I
Feel Like I Have Been Here Before: Past Lives and Reincarnation
It is
my experience that we have all lived before, many, many times. In this
chapter I am going to relay several experiences with past life work
that Enny and I have done, as well as give some conclusions as to the
purpose of past lives as opposed to having only one physical life.
These conclusions have come after working with many people in this
capacity, as well as through information given to me through my spirit
guides, angels, and other people's guides.
I have been asked
many times the true meaning of our life on this planet. Much as been
written on this subject throughout the millenniums. To me, the purpose
of life seems fairly basic. Our goal as individuals souls, however
simple or complex it is viewed, is to learn and to grow. In this
learning and growth process, our souls change. Each life adds to our
total being. We never lose who we are or who we were. All the
incarnations are stored within our "higher self" who, while we are in
physical form, has been unattainable for most of us. The ultimate goal
throughout all our lifetimes tied to the earth plane is to become
experienced enough so that one day we do not have to come back again in
physical, third dimensional form. How long this takes is up to each
individual and the karma they attain through each lifetime. Someone who
lived their lives concentrated on spiritual development such as coming
back again and again as a priest, monk yogi, etc. will attain a state
of pure enlightenment long before someone who wants to come back and
life a life that involves constantly striving for material wealth,
glory in battles, or revels in the more basic pleasures that this world
has to offer. Once a person can begin to detach himself or herself from
the earthly pleasures and desires that drive most of us, then he or she
no longer has to reincarnate into the third dimensional plane. They can
move upward into the higher dimensions as they have become unencumbered
by worldly attachments. This is relayed again in a higher dimension,
with lives being much longer and, we as spiritual beings, having much
more freedom and knowledge to grow even closer to the God
source...................................
As soon as Enny and
I developed our past life talents, we began offering past life readings
through Moonglow. Many of the clients that I had preciously worked with
doing Reiki loved the new skill I had acquired. They began asking for
information pertaining to their past lives. I gladly obliged...........
....I have found that there are
similarities within past lives or events that carry over from life to
life that affect the present situation. This was apparent to me when I
did a session with a woman named Charlene. The first life I picked up
on was of her in Prussia ending in 1862. She was a man and a cavalry
officer during the Prussian Expansion. The one scene that came through
most vividly was of a battle raging all around me. I witnessed barrages
of cannon and gunfire, with men an horses screaming. It was quite
intense. In the midst of battle, he took a bullet to the throat and
died on the battlefield. I saw this replayed three times before the
scene shifted.
The next was
altogether different. It was of a time and place in America. This time
in her life, she was a woman, a housewife. It was Danbury, Ohio, and
the time was the 1930's. Her husband was a banker, and she had two
children, a boy and a girl. They lived in a typical large wooden house
of the time. It was an opposite life than the one before it. She was
quite unhappy. I got a great sense of melancholy, of dreams
unfulfilled, and of a household full of control and not of love. She
had a hard time expressing herself. She also smoked many cigarettes.
This dependence on cigarettes helped create the physical manifestation
of the throat cancer that took her life. She was forty-two years old.
Once again, the throat was a centerpiece of her physical death.
After I gave her
the information about the session, and her past life, she responded
with:
"Quite and
amazing experience. I've always had problems n my throat, definitely
emotional related. When I get backed into a corner and feel I can't
possibly tell a person how I really feel, I get a 'knot' in my throat.
When I first started Reiki classes, I almost reached a point of not
wanting anyone to work on me because every Reiki session created
enormous tension in my throat. As the subject of the group's distance
practice, I was placed in the middle of the room and thought the
tension in my throat, which felt like a rubber band pulled to its
tightest, was going to slingshot me into another world! So, yes, it is
my biggest block. I am grateful for this insight and healing, as this
was the first session where I didn't experience my throat tightening."
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