Gnosis in a Hundred PagesPage 64 of 100 · Part IV

Part IV · The other half of life

Remembering earlier lives

The way back to earlier lives begins with this one. The evening review, carried further back, opens the memory a little at a time.

Read to me

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An old photograph album open on a table at night, beside a candle.

Many people are curious about past lives. The tradition takes them seriously, and it teaches a sober way to look.

It does not begin with a past life. It begins with yesterday. The evening review walks the day backward, scene by scene. This practice carries the same walk much further back.

Lie down relaxed and still, at the edge of sleep, when the mind is quiet. Go back through the day, then the week, then the years: your last birthday, a home you lived in, your school, your earliest memory. Do not hurry. Each memory opens the one before it. When you reach your earliest years, go further, gently, without forcing a picture.

The books give two words to help: RAOM GAOM. Each is said in two syllables, with the O drawn out. They compare the words to a miner’s dynamite, opening a way into what is buried.

The obstacle is not the method. It is the selves. They keep you living in the same repeated scenes, and they cover what lies underneath. As they thin, memory clears.

Be patient and honest. Write down only what actually comes, and do not build stories around it. A real memory is quieter than imagination, and it usually teaches something about this life.

Try this

  1. Tonight, lie down relaxed and still.
  2. Review the day backward, and then the past week.
  3. Go back through the years toward your earliest memory, slowly, a few scenes at each stage.
  4. As you go, sound inwardly: RA-OOM, GA-OOM.
  5. The first time, stop at your earliest childhood. Go further only on a later night, once that is clear.

If painful memories surface, stop, open your eyes and come back to the present. If they stay with you, talk with a counselor.

Words on this page

Retrospection
Looking back over your life in order; the evening review, carried further.

In the old words

“These mantras are for the student what dynamite is for the miner.”

Dream YogaSamael Aun Weor
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