each incarnation. I will give you an everyday example so that you
understand. Imagine a class with some students that are starting their
first computer training course. At the beginning of the course, a
computer is given to each student, so that they can practise and save
all the exercises and documents of the course in the computer
memory. By the end of the course the students will have learned a
series of aspects of computing. In the next course, they will change
class and computer. They will be assigned a new computer with the
memory at zero , and with a greater processing capacity and memory
so that they can make use of all of this capacity to increase their
knowledge. Even though the students were not able to transfer the
documents and exercises from the memory of the first computer onto
the second computer, they will not forget everything they have
learned about computing. With this knowledge, they will be able to
configure the new computer however they like, not starting from
scratch, but rather making good use of the knowledge acquired in the
first course, independently from whatever they did with the first
computer and the data created. When the spirit incarnates in a new
body, that body is like that new computer with the memory at zero
which is given to the student on starting the course, which the student
will go on using in order to learn. In time, the body will wear out to the
point when the spirit can no longer use it to continue advancing. So
this is when it is necessary to “retire” the old computer, in other words,
disincarnate. The physical memory, the brain, is decomposed along
with the rest of the body, but not the spiritual memory which retains
everything that the spirit has learned in that life.
In the disincarnate state, the spirit has access to all the details of
previous incarnations, because now the spiritual capacity is no longer
restricted to the capacity of the physical body.
So are we able to remember all our previous lives when we have died?
All that you have lived through in the incarnations and the periods in
between physical lives is filed for your personal use, although whilst you
are still hardly evolved, your capacity to explore within this memory is
limited to the most recent lives. Insight into the spiritual memory of
previous lives increases as the spirit evolves.
I still don ́t see the need to forget other lives. How can the memory of
other lives harm us? I think it would rather be to the contrary. If we
preserve the memory of its past lives, won ́t we be more conscious of
the evolutionary process and make better use of the incarnation to
evolve?