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Past Lives, Death & Karma

What goes on, and why we return

Seven teachings on what continues after death: why we forget our past lives and how memories return, what dying is, and how karma can be met and changed.

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Talk 1

Why We Forget Our Past Lives

Past lives, part one

Past lives · Talk 1

Why We Forget Our Past Lives

Why you remember nothing of your past lives: most of your consciousness is asleep in the ego, and the ego holds those memories. What dies with the body, what goes on, and the two laws that bring us back.

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What goes on, and why we return

Most people remember nothing of their past lives, and the reason is not that there were none. The memories are held in a part of us that is asleep. The course begins there, with why we forget and the practices that help memory return, and with the purpose of coming back at all.

Then death, which we rehearse every night in sleep, and an experience of meeting a family who knew they had died. It ends with karma: the old patterns that take years to change, how to suffer consciously rather than in despair, and the three factors that the work rests on.

How to walk it

Take the teachings in order. The practices for remembering take patience: try them for weeks, not nights, and write down whatever returns.

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Thinking and awareness exist in two different dimensions of consciousness. Thinking cannot remember past lives; awareness can.

From the talk How to Remember Past Lives

Does heaven and hell exist? Yes, but those are states of consciousness also within us that we can feel here and now.

From the talk The Purpose of Reincarnation

You can’t overcome the ego, you can’t kill it without love.

From the talk The Three Factors of Gnosis