Someone asked whether I have past life memories and if so, how do I know? This was my answer, thought I would share it here to see what comments get evoked!!
I have considerable and varied pastlife memories. How do I "know" they are memories? The same way I "know" my memory of breakfast is a memory. And, to some extent, since memories are subject to error, there can be errors, mistaking imaginings for memories. But generally they do feel different, to me.
Some of the memories came spontaneously, and some were "triggered" by people helping me in my spiritual growth.
The more interesting question is "What good are they? Do they benefit at all?" For me, the main benefit is that I can see how present-life issues fit a larger pattern, and that really does make the issue with its illusions easier to let go of. With 15 widely differing examples of a pattern instead of 6 from this lifetime, for example, it's easier to see the illusion involved, and harvest its wisdom by seeing the corresponding Higher Truth, thus transcending the illusion, letting it go.
Also, while some people seem to seek pride from past-life identities, for me they have generated nothing but a profound humility....
Having past-life memories also helps us break our identity with this embodiment and this mind, which helps us realize Who we Are.
It also helps us have compassion for "perpetrators," as we remember we have been on both sides, actually on ALL sides of the victim-perpetrator-rescuer triangle, so it helps us transcend those perspectives into Compassion and a clearer realization of what human life is all about, why things happen.
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October 2009 
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