reincarnation: is it real?

As a hypnotist, I've experienced and guided many clients through past lives and future lives. When I was doing radio regularly, reincarnation (and dreams) was always one of the more lively and popular topics. Usually when the topic comes up, one of the first questions asked was:  "Is it real?"


In those days, instead of stirring the hornets nest, I'd say something like "As a hypnotherapist, I don't care whether it's real or not. When I do therapy around whatever the problem whether it's in a past life or not it takes care of the problem."  These days if you asked me that question, I might give you a more forceful answer. :)  These days you'd get something like, "ya know, 99% of the world's population believes in reincarnation." And then if pressed I'd tell them I have indeed experienced past lives and future lives and I do indeed believe they're real. 


In fact, I went deep into hypnosis and hypnotherapy because I was having bleed through from past lives into this life and I needed to see and experience some of those past lives for myself. My very first hypnosis session that was guided by someone other than me was for past life exploration. That past life bleed through would continue for me until a few years ago when some intensive energy work finally cleared the causes and then re-established those natural boundaries that most are born with that block the bleed through. 


It's quite interesting to me to note that reincarnation is validated by the Kabbalah, Reiki and other energy healing modalities, hypnosis and hypnotherapy, Wiccans, Witches, Pagans, and many of the world's religions. 


For years I've been explaining this as simply as possible to interested folks using a hub-and-spoke (wagon wheel) metaphor. In this elegant analogy, the hub (center of the wagon wheel) is the higher self / soul self / soul and each spoke on the wheel leads to a different life. The only place where Time actually exists is on the outer rim of the wheel where each of the lives is taking place; the center where the soul / higher self lives is outside of time. 


Now realize that all of those lives, however many there might be, are going on simultaneously---all at the same time. The reason your subconscious knows about them is that because for it all time is NOW; it doesn't experience past, present, future or linear time. In essence, it is connected to the higher self / soul self like concentric circles---the conscious self is the outer most circle, then the subconscious inside that, then the higher self / soul consciousness (also known as the supra-conscious) self at the core. 


Because all the lives exist at the same time and not in a linear fashion for the higher self / soul self all the work you do here in this life on your spiritual self and raising yourself and your vibration higher----in Kabbalah you change the world by manifesting changes in yourself and helping others to change---also helps raise the vibration and spirituality in your other lives and other versions or aspects of YOU. Interestingly, the Kabbalah also verifies that here in this reality is the only one of the 10 dimensions that experience time and space. The only one.


If you do any type of energy healing, most of you know that you can intentionally "send" distance healing not only to other physical people in your time, but that you can also send healing to all aspects of that person in whatever life they are in, in whatever time (as well as to specific situations or relationships, which can be quite helpful if you have a lot of karma going on with someone) they are in.


What was surprising to me is that Kabbalah teachings also validate reincarnation and that time only exists in this dense physical reality! Well, I mean it did...and it didn't. Because what I've noticed time and time and time again is that the Universal Truths (and I believe reincarnation is one of those) show up in the world's religions and philosophies no matter what tradition you're looking at, which is really kind of cool. The Truth has a way of making itself known. :)


Some traditions say we'll ALL continue to reincarnate until a critical mass of us is enlightened enough to bring the entire population UP at the same time. Some modern channeled entities (Kryon; you can listen to him here:  http://www.kryon.com/k_freeaudio.html) says that critical mass isn't nearly as large as you think:  It's only 1/2 of 1% of the population. That's not a lot. It's entirely do-able in our lifetimes here and now.


I'm going to a live Kryon channeling in the Boulder on Saturday afternoon (Jan 14th) and I'll share info about it after here. 


As for all of you other "old souls" out there (and I know you're reading this and hitting it from around the world (which blew me away when I first saw it!) I *know* there are enough of us to hold the light to do it!  


Interestingly again, the Kabbalah says something like "As always, what is true for a single human soul is also true for all humanity. As long as anyone of us falls short of transformation, we will continue to participate in the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth –as will humanity as a whole, until the critical mass of truly enlightened people comes into being to eradicate pain and death forever."  (Read more here:   http://www.kabbalah.com/wisdom/reincarnation)


It is very similar to the story of Kwan Yin, a goddess closely associated with some advanced Karuna /  Tibetian Reiki. Kwan Yin who was born of a tear from Buddha had achieved enlightenment and was on the verge of entering nirvana when she heard the cries of humanity and its pain. So strong was her empathy and mercy and love of us that she turned away vowing not to enter until we could ALL enter nirvana together. So she returned to us and helps us, like all the other ascended masters and teachers and angels we call on. Like the angels, she comes to anyone who calls on her and she's at your side instantaneously. 


And on that note on this evening of the full wolf moon, I wish you all Light Blessings until next time.  :)

kabbalist thought for the day

What if we're just playing a cosmic game of hide-and-seek w/ the Divine---the Light?


What if we said, "Hey! it's just too easy to bask here in the free gift of Everything. Let us earn it! Let's play a game!" And before you could say "big bang" off we went....the Light hiding while we counted to 10. ;>


That kind of puts an entirely different spin on things, doesn't it? :)

when past lives come calling...and darkness attacks...the Holy Zohar can protect

As you become brighter and hold more and more light, don't be surprised if you attract unwanted attention or if you start bumping into people in your "day job" life that give you the creeps, make you uncomfortable, or just generally freak you out---and you're not sure why.


The first time this happened to me was several years ago. I had a new boss dropped on me in a most disturbing way and his energy just totally FREAKED me out for no logical reason. I'd never met the man before. Didn't run in the same circles and didn't even live in the same time zone. But it got so bad I had to call one of my mentors (the master who taught and trained me for my Usui Reiki Master Teacher & Karuna Reiki Master Teacher certs) for a session to see what was going on.


This mentor of mine did a healing session on me and used her very specific gift to tap into my energy body and see what was going on. And what she picked up was amazing! Apparently this new boss & I had a past life together.... where I ran the entire business and he took the credit...and he also was doing some shady things w/ the money that he let me take the fall for. In that life, I ended up in prison and actually starved to death in there because of this person who was now my boss. 


Having the session and clearing much of the old energy associated with that life helped tremendously. It also gave me a reason for why my gut did not like or trust this person, and a reason to make sure that any verbal/phone instructions where followed up in e-mail. 


This person was not my boss for long and was gone within 6 months... on to a new company. I got to help interview and select my next boss and things were calm and fine for the next ~18 months. Then this boss also quit and moved on to another firm.


In the meantime, another boss (my bosses boss who was a senior VP) appeared, and again my freakometer went off. In a different way. The previous one who freaked me out thought he was smarter than he was. This one was not only slimy but also very smart. That made him extremely dangerous. So my red alert status went to always ON and I bought a digital voice recorder so I could record phone calls if needed because this one also preferred phone calls to e-mail, where I would have an audit trail.


Things went on for a few weeks. And we had a run in over an integrity issue. A few weeks after that, another run in over one of my team (I was again providing basic PM and supervisor functions) who could not afford to float the money for a trip from the East Coast to New Mexico for an emergency trip that was required by the client. (In my mind, employees should not have to float expenses for the company they work for, but it was standard procedure for employees to do that for this company and then get reimbursed w/o the interest they would have to pay to their own credit card companies....grrrrr.)


Well, I got the advance and most of the expenses billed directly to the company, but he still had to float the car rental.  Funny thing was, though, I came down with a migraine that kept me from work for 2 days.


Now don't get me wrong....I've had plenty of migraines before. In my 20s hormones kicked them off monthly. As I grew older, they tended to be kicked off by stress. Now, I'm not going to share my age w/ you (;>) but let's just say my hormones are on the other end of the spectrum now from where they were in my 20s.  And the other thing I noticed was that this migraine didn't follow the same pattern ALL of my previous migraines had followed.  So I made a couple of phone calls, the first to my mentor again who tapped in and said "it's not you....it's coming from outside you. Call" and she named another mentor (in the same center) I'd been doing spiritual training with. 


Now this is where it gets weird (as if this entire entry isn't weird enough already). This mentor is also a gifted clairvoyant. I went in to see her and we settled in and she asked what was going on. Oddly enough, what came from my mouth (because my brain was thinking it was just some empath feeling) was "a couple of weeks ago I had this migraine, but it wasn't like any other migraine I've ever had."  And I described how I felt when this weird migraine was coming on. Then we went from there, tracking down what was different in my life... and what new people had entered my life.


Come to find out, one of HIS past lives was attacking ME! Even this spiritual teacher said that was extremely rare, but that's what it was. 


We didn't really know each other in this past life---but we knew OF each other. He was a very powerful, dark... some would say magician. Others would say sorcerer. Choose your own term---he was practicing dark arts with his talents and controlling people w/ energetic implants. "Mind control" is what those who weren't fully aware were calling it. 


In that life, I had a small group in much the same way I was now the super of this small group and I protected them from him the way I was now trying to protect my team from him.


The strange way the migraine come on was because this past life was attacking my crown & 3rd eye chakras, as well as my 2nd & 3rd. Think about those attack points for a moment. Crown--blocking the higher, divine energies. 3rd eye---blocking my psychic vision so I couldn't "see" what was happening. 2nd & 3rd chakras ---- self esteem, self confidence, and abundance centers. There was also an energetic implant at the base of my skull. 


She cleared the blockages, then tried to clear that past life of his and send it into the light. It refused to go and continued attacking me and trying to set the blockages & implants back in. She gave me some affirmations to say, which helped and finally pulled out her copy of the Holy Zohar and gave it to me to hold.


I'd never heard of this Zohar book, let alone seen one. I'd heard of the Kabbalah, but didn't even realize this little book was from it.  She explained a bit. (Update: she had a pocket-sized Pinchas that contains all the portions of the Zohar concerned with protection and health.)


The Zohar contains parts of the Kabbalah. You don't have to be able to read it to benefit from it. Just hold it. I did...and opened it and saw it was in Hebrew? (Later I'd discover it's in Aramaic. A very special flavor of Aramaic. The language in use in Jerusalem when the Christ walked the Earth. I'd also find out later that the Zohar contains those parts of the Kabbalah that address healing and protection.) 


She went on....it's cleared most of it in the little time you've been holding it. And you're going to need to use all of your spiritual protection tools because it won't go. 


That past life has caused him problems in this life. (Yes, he's still extremely controlling.) And someone in this life also asked for this healing (even though the trouble making life would not leave).  Get a copy of the Zohar. It's not expensive, it's like $10 and keep it in your bag with you. And use everything else you know to protect yourself as well. Use the affirmations ("I am filled with divine light. I am filled with divine truth. The Truth and the Light protect me.") At the time, I told her all I picked up intuitively from this guy was "dark cloud" or "black cloud."  And she nodded. She told me to keep looking and as I got stronger, 'you'll see more and more what he really is." Then she sent me on my way.


I *did* feel better. Lighter. Easier. And as soon as I got home, I went to Amazon and ordered a copy of the Zohar. I also found electronic copies of it and downloaded one at work and one at home. The electronic copy (in Aramaic) doesn't pack near the energetic wallop the print version does, but it helped keep me clear until it arrived. When I felt drained, I'd pop up the PDF version & scroll to a page that felt "right."


Then about a week after my print copy arrived, I was looking for more Zohars because I wanted to place some in various places:  the car, the night tables in the bedroom, etc. and I ran across this site that also had 72 name rings. And I ordered the last protection ring she had. At the time, I didn't know it was the last one. She told that later when I tried to order a second one. :) The protection ring contains 5 of the 72 names of God in Hebrew. The 5 names most associated with the protection of God. (Update: the ring contains the one name most associated with protection 5 times.)


So, that was my introduction to the power of Zohar and the 72 names of God. A pretty powerful introduction. I haven't been troubled since, and in fact my 3rd vision has been getting stronger. I sleep w/ a Zohar and meditate each morning and evening with it. I even try and grab a few minutes at lunchtime with it. I can't read Aramaic, but I hold it and open it and let it rest on my 3rd eye and heart, it's light literally BLASTING into my soul. And my 3rd eye is strong enough now to "see" this man for what he really is. And it's not pretty. In fact, the "eye" that stares back at me when I look his direction during these meditation times contains a vertical pupil. It's reptilian.


If you want to get your own Zohar, here are some resources:  

• http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/the-zohar/download-the-zohar   You can download the electronic version here. Get the Aramaic and the English if you want to actually read it! :)  The little 7 lesson videos (about 10 min each) are also quite well done.
  
• http://www.newthoughtkabbalah.com/index1.htm   This is where I ordered additional copies of the print Zohar and found the 72 name protection ring. Cheryl is easy to deal with and will let you know right away if anything is out of stock. 

It's only in the last 10 years that the Kabbalists have been freely sharing their knowledge. And I for one am eternally grateful that they are.  :)

until next time.... stay in the Truth & the Light :)