"Within each of us, there is a silence, a silence as vast as the universe,
and when we experience that silence, we remember who we are."
Gunilla Norris: Inviting Silence (2004)
Each one of us may have a sacred memory kept in our hearts, something we will always treasure. These are deeply personal and unique to us: maybe a special moment in time, someone we loved, a spiritual awakening. Yet we also hold memories collectively, down through the ages: either as humanity as a whole or as groups of souls who share experiences of other worlds and times. Exploring these memories, many of which may lie beyond our everyday human consciousness, brings us to a deeper awareness of our rich spiritual history. We start where religious tradition says humanity started, in the Garden of Eden.
Veganism and the Garden of Eden
Animals eat animals, as well as plants. That’s just how nature works, isn’t it? We take it for granted. But there are worlds where that doesn’t happen. Here on earth, a predator will hunt its victim and devours its flesh, a process often somewhat sanitised in our nature documentaries. Most viewers do not want to see all the savagery and pain involved. As for us, the animals that we slaughter in abattoirs to eat on our dining tables are packaged and presented suitably to avoid reminding ourselves of their killing.
Increasingly however, souls are being born that will not look away. There is a nagging discomfort about the needless and often cruel destruction of life on this planet. These souls hold a memory of another world, described in Genesis (2.8-20) as the Garden of Eden. Building on the insights of spiritual teachers like Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov, and contrary to popular belief, it is not an allegorical fable but exists on a higher plane, one from which many souls in times past left to explore the denser regions, which we now inhabit. There were animals and plants in Eden too: infinitely beautiful translucent creatures, much more refined than those on this planet. They fed off the emanations, or subtle energies, that all the creatures radiated, rather in the way we may sniff the perfume of flowers on earth. So did the human souls that lived there. It is this memory of our Paradise Lost that, albeit unconsciously, can be the inspiration behind the decision to become vegan.
So we human souls arrive on this planet not so much with the “Original Sin” that the Church speaks of, as Original Memory. And increasingly, it is awakening.
Our soul memories about creatures may go beyond the Garden of Eden and this now becomes our next area of exploration.
Legendary Creatures: Myth or Memory?
Human culture across the globe shares stories, usually described as “myths” about a number of supposedly “legendary” creatures. These are usually explained as the product of primitive and fanciful minds. Yet it has also been said some of them were real and lived in the past, on the lost continent of Atlantis, according to psychic readings given by the clairvoyant Edgar Cayce a century ago. These included “those of the sea, or mermaid; those of the unicorn”. If what he said is true, these are not myths but collective memories that we hold. Dugong, Marsa Alam, Egypt. Julien Willem, 2008.
Certainly the modern “scientific” explanations of these stories seem rather implausible: we would have to believe that sailors were exceptionally dim-witted to mistake half-human mermaids for the Dugong (see photo); and equally that unicorns, who are clearly depicted as horned horses, are just rhinoceroses.
This now brings us to dragons, that are found across cultures globally. We know there were flying reptiles millions of years ago but they do not match the descriptions of the fire-breathing beasts of apparent legend and it’s odd we would have a collective memory of, say, Pterodactyls but not Tyrannosaurs. One insight is that they existed in the way that mermaids and unicorns did: and indeed still do, at a more subtle energetic level: unseen to the naked eye but able to be sensed intuitively by anyone that is attuned to their world.
Going beyond the world of animals we come to humans and the soul memories we may carry through past lives about ourselves.
Memories of Our Human Heart
Soul memories that are personal to us are especially powerful, even if in our conscious mind we may not be aware of them. There are so many possibilities but selecting just two examples will show how they can work.
Some souls incarnate as transgender. There are any number of reasons why someone may have this experience. From the perspective of soul memory, we can think, as an example, of a being that having lived a series of strongly imprinted female lives, find themselves born into the body of man. It can be from as early as 4 - 5 years old that they experience themselves as being in the wrong body. “Experience” is the key word here: this is not imagined, nor a psychological disorder, it is an actual experience: an experience of a powerful soul memory. The conflict arises between what the soul remembers and what the body seems to be saying. It calls for great courage for a transgender person to be who they are. So reducing this issue to a narrow debate about the definition of a woman or a man, can miss a deeper understanding of an issue that calls out for empathy and sensitivity.
Now we come to the unforgetting heart: “Love at First Sight” may sound like a romantic cliché but in reality, there is a timeless truth behind it. Sometimes we have a strong reaction to someone, maybe before they have barely uttered a word. It can be warmth, a sense of connection, or instant dislike, even hatred. Our soul may be recognising another from a past life, with whom we had a powerful experience, good or bad. And, magically, sometimes it really can be love. So we can say that from a soul-centred perspective, “Love at First Sight” is really love at first remembering, when we reconnect with a soul, perhaps after aeons of time. Our Most Sacred Memory
There is one memory we humans all share, and that is our origin, a far and distant past where we first began. That place of imaginable light, our heaven, our Source, whatever name we give it. It is the most powerful memory we have and even if we are totally unaware of it, it is behind so much of what we do. Every time we create something beautiful, every act of love, even every feeling of separation or yearning, it always comes back to our source.
Because we remember...
By Simenon Honoré
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