But seeing as time is experienced as a linear thing by the Body, and more as a gestalt sort of thing by Spirit (Notice how time moves about and is perceived in dreams) then to describe Past Lives as a linear kind of thing is probably not how it works. That is just a body's interpretation of a spiritual reality. Spirit isn't bound to time and space as the physical world is. I have considered the phenomenon of Multiple Lives, existing like the seperate fingers attached to a single hand (like the... Sign in to see full entry.