Table of Contents

• For the Love of Karma
  • Michael Millett
• Past Life Therapy: It's Contribution to Psychology and Holistic Medicine 
  • Diana McManus

For the Love of Karma

Relationship karma operates across all our relationships and starts in this life within childhood with family interactions. Relationships are where we learn our fundamental lessons in life through our contact with karmic connections and soulmates. Karmic Connections or Soul Groups are people we feel instantly familiar with and where we have had connections with in a previous life or lives either in a positive or negative setting.

Soulmates are where two people are extremely compatible on most levels. The connection is usually extensive within several lives and for the most part positive. We can have several either in incarnation with us or even acting as a `guide` for our present life, helping us and encouraging us from the `other side`. They have generally shared many experiences with us and know us well.

All these contacts and relationships are usually emotional and some of them can conjure up strong feelings either positively or negatively all for a purpose. These experiences and connections happen to provide opportunities to develop the qualities and characteristics we are in most need of. They can sometimes be identified with our patterns of recreating issues of abuse, abandonment, love, manipulation, power struggles, rejection and togetherness for us to learn and grow from. Power issues are particularly common in relationship karma. People get drawn into dependent relationships where one person holds all the power and may mean that it is time for the other person to take back his or her power. We may be the victim, martyr, persecutor or rescuer with fixed ideas that rigidly control our lives, holding us back from growing emotionally or spiritually. We may also be a love addict within the relationship and cannot move out of it and feel `stuck`. We may be looking for conditional love but need to learn the art of the unconditional and the ability to `allow`. We may be seeking love from outside ourselves when the real challenge is to love ourselves (self love). Perhaps we need to reframe our whole perspective to loving and being loved. We may also be perpetuating an old pattern - such as infidelity or betrayal or indeed - a very deep love. Or are we experiencing the exact opposite of these as a kind of balancing experience for our development and growth in order to advance a strength or resource we need?

Retributive Karma can be involved where a person has betrayed their partner in a past life and the person does sometimes find that in this life, it is they who are betrayed or rejected. Subsequently they find themselves in a position where they are making some form of reparation for that original betrayal. Perhaps we may also be closely bound to someone by an old vow that needs playing out or maybe releasing. However, we can change or release these patterns by finding a new way to deal with the person projecting the pattern to us. Perhaps we need to acknowledge the part of us that has those emotions and deal with it in our own appropriate way, by fully accepting our emotional self and then choosing not to be held by our emotions. This can be harder for some people to do, more so than others. General therapy can be very helpful to those people as a way to improve and change this. However, another way is to go back to the past through Past Life Therapy and deal with it therapeutically and spiritually in that setting through releasement and healing. Outer difficulties can only be resolved through bringing out the appropriate virtues of mind and soul. We set in motion from the past what comes into the present and our life today is an `emotional learning ground` when it comes to relationships. We often choose a relationship to grow and learn how to complete a full attachment and also how to disengage from one and break free from a dependent bond that has been formed previously - all for our growth, development and evolution.

It can be hard for some people today in their development on a spiritual level to find that their partner does not develop at the same pace even though strong feelings can feature at a physical or emotional level. An imbalance can occur often bringing depression, suffering and sometimes tragedy to the relationship. However, this is all part of the bigger picture for both partners to learn and grow from the experience, each in their own way.

I believe that ultimately the spiritual purpose of partnership is to develop wholeness within us, to have freedom and take back or release our power over someone. We are a combination of male and female energies and our learning is to harmonise both within any incarnation. This is the key to true balance and spirituality. We each learn our lessons differently because we are each at our own level of growth.

So much of relationships is sorting out chaos and emotions and learning to love ourselves. On a higher level, every problem is self-caused and therefore must be self-redeemed and we must awaken from our complacency. In doing this, we begin to see the spiritual behind the physical and our lives open to new expressions.

©1999 "The Karma Series" Michael G. Millett. All Rights Reserved
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Past Life Therapy: It's Contribution to Psychology and Holistic Medicine

1. Introduction To Past Life Therapy
   1. Buddhism
   2. Hinduism
2. Detailed Discussion
   1. Einstein's Theories
      1. Theory of Relativity
      2. Unified Field Theory
   2. Psychology
      1. Anatomy of the Brain
      2. Altered States of Consciousness
      3. Levels of Consciousness
      4. Parapsychology
      5. Psychological changes from Past Life Therapy
   3. Holistic Medicine
   4. Conclusion
3. Works Cited
4. Glossary

I. Introduction To Past Life Therapy

A. Buddhism

The Buddhists have a concept that life is an illusion and illusion is born out of ignorance. Thus acts of wrong doing are born out of ignorance. The world operates by divine power and law, not by divine command (McDowell and Stewart 1982). Their spiritual goal is freedom of the soul from worldly attachment and passionless peace. Nirvana is the sanskrit word for this ultimate goal in spirituality. There is no personal God, but only truth that lies within our heart. To experience this truth, one must heal the five conflicting emotions of jealousy, greed, ignorance, anger, and fear. Meditation is one way to heal the emotions as well as knowledge of the self from past life times. Detachment from these conflicting emotions leads to enlightenment and evolution out of the illusion of ignorance to experience the ultimate reality.
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B. Hinduism

The Hindu concept of the universe is by understanding that from the creative, destructive, and neutralizing forces in the universe evolve the principles of akasha, prana, and creative mind. Akasha is the substance in all matter, prana is the force that moves through matter, and the creative mind is from which the universe was created (McGill 1979). All these principles are contained in the human body which has seven levels of consciousness called chakras which lie within the spinal column. There is a universal law of action and reaction called karma. It is our inheritance which is brought forth from former life times that shape our fate and destiny. Tendencies to act according to certain patterns established by reactions from the past are known as samskaras. Vansanas are memory traces which form this pattern (Woolger 1988). The Hindus are very aware that experiences from past life times create a large part of our psychological make-up. With this concept comes atman or individual soul and brahman or cosmic soul. There is a reservoir of stored-up energy at the base of the spine called the kundalini with a symbolic representation called the sleeping serpent. In order to reach the highest level of consciousness, the individual soul must unite with the cosmic soul by unleashing this reservoir of energy at the base of the spine and ascend it upward to the top of the brain. This energy eventually reaches the superconscious state called samadi, the ultimate freedom from the cycle of birth and death as well as liberation from all miseries and bondage (Ballentine, Rama, and Hymes 1979).
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II. Detailed Discussion

A. Einstein's Theories

Albert Einstein has described two basic theories which the universe has evolved from. These theories are now accepted as universal truth. The knowledge of these truths has been understood in Buddhism and Hinduism.

1. Theory of Relativity

This theory states that light when slowed down condenses into matter and returns to light when it speeds up. Thus matter is only transformation of energy evolving from its source which is light. Energy cannot be destroyed, but only transformed. Matter is governed by laws because of the polarity in its structure, but light has complete freedom. Relativity also applies to the energy within the nervous system, which is our soul, that condenses into a physical body at birth and returns to light at death.
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2. Unified Field Theory

This theory states that everything in existance has an energy field because of the structure of the atom. The electron in an atom gives matter an energy field. The energy around a human being is known as the spiritual body. Light is pure energy but matter is energy with form. If the energy within the nervous system is understood as light, then it is indestructible and capable of living in another body.
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B. Psychology

Psychology is becoming a rapidly changing field today because medical science is finally beginning to understand that it is as important to heal the mind as well as the body. This opens up to a whole new concept in psychology called transpersonal psychology in which there is a recognition of a spiritual component in the mind. To understand why past life therapy is so valuable to healing the this will be explained through the anatomy of the brain, altered states of consciousness, parapsychology, and psychological changes from past life therapy.
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1. Anatomy of the Brain

The central nervous system consists of the brain and spinal cord which acts as a messenger throughout the body for all the input of stimuli from the environment. Reactions from stimuli are understood from biological, intrapsychic, and social/behavioral viewpoints in psychology. The brain has a right hemisphere which is the subconscious, a left hemisphere which is the conscious, and an area between them called the corpus callosum which acts as a filter. The conscious contains short term memory and accepts 12% of known facts, the filter or critical part of the mind accepts 10% of known facts, and the subconscious contains long term memory and accepts 78% of known facts (Kappas 1987). These percentages indicate how much of the brain is actually used in mind power. Functions of the left and right brain are represented like this:

• Left=logic, reason, mathematics, reading, writing, language, analysis, and physical
• Right=recognition, rhythm, visual, imagery, creativity, synthesis, dreams, symbols, and emotions

The nervous system is equally as important in understanding the mind because we react to the environment through our senses of smell, taste, sight, touch, and sound; the body is involved in all these senses becoming a vehicle for the mind. This explains how the nervous systems branches out (Shone 1985):

• Central nervous system=brain and spinal cord
• brain=central core, limbic system
• cerebrum=left and right hemispheres
• Peripheral nervous system=autonomic system (to sympathetic system) and somatic system (to parasympathetic system)