Past-Life Therapy Helps the Walk-in

After my exchange in 1958, I suffered loneliness, as all walk-ins seem to. My heart ached to have someone with whom I could share the “things I knew” but for which I had no words. During those years, I learned to sit in the Presence and allow It to help me, sometimes by just loving me back to health or beguiling me out of my confusion and frustration. At other times, my inner connection spoke to me telepathically and taught me, often reminding me of the things I was charged to remember when I stood in the Light. In due time, I found an outer guide and was then able to put understandable words to difficult and profound concepts.

One of the most useful tools for me, and I believe for other walk-ins as well, is past-life work or regression therapy. Questions abound around this issue, and only a few can be addressed here, but such exploration opens the way to new discoveries. Messengers must learn to separate the confusing issues of what belongs to the “other” from what belongs to us while we are in this incarnation. I became aware that many of the baffling emotional patterns came from “young Carol,” but by calling upon my Inner Knower (the term I now prefer); I was able to find answers and guidance. Eventually, I was able to distinguish what part is truly “personality stuff”—my own—from the residues of the frightened and rigid young lady who had lived in this body before.

Amazingly, past-life therapy does work—even for those who are unsure whether or not they believe in reincarnation. Its metaphors can be explored for keys to current dilemmas. Many painful situations may be healed through spiritual practices once the insights needed have surfaced. I suggest the real advantage to this explorative therapy is that regression techniques help to deepen the altered state of consciousness, safely accessing deeper levels.

As one who has practiced and taught past-life therapy for some time now, I see the positives and the negatives—and the misuse (as with any technique) of such practices. Unfortunately, trust is often misplaced in untrustworthy or unskilled workers. I was fortunate to train with Helen Wambach, Dick Sutphen and, in time, with Religious Research, Inc., of Florida. Each offered additional dimensions, and my personal experience refined these until I felt ready to offer training to others.

Psychography seems a strange term to many, developed by Dr. Franklin Loehr, it is a process of mapping the lives of the soul, to assist in returning to unfinished business in this life or another, and to do healing while in that window of time. To heal frees one from undesired consequences that are surfacing in the now by shifting the consciousness to dissolve negative ties to the past. Psychography begins with the participants moving gently to an altered state of consciousness, guided by a practitioner trained in both regression and healing techniques to direct the process. Sessions do not always lead to past lives but may call attention to earlier points of pain within this current life as well. Usually the personality still bears these scars, so this is often a most important barrier for the walk-in.

Old emotional patterns chain us to old behaviors. Shifting to a higher perception invites us to begin anew. Karmic matters and lessons adjust with the new awareness. The shift corrects or at least improves the past. Some matters take a number of sessions with a bit of progress occurring each time. Others dissolve in only one session of seeing through the eyes of the Inner Knower or when in the after-life review the Wisdom of the Self is heard.

Is regression therapy a cure-all? Of course not, but it has power little understood to benefit almost everyone capable of reaching an altered state. It is a great blessing for walk-ins if someone who clearly understands the phenomenon or who has shared the journey guides them.

Sancta Sophia Seminary offers an 88-hour course of 10-11 days for students to learn how to do this work and experience the technique. Trainees then guide one another for several days in monitored sessions. This program involves both intellectual and psychological concepts, personal experience, observation, evaluation, and apprenticeship. Students do need to either have some kind of counseling certification or be prepared to take Sancta Sophia's counseling week to earn a pastoral counseling certificate and become a certified therapist.

In other words, regression therapy is a real therapy, and to be a guide one needs valid counseling credentials. Although the technique is easily learned, its profundity needs to be experienced to be appreciated. Through personal participation, students grow in understanding how to manage the responses of others. Apprenticeship is supervised and learning happens quickly in a supportive group setting through observation, practice, and sharing.

My own process has taught me not to disregard the residues of the first inhabitant. Moving into a new body is quite similar to moving into any previously owned house: certain work must be done. In the renovation process the new inhabitant makes the body his/her own.

Knowing what residues abide in the mental, emotional, and physical levels of self permits us to more specifically identify the repairs that need to be made. Without this understanding, many walk-ins will never claim the opportunity they have been given. They will remain ungrounded, confused by the currents that stir within, and so focused in the heavens, they are no earthly good.

Dear messengers—the designation of my choice—I believe Psychography: Soul Discovery and Spirit Releasement is a course each of you should experience, not only for the personal rewards and the healing it offers, but because it is a tool you can use to assist others. (See our course offering this year!)

Spirit releasement, an additional part of the course, deals with discoveries that naturally surface from time to time as one does regression work. We have discovered that certain distressed lifestyles attract others with similar pain, confusion, or addiction. These attachments, or entanglements, confuse our lives with mists of distressing influences they bring to the energy field of personality. Spirit releasement is a healing technique to free the participant. It is not to cast out a lost and wandering spirit, but to lead him/her into the light.

Should you have an awareness of other worlds and find this article of interest, you may contact me directly: Carol Parrish, Sancta Sophia Seminary, Sparrow Hawk Village, 22 Summit Ridge Drive, Tahlequah, OK 74464.

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