Where Past Lives Are Selected for Recall

I am in a village of terraced houses, in the British Isles a few centuries ago. I have come here to investigate my possible past life connections with a friend. This may be one of a number of excursions I have made overnight, to different landscapes in different times.

    I leave my friend in the village and walk a path towards the woods beyond the fields. The woods are lovely, deep and dark and inviting. But at the edge of the wildwood, something is moving. It is a black snake, slithering across the path, from right to left, at a diagonal. This snake is huge. When its head reaches the other side of the path, it straightens the body to move parallel to the path. I can now see at least twenty feet of its body, and more is coming.
   I hesitate. Though I don’t think this snake is venomous, I’m not sure I want to get any closer. I am ready to turn back, when I see the head of a silver wolf among the shadows of the forest. The wolf is staring intently at me. I recognize a friend, and know it is safe, and maybe essential, to go forward.
   I step over the snake, as if it is merely a garden hose.
   At the instant I do this, I am transported to another level.
   The scene changes completely. I am now in some kind of vessel, like a spaceship or orbiting observation platform. Two men are working the control panels, under huge windows. One remains at his work. The other stands up quickly, to see who has entered their space. He is clearly very surprised to find me here, but also friendly and welcoming.
    I know, before words are exchanged, that this vessel is a “relay station” and that the work of its controllers is to supervise and help to select the past life memories that become accessible to people living on the Earth plane. I understand, in this moment, that it is very important that past life memories are meted out carefully, so that we are not overwhelmed by a rush of information and emotion that could bind or distract us in our present lives.

I woke from this dream excited and full of active curiosity. Silver Wolf is a name I gave to a native shaman who can appear as man or wolf. He once gave me indelible instruction on the nature of various aspects of the soul and what happens to them after death. Black snakes have sometimes featured in my dreams as important boundary markers, between different worlds as well as different states of consciousness. To gain entry to an earlier time and fulfill an assignment in Celtic lands that once seemed urgently important to me, I once had to move beyond a seething mass of black snakes.

                                                        

If you want to know about reincarnation, start by studying how you can rebirth yourself within your present life, and then how you deal with what you were before.
    If you think you are connected to personalities in other times – that you have past lives and future lives – then consider the possibility that it is all going on now and that you can reach to those other possible selves, mind to mind, for mutual benefit.
    Don’t trap yourself in any story, from this life or any other, that binds and confines you. In this moment of Now, you are free to claim a bigger and braver story.
    Try to read the whole pattern from the perspective of your Greater Self, at the hub of all your personalities. 
    You stand at the center of all times. Use that knowledge. 

- Excerpt  from The Boy Who Died and Came Back: Adventures of a Dream Archaeologist in the Multiverse by Robert Moss. Published by New World Library.