Latuii on Past Lives
Here’s another bite from the same session as yesterday, focusing on past lives and the role they play in seeking. It does often seem that those who stress their identities in past eras are engaging in a kind of escapism; it is in the here and now that all progress is made, and it’s not like we don’t take with us those biases that are always available for consideration.
This point can be extended. Latuii says it can be helpful to know of a past experience that is informing the current lesson, but notice the sense in which is is helpful: to alert the seeker to the lesson, not to put a past costume on and reprise the role that already played out and got us to this incarnation. Of course, this is usually something requiring forgiveness, and we have ample opportunities to practice this even outside our programmed curriculum.
Just a funny side note: my wife has done a past life regression before with a group at an L/L Research event and found it very interesting. She did, however, notice how many people in the group were centurions, or emperors, or great people of the past. I can tell you precisely how honored she was to be in such exceptionally august company! Isn’t it funny how when we look to our past identities, we often stress the most superficial and transient aspects—and yet, is that the driver of the incarnations?
Questioner: I have a question. Is it helpful for us to be aware of other lives and other incarnations from the standpoint of spiritual development? If so, how do we do this?
Latuii: This is a difficult question for us to answer, because we do not know what triggers the spiritual development of any being. It is usually not at all valuable, as his being spiritually, to know his past incarnations. Normally, what is powerful to the individual is to be in the presence of someone who is happy, who has something that the searcher does not have, who suggests something that the seeker might not know. This is why we speak through these instruments—–to attempt to inspire, stretch curiosity, cause you to arouse your own instinct for progress.
Unfortunately, it has become a fad among your people to discover who they were in past lives. If you have a specific personality conflict with another being, it is sometimes helpful—not in the spiritual realm but in the realm of human relationships—to go back to the previous experience and discover what it is that you are reaping in this incarnation as a result of actions in the past, However, if you can learn the art of forgiveness, you do not need to know what it was that somebody did to somebody else. If you can ask forgiveness with all your heart and forgive with all your heart, you have broken the laws of karma. Thus, you have no need of knowledge of an esoteric or occult type.
Unfortunately, this type of information has often been misused, due to the rule we were explaining earlier that knowledge implies responsibility. Thus, if you know what your lesson is and still refrain from learning it, your lesson becomes harder and harder until, as a matter of survival, you must learn it. To make it easy upon yourself, explore the possibilities of love in this incarnation, in this moment, at this time, with these people, in this environment, in this illusion, before you begin working with previous lifetimes. For it is in this life that you have the opportunity, at this moment, to take conscious control of your destiny and to speed yourself on your journey toward the light which you now invoke in this meeting.