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CHAPTER 2

The Life of the Soul

Our Ultimate Purpose

I was a teenager when I first got my driver’s license. My mother saw that as an opportunity for me to deliver to my dad anything he might have forgotten to take to work, including his lunch, sweater, hat, scarf, or gloves. My dad was the pharmacist at a large mental institution on Long Island in New York, and my mother always admonished, “Don’t walk through the wards. Just park outside the pharmacy and please just drop this off to your dad. Don’t stop to observe, bond, or talk with the patients!” She knew me so well. She knew that I found this institution and the people it housed fascinating. I would park far away from the Pharmacy Department, and enter through any doors that might have been left open. Sometimes, I found myself walking through wards where the patients were heavily drugged and in a deep-sleep state. They would be sitting around, watching television or playing cards. Some were wandering through the halls. I noticed something very strange about many of the patients. Some were in period costumes. Some women wore flowing robes and gowns. Some had high pointy hats with veils, while others wore crowns, skull caps, and a wide array of odd-looking head gear. The variety of garb was impressive and intriguing. I wanted to know more. Through the years, I thought often about those patients. As I studied metaphysics and learned about the continuation of existence through many physical lives, I came to realize that these people were reliving existences from previous incarnations. I learned that over-indulgence in alcohol or mind-altering drugs can break through our protective shield, or aura. The damaging of the protective veil that separates our present consciousness from our past-life memories can cause a confused state of mind. We all have that electromagnetic shield, or aura, surrounding us. It can be seen by some psychics and can be photographed using Kirlian photography. When this aura is damaged by drinking excessive alcohol, shock treatments, or use of certain drugs, we can enter a reality that is more of a past-life memory than the present. We can leave ourselves open to the intrusion of disincarnate entities that influence our behavior and cause undesirable and dangerous actions. These visits to the state mental hospital had a profound effect on me and contributed greatly to my desire to learn more about our prior lifetimes, and helped begin an intense search for the truth about life and the possibilities created by reincarnation.

The great mystic, Paramahansa Yogananda, said that we would probably go insane if we had clear recall of our past lives. “God, in His grace and infinite wisdom, pulls down the shield that closes off the memories of our prior incarnations.” The fact that we may remember past lives in bits and pieces, as some did in the mental institution, fascinated me. I began to look for other ways our previous incarnations crept into our present life, perhaps in ways we were totally unaware.

As I quoted Paramahansa Yogananda earlier in this book, “. . . faith in divine protection, and right 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.