By Deborah Lindemann, C.H.T.

Your life and everything you are experiencing right now is no accident. Through hypnotic regression, my clients share incredible insights from their past life journeys, discovering memories which make sense in what would otherwise appear to be a chaotic world.

Edgar Cayce, "the sleeping prophet," brought reincarnation further into mainstream consciousness with thousands of past life readings that he gave. Although most of his readings originally focused on remedies for physical ailments, he soon began to find solid evidence of connections with past life experiences and current physical problems.

Edgar Cayce divided current life readings into three kinds of karma. The word karma is used in Hinduism and Buddhism describing actions inevitably brought upon oneself by past deeds, resulting as good or bad, either in this life or another.

His three karmic categories were: (1) boomerang karma, (2) organismic karma, and (3) symbolic karma. He gave the following examples. Boomerang karma: a college professor who had been born blind came for a past life reading and found that it was in ancient Persia that he had been a member of a barbaric tribe whose custom was to blind its enemies with red-hot irons. Organismic karma involves the misuse of the organism in one life with an appropriate affliction in a succeeding life. Example: A man suffering from digestive weakness revealed having been a glutton in a previous life. Symbolic karma is most interesting. A good example is a person who in another life "turned deaf ears" to pleas for help and was born deaf in this life.

Children are wonderful sources for reincarnation evidence if we just listen. Recently a story was shared by a parent here in Fort Collins. Her little boy often said he had visits from his deceased grandfather at night after he fell asleep. The parent was reluctant to believe the little boy's stories, not knowing whether to encourage him or not. He told of going fishing with grandpa and meeting his grandpa's old war buddies. The little boy had such incredible facts that he could never have known. He described his grandfather's dress, that it was a sort of World War II uniform, and that his hair was dark instead of gray. His parents grew more interested in these stories and recently asked him if he still saw grandpa at night. He said, "No, grandpa told me that he can't spend time with me anymore because he has to go back and be a baby now. He has to be born again."

Some critics of reincarnation theories attempt to cast off these children's stories with theories far more complicated than the simplicity of reincarnation itself. Other than suggesting a vivid imagination, they suggest that the child is psychic or has a natural talent of clairvoyance. However, it is quite rare for children as young as two to six years of age to have developed these intuitive qualities. In addition, when children report these types of experiences they are not in altered states, but fully conscious and usually state them sporadically and matter-of-factly, without disruption to their habitual play or work.

Glimpses of our past lives are interwoven into our everyday life if we just pay attention. If you are curious about issues or patterns in your life, the answer may lie in the roots of your past life.