Ep.31 I Died at Sea

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I remember my past life and as crazy as that sounds to some of you, it is real. I was about 4 or 5 when I first remember my past life and I told my mom and dad about it vividly the next day. It was completely real and it still is real. I was asleep when the memories came back, but that is the optimal time and age for a child to receive this information because their heads are not filled with the junk of adult life. Years later through hypnotherapy I was able to piece together more pieces and learn my name. It sounds absurd, but it feels RIGHT and it’s none of my business if you don’t believe it.

My name was Larry. I was a fisherman who spent my last years alone except for a dog and a cat after my beautiful wife died. I was stubborn as hell (a trait that carried over into this life 😊) and I didn’t interact with people a lot in my later years. Early in my life I joined the military and through that I met my wife. I was in WWII and got out of the military alive, but changed, and slightly more protective of my life. My wife was the most important thing in the world to me, but I loved fishing and would take my boat out to fish as often as I could. After my wife died, I would still fish, but that was the only adventure I had aside from being in my small house with my dog and cat. One day I took out my small boat despite everyone’s objections because of the incoming weather. I went fishing, but was stuck in a storm. I tried to paddle around to get to safety, but I died at sea. I drowned and my body was washed up on the rocks of an island on the West coast of the US.

Back to my current life. When I joined the Navy, I was sent to San Diego for training and went to the Pacific Ocean with some friends. I knew that going in the Pacific Ocean was going to be cleansing and healing for me, because this is where I died many years ago. No one around me knew the exhilaration that I felt and was built up inside me as I walked towards the water barefoot. I always wanted to swim in the Pacific Ocean not just for the beautiful pictures I saw when I was back on the East Coast, but because I was DRAWN to it. I understand the ocean is dirty and not as iconic or beautiful in many ways, but this was a beautiful moment because I was about to go into the body of water that took my life, but this time come out alive.

The moment the water hit my feet I was fixed. I don’t know how to describe it to you besides the feeling of running into your loved one’s arms after not seeing them for a year, but that is what I felt from the feet up. It was the perfect moment.

I am out of the military and no longer by the ocean, but I corrected my karma from the last life by making it out of the ocean alive. There are many repeats from the last life into this one, from my love of fishing, joining the military, living in a small house, and being attracted to women, but I am complete from the last life into this one, because of that one day.

To me, this is one way to die while we are alive, although I don’t think we need to remember our past life in order to do this. To quote the late great Dr. Wayne Dyer, “to die while we are live is the only opportunity, we will ever have to get out of this package that houses us, temporarily.” Dr. Wayne Dyer also mentions the 40th verse of the tao in the Tao te Ching which states, “returning is the motion of the tao.” He brings up a sentence by TS Elliot which is, “we shall not cease from exploration, and at the end of all of our exploring, will be to arrive where we started, and to know the place, for the first time.”

Dying while we are alive means ending a part of our selves and beginning a new part which brings us into a new phase in our lives. It means ending relationships with our connected neurons that cause us to be angry at small things, sad at everything, overly excited, lustful, and/or greedy. It’s the shift from one you to the next you, and when you look back you can be grateful you were that person because of the lessons learned, but more grateful you are no longer that person because you reached new heights. Dying while we are alive means looking at the end process (death) and realizing that there is potential to make this now better, and by doing so, you have made the world better. It takes the form of pain, heartache, sorrow, shame, guilt, loneliness, and frustration, but it transforms into present, level headedness, multi-dimensional, understanding, compassion, and discipline.

No matter what you believe regarding the afterlife, I 100% respect your point of view. There are many different views on what happens when we die and we don’t know the truth until we are dead. I believe in reincarnation, karma, and adventures which you enter into in order to learn, or gain, or be a hero for someone, or correct karma, or all of the above. I don’t know why we are here, but I can die while I am alive and try, even though I have failed, at many things because progression is better than stagnation.

I don’t know all the answers, but I do know that my name was Larry.

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