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The Garden of Recycled Souls

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When one of my clients, Lisa Erbes, was visiting a castle in Ireland a couple of years ago, she had a flashback memory of seeing a dead body. As she uncovered the history of the castle, she discovered that it involved a tragic “Romeo and Juliet” style love story of an English girl falling in love with an Irish boy around the 1600’s. There was something about the life of the girl that resonated with her in a strong way, and she also wanted to get to the bottom of this flashback vision, so she decided to do a past life regression with me. During the regression experience, Lisa uncovered details of being that girl in that life over 400 years ago. She was able to verify these details on her second trip to the castle a year later. She describes her amazing account in a book she wrote about her experience called The Garden of Recycled Souls.

The back cover summary blurb of the book reads: “This is the true story of a skeptic’s journey to discover the origin of an intense, ghostly experience at a 500-year old Irish castle. To understand what took place, she undertook a yearlong investigation of past-life memories, the paranormal, clairvoyance and a 17th-century love story. This is what she discovered.” Here is a link to the book on Amazon. 

I wrote the Afterword for Lisa’s book in which I describe my own journey into facilitating past life regressions, and also describe more about what past life regression is about, and the value of it. If you’re interested in a fascinating read, I would encourage you to get the book. Below is my contribution to the book that I wrote in the Afterword:

Where to begin? There is so much to say about the topic of Past Life Regression. I’ve been facilitating sessions as a therapeutic modality for 23 years, and it’s a passion of mine. My master’s thesis is called Exploring the Effectiveness of Past Life Regression Therapy. I have spoken about it for four straight hours at various workshops. I am well aware of how mainstream society and Wikipedia views past life regression to be wacky and even fraudulent. And I, along with probably any other past life regression therapist, would like to scream, “What you think it is, is not what it is!”

Past life regression is based on the idea that our primary identity is an eternal, indestructible soul being that transcends time and space, and happens to be using a body, instead of our main identity being a body that has a soul. I, along with most of western society, did not grow up with the former concept.

To give a little background, my father was a Methodist minister, so I grew up going to church every Sunday. The thought of reincarnation was never on our radar. In my early 20’s, during college and bit after, I grew into quite the skeptic and considered myself agnostic. At the age of 24, however, I had several experiences backpacking around India that laid the foundation for a radical perception shift. One of them happened when I decided to work at one of Mother Theresa’s Homes for the Destitute and Dying in Calcutta. My first day there, I spent time with a dying man who wanted to talk with me. He looked into my eyes as he reached out his arms for me to hold, and then he died right in my arms. He increasingly became a cold, hard, stiff shell which we eventually placed on a burning pyre to transform into ash. I had a strong sense that what I was just talking to a few hours prior was not that burning body, but rather the light, energy and consciousness that left his body, whatever and wherever that was. I later had a psychic/medium tell me, “There’s an Indian man here who says you were with him when he died. He wants to thank you.” There’s no way she could possibly know that! It’s been said that one experience is worth a thousand case studies, and I had several types of experiences that helped transform my beliefs into: we are an eternal being using a body. It is a view of life quite common in most of Asia.

As I began to research reincarnation, I discovered that there is significant of evidence for it, but only if you dig. One of the best resources is the work of Ian Stevenson, author of 29 books and a professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine for fifty years. He thoroughly researched 3,000 cases involving the memories of children, between the ages of 2 and 7 years old, who remembered living other lives. These kids would typically have specific memories of their former lives, such as their names, the city or village where they had lived, names of family members, some even recalled phone numbers they had, and how they died. These were the types of cases Stevenson researched and verified. If there was any way these children could have gotten that information from another person or source, he would never bother to research the case. In all, he felt that he had at least 1,000 solid case studies in which reincarnation seemed to be the most plausible explanation for these children’s accurate memories. It is important to note that up until the age of 7, children are predominantly in a slower brainwave state, Alpha and Theta brainwave cycles, which is the same state a person is in when they are in deep meditation or hypnosis. In these slower brainwave states, there is more access to the unconscious mind.

Another example of reincarnation evidence is the Indianapolis homicide detective Captain Robert Snow, who had authored several books on good detective work. He only did a past life regression to prove it was complete nonsense, because he didn’t believe in reincarnation nor in accurate recall under   hypnosis. It is true that the mind can confabulate information while under hypnosis. So, Snow set out to debunk past life regression by doing one himself. He eventually saw images of a late-nineteenth century artist named James. After the regression, he listed out 28 pieces of information that he was going to either refute or verify. But after a brief investigation, he could not find any verifying information of any details, and so concluded that he made the whole thing up. However, several months later, he was in an art gallery and saw a painting of a woman. He was astonished because he recalled seeing himself painting that same painting during his regression. He initially insisted that he must have seen that painting before and it somehow emerged from his unconscious during the regression, even after the owner of the gallery said that was impossible because that particular painting had been in a private family collection and this was the first time it was shown in public. He learned that the artist’s name was Carroll Beckwith, and so began to research him. He discovered that Carroll Beckwith never went by his first name, but rather his middle name, James. Most importantly, he learned that Beckwith had kept a diary of nearly everyday of his life from the age of 17 onwards, and these diaries happened to be stored in the basement archives of the New York Academy of Art and Design in Manhattan. Detective Snow went there, poured through the diaries, and then was able to verify all 28 details about the life of James Beckwith from his regression. He wrote a book about his experience called Looking for Carroll Beckwith.

I discovered there were 100’s of these types of anecdotal case studies out there which couldn’t prove reincarnation because there was nothing to scientifically measure, but combined, they gave strong evidence of it. Through deductive reasoning, I considered that one day we won’t be our body, but try as we might, we cannot separate ourselves from the life energy force and consciousness that animates the body. So why can’t we tune into this eternal being that we already are and we can’t escape from? I believe we can…when we quiet our thinking mind with meditation and go deep within. No one is good at meditation from the start. We discover that our mind is what the Buddhist’s call a wild racehorse. But with lots of practice you begin to feel the deep peace beneath the chatter.

Hypnosis is a like a short cut route to get into a deep state of meditation. If you couple that with a guided journey in which you leave behind your current body/mind identity and take on a different body/mind identity that your unconscious shows you, then also leave that identity behind, you can begin to feel the deep peace of the soul self.  For most people, past life regression is a fast and efficient means of going within to tune into the eternal aspect of yourself.

 

What Past Life Regression Really Is

 

In my practice, as well as any other past life regression therapists that I know of, the emphasis is not necessarily on discovering other lives your soul has lived…although it can be. Mostly, past life regression is used as an efficient and effective tool to help someone get unstuck in some way, or heal themselves of something, or gain insight or clarity into an issue or situation. People who experience a past life regression somehow feel drawn to do one. Neither myself, nor any other past life regression therapist, can guarantee that you will see a life that your soul has lived before while doing a past life regression. However, I can almost guarantee that the person coming to me will see a life or lives that will somehow help them to move forward, grow, evolve, heal, or gain some insight or clarity about their life, whether they are seeing images of a past life their soul has lived before, or a life from the mass consciousness stream, or whether they are seeing some sort of symbolic metaphor that their unconscious mind is showing them. How can I almost guarantee this? It is said that just as the body’s instinct is to breathe, the soul’s instinct is to grow and evolve. That makes sense to me, because as I’ve noticed after facilitating over 4,000 past life regressions, a person’s higher soul-self, or unconscious mind, will show them something very helpful and beneficial 9 out of 10 times while doing a past life regression. Having said that, however, I do believe that most of the lives people see during a past life regression are indeed coming from a life that their soul has lived before. Mainly because if you consider that our souls grow, learn and evolve through the experience of these earth lives, we all have had many lives that we may have botched up or could have made better decisions. These are the types of lives that 90% of my clients see. They are rarely the lives of famous people, but rather ordinary people with sometimes boring or partially traumatic lives, at times ending in tragedy or suicide. The most common thing I hear after a person emerges from a past life regression is: “I would never have made that up.”

 

Three Common Ways a Person May Benefit From a Past Life Regression

 

  • Releasing energy that is limiting you or holding you back physically, mentally or emotionally.

 

The Tibetans are a group of people who have studied spirituality and almost made it into a science. They say we have a physical, a mental and an emotional energy body. When we die and move up into the higher vibration of the spirit realm, we leave that heavy energy behind. But when we incarnate again, we can pick up again some of the dense trauma energy left over from a previous life. I have witnessed many hundreds of examples of this.

 

One example includes a client who had been on medications for 30 years due to anxiety that felt like impending doom, coupled with a strange pain in his chest that the doctors couldn’t figure out. He regressed to an idyllic past life hundreds of years ago where he lived in a clan that felt like extended family near a forest. They always had plenty to eat. But the last minute of his life was filled with chaos and panic because his village was raided by invaders early one morning, and he died from a sword in his heart. When the life was over, he drifted higher into the spirit realm and we released the energy of physical, mental and emotional trauma from that death experience. After the session was over, he said his anxiety and the ongoing pain in his chest was gone. Six weeks later, he emailed me saying he had weened off all of his medications for that issue, and the anxiety and pain was still gone and he’s never felt better.

 

Examples with other clients include: eliminating ongoing migraines by finding the source of it in a past life where she was one of the first recipients of Electric Convulsive Therapy for depression, before they used anesthesia; Eradicating a phantom chest pain after discovering the source of it in a previous life car accident that killed her; Releasing and eliminating deep anxiety and phobia of anything around my client’s neck after uncovering the source of it from being hung in a past life; Releasing the phobia of needles after seeing the source of it in a past life where she died in an institution that gave her frequent injections; Eliminating the fear of being on a bridge when shown a past life where he was working on building a bridge near San Francisco, and fell to his death. I’m not suggesting that all of our issues come from past lives. I’m only suggesting that in some cases, I believe this may be the case.

 

  • Drawing upon beneficial energies from other lives

Not all past lives are traumatic. One client came to me with feelings of unworthiness, undeserving and not good enough as a result of growing up with an extremely critical and abusive mom. She thought she would see the life of an abused orphan, but instead saw a life where she was a Native American warrior who had a deep connection with spirit and nature and felt great harmony with everyone and everything around him. Other tribal members had great respect for him. In the higher vibration of the spirit realm after the life was over, she easily saw how her feelings of unworthiness had nothing to do with her, but rather how she was raised. She released all beliefs of unworthiness, and for the first time had compassion for her mother. When I saw her five years later, she said the regression experience changed her life and that she and her mom are now best friends. I’ve seen numerous examples of this type of regression experience.

  • Learning Soul Lessons…shining a spotlight on unconscious beliefs or perspectives that limit you

An example of this was a woman who saw two lives: The first was a very wealthy woman who looked down upon her servants and anyone not of her status. The next life she saw herself as a homeless woman living under a bridge. In her words, “I came back in the poor life to have an experience of how I treated others in the previous life.” The lesson was about being mindful of how you treat others.

One of the most common soul lessons I encounter during past life regressions has to do with learning to deal with loss. It seems that loss is built into the human experience to learn from as a soul. I’ve seen many hundreds of examples where a client is shown a past life where they didn’t deal with loss very well, and consequently they see themselves in the past life becoming an alcoholic, or guarding their heart by closing themselves off to others, and many times committing suicide. In their present life, they may be challenged to deal with loss in a different, healthier manner, in which they have the courage to find love again and live life anew after the loss. They gain this insight in the past life regression, and sometimes, while in the deepest part of the regression experience when connected in the spirit realm, they can even feel the presence of loved ones on the other side. It can be quite a profound and healing experience for a person.

In all of these cases, I can never prove that these are lives their soul has lived. But whatever their unconscious mind shows them and wherever it comes from, it is often the precise thing that will help them overcome some type of issue. That is what matters most to the client and the past life regression therapist. It makes sense to me, however, that in most cases, they are being shown lives that their soul has lived before, for the purpose of healing, growing and evolving, or in some way helping out the present life personality.

 

Cases of Verifying Information from Past Lives

There are also less common cases such as Lisa’s…where people get impressions of scenes, people or other information from a past life regression, and then later research and validate the information. I have had several dozens of clients who have researched and verified past life information. Some of this information has included obscure clothing styles in Wales at the turn of the 20th century, or outfits that Mongolian wrestlers wore hundreds of years ago. Or what certain neighborhoods looked like before, during and after a flood 100+ years ago. In rare cases, people can get names that drop into them. I had one young woman in her 20’s who saw her life of a U.S. pilot during the Vietnam War. His plane was shot down and he was captured by the Viet Cong and held in a bamboo cage. He became close friends with the U.S. soldier next to him in the cage who was from Kentucky, and they vowed that they would get together at his home if they ever got out alive. But they did not. When he was killed with a blow to the back of the head, the soul looked down at the body and my client gasped, “Oh my God, I’m MIA/POW. No one knows how I died! Now I know why I’m obsessed with becoming a medical examiner in my present life, so I can help families know how their loved ones died!”  She recalled what her name was as the soldier, as well as the name of the man from Kentucky next to him in the cage. She found both names on the Virtual Vietnam Memorial Wall, and was able to research and verify significant information about her former life prior to going to Vietnam.

 

In Lisa’s case, I believe she may have had a flashback past life memory during her first visit near Ross Castle, and that the memories that came to her in the past life regression were from another life her soul has lived, namely the life of Sabana. If this is the case, rather than saying, “Lisa was Sabina”, it might be more accurate to say, “Lisa and Sabina share the same soul.” There is a theory in which we can think of our higher soul self as a pomegranate that has many different seeds. Each seed can represent a fraction of soul energy that goes to a different life our soul has lived. We can have many different earth lives, sometimes even overlapping, as well as lives in other dimensions. We always leave a large percentage of our entire soul energy behind, so even though a deceased loved one may already be incarnated, we can still see them after we die.

Why did Lisa see the vision of Orwen? One theory is that perhaps a part of her higher soul-self wanted her to see that life because Sabana died of a “broken heart” or in other words, she ended her life. Could it be that she did not deal with loss very well in that life, so her soul-self wanted her to see it so she could make a different choice after losing someone important in her present life? If so, she is doing remarkable, and passing the soul lesson of dealing with loss with flying colors by choosing life and love again with her relationship with Jim. We may never know for sure. But viewing ourselves as eternal beings having a human experience for the sake of growth may offer one viewpoint as to why Lisa saw the vision of Orwen.

 

In Closing

 

I have found that each past life regression session I do is quite unique and different. Not everyone is a good candidate to do a past life regression. I have found that people who are somewhat intuitive tend to have better sessions, because the information drops into a person in a very intuitive way…not through our five senses, but rather through the sixth sense in the form of images, thoughts, feelings or like an intuitive hunch. If you’re not used to the process, it can feel a lot like you are making it up. Hence, the amazement people feel when researching the information and discover validations of what dropped into them during the regression. Also, it helps to have a belief that we are eternal beings that have lived other lives before. Sometimes rigid beliefs can act as filters that limit how we see life and also what we experience, so it helps to have an open mind.

In my experience, the overall theme of past life regression is, “As you go within, you tend to get precisely what you need.” It seems to be tailor made by your own higher self, or unconscious mind and be very beneficial if you can get your analytical thinking mind out of the way. In fact, one definition of hypnosis is, “a bypass of the critical thinking factor of the conscious mind.”

Finally, after guiding 4,000+ past life regressions over the past 23 years, I’ve noticed three common themes or soul lessons that often emerge during the latter part of the session when the earth life is over and is being reviewed from the vantage point of the soul. There is such wisdom in these lessons that I wanted to share them.

#1 Do not live from fears or guardedness. You will regret the times that you allowed fears to hold you back or limit your life expression in any way. A common example is withholding your expression of love by guarding your heart from emotional pain. Other regrets include choosing security over pursuing a passion, love or joy, whether it be marrying for status and money instead of love or holding back on following a dream. As Wayne Dyer once said, “Don’t die with your music still left in you.”

#2 Be more proactive in creating your life experience rather than simply reacting to what life gives you. I’ve heard many variations of this same missed opportunity. Unfortunately, we cannot get through life without loss or failure because they seem to be built into the human experience as a means for us as souls to evaluate how the human part of us chooses to respond to challenges. Loss or failure can limit us or it can make us stronger and wiser with a richer life experience. Can we use our difficult and challenging experiences to be a source of support for others who will inevitably be dealing with loss or failure? Can we have the courage to love and try to enjoy life again? When we glimpse behind the scenes and view life as a temporary role-play, losses and failure don’t paralyze us as much. In other words, as we become more awake to our permanent identity, we become freer.

#3 Be more fully and consciously present in each moment of life to experience more joy. It reminds me of Emily’s famous line in Thorton Wilder’s play Our Town, “Is anyone really aware of life while they’re living it?” This is a theme that we all can relate to as we often go through life in our heads rather than appreciating the underlying love and beauty that is available in each instant, often only noticing it when it’s gone.

We can understand these lessons intellectually, but yet not fully feel and experience the truth of this wisdom. The value of past life regression is that it can allow us to integrate deeper soul truths at the level of the body and subconscious mind, thus helping us to more easily live from them in our daily lives. This is because towards the end of the session, the background noise of the thinking mind is silent and you are fully anchored in the here and now, which is actually a higher dimension of your being that is saturated in peace, love and clarity. You are more deeply connected to the soul part of you that is always ‘here’ and never goes away.

There is a theory that says the consciousness of the planet is raising. Much of the latest technology will be obsolete in 10 years, and it seems this pace is escalating faster as the years go by. In the same way, I believe our collective consciousness is raising spiritually…in our awareness of being more than our physical bodies, and that we are multi-dimensional beings. And that there may be far more behind the scenes than only this earth life and these physical bodies. I’m so happy that Lisa shared her unique and profound experiences in this book! It is another contribution to the raising of the collective consciousness of the planet by helping us question our set beliefs, and by opening ourselves to new ways of seeing ourselves, earth life, and perhaps a more expansive view of reality than what we are currently aware of. May we all continue on our journey of growing, learning and evolving!

January Past Life Regression Workshop

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You are an incredible, magnificent soul being that is eternal, indestructible and outside of time and space, and you are using your human experience to grow, learn and evolve. I love sharing the evidence of this with people in the past life regression workshops that I facilitate. I also love sharing fascinating case studies that not only demonstrate our multi-dimensional nature, but also how we can easily connect to our “more permanent” self for healing, wisdom and clarity in our present life.

One of my favorite teachers, Paramahansa Yogananda, often emphasized the value of community, especially when embarking on the spiritual journey. At this event, you will have the opportunity to enjoy time with like-minded souls who are focused on spiritually evolving which can have a profound effect on your growth. We can all benefit from more high-quality, joyful connections that open our heart. There will be plenty of time for questions as well as experiencing a group-guided past life regression. I hope you will join us at this unique event on Sunday, January 26, 2025 from 1 – 4pm.

Participants will:

  • Discover the evidence of reincarnation and the truth that you are an eternal, indestructible soul being.
  • Hear fascinating case studies that reveal the power of past life regression to promote wisdom, clarity and healing from a multitude of issues, awaken you to your divinity and also to a higher level of consciousness.
  • Experience your own past life in a group-guided journey and process experiences.
  • Learn about our journey out of ego/body identification and into a higher aspect of our being.
  • Deepen your personal and spiritual growth.
  • Participate with like-minded people to support your soul’s expansion.

The workshop will be hosted at Soul Body Finesse Studio, 2400 N 2nd St., Suite 212, Minneapolis, MN. Their website is SoulBodyFinesse.com. To register for the workshop directly, click here, and scroll down.

The cost for this event is $60, $30 for Soul Body Finesse members.

What it means to awaken

Interview with Mystic Mag

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I feel that one of the purposes of my life is to remind people of several spiritual insights that their soul already knows. Among these are: We are eternal beings on earth for the purpose of learning, evolving and remembering our permanent identities; Within us lies tremendous resources as well as the love, connection, peace and joy that we are seeking outside of ourselves; We are all ultimately interconnected.

Opportunities to share this come to me in speaking invitations or interviews. I may feel reluctant or too busy sometimes to share, but that quiet voice within reminds me what I’m doing here, and nudges me to accept these invitations. The most recent one was an interview with Mystic Mag, an online global magazine dedicated to informing people about holistic and spiritual services.

Please enjoy the interview by clicking on the link below.

https://www.mysticmag.com/psychic-reading/ericchristopher-interview/

 

 

 

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Case Study: Releasing Lifelong Anxiety

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A client came to me last summer (I’ll call her Amber) with anxiety so intense that she had to go on a leave of absence from her job at a hospital where she drew blood from patients. She shared that she had experienced depression and anxiety her whole life, but lately her anxiety had become much worse at work. She described a recent incident when she was drawing blood from a patient who was hooked up to various machines that were making beeping noises. Suddenly, panic came over her for no apparent reason, and she had to leave work in the middle of her shift. Her anxiety was so severe that she had to take a leave of absence from work and she was starting to have panic attacks at home. This is when she sought me out to help her understand and heal the source of her anxiety and depression, as well as feelings of guilt and undeserving.

We began to explore the source of her anxiety in her present life, but she intuitively felt that the source of her anxiety and negative feelings started so young and it felt much deeper than anything that had occurred in her present life. We shifted gears and did a past life regression which ultimately turned into a deep healing session within the life between lives realms.

In the past life, she initially saw herself as a young boy living with his mother in a home with a very challenging environment.

Me: What does your home life feel like for you as you grow up?

Client: Life feels like tar…gross, dirty and stuck. I don’t have a dad…I never knew him. My mom is a drunk. She’s very mean and abusive physically and emotionally. I don’t feel loved. I never know when she’s going to lose control and what will happen. She scares me and I feel like I have to take care of her. I’m embarrassed at school because my clothes are bad, so I don’t go often. The only good thing I have is my dog…he’s a yellow lab.

We moved ahead in time a couple of decades, to a scene after he is married with children. He is having a meal with his wife, their baby and their 8-year-old son. Initially, it seems like a happy time, but as we relaxed deeper into the scene, more depressing feelings and information began to emerge, revealing repeating dysfunctional generational patterns.

Me: How would you describe what your wife is like?

Client: She is a good wife, and she loves me, but it’s hard. I don’t feel deserving of her. I’m not a good spouse. I have some mental health issues and I drink a lot at home at night when I’m not working. My son is my pride and joy, but I scare him sometimes when I’m drinking.

Me: What do you do for work?

Client: I fly planes. I feel successful at work, but at home, I drink too much and I’m not present with my wife and kids.

As we moved further ahead in time, his depression has worsened. We arrive at a scene where he is visiting his mother in the hospital because she is dying.

Client: I feel bad and sad and guilty. I haven’t had much contact with my mom. Life is depressing. I made it with a good career and a family, but I’m not happy with life. I feel scared and desperate…like if I can’t be happy now at this stage of my life, I’ll never be happy. 

As we move ahead to the next scene, he sees himself flying an airplane, and he immediately knows that this life is coming to a close and it isn’t going to end well. He is feeling extremely depressed and suicidal. He purposely crashes the plane into a mountain while there were passengers on board.

Me: Go to the precise moment your soul leaves the body.

Client: The plane is turbulent. There is a lot of beeping sounds from the controls. I leave the body and watch the plane crash into the side of the mountain. There is so much smoke. The plane is busted up. I’m above the plane crash. My heart hurts that everyone died.

Me: Do you stay around that scene very long, or do you get a sense of pulling or drifting away at some point?

Client: I stay there.

Me: (long pause) As earth time goes on and on, do you eventually drift away, or does it more feel as though you continue to stay there?

Client: I stay there. It feels like part of me is still stuck there.

On rare occasions, clients do not move higher into the soul realm after death. These may be times when they die in a traumatic way, or are experiencing very heavy emotions at the time of their death, or perhaps they feel a strong responsibility or desire to stay around the earth for a while. In these cases, I have that client energetically release the heavy trauma from that life from the physical, mental and emotional energy bodies, and ask them to visualize a shaft of light to move into as an energy current that can bring them to a higher vibration in the spiritual realm. In shaman terms, this is called a soul retrieval. Alternatively, we can simply call upon higher guidance. In Amber’s case, she called upon her guardian angels. She could immediately sense them, and began to describe what happened next.

Client: Their essence feels like a light of source energy and I soak it in. It feels so loving and good. Now they’re bringing me to a beautiful waterfall. It’s purifying and cleansing. It feels like a relief. I’ve had reoccurring dreams here of this place. One of the angels is a male. His name is Luke. I feel safe. He says, “Let it all go, you’re ok now.”

Amber began to tear up as she released all of the fear, depression, sadness and feelings of undeserving that had carried over from that troubled past life to her present life. She then got back a part of her that was lost and covered up while she was carrying that heavy emotional energy. She described the feelings and vibrations that came back to her.

Client: It feels like pure whole and completeness, like energy is being restored. A refreshing rebirth. So calm.

While she rested in the high vibrational healing energy, her soul began to clearly see how the depression and anxiety in that past life had its roots in unresolved trauma from a very turbulent childhood of living with an alcoholic mother. These heavy, unresolved, fear-based emotions had snowballed into a stronger force of depression and anxiety, which in turn, led to the traumatic suicidal ending of that life. The fear and guilt of this trauma had carried over to impact her present life. She then saw how the beeping noises of the hospital instruments where she was drawing blood had triggered the unconscious memories of the beeping noises of the controls of the plane as it crashed into a mountain, creating the fear and panic that had paralyzed her at work.

Three weeks after her session, Amber emailed me an update. She wrote: “Right after the session, my anxiety was nearly all gone! So many insights came to me. I was able to go right back to work, and I’m feeling so much better. Thank you so very much!”

We have physical, mental, emotional and spiritual energy bodies. When we die with intense, heavy pain or emotions, this energy can sometimes carry over to impact a present incarnation. Within ourselves lies not only the source of our trauma, but also the solution to our trauma. Since we are multi-dimensional beings, we have the capacity to move to higher vibrational realms to connect with our eternal soul selves and higher guidance to receive insight, clarity and healing.  We can then move forward in our present life, free from the heavy traumas of the past that hold us back in this life. Then we can more easily allow the brilliance of our soul selves to shine through.

Join the Past Life Regression Workshop!

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You are an incredible, magnificent soul being that is eternal, indestructible and outside of time and space, and you are using your human experience to grow, learn and evolve. I love sharing the evidence of this with people in the past life regression workshops that I facilitate. I also love sharing fascinating case studies that not only demonstrate our multi-dimensional nature, but also how we can easily connect to our “more permanent” self for healing, wisdom and clarity in our present life.

One of my favorite teachers, Paramahansa Yogananda, often emphasized the value of community, especially when embarking on the spiritual journey. At this event, you will have the opportunity to enjoy time with like-minded souls who are focused on spiritually evolving which can have a profound effect on your growth. We can all benefit from more high-quality, joyful connections that open our heart. I hope you will join us at this unique event on March 23, 2024.

There will be plenty of time for questions as well as experiencing a group-guided past life regression. For more details or to register, visit https://ericjchristopher.com/workshops/.

I look forward to seeing you there!

 

Life Between Lives Transcription

Save the Last Dance for “All That Is”

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Every couple of months I receive a newsletter from the mystic spiritual teacher, trance channel and karmic astrologer, Joan Pancoe. I’ve always enjoyed her sense of humor intertwined with spiritual teachings, which always reminded me of Ram Dass. It’s no wonder that she is a big fan of Ram Dass. Her spiritual teachings are pretty consistent with what I’ve read from many other spiritual teachers, as well as my own experience from guiding over 4,000 past life regressions. Her latest newsletter succinctly shares our soul’s perspective behind the many incarnations we take, and explains the diversity of human lives we may experience here on planet earth. I wanted to share her latest teachings with all of you because it is worth reading. Please enjoy these words by Joan Pancoe by clicking on this link to read her latest teaching.

 

Case Study: Awakening to the Light and Love Inside of Us

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Our problems, personal as well as global, can be clear pointers to what no longer works for us, and therefore, they can be the starting point to reclaim our power. And even while we as individuals are stuck in a limiting pattern, there is a part of us that remains free from the constraints of our mind programs, and offers a clearer way of perceiving. This internal wisdom is available and can offer guidance that is based in a more permanent reality, the soul state, which is motivated from a background of love and safety rather than a background of fear, which is common in the human state. I see examples of this in nearly every session. Here is an example of the insights that come from this truer reality.

Client Background

Jane’s initial reason for doing a past life regression was to gain clarity on her life purpose and whether or not she should relocate to another state. But what can happen in a past life regression is that a person’s higher self may have a different agenda and want to give insight and clarity on something else in a person’s life that it deems is more important.

Client Experience

Jane’s regression began as a woman in a blissful marriage with children, until her husband died suddenly. She grieved for a long time after her husband’s death, overwhelmed with loneliness and guarding her heart from further emotional pain.

Jane suddenly recognized that she was repeating the same pattern in her present life. But then as the past life personality grew older, she was shown another perspective. She began to pour love into her children and grandchildren, which in turn, came back to her, creating a full, rich life. It was important for her to see how she could overcome her hurt and loss by giving love to others. In the afterlife, she experienced her soul self, a higher level of consciousness free of the learned, limiting, egoic mind patterns. This is usually the most healing part of the session as insights drop in as a result of a larger perspective and higher vibration state. The eternal part of her was able to reconnect with the eternal part of her husband in the past life, whose loss had created years of stuck anguish. She was then able to experience the truth that love transcends all loss.

Client Results

A week after the session, Jane shared in an email this wisdom: “You know that deep love I described feeling for someone else? I am now feeling it for the beautiful essence that lives in me. My heart feels full, complete, and perfect just the way it is. This morning I felt a deep comfort with the person I truly am and was able to begin experiencing what it is like to BE THAT person inside of this body.  And, I love it.  The answer isn’t “out there” as to where I need to move or what I need to do.  It is being at home in me where ever the path leads.  My fear was that in the regression I would run into a real YUK of a person from another life.  That was only my shame and guilt that is so made up.  The real person in all of us is so beyond the denseness we humans can so easily sink into.

When I return for another session, it is not so much about going thru past lives as it will be staying in touch with the beautiful love energy I feel for ME. That kind of love will only radiate more of the same in others. Right now, I am so enjoying for the first time having a sense of who I am and it is with deep gratitude for your skillful way of bringing me home to myself. THANK YOU.”

Eric’s Comments

One of the greatest benefits of past life regression is tuning into the permanent self that transcends these lives. You can actually experience this higher dimensional self to be deeply anchored in the present moment and free of the subtle, subconscious thoughts that hold us back in life. It’s a great respite to become rooted in the clarity of your true self, free of fears and lack. This part of us is always available and lies just beyond our thinking mind. As we become more acquainted with our soul while here on earth, we will begin to awaken from the human condition of “egoic sleepwalking.”

Case Study: Uncovering the Source of a Mother’s Fear

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This case study reveals how past life regression can be very healing on multiple levels. This modality often has a “trickle down” effect of alleviating all kinds of subtle fears, even ones that you cannot pinpoint and articulate, because it’s all about allowing the innate wisdom of your Higher Self to guide you. It knows precisely what you need to heal, evolve and move forward…more than your conscious mind does.

Client Background

A young mother (I’ll call her Beth) came in for past life regression therapy to deal with anxiety, depression and some anger. Whenever her 1½ year old son cried, especially at night, she would get chest tightening fears and anxieties about being a bad mother and not doing a good job.

Client Experience

Beth regressed to a life as an English military officer in WWI who gave orders that resulted in the death of many soldiers. As a decorated officer after the war, he visited the families of some men who had died in battle, and felt guilty and responsible for the grief and struggle that he caused in these fatherless homes. Here are Beth’s words from the session: “As I grow old, I become mean and grumpy because I ruined so many people’s lives under my orders, and bitter because I had no choice. I don’t talk about it. I think a lot about Jesus and I hope I go to heaven. I didn’t treat my wife well until I started to die.”

The soul stayed around until after the funeral because it was only after death that he was finally able to take in the love that people had for him. Here are some of the reflections from the vantage point of the soul: “People are proud of those medals, but I had to do a lot of bad stuff to get them. I wanted to let them love me in that life, but I thought if they knew what I did, they wouldn’t have loved me. I can take in that love now and it feels so good. I can be at peace…Time to go…If I come back I want to make a happy home.”

In the soul realm, the soul apologized to the souls of the families who were affected by his orders. We can do this because everyone and everything is ultimately interconnected – especially where there are unresolved issues between beings. But, as so often happens in that realm, a knowing response came back that apologies are unnecessary since everyone was blindly role-playing on earth, and everything ultimately turns out fine in the end. Human struggles become opportunities for soul growth. We then could easily release the unresolved thought-form energy of guilt, anger and fear that the military officer died with, and thus got carried over into this incarnation, resulting in Beth’s chest-tightening fears when her baby cried. She then got back warm, bright love…the natural replacement. This resulted in a higher vibration, and then insights began to drop in: “I need to be with my son from love, not fear. It’s ok to have feelings and feel frustrated at times, it doesn’t mean I’m a bad mother. I know I’m a good mother. It’s safe to be myself and be the loving, great mother that I am.” We then let her body fully feel that truth at the cellular level which allowed it to sink deeper in her subconscious mind.

Client Results

Six weeks later, Beth wrote this in an email: “The session was a big help to me. I felt better right away regarding my son and his crying at night. As the weeks went by, I slowly started feeling less anxious on deeper levels. Not sure how to explain it, but it was just a sense that this life is just one life among many. I knew that before, but after the session for some reason it took a lot of the anxiety away from my everyday life.” When I saw Beth again 5 years later, she reaffirmed that the deep-seated anxiety and anger remained gone ever since the session.

Eric’s Comments

Sometimes we can understand things intellectually, but it doesn’t resonate until we really know it at a deeper “body” level. Beth believed intellectually that her present life as a mother was one of many lives, but towards the end of the session, she was able to feel and experience her “eternalness” while steeped in the freedom, peace and clarity of her soul self. The immortality of her true self “upgraded” from a belief to an inner knowing, thus integrating more deeply into the body/subconscious mind. Then she could more easily feel and live from the truth of her soul instead of conditioned fear-based beliefs.

The feelings of deep inner assurance are within all of us. In fact, we can’t escape them because they are an aspect of who and what we are as a soul, but they do get covered up in this human experience. What I’ve noticed over the years is that for some people, the wisdom and insights of the soul can easily sink in deeply after only one session, while others may need another “reinforcement” session or two, depending on their essence. Whether a person experiences a past life regression, a Life-Between-Lives or an Emotional Healing and Awakening session, each one or a combination of them will deepen and strengthen the integration of the soul’s perspective. This, in turn, can loosen and heal life-long mental and emotional patterns that hold one back in life and thus bolster one’s identity as a multi-dimensional being.

Case Study: Overcoming the Deep Grip of Shame

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“Just as our body’s instinct is to breath, the soul’s instinct is to evolve.” These words came from a spirit guide of one of my clients. Such beautiful and succinctly simple words of truth perfectly sums up what is evident in past life regressions…it’s all about growing, healing, evolving, and gaining clarity and insights from a higher vantage point.

Client Background

This case example involves a common human experience…shame. Mary was not even aware that she was carrying shame, and she didn’t come to her session with a clear issue to work on. She simply wanted to do a past life regression. It’s helpful with past life regressions to make a statement of intent for the inner journey, even if you don’t know what you want to work on. So, in Mary’s case, her intent for the session was a good one given that she didn’t have an issue to work on. It was: “To become aware of patterns, behaviors and beliefs that are keeping me from growing, learning life lessons, and spiritual growth.”

Client Experience

During the regression to her past life, Mary saw herself as a young boy in his very early years growing up without a father. Then, around the age of 6, he also lost his mother. Living in a rural village, he was cared for only by various “volunteers” from the village who did it out of obligation, which he could sense. He never developed a strong bond with anyone and felt alone and isolated early on in life, feeling ashamed about not having a family like other kids. As the years passed, he grew into a quiet, gruff, lonely man who never had a relationship and whose only job was the monotonous, laborious job of clearing rocks from fields. His only entertainment was drinking in a pub, usually by himself, listening to the stories of other people’s lives. “There’s laughter and joy, but I don’t feel it. I wish I did. I feel sad when I leave the pub.” He lived alone, and then ultimately died alone.

After the life was over, he moved into the higher consciousness of the soul realm. From the lighter vibration of the soul, Mary reflected upon the life: “It was a sad, lonely, stuck life from the start, with too much shame to even seek help when I was young.” It was clearly evident how the early shame from not having a family expanded into a growing, dark cloud of isolation and loneliness that greatly impacted his view of himself and his experience of life. Mary then understood the lesson of that life: “To realize that I am worth being helped and saved, and it takes courage to take that step. I had to let go of the shame I held.” She then saw and felt the joy, peace, freedom, strength and empowerment that would have come, and does come, from releasing shame. After the regression experience was over, it became clear (as always) that she had received from her higher self/higher guidance precisely what she asked for in her statement of intent — shame was what she needed to release from not only her past life, but also from her present life as well.

Eric’s Comments and Further Healing

It might be more accurate to say that shame isn’t so much “released” as seen through and no longer believed, thus the energy of it dissipates. Shame is a deep-seated belief of lack about who you are…it cannot be easily released from the logical mind, so the antidote is to go to a higher level of consciousness, where it can be seen through. Albert Einstein suggested you cannot solve a problem from the same level of consciousness that created it, but you can at a higher level. Shame does not make sense from the vantage point of the soul. So, in her session, while immersed in the higher dimension of her soul self, Mary experienced the expanded vibrations of her truer “unconditioned Self”, free of the programming and conditioning of her past life and also this present life that contributed to her shame, and therefore she experienced the freedom and clarity that comes from being harmoniously grounded in the truth of her real eternal Self.

Mary’s higher self had showed her that particular past life and its lessons so that she could apply it to this life. She had certainly released a layer of shame, but sometimes releasing the sticky beliefs of shame from one’s present life requires a bit more present life healing work, and this was the case with Mary. She reported that after the session, heavy, negative feelings began to surface which she soothed by eating sugary foods. I explained that when you are in a higher vibration state of the soul, you are in pure freedom, and freedom calls anything to the surface which is not free. So, when you come back to your earth life, negative feelings, thoughts and beliefs such as shame can rise to the surface if and when they are ripe and ready to be released from your body/mind system. We carry much of this toxic thought-form energy in the cells of our body. Keep in mind that this negative thought-form energy often gets passed down through the generations like a virus, so when you heal it, you are also helping to clean up mass consciousness from many generations. It is interesting to note that those negative feelings and beliefs of shame are low vibration and they want to be fed low vibration food like processed sugar and fast food, etc. The energy of shame doesn’t quite like fresh pressed juice and smoothies nearly as much. A by-product of healing the unconscious shame patterns that have been passed down through the generations is that it feels so much easier and more natural to eat healthier.

I explained that the past life session was all about pointing out what she needed to do, because she asked for it in her statement of intent. So, Mary came back when she was ready to begin the process of releasing the thought-form energy of negative feelings and beliefs from the traumas and challenging experiences from the early years of her present life. We released that limiting thought-form energy from the cells of her body and subconscious mind with the Present Life Emotional Healing session…a safe, easy process of releasing trauma and limiting beliefs from the body and subconscious mind while connecting to the freedom and wholeness of one’s soul self.

Client Results

A few weeks after her Present Life Emotional Healing session, Mary wrote to me that her second session had been a profound cathartic healing, and she felt so much lighter. Some repressed negative emotions would occasionally arise, but they were not overwhelming or frightening and she was easily able to let them go as they came up. Her chiropractor was even amazed saying that her body was checking completely different after her session.

Eric’s Comments

This is a good example of how a past life regression and the Present Life Emotional Healing session can work powerfully and effectively together to help a person leap forward in their personal and spiritual evolution. The emotional healing session may sound scary and difficult because, after all, who wants to look at a swamp of negative feelings? But what keeps it stuck is subtly avoiding it, and the keys to release it involve giving it your full attention for a few minutes in a safe space. Then you will feel much lighter after the session. It is very rewarding. People tend to see, feel and experience noticeable results after each session.

I am reminded of Paramahansa Yogananda’s quote: “As you heal yourself, you do your part in healing the world.” Everyone benefits from your healing…from loved ones to strangers to even your ancestral generational line. You will also find it easier to love people, especially those close to you, because the repressed emotions within you which they previously triggered have now been dissipated. And you will experience that this is a much more free and harmonious way to live!

Healing a frozen shoulder

Case Study: Healing a Frozen Shoulder

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Client Background

A retired medical doctor (I’ll call him Jim) came in one day with a frozen left shoulder. He could not lift it very high at all. It had been bothering him for many years, and he had been to the Mayo Clinic several times and had tried a lot of alternative healing techniques for it, but nothing helped very much. He decided to try past life regression.

Client Experience

Jim regressed back to a life as a large, stout Roman soldier who had a strong sense of duty to his country. He was very good at what he did, and that was killing people and putting down peasant uprisings. He described carrying a big shield with his right hand, and with his left hand he carried a large, sharp sword and was a killing machine with his left arm. After his death in that life, his soul moved up into the high vibration of the spiritual dimension. It was then that Jim became emotional with tears of guilt, as he suddenly became aware of all of the fatherless homes he had created. He said, “We didn’t always have to fight, we could have settled conflicts verbally. I’m having trouble forgiving myself.” Then it dawned on him that that guilt might have something to do with his frozen shoulder. I suggested that while he was connected to his higher soul self, he should call upon all of the souls that he killed or negatively affected in that past life. He sensed many souls come around and he gave a heart and soul-felt apology. The answer that came back was that all was forgiven…he was simply acting as most humans do while lost in the human experience. He then experienced a flood of light and what felt like healing energy come into his energy system. Insights about his soul lesson began to drop in, and he said, “I needed to listen to my heart more, there’s a price to pay for blindly following the duty for country if the leaders are not necessarily on the right path.”

Client Results

After the session, Jim had a big smile on his face as he effortlessly raised up his left arm and shoulder. I saw him again at a talk by Dr. Larry Dossey three years later. Jim walked up to me and raised his left arm and shoulder saying, “You know Eric, that session we did was the only thing that ever really worked for this shoulder.”

Eric’s Comments

As we go within, our higher guidance system will show us a life that is having a strong impact on the present life, especially if we ask for it. At a deep level, there was something that needed resolution…and that something was affecting the physical, mental and emotional energy bodies of Jim’s present life. Once we got that resolution, the healing could happen at a very deep level. Quantum science tells us that we are energy beings. We are also multi-dimensional, and part of us lies outside of this time/space continuum. Unresolved thoughts, feelings and perspectives from a past life can affect a person’s present life. As one tunes into their eternal soul mind for solutions, their innate wisdom will very often show them the source of a particular problem or issue. Interesting to note that Jim became a doctor in this life to help people heal and live a better life, perhaps to make up for the life in which he took life away from people.