Oct
30thThe Karma of Mockery

By Gina Cerminara

One of the seven cardinal sins of Christian theology is pride. Like many another theological tenet, this one is intellectually interesting but seems remote from the practical, medical problems of human affliction. Yet if we are to accept the testimony of the Cayce readings, the sin of pride can result karmically in very tangible physical suffering—and particularly so when this pride has expressed itself in mockery or scorn. Cruel laughter and disparaging words seem to be the equivalent of a physical act of aggression, and thus set in motion boomerang karma which results in the same physical affliction as that suffered by the person mocked at.

There are seven cases of severe physical disability in the Cayce files in which the affliction is attributed to a cause of this kind. Curiously enough, six of them are traced to the era of the Christian persecutions in Rome; here again we see how groups of souls of one era of history apparently return to earth as contemporaries in another era of history. (more…)

Oct
16thExploring Past Lives Through Dreams

By Michael Talbot

The question of karma is obscure to me, as is also the problem of personal rebirth or the transmigration of souls. “With a free and open mind” I listen attentively to the Indian doctrine of rebirth, and look around in the world of my own experience to see whether somewhere and some-how there is some authentic sign pointing toward reincarnation… Until a few years ago I could not discover anything convincing in this respect… Recently, however, I observed in myself a series of dreams which would seem to describe the process of reincarnation. Since this observation is subjective and unique, I prefer only to mention its existence and not to go into it any further. I must confess, however, that after this experience I view the problem of reincarnation with somewhat different eyes… ~ C. G. JUNG, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Although it has long been known that dreams are storehouses of information about our past in this life, there is evidence that they frequently contain a good deal of past-life information as well. For example, in 1981 psychic researcher D. Scott Rogo of John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, California, placed a notice in several psychic-oriented magazines asking interested readers to send him accounts of reincarnation memories they had experienced that had emerged in any way other than through hypnosis. In his 1985 book The Search for Yesterday, Rogo reported that spontaneous past-life memories which surfaced in dreams constituted the largest group of credible accounts. (more…)

Sep
17thDiscovering Past Lives Using The Resonance Method ~ Part II

by Michael Talbot

Occupations

Past-life occupations also appear to leave a powerful imprint on people. Frequently, after I have taught people the Resonance Method and raised the subject of occupations, they can immediately recall two or three jobs they have done in former lives. You may find that the idea of life in a convent or life tilling the land has always evoked a certain strange nostalgia in you. Or you may realize that you have a real feel for medicine, the military, for making things with your hands, for fishing, hunting, teaching, writing, carpentry, building clocks, helping others, acting, weaving, public speaking, electronics, or astronomy.

Once you have come up with a list of occupations for which you have resonance, go back over your life and see if this sheds any light on other aspects of your personality. For example, after I discovered that I had resonance for having been a jeweler, I suddenly realized this aptitude had manifested itself frequently throughout my life without my having been aware of it. I realized that I had always possessed a natural tendency to tinker with watches and other small objects. Although I had never cultivated such a reputation, friends and family frequently brought me their broken chain clasps and other jewelry to be fixed. I even remember that as a small boy, I once saw a book on a famous jeweler in a bookstore, and I paused and gazed at it for a second or two as if the information the book contained were calling to me—but then I moved on and had completely forgotten the incident until I had my flash of insight about having been a jeweler. (more…)

Sep
11thDiscovering Past Lives Using The Resonance Method

by Michael Talbot

The past-life places and things for which one tends to have the most resonance are the broader features of human existence. The exceptions to this rule are those things that have left a strong impression in the unconscious because of powerful emotional associations or repeated past-life exposure.

Go through the categories described in the following paragraphs, and every time you find an item for which you feel you may have a past-life resonance, mark it down on a page in your journal. [See how to journal for past lives here] That way you will have all of the fragments of possible past-life memories accumulated in one place so you can study them more easily when you set out to determine if they come together to form any larger patterns. (more…)

Aug
12thDiscovering Past Lives Through Journaling

How To Keep A Past-Life Journal

by Michael Talbot

One of the most important prerequisites to beginning to explore your past lives is to set up a past-life journal and get in the habit of using it. The journal should be loose-leaf so that you can add pages when necessary, and large enough to accommodate a lot of material. You will also want divider sheets or subject tabs so that you can organize the journal into sections.

How you set your journal up will depend in part on your own idiosyncrasies and on which techniques of past-life recall you choose to explore. Some basic organizational suggestions follow. (more…)

Aug
8thPhysical Karma

“Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.” – Buddha

“He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword.” – Jesus of Nazereth

by Gina Cerminara

On Physical Karma – According to the Edgar Cayce Readings:

The lame, the deaf, the deformed, the blind, the incurable—these are perhaps the most conspicuous examples of human suffering. When we see such an affliction in another, we are moved to pity of the deepest kind. When we experience such an affliction ourselves, and know its sad frustrations, we begin bitterly to question the ways of God to man. Why has this thing happened to me? we ask plaintively. Why has it happened to me?

The belief that suffering must be due to wrongdoing of some kind has been discarded by the modern mind as a superstition of outworn religions; few people nowadays are inclined to think of suffering in terms of “sin”. Yet in the view of the Cayce readings, sin and suffering have an exact cause-and-effect relationship, even though the point of origin of the sin may be hidden from view. (more…)

Jul
24thPast Life Talents: Lost But Not Forgotten

by Bryan Jameison

One of the most fascinating things about regression work, is that it’s like exploring an uncharted river. One never knows where it might lead nor what surprise may lie around the next bend. By 1983, I was well aware of the healing power of past-life therapy because of the consistently positive results my clients reported to me. Then one day, I regressed a woman into a past life, which took place in South America. There she had been an accomplished potter, and her unique and beautiful creations were in great demand. She began describing how she actually created one of her pots. As she talked, it was obvious she loved her work.

Since I never have anyone rush through any enjoyable or enlightening experience, I suggested she really get into the hands-on process and make a special mental note of everything she was doing. I wanted her to pay particular attention to what she was experiencing physically (to feel the texture of the clay as she molded it, etc.), as well as how she felt about being able to do what she was doing as she was in the process of doing it. After recalling, the entire process from beginning to end, we went to the time when she “threw” the pot of which she was most proud. By that time, she had been making ceramic pots for over twenty years. Once again she took herself through the entire creative process, describing in detail not only what she was doing but why she was doing it the way she did. (more…)

Mar
29thDysfunctional Relationships And Their Roots In Past Lives

by Bryan Jameison

Inasmuch as most of my clients are female, the majority of my work has naturally been focused on working with issues affecting their lives. A common problem many women have is finding themselves enmeshed in dysfunctional relationships, yet not being able to extricate themselves from them. Despite the ability of many women to care for themselves in today’s society, many, nonetheless, are plagued by obviously inappropriate feelings of guilt. When contemplating terminating a chronically abusive or dissatisfying relationship, I’ve found several past-life reasons, which often cause them to stay, even though their good sense said get out of it.

In their past lives, most women seldom could read or write and most certainly knew nothing about the outside world. Most had very little to offer in exchange for their keep, aside from sex, cooking, etc. Without a father or husband to protect and provide for her, the average female literally was at the mercy of the male populace. She was very lucky if she could find employment as a scullery maid, barmaid, or housekeeper. Her other options were to become a whore, a beggar, a thief or a nun. What most unmarried women could expect to look forward to without a man was a life of humiliation; begging on the streets, prostitution or scavenging for food in alleys. (more…)

Dec
1stChildren’s Past Life Memories And Healing ~ Part II

by Carol Bowman

PAST LIFE HEALING

Because I had my own physical and emotional healing as the result of a past life regression before my children’s memories emerged, I recognized the healing potential of past life memories for children. But I wondered, why were none of the professionals in the field of past life therapy writing about this? I read all of the best books on regression therapy with adults. In many published case studies, psychiatrists and psychologists demonstrated how current emotional and physical problems could be resolved by accessing past life memories and processing them with the patient. Some of these memories emerged spontaneously, some through hypnosis during the course of therapy.

Here is how past life healing works. As my teacher and friend Roger Woolger writes, “We come into each life with unfinished business of the soul.” Most often, the unfinished business relates to past life trauma, when the impressions of feelings, thoughts, and even physical injury get locked into place in our souls, our energy bodies, and are carried forward into our current lives. The beauty is that once the past life story becomes conscious, and the circumstances of that life understood, the energy frozen in the trauma is released, changing us and healing us in the present. (more…)

Nov
12thDiscovering Past Lives Through Dreams

by Andrew Parr

When you close your eyes and fall asleep each evening, your conscious, everyday, busy mind shuts down and allows you to rest. If you have trouble getting to sleep, it is usually because this busy mind still has too much to think about.

When you do get to sleep, however, as the conscious you drifts into sleepy oblivion, the inner you is then more free to come to the surface. The dreams, images, feelings and experiences that you sense on waking are generally due to the activities of your inner self throughout the night (or whenever it is that you sleep).

But when you dream, are these dreams all creations of your subconscious? Or could it be that at times during sleep your mind is free to wander and tune in to past life experiences in exactly the same way you would with past life regression? (more…)

Nov
6thChildren’s Past Life Memories And Healing

by Carol Bowman

Young children all over the world have spontaneous memories of previous lives, regardless of the religious beliefs of the parents. It’s a natural phenomenon. Children usually begin speaking of “when they were big before” or “when they died” around the age of three, and may speak of their memories for a period of a few years. Many of the memories children recall are of traumatic deaths, which may continue to affect a child in their present life as phobias and other emotional problems. By combining what I’ve learned from collecting my own cases of children’s past life memories for more than twenty years, and from the large body of research of spontaneous past life memories from Dr. Ian Stevenson, with the healing model of past life therapy with adults, I derive a method of healing traumatic past life memories as they emerge spontaneously in early childhood. By studying the cases of children who speak with conviction of their other lives, we also observe that many aspects of the child’s present personality have carried forward intact from the past life: behaviors, emotions, phobias, talents, knowledge, the quality of relationships, and even physical symptoms. The fact that these personality traits carry forward suggests a new way of looking at personality formation and a theory of personality that spans lifetimes. The children’s cases also add an important piece to the metaphysical discussion of the survival of consciousness after death, because it is clear from the cases that some form of personal consciousness continues from one life to another. (more…)

Oct
26thLearning From Past Life Therapy

by Leo Bolduc

When I was fifteen years old, my brother, Raymond, brought home a five-cent used book, The Search for Bridey Murphy by Morey Bernstein. That book launched my career and provided an avocation which has spanned more than four decades.

In a manner of speaking, I was a pioneer in a new profession, a researcher in a new area of discovery. As a researcher, I designed new methods for others to use. As an author, I compiled the research and published several books on the topic. Later, I became a Board Certified teacher, trainer, and researcher, helping people to improve their lives by healing past trauma and building a better future.

This article highlights some of my learning from forty-four years in past-life therapy. My goal has been, and continues to be, practical application instead of the promotion of theory. (more…)