Case Study - 24 year old man

The criterion for a major samskara to be imprinted is not pain, but intensity. Strong samskaras are engraved in the astral body when an episode is associated with emotional intensity. We all know from our own experience in this life that we tend to be too unhappy more often than too happy. The same can be expected to have taken place in former lives. This explains why major samskaras surfacing from our past have statistically more chance of being related to painful events than to joyful ones. Yet any intense joy can create a samskara, in much the same way as Chinese medicine considers joy can induce a heart attack. This 24 year old regressed into a euphoric experience of landing an air plane after a great victory:

-I am in a very small space, like metal all around me. There is vibration, a metallic vibration... I see all these people. I know I am wounded on my right side but I don't even feel it. I am completely exhausted, annihilated. And at the same time it feels GOOD! As if I had been fighting for three days and three nights non-stop. It feels so... beyond everything. There is nothing left of me, there is just the sky.

-It's a cockpit. I'm in a plane. I can hear the noise; and there is the vibration. The plane is going to land. It's more than being worn out, it's like seeing everything from a distance.

-There is a shock when the plane reaches the ground. And I can see all these people, a crowd waiting for me. There is a feeling of glory... Oh! my God! It is huge. In my heart, an IMMENSE feeling of glory. I don't know what I have done, but they seem to like it very much. It's war...

-My plane has landed and they are all waving their arms. They run towards the plane. Oh! my God! [starting to cry] I think that now I'm cracking up. I have not slept for a long, long, long time... I did not know one could feel glory that big.

By reconnecting to this past life, the man experienced an aspect of himself that was not accessible in this life time. Touching the part of him that could accomplish something extraordinary, unlocked the kind of confidence that was lacking in this mans current life. On a spiritual level it could be viewed as a re-connection at a soul level, the vastness of his spiritual self and the awakening of his being, becoming accessible during the high intensity of a crisis situation, like a war.