Imagine if you woke up one morning and you were suddenly at base camp on Mt Everest. You find yourself as part of a mountaineering team getting set to climb the peak and you are immediately thrust into all the preparations required for that demanding journey. You go over all the gear and the expedition leader briefs you on the plan. Before long, you set out and start the arduous trek up to the summit in extreme conditions.
But also imagine if you had absolutely no memory of anything that took place before that, or any idea of why or how you ended up at Mt Everest base camp in the first place.
That’s what the conditions are like when we pop into a human lifetime.
You are here on this planet, in this lifetime, experiencing an extreme adventure in very challenging conditions with absolutely no recollection of how you got here or why you are even doing it in the first place.
If you and your friends suddenly woke up at Mt Everest base camp with no memory of any previous existence, you would have no context to compare it to anything else. You would be in a cold frozen land with no plants, trees or other living beings of any kind. All your food would be pre-packaged, and your clothing would be suitable only for extreme mountaineering. You would have no memory of forests, oceans or cities, your friends, family, communities, careers, interests and all their other facets of life that makes up who you are.
Your entire existence would be scaling a dangerous, frozen peak enduring frostbite with lungs and muscles screaming in pain due to lack of oxygen – and everything about that would be “normal” and you would call that experience “reality”.
The conditions of life on Earth as humans is equally extreme, and without recollection of anything else, we assume that everything here is normal and we are living in “reality”. Ask anyone you know and they will tell you the same thing.
But you also have family, friends, community and many other facets of your life that you experience within the expanded multi-dimensional framework of who you are as a Higher Self living out your eternal soul journey. You are so much more than the human expression you are in this lifetime, the Mt Everest mountaineer scaling up to the summit.
So why aren’t we aware of the expanded nature of who we are on the soul level while we experience this human lifetime? The answer to that question is easier to see if you flip the script and look at this life as your Higher Self, instead of the perspective from Mt Everest as a lonely mountaineer.
The Higher Self, or the Soul, are concepts we use in this reality to describe the level of beingness that experiences all the different lifetimes you live out in various physical and non-physical incarnations. The Higher Self is the experiencer of all the different “lives” that make up “you” – past, present, and future, as well as outside the concepts of linear time we experience in this reality.
The Higher Self embodies the collection of all the experiences that it has ever had living many possible lifetimes in many different realities, not just on Earth as a human. The Higher Self is multi-dimensional whereas your current human self is rooted in its earth-human dimension of reality, along with a bit of bandwidth that allows us to experience neighboring dimensions. But your experience being human is primarily in this dimension, because that is the whole idea.
But the Higher Self experiences multiple dimensions concurrently, each with their own reference of time and space, and from that perspective, you and everything about your life is just a temporary experience that the Higher Self is having.
You are the roller coaster that your Higher Self is riding, the human strapped into the seat clutching the safety bar, screaming as the car races down the track through steep loops and hairpins. The Higher Self was the one who designed the roller coaster in the first place, just as it designed Mt Everest and then placed you there to climb it so they/you could experience the extreme challenge of trying to make it to the summit.
And for the climb to be as challenging and exhilarating as possible, the emotional intensity needs to be as high as possible. If there are feelings of hope, despair, fear, doubt and ineptitude before the joy and thrill of reaching the summit, the whole experience vibrates with more charge and juice. If you are going to do something extreme, you might as well make it as extreme as possible.
Which is why the “Great Forgetting” is built into the design of this reality.
When we are born into human form, most of us forget every other experience we have ever had in previous lives/ dimensions/realities where we live/have lived /will live. We come into this lifetime with what feels like a blank slate, and we start learning everything from scratch as a baby. By the time we are adults, we are entrenched in the perspective that this lifetime is all there is or ever will be. This lifetime is all that we know.
That perspective creates an incredible amount of emotional charge to everything we do. How important is one day in your life when you remember living thousands of them and assume there will be thousands more days to live before you are finished? But if this one day feels like it is the only day you have ever lived or will live, the stakes become higher as the attachment to every aspect of your day takes on an extra level of intensity.
That’s the emotional charge that gives your life a bit more zap experiencing it as the one and only lifetime you will ever know.
How loud would you scream on that roller coaster after you have ridden it over a thousand times? But how loud do you scream on your very first ride? So in forgetting every other previous ride, you scream with a freshness of your first ride every time, which makes it fun and why you want to do it in the first place.
Who wants to ride the roller coaster and have a “ho-hum, this is OK, I guess” feeling? We want to walk off the ride with our friends, look at each other and say “Whoa, that was freaking intense!”. Which is exactly the feeling the Higher Self wants to have after living a human lifetime.
That’s why the design of the Great Forgetting makes this reality special, and even more challenging.
But do we totally forget everything from our experiences in previous lives and multi-dimensional experiences? Though you normally don’t have access to your past life memories like you remember being in high school, the lessons from your past experiences have been integrated into your soul beingness and are there to access in the form of innate skills, wisdom, and special abilities we express in this lifetime.
All those “natural abilities” and aptitudes that make up who you are in this lifetime are mostly bleed-through from your past life experiences. It doesn’t appear that way from your Mt Everest perspective, but we’ve been cultivating our skills through timeless ages of being alive in many forms and we tap into elements of our expanded experience as we go along in this lifetime.
Everything we understand about human life is only a small fraction of the overall reality that you know and experience on your more expanded levels. By feeling cut-off and isolated from the rest of it, we experience this lifetime in a deep, rich fullness across the full emotional spectrum of pain, suffering, joy and exhilaration believing it is everything there is. It’s part of the magic of this reality.
Everything you know and love about this place you designed yourself as your personal Mt Everest experience, your own roller coaster ride. Your Higher Self is thrilled to hear you scream as you clutch the safety bar for dear life, so that when you’re done you can say “Whoa, that was freaking intense” and you’ll get back in line to do it again.
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