“recognized” the other, and based how our relationship
developed from there on, I am pretty sure we have some past
life connection.
Now I have heard that in these cases when people meet and
feel like they belong together, it may be because they have
some past life bad karma between them, that family members
or intense relationships usually hold some issues to be
straightened out, or it might just be the case of “soul
mates” who live toghether from life to life.
I have an issue with jealousy. Her past relationship which
bothers me to no end. Let it be said that she is the most
integrous woman I have met, honest and truthful, so I
believe that there seems to be no reason for my “intuitive
jealousy” (she is not connected to this guy any more in any
way), but this relationship still bothers me. For no
apparent reason.
When she told me about it, I felt betrayed and felt like I
had been harmed in this, even though both of these people
were in no way connected to me at the time, totally unknown
to me, and I have no reason to feel like this.. I got the
feeling that the guy might have done something bad me in my
previous lives (got me killed or jailed or something, so he
could live together with my girl — that is the feeling I
got from that. And I must say that my intuition works quite
well. I have found out before that if something bothers me
for no apparent reason that usually there is some reason
behind that.
Then I had this dream where her previous boyfriend opened a
door and stood in the doorway of and old log farmhouse and
there he said with a ironical smirk and tone something like
– “At the present you don’t much appreciate the help of the
swedes but in 1642; or 48 or 24 (I don’t remember the exact
dates) you had no qualms about it.” I looked it up and in
that period in Estonia began “the Swedish period” – the
swedes invaded. So in my dream, the guy named the date of
which I had on idea.
Combining this all, how we met, my intuitions, dreams and
feelings about it, I am quite sure there is definitely some
heavy karmic issue happening here with me and my girl and
possibly this other guy.
Rationally, looking at it, I am acting like a total psycho
about it, as there is no logical or apparent reason for my
jealousy, but even before I knew this other guys connection
with her, I didn’t like the guy; I remember, the first time
I heard of his existence, not knowing anything about his
past, I shook my fist and said I hated these sorts of guys.
Now I am trying to find out about previous lives and that is
why I am posting this question about good and bad past
lifetime karma, maybe you have some clues to offer me?
>>>COMMENTS:
The mind loves to infer meaning and significance where there
is none to be found. In fact, nothing means anything.
I will repeat:
Nothing means anything.
This discovery results in a huge sigh of relief.
All inference of meaning is a projection from the ego/mind.
It is a fantasy, an illusion, a fallacy.
Your jealousy simply means that you’re in a state of
jealousy. Nothing more. To add more meaning to this is to
take yourself far away from Reality and into suffering,
confusion, and deeper into the house of mirrors of the
mind.
A thing is its own meaning and significance. To be a dog
means “to be a dog.” To be fearful means that you’re fearful.
The meaning of a chair is the chair itself — nothing more.
Anything more than this creates illusion, and illusion leads
to confusion & needless suffering.
PAST LIFE KARMA
While research into past lives can be informative and
entertaining, it is often a narcissistic self-indulgence. It
becomes all about ‘me’ and ‘my’ past lives, which then
become glamorized, special, and important.
The whole thing can be seen as a distraction from The
Eternal Now.
If you want to know about your past lives, just watch the
History Channel. Witness and Observe the collective ego of
mankind doing what it does; your ego is the same ego. This
is pretty much all that’s needed to know about “past
lives.” Or, watch the Daily News. It is your own ego that
is “out there”, doing what the ego does.
What does it all mean?
Nothing 
It’s just a bunch of ego’s doing what ego’s are supposed
to be doing — maiming, killing, slaughtering, dramatizing,
controlling, and f*cking with one another. The ego-animal
brains and bodies are simply doing what ego-animal brains
and bodies do. And none of it “means” something else.
If you watch the History Channel or the Daily News, it is
all the same. The past, present, and future are simply
arbitrarily selected mental focal points of perception, and
not Reality.
In actuality, there is no ‘Now’, there is only what can be
usefully described as Eternal Foreverness.
JEALOUSY AND PARANOIA
The ego/mind is jealous and paranoid by design.
It wants to discover the “cause” of your jealousy, but there
is no “cause” of jealousy in the same way that there is no
“cause” of gravity.
Jealousy simply is.
Your jealousy could be an intuition that someone you love is
not ‘playing with a full deck of cards’ and you might want
to keep a watchful eye on them. Or, it could be paranoia
based on projections of your own lust. (Perhaps it is a
little of both.)
The solution won’t likely be found in past lives. Whatever
happened in 1602 can stay in 1602; perhaps the best part of
past lives is that they are over. If you watch the History
Channel, you’ll be glad history is over.
Past lives to not “cause” the issues you experience in this
life, just as childhood memories do not “cause” the personality
that exists today.
Jealousy is an energy field of consciousness, and one either
identifies with that field, or learns to rise above and beyond it,
so to speak.
AVOID “NEW AGE”
Watch out for ‘New Age’ pseudo-spirituality. It will have you
obsessing over past lives, wanting psychic readings,
listening to ‘channellers’ and trying to speak with angels.
It will have you worried about the alignment of the planets;
it will have you placing crystals all over your house so that
“dark entities” won’t come and “drain” you. It is all a
childish diversion and a distraction from doing real spiritual
work and enjoying the resulting true healing, which can only
take place right Now.
THE ‘NOW’
Although there is no “Now”, it is a simple word that can
be useful to the human mind in assisting it to locate the
Eternal Forever. The Now is like a doorway into Timelessness,
if you will.
So how does one find, or locate, The Now and surrender to it,
rather than to the often-annoying ego/mind and incessant
thinkingness?
Spiritual aspirants all over the world are squinting their
eyes and squirming to find it; they struggle and try to
force it to happen.
and effortlessly in learning the art of Witnessing:
http://www.ideagasms.net/into-the-field-of-consciousness/
Jealousy, paranoia, and other “problems” can simply be
Witnessed. Another way of saying this is when you learn to
love the “unlovable”, you’ll heal it. Thanks for your
question.
Many Blessings,
Stephane Hemon
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