When you’re digging around looking for pathways through space to ancient times in which you lived and died, you need some way to lock onto the thing, and I have just the ticket — phantom pain.

It doesn’t have to hurt — it can be an odor, a special lighting, an emotion, a conversational fragment, even an episode of “Walker, Texas Ranger” can do it for some.

What happens is that something “gets stuck” from a past lifetime, and impinges on the present life in some way. In order to actually be aware of this, there must be some noticeable effect, and usually it takes the form of a phantom of some kind.

It can take the form of a pain, an ache a sensation, an emotion, a thought or an idea, a fragment of a song or tune, an upset, almost anything that isn’t directly attributable to anything happening in the present time/space.

I’ll try to explain, but first, you’ll need to understand a ROOT PRIM. Continue reading →