Institute for Hypnosis and Past Life Regression Therapy

Why does belief in past lives and reincarnation make sense? This is a question that I’ve personally considered all throughout my practice. It is difficult to to prove any theory of the afterlife of course, but reincarnation is indicated as a very plausible theory even without the experience that many people have with past life regression. The purpose of this post is not to come up with the definitive answer, but rather to spark some thought and consideration about this possibility.

One Birth Theory vs. Multiple Birth Theory

Reincarnation and karma explains the inequities found among individuals and groups.

In the religions that propose that people have one life, there is really no logical explanation as to why there is so much disparity between the lives of separate individuals. The question that perplexes many of us is simply this, why would the creator god decide that someone would have all the advantages of a fully endowed life (enough of the necessities of life and to be born being surrounded by the circumstances that would allow for the correct spiritual view) while others are not so fortunate. And, why would the creator god then decide that those who “do not comply” with the dogmas of that religion be damned to eternal punishment? One would have to decide that the creator god is quite capricious rather than the all knowing all loving being.

When you allow for the laws of cause and effect  believing that people experience what they caused others to experience sometime in the future, the inequities of life begin to make more sense. It is not an uncommon view that when someone performs an action, its effects are definite, so it doesn’t take a great leap of faith that when you think and/or do something, that a potentiality is planted in your mind. Under the right circumstances, that potentiality can ripen into an effect. Thus positive causes result in positive effects, and negative causes result in negative effects. If you were unkind in a past life, unkindness (under the right circumstances) can ripen and be present in a life. If you deprived people of necessities or their life, then those effects, under the right circumstances, can also ripen in the future.

No afterlife point of view vs. multiple birth theory

To believe that there is no afterlife what-so-ever, you would have to believe that our consciousness is centered in the body and that all minds are gross minds. Simply put, when the body dies, the mind dies and that’s it. It is a materialistic point of view meaning that your consciousness is based on your body.

We do know that all minds are not gross minds (dream minds tell us this), and we even know that the gross mind is not a solid entity. If the mind existed from its own side, it would never change. Our mind is dependent on many causes and is ever changing. We also know that all of our existence, including the existence of our mind, has always been a potential effect since the beginning of time, or it would not exist today. This is the same for our body and this current make-up of who we are is an effect from potentials begun many eons ago.

So, if this mind that we call “me” has been a potential, when we die, why wouldn’t it be a potential again? And, since it has already be a realized potential, what stops it from continuing on? Why then would our mind stop at death? There is no proof that anyone can point to that clearly demonstrates that the mind, our sense of self or our “I” is dependent on the body, but with the above reasoning, we can say that our body is rather dependent on the potentials and minds the preceded it.

Personal Proof

There is a myth that people who experience past life regression will see themselves as famous people. So we could have a bunch of Cleopatras, Churchills, Ty Cobbs, etc.  I am not to saying that I’ve never worked with anyone who hasn’t experienced being a famous person, but I will say that the vast majority of my clients usually experience difficult and hard circumstances which roughly equal what has been seen in human history. I have also seen studies that show the same tendency. I do not have that information handy as of this writing, but if anyone would like information about this, please do email me and I will happy to give you the citation for this and you can judge its validity on your own.

So this is why I believe in Past Lives and Reincarnation. It is my hope that this post will cause questions, strengthen your belief, or inspire you to look into the subject yourself.

Did you know that the first clear record of a Flu outbreak was in 1580?

This was also the the century that brought us the Spanish Inquisition, the Calvanist and Huguenot Reformation, the westward advance of Islam, Puritanism and all kinds of wars based on religious intolerance waged for political and economic gain.

It was the century of Machiavelli’s The Prince, Spanish Conquistador Francisco Pizarro – the eradicator of the Inca civilization, Henry the VIII and Martin Luther, who both defied the Catholic Church in their own ways. Then there was the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre which claimed over 10,000 lives over just a few short days. Yes, it was a special time, given to one of the most horrendous and far reaching outbreaks of religious intolerance on record.

So you might ask, “How could the flu be the result of collective karma regarding religious intolerance and why should I care, even if it is?”

As a medical intuitive who uses kinesiology or muscle testing in my sessions with people, I have found over the years that the emotional and spiritual energy of Influenza has always tested as either hatred, wrath or intolerance – coming from others. Newsweek has an interesting photo essay on the History of the Flu that you might like to check out.

I find the study of physical ills juxtaposed against social ills fascinating and think that the karmic imprint of influenza and pandemics makes a lot of sense against the backdrop of when this particular illness emerged and the kind of mass fear and paranoia that is so easily conjured up anytime anyone discusses the flu and being around other people.

Often times people I see who are sick themselves or discussing the Flu use the word “hate” or “afraid” to describe their experience.

“I hate being at work. I hate being at school. I’m afraid to be closed in with all those people. I’m afraid I’ll get sick and I hate being sick!”

Release the Binding Energy of Paranoia and Intolerance

I learned early on in my intuitive practice that intolerance or hatred is a binding energy. What I mean by that is when you “hate” something, your thoughts, your mindset and your energy gets very hard and constricted – not to mention your heart. The same goes for paranoia, however, simple fear is more of an immediate reaction – it usually comes up to let you know that something is off – something is wrong that needs your attention right away. It’s telling you that there is some aspect of this situation that isn’t good for you. Fear can be a very useful emotion when it motivates you to be cautious and do what you can to avoid harmful situations.

Intolerance is a kind of hybrid emotion that combines hatred and paranoia and turns them into a whole belief system. It is an outright rejection and violent refusal to accept that there might be something good about the object of our intolerance. When we are being intolerant of people, we focus our attention on them and send angry thoughts toward them, thinking that somehow doing so will make them go away and ease our suffering. Unfortunately, the opposite is true. The more we hate or fear something, the more we are bound to it… and it may even make us sick.

What You Put Out, You Get Back…Tenfold

So what about healing the karma? How can we accept what we may have put out hundreds of years ago and dispel the karmic seeds that were planted then? Is it possible to heal the mindset of intolerance even after all of these years? And by healing ourselves as individuals, could we have a positive impact on the spread of the flu, decreasing it’s collective power over us?

I think it is possible and I suggest that we start by releasing our agreement to hold onto the negative pattern of intolerance in any form that it may come in.

Look at the Soul Contract Circle below and imagine that you can burn and release any family, religious or societal contracts that connect you to the patterns of religious intolerance we are speaking about here.

You can use the affirmation below it to help you:

“I abandon the practice of religious intolerance in whatever form it takes.”

“I am free of the negative pattern of intolerance and paranoia.”

It’s amazing how much energy you can free up just by doing this and you can do even more.

Use this symbol to help you get in touch with any curses or wrathful intentions that you or any member of your ancestral family may have sent towards any other person or group of persons. Use the affirmation below to stop the flow of anger or intolerance that would feed those curses.

“I abandon all forms of wrath in the form of curses, grudges, feuds or declarations of war.”

Now let’s clear the karmic seeds. With this symbol, go into your heart and imagine you can remove the seeds of any past karmic event that has anything to do with religious intolerance.

Once you are done, have your spirit plant a seed of tolerance to take the place of all those negative seeds.

Emotions are Simply Energy in Motion = e-motion

Many people can sense energy and actually feel negativity around them. They can also use that ability to disperse the energy and maybe you can too.

Use this symbol to help you get in contact with the emotional energy pattern behind the flu and dissolve it. All you have to do is look at this symbol, relax and get in contact with that hardened pattern of violent intolerance that started way back in the 1500′s. Once you sense it, use your intention to dissolve it, like dark clouds dispersing in the atmosphere.

Once you have dissolved the clouds completely,  you can rejoice in having made a difference by healing your part of the collective karma of the flu and it’s spiritual counterpart – religious intolerance!

Rheanni Lightwater © 2009

This post is an extension from my previous post about Reincarnation and Why Future Lives are Important. If you believe that you have a future life, then we need to consider what are the conditions you would like to live under in the future to be able to progress forward in your Spiritual Life. In considering those conditions here are some of the things I would personally like to have:

1) Becoming a being that has the physical and mental ability to discriminate between virtuous and non-virtuous actions. Animals and beings that are constantly in pain have a very difficult time with this discrimination. Also, humans can be born, or acquire problems that can take away their ability to discriminate and intentionally perform virtuous meritorious actions.

2) To be born in an environment where there is enough to eat and all the necessities of life are easily found.

3) To be born with wisdom, status and resources to easily allow for a spiritual practice and to assist others with their spiritual practice.

So, in thinking about what it is that you would like to create for yourself in the future, remember that you get to experience in the future what it is that you intentionally cause others to experience. Deciding to help and assist other beings is a great way to ensure that the conditions of your future lives will be advantageous for your spiritual progress, happiness and ultimately taking you to liberation and enlightenment.

I got this excellent question on an email and thought this would be a good post.

Question:  Why, from his own point of view, and apart from general humanitarian considerations, should anyone care what happens in future incarnations, since, if I understand correctly, those will be different personalities?
Answer:

That’s a very interesting question.

The answers to this question is personal and philosophical, so please remember that my response would be different from other responses you might get on the subject.

So, this is why I care:

Consider that we do not have the same personality through this particular incarnation. Our personality at five years old is different from 10, 25, 50 and so on. Along the way, we made decisions and choices that have changed the direction in our lives, our life circumstances; like going to college so we can get a better education that results in an ability to make more money or work in a career that we are interested in, we marry a certain person (or more than one, or no one), decide to have children or not, save for retirement or not. All of our experiences change our personality and we often forget many of our earlier experiences as if they did not exist.

Our gross consciousness (awakened mind) subsides during death, just as it does during sleep. But once we are reborn, our gross consciousness reemerges again in physical life. But just as we cannot remember much from our infancy and early childhood, so we will not be able to remember much from this life. But it doesn’t mean that the gross mind that we cling to won’t experience our future life.

What does go with us when we die are the imprints of our past lives which is called karma which are stored in our unconscious mind and emerge when the conditions are right, much like planting seeds and watering them. So if we plant negative seeds, negative results will ripen for us, and if we plant positive seeds, positive results will ripen.

Now from my point of view, understanding karma is vital to assist us in creating our future. My personal belief is that there are no accidents when it comes to life circumstances. We experience what we have caused others to experience.  So, if you are a kind and helpful person, you will attract kind and helpful people to you in the future. You will also have the tendency to be kind and helpful in the future making it easier to perform kind acts. The opposite is also true, if you tend to do harm to other sentient beings, you will have that harm happen to in the future, not because some super-being is causing it, but because you ingrain those tendencies in your unconscious mind and create the potential for experiencing them. Whether you consider your life to be good or bad, every experience in it is a result of a past experience that you caused someone else to experience. To project this theory out, it is also logical to assume that what you cause another to experience in this life you will experience in a future life.

Finally, there is also the issue of enlightenment. We have the opportunity as human beings to get out of this endless cycle of birth, aging, sickness and death. A state of mind where suffering no longer has any relevance to us and from this place, we can assist all sentient beings our of this endless cycle (to the humanitarian aspect which to me is the most important part of the equation). Assisting people in having less suffering or eliminating it altogether is, from my point of view, the most important part of being human.

Thank you for your question.

Bob Morrison, DCH

A woman in a recent Past Life Regression Circle was experiencing persistent negative thoughts about poverty and hopelessness which was keeping her stuck and unable move forward with her plans. After going through a past life ceremony, she discovered that she had been a penniless, abandoned orphan in a past life where she was struggling to keep her starving little brother alive.

During the ceremony, she was able to access help from her Higher Self and Healing Guides, who informed her that her little brother in that past life was now her husband in her current life and she was still playing out the old karmic pattern of poverty and destitution. Being able to remember her experience in the safety of a past life regression allowed her unconscious mind to unravel the pattern so that both she and her husband could move forward toward economic prosperity again.

Is a Karmic Pattern of Poverty or Destitution Arising in Your Consciousness?

Join us for a pre – Halloween Past Life Regression Circle!

Friday, October 30th @ 7:00 PM

Exploring your past life experiences in a ceremonial healing circle can result in improved mental, emotional, physical and spiritual health. Sometimes these events are traumatic and are unconsciously carried over and relived in our present day experiences.

A Past Life Regression Circle can optimize your healing by:
A) Clearing the physical and emotional stress out of the body.
B) Restoring the neurological system to a pattern of health.
C) Integrating the full meaning of the experience on a mental and emotional level.
D) Reconnecting with your Higher Self and finding peace with the spiritual purpose of your past life experiences.

FACILITATORS:
Dr. Bob Morrison specializes in the integration of mind and soul through Transpersonal Hypno-therapy, Spiritual Counseling, Reiki and Peruvian Shamanism.

Rheanni Lightwater CHT and medical intuitive, specializes in energetic, physical and emotional clearing using Kinesiology, Reiki, Movement and Energy Medicine.

LOCATION:
The Source for Creating Sacredness
1111 Carlisle Blvd SE
Albuquerque, NM

COST:
$30.00

RSVP:
To reserve your space in the Circle – (505) 271-4612

Come to a Past Life Regression Ceremony at the Source in Albuquerque

Thursday Evening ~ Sept. 24th @ 7:00 pm

Buddha says:
“For every action we perform, we experience a similar result.”

Bob Morrison, PhD in Hypnotherapy runs a ceremony based on Peruvian Shamanism, Tibetan Teachings and Modern Trans-personal Therapy to facilitate:

Spirit Releasement

Karmic Clearing

and

Soul Re-integration

FIND OUT:
What is the source of the karma you are experiencing now?
How you can clear negative karma that is about to ripen.

Bob will be assisted by Rheanni Lightwater – Reiki Master and medical intuitive, specializes in energetic, physical and emotional clearing using Kinesiology, Reiki, Movement and Energy Medicine.

WHEN: Thursday, September 24th @ 7:00 PM

WHERE:
The Source for Creating Sacredness
1111 Carlisle Blvd SE
Albuquerque, NM

Directions: http://www.thesourceabq.com

DONATION:  suggested $10.00 – $30.00

RSVP: To reserve your space, please call – (505) 271-4612

MORE INFO: http://www.SoulResources.net/classes

For those of you who are feeling the need for extra help adapting to the changing economic scene, our three month long intensive course, Right Livelihood is now available on a one-on-one basis through telephone and internet sessions in the U.S.

In Albuquerque, we are starting a Right Livelihood Core Group on Saturday, September 19th.

The intention of all Right Livelihood classes and workshops are to help you:

Attract good health and experience happiness

PLUS

• Gain clarity about what is genuinely important to you
• Stay focused on your goal
• Make sure that your business or career is taking you in the direction you want to go
• Learn to trust and follow your inner guidance.

If you are interested, go to our Right Livelihood Intro and go through the Intuitive Learning Quiz to see if this breakthrough process would give you the extra help you need to transition into the New Paradigm.

To participate, call Rheanni at (505) 271-4612 or email: contact@intuitivelearningcircle.com

Kuan Yin’s I Ching Reading for August, 2009

We are receiving help from Kuan Yin, the Goddess of Compassion, who is guiding us through the I Ching, an ancient Chinese text that follows and predicts movements and energy flow in the cosmos. Her advice as always, is direct and to the point.

Currently we are moving through Hexagram #51 SHOCKING.  This is what she recommends…

“It is important that you accept the changing times and change with them. This means that certain habits and negative behaviors are bound to come to the surface over the next month and if you choose to put your head in the sand, you will miss one of the largest opportunities to heal your heart in this time of SHOCKING change.

Now is an opportune time to clear out confusing ideas and societal prejudices by going within and examining what is most important to you and make a firm determination to stay centered, even as chaotic forces are at their strongest.

Know that those who choose to use force or aggression to further their agendas will experience serious backlashes and setbacks during SHOCKING times. This is not the time to push ahead rashly, rather it is a time to step back and clarify your principles. Be certain that you are coming from a place of love and that you are clear about where your actions will lead you.

Preparing For A New Way of Manifesting

The Heavens have created an awesome moment to facilitate transformation and if you are wise, you will utilize it to it’s fullest. Rarely has there been the opportunity to shift your perception so easily as in this time. Take stock of the persons, places and things that bring you joy and consciously connect them like a diligent spider weaving a web of love. This will assist you in staying centered in the storm.

If you willingly follow and adapt your life according to those things that are naturally good, you will find that you can rid yourself of ancient abuses that have long sucked the spirit of humanity dry. In the wake of SHOCKING times, there is much progress that can be made.”

Go through Kuan Yin’s “Realignment for a New Paradigm” to facilitate her advice.

Rheanni Lightwater © 2009

Get ready for two Past Life Regression Circles coming up this fall!

Thursday, September 24th @ 7:00 PM

Friday, October 30th @ 7:00 PM

Exploring your past life experiences in a ceremonial healing circle can result in improved mental, emotional, physical and spiritual health. Sometimes these events are traumatic and are unconsciously carried over and relived in our present day experiences.

For example: A woman with mysterious and debilitating chronic dizziness uncovers a past life where she was hit in the head causing her death. Remembering these experiences in the safety of a past life regression brought the unconscious pattern into consciousness so that it could be healed.

A Past Life Regression Circle can optimize your healing by:
A) Clearing the physical and emotional stress out of the body.
B) Restoring the neurological system to a pattern of health.
C) Integrating the full meaning of the experience on a mental and emotional level.
D) Reconnecting with your Higher Self and finding peace with the spiritual purpose of your past life experiences.

FACILITATORS:
Dr. Bob Morrison specializes in the integration of mind and soul through Transpersonal Hypno-therapy, Spiritual Counseling, Reiki and Peruvian Shamanism.

Rheanni Lightwater CHT and medical intuitive, specializes in energetic, physical and emotional clearing using Kinesiology, Reiki, Movement and Energy Medicine.

LOCATION:
The Source for Creating Sacredness
1111 Carlisle Blvd SE
Albuquerque, NM

COST:
$30.00

RSVP:
To reserve your space in the Circle – (505) 271-4612

I was recently at a workshop where people were talking about careers and livelihood and was struck by the common theme of hate. These were all good people, mind you, people who wanted to be happy and prosperous. Yet each and every one of them (including me) was holding on to a reason for their unhappiness.

Several people didn’t like the city they lived in – they found it too dry, not enough green, the people too “in your face”, too much poverty, etc. Other people didn’t like their jobs, the people they had to deal with or certain aspects of their work.

Many of them were facing physical illnesses including depression, fibromyalgia and anxiety and most of them consistently used the word “hate” to describe whatever was challenging them.

“I hate my job. I hate this person. I hate the gangs. I hate having to chase after the almighty dollar. I hate having to feel all the negative energy around me!”

Release the Binding Energy of Hate

I learned early on in my intuitive practice that hate is a binding energy. What I mean by that is when you “hate” something, your thoughts, your mindset and your energy gets very hard and constricted – not to mention your heart. The same goes for anger, however, anger is more of an immediate reaction – it usually comes up to let you know that something is off – something is wrong that needs your attention right away. It’s telling you that there is some aspect of this situation that isn’t good for you. Anger can be a very useful emotion when it motivates you to take productive action to change something that’s causing you harm.

Hate is different in that it has taken anger and hardened it into a whole belief system. It is a refusal to accept that there might be something good about the object of our hate. We focus our attention on it and send angry thoughts toward it, thinking that somehow doing so will make it go away and ease our suffering. Unfortunately, the opposite is true. The more we hate something, the more we are bound to it. As we plant the karmic seeds of hatred and feed them with our hardened beliefs, we ensure that those seeds will ripen at some point – with us on the receiving end. What a thing to do to ourselves!

What You Put Out, You Get Back…Tenfold

The negativity is made worse when the status quo teaches us to react with these Sacred Cows:

“If you hate, you can make something go away.”

“Hate somehow makes you safer.”

“Hating something makes you superior to it.”

“Hate helps you to feel better about yourself.”

“When you hate something, you cause damage to it, but not to yourself.”

A Complex Pattern and Recipe for Unhappiness

To see these social contracts in action, all one needs to do is observe some one like Rush Limbaugh or some other politico that you “hate”. Mr.Limbaugh deliberately and seductively uses the energy of hate to keep himself in a position of power. Let’s look at it.

He taps into an existing prejudice and says something hateful, something guaranteed to offend a large sector of the population and suddenly all eyes are upon him. Those of us who who consider ourselves to be tolerant and peace loving find ourselves being sucked into the hate energy and mindset. We hate the hate mongerer and are now riding on the same bus with him.

With Rush, it’s all the more insidious because he knows what he’s doing. He’s consciously using these Sacred Cows to keep himself in the public eye. Hating him does not make him go away. It makes him more powerful and it keeps the Sacred Cows fed, all fat and pleased with themselves. They say, “Look how easy it was to get them to buy into our delusion.”

So how do we get off the bus? How do we relieve the stress and suffering that comes with the mindset of hate?
I suggest that we start by releasing our agreement to hold on to hate as if it is helpful to us.

Look at the Soul Contract Circle below and imagine that you can burn and release any social contracts that are causing you harm. You can use the affirmation below it to help you:

“I release any agreement I have to buy into the energy and mindset of hate.”

Next try this one:

“I release any agreement I have to hate my country, my home, my neighborhood or my community.”

Then, be more specific. Use the Circle to identify and list all the different people, places or things that you supposedly hate. Once you’re done, go through each item on your list with this affirmation:

“I release all my agreements to hate __________________.”

It’s amazing how much energy you can free up by doing this.

Once you’ve freed your mind, attention and energy from the grip of hatred, you can go through the Tipping Point Game to get even more centered and find out what would work better for you.

We all have a desire to be free of suffering and head in a direction that will bring us happiness. None of us need any more hate. Don’t let it get you to take the wrong bus.

Get off the Bus by Tipping this Sacred Cow!