Imagine you have a garage. In that garage are stored lots of tools you have bought over the years. There are hedge clippers you used when you had a hedge, even though now they sit unused in a barrel with some rakes and other gardening implementia. If you move to a house with a hedge, those clippers will still be able to be used when you need them, even though right now you live where you have no need of them.

Same with your old outdated PC, it sits unused gathering dust, but should you be without, it could still be fired up and used in a circumstance that required it.

The data acquired via reincarnation is much like the tools in this garage. It is out of sight and out of mind, yet is there when you need it. When confronted with all sorts of dilemmas and when we call on our inner resourcefulness to deal with them - this is when all those tools can be used, even though now we think we are acquiring them for the first time.

One fellow has a power hedge clipper and the other is still using hand shears. They will have differing abilities when asked to clip a hedge and one will be able to zip through it, while the other will struggle. Yet another has no clippers at all and will be unable to do anything to the hedge except get frustrated.

This is the same way it is in life. All your wits and reason and emotional make-up have roots in this life, but are also reinforced from previous ones. The child prodigys are great examples of this type of thing, but we all have elements that betray our pasts - and more often than not by things we are drawn to.

Everyone must discover these things for themselves though. Using knowledge acquired in previous lives is not a conscious thing - its automatic, because our consciousness now resonates slightly out of phase with countless experiences whose presence, even when out of phase, completely dominate our personalities and thought processes.

All those things that I experience that seem unjust, are quite the opposite and in fact can be beneficial because they are attempting to balance perhaps thousands of out of phase, imbalanced sine waves that are storing experiences from my pasts.

Given the proper tools, a knowledge of what's going on, one can take the bull by the horns and streamline this rectification and balancing process.

Memories of past lives, must be placed out of phase. In a new body we have slightly different conscious fundamental frequency. This conveniently makes most pastlife memories completely out of the range of the conscious mind. The dream world operates in much the same way. It's stored on a different fundamental frequency and so is quickly lost upon awakening unless the track has a strong frequency rooted in our conscious minds.

This is good. If you could remember all your past actions that got you to this point in your evolution, while still in an emotional consciousness, you would likely go insane or have a serious breakdown. Murders, executions, beheadings, leprosy, plagues, tuberculosis, etcetera - if fresh in mind - would lead to horrendous guilt complexes, paranoia, death fixation, hypochondria, unchecked hatred and unrequitted love - and pining for folks long since turned to dust. If you knew who your relatives were, who your wife is, you might be tempted to repeat horrible past actions or run away with the babysitter.

No, it is a blessing you don't remember your past lives. Even remembering bits and pieces can be distressing and have counterproductive influences on this life. Nature has designed reincarnation quite well so that you can better deal with these things without going stark, raving mad.

Why have a new day? Why sleep? Why not just have one long day and then death? Why a million slightly different, yet repetitive performances? Because this is the way we can best learn and evolve. We need sleep because we are creatures of duality we live in the material world - and a 'spiritual' one. We die if we lose this balance between the two. We need to suspend consciousness from the material and when we return we are refreshed and have vigor to begin again - and the same principle is needed for reincarnation. We need far more than one life to successfully evolve. We need to start from scratch otherwise we become one-trick ponies.

It makes perfect sense when one sees the evolutionary process at work. Every person is just slightly discontented with their present state of development and tries harder. Each life gives a fresh opportunity to make amends to our victims and ourselves. To see ourselves without all the baggage which would distort our view and impair new actions. Guilt leads to paralysis of initiative. A clear conscious can encounter the same situation it botched in the past and balance it by doing it right. The past only lurks as a "feeling" or a desire to do the right thing by a "total stranger". Contentedness also leads to paralysis and stagnation. Contentedness is the mortal enemy of evolutionary growth and development. So life makes sure that no man is contented. Death, birth and regeneration are evolution's greatest necessary tools. A man with total recall would never evolve past the aboriginal level. And death allows for a change in physical form to mirror the new change in mind.

All is as it should be. Even your skepticism and introspection are part of the grand equation for evolutionary development.

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