How Stargazing Can Give You a Humble Sense of Self

Have We Existed on Other Planets in Other Lives?

Sitting up on a hill on a dark night, away from all light pollution, and looking out at the expansive array of twinkling planets and vast galaxies painted across the sky can be one of the most humbling and enlightening of experiences. In fact, it’s my favorite thing to do when I’m taking a program at the Monroe Institute, to just lay out in the grass at night and stare at the sprinkling of stars above. Stargazing really gets my mind moving, especially when I’m in such an existential state.

I found myself doing this last night, and it guided me through an interesting train of thought. We tend to think about existence from the perspective of what we know from our experiences in this particular life. But sometimes, we can’t know the full truth of existence from outside of this realm, as it takes having experience outside of the world as we know it. For instance, we see time in a linear way. So, when we think of ‘past lives’, we tend to think of living other lives that happened in a time-frame prior to this life (for instance, a life in the 1800s or one in any time prior to 2022).

However, if time is not linear, doesn’t that mean we can experience lives we technically haven’t lived yet? In a regression or exploration of our ‘past lives’, we could technically see lives that we lived in a later year of this earthly timeline, but we just can’t quite grasp that, as we are too trained to focus on time as a linear entity. This, in itself, is a topic I hear about quite often in Monroe programs, and it’s something I have to keep reminding myself of, as I, myself, get hung regularly up on the linear idea of time.

I interviewed a past-life regression expert years ago who told me something similar, and he called these future lives “future projections” that people enter into while doing past life regression therapy. And it happens quite often.

In the same vein, then, has our consciousness known life on other planets? Perhaps, we have known other galaxies, solar systems, and planets and just cannot wrap our minds around the idea at this time because it’s too different from the physical life we are currently living? Perhaps we’ve even known many lives on other planets or we move on to other planets at different points of time in our long evolution of existence?

I must admit, while I’ve never been too big on the topic of ‘aliens’ or life outside of this world, it would be narcissistic to believe that we are the only living beings in the countless galaxies that make up our universe. It was a topic I briefly touched on in some of my Monroe Institute experiences when we got to explore in Focus 34/35 during Exploration 27. And it has most definitely piqued my interest as I set my eye on Starlines with a want to know myself as an even greater being.

And this loops me back to the idea of pondering what exactly existence really is and what the boundaries are that come with it. We tend to have such a small perspective of the greater universe in our daily lives here; we put ourselves in a box of small experiences. And I wonder just how much greater our consciousness expands and what the limits of this really are? After all, the idea of ‘objective reality’, which is said to define existence, is truly defined by the subjective means of science, culture, religion, and philosophies. We are ever-changing, ever-expanding beings, and I guess theorizing, investigating, exploring, and trying to understand will always be ingrained in our nature, and I can only hope we will continue to learn, grow, and discover more with every question asked and every star gazed upon. And I hope to bring more answers and theories to you as I continue my journey at the Monroe Institute as I move forward into Starlines and beyond.