*Enlightenment, Parallel Lives And Counterparts* Q: We have had... throughout this planet, so many times we've had people come down -- well, they come from someplace - like Buddha and Jesus of Nazareth. And now we've had quite great enlightenment from Ron Hubbard in Scientology. But each of them seems to just take us to a certain point, and then we are dropped again. B: One moment, please! No one has dropped you at all. You have dropped your own ball. Realize that religion is simply the following of an idea rather than the living of an idea. Do you follow me? Q: Yes, I follow you, Mhmm. B: Realize, that in every case, to a degree -- particularly with those consciousnesses you call Buddha consciousness, Christ consciousness - simply, the idea was that you are exactly as they are. Not that you should follow them, but that you /are/ them. It is only the separation of: "Well, they must be greater; we must be less. But we cannot ignore them, so we will create a religion to honor them. We will pay lip service to their idea, but we know we can never achieve living that idea, for we are miserably less." Realize that is why on every other civilization we are aware of, yours is the only one that has religion. All others live their beliefs. Q: Okay. What about Scientology? B: What about it? Q: It seems to be different, and it is different. B: Everything is different. Q: Yes. B: You are different; she is different; he is different. Q: That is more what I got from Scientology, just those very things -- that we are all different, yes. B: Very good! Q: And very much as free as we wish to be; and it takes you to quite a degree of freedom. B: Very good. Now, may I say that if you have reached in your mind a degree of freedom, it is you that has taken yourself there -- by allowing yourself to simply use it as a valid tool. Once again: always bring it home. You are doing all the creating; you are doing all the reflecting. A tool is valid as a trigger, but you are initiating, you are forming that reality 'round and about you, reflecting it back to yourself, and you may do so with any tool you wish. Realize, however, to a degree, that you may view one difference between that system you speak of and our viewpoint: you will find, to a great degree, that that system speaks of accomplishing what you term to be self- realization and enlightenment by the eradication of negative energies. Realize that you can never eradicate negative energy from yourself. You are always a polarity. In physical reality you may always have positive and negative energy. You may eradicate, or absorb, or re-channel negative effects, but never will you be able to eliminate negative energy. Therefore, you will find that our viewpoint will be different, in that we understand that you re- channel negative effects by integrating negative energy, not eradicating. Do you follow me? Q: I do. B: Thank you. Question. Q: I have a question on reincarnation. Are you familiar with that? B: Yes. Q: Could you speak of that? Anything you want to say I'd be interested in. B: All right. It will be, from our viewpoint, simplest to view the idea as understanding that you are one overall consciousness that projects portions of your consciousness into many different time frames simultaneously -- since there is no time. Realize, therefore, that what you term to be your future lives, your past lives, your alternate parallel reality lives, on many different worlds and dimensions of existence, all are existing right here and right now, because there is no space and there is no time. And so, of course, it is quite easy for you to become aware of these other selves because they are all right here within you. And you are within all of them. Once again, realize that many of the complexities, which occur in viewpoints, and limitations to understanding ideas, are simply that you are viewing them from a time frame. Allow yourself to understand that really the only time frame you can possibly ever be aware of is the present; and therefore, that is all that exists. Your sense of future and your sense of past are, I'll say, convenient, and sometimes not so convenient, projects. You make use of them as a tool to understand yourself from yet another viewpoint of creation. You may view, once again, that as your own personality here and now, your validity in a sense is to yourself; and that you may always understand that you are always receiving, to a degree, information from all your other selves, in amounts and timings, as you need them. You do not need to put each portion of what you consider to be all your lives under a microscope and analyze them to death in order to understand yourself. You will only be creating separations and labels, which will complicate things even further. Simply allow yourselves to tune into those portions of your alternate selves, as you need to, as you feel them come into you, and integrate that into your overall personality. And realize that with that integration you will be automatically integrating all of your personality identities into one overall consciousness, which may continue to integrate within the overall mass consciousness of your planet, and continue to integrate within the overall mass consciousness of the universe. All right? Q: That's great. B: Thank you. Question. Q: Does that mean that you could have two bodies at one time on this planet? B: Very good. They are called, in your terminology, counterparts. They are simply the idea - a similar idea to future life, past life. But yes, in your terms they exist at the same time, yes. Many of you have many counterparts, some of which you will never meet, some of which you have. Question. Q: Yes, I have a question. What is the difference between the counterpart and the alternate self? B: All right. You will find, that in your terms, not really any difference. Simply, you have an idea called alternate or parallel realities, which operate at slightly different vibrational frequencies, and separate themselves from this universe into other universes; 'tis simply a version of you in that other universe - a counterpart, nonetheless, but simply an alternate self. Do you follow me? Q: Well, not totally. B: All right. In other words, do you understand that you can have two colors of light occupy the same space, and yet vibrate at different frequencies? Q: Yes. B: Therefore, all of the light that can perceive red will only perceive red. All of the light that can perceive green will only perceive green. There may be electromagnetic energy common to both of them, the source of their creation going into the red, into the green. They are connected in that way. Yet the red will never see the green and the green will never see the red. Yet they are in a sense connected, and the same energy. Will that analogy help? Q: Yes, it does. Thank you. B: Thank you.