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by Michael Goddart, MFA

I’ve been a daily meditator feelings of familiarity with people, places, to recover their past in their and student of since I and historical . They remained on their own and know that the was nineteen, but when I unexpectedly mysteries until I began to recover my specific details are true. began to recover my past lives wholly past lives and then I discovered that these new metaphysical concepts and were sanskaras, impressions from past The fourth factor is the became known to me, and these gave lives—the result of specific experiences preparation I engaged in between lives. clarifying meaning to my journey in particular past lives. This practice was with the assistance through —that of a spiritual of a female guide and consisted having experiences. In the nineties I began to of further developing my powers regularly practice developing my of concentration and focusing my I never expected to recover my , my sense of knowing. I was across on my physical past lives. One day it just happened. But expanding my everyday into past lives. You may or may not have it was the culmination of four different my so that I would performed this preparatory work between kinds of preparation that all came better know how best to act. It became of lives. If you have the desire, this may lead together starting on March 14, 2013. paramount importance when after having you to recover who you have been and The seed in my current life was planted much of my small intestine removed what helps define who you are. when I was twelve when I found and in 2012 and another major surgery to bought a book by and, once remove as many scar tissue adhesions I read about reincarnation, I immediately as possible, stress or one bite too many New Metaphysical knew that past lives were true. could bring on yet another unbearably excruciating bowel obstruction and send Concepts Starting when I was ten—soon me to the ER, or worse. after my family’s move to Marin County, Between lives, I was mainly California—I read and practiced books Here then are three of the four with my Cohort of Seven. That’s the on self-, factors that contributed to my recovery term that kept coming through before by contacting spirits, and psycho- of past lives: on the Sound I recovered that they were the seven . Weeks after my eleventh Current; curiosity of what precisely I was mainly with between lives, birthday, I let go of my parents’ nominal in the past defines who I am in my but also the ones I have shared the most and dedicated my life to finding current life; and concentrated practice human lives with on Earth. We’ve been a way to conquer and achieve of strengthening my sense of knowing. searching together, trying to figure out with a consciousness of This is revelatory—people may be able how to progress spiritually. Inside spirit complete bliss. I made this search the top priority of my life. I continued to search through high school and university and began practicing daily Transcendental Meditation the summer after my sophomore year at U.C. Berkeley.

The summer before my senior year at Cal, I found the path and Teacher I had been searching for and months th later I was initiated in the practice of In 13 century stilling the and listening to the Sound Current, also called Word, Logos, Tibet, an exalted Nam, , Holy , and myriad other names. Over the years, as I continued my Buddhist monk daily meditation of two-and-a-half hours, I observed my life and wondered about inspired me to find my seemingly inexplicable affinities, inherent abilities, native interests, and my own teacher.

1 Higher Mind, Overriding Desires, and Significant Lives I was a priest Another new metaphysical in Prague from experience and reality I discovered was the first stirrings of the predominance 1546 to 1569. of my higher mind over my lower mind. Higher mind is your better, nobler mind, that part of you that is positive and likes to be kind, benevolent, and be of service. The lower mind is the mind that is a slave to your senses. The first stirrings of predominance of the higher mind was thirty-four lives before my current life when I lived in the country that is now making clothes with my family. realms as mind-spirit entities between lives, we’d be together reviewing and learning It was not until my twelfth life back when from our recent lives. We’ve also shared teachers or guides within who helped us I was a government official in Tibet that prepare for our reentry into the physical. my higher mind became predominant a majority of the time. Over numerous lives, our preference for gender developed. Four of us, including me, developed a decided preference for taking a male body, while the “Overriding Desire” is another other four, a female body. In the very rare reincarnation accounts that cover more new concept that came early in my than one past life, the gender and sexual orientation are fixed. I recovered many lives recovery of past lives. An Overriding when I was female—in fact, the majority of the lives on the first of three planets on Desire of the higher mind defines who which I dwelt I was female. Further, of the human lives I wrote about, in twelve I you are to a large extent and was “homophile.” That’s the term I coined to more authentically represent my same- the trajectory of your life. I first had sex orientation. two Overriding Desires when I was a priest in Prague. From then on, in my “Notable Life” is another new concept that came through, and I found I most recent six lives I’ve had three. lived thirteen Notable Lives—four each on Earth and my first planet, Jorlu, and five For instance, when I was an architect on my second planet, Vazin, where I went through the greatest number of lives. A in post-American Revolution Baltimore Notable Life is meant for particular growth in character or . It’s also an my three Overriding Desires were (1) to opportunity to live a large life—that is, a life whose range, capacity, and power are provide for my family, (2) to meet a true greater than those of a regular life. A third aspect of a Notable Life is that it has Master, and (3) to be a good architect. the potential for greater consequences—both positive and negative. A Notable Life adds important blocks to the foundation of who you are and who you are becoming. Overriding Desires were key in denoting a life as a “Significant Life,” a life that had a profound revolutionary impact on my spiritual . Significant Life is another new concept of importance in my journey through I enjoyed a human lives. I had four past Significant Lives: my most recent three and what Great I call the Pivotal Life: when I became an orphaned young man in Macedonia, when I lived living there from 616 to 594 BCE. When on ancient I was fifteen, I received a visitation from a “light-being” that awakened me with Santorini. love. I gazed at the formless form of radiant white light and after endless minutes, it moved closer to me, hovered over me, and finally merged in me.

That life was the beginning of the end, of going out out out in the world, accumulating karmic debts. From

2 EVOLVE! the Pivotal Life forward, each adult life but two had at least one “key evolutionary About the Book spiritual experience” and each one transformed me, loosening the shackles of attachment and centering me, more and more, in my quest for . Key evolutionary In Search of Lost Lives: spiritual experience is a new concept I coined to name the awakenings and growth Desire Sanskaras, and the Evolution that added to my foundation, spiritualizing me and advancing me to the Love that of a Mind& is Michael Goddart's is God. unique memoir in which he recovers seventy-one human and seventeen past lives and depicts spiritual Great and the Spiritual Purpose experiences that ultimately prepared him to follow a path of soul liberation of Human Life from the mind. On goddart.com, the author identifies twenty-nine things that This growing spiritual love was a different kind of love from the three “Great his memoir achieves. Among them, In Loves” I enjoyed in the recent past lives I recovered. This was another new concept Search of Lost Lives: and it was gratifying to bring back and relive those Great Loves, particularly since I’ve been single my entire current life. A Great Love has three qualities of focus, ™™ Shows the true equality of women magnitude, and caliber. There’s a single-minded one-pointedness to the love; it’s a in societies on the two other deep profound love that transcends ego desires; and it’s a fine, exquisite love that planets on which Goddart lived feeds your inner being and higher mind. The three Great Loves I enjoyed were in before Earth. Ancient Greece when I lived on Santorini, in Viking Copenhagen, and 1920s London. ™™ Depicts a variety of hurtful actions Do we take human lives only to search for love with another, or to strive for that Michael Goddart committed achievements in a field of work, or merely to satisfy one desire after another? One in past lives that resulted in a loss of the experiences and truths I recovered is that there’s a specific spiritual purpose of his next life as a human and for each human life. This particular awakening realization came when I was living in his resultant as an ancient and it was the catalyst for my becoming a self-taught philosopher. animal or sojourn in a state of This awareness came while I was riding a horse, exploring a new location hoping to reformation with indescribable find soapstone for my collection. After this awareness dawned in me, it articulated suffering. into language. It was another kind of spiritual experience, that which I call “the ™™ Provides a firsthand account of spiritual being enhancing the human experience.” fascinating, precise details of life in pre-Christian era If you have an experience that may bring a new paradigm-shifting awareness and Atlantean and Lemurian or lifts you out of your everyday self to enjoy moments of transcendent being, be communities, including strange grateful for that experience and focus on it. It could open up your life and exalt you religious and folk practices. to a new level of seeking. Seek, and ye shall find. Ultimately, your seeking may lead you to a fully realized Master. Life on Earth can be beyond tough. For those who wish to realize their full spiritual potential and attain a consciousness of everlasting love and bliss, there is . Always, at least one living fully realized Master is present and here to initiate his or her marked onto a path to return to their true home. Call them Masters, , Guides, or Teachers—these terms are capitalized to indicate what we perceive to be their fully realized state of being, that of being one with the Supreme Being—of their soul having merged back in that ocean of Love while walking among us, having a human experience. They are the embodiments of the ultimate great Love.

More than mere concepts, whole new realities and spiritual experiences await you beyond your most wonderful dreams.

About the Author

Michael Goddart, MFA is the author of the newly published In Search of Lost Lives: Desire, Sanskaras, and the Evolution of a Mind&Soul, a winner of the third annual Body Mind Spirit Award. His book, Spiritual Revolution: A Seeker's Guide; 52 Powerful Principles for your Mind & Soul, was named Best Spirituality/ Self-Help Book by the Hollywood Spiritual Film and Entertainment Festival and a leading Australian bookstore named it one of the best metaphysical books ever IN SEARCH OF LOST LIVES: Desire, written. He is also the author of BLISS: 33 Simple Ways to Awaken Further. Please Sanskaras, and the Evolution of a visit www.goddart.com for interviews, excerpts, testimonials and to learn more. Mind&Soul by Michael Goddart Publisher: Path Press (Epigraph) $26.95, ISBN13: 9781944037833, 420 pages