The Kairos

I cannot explain my behavior from anything I experienced in this lifetime. However, I had these “memories” of what I thought was a “past life” as a merchant marine, sailing back and forth from Boston to the Mediterranean in the early 1900’s. There’s no question in my mind the knowledge and expertise I had in “that life” was accessible to me in this life when I needed and wanted it.

But if there is no “past” and therefore no “past lives” – if we are making up our past in the present – how can I explain this behavior? How could I know how to sail such a ship with virtually no experience?

There is another explanation, one that aligns nicely with quantum physics.

Physicist Fred Alan Wolf wrote a book called Parallel Universes: The Search for Other Worlds; and there is a major theory within quantum physics called the “Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI).”

“Many-worlds claims to resolve all the paradoxes of quantum theory since every possible outcome to every event defines or exists in its own ‘history’ or ‘world.’ In layman's terms, this means that there is a very large, perhaps infinite, number of universes and that everything that could possibly happen in our universe (but doesn't) does happen in some other universe(s)…. Prior to ‘many worlds,’ this [universe] had been viewed as a single ‘world-line.’ Many-worlds rather views it as a many-branched tree where every possible branch of history is realized.”4

Fred Alan Wolf said…

“What is a parallel universe? Like an everyday universe it is a region of space and time containing matter, galaxies, stars, planets and living beings. In other words, a parallel universe is similar and possibly even a duplicate of our own universe. Not only in a parallel universe must there be other human beings, but these may be human beings who are exact duplicates of ourselves and who are connected to ourselves through mechanisms only explainable using quantum physics concepts…. The possibility exists that parallel universes may be extremely close to us, perhaps only atomic dimensions away but perhaps in a higher dimension of space – an extension into what physicists call superspace. Modern neuroscience through the study of altered states of awareness, schizophrenia, and lucid dreaming could be indications of the closeness of parallel worlds to our own.”5

In other words, there is speculation among very prominent and respected quantum physicists that other worlds might exist simultaneously with our world, and that we might have a connection to them. This opens to the door to a fascinating theory about past lives….

I talked in Chapter Twenty-Six about the possibility an Infinite I could have many Players representing it in many different Games, or even within one Game, at one time. What if the “past lives” we think we remember are not “past” at all, but happening now, in a parallel universe? What if an Infinite I wanted to experience a number of different times and places in the Human Game and created separate Players for those times and places? And what if we, as Players in this space and time, had access to those other Players in other spaces and times, and could receive information about them and from them through the conduit of a mutual Infinite I?

I understand now that my life as a merchant marine was not a “past life” at all, but a simultaneous life going on in a parallel universe, and that the merchant marine is a Player just like me, but in a different time and space; and he and I share the same Infinite I. From my perspective it seems like I was able to tap into his life via our common Infinite I and bring the information I needed through into mine.

I have other examples as well from my own experience about the “many-worlds interpretation” of quantum physics. But first I will relate a story about Jane Roberts who channeled the entity known as Seth.6 Apparently one day while Jane was in her trance and Seth was speaking, someone showed Seth a picture of Jane when she was about twelve years old and asked if this was the Jane Roberts who was sitting in front of them at that time. Seth said No, it was a picture of the Jane Roberts who had gone on to become a nun. Seth explained that Jane had been torn about her future when she was young, and part of her wanted to follow a strict religious training. At the point of decision, “one Jane” went into another universe and became a nun, and the Jane that was in front of the group “stayed” in this universe, according to Seth.

My own experience was when I had to make a decision to go into the Army and to Vietnam, or go to jail as a protestor. I really wanted to go to jail, to stand on my principles and register my opposition to the war. But my fiancé and my mother weren’t too keen on the idea, and I wound up volunteering to become a Physician’s Assistant in the Army (to make sure I never had to kill anyone). I now am certain there is a Stephen Davis in another universe who went to jail instead, living out his life based on that decision. Once I made one choice, the other choice played out in another “world.”

And why not? The whole point of the Human Game is for an Infinite I to have as many experiences as possible of what it feels like to be limited in power and joy and wisdom and abundance and love. Why shouldn’t an Infinite I have many Players in the Game at one time? Why shouldn’t an Infinite I explore all the various options that arise in the course of the Game for any particular Player in many different simultaneous, parallel worlds?

The “many-worlds interpretation” basically says all possibilities occur, in one universe or another, and Seth says – especially when faced with a life-changing decision – both alternatives continue in parallel universes.

But perhaps the most interesting part of this is the possibility of communication between the various Players. As we progress inside the cocoon and restore conscious communication with our Infinite I, will we have greater access to all the Players who share our Infinite I by leaving behind the judgments and beliefs that currently block that communication? It’s no wonder access was limited during the first half of the Game; but now that we’re heading away from limitation, who knows what’s possible.

The bottom line is that it’s very likely your Infinite I has many Players in many universes – including many Players in the Human Game at many different times and places – and that what we have been calling “past lives” are actually “present lives” occurring simultaneously.

This, of course, would completely change the idea of “past lives” being some kind of progression of identities from which we are supposed to learn “lessons,” which naturally brings up the question of Karma….

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MOVIE SUGGESTION: Sliding Doors, with Gwyneth Paltrow (1998)