Future Lives: Discovering & Understanding Your Destiny
Does time move backward and forward?
In this revolutionary spiritual guide, professional hypnotist Gloria Chadwick looks at reincarnation in a new light, delving into how the future interacts with and causes the present, just as much as the present has created the past.
Examining and living all our lives, which transcend our physical reality of time and exist as energy vibrations, enables us to see a more complete picture of our experiences. We can see how and why those experiences happen, and how we can influence and change aspects of them if we choose.
Experiential visualizations, mind-opening meditations, and interactive exercises, as well as discoveries made by Chadwick's students and clients, round out this thought-provoking book.
Contents ~ Future Lives
Introduction
One. Reviewing Reincarnation
Explains my curiosity about time as it weaves through the energies of experiences. Shows how to thread your way through the mysteries of time and space by looking at events in your past and future lives in relationship to experiences in your present life. Invites you to take a trip through time.
Two. Past, Present, and Future
Provides a basic definition of reincarnation and offers a way to look at karma and past lives in a new light. Poses some “what if” questions without providing answers. Involves you in an inquisitive search of how time and reincarnation operate in your reality. Invites you to go with the flow of time and to redefine what reincarnation means to you.
Three. Karma and Creating Your Own Reality
Explores cause and effect in the time frame of present awareness. Shows the differences
and similarities between karma and creating your own reality. How your thoughts and feelings change and create the rhythm of your reality. How the universal Law of Balance affects all your experiences. Offers an interactive exercise to show you how the energies of past, present, and future experiences are interwoven into every aspect of your life, and how the future creates and shapes the past through karma. Playing the game of life. Understanding the illusions of your reality.
Four. The Energy Expressions of Your Experiences
How the energies of your experiences show themselves. Looking at pictures of possibilities
and probabilities, and how the various expressions interplay with karma. Explains how they
work and why. Exploring the energies of experiences. Hypothetical happenings. Mind- Expanding Meditation: Seeing through multidimensional mirrors. The past, present, and future are mirrors of one another, reflecting myriad transparent, kaleidoscopic images. Choices and changes. Seeing possible/probable present energy expressions.
Five. The Motions of Matter
Looks at the appearance of illusion and reality. The energy of existence and the creation of circumstances. Can you change the events in past, present, and future lives before they occur
or after they’ve happened? How time vibrates through physical and spiritual realms of matter to create situations and circumstances. Perceptions of time, relative to the influence of energies from past, present, and future events. Transmuting matter and transcending time. Interactive Experience: Turning Back the Hands of Time. Change what actually occurred in your past lives to create a new past experience, then rearrange the future to mirror the past.
Six. Simultaneous Time, Space, and Synchronicity
The seemingly separate worlds we live in simultaneously constantly interact with and influence one another through the vibrations of time. The circular, synchronous nature of time. Threads of your thoughts, feelings, and actions connect the energy vibrations of past, present, and future together to weave a picture of all your experiences in every lifetime. Mind-Opening Meditation: Tapestry of Life. Getting into the vibration of simultaneous time to synchronize your awareness and experiences with it. Interactive Experience: Facing Your Future. Change what hasn’t happened in the future to correspond with your present and your past.
Seven. Looking Through the Spaces of Time to See Yourself
All your lives are lived at the same time in various vibrations of energy. Shift your focus of awareness and frame of attention to meet yourself in past and future lifetimes, and to become aware of your probable selves. Interact with yourself in other lives to share knowledge and to become aware of events and experiences that influence your present reality in unseen and unexpected ways. Balancing karma. See how you change and create the past and the future in the present. See how the souls you’re connected with now appear as past and future people. Soul-Expanding Meditations: Travel rainbow energies into the heart and mind of your other selves in past and future lives, as well as visiting significant souls that are special to you.
Eight. Re-experiencing the Future in the Present-Past
If you could pull the future into the present, what would you do with what you learned and
how would it affect you? What would you bring back from the future as a gift to yourself in the present? What corresponding changes would ripple through the past, present, and future? See
how your present experiences, and your past ones, would change to support and frame your future experiences. Dream-weaving. Mind-Opening Meditation: Multicolored Pictures and Patterns. Look into future lives to observe your soul patterns and to see the talents and abilities you have, then weave them into both the present and the past.
Nine. Fragments of the Future
You already know how to see your future. Images of the future often show themselves in dreams, intuition, and precognition. Does the future exist within the present? Empty energy. Explains why the future appears to be vague and misty. Putting energy into motion by putting
your feelings into the future. Interactive Exploration: Following the future into your present.
Ten. The Essence of Timelessness
We’re all travelers through time, journeying through our many multidimensional experiences. You didn’t just appear out of nowhere, did you? Neither did your experiences. Their origins were created somewhere before, at some other place in time. The true meaning of nowhere. Eternity stretches far beyond what the mind can reach. Some common fears about facing the future. Traps and trip-ups to be aware of. Entering the void of time. Interactive Exploration: Being Here, There, Everywhere, and Nowhere. The ever-present here and now. Cycles and connections. The rhythm of reincarnation. The beginning and the end. Interactive Exploration: Alpha/Omega. Your very own time-travel machine.
Eleven. Duplicate Dimensions
In the infinite universe we live in, there are many other avenues of energy and expressions
of time. Looks at space and matter and unseen energies; shows how they interact in, with, and through every part of our lives. Explains the vibrations of duplicate dimensions and parallel lives, as well as viewing a few more familiar realities like déjà vu and dreams. Explores the concept of “As above, so below.” Soul-Opening Meditation: Bridge of Light. Journey into the nonphysical realms of your soul.
Twelve. Tripping Through Time
Time moves both ways—backward and forward. Twists and turns. Pivot points, parallels, and polarities. How to maneuver inside and through your future-life memories. Participant, observer, or overseer—your choice. Dimension and depth. Direction and drift. Look into your future lifetime to see when and where you land, and what you do in relation to what you’re doing now. Offers a mind-expanding trip through time into multidimensional realms of the universe and a down-to-earth grounding. Guaranteed to blow you away—or to at least put you in a lighter frame of awareness.
Thirteen. Re-evaluating Reincarnation
Are your past and future lives a whisper of wind blowing through time, a heartbeat somewhere in space? Or is reincarnation a reflection of time and space in the multi-dimensional worlds within your soul? Re-evaluating reincarnation in terms of your experiences.
Introduction
Ever since time began—whenever that was, it was such a long time ago that I can’t really remember it—people have been pondering the mysteries of time. From time to time, we’ve
all thought about how time really works. Perhaps at one time or another, you’ve experienced
time in a different structure other than past, present, and future—today is, yesterday was,
and tomorrow will be. At times, maybe all the vibrations of past, present, and future blended together. Maybe because of the experiences in your life when time refused to fit into a nice, neat, logical explanation, you began to wonder about time, and maybe you decided to look into it more thoroughly. In doing so, maybe you began to change your focus of awareness to fit your experiences; and you found that time didn’t hold true to linear, limited vibrations of past, present, and future.
Being curious about time myself, since I’ve purposely placed myself into many of my past
lives and inadvertently tripped into a few of my future lives, I thought it would be interesting to deeply explore the energy expressions of time as it relates to the vibrations of our experiences in all of our past, present, and future lives. Many of my past-life regression clients have looked into their future lives while they were exploring issues in a past life that affected their present life. They found that their future lives had just as much, if not more, influence on their present life—showing them that the future creates the past and the present just as much as the past creates the present and the future.
Simultaneously looking into and living in all of your past, present, and future lives can be illuminating and enlightening; it offers us the opportunity to stretch our awareness and expand our horizons. It enables us to see more of ourselves and to get a clearer, more complete picture of our experiences—to see how they happen, to understand why they happen, and to become aware of what we can do about them now—how we can influence and change aspects of them in the past, the present, and the future, if we choose.
This book is based on thirty-five years of personal experience and on the experiences of my students and hypnosis clients. It does not reflect a scientific study of time, nor is it intended to be a comprehensive coverage of the many theories of time. It merely relates what I’ve discovered about how time works in relationship to past, present, and future lives, and the conclusions I’ve drawn. Better minds than mine have looked into the nature of time and been baffled by the subtle quirks and mysterious expressions of it. Even Einstein had difficulty with it. I’m no expert, just a soul journeying through my Earth experiences in physical form trying to see how time really works by understanding how it relates to the experiences in my life.
This book offers a redefinition of a past-life point of view about reincarnation; it’s centered in the present and woven into all the interrelated aspects of past and future events that your soul is in the process of experiencing. It offers you ways to explore various vibrations of time—to look into your past, present, and future lives—and to draw your own conclusions based on what you experience in different dimensions of time.
The way you view and experience time will be influenced to a certain extent by your thoughts and beliefs and what you’ve previously read or heard about. As you read this book and explore the ideas and concepts it contains, keep an open mind; listen to your thoughts and feelings, and follow your interpretations. Try not to separate your thoughts into past, present, and future vibrations of time; keep them synchronized with the experiences in your present life to see for yourself how time operates. Simultaneous time can be a bit abstract; there’s nothing concrete about it. Logic doesn’t mix well with abstraction. If you try to view time logically in order to fit it into a concrete frame of reality, you’ll end up with a huge headache, because time isn’t logical. Keep in mind that everything is relative and can be easily understood by applying it to what you experience in your explorations of time.
The key to unlocking the mysteries of simultaneous, synchronous time is to be centered in
the present, into the eternal NOW. Watch how time vibrates in the present as it flows in, around, and through your experiences—to see how it affects your present life and influences your past and future lives. I’d like to offer you a wonderful adventure. Turn the page and travel through time. Expand your outlook and open your insights. Journey to higher horizons and visit new vistas. Explore all the vibrations of your experiences—right here, right now. I invite you to see through the present to look into the time-spaces of all your lives—past, present, and future.
Chapter One. Reviewing Reincarnation
Do you ever wonder what your future lives hold for you? Are you just a little curious about what’s going to happen in both the future in this life and in your future lives because of what
you do in this life and what you’ve done in past lives? Do you wish there was a way you could somehow zip through the vibrations of time to get a preview of what’s going to occur?
While you can catch glimpses of the future through dreams, intuition, and precognition—
these are viable avenues that we’ll explore later in this book—there is another way. You can
look into the events in your future lives—right here, right now—by going with the flow of time,
by redefining reincarnation and looking at karma in a new light.
How does time and reincarnation operate in your reality? The most commonly accepted definition of reincarnation is that over ages and eons of time, a soul repeatedly inhabits a physical body in consecutive lifetimes for the purposes of acquiring knowledge and balancing karma with the goals of attaining enlightenment and perfecting one’s soul. Your past actions (karma) cause and create the present events and emotions in your life. While this interpretation of reincarnation offers you the opportunity to balance your karma and grow your soul, the basic definition says that you live one life at a time, that life is experienced in a linear time frame of past, present, and future.
This definition doesn’t sound complete; it sounds as if you’re stuck somewhere in the present, tossed about by the winds of fate, at the mercy of whatever your karma is. If you stretch your memory, you can look into the past, but it doesn’t give you a way to see into the future because the future hasn’t happened yet. It says that the past is past; it’s over and done with, and all you have now is the present with a vague future that looms somewhere in the misty beyond. This gives you power in the present, in the form of your free will, to make choices about how you want to work with and balance your karma, and how it may play out in the future, both in this lifetime and in a future life.
Once you’ve either corrected or changed your karma, the definition then turns around to limit your power because it doesn’t let you do anything with a future lifetime, except to wonder what’s going to happen to you because of what you do in this life and what you may carry over from a past life.
Being familiar with the concept of reincarnation, you know that you can remember your past life experiences in your present life, then use the knowledge and understanding you gain to help you balance your karma in a positive manner. This also provides you with answers to the questions of what you did in past lives and why you’re experiencing whatever it is that you’re experiencing now.
Even if you can’t remember any experiences in your past lives, you don’t need to know what your karma is to balance it. Just take a good look at what your life is showing you and you’ll see the energies of your past experiences as they repeat themselves in the present. By balancing present experiences, you simultaneously balance events in your past lives, clearing up the karma.
Karma is energy in motion. It’s the replaying of events and emotions from your past lives in the present. By its very nature, energy can only be changed from one form into another. When the right circumstances merge and you become aware of your karma—your actions in the past—the energy of your past experiences shows itself in the present.
As the vibrations of your karma come into the present, your karma changes form and shows itself in a similar experience. The past and present energies are synchronized into what you’re experiencing now. That’s only half of it. Because your past and present experiences are composed of energy, as you change the energy of your past experiences—your karma—in the present, you simultaneously change and create the energies of your present and future experiences.
Any thought, feeling, or experience you change in your life now will interact with and correspondingly change all your interrelated thoughts, feelings, and experiences in every lifetime: past, present, and future because the energies are all intertwined. Reincarnation, viewed from this perspective, shows you that you have the ability to create and change anything you want in any of your past, present, and future lives, right here, right now.
Open up the concept of reincarnation a bit more and take a deeper look inside. Review reincarnation in a clearer, more complete manner. The word “review” means literally to “re-see.” Look into and explore the idea that experiences in your past lives are more than a memory. What if they’re events and situations in your present life that are experienced in a different vibration of energy and awareness, playing out in the form of a memory?
And what about the future? Maybe your past, present, and future lives aren’t lived in linear, isolated frames of time. Maybe they’re all vibrating together, in perfect harmony and synchronicity with one another. Maybe your future lives exist now, side-by-side, paralleling your past lives and present life in similar vibrations of energy that are only a thought away from your awareness and recognition.
Take this one step further. Look at reincarnation in reverse. What if time runs backward? What if your future lives happen first? What if your past lives are reflections of your future lives and are also caused and created by your present life? If events in your future lives happen first, then they cause and create the events in your past lives and present life in the same way that you previously thought of reincarnation as your past lives affecting your present life; your future lives weren’t even in the picture. This flips the whole concept around about the way we view reincarnation from a past-life point of view. It’s very mind-stretching, as well as freeing and empowering.
We got a little ahead of ourselves. If you look at your past lives from an open, free-flowing frame of time, this way of viewing reincarnation as the future happening first opens up a wide range of choices and possibilities because it gives you the opportunity to do more than just balance your karma by changing the present energy vibrations of your past experiences. It gives you the power to change the energies of events in your past lives because their beginnings were created in the future—thereby changing your karma—by re-arranging the energy vibrations of past experiences in the present. This changes the way your karma shows itself in the present because the past, seen from this perspective, exists now.
You can go further than that by expanding your outlook and opening up your insights to see a more complete view. If the past exists now, consider the idea that your past lives and present life, instead of just merely creating your future lives, are part of your future lives. You could then change the energies of the future, too, right here and now in your present life. This gives you another realm to explore, but you can go one more step further.
What if you live in your past, present, and future lives at the same time in different spaces and vibrations of energy? What if your past, present, and future lives aren’t separate? What if they’re all happening simultaneously? Take a moment or two to wrap your mind around that concept. This way of looking at reincarnation is what this book is based on; it’s where we go from here as we take a trip through time.
This simultaneous time-space concept opens up a whole new world and shows you a complete picture that provides you with a way of seeing how your karma, and the way you balance it in the present to change the energies of your past experiences, plays out in the future. At the same time you’re seeing that, you’re looking into your future lives to see the effect that the changed experiences have on your past and present lives, and vice versa. You see how and why your karma is showing itself now by looking through the reflections of your past and future lives.
This view offers an all-encompassing, comprehensive way to see inside reincarnation because it shows you that incorporated within your present life are all the experiences and emotions in what appear to be your past and future lives. This fits in perfectly with the original definition of reincarnation which says that the present is all there is, because the past and the future are really part of the present. This sounds like a much more complete definition of reincarnation.
This way of looking at reincarnation isn’t new. In fact, it’s probably as old as time itself. Broaden your horizons a bit more and focus your awareness into a larger picture. If you live in your past, present, and future lives simultaneously, then you’re living more than one life at the same time somewhere else in other spaces and vibrations of time. Maybe you haven’t been looking at the whole picture.
Reincarnation doesn’t paint a stagnant, still-life picture. It’s a constantly moving, vibrant, ever-changing experience. Reincarnation is life in motion, and time moves within and through and around the energy vibrations of all your past-present-future experiences. To draw an analogy, look at life as an ocean with waves of time that wash up on the shore and return to the ocean. The waves of time ebb and flow in a rhythmic pattern that repeats itself over and over; it’s the same with your experiences.
If you only look at life in the present, you’re standing on the shore watching the waves. As you balance your karma from the past, you begin to wade and splash through the waves, getting your feet wet. But life has a way of showing you things you need to see and sometimes those waves wash up on shore with tides and undercurrents that pull you out to sea. As the waves flow to the rhythm of the ocean—as your experiences flow to the rhythm of your life—they go into the past, the present, and the future.
Any movement on your part—a change of thought or feeling, or a changing of any experience in your life—will change the motion of the waves and the direction of your experiences into another vibration. By shifting your focus of attention—your perceptions and perspectives—or changing your experiences, you shift the motion and direction of your life.
As you re-view reincarnation, and you see what life shows you, you’ll see that you have all the power in the world and the universe to create and change anything in the way that you want to in all of your past, present, and future lives. Jump in; the water’s fine. Re-experience reincarnation in a new way that’s meaningful to you by redefining reincarnation. Rewrite the scenes and scenarios in all your past, present, and future lives, either singly or simultaneously. The truth inside the definition of reincarnation will remain the same, no matter which way you look at it.
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I truly enjoyed this book because past-life regression clients so often want to look into future lives while exploring issues in a past life that influences their present life. The book explores how karma fundamentals and creating your own reality emphasize responsibility for your actions, choices, decisions, and accepting the consequences for all you've created. This book empowers you and provides a foundation for making choices and changes. Are your experiences created in your emotions before they appear in your life? Can you change the direction and expression of your experiences by changing your thoughts and emotions? It has for me since my experiences now reflect changes I made. I enjoyed this book because it showed me how karmic situations appear when it's time for balancing. And this book gave me the balance I wanted from reading it.
— Amazon reader, March, 2008
The book delves into how past, present, and future are intertwined and affect each other. Linear time only exists on the physical plane; on the mental and spiritual planes, time is circular and one. By meditating, you can enter into an altered state of mind where you can help shape your present by changing your past energies to reflect the positive energies in the now--the same with the future. You can't physically re-do the past, but you can change the past on the mental plane and the energetic effects will change your present and future. And in that thinking, one can go to the future and set up the present to be the way you prefer it to be. This book is beyond interesting and really challenges your present thinking of time. A great read.
— Independent Review
Those who believe in reincarnation recognize that our previous lives profoundly influence our present existence. But what about the lives still to be lived--our future? For Gloria Chadwick, author of Discovering Your Past Lives, the spiritual level knows no time; our experiences meet as energy vibrations, and past, present, and future can shape each other. Her new guide gives us an expansive view of exactly how that happens, as she delves into the concept of karma, how thoughts and beliefs can shift the rhythm of our reality, and illusion versus reality. Featuring real-life experiences from Chadwick's students and clients, as well as interactive exercises, it opens up a new way of understanding the universe.
— Editorial Reviews