Influences

A friend of mine recently picked me up for lunch, and as we left my office, we found ourselves at a stoplight that caused us to stop under an overpass. Knowing the inexplicable discomfort I had developed a few years ago about being stopped under an overpass, he crept up as far as he could, as to acknowledge his recollection of my phobia. My hands were already clasping my neck, and I nervously laughed and said, “This has to be from another lifetime!”

I believe I know the source, the fragmented details of which came to me as I was drifting into a meditative state while in New Mexico three years ago. I looked up and saw something coming down on “me-” a bolder? It was dirt colored, and in essence “I” was buried alive. Perhaps this is an influence; a soul memory that is manifesting itself as an irrational fear in this lifetime.

You have an irrational fear. Or something happens; someone makes you feel angry, abandoned, unimportant, or threatened-- you can fill in the blank with any number of emotional responses. You may even think you see the situation clearly for what it is and have every reason to feel the way you feel. Right? The answer is not as simple and straightforward as the quick path an emotional response can take, no doubt complete with full rationalization and justification.

            Not only are our perceptions impacted by a wide variety of factors in the present moment, if we are believers in reincarnation, there are influences across space and time that make their way into our reality. This can happen in any sundry of ways, and we may not be aware of what is influencing us. What is important is to hold in your conscious awareness the understanding that those influences exist, and to adjust your perspective or temper responses when it seems they don’t necessarily make sense.

            As we drove beneath the overpass on the way back to my office after lunch, my friend mentioned his irrational dislike of turquoise, and asked me if I thought it could be an influence from another lifetime. Knowing what I believe to be a portion of our past that was a Tewa lifetime in what is now northern New Mexico, I smiled to myself. “Yes,” I responded. “I believe it is.”

Blessings,

Sheryl


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A Little About My Book

In a nutshell, I visited a location in New Mexico, and it was no universal coincidence. I had some small, but interesting experiences during my brief stay there, but upon returning started having dreams. In these dreams I had vivid experiences from someone else’s perspective. I got names and relationships that I was able to validate with US census data from the 1800’s. In actuality here were three, what I have come to understand as reincarnational existences.

The reason I wrote this story is because I believe that knowing and understanding our multidimensional selves is our birthright. Think about this—we may not be psychics who can set up a table and give readings to other people, but access to ourselves? Yes, that is our birthright.