Past Lives: Are They Significant Or A Myth?

When past lives have come in as a concept,

In a real way into our life,

It's very useful.

It gives us a context,

A framework,

A story with which we can unravel and understand some knot within our own psyche.

We can resolve something that didn't make sense in our own life,

But ah,

There was another time.

Then it makes sense.

Very,

Very useful in this scenario.

But were you really alive?

Was that a whole.

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Like you might discover one scenario.

It might be like,

Yeah,

I know I killed somebody.

I know I was part of a very violent scenario where I killed somebody.

You might have some inkling that something awful happened.

But did you have a whole lifetime as that person?

Here's the thing.

Past lives,

It's not that one solo identity of yourself goes cleanly from one life to another.

That does not happen.

Now it's convenient for us to imagine that,

Yeah,

That was my past life and the one before that was this and the one before that was that.

But funnily enough,

Anybody who's ever gone into past lives,

It's like,

Okay,

You can remember how much out of that past life?

What age were you when you died?

You were 65.

Okay.

How much of 65 years?

That's a lot of days.

How much of that can you remember?

And it's usually a flash,

One event.

That's all.

Because that really wasn't a continuation of our soul as we have now.

Dying being born,

Dying being born.

We like to think of it in this way.

Number one is because we want to think we're immortal.

We want to feel a progression.

We like the story of ourselves being much bigger than what we are now.

And it's useful.

It's useful in terms of giving us a framework,

As I said earlier.

However,

However,

What really happens when this body dies is that whatever has yet to seek resolution,

Whatever you have to make amends for,

Whatever you haven't been able to let go of.

That's kind of like a kernel of energy.

It's like a tight lump of energy that continues in the unit of where all energy merges and melts and becomes something else.

So if you can,

If you can imagine,

If you can imagine like all that can manifest.

I'm kind of talking about unity consciousness now where everything is interconnected and we get that everything is interconnected on our planet.

This is through disrespect of it.

We're just for that oneness,

We're destroying our planet.

But OK,

Come out to the cosmos,

Come out to galaxies,

Come way,

Way,

Way out.

All that can manifest.

There is a unified field there also where the interconnectedness has an impact on every part.

Now,

When your body dies,

Your body created an identity for you.

I'm Jack O'Keefe.

When this body dies,

Let's see what happens.

But if there's no body there to hold together the Jack story.

If there's no identity there,

I am this body because when the body dies,

Hey,

Actually,

You're not this body at all.

You might already know you're not your body.

Good for you if you've that one nailed.

And so without the body,

We're much more connected with the unified field.

We dissolve,

We melt into the unified field,

But those pockets that are unresolved,

They don't dissolve so well.

It's like putting a stone into a glass of water.

It doesn't really dissolve.

And so that piece that's still hard,

Not something that's not been released,

Let go,

Forgiven,

Come to its own end naturally,

Organically.

Your physical body,

When it dies,

Some things get released,

Some things through the actual process of it.

But you know what?

The biggies,

The biggies that are part of your experiences of life,

They continue.

They will look for resolution.

Now,

Will they all stay together?

Let's say there's an issue around you were a bully.

Let's say there's another issue around you were victimised and fired unjustly from your work with no recourse to justice.

Let's say you got really treated badly by partners,

By lovers.

And so let's say these three pains are still continuing.

They won't stay together after your death as one bundle of energy.

They will break up because like attracts like,

And they will go and seek resolution elsewhere.

Now if you can imagine another incarnation,

Another person who's alive right now,

It's quite likely that they will take on one of these three as in my example.

It's quite likely that,

Whoa,

The piece of energy around,

I always get treated badly in relationships.

I seem to attract people who treat me really poorly.

That pattern can easily go into a person seek resolution through somebody else who's working on that issue right now,

Right now.

So when you die,

When you die,

What's unresolved will be dissipated into the pockets of energy that will allow them to be healed and resolved in some way,

In some dimension.

So let's imagine you've died.

You've got this issue around being treated badly.

You never really nailed it.

You never found a way to love yourself enough so that you would call in somebody who could see you and who was free to love and that you were free to love.

All right.

It's quite possible that that piece of stuck energy seeking resolution,

Seeking balance and calmness will actually be picked up by somebody who's alive,

Who's working with the same thing and find resolution there.

It's kind of wacky to think we all merge in this way,

But thank heaven for it because otherwise,

You know,

What's the other option?

We would be,

You know,

Have an accumulation of things that were unresolved that we didn't get to work through in this life.

And then we go into another life,

Which life is hard enough here.

We all get traumatized.

We all have rough experiences and grow from them because that's what teaches us best.

They would be overly on top of overly on top of overlay.

It's too much.

But anyway,

Energy doesn't work that way because when the body's gone,

Our consciousness is in pockets of energy.

So the consciousness of I get treated badly in relationships that will go and find resolution.

It doesn't have to be yours and you download it next time.

Might,

Might not.

And so where do I go from here?

I have so much to say.

And so what do we do if,

If there are things in our own life that make no sense that came from,

From our own experiences of this life?

If they're yours now,

Then take it that they're yours because whatever is,

You know,

Whatever concepts and patterns that you're dealing with right now,

Own them.

They're yours to work with.

It's kind of tricky to go,

No,

That that that's somebody else's.

I'm handing it back.

Sometimes we do that.

Sometimes we do that.

But try to work with what is yours at the same,

At the same time as working with,

I know this is my pattern from my own life and I know this is a pattern and it makes no sense.

Maybe I got it from my ancestors.

Maybe it genetically came down.

Maybe it's from another time.

My own past life or somebody else's.

Pretty sure it's going to be from somebody else's.

It'll feel like yours.

It'll feel like it was your past life.

And so honour,

What is your experience?

Work with what is given to you.

Work with what's on your plate.

Whatever needs resolution,

Work with it.

Everything wants to dissolve and return into that which it came from.

Everything wants to dissipate back into dust.

Work with it.

I'm going to give you an example of from my own life.

During my years of being a complete atheist in my twenties,

I got lockjaw and I had to wear a device for two years on my lower teeth because I couldn't close my mouth fully.

So I had to wear this piece.

It was discreet,

Mind you,

But it took some getting used to.

And I kept dreaming that I was swallowing it.

So I'd wake up in the middle of the night,

I've swallowed it,

I've swallowed it.

Oh no,

It's there,

It's there.

I've swallowed it,

I've swallowed it.

And my husband at the time said,

Okay,

This is nuts.

You're waking me up three,

Four,

Five times a week,

Like dreaming that you're swallowing this thing.

And I'm like,

Okay,

I'm going to go back to the doctor and get this thing removed so that I can remove it at night.

I would still dream if it was in or out,

I would still dream that I was swallowing it.

I was talking to a friend of mine and she said,

This feels like a past life.

And I went,

I don't buy any of that bullshit.

And she said,

There's somebody,

Just give it a chance.

There's somebody you should see.

So I went to see this woman and I said,

Okay,

I'm having this dream.

And she goes,

This is a past life.

And I'm like,

All right,

You're talking to a sceptic here.

So tell me.

And she said,

I see you in the 15th century and you're a female teacher and you're punished because it's,

You're persecuted.

You're put outside of the community's walls and you have a brace placed around your neck with nails pointing inward.

And when you speak and when you swallow,

You are forcing the nails to come in tighter around your neck,

Having your neck completely relaxed and not using your voice at all is the only way to stop these nails pointing and piercing your neck.

Oh,

Okay.

And I started to cry and cry and cry,

Total sceptic.

And I'm like,

These tears coming.

And she said,

Okay,

It's okay,

We're healing it.

We're moving it through.

She was great.

She dealt with my scepticism right through to my emotional release.

You know what?

I didn't have that dream again.

He came back six or seven years later and I went back in and healed the persecution.

I'm like,

It's okay.

It's okay.

This isn't happening now.

You resolved it.

You're allowed to speak.

It's okay.

You're a female teacher again.

You're allowed to speak.

It's okay.

So from a past life perspective,

If I didn't know more than what I know now and I had locked into the belief of past lives,

Sure.

15th century female teacher.

It took me 500 years later to be a female teacher again,

To find my voice,

To not be persecuted for it and to resolve this stuckness in my throat chakra.

Okay.

That would make sense.

However,

It's not that clean.

There is no knowing if that was me or not.

But the past life story makes it feel like me so that I could take responsibility for it and have a way to heal this neck,

Throat trauma.

And so whether it was me or not,

It's important not to create a stronger identity because awakening is about recognising you're not who you think you are yet.

Yet past life stories can recreate,

Recreate a stronger identity.

You see?

And so watch that nuance of how do I heal?

Whatever this is,

My mind wants to create a past life story because my mind likes the fact that I'm immortal,

Likes to think that I'll go on forever.

Okay,

We work with the mind.

That's what it likes to think.

It's not comfortable with death because it's wired to survive.

And my mind needs a story because we communicate through story,

We heal through story.

So my mind needs that story of what happened in 15th century.

All right.

Okay.

All right.

Don't attach to the story.

Let the healing come.

Resolve what you can resolve.

Even if you feel you're making up a story in order to heal something that you have no memory for,

That can be really useful.

It's like you're consciously using your mind to create a scenario to allow something to release,

Anything to release.

I remember discovering kneading bread.

Again,

I'd say maybe two years after the throat past life introduction experience.

And I remember saying,

God,

I just love this yeast bread.

And it was my new hobby.

I kind of became obsessed.

I was like,

I'm making way more bread than what we knead.

And I seem to be going into some kind of a trance when I'm kneading bread.

Why am I doing this?

Oh yeah,

Maybe it's really meditative and this is really interesting.

And so one day I was off zoned out kneading bread on the kitchen table and I got this scene of me being a maid in the upstairs downstairs scenario of grand houses of the upper class and then me being a servant.

And it's not that I was kneading bread.

I was stirring a pot with a black and white uniform on and feeling life is futile.

I have no opportunities.

Is this all there is?

And a whole load of emotion of I'm in prison.

Can't get out.

I was born into service.

I will die in service.

I have no choice here at all,

But to keep obeying the powers that be who live upstairs.

My life is futile.

What a waste of an incarnation.

And the emotion of that poured out of me.

You know what?

I stopped making yeast bread.

It was gone.

It was gone.

And the sense of,

Oh,

There's the belief that life is futile.

There's the sense of my external environment makes my life futile.

And my learning was like,

Oh,

My external environment has nothing at all to do with my state of mind.

I can let my external environment influence my state of mind and make me feel like I'm in prison.

I can do that,

But I'm not going to because my internal environment has nothing at all to do with what is presenting in my world out there.

There's no way I'm giving power to the external world to give me or remove my freedom.

It's an inside gig.

And I became more internally focused and I discovered the potency of what's inside.

I'm like,

This is the world I'm interested in.

The outside can come and go.

It's the inside world.

And I kind of broke through the belief that the external world can give me anything or can take away what is valued.

I'm like,

Oh,

That's just a mindset.

I saw through it and I never again needed bread.

Like needed,

K-N-E-A-D-E-D,

Needed bread.

Never again.

It's like it was gone.

Lost interest in it totally.

About 10 years later,

I was working as a healer.

And I was clearing,

I used to cleanse the room after I would work on a client before the next one.

And as I was cleansing the room,

My ear started getting this Morse code kind of high pitched noise.

And I was like.

That's coming from the outside.

It's not like a ringing in my ear that's coming from the outside.

And I put down the sage and I thought,

Hold on,

What is going on here?

What am I hearing?

It's outside,

But it's in my healing room.

There was nothing electronic here making the beeping.

OK,

OK,

This is something else going on.

Sit down,

Jack.

What's going on?

And I sat down and I downloaded somebody who was dying.

I don't know who they were.

I know the part of the world,

The actual region personally where the person was dying.

And I could feel he was in his 50s.

I could feel parts of this man coming in to my energy field,

Parts of a pump and parts of him going off.

And I'm like.

Oh.

Oh.

I knew the name,

His age.

And a couple of things he had to deal with.

A couple of there was aggression,

There was anger,

There was resentment because of poverty.

I'm like,

Oh,

Gosh,

OK,

I just downloaded this.

All right.

And so.

My diet changed for the next few days.

I'm like,

All right,

I'm going to totally let this guy.

His name was Tom.

I'm going to totally let Tom.

Show up here because I know it's not me.

At that time,

I had enough awareness to know what thoughts were coming in that were originating in other people and what was from my own conditioning.

I also kind of had a handle on stuff that showed up that looked like it was from past lives.

I'm like,

OK,

I get those snippets might or might not have been me.

I get it.

Now there was this downloading of unresolved stuff,

But just a chunk,

Just a few little pieces.

Now,

Those issues in some way had a resonance with me.

Some way I'm like,

Ah,

OK,

I actually haven't resolved my relationship with money because at the time I was working for donation only.

I was like,

OK,

There's something around that.

There's something around around us and them around working for donation.

Why am I allergic to charging anyway?

OK,

I've got to look at something here.

And that was Tom's issue,

Too.

Some version of that was Tom's issue.

I remember being obsessed with potatoes.

I've never liked potatoes my whole life.

I don't like them.

I don't even think we should eat them.

I think they're awful things.

Lumps start.

I couldn't stop eating potatoes.

I would fry potatoes.

I would boil potatoes.

Roast potatoes.

I was like for four or five days.

It was just a few days of like,

I can't stop eating.

But this is this is Tom's obviously something to do with Tom.

And I could keep him at a distance and resolve what was going on for him and not make it mine.

At the same time,

I knew that our stories overlapped.

And of course,

I paid a lot of attention to it's Tom's and it's mine.

OK,

I need to resolve mine and in resolving mine,

That's what's going to help Tom's issue.

And I did both.

From that experience,

It taught me that,

All right,

I'm aware enough sometimes to know what what's coming from the outside and I'm picking it up.

And when I pick up something,

I'm happy to resolve it.

It's me as the unified field resolving it for the unit.

OK,

This is a huge topic.

I don't know why I just give myself 30 minutes.

So I've just given you examples of like how I learned little things along the way.

There's many more stories,

But I think they give you a bird's eye view of,

OK,

A past life that feels like mine.

You weren't alive for that whole life.

You weren't.

But what has come to you for resolution,

Work with it.

Work with it.

If something makes no sense in your life and it didn't come from a genetic transmission through your ancestors,

You picked it up in the stratosphere somewhere.

If it helps you to believe it was your past life,

Fine,

Absolutely work with that concept.

Very useful framework.

Is that really what happened?

No,

It's not.

No,

It's not.

But download whatever is coming towards you.

Whatever is yours,

Heal it,

Resolve it.

Because we attract issues from other times,

From other people,

From other incarnations that in some way resonate with what's going on for us.

So we're never like the innocent passer by and something hits us from left of field.

That'll happen if we've got bad boundaries,

But that's because our boundaries aren't established.

You see,

To keep something on the outside,

To keep something at the edge of your energy field and work with it there.

We grow from taking personal responsibility for ourselves.

However,

An issue wants to show up for you,

Embrace it.

If it comes from somebody else,

From another time,

Another dimension,

An incarnation where you weren't in the physical form,

We really do traverse all types of dimensions.

And if there's been a snapshot of something that feels like on another planet.

Fine,

Fine,

You're not going nuts.

Work with what is seeking resolution.

Always work towards letting go,

Forgiveness,

Getting lighter,

Dissolving.

Don't push stuff away so much.

Learn what you can and grow.

Let yourself expand,

Expand so that there's a comfortableness with the one unit that is all of us.

Our minds help us to play as separate beings.

Our body helps us to play as separate beings.

But really,

That's just our mind and our body and we are not our thoughts and we're not our body.

So where are you going to put that?

And so within a certain,

The relative world,

Yes,

You are your body.

Sure.

Only so that you take responsibility for it.

Only so that you use it to be an expression of love.

So that you can live from freedom inside.

I'm at the end of time.

I've so much to say.

I feel like I'm stopping midstream.

Be as present as you can and whatever shows up,

Honor it and know that the framework of concepts of past lives and interdimensionality are mechanisms to help us to be more present here and also to know that there is more of you connected in the unified field than the concepts that believe you are separate.

The oneness aspect of your beingness is way more potent than the separate concepts.

I'll catch you down river.

Thank you for your time.

And I hope that some little gem was gleaned from our talk today.

Thank you.

Much love.