On Identity, Collective Memory, and Continuity Through Incarnations

Introduction

This series is a progressive account of my Past Life regressions to Lemuria. These journeys unfolded as vivid, participatory experiences in the consciousness of a man named Keth. I recommend the background presented in Episode #1 as a starting point. That post is here.

A summary is attached at the end of the full narrative.

I made it a practice to review the oral recordings of these journeys shortly after returning to physical awareness, with the transcript in front of me. This allowed me to unpack and document insights and details that moved too quickly to capture at the time.

Later observations and insights are italicized and enclosed in square brackets.

In this post I speak as Wes, and use quotation marks to indicate when the narrative is Keth’s thoughts.

A Return to Presence Among Companions

It’s May 31, 2022.

…I think I’m Keth now. Just going to see what happens and go with that.… It is Keth. He welcomes me — notices me and gives me a warm welcome. It’s intriguing to me how we can maintain separate identities within the same body. I ask if he knows anything about this. He says no, this is the first experience like this he or anyone he knows of has had.

We are with some of his friends, sitting. It’s a beautiful day. I have a feeling that it is the same people, although there are only four of us, not six. Keth’s wife is at work elsewhere.

Harmony with Environment Rather Than Control Over It

“You have a question about our weather. Because we are near the equator, we experience little of the variation that we would if we were in more temperate zones north or south. We are able to control the weather, but we do so very rarely.

Learning Without Instruction: Experience as the Primary Teacher

“I see your question. We do not educate our children in a fashion that resembles what you do. They are allowed to experience life. The skills that they may wish to acquire, mathematics being a good example, that do not come naturally through experience for the most part, are offered to them telepathically. A physical skill, by which I mean one that requires training the body, is acquired — developed would be more accurate — through experience. The mental parts of it, the conceptual parts of it, are offered or shared [by those who possess the knowledge needed]. My swinging through the trees on the vines is a good example of this.

“It might be said that information and concepts can be shared telepathically, but the wisdom of the body or the wisdom of the intellect are developed through experience. Even if I were to fully open my self to another person in terms of the depth of my learning in all aspects of my being, that person would still have to practice with the ideas in order to solidify them in his or her own being.

Gender as Expression, Not Definition

“I see linguistic curiosity in you when I refer to the genders. Our language resembles your native English in that genders are used only with sexually gendered beings. Unlike you, we do that with plants as well as animals, some of which we understand biologically to be gendered. We will use attributes of masculine and feminine to refer to the ways in which beings demonstrate particular qualities. We will, for example, refer to someone who is anatomically male using the female gender if that person is demonstrating a quality that in our understanding is feminine rather than masculine. This is often done with a sense of humor. We enjoy gentle teasing and use the masculine/feminine distinction that way sometimes. Our use of the terms or the references to masculine and feminine is more nuanced than yours, which seems to be based purely on biology.”

Unified Perception Across Two Selves

We shift now to a location much like the one at the end of the last session, where we are overlooking a lake from a high vantage point. There are three of us. The two others are here because they are curious. These two are… one is male and the other is… seems to be capable of presenting as male one instant and female the next. This is done in such a fashion that he/she is a beautifully integrated mix of the qualities of both genders even in her appearance. I ask Keth if this is his perception as well and he says, “You perceive what I perceive.”

Sexuality and Appreciation: Relaxed, Transparent Intimacy

There is no doubt that I as Keth am male and masculine. At the same time, I as Wes notice a much different sexual drive in Keth than what exists in Wes. It is more relaxed in a sense. Still, Keth is capable of appreciating a female body, and finds looking at them pleasurable. The telepathic sharing of this is a high compliment. It is allowed to be so regardless of the particular type of body shape of the other person or persons.

Lifetimes and Memory: The Crystal Archive

I bring forward the question of experience beyond a single lifetime. They apparently have either very little interest in experiencing lifetimes other than the one currently being enjoyed, or they have integrated their lifetimes so well that the idea of different lifetimes is, again, one of asking a fish if it knows what it swims in. Until you point out the water, the fish is unaware that there is anything else to experience.

It appears that the memory is longitudinal, and very deep in that sense because memories are carried from one person to another. Even as people are born and die, there are so many millions of them (the number 40 million comes into my mind) alive at any one time it is almost like an Akashic record, accessible to everyone of them because of their collective memory. My first impression is that it would be stupefyingly overwhelming, but as quickly as I have that thought, Keth responds “Your memory is limited to that of a current lifetime unless you are in some fashion, according to your society’s mores and norms, gifted or weird or unusual in that respect. Even as the limitation of one lifetime takes hold, you still acquire so many memories that you would be overwhelmed if all of them crowded into your mind at the same time. For us, there is simply a larger number of accessible memories. For us also, those memories seem to be more readily available than are yours, but it is not a clear and infallible access. We have to work at it. There are those whose job it is to hold these memories.”

With that, I see in Keth’s mind an image of some kind of liquid crystals, semi-living… We transition to a place where I see transparent vessels that contain something that holds information. They are a little less than a metre (three feet) on a side, stacked. Imagine yourself to be in a library where instead of stacks of books there are stacks of these cubes. Many rows, going up very high and then disappearing into a distance or darkness. The rows are long. There are many of them, thousands perhaps. Each one has an immense capacity for memory.

When I tune in at the molecular level, I see that they are partly organic. They are crystalline liquid. The arrangement of the crystals is such that the amount of information within one vessel is huge. There is a lot of duplication to provide redundancy because, like any structure that is liquid crystal, there can be degradation.

Limits of Understanding: My Cognitive Boundaries

The people who maintain these are also in some measure like the story keepers of earth societies. They have in their own minds… they correct me. They say, “This is not in our minds. We have access to it, and this field that you have seen as an image of cubes…” I don’t understand what they are transmitting. They decline to go into more detail.

[For a moment, as they were telepathically offering me information, I felt much the same as I have occasionally felt in ordinary consciousness when listening to a mathematician describe something far beyond my capabilities. I couldn’t take it in. They sensed that, decided not to try to simplify it for me, and the conversation ended.]

I’m wondering whether what I perceived is an image of the Field, the Zero Point Field, the Akashic Record.

Accessing Other Lives: Effortless Retrieval

I’m guiding Keth now, returning slowly back from that particular topic, that digression, to the idea of past lives and their access to past lives. Keth says “We do access our past lives. We have help in doing this. I suspect from what you have taught me that there are beings other than our own people who assist us with this. It does not require entering a trance. It is more like an intention or request is presented, and then we experience whatever we have requested or intended to experience. Some of us are more curious about this than others. I personally have not found it to be of a great deal of interest except insofar as it relates to my current occupation.”

Keth offers that right now [in this visit] he is 520 years old. This is a little more than mid-career. He is at a stage beyond journeyman, toward master in his career. A teacher and a leader.

I say to Keth, “I want to discuss more about how to develop telepathy in my own time. Before I do that, I have a question about my relationship with my own wife, and whether you have any insight about how to determine what relationship she and I have at the soul level in your time.”

Keth says, “I am discussing this with my two friends. This is a new concept for us. I was puzzled by the greeting that was passed on from Sha-Na for Chaska-Ra. I now understand the relationship between the two of you. It would be presumptuous of me to reach out to the ones who hosted us in that meeting from here, and I can’t offer you an answer to that question.

“There is an interesting distinction between our society, our culture and yours. We are… I will not explore our emotional response to what we see of your society through you, other than to say that there are many aspects of your society that we find disagreeable to who we are, to the point where we have limited desire to know more. I do not sense that same reluctance in you. In general, our intentions as individuals and as telepathic small collectives and then a single large collective is to appreciate beauty and to create it.

“That beauty includes sensory beauty, and also a beauty of relationships, among not only ourselves but also those whom you would call first and second densities. We can in some ways share memory with them, although our desire to do so is limited by the lesser degree of awareness that they demonstrate. Nevertheless, we work with them. We honor their desire to express themselves, in whatever fashion that manifests. They honor us by being willing to cooperate in our growth.

“We understand that they know they are also on an evolutionary path and will one day achieve the level that we are currently enjoying, so they offer themselves in service to us. It may be that they do so just out of the love that seems innate to them, or they may also understand that they themselves are growing and that their growth will be enhanced by working in collaboration with us.

“Our own collective experience of what is true — sensory, aesthetic and energetic — is sufficient. We are not static as a people or as individuals. We are aware of and celebrate growth and evolution. And wider experience and the elevation of ourselves that all those things bring.

Spiritual Continuity: Chakras Across Lifetimes

“You have one more question in your mind, which you see as an important one. You began the question with wanting to know whether advancement in terms of awakening, balancing, and potentially fusing the chakras carries over from one incarnation to another. This is not necessary, but it does happen as a natural part of the continuity of lifetimes. As a soul learns through each lifetime of incarnation that it experiences — if it is conscious, if it does not forget everything during a new incarnation — it can retain most and perhaps even all of the growth that it has experienced to that time. However, like you, we move through the veil of forgetting when we incarnate, and it is part of our process of growth from infancy to progress toward higher stages of advancement. Part of that entails recovering the level of brightness of the chakras. In some individuals the previous learning and development of the chakras comes into the current life almost or perhaps even completely intact.

“I would have you know, Wes, that if you look around you, you see the same thing in your own time. It may be that in our time, because of the relative — I am trying to stay away from a word that is loaded — the relative wakefulness that I detect in our people, both the numbers of those who bring their chakra development more or less intact into a new incarnation, as well as the general level of development, is much greater here than it is in your time. The disasters that have occurred in humanity must have been severe indeed. We have compassion for you.

The Work Ahead: Teaching and Transmission

“I see that you have another question, and it has to do with how you can help to bring this to your people for those who have ears to hear, as your Bible says. I will… I offer you my self.

“You have had either eight or 10 human incarnations between my lifetime and yours. In some of those you managed hardly at all to pierce the veil of forgetting. In others you had moments of piercing that veil, but those moments were then forgotten. The Neanderthal was aware in his fashion of something beyond his physical life. The woman who lived in the time of Jesus was one such. The small soldier with the ill-fitting armor knew almost nothing. The Native American woman had a sense of it, but she was culturally limited in her ability to appreciate the significance of the chakras and to work with them in a conscious fashion, so she devoted her awareness to working with the second density beings and became skilled and well-integrated with the gifts and consciousness of plants. The (20th century) soldier knew nothing beyond a vague discontent.

“This is not an area where I am skilled or experienced, nor do I see, in any of the information to which I have immediate access, anything parallel to it; but there is a wisdom that says that you and I can be connected and that you can teach those who are capable how to integrate the chakras. I can’t anticipate the impact that being fully telepathic with another person in a society like yours might have on the two people involved or a group of people. I feel cautious about this, and at the same time optimistic.

“Let me help you work with your own chakras, our chakras, to recover what has been dampened in the last thousands of years. Be in touch with me frequently, both in sessions like this one and in your daily life.

A Network of Guidance Beyond a Single Lifetime

“There is a mechanism at play here that I don’t understand. It has to do with some of the other beings with whom you are more familiar than I am. You have reached out to them. They know of your history. The soul being you call Odin, the one you call Vern, the one you call Sheila, the members of your Council in addition to the one you call Odin — all of these are sources for you, for us. We have no term that describes both of us [Keth and Wes] in this one consciousness.

“Work with them, present this to them, and ask. Allow yourself to be guided. I do not know whether I am being instructed by them in this moment or not. I may well be because after all, we share this soul. I am guided to inform you, to bring to consciousness partly for this record that you are keeping, that it will be very helpful to you to do what you need to do in your own life to make this contact and the contact with those whom I have mentioned as close to continuous as you can. There will be moments that feel like deafness. There will be moments of what I understand to be beautiful/intimate/loving/expansive/uplifting, and some of just amazing and wonderful contact. Those are the moments that will teach you most.

Closing Exchange: Mutual Recognition and Anticipation

“My friends who are here with me — you can feel their astonishment and delight with this conversation. They need — have indicated to me that they need time to process what we have discussed in a limited manner today.

“Yes, let’s have a drink. I appreciate this drink Ahbe-la’ even more as I sense your delight with it.

“My beloved self, I have enjoyed this time with you. I look forward to our next meeting in this way and to the strengthening of our ongoing contact. It gives me deep satisfaction to anticipate that I, my friends here, and those other beings can work through you in the service of your own society.”

I have now left Keth. I have my eyes closed and am seeing a visual. [The audio recording includes a description of what I was seeing with my eyes closed, but the comment that follows sums up my reaction to it.] I don’t have the feeling that this is significant. I open my eyes and end the meditative journey.

 

Summary

In this return to Lemuria, we both have a distinct sense of co-consciousness, as two identities share a single body without displacing one another. Keth confirms that this is unprecedented in his experience.

Our interaction unfolds among familiar companions in a calm, natural setting. As before, communication is telepathic, allowing questions to arise and be answered seamlessly. Through this exchange, a number of aspects of Lemurian life become clearer.

Education, for example, is not structured or imposed. Conceptual knowledge can be shared directly through telepathy, but embodied understanding — physical or intellectual — must still be developed through lived experience and practice.

Their ideas of gender reflect a similarly fluid and nuanced worldview. Gender is not rigidly tied to biology but is used to describe qualities of expression, sometimes playfully. This fluidity is mirrored in individuals themselves, including one being who in my perception is capable of shifting seamlessly between masculine and feminine forms.

Memory, too, operates differently. Rather than being confined to an individual, it is distributed across the population, forming a kind of collective continuity over time. This is supported by what appears to be a vast, semi-organic crystalline system that stores and stabilizes information, like a living archive. Access to this memory is not automatic or unlimited; it requires skill and intention, and certain individuals serve as its custodians.

At one point, I am shown more than I can process. The attempt to transmit complex information exceeds my capacity to receive it, and the exchange is gently withdrawn. This moment highlights a recurring theme: even in a highly developed telepathic culture, there are limits to what can be conveyed without the necessary shared internal capacity, which I do not possess.

As the conversation deepens, Keth speaks about past lives, describing access to them as an intentional process rather than one requiring altered states. He himself shows little interest in exploring beyond his current life unless it serves his present role.

The focus then shifts toward our connection. Keth recognizes that this interaction is not one-sided. There is a sense of reciprocity in our shared identity across lifetimes, and an emerging possibility that this connection may have benefits for my society. He offers assistance in helping to reawaken capacities in my own time, particularly in relation to the chakras and telepathic awareness, while also expressing caution about how such abilities might manifest in a less integrated society.

He reflects on my intervening lifetimes, noting varying degrees of awareness and capacity, and suggests that development can carry forward across incarnations, though it is often obscured by the veil of forgetting.

The exchange concludes with an implicit invitation to continue the connection, to deepen it, and to explore how what is accessible there might be responsibly integrated here. The experience is no longer simply observational. It is becoming participatory, with potential implications in both directions.

 

Lessons From Lemuria: What This Means for Us Now

1. Consciousness can be shared without being merged.

The experience of sharing awareness with Keth suggests that identity is not as singular as we typically assume. Two distinct awarenesses can occupy the same body without confusion or loss of self, implying that consciousness may be more layered and cooperative than individual.

In modern terms, this points toward a less rigid sense of self, one that allows for influence, intuition, and even guidance without loss of autonomy. It also invites a more flexible relationship with inner experience: not all thoughts or insights need to be “owned” to be meaningful.

2. Knowledge can be transmitted, but understanding must be earned.

Even in a telepathic culture, where knowledge can be shared instantly, information alone is insufficient. The integration of learned concepts still requires lived experience.

There is no shortcut to embodiment. This has direct relevance today: consuming information through means such as books, courses, insights, does not replace practice.

3. Expression of identity is fluid, not fixed.

Gender in Lemuria is not a rigid biological category but a dynamic expression of qualities. This fluidity is not ideological or imposed; it arises naturally within a culture that perceives individuals through their energetic and behavioral patterns as well as through physical form.

For our time, this translates into greater adaptability: allowing individuals to express strength, receptivity, logic, or intuition as needed or desired, rather than conforming to static roles.

4. Memory can function as a collective resource.

Rather than being confined to individuals, memory appears distributed and partially externalized. The presence of a structured, shared repository, maintained and accessed intentionally, suggests that continuity of knowledge does not depend solely on personal recall.

Modern parallels include institutions, digital knowledge systems, collaborative networks, and oral tradition. The lesson is not just to accumulate knowledge, but to participate in systems that preserve and transmit it effectively.

5. Interest in past lives is not universal.

For the Lemurians (or Keth, at least), the focus is on the present life unless broader awareness serves a practical or developmental purpose. Curiosity about past lives appears to be culturally contingent rather than inherent.

They are aware that growth in areas such as awareness or energetic balance can endure from one incarnation to another, but it is often obscured by the process of forgetting. What has been developed may become conscious by reawakening rather than new learning.

6. Contact across lifetimes introduces mutual responsibility.

The closing exchange emphasizes connection through ongoing contact, guidance, and collaboration.

There is a need for caution in reawakening certain capacities in my own time, particularly in relation to the chakras and telepathic awareness, with regard to how such abilities might manifest in a society where there is limited emotional and ethical maturity.