Soul Agreements

Buch-Excerpt: chapter One

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A Changed New York Skyline

      ?Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.?
                                                     ?Napoleon Bonaparte

     Explorations of destiny are often part of the seminars and workshops Tara and I conduct around the world. ?A changed New York skyline? was the primary millennium vision perceived by the participants in the ?New Day Seminar??conducted in six California cities in 1997 and a five-day seminar in Missoula, Montana, April 1998. One hundred forty attendees at the Los Angeles Whole Life Expo workshop, November 1997, also reported their visions, in addition to those who participated in the January 1998 ?Millennium Projection Research Project.? (For a nominal fee, readers of our newsletter were sent a Hypnotic Progression tape, which instructed them to psychically perceive the future.)
     I believe we view the future clairvoyantly by stepping outside of time and space, or by tapping into the collective unconscious and perceiving how present potentials are destined to manifest. In seminars, I have also directed participants to perceive the future with remote viewing techniques, but even the most renowned remote viewers now use the words clairvoyant and remote viewing interchangeably. 
     In the seminars, workshops, and research project, the hypnotized subjects mentally projected forward to New York City in time increments from 2000 to 2012. In each jump forward in time, they were to explore New York, then scan the rest of the world, before returning to explore conditions in the area in which they each lived. Each participant then filled out a report about the future they envisioned. The results of these explorations were reported in Soaring Spirit magazine #70, September 1998.
     Several hundred people participated, and the predominant psychic observation was a changed New York skyline. A typical response was, ?I see the Manhattan skyline changed. Part of the island is no longer there because of terrorist attacks and explosions.? At least 10 percent of the respondents reported terrorism to come. Several people reported specifically on ?Muslim terrorist attacks.? Others talked about people walking through the streets of the city in snow that wasn?t cold. This seems to be a clear reference to the ashes.
     Was the attack on the World Trade Center a fated event?
     Michael Drosnin, author of The Bible Code and Bible Code II: The Countdown, thinks so. Renowned Israeli mathematician Dr. Eliyahu Rips broke a code in the earliest edition of the Hebrew Bible and presented his work in a major science journal. The code, dating back 3,000 years, was confirmed by mathematicians around the world, including a senior code-breaker at the top secret U.S. National Security Agency. Upon hearing about the code, Drosnin, a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, began a five-year investigation. The code predicted both Kennedy assassinations, the Oklahoma City bombing, the moon landing, and everything from World War II to Watergate, and from the Holocaust to Hiroshima.
     Drosnin discovered that the Bible code even predicted the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. He personally warned the prime minister of the conditions surrounding the slaying. The warning was disregarded, and the assassination happened, as predicted, when predicted.
     On September 11, 2001, Drosnin was awakened by the sound of the first jumbo jet exploding into the World Trade Center. He ran up to the roof of his Lower Manhattan apartment building just in time to see the second plane fly into the second tower. He watched as the towers collapsed. ?My mind could not take in the scale of the destruction my eyes had seen. It was on a scale only captured in biblical prophecy.
     ?I ran down from the roof and immediately searched the ancient code on my computer, the Bible code. It was the one place I might find confirmation of the full danger and a revelation of what was yet to come.?
     Drosnin quickly found that ?twin towers? was encoded by the word ?airplane.? Crossing those words in the text was the message, ?It caused to fall, knocked down.? These were coded words from 3,000 years before. The author discovered other related encryption including, ?Sin, crime of Bin Laden,? ?They saw smoke rising above the land like the smoke of a furnace,? ?Terrorist Atta,? and ?Egyptian man.?
     Mohammed Atta was the pilot of the first plane to hit the towers.
     Moving from fact to fiction, in his book Illusions, Richard Bach talks about life as a movie. Reluctant Messiah Donald Shimoda says, ?. . . the world?s best movie is still an illusion, is it not? The pictures aren?t even moving, they only appear to move.? A movie is like a lifetime, but Donald wonders why anyone would attend a horror film. Shimoda explains that those attending feel they deserve to be horrified?to be unhappy.
     ?You can hold a reel of film in your hands, and it?s all finished and complete?beginning, middle, end are all there that same second, the same millionths of a second. The film exists beyond the time that it records, and if you know what the movie is, you know generally what?s going to happen before you walk into the theater; there?s going to be battles and excitement, winners and losers, romance, disaster; you know that?s all going to be there. But in order to get caught up and swept away in it, in order to enjoy it to its most, you have to put it in a projector and let it go through the lens minute by minute . . . any illusion requires space and time to be experienced. So you pay your nickel and you get your ticket and you settle down and forget what?s going on outside the theater and the movie begins for you.?
     Maybe we?re all watching a movie that was written, produced, directed, and filmed a long time ago. Maybe in the instant our source created the spark that created the universe, everything was destined to be.
     Maybe.
     When Einstein came up with the equation E=mc2, he informed the world that matter is energy. The scientific community quickly verified his findings. This means that all the metal, plastic, and wood surrounding you is not solid. What appears solid is actually made up of swirling molecules temporarily molded in their current patterns and vibrating at the rates of metal, plastic, and wood.
     Everything on Earth, including the Earth itself, breaks down into subatomic particles, which means matter is energy. Our world and everything in it is not what it appears to be. Nothing is solid. Everything is energy. Your body is energy . . . and energy is nonphysical in nature.
     Cutting-edge physicists are now saying our reality appears to be more like a ?thought form? than anything else. This fact does not surprise the mystics who always said we live in a world of illusion.
     Here we are vibrating within a particular range. Imagine a radio dial. We?re at 99.5 but there may be another reality at 101.2 and another at 103.6. Think of how many audio programs are flowing through your room right now. With a radio, you can listen to one after another. Einstein and many other scientists believe different realities coexist in the same space on different frequencies, just as the different stations play in the same space at the same time.
     In the early 1970s, I studied informally with Navajo shaman David Paladin. David was an acclaimed artist and a student of all things mystical. He said that depending upon the circumstances, we can exist in more than one frequency at one time. ?I died last night,? he once told me. ?I had a heart attack in another reality, and Lynda and the children are mourning me. But I?m still here interacting with them in this reality.?
     Maybe the World Trade Center is still standing in another frequency of time and space? Maybe the people who died in the airplanes crashed by terrorists are still alive in another reality?
     The idea of a group of people being drawn together for a rendezvous with death captivated me as a teenager upon reading a 1957 book titled Many Wonderful Things by Robert W. Huffman and Irene Specht. The book described a series of hypnotic experiments carried out over a period of two years. The authors felt they had uncovered evidence that man has a ?third? mind?a God mind?a part of God within the self. Much of the book consists of questions asked of a deeply hypnotized subject who responds with enlightened answers.
     When asked if an airline crash is destined, the subject says, ?The passengers have created this situation, this learning, this understanding, through their own learning and mistakes. But we make death a horror, a fear, a punishment . . . no, no! It is a true and joyous release . . . and resting time.?
The hypnotized subject goes on to explain, ?They [the passengers] would be drawn together to learn together. But God does not predetermine these things. We have done so by our mistakes, our errors, our learning.?
     If this is so, were the events, mistakes, or learning requirements that caused people to board the September 11 airplanes actually set in motion thousands of years ago?
     Fate is a destiny created by oneself, which is inevitable and unavoidable, due to one?s own karma. Karma is the principle that makes you the cause of all your life circumstances, resulting from your past activities, thoughts, and emotions throughout all your incarnations.
     In looking at karma, Dharma, and destiny, Mahatma Gandhi used the analogy of a card game. Your karma is the hand of cards you?re dealt. Your Dharma is how you play the cards. Dharma is commonly considered to be your duty to self and to society. One set of cards appears to be luckier than another set. This would be determined by the karma the person has earned and wants to work on.
     A common view of predestination says the river of life is carrying us in a particular direction. We can swim over to the left bank, or to the right, or we can catch the swifter current in the middle of the river. We can even decide to fight the flow and swim back upstream for awhile. But eventually, we?re going to end up in the sea.
     Another view states that the free will of today is the determinism of tomorrow. Let?s say you go to the airport and hundreds of destinations are available to you. You have the free will to choose where you want to go. Once you decide on Los Angeles, buy your ticket, and board the plane, you?ll end up in Los Angeles. You?ll then have to accept the consequences of your decision.
     More than one astrologer has told me, ?We live our lives day to day as if we had choices. We choose to do this or do that, while all the time, the outcome has already been determined. Fate will intervene to assure we end up where we are destined to be, doing what we?re destined to be doing, with whom we?re destined to be with.?
     And the purpose of reincarnating over and over again, playing this game of life over and over again, is to attain a higher state of consciousness. With that goal in mind, I will share the story of a reporter who once asked Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, ?How does the world look in the highest state of consciousness??
     ?You see that everything is exactly as it should be,? said Maharishi.
     The reporter hesitated before asking, ?But why then are you working so hard to improve the situation??
     Maharishi smiled. ?Because that is exactly as it should be.?