shared w/ me on FB:
Alex, the psychic medium you interviewed who said we live parallel lives is Julia Assante I believe. As for a soul’s ability to occupy multiple bodies, Dr. Michael Newton’s book “Journey of Souls” deals with that. According to Newton’s findings our earthly bodies only occupy something like 20% of our soul energy, with the other 80% on the other side. According to this theory the only bodies that can contain the full 100% of soul energy on earth would be the likes of Christ or the Buddha.
I loved the show. It felt in some ways like a return to the Skeptiko of old.
My favorite shows, the most illuminating and at the same time most challenging and confusing have been the ones delving into mediumship.
It's funny, but while listening, I was struck by two conflicting emotions.
On the one hand, I felt a sincere trust that what Marisa was conveying was both truthful and compelling. The implications of which run so very deep, and require one to consider how best to approach the task of weeding the conceptual gardens we have built for ourselves about the nature of reality.
On the other hand, I felt a quite strong but vague resistance to some of Marisa's firm conclusions on the information she has gleaned from a source I have no recourse to explore or question on my own.
I was left wondering if my resistance was because of my own personal blind attachment to certain of the traditions I have explored deeply and derived much from over the years. Traditions encompassing both western and eastern mysticism, and in particular where they cross over and seem to blend into one.
It wasn't that any of her assertions or conclusions directly challenged them, but the general sense I got of the landscape she was painting left me struggling to see how I could fit them in.
Her statement that time "moved faster" over there I found challenging. My appreciation for time as a relative construct (relative to the observer) left me floundering as to what she might mean. The fact that those who have crossed over seem to have access to information about our future is profoundly interesting, but "time moving faster" for them does nothing to illuminate the issue. If anything, it confounds it.
I concluded that maybe by saying "time moves faster" she may have been simply trying to convey that it is simply totally different over there. But I could be wrong, and she may be fully confident that it indeed does move faster over there, and I would find this very challenging.
She also said that categorically, we cannot live simultaneous lives, because we can only live one life fully at any one time. Now I also do not believe that we live more than one life at a time, but I cannot rule it out. In this assertion of hers, I was challenged not by the fact that she didn't believe it was possible, but more the fact that I was not convinced by her reasoning. I feel she perhaps did not fully grasp the philosophical boundaries of the issue, neither its possibilities nor limitations - which is fine, and totally understandable - I imagine most people haven't spent too much time twisting their noodles on the physics or the math of the issue.
The only reason this is an issue for me is that I feel I do have a grasp of the philosophical issue (albeit a weak one), and if I accept at face value her assertion, then this would raise more problems for me than it resolves.
I have thought about this in some depth, and see no reason why a soul cannot live a thousand different lives at the same time, or even in the same year (e.g. 1975) and be fully 100% present and exclusive in each one.
It does not require a fragmenting of the soul, or dividing consciousness between multiple different personas. Time seems to be an obstacle only to us down here immersed in the 3 (or 4) dimensional world we are in. Why for example could I not be reincarnated in 1000BC, as easily as 2019AD? Why not be reincarnated twice in 1975, and even meet myself, shake hands, have a relationship with myself.
After death, I might remember both lives.
The idea that 1000AD is sometime way in the distant past is only true for us here in our present in 2019. It is relative. The idea that this "NOW" (2019) is the only one for everyone is not at all implicit. Time truly is relative.
Anyway, I feel her dismissal of the idea was based on a misunderstanding of the implications. Again this is fine as we are not all physicists, but it does leave me as an aspiring map maker of the landscape of reality wondering whether I need to wrestle with this assertion or not.
I also struggled to find any moral imperatives that might be gleaned from the information Marisa provided. The moral question has seemed to me for so long an absolutely pivotal one. Not in any religious fundamentalist fashion, but as a guiding principle. The moral dimension seems to be present in all of the central themes of our lives, not just as a social construct, but as a deeply intuited and felt experience. Empathy, compassion, anger, aggression etc. These colour so much of our lives, and indeed seem often to form the both the foundations and reasons for our lives.
I loved Marisa, and value tremendously all of the information she most graciously shared. I am not at all questioning the veracity of any of what she shared, only the potential implications. After all, shes a medium, not necessarily a philosopher.
Thanks again,
I am so very humbled, challenged and deeply grateful for Marisa's information.