If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may have been experiencing a past life connection.
Edgar Cayce, probably the greatest psychic of modern times, if not of all time, gave life readings for hundreds of people, reporting that they had all experienced numerous lifetimes, and that most would return again to the physical world until their souls had reached a proper state of development.
Cayce taught that we are far more than merely physical beings who possess a sense of identity or an ego; we are immortal spiritual beings who, from time to time, temporarily inhabit a physical body on the earth plane. He suggests that an evaluation of one's past lives enables one to make better progress in the current life.
Past life therapy is used to resolve current life issues that the soul has brought with it from a previous lifetime. The soul chooses to come into each incarnation to learn particular lessons. A conscious understanding of this concept helps to make sense out of the many ironies we experience. It is important in this inquiry to let go of the good/evil notion and realize that things simply are. The soul is given the experience in order to make the choices necessary for its evolution.
By using hypnosis, one can seemingly travel into the past and relive the situation that is causing the problem in this lifetime. While I've had many experiences with past life therapy, the following are some of the more interesting cases of karma and karmic contracts causing problems for the individuals.
Case No. 1
One woman was involved in an abusive relationship with a man for several years. He did not allow her any contact with friends or family. Every time she would try to leave him, he would beg her forgiveness and she would give him another chance. But each time the situation would revolve back to abusiveness. She was finally able to get away - but he would not leave her alone. Her friends tried to protect her from him, but he felt that she owed him something and that she belonged to him.
When she first came to see me, it was to deal with her distraught emotional state. Initially, we concentrated on the issue and what effects it was having on her. We then began to use hypnosis to get to the root of the problem.
While hypnotized, she imagined traveling back to the 19th century somewhere in the Old West. She saw she had been a bar girl in a saloon. The man (her problem boyfriend) was a ranchhand and a frequent visitor to the saloon, and they were lovers.
We looked for the event that was causing her problem with him in this lifetime. It turned out that on a particular day, a drunk in the saloon was trying to seduce the young girl. He was being physically and verbally abusive, and her young lover came to her rescue. The two men began fighting inside the saloon, and her lover challenged the drunk to a gunfight. The two men then met at the appointed time and place. The young girl was there, as were several of the townspeople, and unfortunately her lover was killed. As he lay dying, she held him and promised to love him always. A karmic contract was forged.
Once she became aware of the foolishness of eternal love promised in another place and time, she was able to overcome the pressure to love this man no matter what. We met a few more times to strengthen her resolve to void the contract. Ultimately, she was able to confront this man and stop being a victim. In time, because of her newfound strength, he was gone. The contract had become null and void.
Case No. 2
This case involved a husband and wife. The husband had a very violent temper and was prone to lose it with very little provocation. This couple had been married approximately 10 years by the time they came to see me. The wife, it seemed, had learned how to moderate her behavior in an effort to keep her husband's violent outbursts to a minimum.
The important issue for her was that, once the verbal assault would begin, her husband would threaten to leave. This terrorized her. Logic would dictate she should be happy to let him go out for a while and cool off, but in the moment she would have none of that.
This was karma in action.
This woman was regressed back into a lifetime in the early 19th century. She recalled a small, sparse cabin in the wilderness somewhere in the Southwest. She saw she was even then married to the man who is her husband in this lifetime. They were very young, and he had taken her from her home, a large city in the East. She was totally miserable in the desolate back country; she missed her family and the lifestyle she knew. He then had the same fierce temper that he currently has, and he would have violent outbursts that included beating her. She was too young to understand what was going on, and so because of her pain, she became emotionally numb.
We moved her forward in time to the scenario that held significance to her issue in this lifetime. She was at the kitchen table, and her husband came through the door in a rage. He screamed at her and beat her, and then he stormed out of the cabin. She heard the buckboard and horses take him away.
Then she heard a horrible rumbling noise. She flew out the door just in time to see the last of a rockslide. The buckboard was demolished, and the only part of her husband she could see was his one booted foot. She dug him out, took him home and buried him. She had no idea how to take care of herself or the land or even how to get back home to her family. So she took to her rocking chair and willed herself to die.
Now we knew where the emotions were coming from in this life. The woman did a lot of work around her self-worth. She realized she was in the same situation in this lifetime, but this time she could do something about it.
She divorced her husband and moved back to the state where her family lives. She was sending herself a message from another time: It is not necessary to lie down and die for this man.
Case No. 3
The third and last case I would like to share with you involves a young woman who was recently divorced with a three-year-old daughter. She came to see me because she was having very strange feelings about her little girl. She knew the child was an old soul. She also felt the child was able to comfort her with calming energy too sophisticated for a three-year-old to convey.
We regressed her to the lifetime that dealt with the issue at hand. She saw that in this particular life she was married with no children. But she and her husband were devoted to each other. They had a long marriage and loved taking care of one another. They felt that they were soulmates. The husband had come to her in this lifetime as her daughter because in the previous lifetime they had made a karmic contract to take care of each other - and they were honoring it.
When the woman realized that she would again be able to have a loving, nurturing relationship with her soulmate, she was at peace with herself about her future.
This may sound overly simple to you, but it truly is that simple. It's all about understanding what is compelling you to do the things you are doing. Once you have that understanding, you can learn the lesson and move on, or you can continue in the same situation. The choice is yours.
Julie Albanese is a certified transformational hypnotherapist and a Reiki master. She has been a student of metaphysics for over 25 years and has been in private practice for many of those years. She is available for individual sessions and conducts workshops throughout the year at various locations. For more information, please call Julie at (206) 364-5955.
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