Jem Kabbal – Stop Projecting Your Past onto the Present
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Today, we want to distill some of the ideas we’ve been discussing and combine them into a single straightforward concept. You’ve been doing regression work, and you’ve seen how much of who you are now is a recollection of who you used to be. We’ve been working on it in various ways, examining various aspects of it, and now we want to see if we can put it all together.
You begin to notice how much of your subconscious mind is occupied by a dream, and you become aware of how much of this dream you project onto reality. And it’s likely that you occasionally transpose that fantasy into reality. But today I want us to recognize that we are continuously projecting this fantasy, that we are always living in this dream.
We have practically no fresh experiences at this point in our lives. You can meet new people and see new locations, but you are projecting old people and places onto those new people and places. You seldom encounter anything with innocence. You react to circumstances in the same manner you have in the past, making it very hard for you to be spontaneous.
What we’re going to do today is begin working with a method known as intuitive regression, in which we start with an experience from the current moment and trace it back to a memory from our childhood. This indicates, as you will see as you practice this approach, that the feelings we experience most of the time come from the past, not the present. So there’s no sense to get caught up in the feelings if they’re not even from today, but rather from the past.
As we examine these emotions in greater depth, we will see that they are all manifestations of fear. This may appear unusual to you because you are aware that there are times when it is not dread. But it’s both terror and a lack of fear. That may seem like an odd way to explain it, but it is similar to how all colors connect to white, to light. You shine a white, pure light through a prism, and the prism divides that light into the many hues of the rainbow. When you switch out the light, you are left with darkness, or blackness. As a result, all colors are variations of white. Similarly, all emotions are a variety of dread, fear of one sort or another, efforts to avoid fear, and success in that avoidance. But if you look closely, you will notice that they all come down to the same thing: survival anxiety.
As a result, we will push you to learn to be open to the notion that every time you become upset, you should figure out how old you are at the time. What age do you think you are? When you’re down, find out how old you are. You will realize you are in a recollection. When you’re frustrated, find out how old you are, and you’ll realize you’re in a memory.
You’ve been flitting back and forth from one memory to another all day. You are three years old one instant, three months old the next, six months old the next, four years old the next, born the following moment, and so on. Unless you start seeing these movies, you are a victim of your own movies. And if you become conscious that this old dream is still present, and that you are continuously projecting it onto the present, it becomes much simpler to observe, since you will be less interested, less associated.
As a result, you begin to question your identity. If everything you’re experiencing is a memory, you wonder who you’d be if the memory didn’t exist. And this is the start of your spiritual journey to discover who you truly are. This will result in a question mark. Maybe it can’t be replied, maybe it won’t be answered. However, this will be a road to the truth.
Something more will become clear to you when you begin to adopt this strategy. And that is that a feeling exists before there is a cause for it to exist. The closest analogy is when you get up in the morning and, let’s say, you feel dejected – you simply feel defeated. And you’ve just just gotten out of bed, so it’s not the world that’s making you feel defeated, but you do. Perhaps you are aware of it, perhaps you are not. Your rational thinking then responds, “Well, there must be a reason why I feel so defeated.” Then you have a look around. “Well, I’m not getting anywhere at work,” or “My relationship isn’t what I want,” or “I’m not making enough money,” or “I don’t have enough freedom.” But first, there is loss. And then you discover the reason behind it – which, of course, will be the true reason. But you’ll have to lay it on something, or project it onto something. And, of course, you’ll try to project it onto anything in the present. Unless you’ve done some work on yourself, you’ll never suspect it’s a birth memory.
You’ll observe that the sensations come first, and then you’ll discover a cause for them, to explain your sentiments in the present moment. When you realize that your sensations are originating from memories, you will realize that the present moment is not dangerous, is not causing tension, and is not causing these bad sentiments. You will just begin viewing the film and associating with it less and less.
If you see that you are living in a type of regressive condition all day, this does not imply that you have to work with all of these things. Simply observe. We will begin by working with these recollections, tracing a sensation back to its origins. We will do this several times until you begin to know in your gut that this is true, that these sensations are the result of memories. However, after a few instances, it becomes less and less necessary to track everything back in this manner. Because you’ll realize after a time that it’s from the past.
As you observe this play unfolding at the subconscious level and transferring itself into the present, you will become more and more the observer. It will be a fascinating film that you will see, just like any other film. Or you begin to observe yourself in the same manner that you would observe someone else.
It does not imply that you must continually work on reprogramming or deprogramming. This is critical from the outset. And in the beginning, we will be conducting deprogramming and occasionally reprogramming. But this is really for your computer to realize that it is feasible and that the old videos are genuinely harmless. As you see your own dream or movie more and more, it will become less and less essential to work everything back to the roots, because you will already know what will happen. After a while, just being aware of it will be sufficient.
When you feel yourself experiencing a powerful emotion, be as mindful and as conscious as you possibly can. It does not have to be a bad emotion; it may also be a joyful one. When you are feeling strongly, swing the pendulum and ask yourself, “How old am I right now?” or “How old do I feel?” And if you do this often throughout the day, you will begin to notice how much of your time is spent in recollection rather than the present.
This may appear to be really unusual. It just appears unusual because everyone lives in the dream, so it appears normal. And everyone in the dream believes they are awake and in the present moment. So hearing that everyone is dreaming appears to be paradoxical, because everyone has been dreaming that they are awake. When you realize how much of your performance is based on memory, you will become increasingly silent. You will also begin to get increasingly cheerful. Because you will be immersed in the present moment more and more. And you will discover that the moment does not elicit a lot of grief, wrath, frustration, anxiety, greed, or envy.
All of this comes from recollection, memories of a period when we were powerless. And this is crucial. All of these sensations are feelings of helplessness and reliance, or, as I previously stated, feelings of dread – fear of not surviving because we were all born in helpless bodies. As we begin to trace these things back, we will realize that they are built on helplessness, reliance, and the fear of not surviving. At the same time, we will realize that these things are meaningless. Not incorrect, but irrelevant.
If you’ve ever worked on previous incarnations, you’ll know that one of the most lovely aspects of using past lives to become clean is that if something happened in a lifetime when you lived in 1810, you understand there’s nothing you can do about it now. You’re ready to throw it away since it’s no longer there. It makes no difference. You realize it is no longer important since you are living a different life. Because of this, it is quite simple to let go of things that come up during former life sessions. Because you understand you have no control over the situation. You despised your mother in that life; now what? What are your options? That life has passed you by, as has your mother from that life. There is nothing to do; it is now irrelevant. You can let it go.
Your birth recollection is as distant as a former life memory. The you who existed at the time of your birth no longer exists. The mother who existed at the time of your birth no longer exists. The world in which you were born no longer exists. So we must recognize that our recollections of our birth are no longer important. Recollections from this existence are just as irrelevant, dead, and past as memories from a previous life. It would be easier if we could start seeing everything that isn’t right now as a former existence. Yesterday is a bygone life – it is gone. Consider last week to be a prior existence. I no longer identify with it. “I’m not sure who that person was last week,” you say. That was a previous life. “What can I do to help?” Simply let it go.
We need to stop associating with what has happened in the past. We must liberate ourselves from memories and place them in their right context in order to be present in this now. We are not open to reality as long as we are caught up in the dream, as long as we are dreaming. And, as I previously stated, this dream occurs at the subconscious level, which we then project onto reality and the conscious level, leading us to believe we are awake.
However, we are only dreaming. Of course, we perceive the trees and the rain, but we transfer memories of past showers onto that rain. We put sentiments from the past onto the rain. We project our desires and concerns from earlier memories, older memories, onto the rain. We don’t genuinely and completely perceive rain as it is, in an innocent sense, but rather via previous experiences.
We’ll be watching. And as we observe this, we will discover that we become more and more available to the present moment and to others as they truly are. You will also begin to glimpse other people’s dreams. As you become more conscious that you are dreaming, you will find it simpler and easier to understand what other people are dreaming. And this is beneficial because it shows you that there is no reason to be frightened of other people since they are going through virtually the same thing you are – with some variances, but still essentially the same. They are also concerned about their own survival. They also feel weak, powerless, and dependant. It’s simply that everyone compensates in a different way.
Try to change your perspective. Attempt to change your perspective. And be receptive to the dream that is taking place on a subconscious level. Anytime something significant occurs to you during the day, or even something minor, whenever you think of it, use the pendulum to ask yourself, “How old are you right now?” And you’ll notice how much of what you say is from memory. And then you’ll realize that these memories are irrelevant, that it’s good to let them go, and that you’ll be more and more in the here and now.
“I picture myself being in a recollection in the past a lot, and it was an awful anxiety of being empty,” says the questioner.
Jeru: See how this anxiety of being empty does not originate in the present. It is also based on a recollection. It’s understandable, too. Assume you were born with some long underwear, and as you grow older, the long underwear becomes increasingly frayed, but you are so attached to it, and you have lived with it for so long, that you want to retain it. So you are completely connected with something as a youngster, and as you get older and become an adult. You’re continually patching it up, clinging on to it, and even though it’s a mess, dirty, stinky, and unpleasant, you’re so linked with it that you believe you’ll die if you let go. You’ve forgotten it’s not you. You’ve forgotten that this item was handed to you and that it was placed on you. “Well, your problem is only old, dirty long underwear,” someone would remark, and a part of you will answer, “Yes, but I can’t give it up.” What will I become if I give up that? Who am I if I give up that? What will happen to me if I abandon it? I could vanish. Perhaps it’s my long underwear that’s keeping me together.”
This sensation is completely normal, reasonable, and understandable. However, you must determine the source of the emotion. It’s not coming from the truth. It’s not grounded in reality. Do you believe that if someone else gave up their defenses, they would truly vanish? But a part of you fears that you will vanish. That’s how it is.
However, this is the case. We can observe where it’s OK for others to give up their old protection systems, and where they won’t literally disappear if they do. But our subconscious screams that if I do that, I would vanish, since who am I if I don’t wear my armor? What happens if I don’t wear the armor? Of sure, it’s an excellent question. But discovering who we will be after we remove the armor is half of the excitement.
Once you begin to let go of the notion that “I can’t take care of myself,” you will see that you are taking care of yourself. From this state of tranquility, you may view nature and existence more clearly. When you do this, you will see that it is quite benevolent. You will notice how the cosmos supports everything in it, including yourself. Then you gradually gain confidence. You might begin to believe that if you relax, everything will be OK.
This can result through gazing, especially intelligent looking. Not by convincing yourself of something, but just by looking intelligently. Recognizing that your heart is already beating is highly vital, much more important than money in the bank. You can have money in the bank, but it won’t help you if your heart isn’t pounding. If you look closely, you will notice that Existence is breathing for you even when you are sleeping. It digests your food, generates energy for you, and has provided you with intelligence. You begin to realize how much Existence is already looking for you.
When you begin to recognize these things, it becomes simpler to trust more and more, to relax more and more with what is. You may progressively let rid of these protection mechanisms when you realize they aren’t serving you. These protective systems are not assisting you; rather, they are impeding you. Attempting to hold on to them would be like trying to swim while wearing a hefty suit of armor. Or imagine attempting to dance and be lovely and elegant while carrying eighty pounds of iron.
Letting go becomes simpler when we look at these things more closely. It’s not something you have to work hard at. The only actual work necessary is awareness, or just paying attention to what is going on. That is the only thing that necessitates any type of effort. Change may occur just by watching.
“What if you are hooked to excitement and learn to recognize the stillness that is slowly engulfing everyone here?” When I enter into the dining room, everyone is quiet. It gives me pause. In other words, I enjoy suspense. “How will you participate in the program?”
Jeru: Let’s start by tracing the origins of this need for excitement. That is the most crucial aspect. Where did you obtain the notion that you require excitement? You see, you need to know how old you were at the time and what was going on. You’ll discover that your helplessness and reliance at the time had a significant role in whatever was going on. Maybe you felt safest when something interesting was going on in the family, because it was the only time you had people around you. Or when there was excitement, it was the only moment when someone was truly looking after you. There are several explanations for this. But the most essential thing is for you to look at it and figure out what dream you are dreaming. Attempting to cope with this on a reasonable, aware level will fail. It’s not enough to remark, “I’m hooked to excitement.” You must determine why your system believes you require stimulation. There will be a solid cause for it to be discovered in your childhood.
“Do you start by asking how old you are, and then ask what’s going on?”
Jeru: That is the approach we will demonstrate today, the intuitive regression technique. You can use it whenever you feel the desire for excitement to feel alive. There are many people like this; it’s pretty common. It’s not at all rare. Find out how old you were when you had this notion, what the conditions were, and why you thought it was important. You will undoubtedly discover that it made perfect sense at the time. You will also notice that the important parts that were before present have vanished. In fact, everything about that event has vanished. Even the world in which it existed no longer exists; it is now a separate planet.
“I know this is my reasoning mind speaking, but it’s as if I’m seeing it as zombies vs life.”
Jeru: You’ll just have to think back on your experience. I’m guessing that’s how you perceive things. Consider your own experience.
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