Reflections on Children’s Past Lives — A Deeper View of the Patterns

[baro-san]

Reading Steve’s recent post, I was drawn less to the practical questions about the forum and more to something he said about Children’s Past Lives—how 30 years of feedback have confirmed its patterns rather than challenged them. That consistency across so many accounts is rare and worth taking seriously.

I recently revisited the book and reflected on the examples involving their own children—like Chase’s fear and eczema resolving after a regression session linked to a Civil War memory. These cases fascinate me, but I don’t see them as evidence of literal, linear reincarnation.

Instead, my working model is that each personality is one of many spawned by the same nonphysical entity. When a previous personality experienced a trauma it couldn’t resolve—a kind of psychic impasse—that unresolved dynamic can express itself in a new life. The child’s symptom (eczema, fear of fire, etc.) is a pointer toward that unsolved inner knot. The memory doesn’t return as baggage, but as guidance: a signal meant to direct the new personality’s attention inward.

So when regression makes the memory conscious, and the symptom disappears, I don’t see it as healing the past. I see it as the current personality taking on the psychic task that was abandoned before. The real transformation could come not just from remembering the event, but from investigating and resolving the beliefs or conflicts at the root of it.

In that sense, the pattern Carol first saw may be just the surface of something even deeper: not proof of past lives, but signs of an ongoing training structure for the entity, expressed through multiple personalities across time (or outside of time altogether).

 

[Totoro]

You're kind of on the right path.

Sometimes though, trauma is just an unfortunate side effect of living in this "reality" and it encodes itself as part of of the individuals energy pattern and can reappear in many ways in the next life.

That's also why many (but not all) people who remember past lives (persistently) tend to be trauma survivors.

Children have easier access to these memories and it usually surfaces as direct recall or shows up in other ways, but generally it's blown off as imaginative by unaware parents.

I'm probably preaching to the choir, so to address your thoughts more directly, I generally don't think that trauma is an indication of spiritual work needing to be done to resolve karma or soul contracts in that regard.

But I do think it's an excellent catalyst for people to do a deep dive into their spiritual growth and nature.

 

[baro-san]

Thanks for replying—what you said makes sense, especially about trauma acting as a catalyst and children’s openness to those deeper layers.

Where I may not have been clear is that I'm not suggesting trauma “carries over” as a leftover or imprint from a past life. What I’m proposing is more structural: that the current personality may be intentionally designed (by the entity that spawned it) to address an unresolved psychic pattern that another personality couldn’t complete.

So the symptom isn’t a residue—it’s a signal, pointing toward something the entity still intends to resolve. And this life may be configured to take on that unresolved task—not out of karmic obligation, but because it’s suited to do so now.

That ties into what I meant by “real transformation”: not just remembering the traumatic event or using it as a growth prompt, but going deeper—investigating and consciously resolving the belief or conflict at the root of it. That’s how I’m defining spiritual work here—not just general introspection or healing, but targeted engagement with a persistent psychic knot that has resurfaced because it’s still incomplete.

It may be subtle, but I think it’s an important distinction.

 

[Totoro]

I get what you're saying and you can be totally right! But I think the difference in where I'm seeing it is, each person and the work they choose to do in their present life, is something they decided to and doesn't equally apply to everyone else.

So you are correct, that possibly for someone who has a traumatic carry over, it may absolutely be a signal for them to dive deeper into a pattern that needs investigating and solving.

However for others, it would be equally correct to say that the trauma remainder or reminder, is simply that, a carry over from a past life and as the child ages, it simply fades away. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what I believe happened in the James Leininger case, in that he simply moved on from it and that there was no higher purpose in it for him or something that needed fixing or repairing.