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u/Loud_Volume · 30 pointsr/conspiracy

SS: A question asked for centuries. Are we more than our physical body? Do we have a soul? Something that has been debated, argued, and fought over. After doing personal research on the subject and experiencing 2 out of body experiences, it piqued my interest and I went down a rabbit hole I will never regret. Today I wanted to share this research that has been done by the CIA on this subject. Regardless of the mountains of data already on the subject, this is something that cuts straight to the heart of the issue and doesn't hide behind fluff.

First off, I would like to give credit to /u/no1113 for originally posting and sharing this here 6 months ago. This did not get the attention it deserved and something like this is a great find to share. Thank you /u/no1113

Here is the original thread: https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/6r5hk1/the_cia_and_the_continuance_of_individual/

Here is a direct link to the CIA archive: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5.pdf

And here is the relevant text, copied from the above mentioned thread.

> 27. Consciousness in Perspective. Having ascertained that human consciousness is able to separate from physical reality and interact with other intelligences in other dimensions within the universe, and that it is both eternal and designed for ultimate return to the Absolute, we are faced with the question: “So what happens then?” Since memory is a function of consciousness and therefore enjoys the same eternal character as the consciousness which accounts for its existence, it must be admitted that when consciousness returns to the Absolute, it brings with it all the memories it has accumulated through experience in reality. The return of consciousness to the Absolute does not imply and extinction of the separate entity which the consciousness organized and sustained in reality. Rather, it suggests a differentiated consciousness which merges with and participates in the universal consciousness and infinity of the Absolute without losing the separate identity and accumulated self-knowledge which its memories confer upon it. What it does lose is the capability for generation of independent thought holograms, since that can be done only by energy in motion. In other words, it retains the power to perceive but loses the power of will or choice. In exchange, however, this consciousness participates in the all-knowing infinite continuum of consciousness which is a characteristic of energy in the ever present. Consequently, it is accurate to observe that when a person experiences the out-of-body state, they are, in fact, projecting that eternal spark of consciousness and memory which constitutes the ultimate source of their identity to let it play in and learn from dimensions both inside and outside the time-space world in which their physical component currently enjoys a short period of reality.

I would also like to personally recommend some great books on the subject that go into great detail about the soul and our life between life. Remember, energy cannot be destroyed, only moved! Consciousness is energy, we cannot be destroyed, only our physical bodies fall away but our truth essence, our spark, our light of consciousness that we all hold, lives on. Truly amazing information and liberating as well.

https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855

https://www.amazon.com/Destiny-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184995

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/163451.Between_Death_Life

https://www.amazon.com/Your-Souls-Plan-Discovering-Meaning/dp/1583942726

u/Pickleburp · 23 pointsr/Thetruthishere

Sure. :) I was trying not to hijack the thread, but I'll just put the list here and that way anyone can have it. Keep in mind, these aren't all collections of stories, some of them are research topics, but none of them that I've browsed through look like bad reads. The ones I have read I've tried to note.

Iroquois Supernatural: Talking Animals and Medicine People - Michael Bastine, Mason Winfield - most closely related to thread topic

Life After Life - Raymond Moody - Very good intro to Near Death Experience research

Reunions: Visionary Encounters with Departed Loved Ones - Raymond Moody

Journey of Souls - Michael Newton - Read this one, it was great, changed my views on reincarnation

The Day Satan Called - Bill Scott

Hunt for the Skinwalker - Colm Kelleher, George Knapp - read parts of, need to finish

The Vengeful Djinn - Rosemary Ellen Guiley - I've read this one, it's really good too, has a large "slow" section in the middle that quotes the Q'uran a lot, but some good creepy Djinn stories.

The Djinn Connection - Rosemary Ellen Guiley

Ghost Culture: Theories, Context, and Scientific Practice - John Sabol

Zones of Strangeness - Peter A. McCue

Lost Secrets of Maya Technology - James O'Kon

The Mythology of Supernatural - Nathan Robert Brown - this one might sound cheesy, but I've read a book on world mythology by the same author, and apparently the writers of the show did their research

Holy Ghosts: Or How a (Not-So) Good Catholic Boy Became a Believer in Things That Go Bump in the Night - Gary Jansen

u/wellrelaxed · 12 pointsr/Paranormal

If you're really interested in souls and spirit guides, I'd suggest a book entitled Journey of Souls by Michael Newton. It was suggested to me a couple months ago on reddit. Really good book.
http://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

u/SushiAndWoW · 9 pointsr/Thetruthishere

What you described sounds like an interesting way for a spirit friend of yours to help you out in life. It's possible that some assistance in crucial moments was necessary to ensure your path unfolds as planned. Apparently, your protector has a flair for appearing to you dramatically.

Chances are that the armor is just his personal choice, the role in which the friend wanted to present himself to you this time. Maybe it symbolizes a history the two of you share, or maybe it's armor he wore in an incarnation he enjoyed living.

If he said goodbye, chances are that his role in your life is indeed over, and you won't be seeing him again. Your life is yours to live. It's likely you'll see him again on the other side. :)

You probably don't need to research this further, but if you want to, I recommend this and this.

u/SecretAgentMan_007 · 8 pointsr/Paranormal

If you are not familiar with his work, you may be interested to read Dr. Michael Newton's books 'Journey of Souls' and 'Destiny of Souls'. Dr. Newton discovered he could regress his clients to not only remember past lives, but also to a state where they could remember their 'soul memories' from our conscious time spent in between incarnations. His work in researching this in between lives state answers many questions as to what happens when we die, what we do in between, why we come back, and why we forget. Very interesting to ponder. Here is a clip of a documentary that was dedicated to Life Between Lives (LBL) hypnosis work. Please consider checking it out. I have personally had an experience with this hypnosis after reading his books and wanting to know for myself. They sort of address this in the video clip. It is an academic exercise to ponder these concepts, but it is another thing entirely to have an experience for yourself and know for yourself what it is like. Anyway, thanks for reading.

u/Swadapotamus · 7 pointsr/Psychic

One of my best friends committed suicide, and about 5 years later, I suddenly heard her voice in my head. She told me, "I'm sorry it took me so long. I can't stay long - I'm just here to help you rebuild your heart a bit." I heard her for about a week, and then she was gone. She never explained where she was or why it took so long for her to reach out...but I suspect souls have their own paths and timelines. There's actually an interesting book called "Journey of Souls" by Dr. Newton (https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855) that may help you - it describes what may happen between lives for a soul. While my guides said it only gets part of the picture, it's still interesting and comforting nonetheless. I'm so sorry for your loss.

u/cameltoe_of_the_boob · 5 pointsr/Glitch_in_the_Matrix

And this book. A hypnotist regresses adult patients through their past lives, taking special interest in what happens in the time between lives-- kind of a setup phase where you acknowledge what you need to work on in your next lives. I really enjoyed it.

u/eugenia_loli · 4 pointsr/DMT

This is the book you're looking for: https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 It's information gotten via deep hypnosis by a PhD psychotherapist. I've seen many similarities of what's described in that book to some DMT reports. The most recent one, I think, it was a couple of months ago.

u/eyver · 3 pointsr/Glitch_in_the_Matrix

Not from this sub, but a collection of true stories from hypnotherapists on exactly this topic can be found in books by Brian Weiss and Michael Newton. I highly recommend starting with Many Lives, Many Masters since it's easy to read and sort of the "gateway drug" to this whole world. Michael Newton's books, like Journey of Souls, go into far more detail (and include word-for-word transcripts from dozens upon dozens of his therapy sessions).

This is fascinating to me because the general premise of both these books (as well as many others by other legitimate hypnotherapists who have put clients "under" to the point where they could access past lives as well as lives between lives) is exactly what's quoted in the short excerpts in OP's post: we are spirits living in imperfect and irrational human bodies, and our entire experience on this planet is essentially so we can learn and grow as spirits. In fact these books indicate that Earth (and our human experience) is a more "advanced" or "accelerated" school for spirits (and more difficult as a result).

All of this stuff fascinates me because the story is so consistent among all these therapists who have had first-hand experience with clients "tapping" into this world and among all the anecdotal stories on subs like this.

u/jessefleyva · 3 pointsr/spirituality

You should read Journey of Souls by Michael Newton.

https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855

u/greatunknownpub · 2 pointsr/MorbidReality

I haven't read that one, but another great book in that vein is Journey of Souls by Michael Newton. Really opened my mind to some amazing possibilities.

u/catherineirkalla · 2 pointsr/occult

For you, I recommend the book Journey of Souls.

u/lotusflowerjasmine · 2 pointsr/exmormon

Start with this one: God and the Afterlife: The Groundbreaking New Evidence for God and Near-Death Experience https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062279556/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_vxgSBbC82834X

And when you’re ready for it, go on to this one: Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives https://www.amazon.com/dp/0671657860/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_RzgSBbJ4CQSWD

Then this one: Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives https://www.amazon.com/dp/1567184855/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_RygSBbAD9C961

u/MsUnderwood · 2 pointsr/lawofattraction

Here's a book about NDEs specifically

Check out books from Robert Monroe, a former scientist, who has learned how to OBE at will and has studied/taught others to as well.

A subreddit for people who have experienced or are in the process of achieving OBEs (also called astral travelling or astral projecting) https://www.reddit.com/r/Astral_Projection/

Tons of Youtube videos as well a lot of them report similar things but of course keep in mind Youtubers aren't always the most reliable

I like TedXTalks for subjects like these, check out the first 2 videos

Another thing related to astral projection is remote viewing, where you're able to see other places without physically going there. CIA is currently looking into and trying to weaponize this technique

u/master_baiter · 2 pointsr/ChildrenOfTheLight



Short answer to your question is, No, I don’t believe there is an eternal hell a being can go to. However, if you have ever experienced great time passing in a dream that takes place in a short nap, I believe that as creative beings empowered within the Divine, being literally God forgetting Itself, one can dream/experience long periods of suffering or what might be deemed “hell.” I believe if one is doing self-centered, self seeking behaviors, and taking these fears into multiple lifetimes they will likely keep experiencing profound suffering in lifetimes that will be very “hellish” until they “learn their lesson.” By that, I don’t mean a matter of punishment being done for being “bad” meted out by some point keeping Deity watching the scales of justice and making sure to balance them. I mean more a cause/effect. Like if I don’t want to get all wet I wouldn’t jump into the pool. If I woke up each day and jumped into a pool while saying to myself “this time I won’t get wet” eventually I will “learn the lesson” that jumping into pools causes the experience of wetness. This is what I believe is meant by the Eastern descriptions of Karma, merely the natural consequences of certain attitudes and behaviors. If I refrain from showering I will be stank within a day or two. It’s not cosmic punishment from a wrathful god for the Evil of not showering that I am experiencing the retribution of condemnation to a be a stank ass, it’s just Natural Law. If for many lifetimes I keep using everyone as if they are disposable and channeling all of my angers and fears into “I gotta cheat them before they cheat me” I think my existence will stay hellish until I “get it” and decide to stop following those patterns. The second way a person could experience a “hell” is described by some NDEs and Astral Journeying experiences. They suggest that once we die, in between lives those conditioned patterns can play out for a while as a “dream of hell.” That can be a hell like experience for the spirit experiencing it, but once again that would be a hell of their own making that can be left as soon as the spirit “wakes up.” Primarily it could be found by the Souls own self condemnation and so they decide not to journey to the light but keep circling around lost as they know they “don’t deserve the light.”


My overarching worldview is that of non-duality or Advaita Vedanta which basically specifies that the only “real” thing is the unification with Source/Oneness/God/The Unchanging. To transcend it completely and realize your true is the goal of that specific outlook. More accurately described as realizing that you already Are That and you can’t not be. Ultimately this would result in residing in the Awareness of that Truth as the seat of your perception instead of identifying with the limited separate you that thinks it’s an individual human m. My favorite Teacher in this outlook is Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. His teachings can be found here: http://www.maharajnisargadatta.com/I_Am_That.pdf



All of these other discussions about the manifested world and our place in it as individual souls are moot to the point of view of the Advaita Vedantaschool of thought. To it, speculation about cosmology, other lives, and heaven/hell is about as pointless as trying to deposit money in the bank that you won in a dream or trying to arrest an actor for a crime his character committed on stage. Because if this is all transitory and ultimately “a dream of separation,” then all mental chatter is just part of the dream.

However, I moderate that view because for myself as I am still appearing to be in this present context. Here, now, the “me” typing these letters is what I am presented with. If I am going to be appearing to exist at this time on this planet in this realm, I might as well be trying to play the game at the forefront of my present experience effectively.



My beliefs in reincarnation are based on others’ research and my own regression hypnosis and meditations.


I will offer some of my influences below so you could investigate further yourself if you feel interested in it.


IISIS (Institute for the Integration of Science Intuition and Spirit): http://www.iisis.net/index.php?page=semkiw-reincarnation-past-lives-principles&hl=en_US
This site offers many case studies of people claiming they remember their previous lives and documented with scientific rigor.

The Journey of Souls by Michael Newton
PDF: https://archonmatrix.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Journey-Of-Souls-by-Michael-Newton-PDF.pdf
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855
In this book psychologist Michael Newton offers transcripts from some highlighted cases of over 700 people he did regressive hypnosis on. The way he got his data was placing people under hypnosis, having them recall their past life and then guiding them to continue the memory until they travel to the place they went between lives. The results are remarkably consistent from person to person, even though the clients weren’t given any expectation of what they would experience. Generally the people die, see a light, travel to it, are met by a person of authority, love and light that usually fits their predominant religious outlook (Jesus for Christians, Krishna for Hindus, Glowing white orbs for agnostics, etc) After that, select members of their “soul group” come and say “hi.” (Could be a loving grandmother, or brother, etc) the soul group is the family of souls they share many lifetimes with that are around the same stage of soul evolution. There are also guides an octave or two above the evolution of the whole group that radiate love and give guidance. Also common is life reviews and then picking from several different future incarnations to go back and try and learn what we need to develop specifically in our weak spots. This books data suggests everyone comes to earth willingly because we could stay hanging out in Soul Paradise forever but the rate of evolution is super slow and so each soul wants to advance and then get to world building. Like once a soul gets advanced enough it becomes a Demi-God and makes its own universes.


Near Death Experiences (NDEs)
Near-death.com
One of the more interesting NDEs on that site is the story of George Ritchie who traveled places on earth with a being of Love he believed to be Jesus. This seems to offer evidence of the idea of a soul creating their own hell to exist in for a while as a result of their own judgment of themselves: https://www.near-death.com/experiences/notable/george-ritchie.html#a05a

A solid overview of the gamut of experiences NDEs can appear as is found on this page of their site:
https://www.near-death.com/science/research/out-of-body-experiences.html


Astral Journeyers
One of the most practiced astral journeyers I ever came across in my internet wanderings was the experiences of the late Frank Kepple, an active participant on the forum astralpulse.com. Using the Monroe Institute’s Gateway Program CDs he was able to journey extensively in the realms of spirit and he documented his findings for the other members there. The gestalt of his findings overlap considerably with findings of both NDE experiences and Michael Newtons between life regression case studies. They also indicate spirits can be “stuck” for a while in their own self made hell realms if they were living automatic lives based on self centeredness. The admins their collected all his writings into one cohesive doc found here: http://www.astralpulse.com/frankkepple.html

(The CDs he used can be found here:
https://www.monroeinstitute.org/Gateway%20Voyage%20Program )

One other belief system that echoes this ontology is the traditions of Tibetan Buddhism that speak to souls going to “hell realms” and “god realms” between lives based on their “karma.” As the true nature of things get lost and diluted through generations of distance from the source material coupled with the dogma that inevitably arises when a belief system gets modified for a wider general population mainstream, I feel those descriptions are a bit distorted from the original teachers who had the experiences and as they were canonized they have evolved to be more along the lines of a worldview that hell realms are a “punishment for being bad” instead of the more likely experience of “self created dream of hell” that more recent research suggests.


As to your question on what I meant by Higher Self, I mean the soul/energy body described in the above references that is connected to evolved guides and soul groups and knowledge of all the lives you’ve lived. That aspect of You knows the real reason you incarnated in this specific lifetime and what goals you’re trying to achieve with regard to your evolution.

I will always be to some degree agnostic of all of these views. I sort of assign mental probabilities to all of my beliefs that give them likelihoods. The idea that modern Christianity is completely right and every conflicting viewpoint is the work of the devil? I give that a 3%. The idea that I am a sentient AI-bot in an elaborate quantum simulation? 13% The idea that I am just a perceiving consciousness in the center of void with literally nothing and no one else existing, just projecting the experience of other people with no internal perception or consciousness of their own that phase in and out of existence when I leave and re-enter the room they appear in? That solipsist view might be closer to 33%. These other ideas I present of Advaita Vedanta, soul evolution and reincarnation get a higher rating of 70-80% by me. However, the more I progress on my path the more I realize I know nothing.

u/NoHero3s · 2 pointsr/AskReddit

The hard part is life on Earth, the easy part is what comes afterwards. In my personal opinion, one of two things happens upon death:

  1. Your existence ends. That's it. There is nothing more. Thus, there is nothing to be afraid of, because there is...nothing. No joy, no pain, no sadness. Just like turning off the switch, similar to when you go unconscious.

  2. You will move into the afterlife. There are a multitude of thoughts of what the afterlife will be. Personally, I don't believe that there is a 'hell' , in the conventional sense of the word. On Earth, we are in physical form. If you believe that you have a soul, the only logical progression upon death of your physical body is transcendence to a new spiritual realm, or back to the spiritual realm that you came from. The point of hell, in this situation, is moot. And really, what would be the purpose of hell? To live life for 30, 40, 80 years...and then spend an ETERNITY suffering? There is no logical, reasonable or realistic basis for this.

    What is entirely possible, and what I believe, is that Earth is essentially a 'school' for the souls. We are sent here to live through existence, to learn, for the better or for the worse. Life is a series of lessons, and each life we live grows our soul. Our short existence on this Earth is merely the schoolyard, and when we die, we get to review our life, see what we did wrong, what we did right, and then contemplate how we can make things better, or see what the next life can possibly offer us.

    In a way, this could be considered 'heaven', but I don't see it as such. I just see it as our true existence. So in this sense, there should be no fear of dying - you will die when your time comes, and you will die because you accomplished what you needed to do.

    A book that really changed my perspective on existence, religion, life and death in general is the Journey of Souls. That being said, I was always anti-religion, anti-God, and always believed that life is a one shot deal, and that my pure existence was just happenstance of the right molecules and materials coming together.

    After reading that book, I'm not religious, I don't go to church, but I do feel more comfortable about my life, my perspective of death, and have a much more open mind to all the world religions. I believe that every religion does have something right in what they teach - reincarnation, morals, treating people well...but no one religion seems to have gotten it entirely correct.
u/[deleted] · 2 pointsr/starseeds

OK. Let's say that regular people are in 3D, starseeds might be in 4D and to be an architect that have full control of its mind and is able to create with it, then you have to be 5D, or 6D. Honestly, I don't like that catagories. I really don't know exactly what they mean. I rather like to talk about astral plane, mental plane, buddic plane, etc.

According to Michael Newton, in this book: https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855, there are several levels in the afterlife, or in the spiritual world or in the Soul's Realm. After you die, you can reach the light or not. If you can reach the light you can go to a second level when you can do or be whatever you want, even a whore or a queer. Yes in heaven. Would you believe that? But if you wanna be part of the plan of God and become and arquitect that create reality you have to go to higher levels, the internal planes. There are a delicate balance in that levels. Only those who have love can go inthere. It requires huge self control, love and will. Only the sword of will and love can open that door. They can create reality, the present moment, but it is a gruop work that requires a lot of discipline.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk5bSG78pbQ

Bottomline, you are a soul, not the shadow, as described by Plato. Not the personality. When you realize that, then you are at home, here or in any other planet or place in the Universe. You can work alone or you can be part of a greater plan. The Plan of God. God's Plan. It's up to you, AS FAR AS YOUR POSSIBILITIES ALLOW YOU TO DO.

Briefly, in a general way, that's what I think, but to me is a bit more complicated.

Know thyself. You have to fully know your self as a soul, as a being of light and love, if you wanna fully develop your abilities (as soul, that is, as a being of light and love). It require training. Self, auto-imposed, control and discipline.

I dream with a world, downhere, when everyone, anyone, can have free access to light and love, and freely create with its mind unlimitedly.

I would like to be a bridge between those beings of light and love and people to bring light and love downhere and clean the planetary aura, because, right now, it is infested of demons. And Lords of Darkeness rules downhere. When Christ, a starseeds, a big one, came downhere, they beat Him very badly to death; they killed Him. And if He come back now they will do the same thing again. Because Lords of Darkness want to destroy the bridge between the soul and the shadow (your personality) and keep us downhere creating demons and with no access to light and love. They don't want you to know that you are a soul, a being of light and love. They want you to be a whore (men and women). They want you to be their bitch and work for them.

u/white_bread · 1 pointr/IAmA

Possibly people make it all up but if you read Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives it appears to document that his subjects all recount the same story.

u/SophisticatedPeasant · 1 pointr/SanctionedSuicide

Uhmm, no, sorry but Psychic Phenomena has been proven in laboratory settings. Hell even Quantum Physics is starting to acknowledge the relationship between mind and matter, just look up the Observer Effect.

A close family member calling you out of the blue, somehow "sensing" or "knowing" that youre contemplating suicide isn't a "coincidence".

https://www.amazon.com/Entangled-Minds-Extrasensory-Experiences-Quantum/dp/1416516778

This is precisely what is wrong with this world. We are psychic beings by nature, but because of the selfishness of a handful of fear oriented "Elites" who've decided that they need to have more perceived material wealth than others and privilege and prestige have done everything within their power to chemically and culturally lobotomize this out of us (via Sodium Fluoride, Vaccines, and primary "education" and media enculturation, and now GMO foods).

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=14949

http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/08/22/fluoride-affects-consciousness-will-act/

To make matters worse (or to have a poster child to spread the fear oriented, hopeless gospel of the "Elites") we had the emergence of Mechanistic Reductionistic Science via Rene Decarte and this related nonsense that if a million monkeys typed on keyboards randomly for a million years eventually the entire works of Shakespeare will be produced.

No. Sorry. Divine Intelligence is a part of it. Reincarnation is real. ET's are real. Having to karmically deal with suicide, which I believe is the point of this life for me (to deal with the karma of suicide via a time out, possibly as a ghost) is a real potential consequence of said act.

https://www.amazon.com/Biocentrism-Consciousness-Understanding-Nature-Universe/dp/1935251740/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1479113035&sr=1-1&keywords=biocentrism+by+robert+lanza

https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Truth-Forbidden-Steven-Greer/dp/0967323827

So yeah, this really irks me when I hear people chalk up psychic experience to random happenstance.

They then invariably go on to claim that consciousness is an epiphenomenon of interactions of bio-chemistry within our nervous system.

What a crock.

I personally prefer the idea that the human brain is a filter that allows us to function in this exquisitely compelling virtual reality experience (as both Albert Einstein and more recently where we incarnate ad infinitum to learn and grow as spiritual beings.

If we were to see the glory of all of existence without said filter we would be overwhelmed and incapable of functioning in this plane.

Back to psychic phenomena, I mean please explain away a few dreams I've had where weeks later I was doing exactly what I was in the dream I had a few weeks earlier, or all of those moments knowing that something specific was going to happen moments before it happened, or hey, how about this one, which most everyone has, knowing someone is going to call you, sometimes to the point where you look at your phone, think of that person, and then your phone rings. Or how about all of the dogs that know their owners are coming home (Rupert Sheldrake).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKHUaNAxsTg

https://www.amazon.com/Dogs-That-Their-Owners-Coming/dp/0609600923/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=

Mainstream Science has become the new high priesthood tasked with perpetuating the current [failed] paradigm, the Status Quo, the current order (any coincidence here between the Elites poisoning and literally brainwashing you and paying people large sums of money to confirm the idea that youre just having this one finite life experience on this little lonely rock floating in space and then that's it? Sounds like a great way to bring out the worst in people, to create a world seething with conflict as everyone "has just this one life so I better fucking get mine, even if I have to step on your head to do so" all of which benefits the "Elites"), just as the Catholic Church was tasked with doing the same in the 16th century and locked away Galileo under house arrest for daring to suggest that our planet occupied a helio-centric orbit around the parent star and not the other way around. Now it's the same thing all over again with Quantum Physics and the dawning realization that mind and matter are related, that we can influence others through intent and prayer, and that we are likely eternal spiritual entities occupying temporary host bodies for: boredom, entertainment, lessons, pick one or all of the above. (our actual psychic potential is far more extensive, to include, yes, telekinesis via yogic lore etc. and astral projection, remote viewing, hell the CIA was paying remote viewers in the 1980's at Stanford Research Institute to spy on the Russian's and they wouldn't have paid millions of dollars without first ascertaining the effectiveness! I can't make this up, look up Project Stargate, I'm tired of posting links).

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/there-is-growing-evidence-that-our-universe-is-a-giant-hologram

https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855

My $ .02. Sorry if I offended anyone here.

Hold the door open for me, I'm right behind you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq69-MI9TA0

"Reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one" - Albert Einstein

u/Mhopkins892 · 1 pointr/BlackPeopleTwitter

I'm not a religious person but I highly recommend the book Journey of Souls Case Studies of Life Between Lives https://www.amazon.com/dp/1567184855/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_AYrRDbMMG3P5C

I hope you're doing alright

u/Jparsner · 1 pointr/UFOs

I believe the different dimensions/densities is a massive part of it all.

Earth is a experiment. It was designed to see what would happen if we were cut off from our spiritual nature; cut off from the cosmos. This is the 'barrier' so many people talk about who are able to astral project. Psychics and mediums know of the barrier as well. This is also why astronauts all talk about that sense of 'cosmic unity' when they are in space... they are literally outside the barrier in some instances.

Life after death... read Journey of Souls

Lots of little bits in there that shed some light on the experiment and what is going on here.

I believe we're all multi-dimensional beings... you're accessing a more limited perspective of your 'ultimate self'.

God, Source, the Universe... it's not a singular, omnipotent being IMO. God is consciousness, everything is conscious in our Universe, big things, small things, all matter, all the electrons... you and I are sparks, fragments of God. The naming convention doesn't matter, it's a massive ocean of energy that we're all a part of. There is no one book that explains this concept... I've read a lot of spirituality articles/books and have made my own conclusions. That's really the best way to start getting into it... just reading a lot and certain things will resonate, other stuff won't.

u/dreamUnraveler · 1 pointr/Dreams

Journey of Souls on Amazon.com by Michael Newton Ph.D.

u/uncle_pistachio · 1 pointr/DMT

The atheist would always ask "well, what created god then?". I like to think it's infinite; that our god was created by a god that was created by a god, that was....... and that goes on infinitely, and that that infinite collection of gods is also god. Have you read Journey of Souls by Michael Newton. He's a hypnotherapist that claims to have bee able to take people not only to past lives but the period between lives i.e. afterlife. Usually I'd be highly skeptical of such claims but the guy has set up an institute and trained thousands of other hypnotherapists. Incredible book that formed a good deal of my belief system.

u/SwanSpirit · 1 pointr/starseeds

Hi, I can see I'm completely out of place here but, anyway, I hope it may help:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk5bSG78pbQ

https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855

Greetings

u/MoonbeamThunderbutt · 1 pointr/spirituality

I'd really recommend the book Journey of Souls by Michael Newton if you're searching for "meaning of life" stuff. It made me remember why I'm here and made me feel so much less anxious about everything. I know what's truly important now: learning lessons, growing as a person, and enjoying the masquerade of life here on earth.

Human life is a dream that we forget isn't real, because getting sucked into the role is fun and it's how we learn. We are so much more than what we appear to be, but it's ok not to remember. Just do the best you can and enjoy life for what it is: an opportunity to feel the sunshine on your face, help others, try new things, and overcome struggles.

u/flexylol · 1 pointr/Glitch_in_the_Matrix

Journey of Souls by Michael Newton.

https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855

There's lots of crap out there on that subject, but also a few really good ones like those books.

u/mogaly · 1 pointr/UFOs

Well, yeah, that makes sense, but even though it's such a tongue in cheek idea, UFOs being alien craft just makes some sense. I love having fun theorizing all this. What would make sense is them coming to help us out right about now. Think about it. Think about how conscious we are. We don't seem to have much trouble comprehending the vastness of space, and all of it's contents (some, I should say). That being said, according to the spiritual world, we're close to FULL consciousness. If that was the case, Aliens wouldn't be too far ahead of us, but quite far spiritually. (Earth's spirituality is mostly quite fucked up and backwards. Organized religions, I'm looking at you. But, at any rate, we're killing our planet. According to the spiritual world (and me, due to many experiences, awake, drug free) Earth, or Gaia if you will, has a soul, just like everyone else. (I believe this because I've left my body a couple times). So yeah, we are killing Earth, this wonderful life-giving spirit, and why would aliens (if they exist) let this happen? If everything is as the spiritual community says (a lot of evidence, I'd suggest reading "Journey of Souls" RIGHT the fuck now. link Done by a Ph.D. It's just JUST a bunch of conversations with hypnotized people. It's amazing. Anyway, back to what I was saying, if we're killing this planet, and we're closer to the Aliens than we originally thought in MENTAL development, but not spiritual development, now would be the perfect time for an intervention. Besides, this universe is so much more malleable than anyone tells you. I have proven this to myself every day.

It's a shame we throw out spirituality, because in the end, it's more real than this hell-hole of a society.

u/jadedapprentice · 1 pointr/exmormon

I'll start with an author whose work in comparative mythology is exceptional and deeply spiritual in a way that's very conscious of the difference between organized religion and spirituality. He's got a lot of books, some more scholarly and others much more approachable. Two examples here:

"Since lies are what the world lives on...those who can face the challenge of a truth and build their lives to accord are finally not many, but the very few"
--Joseph Campbell, [Myths to live By] (http://www.amazon.com/Myths-Live-Joseph-Campbell/dp/0140194614/)

“Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.”
― Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

Next, if you really want to stretch there's a remarkable series of books created from first-hand accounts from hundreds of individuals under hypnosis to map out the nature of what might be termed our spiritual home or "life between lives" - I find this to be more credibly presented and much more consistent with the many well-documented near-death experiences that are continuously being studied by groups like NDERF and IANDS and Dr. Newton's methodology makes these books a compelling read:

Michael Newton, Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives

Michael Newton, Destiny of Souls: More Case Studies of Life Between Lives

These aren't for everyone, and the idea that there is a proper place for spirituality can be hard to swallow for those who feel scarred by organized religion, but they've been helpful in my own personal journey to stay grounded while I escape a church that's obsessed with sexuality, the pursuit of money for itself above even the welfare of its members, and even the smallest perceived deviation from its accepted belief system and practices.

u/IdentitiesROverrated · 1 pointr/Reincarnation

Wow, fascinating!

I can't really offer any answers other than what you can read in Journey of Souls and Destiny of Souls. I'm just going to say that if you haven't read them yet, you likely should, especially with your background. Newton's work is the only really credible (and useful!) report of the afterlife that I've so far encountered.

Perhaps it might help to mention that other hypnotists have corroborated Newton's reports, and are getting the same consistent images from their own clients as well - including people of various religions and cultures who have never been exposed to the books.

If you ever arrive at the bottom of this story involving Don, Paul, and Kurt, I would be very interested to know what you find out. I wouldn't worry about falling into some kind of vicious cycle. It does sound like you've come here in this life to break their hearts, but the way they've all fallen for you suggests that they're willing participants in the lesson. The way you feel nothing for them makes me think this life and body have been chosen for you so that you don't get scarred in the process.

Having this as an episode in your life doesn't necessarily mean that this is what your life is all about, or that it must end prematurely. There might be all kinds of different things in store for you, this might just be something you've come to do before the other things happen.

I've fallen for someone in a similarly inexplicable way as you describe Don, Paul, and Kurt falling for you. I hope that what she felt for me was very different from the complete lack of empathy you are describing for these guys. Regardless, it was probably the most painful experience of my life. I had a precognition that it would be extremely painful on day one. I asked myself, do I want to do it anyway? The answer was a resounding yes.

I seem to have emerged from the pain, for the most part, though I'm still battered and bruised. I continue to have love for this person. I, too, have no answers. I tried looking for them, but no longer really expect to find them.

Some things, I suppose, we might only find answers for when we die. I suppose it's possible to live without them. It's not like we have a choice.

u/odawg21 · 0 pointsr/pics

Spirit energy is never destroyed. It is recycled, takes on new shapes and forms. Where one life ends, another begins. The cyclical nature of energy and the amazing design of our universe implies that there would be no waste. Also, the fact that our lives as humans seem to just be a series of tests and events which become "lessons" or opportunities for spiritual growth lead me to believe that one life is simply not enough to break into the upper echelons of enlightenment.

Highly recommend Journey of Souls by Michael Newton PH. D. Very interesting stuff, studying both past lives, and what our spirits are up to in between lives. That last part is really what blew me away.

Also, great book just for life in general- The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle- this book continues to help me in my day to day life and I haven't read it in years.

u/AvaniD · 0 pointsr/AskReddit

This book helped me. It may be BS, but I'm going with it.
http://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/dp/1567184855

u/Ghostwoods · -1 pointsr/writing