In meditation we can also access our ancient memories of past lives. One of my teachers, Roshi Hogen from Japan, teaches about the rubbish from the past which we access on the astral plane during meditation. He calls this "Makyo" in the Zen tradition. But he teaches that the experience means something. We have accessed a deeper level.

When I came to one of my teachers, Roshi, Master Hogen with my experience of using the Mantra "Who am I", The Koan of Sage Ramana Maharshi of Tiruvannamalai in South India, in a state of profound meditation. Like a stone thrown into an empty pool, the ripples flow. My experience was of accessing all my past lives in a "Karmasaya" - the bag of our past lives. I could see all of my past lives. However, I was not interested in this, I told him, and went on further in my meditation into the source. Zen Master Hogen said indeed that we can waste hundreds of years on exploring the Astral Plane but the information we receive can be meaningless. Usually when we dream we access the very lower levels, the "Telenovella -Coronation Street" the very basement of the Astral plane. We need to go Further. We forget lower Astral plane experiences when we die. We need to go on further into the Source to elicit a real change in the psyche. To the "Spring at the Top of the Mountain" which Meditation Energy Enhancement teaches in Stage Four of Meditation Energy Enhancement. However, the experience means we have reached something. I remember the experience of seeing Zen Master Hogen’s Aura glow golden and expand with energy at this time. His whole body and around it became surrounded by a beautiful Golden Light. His higher self was pleased. Another student had accessed something of the beyond. Was moving on. It was good. But it is not enough. We can still fall unless we maintain our practise towards even higher stages. The higher we go the further we can fall. Unless we are Enlightened. And in the end, Enlightenment is not Enough!!! "Meditation Energy Enhancement teaches the techniques which can take us all the way."