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Pallavi Guptaa - July 25, 2006

Snot Apple

Snot Apple.
It’s a fruit. A good fruit in Botswana- once you get past the slimy texture.

I participated in a past life regression workshop recently. What has snot apple in common with past life regression? It’s slimy texture, naturally. The two day worshop, conducted by Dr. Newton and his wife, Laxmi (their smiles can make you question your ambitions) changed my life in a permanant kind of way, without any commitment from my side except the curious open mind.

There is a school of thought that says we have many lives, that we are in continual and that we never die. This school goes under many names- from Hindusism to Dr. Weiss. It does not matter. The fact is, that is is believed to be a truth. When I meet someone like Dr. Newton (who is also a student of Dr. Brian Weiss), my ignorance is so high that my mind is blemished with skepticism and suspiciousness and I think I know better. It’s funny how the mind tricks you to believe you are smarter when you are at the peak of your ignorance of a subject-n and how calm and rested it becomes when it knows. As Ramtha would say, the eye does not see because the brain does not know it yet. But then, I wouldn’t know Ramtha without new knowledge. (And that would be such a pity)

So what did this past life regression workshop do for me? Yes, it got me closer to Ramtha for one. But as the as the name suggests, it is about regressing- into your past life: present past of this lifetime or the past of another. I did not reach the latter. Perhaps I had so many things to understand about the process of deep meditation, of its reaches and effects on our inner mind and body that I was too raw to ‘see’ beyond my immediate past, which by the way, was a challenge in itself. Any difficult aspect from one’s past is like a growing pimple. Don’t cleanse it from the root and it will never stop. So here’s exactly where the workshop helped- to deal with my past because I had been conditioned by society not to. And also because I had read too many self-motivating books to become a rationalising adult.

What do rationalising adults like me think? That it’s all in the past now- and that life is in the in the present moment. We become analysts for those that did us harm and understand their reasons. But where does that leave us? Or rather, how? A bit unhappy, a bit angry and a bit unfulfilled- because the pain has set up factories in our cells and produce anti- growth missiles that prevent us from realising our full potential. I call them Dream Busters.

In the workshop I learnt (and later experienced) about the power of the mind and how it draws to you what you have subconsciously desired. But the greatest thing I have ever learnt is that am ignorant- and that makes me thirsty for all that knowledge that is waiting to be explored. And this thirst makes me feel excited and alive and eager about this phenomenon called life.

Snot apple is good. It was meant to be. So is life. I would have said its slimy texture is the past we carry within us. But when I think harder, I think the metaphor applies to our ego- or our foolish pride. Get past that and sink your teeth in- and believe me, life tastes delicious.

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Posted by Pallavi Guptaa at July 25, 2006 11:24 PM

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Actually, my past is quite rosie. It is the present I find particularly slimy.

1. Posted by Taomaster on July 26, 2006 03:50 AM

Thank you for sharing this, Pallavi.

Cinda

2. Posted by Cinda on July 26, 2006 05:42 AM

Sweat Banana. Now I'm evolved. Because Sweat Banana is good. Believe me. Sweat Banana leaves Snot Apple in the dust.

3. Posted by JRH on July 26, 2006 06:19 AM

"In the workshop I learnt (and later experienced) about the power of the mind and how it draws to you what you have subconsciously desired"

Dear Pallavi,
Agree with you there. Whatever we truly and deeply desire, we manifest into our lives. We create our future.

I am interested to know more about the exact process you went through for your past life regression session.....if you'd like to share that. Were you hypnotized by the Doc and then whatever you said in a state of regression was recorded on tape?

Cheers!
Navin

4. Posted by Navin on July 26, 2006 09:31 AM

Check out Libra's horoscope from 2003: http://www.villagevoice.com/people/0327,brezsny,45214,25.html

Sometimes slime can be a boon.

And sometimes not.

5. Posted by danashields on July 26, 2006 11:15 AM

But a portion of seemly important information is missing from the link I just sent.

Here it is from a different height:

http://www.alifelessconvenient.com/2005/12/13/projectile-vomiting-as-conversing-with-eternity/

6. Posted by danashields on July 26, 2006 11:21 AM

Like I said: sometimes slime can be a boon. But sometime snot.

7. Posted by danashields on July 26, 2006 11:35 AM

Pallavi, I am glad you tried past life regression. I think it is a lot of fun. When we really uncover some past lives, so many misconceptions vanish and in their place wisdom emerges. One must experience this by oneself. Great blog post dear Pallavi. Thank you and God bless.

8. Posted by geetajayaram on July 26, 2006 05:36 PM

And for those whose religious beliefs wouldn't accomodate the belief in "past lives" as a tool for healing (language is everything), Heart Centered Therapy uses the same past "monuments of tragedy" in ones lineage and embedded in ones DNA to achieve healing.

The cool thing about lineage pattern healing, is that you can involve your immediate and distant family in an intimate, tangible way without having to take the extra leap into a belief system that requires acknowledgement of reincarnation.

Google Alaya Chikly and Heart Centered Therapy.

My wife & I have benefited in ways we could never have imagined.

9. Posted by danashields on July 27, 2006 06:13 AM

Hi Pallavi: I was just eating an apple while reading your blog, and coughed a piece of it up into my nose, and then sneezed, and now there's snot all over my computer screen--just teasing kiddo (actually, I "expelled the phlegm" onto the copy of Deepak's "The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire" by my desk--teasing again--I can't help it, it's not my fault; it's your fault, you brought up the snot apple!)

I am delighted to hear of the studies and practices you've engaged; particularly the teachers you've mentioned--nice work, and wonderful post Pallivi! Dave

10. Posted by David on July 27, 2006 02:45 PM

There are good writers, and there are bad writers. That's ok. We understand. But there are people who think they are writers, but writers they are not.

So I would like to share here writing lessons of Nikki Giovanni, a well know American poet.

***

Writing Lessons

There are...still..so many books I want to read...and reread...

There are...still...so many places I want to travel...to...

There are...still...foods I want to eat...and drinks I want to sample...

There are... blankets to lie upon or under...

There are...pillows upon which to prop my books or my head...

I definitely want to rocket to outer space...I also want to explore inner space...

I know no one ever wished they had been meaner...

Or hated more...

Or spent more hours away from people they loved...

I know that life is interesting and you can never go wrong Being interested

If I were giving advice I would say: Sing.
People who sing to themselves
People who make variations on songs they know
People who teach songs to other people
These are the people other people want to be with

and that will let you be a good writer
Because

There are...still...so many ideas to conceive

~Nikki Giovanni

11. Posted by Ravi Kopra on July 27, 2006 08:24 PM

Ravi Kopra, 12 is very informative. I thank you. Namashkar.

12. Posted by geetajayaram on July 28, 2006 11:46 AM

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