use of man’s God-given will, are forces more formidable than are influences flowing through the heaven. The starry inscription at one’s birth, I came to understand, is not that man is a puppet of his past, its message is rather a prod to pride; the very heavens seek to arouse man’s determination to be free of every limitation. God created each man as a soul, dowered with individuality . . . His freedom is final and immediate, if he so wills; it depends not on outer but inner victories.” He is stating that while astrology presents a basic pattern, man’s unique individuality and free will give him the power to overcome any obstacle that may be in his path, with the result of becoming a pillar of strength, or that of a parasite, completely his own doing.
Nonetheless, I found, the influences present from our past lives can prove to be powerful impediments to our success as individuals, and to the fulfillment of our potential. These influences can create cyclical behavior that hinders us from attaining happiness, fulfillment, and joy. What if, I wondered, we had a way of identifying these past-life influences, and overcoming them?
If you are still stuck on the issue of reincarnation, then I hope you realize that as humans, we are much too profound and complex to have lived only one lifetime. Look at the many instances of child prodigies, or of young people who remember specific incidents, people, or locations from prior lives. How about the many individuals who find they are able to speak languages they have never studied?
As for experiences or actions from previous incarnations that have created karma affecting us now, you may wonder why you should be held responsible for past-life actions that you can’t remember. Many people think this is unfair. Why be physically or emotionally challenged, or in some way handicapped in the twenty-first century for mistakes made perhaps hundreds of years before? Who remembers these things? Is each new baby actually carrying eons of lifetimes of experiences into each new incarnation, both good and bad?
Yes, we carry our past deeds in our “soul memory.” The Egyptian Book of the Dead refers to this soul memory, or soul record, as the Akashic record. If we don’t learn the lessons that we should have learned at a certain point in our soul’s development, it’s possible to accrue and experience “karma.” Karma can be rough, but it can also be rewarding. It depends upon the growth of the soul, and your ability to understand, respect, and practice the universal laws.
Balance and harmony of the soul’s energy is important. If we become too out-of-balance, perhaps with too many lifetimes of wealth and extravagance, our Higher Intelligence, or the God within, may encourage us to choose a lifetime of poverty and deprivation for the soul’s greatest growth experience. I like to call these adjustments “soul tweaking.”
We incarnate as male and female, because we must experience and know the nature of being in both a male and female body. The ultimate purpose of reincarnation is soul perfection, and perfect reconnection with our Creator. As we grow in perfection and godliness, we eventually come to the point of being able to truly sit at the right hand of God. At this point of soul perfection, we return to the Source. After that, we are given opportunities to move into even higher realms of existence or to return to the earth for further service.
My mother had a unique way of explaining some of these things. When I was young, she told me about God’s “great big book,” and His great big pen that He used to write everyone’s name in the book. Everything we did was recorded in that book. Of course, I secretly laughed at this. Now I know that that “big book” is the soul’s Akashic record. As I started studying religions of the world, I learned that the Akashic record is the invisible but real record of our soul’s activity. This record follows us lifetime to lifetime, and is revealed to us after the time of our physical death in each lifetime. The record is imbedded within the human heart and mind.
Even though we may not consciously remember past lives, every one of our thoughts, words, and deeds are indelibly etched into our soul record, and follow us through each lifetime. Yet there is a subconscious veil that separates the lifetimes so that each one clearly stands on its own. If we remembered all our past lives on a conscious level, we would become extremely confused and quite possibly insane. One lifetime would run into the other without our being able to differentiate our present reality from that of past “fantasies.” Each lifetime is confusing enough and just about all that most can people can manage. If we break through the protective mental barrier, which in India is known as “piercing the Bindu,” or a Kundalini awakening, we will recall past lives. If done in a gentle, logical way, with an experienced regressionist, these memories can be wonderfully enlightening and amazing.
Over my lifetime of practice as a psychic counselor, I have learned that recalling past lives can be not only eye-opening, but highly therapeutic when used to understand why we experience, and sometimes become stuck on, situations in the present. Past lives can be used to shed light on romantic difficulties, family relationship issues, living up to our career desires, and much more. Paired with astrology, which I have also used to great effect in my career, this knowledge can be used to break negative patterns and help you achieve your highest potential without the need for regression, or hypnosis, or any negative concerns.
This is my own system that I’ve created and developed. It has been used successfully on thousands of individuals.
Why Am I Here? reveals my system for the first time, in a format you can easily put to use in your life now.
CHAPTER 3
Your Inner Soul
What Is Your Soul, Really?
There’s been a lot of discussion about souls, and “inner consciousness,” and similar-sounding concepts, but do we really understand what these ideas mean? The soul is known to be the essence of a human being, the repository of thoughts, memories, stimuli, and dreams. It is the core that animates us, propels us to action, or causes us to hang back and linger. It is the seat of reason and understanding, the fulcrum of our thoughts, words, and deeds.
But this still doesn’t fully describe what souls are.
The soul is thought to be indestructible, no matter what fate confronts the body or mind that it inhabits.
Buddhism calls the soul the “Greater Self,” while the lesser self disappears at death. This greater self is the life force, or will to live, that survives successive rebirths. According to Eastern philosophy, the soul pushes forward, ever-evolving, growing, and seeking, unless meeting with stagnation. When a soul stops learning and expanding, it may wither, but it will never die. Knowledge gained through experience is the soul’s fuel, and through this it changes and expands, effortlessly or heavily, always probing, and hopefully, always growing. For when we stop learning, we leave this life.
In the phase of our experience we call death, in which we depart one plane of existence and head for another, the soul takes its leave of the body. It may stay around the earth plane for a while; often this is a period of adjustment before it accepts it is no longer “alive” in the earthly sense. After this adjustment it can move on and reunite with those out-of-body beings it has known in the past, and who have assisted and nurtured its development over this, and many, many incarnations.
Once, at the time of creation of man, we were God-like. Through the use of free will, we chose to experience coming into physical bodies for our greater understanding. As we became increasingly stuck in the delights of the flesh—how we like those foods and other physical experiences!—the vibrations of the earth became denser, holding us closer. We eventually lost our ability to come and go as free
