Karma, Memory, and Imagination

Life is indeed a "test," most of the time. A favorite teaching-phrase is, "Earth is a prison, a school, or a playground. Which one it becomes most often in your life is largely up to you."

Experience is valuable even when your conscious mind does not remember it. How much do you remember about yourself between ages two to four? Yet during those largely memory-irretrievable years, you learned to walk and talk-- skills that were implanted in your mind, even without memory.

And you still use them every day. Experience creates changes in, leaves traces upon, the unconscious Mind (Soul and Spirit).

Specifically, we have all come to this little planet to learn and to polish the art of unconditional Love. This must begin with genuine Love for yourself, which is never arrogance or egotism. No one that we meet on earth is a true "stranger," in the cosmic sense.

How can you get access to memories from previous lifexperiences? They are not usually crystal-clear, like those of what you did yesterday, for example. Instead, the larger life of "polybiography" is more like a puzzle. You try to get to know yourself better. You analyze your likes and dislikes, your thought-patterns, your dreams. In time, and this is gradual, you begin to piece everything together. Sometimes, you are not certain whether a "karmic memory," one from a pastlife, is a true memory, or merely imagination. With tongue half in cheek, we call this explorationprocess "imaginemory.":) But keep in mind that even imagination does NOT come from nowhere. Why you imagine A instead of B is usually relevant to your past. You can also learn, if you are interested, a technique called "guided visualization," which can provide important clues.