Many Lives, Many Masters
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I pondered the therapeutic purpose of exploring Catherine' s past lives . Onc e w e ha d stumble d int o thi s ne w realm , he r improvement wa s dramaticall y rapid , withou t an y medicine . There i s som e powerfu l curativ e forc e i n thi s realm , a forc e apparently muc h mor e effectiv e than conventiona l therap y o r modern medicines . Th e forc e include s rememberin g an d re living not just momentous traumatic events, but als o the daily insults to our bodies , minds, an d egos . In m y questions, a s we scanned lifetimes , I wa s lookin g fo r th e pattern s o f thes e in sults, pattern s suc h a s chroni c emotiona l o r physica l abuse , poverty an d starvation , illnes s an d handicaps , persisten t persecution and prejudice, repeated failures , and so on. I also kept an ey e ou t fo r thos e mor e piercin g tragedies , suc h a s a trau matic death experience , rape , mas s catastrophe , o r an y othe r horrifying even t tha t migh t leav e a permanen t imprint . Th e technique was similar to reviewing a childhood in conventional therapy, except that the time frame was several thousand years, rather tha n th e usual te n o r fiftee n years. Therefore my ques tions were more direct and more leadin g than i n conventiona l therapy. Bu t th e succes s o f ou r unorthodo x exploratio n wa s unquestionable. Sh e [an d other s I late r woul d trea t wit h hyp notic regression] was being cured with tremendous rapidity . But wer e ther e othe r explanation s fo r Catherine's past-lif e memories? Coul d th e memories be carried i n her genes? Thi s possibility i s scientificall y remote . Geneti c memor y require s the unbroke n passag e o f geneti c materia l fro m generation t o generation. Catherine live d al l over the earth, and her geneti c line was interrupted repeatedly . She would die in a flood with her offspring, or b e childless, or di e i n her youth. Her geneti c pool ended and was not transmitted. And what of he r surviva l after death an d the in-betwee n state ? Ther e was n o body an d certainly n o genetic material, and yet her memories continued. No, the genetic explanation had to be discarded.