From what I can gather, a soul's thoughts about certain human behavior preferences for themselves in the next life are known by guides and those masters charged with operating the life selection stations. It appears to me some souls take this responsibility more seriously than others. Yet, a soul in the prelife selection phase can reflect only so much on how they would fit into a specific body. When souls are called to the place of life selection the guesswork is over. Now they must match their spiritual identity against a mortal being. Why one soul joined, for psychological reasons, with two human beings thousands of years apart is the basis of my next case.
Case 27 is a Texas businessman who owns a large, successful clothing firm. During a vacation in California, Steve came to see me on the advice of a friend. As I took his history, I noticed he was tense and hypervigilant. While his fingers toyed with a key chain, Steve's eyes darted anxiously around my office. I asked if he was nervous or afraid of hypnosis as a procedure and he replied, "No, I'm more afraid of what you will uncover."
This client told me his employees were demanding and disloyal and the multitude of personnel complaints had become intolerable. His solution had been to increase discipline and fire people. I learned that he had two failed marriages and was a binge alcoholic. He said he had recently tried a recovery program but quit because "they were getting too critical of me."
As we talked further, Steve explained that his mother disappeared after leaving him on the steps of a church in Texas within a week of his birth. After a few lonely and unhappy years in an orphanage, an older couple adopted him. He added that these people were stern disciplinarians who seemed to disapprove of him all the time. Leaving home in his teens, Steve had many scrapes with the law and once attempted suicide.
I found this client's personality to be overly assertive and untrusting of authority. His anger was rooted in feelings of isolation and abandonment issues. Steve said he felt like he was losing control over his life and was willing to try anything "to find the real me." I agreed to short-term exploration of his unconscious mind if he would consider seeing a therapist later in his own town for sustained counseling.
As this case unfolds, we will see how Steve's soul maintains its identity while responding to physical life in a human body. The intensity of this association is increased in hypnosis when my subjects discuss their motives for body selection. One reason why I have used this case is to expose a difficult barrier to discovering our identity-that of childhood trauma. Souls who unite with people that develop early personality disorders deliberately set themselves up for a difficult life. Before taking my client into the spirit world to learn why his soul chose this life, it was necessary to relive his early childhood memories. In the short excerpt which begins this case, this subject will see his real mother again. It is one of the most poignant scenes I have ever facilitated.
Case 27
Dr. N: You are now a baby in the first week of life and your mother is seeing you for the last time. It doesn't matter that you are a baby because your inner adult mind knows everything that is going on. Describe to me exactly what transpires.
S: (subject starts to shake) I ... I'm in a basket ... there is a faded blue blanket around me ... I'm being set down on some steps ... it's cold ...
Dr. N: Where are these steps?
S: ... In front of a church ... in Texas.
Dr. N: Who is setting you down on the church steps?
S: (the shaking increases) My mother ... is bending down over me ... saying goodbye ... (begins to cry)
Dr. N: What can you tell me about your mother's reason for leaving you?
S: She ... is young ... not married to my father ... he is already married. She is ... crying ... I can feel her tears falling on my face.
Dr. N: Look up at her. What else do you see?
S: (chokes) Flowing black hair ... beautiful ... I reach up and touch her mouth ... she kisses me ... soft, gentle ... she is having a terribly hard time leaving me here.
Dr. N: Does she say anything to you before leaving?
S: (subject can now hardly talk) "I must leave you for your own good. I have no money to take care of you. My parents won't help us. I love you. I will always love you and hold you in my heart forever."
Dr. N: What happens then?
S: She ... takes hold of a heavy door knocker ... it has an animal on it ... and bangs on the door ... we hear footsteps coming ... now she is gone.
Dr. N: What do your inner thoughts tell you about all you have seen?
S: (almost overcome by emotion) Oh ... she wanted me after all ... didn't want to leave me ... she loved me!
Dr. N: (I place my hand on the subject's forehead and begin a series of post-hypnotic suggestions which end with the following instructions) Steve, you will be able to recall this subconscious memory in your conscious mind. You will retain this picture of your mother for the rest of your life. You now know how she truly felt about you and that her energy is still with you. Is this clear?
S: Yes ... it is.
Dr. N: Now, move forward in time and tell me how you feel about your foster parents.
S: Never satisfied with me ... made me feel guilty about everything ... controlling and judging me ... (subject's face is dripping wet with tears and perspiration) don't know who I am supposed to be ... I'm not real ...
Dr. N: (I raise my voice) Tell me what is unreal about you.
S: Pretending ... (stops)
Dr. N: Keep going!
S: I'm not really in control ... constant anger ... mistreating people to ... get even ... hopelessness ...
Note: After additional conditioning, I will now take my subject back and forth between his subconscious and superconscious mind.
Dr. N: All right Steve, now let's go back to the time before your birth into this life. Tell me if you have ever lived in another life with the soul of your birth mother.
S: (long pause) Yes ... I have.
Dr. N: Was there ever a particular life you lived with this soul on Earth which involved any sort of physical or emotional pain between the two of you?
S: (after a moment subject's hands grip the arms of his chair) Oh, damn-that's it-of course-it's her!
Dr. N: Try to relax and not go too fast for me. I want you to enter the life you see in your mind at the most crucial point in your relationship with this soul on the count of three. One, two, three!
S: (a deep sigh) Oh my ... it's the same person ... a different body ... but she was my mother then, too ...
Dr. N: Stay focused on the Earth scene. Is it day or night?
S: (pause) Broad daylight. Hot sun and sand ...
Dr. N: Describe what is happening under the hot sun in the sand.
S: (haltingly) I am standing in front of my temple ... before a large crowd of people ... my guards are in back of me.
Dr. N: What is your name?
S: Haroum.
Dr. N: What are you wearing, Haroum?
S: A long, white robe and sandals. I have a staff in my hand with gold snakes on it as a symbol of my authority.
Dr. N: What is your authority, Haroum?
S: (proudly) I am a high priest.
Note: Further inquiries revealed this man was a tribal leader who was located on the Arabian peninsula close to the Red Sea around 2000 BC. In preclassical times, this area was known as the Kingdom of Sheba (or Saba). I also learned the temple was a large oval structure of mud bricks and stone dedicated to a moon god.