Many Lives, Many Loves
by Gina Cerminara
Love being a matter of the relationship of one unit of life to another, it is worth noting that in the Cayce data there is a basic proposition regarding human relationships. It can be stated as follows:
Souls who were closely related in one lifetime tend to meet in other lifetimes. If the relationship was one of love, the love persists; if one of enmity, the enmity must be overcome; if one of obligation, the obligation must be paid.
This is a plausible proposition, surely; for if we grant the continuity of life at all, and the operation of law governing it, it would seem likely that the powerful force of attraction between souls would have its own strong persistence; and wherever there has been hatred, deeds surely must have been done which require karmic rectification and hence a renewed association. Even in a love relationship there is usually a mixture of good and of bad; and all of us must have incurred debts therefore which we must pay, or deserved rewards which must be delivered. (more…)
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Tracing The Rules Of Reincarnation
by Robert C. Smith
We may have hunches about past lives. We may have theories about experiences in another time or place. Some of us may even have vivid past life dreams or flashes of waking recall. But what do such experiences really mean? Can they teach us anything about ourselves and how to live this life more fully? Unless we can answer yes to these questions, the study of past lives may be nothing more than an interesting past time, an indulgence of curiosity about ourselves that has little practical value.
But suppose, on the other hand, that the study of past lives is actually a look into the inner workings of the universe we live in, a glimpse into the purpose and orderliness of life. If this is so, then this investigation is a very important avenue to the answer to two of the most important questions mankind has ever asked: Why is life the way it is, and why am I the way I am? (more…)
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Past Life Influences ~ Part III
by Nancy C. Pohle & Ellen L. Selover
The following story provides an intriguing and complex illustration of many of the elements of past life memories, influences, and inclinations which have been discussed. It emphasizes the notion that the information becomes available as we have need of it and as we can apply it practically in our lives. Recognizing the source of strong emotional impulses and discovering relationships and karmic patterns that have traversed the limits of time are all part of this experience.
Lisette’s experience spans ten years, from her first spontaneous insight to the reconciliation of deep emotional pain and release of limiting beliefs. It began as an intuitive flashback so emotionally charged that she decided to seek additional guidance through meditation, dreams, past life regressions, and even a professional psychic. Over time, enough clues emerged that Lisette was able to formulate a clear message that she could apply to her life in helpful ways. (more…)
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Awakening Past Life Memories
by Robert C. Smith
Have you ever stepped outside on a warm spring night and found that the balmy air and the light fragrance of early blossoms awakened feelings almost too deep to describe? Or maybe you’ve had the experience of hearing a particular song from the past come on the radio, and all of a sudden that song transports you to another time and place. You not only remember what you were doing when you first heard the song, but you can even remember what you were thinking and feel what you were feeling then.
The sounds, sights, and smells around us—they are such powerful influences on our memories and emotions, and so individual in their effects on us. The same song can bring a happy memory for one person and a painful recollection for another. One person might feel a restless sense of adventure at the sound of a train whistle in the night, while another feels lonely desolation. Even the most common, everyday experiences can produce very different feelings in different people. For example, when you hear a telephone ring, do you experience anticipation? Annoyance? Some other reaction? Or maybe nothing at all? What is it about the sounds, sights, and smells around us that brings forth such a variety of responses from people? Is it something in these perceptions themselves that causes us to react differently from one another, or is it something in us? (more…)
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Past Life Influences ~ Part II
by Nancy C. Pohle & Ellen L. Selover
Enhancing Sensitivity to Past Life Influences
Answering the following questions can prompt an enhanced awareness of past life influences:
- To which countries and cultures do you feel an attraction or repulsion? What styles of furniture, architecture, clothing, and so on do you like? If the furnishing and accessories in your home or workplace reflect an interest in particular cultures, it is likely they are pertinent to a previous incarnation and are having an impact on your present circumstances.
- Do any nationalities or cultures come to mind when you meet a new person? If so, you both may be influenced by shared experiences from a previous lifetime. The dominant characteristics of that culture might give you clues about relating to that individual, based on remembered patterns and tendencies.
- What types of music, art, literature, and food do you most enjoy? Pursuing artistic endeavors is an excellent way to evoke past life talents and memories.
- What patterns do you see in the hobbies and activities you choose? Are there pastimes you share with others? This is a good way to determine the nature of any past life connections you may share.
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Past Life Influences ~ Part I
by Nancy C. Pohle & Ellen L. Selover
Reincarnation is the theory that, as souls, we each experience many lifetimes for the purpose of developing spiritually and becoming true co-creators with God. Some cultures and religious traditions teach the transmigration of souls; that is, that a soul can incarnate as human, animal, or even insect. However, in the model of reincarnation which Cayce embraced, the souls of humans, animals, and other creatures are totally different, with separate purposes and environments in which to seek perfection. If this is an accurate interpretation of the human soul’s appearances in the earth, then, potentially, we have all experienced numerous lives throughout human history, through diverse cultures, within all races, as both male and female, in every type of economic, social, and political circumstance. We may have experienced every religious conviction, devoted ourselves to a life of service or to amassing material wealth, raised families, lived a celibate life, and fought, killed, or died for our convictions. We may have experienced peace in an idyllic setting, felt the thrill of adventure and discovery, developed a gift or talent, or all of these. (more…)
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Spontaneous Recall Of Past Lives
by Rosemary Ellen Guiley
Just before we are reborn, the veil of forgetfulness descends to block our remembrance of our past lives. We come into life with a karmic history and a purpose, yet we have conscious access to neither. According to Eastern doctrine, forgetfulness is a blessing and enables the soul to make a fresh start in each incarnation. Otherwise, life would be made extremely complicated and confusing, perhaps even paralyzing. Nonetheless, we catch glimpses of the past in certain moments. Fragments and fleeting impressions and feelings bubble to the surface, only to be passed off as imagination in many instances. In some cases, a person may be swept into an incredible vision that unfolds before their eyes. There are many ways to experience past lives spontaneously: (more…)
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How Do You Want To Spend An Eternity?
by Tish Brown
Being that we are eternal living beings that even suicide (see my article on suicide) cannot kill, how do you want to spend your eternity? Do you want it to be constructive with love and peace in your life or would you prefer the drama of never-ending upheaval and pain? Guess what? We decide. In every nanosecond of our lives we make the decision.
The distortions of our past enter into every nanosecond of our being. This is what energy does. Energy not only gives us the ability to move and live from breath to breath but it also comes with baggage. It’s this baggage we want to get rid of if we are to finally wake up into a new world or dimension of love and peace. This past is only an illusion that traps us in hate and fear and it is what we have to recognize in our daily life as being just that – an illusion. (more…)
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Past Lives Matter – Q & A ~ Part III
by Bryan Jameison
Q: How long have we been incarnating on Earth and where did it begin?
A: Our first incarnation took place approximately five and one half miles south of Mattoon, Illinois, 3,746,542 years ago on the third day of June at 3:34 p.m. Daylight Savings Time.
Q: Are you serious?
A: Of course not. Truthfully, I haven’t the slightest idea of when or where we first incarnated on Earth. If what my regressees have told me is true, we’ve been roaming around this planet for about a million years, and in addition, many of us have spent millenniums as inhabitants of other galaxies or planes/dimensions. (more…)
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Past Lives Matter – Q & A ~ Part II
by Bryan Jameison
Q: Doesn’t the belief in reincarnation conflict with a belief in God?
A: Not at all. If anything, I believe it puts God in a much kinder, gentler and far more fair and merciful position than the one He now occupies in most mainstream Western churches. The law of karma, which operates through reincarnation, places all responsibility for what happens to us on ourselves as individual souls rather than on God. We, and we alone, have created all of our curses just as we alone have earned all of our blessings somewhere along the way. God has nothing to do with it except to make all things possible. If it were otherwise, we would have no free will.
Q: I’ve read the Bible many times and have yet to see any mention of reincarnation. Is it referred to in the Bible?
A: No, but neither are Chinese people, house cats or the pyramids mentioned in the Bible. Yet we know they all existed at the time the Bible was written. If we were to disavow the existence of everything not specifically mentioned in the Bible, we still would be living in caves and eating our meat raw. Also, those who contend there is no scriptural validation for reincarnation’s existence are obviously assuming that God is either Christian, Hebrew or Moslem because there are great volumes of scripture from other world class religions, which deal with the subject extensively. (more…)
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Past Life Influences
by Gina Cerminara
The solving of riddles is an instructive pastime. Underlying the solution of many a child’s trick is a significant principle of logic or of thought. Perhaps, then, when we come to that most important of all riddles—the riddle of man’s identity, his origin—we can apply to it the wisdom learned from a simple match trick.
In this trick a person is given six matches and asked to form with them the outline of four equilateral triangles. He begins confidently to make triangular arrangements, but his confidence soon wanes. Indeed, he finally despairs of finding the solution. The problem cannot be solved until it occurs to him to manipulate the matches in three dimensions rather than two, and to make an upright pyramid rather than a fruitless combination of flat triangles.
The enigma of man is, in a sense, comparable to the problem of the matches. Only through an added dimension—in this case, the dimension of time—does it seem likely that man will be able to understand himself. (more…)
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Past Lives Matter – Q & A
by Bryan Jameison
Q: What is the benefit of learning about one’s past lives?
A: Although there are many benefits, the reason is because most people want to find solutions to present-life problems that are causing them some kind of personal pain. Through regression [and other methods], they usually can discover what happened in the past to create their present problems. Once this is known, whatever is necessary is done to neutralize the cause, which invariably originates either in this life or one from the past. My own operating assumption is that nearly everything occurring in an individual’s present life is the effect of some former cause. Over the years, I have noticed that if the initial trauma is neutralized, a domino effect is created. Not only is the causal trauma neutralized but so, too, are the emotional consequences i.e. fear, begets fear, hate, etc. of those future experiences, which have been based upon the original trauma. (more…)
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Past Life Origins of Mental Illness
by Gina Cerminara
The name of Freud and the term “unconscious mind” are well known today. Many persons, however, are unaware of the fact that Freud’s discovery of the unconscious mind was due to his investigations in hypnosis. It was because hypnotized subjects could recall incidents from their childhood that were completely forgotten in their conscious state that Freud was forced to postulate an “unconscious mind” to account for the preservation of the otherwise irretrievable material. Freud later abandoned hypnosis as a clinical technique because it proved unsatisfactory in many cases, and proceeded to develop other methods of exploring the unconscious depths. But hypnosis must nonetheless be regarded as the parent of psychoanalysis.
In the realm of reincarnationist psychology, hypnosis may have a similar role to play. The Cayce clairvoyance would seem to indicate that it is possible for a hypnotized subject, such as Cayce himself, to discover the past-life history of other individuals. But perhaps even more important than this, it would seem that it is possible for an individual using hypnosis, or some similar technique such as the dianetic reverie, to relive his own past lives. (more…)
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Examples of Karmic Feedback
by Dr. Bruce Goldberg
Anorexia nervosa is a very dangerous syndrome. It is characterized by a patient literally starving herself to death. The patient considers herself to be very much overweight even though, in reality, she is at her proper weight or slightly underweight. When she looks in the mirror, she fantasizes that she sees an overweight figure. I have observed this neurosis in women of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds. Most commonly, it affects young, single women of middle-class backgrounds.
There was a case that was reported to me not long ago about a 19-year-old girl who read an article in a leading magazine stating that one can never be too rich or too thin. Because this young woman was from a lower middle-class family with little chance of becoming wealthy, she decided that her only hope was to lose weight quickly by starving herself. This sudden weight loss nearly killed her. After a number of hospitalizations and psychotherapy, she realized the futility and danger of her actions and fortunately came to her senses. (more…)
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Exploring Past Lives Through Dreams ~ Part II
By Michael Talbot
Training Yourself To Dream About Past Lives
Once you are able to remember your dreams, you are ready to start programming them to tell you about your past lives. Many people are surprised to discover that programming a dream or getting a dream to answer a particular question is a remarkably easy process. It is also a very ancient practice. In her book Creative Dreaming, psychologist and dream researcher Dr. Patricia Garfield notes that techniques for programming dreams to answer specific questions have been found in Egyptian records dating from 3000 B.C. The ancient Assyrians called the practice istiqara, and among the ancient Greeks it was known as “dream incubation.”
Many modern researchers have also developed methods for “incubating” dreams. Although devoid of the mythological jargon that accompanied ancient techniques, the essence of these techniques remain the same. Inducing a dream about one of your past lives (or about any matter on which you desire dream guidance) involves three basic steps. (more…)
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