15
Rebirth
WE have seen how a soul's decision to come forward into the next life at a specific time and place on Earth involves an ordered progression of spiritual planning. As I bring the soul consciousness of my subjects nearer to the moment of their exit from the spirit world, most become quietly introspective, while others engage in light bantering with their friends. These reactions toward what lies ahead depend more upon the individual soul than on the length of time since a last incarnation.
Rebirth is a profound experience. Those souls getting ready for embarkation to Earth are like battle-hardened veterans girding themselves for combat. This is the last chance for souls to enjoy the omniscience of knowing just who they are before they must adapt to a new body. My last case involves the soul of a woman who offers us a well-defined description of her most recent passage to Earth.
Case 29
Dr. N: Has the time arrived for you to be reborn into your next life?
S: Yes, it has.
Dr. N: What is uppermost in your mind about returning to Earth?
S: The opportunity to live in the twentieth century. It's an exciting time of many changes.
Dr. N: And have you seen this life, or at least parts of it, in advance?
S: Yes ... I've been through that ... (subject seems distracted)
Dr. N: Is there something else you want to talk to me about concerning your next incarnation?
S: I am having a last talk with Pomar (subject's guide) on all the alternatives to my project (life).
Dr. N: Might this be considered a final exit interview with Pomar?
S: Yes, I suppose it would.
Dr. N: Would it help you to talk to me about the contingency plans you have for the next life?
S: (voice is dry and rather thin) I ... think I have them straight ...
Dr. N: How did your recognition class go? I assume that phase of your preparation is complete?
S: (still distracted) Uh-huh ... I've met with the rest (of the participants) for my project.
Dr. N: Are the recognition signs clear in your mind for meeting the right souls at the right time?
S: (nervous laugh) Ah ... the signals ... my compacts with people ... yes, that's all done.
Dr. N: Without analyzing or censoring your impressions in any way, tell me what you are feeling at this moment.
S: I'm ... just ... gathering myself for ... the big jump into a new life ... there is apprehension ... but I am excited, too ...
Dr. N: Are you a little scared and perhaps wondering if you should go to Earth at all?
S: (pause and then more cheerfully) A little ... concern ... for what lies ahead of me ... leaving my home here ... but happy, too, at the opportunity.
Dr. N: So you have mixed emotions about leaving the spirit world?
S: Most of us do, as our time draws near. I have second thoughts before some lives ... but Pomar knows when I am lagging behind my schedule-you can't hide anything here, you know.
Dr. N: Okay, let's assume it's a go situation for your next life. On the count of three, your decision to return at an appointed time is firm and you are in the final stage to leave the spirit world. One, two, three! Describe to me what happens to you now.
S: I say goodbye to everyone. This can be ... difficult. (tosses her head back with resolution) Anyway, they all wish me well and I move away from them ... drifting alone. There is no great rush ... Pomar allows me to collect my thoughts. When I am quite ready he comes to escort me ... to offer encouragement ... reassurance ... and he knows when I am prepared to go.
Dr. N: I sense that you are now more upbeat about the prospect of rebirth.
S: Yes, it's a period of inspiration and expectations ... a new body ... the course ahead ...
I now prepare this subject to leave the spirit world for the last time before her current life. I am as careful here as when I brought her into the spirit world for the first time following normal age-regression. Starting with a reinforcement of the protective energy shield already placed around this subject, I apply additional conditioning techniques to keep her soul in proper balance with the mind of the child she is joining on Earth.
Dr. N: All right, you and Pomar are together for your exit from the spirit world. I want you to go deep inside yourself and explain to me what you do next as if it were happening in slow motion. Go!
S: (pause) We ... begin to move ... at a greater speed. Then I am aware of Pomar ... detaching from me ... and I am alone.
Dr. N: What do you see and feel?
S: Oh, I ...
Dr. N: Stay with it! You are alone and moving faster. Then what?
S: (in a faint voice) ... Away ... slanting away ... through pillows of whiteness ... moving away ...
Dr. N: Stay with it! Keep going and report back to me.
S: Oh, I'm ... passing through ... folds of silky cloth ... smooth ... I'm on a band ... a pathway ... faster and faster ...
Dr. N: Keep going! Don't stop talking to me.
S: Everything is blurred ... I'm sliding down ... down into a long, dark tube ... a hollow feeling ... darkness ... then ... warmth!
Dr. N: Where are you now?
S: (pause) I'm aware of being inside my mother.
Dr. N: Who are you?
S: (chuckles) I'm in a baby-I'm a baby.
The hollow tube effect described by my cases is apparently not the mother's birth canal. It is similar to the tunnel souls pass through at physical death and may be the same route. The reader might wonder why I would take more care with the act of birthing when I have already brought my subjects in and out of a number of past lives during a session. There are two reasons. First, reliving a past life does not need to involve the birthing process. I help my clients go straight from the spirit world into the next life, usually as adults. Second, if I return subjects to their current body and decide to command them to relive the birthing experience, I want to remove any minor discomforts felt by some people after they wake up.
Before continuing with this case, I should offer a little more general information about souls and babies. All my subjects tell me the transition of their souls from the spirit world to the mind of a baby is relatively more rapid than the passage back. What is the reason for this difference? After physical death our souls travel through the time tunnel and move past a gateway into the spirit world in a progressive way. We have seen how the outward passage is intended to be more gradual than our return to Earth in order to allow for acclimatization of a newly freed soul. However, as souls who enter babies, we come from a state of all-knowing and thus are mentally able to adjust more quickly to our surroundings than at the end of a physical life. Then too, we are given additional time for adaptation while in our mother's womb.
Nevertheless, having this time inside our mother does not mean we are fully prepared for the jarring paroxysm of birth, with blinding hospital lights, having to suddenly breathe air, and being physically handled for the first time. My subjects say if they were to compare the moment of birth with that of death, the physical shock of being born is much greater.
At some point prior to birth, the soul will carefully touch and join more fully with the impressionable, developing brain of a baby. When a soul decides to enter a baby, apparently that child has no free choice in accepting or rejecting the soul. At the moment of first entry, chronological time begins for the soul. Depending upon the inclinations of the particular soul involved, the connection may be early or late in the mother's pregnancy. I have had cases where souls timed their arrival at the last minute during delivery, but this is unusual. My findings indicate even those souls who join the baby early seem to do a lot of traveling outside the mother's womb during her term.