Another way
to see.

In a brief moment of lucidity, I became aware of myself at the center of a circular room, surrounded by what appeared to be a council of past incarnations of myself. They took many different forms: some luminous, some dark, some physical, and many non-physical. Each seemed to come from a different time, a different place, a different planet, a different universe. Yet they all felt like emanations of my soul’s experience through time and space.

Floating above me was a geometric, multidimensional mandala. It seemed to represent the sum of the experiences of my current life, on display for all these versions of my past self to see. The gathering felt like a check-in, almost a progress report: a chance to reflect on what I had experienced, and to check in on my progress toward some greater purpose that I can no longer recall.

I didn’t feel scrutinized or judged. I felt that I was there to share what I had seen and experienced. There was a sense of belonging, as though I was reconnecting with past parts of myself—a quiet comfort in feeling that these incarnations had all gathered in one place.

This was only a brief segment of a larger dream, but it is the part I can still recall most clearly, and the one that has stayed with me.