QUESTIONS & ANSWERS:
Dreams Department
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Question
I have often found reference to dreams as a hint or possible connection to a
past life on this planet. Do you agree or not? Answer
I have talked to people who do use dreams as a way to investigate their
past lives. However, since past lives are not verifiable, they must remain
for me in the realm of belief rather than fact. I prefer to see past lives as
a portal or perspective that gives me insight into how I see my rootedness &
place in the world and I like to open the possible lives up to past,
present-parallel and future as well.
Dreams can then not only hint at connections, but provide an emotional
bridge across which we can travel and provide inner-personal cultural
exchanges. The key for me is cross-fertilization -- that I both provide
something new for my alternative lives and they provide something new for
me. I feel the key to all past life investigation is to ask myself why I am
doing it? Am I just nosey or can we begin to build a mutually enriching network across time and space?
Suggestions for Dream and Past Life Exploration (with Karma & Improvement
in mind)
- 1. What parts of the dream seem to be
about the past, the present-alternative or the future?
- 2. What aspects of the character's personalities
and behavior is familiar to me? Is this something I want to increase,
to maintain or release?
- 3. What aspects of the character's personalities
and behavior are unfamiliar to me? Is this something I want to increase,
to maintain or release?
- 4. If I could write a short letter to
this character, what would I say to them?
- 5. If I were to receive a short letter
from this character, what would they tell me?
- 6. Is there a hint about a project that
involves both their time and mine?
2/20/98
Richard Wilkerson is general editor for The
Internet Dream E-zine, Electric Dreams, and director of DreamGate, the Internet
Communications and Dream Education Center. He writes the Cyberphile column for
the Association for the Study of Dreams Newsletter.
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