Capítulo 11. El Panorama.

 

The BIG Picture

" The only limits to personal insight are self-imposed". (Michael Newton)

 Most people decide to do a regression to gather more information about personal challenges in their lives. But not everyone is focused purely on personal issues. Some people want answers to the big questions in life. They want to know the nature of reality and why humanity is the way it is. A life between lives session is the perfect place to receive these answers.

During your session, you have access to a panel of wise beings. Collectively, these beings are known as the Council of Elders. The Council answers your questions in creative ways so you will receive the understanding you seek.

Before the session, the client writes down a list of questions that he or she wants answered. The client receives the answers from the Council or their guides, and tells me so I can record them. In effect, the questioner is the client and the responder is the Council. Even though some clients doubt that their questions will be answered, these doubts are unfounded. The answers will always be given, nearly always during the session. If they are not given during the session, they will come to the client soon after

In this chapter, we explore some of the answers that have been given to the big questions clients have asked. Of course, these answers will have been tailored to the personality and needs of the questioner. However, useful information about the purpose of our lives on Earth and how the system works can be gleaned from these important interactions.

 Bertu

In the following dialogue, I ask the questions that Bertu has prepared, while Bertu channels the Council’s answers. Because Bertu wanted to know more about the big picture, I also ask probing questions on his behalf.

The Council of Elders gave Bertu the answers he sought, often accompanied with images. The Council said he had incarnated on Earth a thousand times, and that he was three-quarters of the way there.

BEN: What is ‘there’?

COUNCIL: Union with the creator.

BEN: But didn’t we start there? Why do we leave, only to come back?

COUNCIL: It is like putting metal in the fire to make it stronger.

BEN: Why does it need to be stronger?

COUNCIL: It is about the ever-expanding universe.

BEN: Is the universe always expanding?

COUNCIL: Yes.

BEN: What is our role in that?

COUNCIL: The universe cannot expand without what you humans provide.

BEN: Can they help us to understand what we are providing?

COUNCIL: It is energy.

BEN: What sort of energy?

COUNCIL: Stronger energy. More expansive. Increased creation.

BEN: What is creation?

COUNCIL: Expanding the universe.

BEN: Can you elaborate?

COUNCIL: It is about your thoughts, your actions and your experiences. You do things that surprise us. Humans can do new and amazing things, and that is creation.

BEN: Is it just going to expand forever?

COUNCIL: Probably.

BEN: Why is expansion important?

COUNCIL: If you don’t expand, you contract.

BEN: How did it all begin?

The Council responded with silence. Bertu then reported that he was being given an image of a heart with a spider-web around it. I asked the Council to explain the image.

COUNCIL: It’s a big circle. A new soul comes out of the nursery. It experiences life. It finishes reincarnating and then goes back to the original energy source stronger. That keeps the expansion going. Humans are all of that.

BEN: In what way are we stronger?

COUNCIL: It is about knowledge but more than knowledge. It is seeing the interconnectedness of everything. The spider-web represents interconnectedness.

Bertu then reported seeing a massive, three-dimensional web.

COUNCIL: Getting stronger is about your awareness of the interconnectedness. You need to see how an action or thought impacts on the other parts. It is learning how things relate to each other. And this awareness needs to be constant. You need to think before you take any action.

BEN: How do you create with the energy?

COUNCIL: You make your light bigger and you do that with your mind. You think about what you want to create with a lot of intent. Then you can make your creation manifest. You can shape things by intentional thought.

BEN: Is God perfect? Why has this ‘perfect’ God made all these imperfect people?

COUNCIL: It is not about perfection. It is about expansion.

BEN: Where do the guides fit in? Do we become guides?

COUNCIL: The guides help you all to keep expanding. Souls who have incarnated can become guides.

BEN: What about angels? Are they real or are they just other souls?

COUNCIL: They are souls.

BEN: Have they incarnated?

COUNCIL: They are not in between incarnations.

BEN: Angels haven’t incarnated?

COUNCIL: Incarnation is not their job. They are angels. They come to help you. Their energy is white and fresh. They are just different.

BEN: Are they loving?

COUNCIL: They are different to what you know as loving. Protective is a better description. When you hear stories of someone narrowly avoiding a tragedy, then the angels have been involved. Or if you were saved from a situation and then the person who saved you disappears. That was an angel. This happens when you get yourself into something that is not in your plan or you went further than you should have. The angels look after you.

BEN: What are Creators?

COUNCIL: When you have finished incarnating, you can become a Creator.

BEN: Do you mean a Creator of universes?

COUNCIL: When you are finished incarnating you can create your own universe, but it has to fit in with the overall plan.

BEN: Who is the overall planner?

COUNCIL: The energy.

BEN: Is our physical world a virtual reality?

COUNCIL: Yes.

Bertu said he was given a vision of millions of lights, suns and planets, and there were spider-webs connecting them all.

After Bertu came out of the trance, he said the experience of receiving the information could not be fully portrayed in words. He received visions and a deep sense of what the Council meant. He was very satisfied with the wisdom he was given. He said he retained a deep understanding of what our soul journeys are all about.

 

Lilia

Lilia was interested in the plans or contracts we make, at the soul level, before we reincarnate. In her session, she had experienced a past life where she felt she had died prematurely. She was upset because she had not finished her life’s work, and that work had been benefiting many people.

The Council explained that her early death was part of the contract she made before she incarnated. There were good reasons for the early death. The good work she was doing expanded as a consequence of her death. The Council continued:

There can be disagreements between the individual soul and the physical person. The contract is made by the soul. Your physical self might not agree with the contract as you play it out. You, as a human, can get very involved on the earthly plane, too involved. You can get very serious about what you are doing on Earth. You forget that life is just a game. You don’t really die.

Lilia also wanted to know what options in her life she should pursue and what she should avoid. The Council pointed out that some souls reach a level of development where they can relax and trust. Lilia was now at that level. They continued:

At this stage in your development you do not need to take on anything that does not give you joy. Pushing yourself to take on various tasks and overcome obstacles has been important in the past. That was when you were a younger soul. Now you need to trust the opportunities that come to you rather than seeking out specific opportunities. Don’t make things happen. If it is meant to happen, it will happen. Don’t knock on doors that are not easily opened. You can be proactive once the opportunity is there.

To release any feelings of constriction, flow more with the good opportunities that come your way. These will be obvious to you, especially when you are rested, relaxed, open and trusting. Then you are in a more expanded state and can see where to go. Duty is the danger. Don’t act out of duty. Act from the heart.

Lilia wanted to know how she could make her life more joyful. The Council pointed out the importance of letting go of the past. They continued:

Instead of looking for explanations about the past and what you did not understand, you can override the past by realising that all experiences are subjective anyway. Everyone does ‘good’ things and everyone does ‘bad’ things. Everyone makes mistakes, learns and changes course. How you judge yourself is all just a perspective.

When you really, really get it, you know it is all just a game. Then you can change anything in the past. The past doesn’t influence you anymore. At the end of the day, the past is nothing more than multiple points of view. Nothing is concrete. You can change it.

Looking at something differently rewrites it for you. It changes history. When you change your perspective, everything changes. It was as real as it could be in the moment when it happened. But now it is in the past and just a memory. There are many ways of looking at that experience that is now just a memory.

Culture is an accumulation of memories and beliefs. Culture is nothing real. You take on the beliefs of those around you, until you let them go. It is important to initiate change. When you help others you help them change perspective. Change is useful. Remember, nothing is concrete. Everything can be changed. You can rewrite and change it all at any point. You don’t need to be constrained or limited by past experiences.

Lilia had more questions for the Council. Again, I asked on Lilia’s behalf, while she channelled the Council’s answers.

LILY: What forms each life?

COUNCIL: Choice. You choose it all.

LILY: Who is the ‘you’ that does the choosing?

COUNCIL: The soul with many experiences.

LILY: Do we have many lives to gain these experiences?

COUNCIL: Some souls learn fast, some souls learn slowly. It is about the quality of the experience, not the quantity.

LILY: How do we choose our Earth life?

COUNCIL: We help you. After you make your choices, you live them. It is like painting a picture or choosing an avatar in a computer game. You are locked into the choices you made but you are not locked into how you play it.

LILY: Do you help us?

COUNCIL: When you know how to access our support, you can ask for help. You draw what you desire into you. Ask and it will be given.

LILY: Where does this come from?

COUNCIL: You can draw it from anywhere. You draw the energy you need from the greater wisdom.

LILY: If I wanted to be a great musician, could I draw musical ability from a great musician who has passed over?

COUNCIL: Yes. Then you practice your instrument and use the inspiration that comes to you. How you express yourself through that instrument is the key. You learn about expression.

Learning to play music is a tool. It is not important in itself. What is important is the opportunity to express your uniqueness through the music.

LILY: Why do we keep coming back, life after life?

COUNCIL: You ask to come back.

LILY: Has my guide lived on the planet?

COUNCIL: No.

LILY: Is he a part of my soul?

COUNCIL: No.

LILY: What is the role of a guide and how does that system work?

COUNCIL: Your guide is part of a different drama, a different game. He is playing a game too, the game of being a guide.

LILY: What is time?

COUNCIL: There is no such thing. There is only the moment. The idea of time is just a perspective.

LILY: Do we have soul groups?

COUNCIL: People like school trips. They like to experience things together. The people who are with you in a life are part of the choices you made when you planned your life. You decide with whom you incarnate.

 

David

During his life between lives session, David received some general information about the purpose of our lives and what is needed to transcend the cycle of Earth incarnations. You have met David before in two earlier chapters. In the first he experienced a past life as a monk. In the second, he saw the patterns of behavior that unfolded over many lifetimes. Here, David is taken to the library and given a book. This book is about all of his past lives.

My guide and I are walking around, watching people studying in a library. I see there are rows and rows of books.

He feels that I have gone backwards somewhat. He wants to show me some of things I have done. I might be here to study for a while before going back to earth.

Interestingly, David spent two hundred years between his last incarnation in the early eighteenth century and his present life. In this current era, when there is so much opportunity to reincarnate, most souls have a much shorter time between lives, often no more than a decade.

It is good to be back here but I feel a bit disappointed.

We have found the librarian and she is finding my book. My book is now on the table and I am looking at the first page.

It is like a regular book but with holographic pop-ups. As a kid I had those pop-up books but these pop-ups are alive, like watching a 3D movie.

I am told when I started off in physical form I showed great promise.

I am looking at a battle scene. I am a Roman Centurion and we are victorious. I was instrumental in winning these battles.

Now we are turning to the next page. It’s another life.

More battles, but now I am on the other side. On the left page I am fighting in Northern Europe, near Saxony, against the Romans. It is very bloody. On the right page I am in another life, fighting in North Africa. I see elephants. This time, I’m a Roman soldier again.

I see a horrible irony. In one life I fight for one side. Then we die and meet the same foes in the next life. But now you and your old foes have changed sides.

It doesn’t matter who or what you fight for. It is all about the role you take and the way you play with what you are given. That is what determines your true character. It is about how the character perseveres.

As I turn the pages, I see different people and different lives. I am still involved in a military role but now I’m becoming a spy. I died a lot in those early lives by being caught. I got better at spying and I learned to read people.

Then I made a change. I became more of a recluse and lived a more peaceful life. I became more spiritual. I wanted to pay my karmic debts. In the roles I had played as a spy, I betrayed people and I felt a need for atonement.

There are pages and pages of me being in conclaves. I helped people in various lives and various places. Not all of them were in the church.

As I age in each of those roles, I become more influential and I am able to help people. Predominately, I had lives in religious orders but in many different traditions. Often I am born into religious families.

There were a lot of inspiring people in those lives. I became caught up in the idea of transcending the physical and breaking the cycle of incarnation. I wanted to free myself from the physical realm.

My guide is telling me that I can try to shortcut it all if I want but I won’t get the true understanding without the full experience of Earth. One has to undergo the complete journey to fully understand the Earth experience.

He says the experience of many human lives gives us the understanding that allows transcendence. We have to get the lessons from the human lives in the first place, in order to learn how to transcend the physical. There is no point sending you back if you are not going to take advantage of that full experience of Earth.

He also says it’s harder to break patterns of behavior if you do the same thing lifetime after lifetime, such as being a spiritual devotee. You do not progress in your learning if you keep taking the same path.

David lived many lives as a Buddhist monk, trying to achieve enlightenment. He was told that this quest is futile until he has experienced and understood the complete nature of physical life.

In some regressions, people just get a snippet or two of information that is useful. I have decided to share some of these insights with you.

 

Liseo

Liseo experiences a past life on twelve tropical islands where there is great abundance, love and peace. the inhabitants celebrate their lives, feeling great gratitude for all they have and love for one another. In the past life, Liseo dies and meets with a number of light beings.

The guides are saying this past life is to show that the universe will provide. There is no lack. Love is real. Everything else is illusion.

This experience of abundance is for the future children to bring light to the darkness in the world. Light travels to darkness, the darkness doesn’t travel to the light.

The children of those islands bring light to the world. They are now masters, twelve masters from the twelve islands. They fell and came to earth. They came to understand what Earth was like from the human perspective and they did get caught up in the ego experience. They used to fight with each other but they stopped and saw the truth. They came back to knowing that love is the only reality. Everything else is an illusion. This is the message for the world.

Now there is a shift in Liseo. Instead of reporting what he receives, these light beings now speak through him, introducing themselves by saying: ‘We are Twelve. We are One.’

I ask them questions about the past life, who they are and if they have any more messages for us.

Everyone is the message. The message whispers. You don’t find your purpose, you live it. You are finding your true self, finding love.

You can flow. Your fear, desperation and anxieties are against the flow. Suffering comes from resisting the flow.

You all have the same destination. If you go with the flow, the journey is happy. You don’t need all this suffering. Fear is what brings suffering, the fear of letting go of control. Control itself is an illusion. It comes from your ego. There are no mistakes. You can relinquish control and go with the flow. You will all arrive at your destination.

All the suffering is an illusion, just resistance.

At the time of receiving this message, I didn’t fully understand what these high-level beings mean by flow. Now I know that flow means to trust and allow, instead of worrying and fighting whatever is happening. You are in the flow when you know absolutely there are no mistakes, that you are ultimately taken care of and everything that is happening is meant to be happening. There is a larger plan. We humans are not in control and do not need to be.

 

Andrés

During Andrés’s life between lives session, he met the Council of Elders. They looked like judges and wore wigs and rich, red robes.

Andrés was worried because of bad things he had done in his past life as a soldier in the First World War. He thought he might go to hell.

Andrés quickly became aware that he had already judged himself, and the Elders were only playing along with his expectations. Soon their wigs and robes were gone and they were sitting around on leather lounge chairs chatting with him as a colleague. Andrés described this as sharing information.

Andrés mentioned that the Council knew the war was coming decades before it was declared.

Andrés discovered that the personality of a human is made up of many intentions, including the intention of the Council, the parents, the soul itself and many other influences. The soul may not be the prime mover because it might not know enough about its needs. A human is like the project undertaken by a design and implementation team.

Some of the life is planned and much remains simply as possibilities. Possibilities are pruned away by choices as one is drawn in a particular direction.

Any individual can tap into the consciousness of any other person who has lived, if his or her desire is strong enough. Of course, one still has to learn the necessary skills. For example, if you wish to be a pianist, your body and brain need to learn to work together, so you can play the piano well. Then you can access inspiration from any of the great pianists of the past.

The Council said there are many opportunities in this era for people to access the information they need. They can choose to be open or they can choose to be closed. People who choose to be closed can be brutal. There is brutality on Earth and that is available as a choice. Currently Earth life offers a smorgasbord of opportunity.

People can talk themselves up but underneath they are haunted by the shame they have accumulated. They have no balance. More information is not the solution. They need to take the longer view, the expanded view. The roots we have are much deeper than a single entity born in this era.

 

 

Mauricio

Mauricio, who you met earlier, received some advice from his guide after experiencing a life as a soldier in the Second World War, when he had to kill the enemy.

I am being asked how I felt about killing people during the war. I tell my guide I had to do it, but I didn’t like it.

My guide is asking me to compare how that is different to a previous life where I killed out of my own free will.

I felt it was necessary for the greater good in the life of Walter [the soldier], even though I didn’t enjoy it.

She [Mauricio’s guide] is telling me not to be hard on myself for killing the enemy. It was for the greater good. She is telling me that there is a lot of human evolution that needs to take place before we have a true choice. She means that humans have a long way to go before we reach the point where we can refuse to kill.

Everyone will have to be at peace before we have free will about killing.

Mauricio was also given some general advice from the Council about how free will interacts with predetermination.

You plan your lives. For the greater part, you all choose the events you will experience in your lives, although not every eventuality can be predetermined. If you are not involved in the events you need to experience, you will leave the physical realm. You leave when there is no growth or forward movement.

There are other things that can happen apart from your main learning. These may be useful or they may be detrimental. You will just come across them. Sometimes it is the free will of others playing out. Sometimes it is your free will in action.

You choose your life and the probabilities. It is correct that this choice is at a general level. Within that choice there is some room to move when you are physical.

 

Pedro

During his life between lives session, Pedro asked if it is possible to be free while living in a human body. The Council replied:

In a sense, yes. Being tied to a body is difficult for a soul. Go flying to get a sense of what a soul feels like when it is free from a body. Love will set you free. And laughing is good for the soul too.

Many people who experience a life between lives session gain a sense of being without a body. People who have a near death experience feel this too. They often comment on the discomfort of returning to the body. Clients also comment on how heavy they feel after coming out of the trance, having experienced the lightness of being in the higher realms.

The advice from the Council reminds me of my friends who love flying in light aircraft. They report feeling a sense of freedom when they are in the sky. Even more so if doing aerobatics, where they toss the plane around in seemingly boundless space.

 

 

Timing

It seems the timing for a regression is important. Many Newton Institute practitioners discover that when appointments are delayed for some practical reason, the changes in timing are meant to be. During the sessions, we have been told that certain energies need to be in place to achieve the outcomes our client desire.

I do not know a lot about astrology, but I suspect the placement of the planets plays a key role in ensuring the energies are appropriate.

I always trust the timing will be right. If the client requests a time but that is not available, I expect we will find another that is right for the regression.

 

Dimensional Transgression

I have had two clients who said they survived incidents that should have been fatal. Both occurred while driving. One miraculously ‘flew over’ a semi-trailer that had broken down, completely blocking the road. The other blinked as he was driving fast towards the edge of a cliff, only to find he was inexplicably back on the road, continuing forward. Both incidents were witnessed by passengers.

The first client asked about it during his session. He was told this sudden, impossible-seeming shift is called a ‘dimensional transgression’, and it happened to remind him of his divinity. Nothing happens by mistake, they said. All is for the higher good.

 

Earth Changes

Many clients are told they are here to help bring about vibrational changes that are taking place on the planet. The high-level intelligent beings tell us that the Earth energies need to balance. Further inquiries reveal that light needs to balance dark. There will always be dark and there will always be light, and the two need to be in equilibrium.

We are told that the new era—referred to as the Earth Changes—also involves balancing male and female energies. The end of 2012 ushered in a shift, which is a major change for humans. Over the last two thousand years, humans have been greatly influenced by strong masculine energies. As more of the feminine energies come in, people will find it easier to express loving and nurturing thoughts and actions. This will take time but will ultimately help heal the planet.

The people who bring about most change in our lives are not usually high profile, such as those who preach, make the news, or achieve fame. The people who work quietly in the background bring about the most change in our world, particularly positive energetic change.

 

Conclusion

 

When you undertake a life between lives regression, you are given the opportunity to ask many questions. All our clients, save one, have received answers to their questions. In that instance, the client was in a blissful place, and the Council wanted her to integrate those feelings. They said she spent too much time in her head, seeking intellectual answers. They reassured her that the answers will come to her when she most needs them, most likely while she is meditating.

The answers we receive during a life between lives session are not limited to words. Rather, the answers come alive in us. They become part of our lived experience. Clients have to translate this experience into words so it can be recorded for them to access later.

By the time I come to ask my clients’ prepared questions, many have already been answered. The past life, meeting with the guide, and visiting the library or life selection area will have provided much of the information sought.

When it comes to the big picture, the individual is sometimes given other-worldly experiences. For example, one person was drawn into a light that became an enormous cherishing flower. She had tears running down her face as she absorbed so much love she wondered if her circuits would explode.

The answers are always provided to the person who asks. Therefore, they reflect the culture, the beliefs and level of development of each person. Nevertheless, some of the information outlined in this chapter may resonate with you personally. I suggest you take those ideas on board, and leave behind anything that jars.