Episode Details

A JOURNEY THROUGH LIFETIMES with DENA MERRIAM

“To make steel, you have to go through fire.” – author Dena Merriam, on growth through challenges

“The foundation of the Universe is love.” – author Dena Merriam

Episode Summary:

Today we talk about past lives, past lives, and past lives!

Dena Merriam is an author, storyteller and founder of the Global Peace Initiative for Women -- bringing spiritual resources to address critical global challenges, such as conflict, social justice, and ecological scarring of the earth.

• Her first book “Journey Through Time, a Spiritual Memoir of Life, Death and Rebirth” takes us on a journey back through seven consecutive lives, revealing the intricate patterns that emerge as one life leads into another.
• Her second book, “The Untold Stories of Sita, an Empowering Tale for Our Time” takes us back to a much earlier age, several thousand years BCE to a pre-patriarchal era when humanity had not fully separated itself from the natural world.
• Her third book, “When the Bright Moon Rises: The Awakening of Ancient Memories”, is currently out.
• She has a fourth book in the works.

Listen in to hear how Dena came to know all of her previous lives and the tapestry of interconnectedness between them.

Topics We Discuss:

• [3:55]  Dena’s spontaneous recollection of 7 previous and interconnected lives, and her investigation in today’s world to validate her memories. Recalling pre-war Russia and WW2 in Europe while trying to navigate her current life. Being skeptical at first, Dena traveled to those locations to confirm that her memories were valid.

• [7:18] How patterns, aspirations and desires emerged like a beautiful mandala interweaving lives.

• [8:10] there's no set timeframe on how long you have to wait to come back into a new incarnation. The flexibility of time in non-[physical dimensions. When the conditions are right, we “take life”.

• [9:55] How people and places stimulate her ancient memories.

• [11:20] Visiting a temple in India caused spontaneous recollection of a painful experience of love lost. A time without warfare. A time of simple pleasures and peaceful, joyful life.

• [14:52] Recalling a life in China, the wisdom of the Tao, and a great spiritual depth.

• [16:21] Spiritual lessons, knowledge, wisdom, awakenings. How her experiences changed her relationship with death, which she calls the next frontier of science. Along with acknowledging other dimensional beings – beings we don’t see. Understanding consciousness separate from the material form, separate from the body.

• [18:52] An exercise: take down the highlights of this life – the best and the worst of it.

• [19:40] The foundation of the universe is love. The mind boggling patience and love that is poured from these other realms.

• [20:56] The alignment for Dena to found the Global Peace Initiative for Women with lessons from previous lives. Recollections from previous pre-patriarchal times. The contribution to create more gender balance.

• [27:31] Future life memories, or life blueprints, or likely scenarios, or potentialities. How we can tap into and create our future.

• [30:50] Exercise: what is left undone for you?

• [32:06] Most people are creating unconsciously; reacting to circumstances vs consciously creating.

• [32:38] The two reasons to reincarnate: karma, or service. (Reference “Life, Death and the Space Between” episode #231 “Being Ram Dass”.)