Past Lives --- Healing and Being a Healer

[deborah]

Next week we are pleased to have DR. LINDA BACKMAN as our guest speaker.

DR. LINDA BACKMAN a licensed psychologist since 1978. She experienced the premature death of her second child and discovered the great need for more psychotherapists trained & devoted to working with those in grief. Since 1993, she has guided individuals in regression hypnotherapy, helping people more fully recognize who they are as a Soul through their many lifetimes and during the time they are incarnate.

LINDA also studied and taught with DR. MICHAEL NEWTON, author of "Journey of Souls" and "Destiny of Souls" and was a founding board member of what is now known as THE NEWTON INSTITUTE. Linda was also featured in Braden Barty's documentary film, "SPIRIT SPACE."

Author of her own, book "BRINGING YOUR SOUL TO LIGHT", DR. BACKMAN reveals actual stories of case studies of you'll find absolutely fascinating.

RavenHeart Center

The topic is:

1. Soul Evolution
2. How learning about our past lives and releasing what is needing to be let go----leads to Soul Evolution or Soul Ascension

Thank you Nightrain1 for following through.

 

[lrbackman]

Soul Evolution


Hi Everyone.


I'm Linda Backman and am so pleased to be a guest speaker here on Carol Bowman's Past Life Forum. I'm a psychologist of 33+ years and have been guiding past life and between lives regression for the last 18+ years.


One of the reasons I love the work that I do is because as we understand the 'life journey' we're on now----we come to understand who, what, and where we've been before----and how that relates to the purpose of each of our past lives.


I'm a believer in what happens in our life has purpose. As a soul we are on a learning path to evolve with each life, ever moving along our path to greater wisdom.


I came into this work many years ago through the premature birth and death of my second baby. A long time ago I realized that this experience was one of learning to understand and give back to people, supporting them to know that even through death the soul remains.


So, that's a beginning about me and the work that I do.


In my next entry I'll share more with you----from some of the clients that I've worked with----what they are learning about their own soul evolution, and how their past lives tie directly to this current life.


I look forward to our discussions here.


with Blessings, Linda Backman


www.RavenHeartCenter.com

 

[ChrisR]

Thanks Linda, I'm looking forward to it! Welcome to the forum

 

[Eevee]

Thank you for being a guest speaker at this forum, Linda! I am also looking forward to your posts !


Eevee

 

[lrbackman]

Soul Evolution


Hello Everyone--


I'd like to begin by talking about Soul Evolution.


It is a natural inclination of the soul to move toward 'higher' levels of learning, wisdom, and awareness.


Just like we need to eat and sleep and have shelter---our soul carries a 'chip' that is entitled forward progress.


During each lifetime we strive to move away from simply being a body/mind/ego and on toward functioning from our divine spark, we could call soul or spirit.


We are given much leeway to progress, either quickly in one or more lives, or gradually.


In my next entry I'll share some case examples of clients with whom I've worked.


I am open to any and all questions.


Thanks so much, Linda Backman

 

[Kristopher]

Hi Linda and welcome to the forum! Soul evolution is a very interesting topic. I am looking forward to your posts.

 

[deborah]

Welcome Linda,


I am really looking forward to hearing about the case examples of clients you have worked with. :cool

 

[lrbackman]

In Brief---My Story---


I always find it useful---particularly when we are not talking face to face----to know a little personal information about the "speaker" who is telling me about their experience.


In brief, about 18 years ago when I was 46 years old, married for 26 years, and had two children approximately 23 and 19 years old-----I was minding my own business as a general psychologist in private practice.


I had always been drawn to working in the area of death, dying, and grief. In 1972 our second baby was born prematurely, lived a few hours, and died. This led me to have a strong interest in understanding grief, particularly tied to the passing of children.


In 1993 my original psychologist partner died (or I would say transitioned) after facing a type of lung cancer for 17 months. Suddenly I KNEW that he was communicating with me----even about such things as office matters. "How does this work, if he is dead?"---I asked myself.


Then I was suddenly having past life spontaneous memories of lives with him.


This was all new to me. I figured I was either going crazy--but knew this really wasn't the explanation---or something else explained what was happening.


I started reading, studying, taking training, and visiting with a couple of capable mediums. Honestly, I couldn't get enough


knowledge quickly.


Over the course of the last 18 years my life has completely morphed into guiding individual clients, teaching regression training programs, lecturing, and writing about the amazing process of why and how we evolve as a soul, from one life to the next.


In my next entry I'll begin by sharing some case examples of clients I've experienced. In addition, I want to talk about the need for the advancement of consciousness on our planet.


Thank you again for having me as a guest speaker.


with Blessings, Linda

 

[Eevee]

Linda,these are really interesting topics. Why and how we evolve as a Soul....I am sure this will be an enlightening conversation ! Especially the 'how' will get my attention first ! And also how the expansion of consciousness on the planet can be advanced ! I will check this thread very often !


Thank you !


Eevee

 

[Lilmsmaggie]

Welcome Linda!


As as a newcomer to this forum I look forward to your expertise and valuable insight.


Dwain (aka Lilmsmaggie)

 

[Ghost of Gumby]

Next week we are pleased to have DR. LINDA BACKMAN as our guest speaker.

RavenHeart Center


The topic is:

1. Soul Evolution
   
2. How learning about our past lives and releasing what is needing to be let go----leads to Soul Evolution or Soul Ascension

If this progression of the soul is a part of our purpose on this world, then this must indicate that there are more advanced souls here living alongside less advanced souls. Apparently, the more advanced souls are the more spiritually inclined individuals, the peacemakers, those not motivated by egotistical desires. Is that a fair evaluation of this?

 

[Tinkerman]

Welcome Linda! I'm happy you will be "speaking" with us on what sounds like an interesting topic. I love how you described your awakening process, mine was very similar in its abruptness

This was all new to me. I figured I was either going crazy--but knew this really wasn't the explanation---or something else explained what was happening.
I started reading, studying, taking training, and visiting with a couple of capable mediums. Honestly, I couldn't get enough


knowledge quickly.

I followed the same path! And eventually ended up here. I look forward to more discussions.
Tinkerman

 

[lrbackman]

Past Lives --- Healing and Being a Healer


Hi there---


Let me share an excerpt from one of the cases included in my book, Bringing Your Soul to Light: Healing through Past Lives and the Time Between.





"I am being told by my spirit guide that the healing ability I carried in the past life as a Native American girl is to be brought forward into my present life. I live near the Rocky Mountains, where I lived before, to be reminded of my healing skill of the past. I should help people to practice the ancient healing arts once again.


My life purpose is to move forward in my soul progression and achieve advancement closer to that of other members of my soul family. I tried to make it before (to a level of greater soul development), but I let my anger get in the way. I want to get past all that in my current incarnation."


Here is a beautiful example of learning who we were in a past life and how that 'shows up' in our current life. As our soul evolves, particular past lives 'build' the person we are today. Once we wrap our heart and mind around our capability and gifts, then we carry these forward from this day and beyond.


Please ask questions---there's much more we can talk about.


This entire subject of past lives, reincarnation, and soul development is more than fascinating.


Thanks for listening----I look forward to more conversation.


Linda

 

[Nightrain]

Please ask questions---there's much more we can talk about.

Hi Linda! Great having you with us!


My question has to do with how one can separate true experiential memory from ego-driven fantasy. Certainly, there may be a good deal of gray area in between these two extremes, but you must have had experience with subjects who's claims have been out of left field. How can you tell?

 

[Kristopher]

Hi Linda, great example. I wonder how we know what our "task" is in the current life. If we are here on earth with no memory of who we really are or where we come from (spirit world), how are we to know what we are suppose to learn in each life. Maybe you could shed some light on this? Thanks!

 

[Eevee]

My question is about the same as Kristopher's.


From your example I understand that the subject's PL as a Native American healer was long ago? Because I read that she must teach people to practice the ancient healing arts again. And that she tried before to achieve advancement closer to her soul group. This before, was that in the Native American PL or a PL between that one and the present life?


I understand from this that the major point she needs to advance in, is one acquired in the distant past. So my question is in fact, it is not necessarily one's recent past life that contained the knowledge one needs to work out further in the present life? Soul evolution does not use our past lives in chronological order to advance? Maybe certain PL experiences, no matter from how many lifetimes ago, are brought to the foreground in the present, because the circumstances on the (also evolving) planet and environment of the Soul are now right for those capabilities and gifts to become advanced in? Is there a set system for the advancement of Souls? Like, first this and then that?


I hope this post doesn't sound too confused....:angel:


Eevee

 

[Lilmsmaggie]

"I am being told by my spirit guide that the healing ability I carried in the past life ...

"My life purpose is to move forward in my soul progression and achieve advancement closer to that of other members of my soul family. I tried to make it before (to a level of greater soul development), but I let my anger get in the way. I want to get past all that in my current incarnation."

Here is a beautiful example of learning who we were in a past life and how that 'shows up' in our current life. As our soul evolves, particular past lives 'build' the person we are today. Once we wrap our heart and mind around our capability and gifts, then we carry these forward from this day and beyond.

Hi Linda, I guess I fall into a similar camp as Kristopher and Eevee, except I haven't got to first base :laugh:


Using your example above, it may seem obvious enough for some but where does one begin in accessing their "spirit guide"?

 

[Nightrain]

Hi Linda!


A self-help guru once spoke about how we form habits in the same way as phonograph records (remember those?) were made. It was like digging a groove over and over again until we found that we could no longer climb out of the groove without exerting a great deal of energy. It seems that we sometimes find ourselves becoming comfortable with situations that are not good for our development. Examples might include people who go from one abusive relationship to another; or someone with a job that they hate, but stay with it only because it is what they know and are perversely comfortable with.


Have you found that this kind of habitual behavior continues through many lifetimes, and that people sometimes become trapped in situations that repeat continuously? Can reincarnation lead to repeatedly negative development, rather than toward progress? Devolution rather than evolution?

 

[Green26]

Hi Linda,


You already have a lot of questions, but I have an extra one for you. In your book you describe that we may choose to experience leukemia and chemotherapy at the age of 12 and this would be pre-planned. Since some people do recover from cancer and some do not how would this fit in with the idea of healing? Do people only heal if it is part of their life's script? Is it impossible to heal if they were meant to die at a young age? In your experience with life between life regressions have you ever encountered anybody with cancer or other disease who got sick by accident? ie it wasn't part of their life's script? Are significant illnesses completely pre-determined or are there other factors that come into play?

 

[Delonada]

Hi Dr. Backman and welcome to the forum.


Interesting thing I wanted to mention. I have been reading your book in parallel to books about the Michael Teachings and I see incredible correlation between the stories of your clients and what the Michael Teachings talk about. Both systems talk about soul age, soul level, and other things.


So I was wondering, have any of your client or yourself mentioned this before?

 

[lrbackman]

Soul Evolution and Soul Age---


Hi Delonada,


Yes, I am familiar with the Michael Teachings.


There are a few world wisdom traditions, including the MT's, that speak to soul evolution. Another would be Theosophy.


Basically, we come into body, lifetime to lifetime, to progress as a soul. The purpose of our progression is to advance in wisdom and ultimately become capable as a spiritual guide, perhaps no longer incarnating.


You could also say that each of us, as a soul, contributes to the being and becoming of humanity and to the universe---as we travel ever higher toward knowledge, awareness, and lack of ego.


If you read my book about soul evolution---I describe, based on thousands of clients, how we move from one life to the next incarnating frequently with the same souls.


This is an oversimplification---we begin our incarnations belonging to a small group of souls---and these small groups make up larger conglomerate groups.


Let me know if you'd like to be on my mailing list---then you'd receive our newsletter. There are programs that I teach that broaden all of this information.


Please feel free to ask more questions.


with Blessings, Linda Backman


www.RavenHeartCenter.com

 

[lrbackman]

Fact vs Fiction


Hello Nighttrain---


I hope that I've spelled your name correctly.


Well, the question below is an excellent one----with far more than one answer:

"My question has to do with how one can separate true experiential memory from ego-driven fantasy. Certainly, there may be a good deal of gray area in between these two extremes, but you must have had experience with subjects who's claims have been out of left field. How can you tell?"

Do we ever know for sure if past life detail from a regression is totally accurate? Of course, the answer is "no".


If you've ever been guided into a past life----or have spontaneously remembered a past life----I do believe at a 'gut level', in general, you have a sense of mental/emotional accuracy of the content.


As a regression therapist here is what I say to a client who has just discovered, during regression, the details of a past life:


1. Consider how specific the descriptions were that you spoke without me prompted any of your ideas. You told me that your pants were torn over the right knee---and your hair was salt and pepper colored and hadn't been cut for months.


2. As you progressed forward through the past life memory recall how spontaneously you moved forward without my prompts.


3. Remember how you had no emotion and then, suddenly, there was strong emotion that you felt during the past life scenes.


4. Consider how closely related to your current life, and how much the past life explains details of your life today.


These are just some of the examples that I offer to the client.


Also, I tell the client that if discovering the past life helps them in this life----then see it as a metaphor and don't struggle with total validity or not.


The bottom line is that most of us were not famous figures. If the client describes in detail a life that might suggest they were an historical figure, then I mention that they may have been that person----or they may have been present and close to the famous person----and that is how they have so much detail.


Again, if you've had your own regression, then you'll have a more visceral experience to know how the regression process can feel.


Hope this helps. Keep asking these great questions.


Thanks, Linda B

 

[hydrolad]

Greetings Linda:


And welcome to the Forum, I have a question to ask of you, a question which may have been answered in another way earlier.


Can talents learned in another lifetime set one up for being good at something in this lifetime (if that makes any sense?)


As a child I was an "Animal Magnet" in my neighborhood, animals of all types gravitated towards me, especially if they were ill or injured, the back yard of my Grandmother's house (where I lived) looked like a page from the book "Dr. Dolittle" and she was very cautious about stepping back there to hang laundry, not knowing what was back there!


Whenever someone lost a pet, they would call my Grandmother and ask for me, and I even "boarded" animals while the owners went on vacation.


Needless to say, drawing a bath tub full of water was an adventure, not knowing what was lurking down in that huge claw foot tub (she was deathly afraid of snakes!)


Because of my memories culled from dreams of possible Past Lives, it's possible (but NOT likely) that I was a formally educated Veterinarian, but perhaps could I have been some type of "healer" or shaman, based on my skills with animals in the childhood of this lifetime?


Thank you very much for your time.

 

[deborah]

HI Linda,


I am enjoying your input and the process you use. One of the things I learned early on, and perhaps you do this too, is when I am in a meditation and the emotions and surroundings are becoming clear; I look down. Often it is a shocker and very validating for a persons experience.


For example, I was once a goat herder in the middle-east. I could see the goats and hear the bells around their necks. When I looked down I was a man, with VERY hairy legs. Black hair and big flat feet. As a woman now of only five feet tall - the feeling of being a man and having those hairy legs was shocking. Something I could not and would not imagine.


Do you use this too to help people expand their awareness of what is happening as they experience it? I am curious.

 

[Tinkerman]

Linda what is your understanding on the theory of Twin Souls? In the thread Really a soulmate? I responded:

Twin soul theory comes from many ancient creation concepts. I am not by any means an expert. But my understanding is that when the Great Creator (whatever you believe that to be) issued forth these souls into their human journey, He/She divided them from their perfection, and cast them into the world in search of each other. I know that sounds simplistic and their must be a lot more to it, but if I think of nature as a model, there is always a positive and a negative charge to everything. The ancient Yin-Yang teachings relate, in my opinion. As we progress through the ages searching for the perfection we once were, we do so in soul groups... the soul mates you refer to. Is our twin soul, the other half of our sacred entity there too? I think so... but again this is all intuition and faith.

I was curious what you have read or come across in your search for answers.
Tinkerman

 

[Lilmsmaggie]

I've recently been exposed to the teaching of Dr. Joseph Costa.


According to Dr. Costa, there has been a shift in thought energy on the planet from the 4th Chakra, to the 3rd Chakra. This shift results in more negative thinking which in turn releases negative energy.


Therefore, the issue seems to be that this presents a challenge for our soul mind and our human minds to remain in and/or attain a harmonious balance in the thought energy being released.

 

[deborah]

Hi lilmsmaggie,


You might be interested in the book The Isaiah Effect, by Gregg Braden. He covers in depth--- thoughts, feelings and emotions and how we have the power to create change:

Emotion may be considered the source of power that drives us forward toward our goals in life. It is through the energy of our emotion that we fuel our thoughts to make them real. In itself, however, the power of emotion may be scattered and without direction, It is in the presence of thought that our emotion is given direction, breathing life into the image of our thoughts. (pg 150)

He sees our thoughts as the guidance system that directs our emotions;

“It is the image or idea created by our thought that determines where our emotion and attention are directed. In the absence of emotion, there is no power to make our thoughts real.” (pg#150)

Braden suggests that the feeling center is also the heart center. He states,

“Feelings may exist only in the presence of thought and emotion, for it represents the union of the two. When we feel, we are experiencing the desire of our emotions merged with the imagination of our thoughts.” (#150)

Braden is not the first to reflect on the concept of these three energy centers. Schwaller de Lubicz called them the “three intelligence's” and spoke deeply about the alignment and possibilities of working with them. Cerebral intelligence, Heart intelligence, and Emotional intelligence. Braden sees the 'feeling center' as the heart center so ultimately they are one in the same.


The negativity that you spoke of I believe is due to the misalignment of our chakras, or energy centers. Here is another excerpt from Braden's book.

"The key to choosing one outcome torn among many possible outcomes is our ability to feel as if our choice has already come to pass. From our previous definition of prayer as "feeling," then, stated another way, we are invited to find the quality of thought and emotion that produces such a feeling-living as if our prayer had already been answered.
For how may we benefit from the effect of our thought and emotion, if each pattern is moving in a random direction? If, on the other hand, the patterns of our prayer are focused into union, how can the "stuff" of creation fail to respond to our prayer?


When thought, feeling, and emotion are not aligned, each may be considered as out of phase with the others. While there may be brief areas of overlap, much of the pattern is unfocused, working in different directions, independent of the rest of the pattern. The result is a scattering of ENERGY.


For, example, if our thought is "I chose the perfect mate in my life," a pattern of energy is released that expresses that thought. Any feeling or emotion that is not in sync with our thought is incapable of EMPOWERING our choice of a perfect mate. If they are misaligned through feelings that we are not worthy of having such a perfect partner or emotions of fear, our patterns may actually hinder our choice from becoming our outcome."

The key here is UNION - without the union of these "intelligence's" there is no clear focus, or VISION.

 

[Lilmsmaggie]

Hi lilmsmaggie,
You might be interested in the book The Isaiah Effect, by Gregg Braden. He covers in depth--- thoughts, feelings and emotions and how we have the power to create change:

Thanks Deborah. I'm actually about half-way through Braden's book. Quite an interesting read. Hard to put down.

 

[lrbackman]

Twin Souls


Hello Everyone,


Please forgive my absence here over the past 6 days or so, as I have been traveling and working in Hawaii.


Twin Souls is truly an interesting concept without great definition.


So, here's what I have come across in my work with clients, who are not prompted by the therapist in regression (as well as from my many colleagues, including Michael Newton):


First, from the outset of our incarnational cycle we incarnate most often with a small group of souls, numbering around 8-15. This is truly our 'soul homeroom'. Though we certainly incarnate with many other souls, perhaps more than once, we incarnate most often with our original soul family or soul group.


In this soul group will be one, maybe 2, souls that we've shared more lives with than any other. This soul/s could be called our primary soul companion---many use the term soul mate.


My sense is that this PSC is what we mean when we say twin soul. We are VERY familiar with this soul. In some of our lives we make agreements with our PSC to NOT have an easy relationship so as to move forward in our soul development.


We also have what is called a dipole----or another soul that is like the mirror of us----where we are working out various aspects of our soul progress. This, I believe is not what is suggested as a twin soul.


I don't disbelieve the concept of twin soul. It's just that in regression work that term has not been used, as far as I know from more than 10K regressions.


Hope that helps---great discussion!!


with Blessings, Linda Backman

 

[lrbackman]

Chronological Time and "Now" Time


Hello Everyone---


Please forgive my absence as I have been traveling for work.


Time, as you know, is linear here on earth---but time is NOT linear in spirit. So, when a client travels into the time between lives---all time collapses into itself.


In a regression the guides of the client provide the information that is needed at the very point in time that the session happens.


If a client is shown they were a healer, for example, in the past--there is a solid reason for this. Any skills/gifts that we have---remain with us in what I call Soul DNA.


Let me go ahead and post this---and I'll provide further detail in my next post.


Thanks so much, Linda Backman