Going Below the Water's Edge: Past Lives Reincarnation Inner Self

By Ronald S. Fehribach

Have we been someone before? Is there a cycle to life that passes personality and societys characteristics through the generations, much like our physical characteristics are passed by various chemical configurations?

What about many major religions that base their belief on reincarnation or past lives, and often times their leadership on someones presupposed link to the past? What about all those individuals claiming to have been someone before? What is the possibility that you have been someone before, and if so who? How does one find out about ones own possibilities and ones impact on todays existence?

Many feel that meditation is the way to enter this world of deep inner knowledge and to bring awareness of this past cycle. Hypnosis has also been used to offer an abundance of examples to illustrate the possibility of our having been here before. To get past our immediate existence and regress through our birth to a world of spirits from the past is indeed an adventure, if such a world even exists.

Please join me now for a journey into an unseen world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Oct 27, 2014
• ISBN: 9781491873991

Ronald S. Fehribach

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Contents

Chapter 1 The Reason Why

Chapter 2 First Session: Initial Encounter

Chapter 3 Second Session: Personal Review of Hypnotic Practice Session

Chapter 4 Third Session: Possibly London, 1681 AD

Chapter 5 Fourth Session: 1812 AD

Chapter 6 Fifth Session: The Shepherd

Chapter 7 Sixth Session: 612 BC

Chapter 8 Seventh Session: Back to 612 BC

Chapter 9 Eighth Session: Future, Past, Present

Chapter 10 Conclusion

Chapter 11 A Historical Perspective

Dedicated to the memory of those twenty-one

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Dr. Kim Scott Larmore for his help in making this adventure possible. I thank Charlene Walker for her efforts on transcribing and manuscript preparation, Helen Kauffmann for her encouragement over the years, Lawrence Frazier for his persevering attitude, and Sonia Galaviz for her help in the final preparation. Also thanks to my friends and family as we shared these brief moments in time together.

To an observer looking upon the water’s surface, most of an iceberg is below the water and cannot be seen. An iceberg may have eight or nine times as much ice below the water’s edge as there is above.

Introduction

Hinduism

Let him reflect on the transmigrations of men … on the departure of the individual soul from this body and its new birth in another womb, and on its wanderings through ten thousand millions of existences.

On the infliction of pain on embodied spirits, which is caused by demerit, and the gain of eternal bliss, which is caused by the attainment of their highest aim through spiritual merit.

Laws of Manu, Book V.

Judaism

The Old Testament

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be … and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there anything whereof it may be said, see, this is new? It hath been already of old time, which was before us. There is no remembrance of former things.

Ecclesiastes 1:9–11

Plato

(427–347 BC)

Every soul is immortal—for whatever is in perpetual motion is immortal … All that is soul presides over all that is without soul and patrols all heaven, now appearing in one form and now in another … Every man’s soul has by the law of his birth been a spectator of eternal truth, or it would never have passed into this our mortal frame, yet still it is no easy matter for all to be reminded of their past by their present existence.

Phoedrus

(translation by J. Wright)

Aristotle

(384–322 BC)

It remains that the rational or intellectual soul enters from without, as being only of a nature purely divine, with whose actions the actions of this gross body have no communication.

Julius Caesar

(100–44 BC)

(When Caesar found the Celts to be strong fighters, he wrote about their fearless disregard of death.)

They wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass after death from one body to another, and they think that men by this tenet are in a great degree excited to valor, the fear of death being disregarded.

Gallic War, Book VI, Chapter 14

Saint Augustine

(354–430 AD)

Say, Lord to me ... say, did my infancy succeed another age of mine that died before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother’s womb? ... And what before that life again, O God my joy, was I anywhere or in any body? For this I have none to tell me, neither father nor mother, nor experience of others, nor mine own memory.

The Confessions of Saint Augustine

Mohammedanism

The Koran

God generates beings, and sends them back over and over again, till they return to him.

Japanese Buddhism

Blind, blind are sentient creatures all, yet know they not their blindness. Again, again they are reborn to darkness and to sadness: Again, again they pass and die blinded by sense eternally!

Japanese Buddhist hymn

(eighth century AD)

Benjamin Franklin

[1706–1790]

(The epitaph he wrote at the age of twenty-one.)

The body of B. Franklin,

printer,

like the cover of an old book,

its contents torn out

stripped of its lettering and

gilding, lies here,

food for worms,

but the work shall not be lost,

for it will as he believed

appear once more

in a new and more elegant

edition

revised and corrected

by the author.

Franklin explained himself the following way:

When I see nothing annihilated (in the works of God) and not a drop of water wasted, I cannot suspect the annihilation of souls, or believe that he will suffer the daily waste of millions of minds readymade that now exist, and put himself to the continual trouble of making new ones. Thus, finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist: and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.

Edgar Allan Poe

(1809–1849)

We walk about, amid the destinies of our world existence, accompanied by dim but ever present memories of a destiny more vast—very distant in the bygone time an infinitely awful ... We live out a youth peculiarly haunted by such dreams, yet never mistaking them for dreams. As memories we know them. During our youth the distinctness is too clear to deceive us even for a moment. But the doubt of manhood dispels these feelings as illusions. Existence—self existence—existence from all time and to all eternity—seems, up to the epoch of manhood, a normal and unquestionable condition—seems, because it is.

Eureka

Oliver Wendell Holmes

(1809–1894)

Year after year beheld the silent toil

That spread his lustrous coil;

Still, as the spiral grew,

He left the past year’s dwelling for the new,

Stole with soft step its shining archway through,

Built up its idle door,

Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old

no more ...

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul!

As the swift seasons roll!

Leave thy low-vaulted past!

Let each new temple, nobler than the last,

Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,

Till thou at length art free,

Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea.

The Chambered Nautilus

Charles Dickens

(1812–1870)

We have all some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time—of our being surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances—of our knowing perfectly what will be said next, as if we suddenly remembered it!

David Copperfield

Henry David Thoreau

(1817–1862)

We have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven… that eternity which I see in nature I predict for myself also. Like last year’s vegetation our human life but dies down to its root and still puts forth its green blade into eternity. Methinks the hawk that soars so loftily and circles so steadily and apparently without effort, has earned this power by faithfully creeping on the ground as a reptile in a former state of existence ...

I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it and that is no more I than it is you. When the play, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned…

Walden and miscellaneous writings

Walt Whitman

(1819–1892)

I know I am deathless,

I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by a

carpenter’s compass…

And whether I come to my own today or in

ten thousand or ten million years,

I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I

can wait…

To be in any form, what is that?

(Round and round we go, all of us, and ever come back

thither)…

… Believing I shall come again upon the earth after

five thousand years…

The clock indicates the moment—but what does eternity indicate? We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers. There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them. Births have brought us richness and variety, and other births will bring us richness and variety …

I am an acme of things accomplished, and I am encloser

of things to be…

Rise after rise bow the phantoms behind me,

Afar down I see the huge first Nothing, I know I was even there…

Immense have been the preparations for me,

Faithful and friendly the arms that have help’d me…

I tramp a perpetual journey (come listen all!)…

This day before dawn I ascended a hill and look’d at the crowded heaven,

And I said to my spirit, when we become enfolders of those orbs, and the pleasure and knowledge of everything in them, shall we be fill’d and satisfied

then?

And my spirit said, No, we but level that life to pass and

continue beyond …

And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths. (No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.)…

Song of Myself

Henry Ford

(An interview with Henry Ford in the Detroit Times for August 26, 1928 by George Sylvester Viereck.)

"I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. I got the idea from a book by Orlando Smith. Until I discovered this theory I was unsettled and dissatisfied, without a compass, so to speak. When I discovered reincarnation it was as if I had found a universal plan. I realized that there was a chance to work out my ideas.

Time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock. There was time enough to plan and to create. I wouldn’t give five cents for seeing all the world, because I feel there is nothing in the five continents and on the five seas that I have not somehow seen. Somewhere is a master mind sending brain wave messages to us. There is a Great Spirit.

I never did anything by my own volition. I was pushed by invisible forces within and without me. We inherit a native knowledge from a previous existence. Gospel of reincarnation is essence of all knowledge. I do not know where we come from or go to but we accumulate experience. Someday it will be possible to measure the soul. We all retain memories of past lives."

Mohandas K. Gandhi

(1869–1948)

(A letter from Gandhi to a disciple from Life of Mahatma Gandhi, 1950.)

Dear Amiya, I am sorry for your loss, which in reality is no loss. Death is but a sleep and a forgetting. This is such a sweet sleep that the body has not to wake again and the dead load of memory is thrown overboard. So far as I know, happily there is no meeting in the beyond as we have it today. When the isolated drops melt, they share the majesty of the ocean to which they belong. In isolation they die but to meet the ocean again.

Charles A. Lindbergh

(1902–1974)

(An excerpt from Reincarnation: An East-West Anthology by Joseph Head and S. Cranston, 1961.)

Charles Lindbergh’s The Spirit of St. Louis (Scribner, 1953), is far more than a tale of courage and adventure concerning his historic flight across the Atlantic. It reveals the strange dissociation of states of consciousness that went on within himself as the thirty-four hour flight proceeded and he waged a superhuman battle to keep awake. (He had not slept during the night and day preceding.) First, a separation was observed to take place between mind and body—aspects of himself hitherto regarded as indivisible. Overwhelmed with drowsiness the