Are Past Lives Really in the Past?
(The following is an AI summary based on the Seer Sessions membership episode in July 2026)
When people hear the phrase past life, they usually imagine something linear.
A life before this one.
A person they used to be.
A story that happened long ago.
And that may be true.
But after experiencing past-life regression myself for more than a decade and guiding thousands of people through hypnotic journeys, my understanding of “past lives” has become much more open, strange, grounded, and honestly, much more useful.
I still use the phrase past lives because people understand it.
It gives us a doorway.
But I do not always think these experiences are simply “in the past.”
They may be past lives.
They may be parallel lives.
They may be symbolic identities.
They may be subconscious imagery.
They may be collective memory.
They may be soul material.
They may be glimpses of future selves.
They may be consciousness moving through time in ways we do not yet fully understand.
And here is the part that matters most to me:
You do not need to prove exactly what another lifetime is before it can change you.
The Question I Care About More Than “Was It Real?”
I understand the desire to prove a past life.
It is exciting when someone experiences details in a journey and later finds historical support for what they saw, felt, or knew.
Those moments are fascinating.
I have had experiences like that myself.
Clients have shared stories like that with me too.
But I have never been most interested in proving the lifetime.
I am more interested in what happens afterward.
Does the person feel more compassion for themselves?
Do they understand a relationship pattern differently?
Do they soften toward a fear they have carried for years?
Do they reconnect with creativity?
Do they feel more alive?
Do they return to this life with more clarity, courage, or trust?
That is the part I care about.
Because the point of exploring another lifetime is not to escape this life.
It is to understand this life more deeply.
Why “Parallel Lives” Sometimes Feels More Accurate
When I first began this work, I thought of past lives very literally.
This was me before.
This happened long ago.
I lived that life, died, and then came here.
I still think that may be true.
But my relationship with time has changed.
Time does not feel as fixed to me as it once did.
We experience life from one point of view, in one body, on one planet, moving through time in a very specific way. But consciousness may not be limited to that same structure.
So when I say “past life,” what I often mean now is “another lifetime.”
Another point of awareness.
Another identity.
Another experience.
Another version of consciousness that becomes available because it helps us understand something about this life now.
In that sense, past lives may be more like parallel lives.
Not necessarily gone.
Not necessarily behind us.
Maybe happening in some larger field of consciousness that we can access through memory, imagination, trance, intuition, or deep inner knowing.
What If It Is Symbolic?
Some people worry that if a past-life experience is symbolic, it somehow matters less.
I feel the opposite.
Symbolic does not mean fake.
Symbolic means the deeper mind is speaking in image, emotion, body, story, atmosphere, and meaning.
If you experience another lifetime where you are abandoned, powerful, silenced, free, creative, exiled, devoted, loved, or afraid, the question is not only:
“Did this literally happen?”
The question is:
“Why did this image come forward now?”
“What does this help me understand?”
“What feeling did this unlock?”
“What part of me is ready to heal, release, reclaim, or become?”
That is where the transformation lives.
Why Future Lives Matter Too
I also believe we interact with the future more than we consciously realize.
Not always in dramatic visions.
Often in subtle glimpses.
A feeling of familiarity.
A synchronicity.
A moment where something looks or feels like the version of yourself you are becoming.
A tiny inner click that says:
Yes. This is closer.
This is more me.
This is the direction.
I have had moments in my own life where something small, like a haircut, a physical change, a landscape, or a move, suddenly felt like a future version of me had arrived.
Not because I had consciously planned every detail.
But because something in me recognized it.
That recognition matters.
The same way another lifetime can help us understand the past, a glimpse of a future self can help us move toward a more aligned life now.
The Real Purpose of Exploring Another Lifetime
The purpose is not to collect spiritual trivia.
It is not to come out saying, “I was famous,” or “I was important,” or “I can prove this happened.”
The purpose is to ask:
What does this experience help me feel?
What does it help me understand?
What does it help me release?
What does it help me become?
A journey to another lifetime can give us a different point of view. It can help us access compassion, grief, courage, sensuality, strength, freedom, tenderness, or devotion in a way that feels more alive than simply thinking about those qualities.
Sometimes the image, story, or lifetime gives the nervous system an experience it could not access through logic alone.
That is the medicine.
Explore This Theme on Seer Sessions
In July on Seer Sessions, we explore other lifetimes, identity, consciousness, parallel lives, and the lives we almost lived.
The public episodes include:
Episode 279: The Life You Didn’t Choose
Episode 280: What If You Didn’t Miss Your Path?
Episode 281: Journey to Another Lifetime
Episode 282: The Life You’re Here to Live
Inside the membership, I go deeper into what I personally believe about past lives now, how my views have changed, and what I have witnessed after guiding thousands of hypnotic journeys.
Because whether another lifetime is literal, symbolic, parallel, collective, future, or something else entirely, the real question is:
What becomes more possible in this life after you experience it?
