This is not directed at you mystic, I am trying to touch on your points but I'm posting from my phone so it is difficult to break it into quotes, so this may come out a bit jumbled.
We are the sum total of our mental formations(past lives) our attachment to these past lives keep us stoking the egoic fire. To make friends with or to kill this fire is not liberation. Say we identify with this suffering and are friendly with the agreeable past we may strengthen this and come to depend on these beings and not see them as they are, we can develop excitement and miss true peace. Or perhaps we want to kill this fire, so we douse the flames with water, for the moment we are free from fire but the fuel remains, in time the wood will dry and a spark may come and reignite.
I agree that what is necessary is to be aware with a balanced mind, neither craving these past lives or developing aversion to them. Simply observe them and give them the space (do not identify with them) and this will allow them to burn up, as this occurs seemingly painful past selves will have the opportunity to exhaust their fuel supply, you may find them becoming pleasant in nature still your job is to see this as suffering do not cling to these or one becomes trapped at this stage. See them as danger and do not grasp for this experience. These too will exhaust their fuel and you will be ripe to transcend the egoic self and experience the truth of nature.
At times when we meditate, we experience obvious suffering, and every minute seems like an hour at other times we are observing extremely pleasant and blissful sensation and hours pass as minutes. Continuation of awareness is key, no state is eternal, nothing to grasp or cling to. Pleasant changes to unpleasant, unpleasant changes to pleasant, remain balanced and aware. This is how we liberate ourselves.
Disclaimer, as sighclone mentioned in another thread, I also have had deep experiences which is where I base my posts from. But I am not perfect and still very much get caught up in the egoic self and react in blindness. It seems the fire is burning down for the most part but I still throw the odd log on there. The wife and kids seem to know the sequence of buttons to push at times.
