hi my name is geoffrey marx i'm a psychic medium paranormal investigator author and radio show host and i have a passion for the exploration of consciousness and one of the things that comes with consciousness is  the notion of reincarnation a lot of people oftentimes ask have i been here before have i lived other lives and for me in the work that i've done being a medium the question i would ask is has ever been a time that you've not been alive you've been alive from all time all time since the beginning of the big bang you've been here the question you need to ask is have i been in a physical body the whole time and i think the answer to that is pretty simple no not always but there have been actual scientific studies to show that people do appear to come back and have had previous lives there are believe it or not telltale signs in a person's life that can suggest what a previous personality could have been and we can talk about that too the study of reincarnation actually got started back at the university of virginia although a camera of the time from actually i think it was in the sixty's the seventy's it may have been sooner with ian stevenson and he started taking his cue from children he started hearing stories of children over in india you know because in india it's part of their religious philosophy that reincarnation exists he would get stories of these these kids were able to tell their parents what village they had and that they lived in a previous life they could describe the parents and then i started to notice that in some cases the children even had birth marks on their body that would correspond in some cases to wounds or injuries that a previous personality had in that other life and so dr stevenson started going over to india and researching these cases and he ended up uncovering over twenty five hundred what he felt were very towards the end of his life bringing other investigators with him to follow up with some of these kids that he had investigated earlier on so what the research on covered was that the children had not only memories  of where they came where their previous personality existed like the name of a town that they existed in they also could recall family member previous family members name of the previous personality and in some cases the children even displayed did since he started this research back in the seventy's he flew back and visited some of these these children back in the ninety's and in the early part of the new millennium i believe to follow up to see how they had grown  knowing that they had done the research had followed up on the past life incarnation information what was fascinating is that some of those children since having gone through the investigation you know they had actually met up with the remaining family members of the previous personality they were actually in some cases still living or at least carrying on the relationship with those family members so they basically had two families they had the family that they were born to in this life that they were connected with but because they had done the reincarnation or research they also had the family of the previous personality and they were still in our acting and it was it was a wonderful dynamic to see now what they also discovered was that even though they had this previous personality the current personality still continued to move forward with this life and to go on and do different things and still become you know their own individual they didn't remain locked into the past with and live them their lives in this past personality it's still they still grew they still became their own individual and so there's actually been quite a quite a bit of research on reincarnation done scientifically through universities and and psychology departments and like i said ian stephenson started it by actually going to the people that had the children that had the reincarnation of memories and experiences but that hasn't been the only way it's been studied it has also been studied through hypnosis which can be controversial brian weiss is the most well known person to have done this i think he's the one that really pioneered past life regression but you know those have yielded excellent results too because data points will come up in regression you know we name birthplace conditions lifestyle and they followed up on those and have had some great success as well so there has been through hypnosis highly suggestible data to say that a person has come forward through time from another incarnation another person who's done some really fascinating and kind of i think a different way of handling it is a gentleman i got his book here by the name of walter he the reason he got started in two ways because he had memories of a past life and he went and he started digging them up now what he did which is really different from everybody else is he went and saw  a famous psychic kevin ryan who is shirley maclaine's psychic and kevan channels an entity that purportedly claims to be able to tell somebody about their past lives or be able to tell the least walter who somebody was in a current incarnation he started picking out celebrities and going to kevin and saying ok i have this celebrity here can you tell me who they were in a past life and he would get a name and then he would start following up on the name that kevin gave him and discovered astonishingly that if he could find photographs of the previous personality and compare them with the current personality you could actually see incredibly a lot of the same features you could actually get into incredibly the type of personality likes and dislikes of the previous incarnation actually measuring up with the current personality so there are ways of determining and potentially finding your own past life you know and here we get into the typical have your phobias been and that sort of thing yes they can point to a previous past life but i think the stuff that really points to it is the stuff that is kind of like so much in your face you know for me you can look around me and you can see a whole bunch of ancient egypt around me and that's because i was there at some point i mean i recall having memories when i was a little boy of the terrain of egypt i mean i remember when i was three years old and my grandparents were were talking about the great pyramid and three years old i had no idea i should have had no idea what that was i had never seen any photographs or anything like that but when they started talking about it in my head i saw the plateau i saw the great pyramid with the casing stone still on it you know what we see today is not the way you see the look and i could have told you back in three years old that there were other pyramids on that plateau on the other thing that was that can really bring out the information of a previous incarnation like i said is are the phobias but to me they would need to be really really strong i mean it's one thing to have you know  the scare it's another to be gone oh my gosh what the freak is going to happen to me that's now that points to something that's that's primal that's really down in there in your consciousness and for me that happened every fourth of july when my parents took us out to the fireworks i hid under the blanket and screamed the entire time because i was i was horrified i was going to get blown up i was going i was going to i was going to be caught in some kind of big  explosion because i had a previous incarnation in the pacific in world war two how do i know this well a couple different ways this one is because of the phobia itself but because there are other circumstances that i've had in my life where the synchronicities all point to that incarnation the other reason in this kind of goes with how walter came across his information is i had a psychic tell me just completely out of the blue i mean i didn't she wasn't giving me a reading we just happened to be in the room at the same time and she looked at me and she says you know you were blown up in world war two you know it was just there i was it was yes i was i was and and she gave me the age that i was blown up which corresponded a lot to when i was growing up i always said you know i think i'm going to be dead before i'm twenty twenty or twenty three and that was because that incarnation that is when i passed and when he passed because at that age so you can find things in your your life that can hearken back or at least imply previous personality one of the benefits of reincarnation what can we learn from it you know aside from uncovering where phobias might come from well we can also learn somewhat of how things are in our lives in terms of social structure and it was a girl who believed she was a reincarnated japanese world war two soldier so one of the things that the young girl talked about was hating how spicy the food was which was totally opera pro because the japanese hated the food because it was so spicy the other thing too was she was a little girl but the previous life was a japanese male she grew up being a lesbian so this could actually help explain why we have you know bi sexual behavior why we have homo sexual behavior it's not that it is incorrect or wrong it could be simply because that's the predominant energy that's something that's being brought over from previous life the other great amazing find that the scientists have uncovered they have studied the children and the adults and everything that and they have chronicled what their past lives have been they've discovered that religion ultimately in the grand scheme of things organized religion really doesn't play that big role you can be a muslim in a previous life and be a catholic in another life and there is no problem with that there's absolutely no problem with that i think one of the greatest things that reincarnation can tell us is that there is no one true religion that all religions are acceptable and all religions can play a role in the development of consciousness and the development of  lee is just another pathway and another way of marching through time and that's why i think it's the other big wonderful take away if we can scientifically accept the notion of reincarnation it may help us absolve ourselves of a lot of of wars and distrust and feuding because once you come to the concept that you go on that life goes on that there is no such thing as death it puts you in a framework of mine were it forces you to start thinking differently about how to interact with society your fellow man in the planet because if you don't like something you can't just wipe it out you can't just get rid of it because that that's nonsense that's that's not happening it's not going to happen it forces you to start looking at things in a in a more loving manner in a more compassionate manner because everything continues on everything goes forward and we need to to be aware of the sovereignty of the consciousness in the song and everything else that continues to progress then we get into the real heavy stuff around reincarnation and that is is it really linear because you know in science particularly quantum physics we know there is no such thing as the past or the future it's really all one big now it's all spread out like this and so if everything's all spread out we have to ask ourselves well how does reincarnation fit into all this because if that's the case then a previous me all these previous me are really co existing simultaneously which is honestly the case you know when you get into the whole notion of time being an illusion that's really what it ends up saying and that's hard to wrap your mind around you're going what can i how can i conceptualize this and you know there's a couple ways of doing it and i think the one that works for most people is just imagine planet earth out in space imagine you're an astronaut and you're looking down at planet earth well right now on planet earth there's like forty two different time zones so there's time split up right there but for that astronaut out in space it's all simultaneous it's all going on right there right now it's not in forty two different zones it's all right now it's only down here on earth depending on where you are geographically and what you've been told that's where you're going to perceive you exist so what does this mean in terms of owning a past life i could sit here and say i got blown up in world war two is that really the case is that really me well actually in a sense yes but also in a sense know what am i talking about i'm talking about not necessarily a reincarnation self i have sense that term reincarnation and have turned it into the term simultaneous it's a simultaneous self how does it come together basically all these simultaneous selves roll up into this notion called an over soul and that's a real heavy deep concept to to grasp of but basically and over soul is more or less a huge energy template it's a huge energy entity if you want to call it whose sole purpose or at least part of its purpose is to go and express itself in as many ways as possible and as it is going on expressing itself in as many ways as possible it ends up poking into these different realms of time lives in the past lives in what we would consider our potential future why well because each time i actually ha incredible value in terms of the nature of what one can experience when what one can express is when we go backwards just from a reference framework if we go backwards we can see that our time periods all have their own value system they're different than they are today heck we can see that within the last thirty forty years you know as with our advancement of technology our value system has changed with different value systems also comes different belief systems also becomes different ways of learning and different ways of how we express ourselves and engage with all that is and so the simultaneous selves allow for all possible experiences for that oversaw so i me as geoffrey and my finger on the hand of the over soul then there is this previous personality in world war two also a finger on the hand of the same over soul and in any other life backwards and forwards it's all a hand but when you start putting in the filter of time that only makes it look one right after the other but once you get out of the field of time you've got your whole hand here so that's another way of trying to explain it reincarnation is really the great wonderful magnificent whole self that you are expressing itself in this movie asked framework of time and space i think we know intuitively that we're much greater than in what we are looking at in the mirror and this kind of speaks to that and the thing too is because it's from an over soul all these personalities will have similar interests similar events because the other thing that the oversold is doing is it's balancing out energy through its expression and that's why in some cases you will have one personality commit suicide while another personality ends up going through the same type of events which led to this one committing suicide to where this one actually doesn't because back in the bringing up together with the over soul it has had both experiences it's balanced the energy it's just parcelled it out through these existences which when you felt or and the fabric of time appears to be one  after another but once we get rid of that filter it's all happening at once ultimately that's that's kind of what it what it turns out being and we and we know this from science you know time is is just a focus of consciousness in fact there is and there's a one one little way that you can experience this yourself on the illusion of time and that is is find a way to just more or less distract yourself and i'm sure you've had this happen to everybody has this happen just distract yourself by doing something you know whatever it is to just get your mind out of the now moment and then look at your watch and i swear there are times when you do this where you are you look at your washing that will second hand that should be taking like this actually kind of holds there you no longer than a second and you see a click and youth and you say to yourself now wait a minute i know that was holding on there longer than a second how how did that happen well it's because your consciousness actually for that split little moment there was in that eternal space it just spread it all out it took a it took that little brief moment for it to click back in we do it all the time with caught with consciousness you know it's that old sort of saying of boy today went by really fast or it went by really slow so we have this view in our consciousness of time actually not being linear but rather fluid course einstein got into it too i mean he was the one that basically said it's not sixty seconds equals a minute it's all relative to the observer and he did a couple thought experiments to demonstrate that so there's actually a lot of science science behind the reality of time being fluid not being linear that it is  you know for lack of a better term simultaneous when it comes to past lives in uncovering past lives a lot of people use reincarnation as a scapegoat you know for the problems and stuff that they're having in their current life it's kind of like oh it's because this happened to me back here i got to deal with all of this karma and you know what that's that's nonsense could you imagine the burden you would have to bear if you were making up for all of these past lives back here let's say you only knew about four of them but maybe had thirty but you're a room four of them and all you did was focus on the negatives that occurred in  life and throwing out on your current incarnation going oh i've got to make up for these for back here for all the bad is that that's you can't do that's horrible that's not what you're here to do you're balancing energy all the time you have the thing is you have it's all simultaneous you have all of these lives going on it's balancing out it's working and i'm sorry but not every life is pure one hundred percent bad and negative there's good points all the time in every life there's good points but the thing about time being simultaneous also points to your present point of power being the now moment they have done scientific experiments  tests to show that intention in the now moment not only carries forward into the future it can actually go backwards in effect the past so this whole idea of being tormented by your karma is false you don't have to accept that because you are a sovereign individual spirit and soul you can acknowledge past events as being negative if you want but there's also this wonderful spiritual concept called forgiveness and if you can forgive yourself whether it's a past life or not you meet you you pretty much absolve yourself of the karma right then and merits it's what you want to hold onto in your consciousness that's what you want to gravitate towards to wrap this up what does this all mean especially when it comes to you all time being simultaneous and karma and all that basically what it means is that you were born perfect you weren't born with any flaws but you were born with a history if you want to call it a history because when we enter into this dimension we accept into our consciousness the filter of time so we accept that our expression is going to be this point of view one thing after another even though we have science to back up that it's really not that way but this is how we have chosen to experience this reality so the history that you're coming in with will be those emotional events in things that you or for lack of a better term you have buried in your consciousness from these previous times they're really just going on simultaneously what makes you perfect is your ability to choose in your consciousness what to accept and what not to accept you also have the right to determine where the course of your life goes because as we know from the studies that were done through stevenson's work even though these children still met up with their previous families that they had an incarnation with they still went forward in their current life and were doing things other than that the other previous personality did so you are not confined to what previous personalities did or did not do you are not shackled like a prisoner to past lives you are free to move forward you are free to express but like anything you carry a history  here's a little thing little brainteaser to get you to think once we pass away once you pass out of this realm and we enter the no time zone wouldn't it be fun to converse with the previous you essentially they would still be there they are there they were their own unique sovereign entity back here in the fifteen hundreds which you could claim was you but when you step out of time where do they go and where do you go as a medium i can connect with a persons you know mother father from this life that goes to show to me that that life continues  on that they don't disappear it doesn't disintegrate so what about the other lives that that person had where those lives actually they're there too and so when you reach the other side it might be kind of fun to find out who you are and go up and have a conversation with yourself but if you think that you had problems and phobias in this life that were caused by another life you might find perhaps that interaction a little too disheartening because you know how over critical we can be with ourselves this this is when we get into the concept of the case should record it takes a lot of that pain away if you can just read about it is data points but i guess really ultimately the point i want to make is you're not bound are restricted by any carnation that you have lived that you are grand in your totality and then now moment no matter where or when you