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The founding fathers were pretty
metaphysical. You know, the third eye
and the pyramid on the dollar bill —
that was their idea. I wondered about
that quite a bit after reading "Still Life
With Woodpecker” by Tom Robbins.
He too, is into pyramids, like the ones
on the Camel cigarette package
decorating the book's front cover.
"A man is not completely born until
he is dead," Benjamin Franklin once
said. And at the age of 22, he wrote his
own epitaph:
"The body of B. Franklin,
Printer,
Like the Cover of an Old Book,
Its Contents Torn Out
And
Stripped of its Lettering and Gilding,
Lies Here
Food for Worms.
But the Work Shall not be Lost,
For it Will as He Believed
Appear Once More
In a New and more Elegant Edition
Revised and Corrected
By the Author”
At the Eugene Hilton. Benjamin
Smith recently shared this historical
piece with nine women at a "past-life”
seminar.
Smith asked the group to be open
and to accept new ideas "with love and
understanding.” as he explained con
cepts of the past-life notion and led par
ticipants through regressions of their
past, present and future lives.
According to Smith, everyone has
been through every space and time. For
example. Smith said he has ventured
from being a cave man, a monk in a
Buddhist monastery, a sailor on
Spanish seas, a farmer in Kansas and a
gangster in Portland, to his present
position as a real estate broker in
Eugene.
Though two-thirds of the world’s
population believes in reincarnation,
the western region is far behind the rest
of the world in past-life concepts,
Smith said. A Gallup poll indicated
that 75 percent of the American
population believes in some form of life
after death.
“Reincarnation, as a belief system, is
ancient,” Smith said. He said that
belief in past lives can be traced back to
the origins of Buddhism, Hinduism
and some forms of Mormonism.
Smith says individuals need to trust
their intuition, especially when explor
ing past lives.
“If you see the Buddha on the road,
kill him,” Smith said.
“You must accept the fact that you
have all the answers, but I don't have
the answers for you,” he said.
Many Westerners are taught to shut
out their intuitions, Smith said. “But
in this past-life exploration. I can help
you get there,” he assured.
Recognizing that people have dif
ferent perceptions of truth is one of the
main concepts of reincarnation, Smith
said. “I am here to talk to you about the
basic truths. But what is truth for me
may not be truth for you.”
as a person with leprosy. For her, hav
ing leprosy was “the right thing at the
time,” she said, ‘it needed to
happen.”
“If you don’t do it right the first
time,” Smith said, "you go back and
do it again."
Smith stressed that during the regres
sions, the workshop participants need
ed to let their minds flow creatively
beyond darkness.
“If you see only black, create
something,” he said.
Smith led the group through four,
20-minute regressions: highest level of
past life, parallel (other current life
times), relationships and progressive
(future) lives.
Smith said, "We are each God and
the combined total of God.” '
Also, Smith said that energy never
dies, it only changes forms.
“Everything that can happen is hap
pening now," Smith said. "Nothing is
solid. Everything is made up of energy,
molecules vibrating at a certain fre
quency. Each time frame has its own
frequency."
And each individual has the ability
to lead several different lives at once,
which multiply into additional lives,
he said. People keep coming back until
they reach their highest levels of ex
istence. For example, one woman at the
seminar experienced her highest level
Each regression followed a similar
pattern beginning with deep breathing
and relaxation and ending with a count
to five, then Smith’s abrupt: "Open
your eyes...open your eyes. ..open
your eyes!”
After each regression. Smith asked
group members to explain what they
experienced and how they felt * Most of
the women gave detailed descriptions
of the time frame, what they were wear
ing, their residence and environment
and the people they were with.
"Are there palm trees in Egypt,” one
woman asked after going through a
past life regression. She had experienc
ed her highest level life as an Egyptian
woman, but she said she didn’t know
Egypt had palm trees until her
regression.
Following the progressive regres
sions, one woman said she saw herself
on another planet looking down at the
earth and seeing Atlantis coming out of
the Atlantic Ocean, and California
separating from the other states.
After two regressions, the group took
a break. Most of the women went out to
the lobby for cigarettes and coffee.
Regressions are tiring, according to
Smith.
During the break, Smith put his hand
on the forehead, or third eye, of a
woman who was experiencing visual
blocks. Smith explained that this ac
tion transfers energy and can trigger a
more clear response in an individual.
The third eye is an area that needs to be
revitalized, he added.
After working with the woman, he
went out to the lobby and explained to
the group that practice of regression
and meditation is not only good for the
mind and soul, but for the physical
body as well. Smith said that when he
first started playing with metaphysics,
17 years ago, he was 20 pounds
overweight and had relatively normal
blood pressure. Now, at 80 pounds
overweight. Smith says his blood
pressure has dipped below normal, and
his doctor is amazed.
Smith got into the metaphysical
realm by cosmic readiness, he said.
In 1968. his stepson found a book.
"How to Make Your ESP Work For
You." by Harold Sherman, in the mid
dle of the road. The boy brought the
book home and said, “this is for you.
Dad.” Smith said.
Smith grew more interested in
metaphysics when he had a psychic
reading done, and everything he had
been told in the reading came true. The
psychic told Smith that "everything is
going to get worse before it gets bet
ter.” Shortly after that. Smith and his
wife divorced.
Smith went to a past-life seminar
after these two incidents. He says he
regressed and. found himself as a
woman making love to a man. It was
the first time he felt emotions in a
regression, and suddenly the connec
tion with a former life became very
real, he said. Smith recalled the first
thing he said when he came out of the
regression: "You ladies aren't, telling
us everything.”
Individuals interested in Smith's
next seminar, which will be held on
March 23, can contact him at 485-8550
for more information.
Story by Shannon Keiley
Illustration by Shawn Bird
Concerts
to benefit
Ethiopia
By Cynthia Whitfield
Of Hi* Emerald
Heart of Oregon’s Pledge to Ethiopia
(HOPE) and Public Health International of
Oregon are sponsoring three concerts
featuring local and nationally known rock,
jazz, folk and gospel performers March 10
at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts.
All proceeds from the concerts will go to
Oxfam America, an organization working to
provide famine relief and educational self
help projects in Ethiopia.
HOPE was created by Eugene residents
Brenda ]ones, Lynda Duffy, Greg Rundo
and Arzinia Richardson “sometime in
November after we saw film footage of the
starving people of Ethiopia,” says Duffy.
McKenzie River Gathering, a non-profit
foundation for social change, will provide a
tax-exempt status for contributions received
by HOPE, but is not involved in organizing
the event. Other members of the HOPE
steering committee are volunteers Sylvia
Smith and Dee Roberts.
Public Health International of Oregon
originated in Roseburg and provides
volunteers to Africa. The organization pro
vides education, sanitation and public
health information to people in refugee
camps, with an emphasis on teaching self
sufficiency in these areas.
The concerts will be held in the Silva
Concert Hall after a 9 a.m. invocation
featuring author Ken Kesey, Eugene Mayor
Brian Obie, and local and national gospel
singers, including the Grammy award
winning Edwin Hawkins. A $5 donation
will be requested from everyone attending
the invocation.
The first concert begins at noon with
three hours of jazz and classical music with
nationally recognized jazz artist Bobby
McFerrin, the Eugene Symphony Or
chestra, and the Eugene Ballet Company.
A rock concert with some of the most
popular West Coast rock will fill the next
four hours, starting at 4 p.m. These include
the Cashiers, Crazy Eights, Hoodlums, Boys
Club and other bands. Ireland's Stockton’s
Wing will open the concert with electrified
Celtic music.
The final concert, beginning at 9 p.m.
will feature Dan Seigal and his band. Don
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the Crusaders, Nancy King and the Eugene
Jazz Orchestra, and other jazz performers.
Admission for each concert is $12.50 or
$30 for all three. Fifty percent of the cost of
the tickets is tax deductible.
Meanwhile, other festivities will be
presented from 10 a.m. until midnight at
the Eugene Hilton Playwrights Hall, which
will be the center of a radiothon conducted
by area radio stations to raise additional
funds for Ethiopian relief.
Hilton performers include Clown Com
pany, Shumba, the Whitetones, and
Foreign Aid between noon and 4 p.m.;
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