| About 39 years ago a movie called "On A Clear Day | | | | we know it only exists while we are present on Earth, |
| You Can See Forever" was released in the theaters. It | | | | after we die we are not subject to the linear aspects |
| stared Barbra Streisand as Daisy Gamble and Yves | | | | of time. When we incarnate, our soul can choose a life |
| Montand as the psychiatrist Dr. Marc Chabot. Daisy | | | | in the 18th Century or the 22nd Century depending on |
| had come to Dr. Chabot to be hypnotized to stop | | | | which life provides the best chance for development. In |
| smoking. During the course of the treatment, Daisy | | | | this theory, all lives are lived simultaneously. Each life |
| spontaneously regresses back to Lady Melinda | | | | interacts with all the other lives and is governed by |
| Winifred Waine Tentrees, a seductive 19th century | | | | some interactive Karmic Law. |
| coquette. Dr. Chabot becomes fascinated by this 19th | | | | Dr. Brian Weiss, in his book "Same Soul, Many Bodies", |
| century character and continued to explore the past | | | | discusses future life progression. He explains that our |
| life. The dean of the university with which Dr. Chabot | | | | future lives are variable and how we live now will |
| was associated told Chabot to stop investigating past | | | | determine the type of future life we will have. This, to |
| lives as it was giving the university a bad name. A little | | | | me, appears to be somewhat of a compromise |
| later he returns and tells Chabot to continue with his | | | | between the linear concept of time and the implications |
| research as one of the major benefactors of the | | | | Minkowski's spacetime. Dr. Weiss' position on future |
| university would like to know who he will be in a future | | | | lives is very understandable. We can hypothesize that |
| life so that he can leave his money to his future self. | | | | all lives are lived simultaneously; but, it is very difficult to |
| Can we go forward in time to see a future life? Dr. | | | | imagine. We are creatures of a three dimensional |
| Bruce Goldberg a dentist and hypnotherapist was one | | | | world and imagining a fourth dimension is as difficult for |
| of the first to popularize the concept of future life | | | | us as imagining a third dimension was for the |
| progression in his book "Past Lives, Future Lives". It is | | | | inhabitants of Edwin Abbott's "Flatland". |
| now accepted by most Past Life Regression | | | | It is possible to progress a client forward to a future |
| Therapists that it is possible to progress a client to a | | | | life or regress them back to a past life. It is evident |
| future life. But going forward in time presents us with a | | | | from all the available evidence, that nothing is |
| bit of a quandary. Are all our lives, past and present, | | | | predetermined. It is also theorized that all lives, past, |
| predetermined? How can we know something that | | | | present and future, influence each other in accordance |
| has not yet happened? How can our karma influence | | | | with the Laws of Karma. But, I do not progress my |
| a life that has already been lived? | | | | clients forward to future lives. I know that we in the |
| The West has always viewed time as linear; but the | | | | West are conditioned to think of time as linear. If you |
| East, particularly the Hindus and Buddhist have viewed | | | | go back in time to a miserable life, we view that life as |
| time as cyclical. However, Western science is realizing | | | | done and finished with except for the Karma it may |
| that time is a very real dimension in which we can | | | | carry forward. However, if we go forward in time to |
| travel. Because of Einstein, we often call time the | | | | miserable future life, we feel a sense of impending |
| fourth dimension. Spatial relativity shows that time | | | | dread. You may inappropriately change the way you |
| behaves surprisingly like the three spatial dimensions | | | | live your present life in order to avoid that future life. It |
| and that time expands as speed increases. Time does | | | | is not unlike the person who sees a psychic who tells |
| exist and interacts with us and space in ways stranger | | | | them that they will have an accident next month. |
| than anyone would have thought. "Minkowski | | | | When next month comes, they avoid doing anything |
| spacetime", states that time and space are not | | | | that could lead to an accident. Their unnatural |
| separate entities but intermingle in a four dimensional | | | | avoidance behavior may in fact lead to the accident. |
| space-time. Quantum Physics, which I will not go into | | | | The only time I take people forward in time is to see |
| here, adds more support to time as a dimension. | | | | the winning numbers of a lottery. Unfortunately, so far |
| How does this relate to past lives? Well, since time as | | | | it hasn't worked; but, I am always hopeful! |