In different lifetimes, you incarnate in different dimensional planes, let alone in different universes in the physical universe.

Tantra involves radical change, a change in states of awareness.

Are you still carrying everyone who's insulted you, injured you or interfered with you? That's a lot of weight. I'd let it go, personally, and just move on and forget. Be in the moment. Don't even notice.

In meditation we get a sense of the countless selves within ourselves, the different forms they take. Those that don't seem positive or helpful we push aside. Those that seem progressive we enjoy.

Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges.

You can summon up power from past lives and bring them into this life. That can give you a boost into the next state of mind or further up.

Transmission does not have to take place physically. The student doesn't have to be sitting across from you. But it's easier if they are because the vibration of the teacher is strongest in the physical proximity of the teacher.