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traditional therapist saying to her patient, ''You have commitment anxiety because your mother wasn't emotionally available to you as a child." While that insight might be true, most patients don't walk away saying, "Oh now I understand where this issue came from. I'm fine now. No more commitment anxiety!" It takes more work, more understanding, and a great deal of patience to resolve the issue in a definitive way.
Although many people come to me simply wanting to know information about their past lives, I don't see the point of seeking that information just for fun. For one thing, most people have incredibly boring past lives. Very few people have led illustrious lives: Most of us were typical mothers, soldiers, or workersnot very exciting stuff at all. What's valuable is learning what's at the heart of the matterwhat you learned spiritually and physically during those lifetimes. What qualities of soul and spirit did you enhance? Did you learn about compassion, or courage, or unconditional love? Maybe your lifetime lesson was about being patient or speaking the truth. Those are the aspects of a past life worth looking at.
Psychic Vibrations and Reincarnation
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In the previous chapter we talked about precognition being one of the main categories of ESP. We also mentioned a less commonly known form of ESP, retrocognition. Both of these types of intuition involve the ability to transcend time to receive information without the use of the physical senses.
Some people may have dreams of, or otherwise get glimpses into, their own past without even realizing it. They may assume they're simply having a symbolic dream or dreaming of some historic moment that does not directly pertain to them. One reason they fail to recognize their "old" selves is that people do not keep the same physical appearance from lifetime to lifetime. Instead, they usually change gender, race, nationality, profession, and station each lifetime. Yet something always stays the same, and that something is the soul, spirit, or energy unique to each one of us.
Energy Is Never Destroyed
Do you remember in the previous chapter when we explained that every event has a vibrational level that can resonate through time to create precognition? Well, every action or thought releases its own set of vibrations. Although the crises seem to make the biggest ripple, the day-to-day vibes also leave an impression.
These karmic vibes have been described as a spiritual-magnetic energy form. The word "magnetic" suggests what makes karma come back. If you send out a certain kind of

 
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