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age regression is not a goal but a tool which is part of the therapy,
among other techniques. It is used by the hypnotherapist to solve a variety
of problems and traumas that have deep roots in the past. It is also
part of the Inner Child Healing Technique.
A client, however, might ask specifically for age regression if there
is something in their past that they want - for whatever reason - to
remember, but which eludes their conscious mind.
All our experiences are stored in the subconscious mind, even the
tiniest and most trivial ones. If the entire body of our memories were
accessible by our conscious mind we would be submerged in an ocean of
memories which would be largely useless, and this is why they are
stored safely away, as if in a huge archive.
Age regression is ideal if you wish to remember details of a past event
in your life. Sometimes it is used to retrieve lost items: for
example if you don't remember where you put an important document, or
your wallet.
Through age regression you can relive that past episode in full and
remember that very small detail that eludes your conscious mind.
You
do not need to believe in reincarnation to take advantage of this
powerful technique. Some people say that the ability to remember past lives is proof of the fact that
we have already lived before in other bodies, while others think that
it is just a symbolic way for our subconscious to communicate with our
conscious mind. Other people claim that our subconscious mind picks up
information from the Collective Unconscious as postulated by Carl
Gustav Jung. Whatever the cause of this phenomenon, it is a very
powerful and meaningful experience.
You may seek this experience for spiritual growth, and in this case I
shall guide you in the exploration of past lives as well as of the
inter-life periods. If you are puzzled by recurrent dreams that seem to
point to another time and another life, we can investigate their
possible source and you might be amazed by what you discover.
Past life regression is very beneficial for those who are particularly
frightened by the idea of dying, those who are terminally ill and all
those who are either caring for someone dying or are mourning a recent
loss. Exploring past lives, life between lives and future lives gives a completely
new perspective to the dying process and can bring great peace and
serenity.
It is also very helpful and comforting for those who feel a special and
deep bond with someone else and wish to investigate better the nature
and roots of their spiritual and emotional connections.
However, the most important function of this type of regression – from the therapeutic point of view – is that it can also be used as a specific therapy.
Sometimes people find themselves describing what seem to be past lives
when looking for the root cause of a phobia or a fear. If you are not
comfortable with the concept of reincarnation you need not worry
because such recalls are exactly like those of your childhood in age
regression. 
The
important thing is that once you have retrieved the memory at the base
of your phobia or fear I can help you to let it go and move on. The
understanding that comes from its retrieval is normally enough to free
you from its unwanted effect for ever.
PLR therapy is also used to help people to remove old traumas that are sabotaging their present lives, and sometimes – with special advanced techniques – it can also help to resolve or reduce physical illnesses that don’t seem to have any medical explanation.
Whether it is Age or Past Life, regression is the most powerful tool of hypnosis. Through regression,
in a very few sessions, you can solve deep-rooted traumas whose effects
limit or impair your psychological or physical well-being and which
have always eluded all previous attempts at resolution.
Sessions of past life regression are normally quite long and they include a free CD recording of the regression. When you re-emerge from hypnosis you remember everything, but just in case you want to double-check some details later on, like a name or a date for example, the CD will help you with that. I shall also advise you on what to do at home in order to get the maximum benefit from your experience, and I offer free follow-up support.
Quite often PL regressionists simply facilitate the revision of previous lives and nothing else, while thanks to my competence in Advanced Techniques, I shall also be able to help you to remove old blockages and emotional wounds that can still interfere with your present life, cut the ties with the negative emotions and limiting beliefs generated in those past lives, and let go of painful experiences. If necessary, I shall be able to put you in contact with your various past Selves so that you can rebalance your whole being. I shall guide you to assess your past lives from a spiritual point of view while you are in the non-incarnated spiritual dimension, and understand the lessons learnt in those lives. This new awareness will allow deep and powerful healing to occur so that an even and smooth energy flow can be restored.
There are many different methods which allow us to access the memories of past lives and some are indirect methods through psychics. Although they are all good and enriching experiences, to obtain true healing it's important that you personally go through the past events and re-experience them, so that you can connect with the emotions and feelings of that time, and by doing so, gain the power of letting them go, and heal yourself. Your personal experience will also allow you to go to the very root of the problem – it doesn't matter how deep or far away it is - as Dr Brian Weiss also writes: "Although information from a psychic is interesting and sometimes informative, it usually doesn't remove symptoms. The person often has to experience the memory herself and thus get resolution. The psychic might be picking up on a past life, but the root of the problem might go even further back". It is important to notice however, that no physical pain is experienced during these revisions: if it occurred in the past the mind automatically detaches from that body and ”looks” from outside. This allows the person to gain an understanding of that event without experiencing the physical pain.
It's not possible to give a date when the concept of reincarnation
first appeared among human beliefs because it seems to be as old as
humankind itself and it is present in cultures all over the world. Probably the best investigation into the religious and cultural history of reincarnation throughout the millennia is the large essay: Reincarnation – The Phoenix Fire Mystery: An East-West dialogue on death and rebirth from the worlds of religion, science, psychology, philosophy, art, and literature, compiled & edited by Sylvia Cranston (see our Bibliography for full details).
The first manifestation of the concept of reincarnation seems to be in Shamanism though. From it the belief in
rebirth has passed into all major religions that have developed on
earth, accompanying and influencing them throughout their evolution.
Reincarnation though transcends the limits of specific, codified
religious systems. Nowadays, in a more and more secularised Western
society, it is science that enjoys respect and credibility, while
traditional religions are constantly losing public interest: in fact
people are in search of a more direct and less structured spirituality.
In this climate, interest in reincarnation is not fading but growing
and this ancient, primordial belief is now receiving validation and
support by just those very scientific milieux
that - traditionally - have always been the antagonists of religions.
I say ‘primordial belief’ because looking back through the entire history of
human thought, reincarnation is actually the only worldwide concept
that has shown continuity and permanence from our origins to the
present day, even in spite of strongly determined attempts of powerful social and religious groups to eradicate it.
Eastern religions are well known to hold the concept of rebirth at the
very core of their teachings. What is less known is that reincarnation
has also always been present in monotheistic faiths and philosophical
systems of Western and Middle Eastern societies.
In classical Greece Plato, Diogenes and Pythagoras spoke of reincarnation and past life regressions as a matter of fact.
The Ancient Jews believed that Abel had reincarnated into Moses, and in
the Middle Ages reincarnation appears in the esoteric teaching of
Kabbalah, developed further – in later times – by the Hassidic movement.
The concept of Karma was introduced to Latin Rome by Ennius, after
being imported from the newly conquered Eastern territories, and Virgil
describes reincarnation in his poems.
Medieval Islam was also familiar with the concept of rebirth, and the
Persian Sufis have preserved this belief up to the present day. The
Quran itself explains the law of Karma.
What about Christianity? Reincarnation was an integral part of the
beliefs of early Christians and there are references to it even in the
teachings of Jesus himself. However everything changed in 325 AD when,
at the Council of Nicaea, reincarnation was condemned as heretical. The
fact is that this council was called in times of great turmoil and
insecurity and its decisions were dictated by political needs and not
by spiritual considerations; in fact the Council was requested by
Constantine, the emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, and it marked a
crucial political turning point in the fate of what would later become
Europe as we know it today.
At that time the old empire was disintegrating under the pressure of
nomadic peoples coming from the East, bringing with them a completely
new and unknown civilisation. Constantine was the head of this
vanishing empire and he was determined at all costs to maintain an order which was
faltering in the face of the advancement of the chaos brought by these new civilisations.
To do so he needed absolute power and absolute obedience and to obtain
them both he needed very strict laws, able to keep order within the
threatened boundaries. In such a situation people were supposed to obey
without question, and no challenge to his authority or the status quo was tolerated.
Reincarnation states that we incarnate over and over again,
experiencing all sorts of human conditions, and that someone who had
been a king in the past could be reborn as a tramp and vice versa.
The precariousness and transitoriness of social status that it taught
certainly sounded very subversive to a frightened monarch, and didn’t
hold any appeal for him. Constantine used a heavy hand to eradicate it.
He banned it as he did all other ideas or beliefs he felt threatened
by, and he didn’t hesitate to execute their supporters, mercilessly
silencing any opposition.
In spite of all this and of all subsequent detractors of this belief, the idea of rebirth has never been extirpated and
today - although the traditional religious systems are in crisis
throughout the entire Western civilisation - the belief in
reincarnation is growing steadily both in Europe and the USA, as the
statistics of the last twenty-five years show.
From various polls it appears that 25% of Americans believe in
reincarnation, which means that one American in four believes in past
lives. The European average is only slightly lower (24%) but it greatly
varies from country to country, going from 15% in Norway to 33% in
Great Britain. This means that in the UK one person out of three
believes they have already lived in another body, in another time and -
consequently - will probably come back again in the future.
Religious beliefs do not seem to interfere with the acceptance of the
concept of reincarnation either, since polls have shown that - although
Catholicism has been the faith to most strongly oppose reincarnation in
modern times - countries where Catholicism traditionally predominates
also show high percentages of belief in rebirth, even among regular
mass-goers: Portugal 32%; France 28%; Italy 27%; Spain 25%. (For more
details see: www.spiritual-wholeness.org/faqs/reinceur/reineuro.htm).
These data are highly encouraging in our present climate of gloom and
insecurity (similar to Constantine’s time in so many respects) where we are all called to
revise deep-seated behaviours and re-examine ways of life we had always
considered ethically correct and never thought of putting under
scrutiny before. However, this time there is not an empire or the
future of a continent at stake but the entire planet and the survival
of our species.
Fully embracing the concept of reincarnation and living according to it
will generate at least two important benefits which we are certainly in
great need of: a serious environmental conscience and tolerance.
If we believe that when we die it’s all over or - alternatively - that
we fly away to heaven leaving the earth far behind us forever, there is
not much incentive to protect the environment for future generations
that we shall never meet. The temptation to say: “It will be their
problem, who cares?” is strong. However if we believe that we shall
come back here and that we shall be part of those future generations,
then the problem suddenly becomes ours too and it’s better to look into
it sooner rather than later (especially because it is already quite
late anyway).
Wars and discrimination are always based on greed and resentment but they are masked, in one way or another, by the justification of diversity. Hate feeds either on envy, for what others are or have, or on fear of others' diversity. Reincarnation teaches that we have all lived many, many lives, incarnating in many different conditions: different sex, different colour of skin, different cultures, different religions, different sexual orientation, different locations, different social status … Once we are fully aware of this, it becomes impossible to attack someone else for being “different from us” because we know that we have experienced all the possible permutations ourselves. Reincarnation teaches tolerance, it teaches us to accept and respect what is different from us because we are likely to have already been – or are going to be – in that way too.
Regrettably however, the great interest and faith in rebirth revealed by the results of surveys isn’t reflected in the interest and attention demonstrated by official channels and the non-specialised press, with the unfortunate result that too many people still feel intimidated to openly show an interest in this subject and fear to be ridiculed or considered superstitious.
Without trespassing onto the unchartered grounds of conspiracy theories, the thought that some sort of political ostracism is at work now, as it was in the 4th century, is quite tempting. Certainly reincarnation has important philosophical consequences: embracing belief in rebirth and informing their lives on it, people certainly free themselves from many fears, and this process makes them more responsible and more independent, leaving much less possibility for them to be manipulated. Are the political powers and the hierarchised religious systems frightened of losing control as they were nearly 2000 years ago? We are not in the time of Constantine anymore and since then humans have grown up enough to be able to take responsibility for themselves. A quick search on Google.com gives 4,080,000 hits for ‘Reincarnation’ and 1,680,000,000 hits for “Past Life”. These data speak for themselves and don’t need any further comment. As Greywind said in his Voice within the Wind: “Take courage, make the leap”.
To end this part we need only to add a few words on the concept of Karma,
which is the universal law that regulates Reincarnation. Karma means
“action”, “deed”, but it can also mean “reaction”. Although its precise
interpretation varies from religion to religion, Karma can be broadly
defined as the universal law that regulates the cycles of rebirth
through actions that will need reactions until the balance goes back to
zero.
These facts are quite well-known and probably do not need to be
discussed any further here. However I would like to briefly look into
an interpretation which is unfortunately too commonly heard in modern
Western civilisation. According to it the evil that people suffer
depends on previous faults of theirs.
This is a very reductive and simplistic way to explain this universal
law and it also lacks compassion. Although Karma is the law of cause
and effect, action and reaction, it is not so simple and easy. Before
reincarnating, the soul decides a broad script (a loose blueprint) for its new life,
setting some goals to achieve through certain types of experiences. We
all do this but the choice of whether to have happy or painful
experiences is not simply dictated by a sort of spiritual accountant
who has to balance the books at the end of the day.
It’s true that a painful experience can be in payment for an old debt (or in other – better – words: it’s a way to learn a lesson), but many other reasons can also explain it: some souls may decide to speed up their evolution by filling a single life with tests that other souls prefer to undergo during many lives. There is always someone who takes a shortcut and in this case we should admire them and not tell them that they deserve their suffering because they are guilty.
Not only that: learning compassion and expressing it is the best way to
progress in the spiritual world and it should therefore always be
paramount. Compassion helps the sufferer who receives it, but even more
the person who shows it. If you see a blind man walking unknowingly
under a train, you can think that it’s his karma to die in that way and
maybe that a premature death is the fair reward for some bad deed he
committed in another life. Or you can go and save him, preventing him
from dying, because if you don’t take action you might find yourself,
in a future life, paying for your callousness, so that when you will be
most in need of help no-one will give it to you. Life plans are always
complex things that involve many souls; there are mutual agreements of
interactions.
Any hasty and superficial judgement of the painful tests someone else
is passing through needs to be carefully avoided. So - if you see
someone suffering some terrible ordeal - don’t think that they deserve
it, but instead think: “How courageous they must be to have chosen to
go through such a terrible experience”, and give them all the support
you can.
Remember: there is always an alternative in life.
When we undertake a past life regression we normally investigate the
most important facts of that life and then we are led to the moment of
our death and to the minutes just after it, when the soul detaches from
the body, becoming free again, and assesses the life which has just
terminated. Normally - even people who are regressed for the first time -
are able to reach this point and gain much peace from it. However,
after the revision of the first moments following the detachment from
the physical body, it is possible to investigate what the soul does in
the spiritual dimension. It’s a busy time for the soul: first of all it
recovers from the traumas suffered in its last incarnation and
re-examines the experiences gained. During this period (also known as Bardo state)
the soul meets with its soul-family, represented by souls very close to
it and with whom it has probably incarnated many times to interact and
learn lessons together. Finally the soul drafts the blueprint for its
next life, sets goals and makes the appropriate arrangements about how to
achieve these goals with those souls who will have a relevant role in
it.
Some people might object that all information coming from the spiritual
world is somehow dated, closely reflecting the beliefs and culture of
the person channelling the information at the time. This argument is
often used to dismiss the entire subject as a pure invention of the
psychic’s mind. I believe that the truth is quite different. We are
here on earth to pass tests. The spirit world can give us help but we
must not fool ourselves: no-one will ever pass us the exam papers with
the right answers already written on them. If they did, it would be
useless for us to incarnate.
The Otherworld is a very complex reality, much more complex than our
physical minds can ever hope to grasp. When we contact spiritual beings
they may give us hints, but they are always very careful to keep them
within the boundaries of our beliefs and cultural limits. They can
nudge us towards the right doors, but they will never open them for us.
It’s our task to open them and go beyond, no-one else can do it for us.
This is why the messages humans have received through the centuries
seem to progress at our own pace, even if (often) slightly ahead of us.
Life between life investigations lack perhaps the charm and local
colour (and strong emotions) that past life recollections normally
have, but they are far more important and meaningful, especially for
those on a spiritual path.
We also need to keep in mind that because of a lack of terms of comparison, these explorations are, by definition, symbolic, and this needs to be taken into account when interpreting them.
Through these investigations we can really
gain a deeper understanding of our purpose on this earth, and the
experience can be so overwhelming that it might really bring permanent
changes for the better to our everyday life and speed up our evolution.
People who fear death will also find this type of investigation most
fulfilling and find themselves able to radically change their attitude
towards physical death. Interlife explorations will throw a completely
new light on it, showing it to be a simple ritual of passage.
You might not be able to explore the interlife at the first attempt but it is certainly a goal worth aiming for.
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us,
Long before it happens.
Rilke
Many physicists, from Einstein to contemporary quantum physics
scientists, have proved that time is a relative coordinate, specific
and valid only in our three-dimensional physical world; a mere illusion
due to our particular perspective, similar to the illusion that makes
us think that it’s the sun orbiting around the earth and not vice versa.
According to this theory time doesn’t move, it’s us who move along it,
like a passenger in a train who sees the landscape passing in front of
his eyes, even if the landscape is still and it is he who moves through
it.
The spiritual world, not being material, is not subjected to the
constrictions and limits set upon us by time. It is interesting to note
the incredible consistency shown in all traditions of the world, past
and present, describing contacts with the Otherworld. In these stories
there is always a temporal distortion, and normally it is also the
main characteristic of the experience: a day spent there can be a
century on earth or a year there can account for only a few seconds in
the physical reality of our bodies. This is - by the way - also what
happens in dreams and the dream dimension is probably the one which is
the most familiar to us among all the non-material states. We can dream
of the future as we can dream of dear ones departed a long time ago and
see them in front of us, interacting with us as if “time hadn’t passed
at all”. The fact is that in that dimension time does not exist, and
therefore it cannot pass.
For this reason, as we can explore past lives, we can also explore
future lives if we wish. About this subject however there is a
relatively small amount of investigation and literature compared to the
research done on past lives. The practical reasons are evident and such
a type of investigation also raises a few complex philosophical points.
We need to admit that here we are definitely in a foreign country, more
or less “where dragons lie”, to use the words of our ancestors; a
country which has been explored even less than the afterlife and where
we are just starting to make our first uncertain steps.
If you are interested you can try, but you must be prepared to find
more resistance from your subconscious because of the deep conditioning
we have all been subjected to since our births: we live in a
three-dimensional world where clocks rule our lives (lives which are
mainly spent worrying about a mysterious, unknown future). It is not
easy to suddenly trespass across the old boundary and wander in the
“forbidden” land that lies beyond.
In their favour progressions have the excitement of
discoveries in a virgin territory where everything is possible. Do you feel up to the challenge?
To avoid disappointment though, I would suggest trying progressions
only when you already feel confident with both past-life regressions
and interlife investigations. These experiences will also give you a
solid spiritual ground enabling you to handle the information from your
possible future. If you succeed, the reward will be remarkable: the
experience will greatly help you to understand mistakes you are making
in the present by showing you the effects that your actions of today
will bring you if you do not change.
As past life regressions can solve problems you are experiencing in the
present and therefore change your present, progressions can also help
you to modify your present in order to have a better future.
Remember: nothing is set in stone and we are constantly bathed in an
ocean of ever-changing possibilities. We can receive help, but the
choice will always be ours, and with it, the responsibility too.
Animals have souls too, and they may have their own lessons to learn.
Our souls may take on a million different forms. […] Whichever form we choose, underneath the
surface we are exactly the same. We are all connected; we are all the same substance and energy, born of the same source, composed of the same
spiritual material.
Dr Brian Weiss
Each soul has its own particular qualities, and when you’ve been really close to someone
you recognise their soul no matter what form it takes.
Annie Kagan, The Afterlife of Billy Fingers.
Our pets can come to us again in our lifetime, reunite with us in
future lives, and greet us on the other side.
Unconditional love knows no end.
Dr Brian Weiss
In the middle of the
16th century, while the Church of Rome was caught in the storm of the
Reformation and feared for its own survival, the high Roman clergy met
in Trent, a small town in the Alps of North-Eastern Italy. The three
popes who, one after the other, chaired the Council (which went on for
18 years) had the difficult task of finding a way to hold back the
“heresy” that was raging and expanding like wild-fire all over Europe.
In times as difficult for the Church as they had been difficult for
Constantine in the 4th century, the establishment was struggling to
survive among political and religious disagreements and diatribes.
Besides the main discussion on the integrity of the dogma, other topics
were examined and debated and among them there was the old question: do
women have a soul? The justification for such a doubt was of course
Eve’s sin. The heated debate ended with a vote that saw the party
supporting the existence of the feminine soul win by a very narrow
margin.
Sadly, this deliberation, recognising a spiritual dimension to women,
wasn’t enough to prevent the brutal murder (after extended, barbaric
tortures) of more than nine million women, often burnt alive under the
accusation of witchcraft, together with many more millions of cats who
- in Christian culture - represented one of the favourite incarnations
of the devil.
Mass murder of those who – because of some material interest or prejudice of the establishment – were marked as “different” (a word that was too often synonymous with “inferior”) was not new to the Church though. In the 11th century Turold, the probable Anglo-Norman compiler of the famous Chanson de Roland, has Turpin (the fighting archbishop of the epic) say: “Christians are right and Saracens are wrong”, and this plain, unjustified statement was enough to validate and endorse any merciless killing even of unarmed and peaceful people. Arabs, Pagans, Jews, “heretics”, women and homosexuals (who were persecuted and often burnt at the stake for centuries) fell in
their thousands and sometimes millions in “religious” purges.
In the mid-19th century, Northern Italy was divided into two parts: the
larger part in the East was under the foreign control of the Austrians,
who had already abolished ghettos some time earlier. The Western part
was instead the ‘free’ part, under the rule of an Italian king and in
it the Jews were still forced to live in ghettos. The Italian king was
preparing to attack the Austrians in order to ‘free’ those regions from
‘slavery’. However the problem of the Jewish condition was a thorn in
his side because for the Jews living under Austria the success of his
campaign wouldn’t have meant freedom but the loss of it. Opinions were
split and the bishops of the Italian kingdom took a very active role in
the discussion of this topic and left us the inheritance of a ponderous
correspondence. In it they argue (once more) about the old question: do
Jews have a soul?
When the political power of the Church started to fade away, the
secular governments stepped into the space it had left vacant and
adopted the same methods of creating control and getting economic
advantages, justifying their actions with the usual well-worn reasons.
At the beginning of the 20th century in the USA some doctors
intentionally injected syphilis into the bodies of “negroes” to study
the evolution of the disease in order to improve the health of white
people. As boring and unimaginative as it can appear, the justification
was still the old one: black people were defined as “big apes”, not
humans, and since animals do not have an immortal soul - they claimed -
they can be used and disposed of at humans’ [in this case whites’] whims.
We know only too well what happened in Nazi Germany during the last war
and we also know only too well how many genocides have been committed
all around the world from Vietnam and Rwanda to South America and
Yugoslavia - to mention just a few - using the excuse of some physical, cultural or religious difference.
Even today, in countries where human rights are supposedly applied and
discrimination is officially banned in favour of equality, women,
homosexuals, Jews and black people know that sneaking discrimination is
never too far away in their every day life.
The common denominator of all these target groups is the fact that when
the abuse is perpetrated the victims are in a position of weakness and
cannot defend themselves from the violence of the stronger attacker.
This means that after millennia we are still acting according to the
law of the jungle which cavemen lived by. Basically the thought behind
it is: “Hurting, torturing, abusing, killing you satisfies my greed,
frustration and sadism, and alleviates my personal insecurity, my sense
of inferiority ... Because I am stronger than you are (or simply
because I am protected by the law which happens to be in force at the
moment) I do it. However, since I need a reason to justify my actions,
firstly I shall prove that you are somehow different from me and
secondly I shall prove that this difference between us makes you
inferior”.
In the whole of human history the supposed lack of an eternal soul has
been, if not the only, certainly the most commonly used justification
for brutal and unprovoked acts of violence.
It seems that humans have a capacity for endless labelling and endless
categorisations when they want to justify their lowest instincts. All
this stems from a mentality based on division, while the spiritual
world is based on union. A strong belief in reincarnation helps us a
lot on this path, but more doors still need to be opened. A stronger
awakening to the reality and omnipotence of unity that permeates the
universe is needed.
During the past millennia humans have struggled to get rid of so many
-isms; now, at the dawn of the third millennium, the current challenge
is Speciesism, the belief that humans are superior to the other animals of this world and therefore entitled to use and abuse them as much as they like.
Of course, as usual, the first step to justify such abuse is to deny
them a soul. The modern literature about the spiritual world is huge
and although many books still build their old-fashioned theses on the
assumption that the Afterlife is an exclusively human affair, it is
encouraging and refreshing to see that more and more works are
published every year providing new proof of the exact opposite. As a
century ago scholars went around the world collecting stories of
reincarnation and of the spiritual survival of the human soul, many people
are now gathering the same evidence about non-human animals. Those
interested in this aspect can refer to my Bibliography where I quote several excellent works in this cutting-edge field (the book by Kim Sheridan, Animals and the Afterlife - True Stories of Our Best Friends' Journey Beyond Death being by far the best: see our Bibliography for full details).
In
addition to this, more and more often, while channelling, psychics meet
the spirits of departed animals who had been dearly loved by their
clients. They are there with their human departed ones, without any
difference between them at all, sending their love and affection.
The fact that these encounters are now happening more and more
frequently means that the time has finally come for us to enlarge our
boundaries and open ourselves up more widely to the spiritual world,
letting the limits of our wounded egos dissolve. In our evolution we
have created so many separations but in the spiritual world union is
the only way forward, and union feeds on love, compassion and a strong
feeling of sharing.
Here is a door, we are now on its threshold with glimpses of the bounty that lies
ahead; our spiritual guides can gently nudge us forwards, but we are
the only ones who can push it wide open and walk assuredly into the
healing light of love for all living forms.
The world is changing at an incredible speed nowadays and the energy of our planet is shifting fast, entering the new Age of Aquarius. This new Age is characterised by a more compassionate attitude, open to a much wider concept of friendship and fellowship. All those humans who have been lucky enough to share a part of
their lives with an animal and have grieved when he or she has passed
over, can finally find the reassurance that their separation is only
temporary, less than a heart-beat compared to eternity. Ultimately love
is the only law that works and its bonds will never be broken. Soul
families are created by love, and the shape of a physical body is only a
temporary material coat we take at birth and shed again when we die. It
is no more important than the colour of our skin or of our eyes, our
sex or our social status.
Sometimes, people who are regressed go spontaneously back to a non-human life, whether as a non-human animal on earth or to some other form we don't know about: the fact is that we incarnate in what we think is the best way to learn a certain lesson and have a certain experience in a certain moment. Energy is energy: there are no distinctions apart from the illusions created by our conscious mind.
Animals’ souls are - unlike ours - unadulterated by the rational
thinking that has led us to so many blinding distinctions and
separations and therefore they are able to enjoy wholeness at a degree
almost impossible for us to reach when incarnated. This is why they are
such great teachers for us, and why we have so much to learn from them
if we have the humility to listen to their voices.
The lifespan of animals might vary greatly from ours and if on the one hand
to see them going and leaving us can be really heart-breaking, on the
other hand it gives us a chance to meet them again and again in our
current life. Love is the great guide and our mutual feelings, like
powerful magnets reaching across the worlds, will eventually bring them
back to us. If we look around and keep our eyes and our hearts open, we
might be lucky enough to meet them again, incarnated in a new body:
look for signs and you won’t miss them.
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any
more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
Alice Walker
