THE WAY OF THE MASTERS

By Brian Runau

September 29, 2003

I was sharing some of my past life experiences with another person recently and she said to me, “It’s OK to remember past lives, but then forget them. Don’t think about the past, I’m moving forward to the new age. I’m not looking back, I’m looking forward to what is coming.”

This started me to thinking why someone would feel that the past was not important. I believe this happened, because I am supposed to share with you why I believe past lives are important. I can only speak from my personal experiences. It is my opinion that remembering past lives is the journey of the new age. It is the next level of awareness that the universe is bringing to us.

Looking back vs looking forward implies linear time; time, existence is not linear; existence is circular. The writings of the ancients speak of a time before when we lived in emotional balance and harmony, and of a time when we will return to this same state of existence. Imagine a clock face. On this face at 12 we live in paradise, the Garden of Eden. As we move around the clock, we begin to move away from a state of paradise and at 6 we live in the opposite of the Garden of Eden. When the energy of the clock moves around to 12 again we move back into paradise.

In order to propel ourselves around the energetic circle, we must first look back to where we came from and how we got where we are in this moment. In fact, we have to journey back into our past lives, to move forward to paradise. This looking back is the journey within. It is the journey of the Buddha to eliminate all karma and not reincarnate again.

In May of 1999, I had a reading with someone and she began the session by saying, “I don’t do a lot with past lives, but with you I am impressed that they are important.” In 1997 I began a journey of self discovery focusing on remembering all my past lives. Ones that had unfinished business, and ones I needed to reconnect with to access ancient wisdom I learned in those past lives. I wouldn’t forget them for anything, the good and the bad, because they are what I am energetically in this moment. This instant I am the sum total of all these energetic experiences.

How could we possibly eliminate karma without first identifying our own karma? We need to meditate and allow the universe to reveal what we should begin doing. My first past life memory happened before I realized what it was about. In August 1997 in meditation, I saw a man standing over me waist high. He wore a peacock headdress and armbands. I was being held spread eagle. This was all I saw and it was in color. In a reading with Rosanne, my wife, I asked what this image represented. As soon as I asked the question, my breath shot out of me and I couldn’t catch my breath, I felt this inrush of energy that just overwhelmed me, and took my breath away. What I felt at that moment was the terror I experienced in the lifetime that I was a Mayan captive. I was sacrificed and dismembered. During my journey I later discovered that this priest was a member of my family.

When I asked about this visual, I demonstrated to the universe that I wanted to know the truth! In wanting to know, I allowed the energy from the experience to flow from the universe into myself. By accepting the truth, I was able to transmute the energy and remove it from the cosmos forever. This traumatic experience was removed from my karmic record as a result of my willingness to accept the truth. This is an example of one of the “bad” ones I spoke of earlier.

My first good past life remembrance was in May of 1999 during a trip to China. My Master Teacher, Master Chang Don San Kuan, had given me information about an ancient city in China where he and I shared a lifetime. He was my teacher then as he is now. He led me to discover a past life around 600 AD in a southern city in China. I was a member of a Taoist monastery named the Mung Su Dong or Dream Thinking Cave.

By remembering this past life, and journeying back to China to stand on the site of my grave from that lifetime, I was able to reintegrate the ancient wisdom I embodied in that lifetime. By being blessed to remember that past life, I was given access to knowledge I had stored away within myself. Remembering, activated something within me that allowed the knowledge to be accessed in this lifetime.

Can you see why I would not trade any of my good or bad past life experiences? Can you see why it puzzled me that people wouldn’t want to remember? It is a painful and difficult journey, but the truth is we can’t have access to the ‘good stuff’ if we are unwilling to face the ‘bad stuff.’
The journey back through our unresolved karmic past life experiences, in fact, is the journey that propels us forward to the purity of our soul within us. It is what it means to go within. It is the journey that “peels” our karmic onion and removes all the false human based experiences that get between us and our pure knowledge and understanding of God.

We must journey back in order to move forward. The journey back is the journey of the Masters in the universe. If you seek to have true knowledge of yourself then you must begin to remove all the karmic obstacles that you have put in your way. There is a way to do this work; God has provided tools for us to be successful on the journey. He wants us to perfect ourselves so we can come to know how truly loving and magnificent he really is.
Are you ready to begin your journey back?

 

 

 

Brian K. Runau
Indianapolis, IN
asimpletruth1@aol.com