was willing to posture and animate this doll. And then one day didn't care to anymore and the doll has lain in a corner ever since, unmoved.
And there, actually, we have the explanation. You understand that by this explanation we do fantastic things. In a thoroughly scientific way, we simply raise a person's ability and his IQ and everything else. Nobody has ever worked with this item that way before. Nobody has ever done this sort of thing before, and we're doing it today in Scientology.
And when we look this over, we discover there's a sort of gradient scale of being there, a gradient scale of presence, a gradient scale of caring, a gradient scale of being there, a gradient scale of being able to participate in the game called "life." And we find, oddly enough, that when the livingness goes, there is nothing but deadness. And the livingness is goodness, and when it starts to depart, it leaves nothing but the impulse, whatever it is - an impulse which cannot differentiate between good and evil.
And all we have to do is get this livingness, this beingness, to look a little harder, care a little more, be willing to participate a little further - he gets brighter, he gets better, he gets more capable. And not only that, but his motives get better otherwise since his motives, himself, natively, are very good motives. It's only the machine motives that are bad. And so the more he participates with the game, the better the game gets.
L. Ron Hubbard, 1955
