--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jpgillam" <jpgil...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > one of the reasons > > I like the "multiple realities" theory is that it > > helps to explain subjective experiences that I and > > others have had of "past life flashbacks." > > > > Interestingly, when such flashbacks occur, at least > > to me, the subjective experience of them is *not* > > that they happened in the past and I am "remembering" > > them. It's that they are happening Right Here, Right > > Now, and that for some reason I am just tapping into > > them, as if I had accessed a separate-but-equal > > timeline which is still going on. > > > > Surely you've heard raps from physics or the New Age > > about the theory that time does not exist, and that > > everything is happening at once in an eternal Now. > > According to such theories, time is the illusion. > > > > This is *exactly* what the "past life flashbacks" > > that I and many friends I know who have had similar > > flashbacks feels like. It feels as if we have some- > > how "shifted timelines" and are experiencing Right > > Here Right Now something that *theoretically* may > > have happened in the past, but *feels* as if it > > is still happening. > > My mother once described two such experiences to me. > I wonder if she had others? > > Thanks for the description. I had not realized they > were as common as you present them to be.
I don't know about "common." I've known maybe about a dozen people whose description of such flashbacks maps to my own experience of them. For us, it's really not as if we're "remembering" anything. We're *there*, experiencing it. I look through the eyes of whoever is experiencing what- ever the fuck it is, and can see, touch, taste, smell, and feel all the things that person sees, touches, tastes, smells, and feels. I can interact with other people and have them respond "real time" as if they have heard me and are replying. It's really weird and I have no earthly idea what it is. Because all of these experiences for me have been in what appears to be Earth's past, I think of them as "past-life flashbacks." But a couple of my friends have such experiences set in a futuristic cityscape. Go figure. ------------------------------------ To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:fairfieldlife-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: fairfieldlife-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
