welcome to new connection where you can tune in and grow i'm your host vicky thompson you may be familiar with new connection magazine for conscious living which has been enjoyed by readers in the pacific northwest for more than seventeen years now are excited to bring new connection to life in your home a new connection we welcome authors practitioners and visionaries to share new ideas for alternative health spirituality and personal growth today i'd like to welcome to new connection juli ingram who's the internationally acclaimed author of the lost sisterhood as well as a master of regression therapist julia specializes in past life regression therapy as well as hypnosis welcome to new connection julia thank you vickie great to be we get to that exciting place or how does that work well regression therapy is an older aspect of therapy in general where it just means going back going back in time or going back to the source of so thirty four years ago we were taking people back into their childhood to help them heal with childhood trauma then we discovered people were going further back than that so we developed a new kind of therapy called  accessing past lives for a number of reasons and sometimes people spontaneously go back to past lives but intentionally use a  project trance very easy to go back in time to access so you're accessing a past life through hypnosis yes and you're looking back in time something that you when i spoke to you about this you talked about being born again and again and again so it sounds like we do step back in to life again and again and again it doesn't sound like it's just one ride on the merry go round and it's over sort of thing but wouldn't that be unfair and that's all it was just one lifetime and that's it more than half the people on the planet believe in reincarnation it's a very ancient belief some people believe in in different ways but i think there's plenty of evidence now that reincarnation is real it's not fully understood the longer i do past life regressions the less i really know but i know a lot when you have quite a lot of experience in doing past life regressions what are some of the benefits if someone was going to come to you and do a past life regression one of the main reasons people call for a past life regression is they want to know if they're fulfilling their purpose they want to know why they're on the planet what they're here to learn so fulfilling your purpose is one of the main reasons people call it's for spiritual growth too we move on to that one and everybody there's things that hold us back the fears that stop us  and then there's something that pushes us forward and i think it is that sense of destiny so a past life regression help should remove the fear so that you can really expand on what does propel you forward to motivate you so do you find that if someone experienced a past life or maybe they you had a funny one where you talked about that you were pushed off in a past life pushed off a mountain by maybe it was it  driving to the studio today i got a call on my cell phone from a man whose wife worked with me about two years ago the fear of heights and he said she's cured and he was so excited to tell me that they'd been hiking and previous places that had terrified her she just breezed right over so phobias are sort of our claim to fame the traditional way of treating phobias is with that it's called exposure therapy it's it's cruel i think so if you're afraid of spiders or snakes the idea is that you will look at a picture of a snake and then you will see a snake and then you will touch a snake that's horrifying unnecessary what we do is take you back to the source of the fear where it was created and from the present life perspective of seeing how it was created it just usually magically disappears so identifying that source of being pushed off a cliff by your son in law then you can then just start to realize that's the source of where because it's my fear of heights disappeared just realizing that yes well you do a little work with energy i mean there it's more than just discovering but actually oftentimes it is just discovering saying oh yeah it's not happening to this body in this time it's happened in the past so it sounds like how does that work if you are carrying like a chronic illness with you like heart disease or something like that can that manifest from a past life we don't assume everything does come from past lives so i can't say that we cure everything but if there are roots in past lives then just having that information gives you a way to work with it i remember a case where a woman had really horrible menstrual periods and was facing a hysterectomy and she was very young she wanted to have children when we went to the source of the problem what she discovered was several disappeared i'm always so pleased when i hear back from my clients that it worked so it sounds like they're talking a little bit about reincarnation before and that there are there is proof that it's real so if you're able to go back and heal something from a past life how it how does that work to go back are there examples and ways to show that reincarnation is real and we can go and heal on different levels of existence the proof for me is that it is helpful people people ask me what is the proof is there really evidence and it's a little bit hard to prove for the most part because most of our lifetimes were pre writing pre publishing prefer to graphs but there are a few cases that i think give us enough evidence that the pretty compelling would you like me to give you a couple of examples sure that sounds wonderful you lost my books and other things eve talked about that you can go through that talk about some of those past lives would be wonderful to touch on those as well yeah well i think the first before we get to the books very compelling evidence that we not only have past lives but we remember them and they affect us or when you hear children speak of what appear to be past lives like they'll say remember when i was the mommy more feel like acting like i'm the mommy which some little kids will do you know i'm the bobby mother has to remind one case a couple brought their four year old to see me not so much that i work with four year olds but they just really want to develop it if they were on the right track with him and he was frantic one evening talking about his boys who's crying my boy is my boys we've got to save my boys he's four years old and the mother very wise lease instead of saying you know you're having a bad dream said tell me about your boys they're grounding the grounding in the creek we have to save my boys so they handled it beautifully by listening to him taking it seriously and then explaining to him that it happened and then another time in another place when he was in a different body so just listening to children you can you can hear a lot and you can work with their terrors in a different way and instead of saying you're just having a bad dream or this isn't really happening tell me more  about it and then help them it's not happening that this body that was a long time ago and that's over and of course always saying you're safe so books that are helpful in listening to children are those by carol bowen carol bowman b o w m a n so some stories that i think are pretty conclusive is a book called looking for carol beck with now this is by sergeant robert snow who is a detective a policeman and he did a past life regression at a party and b what he reported in that regression was seeing himself painting a portrait and thinking to himself why would anybody who appears to be a skillful as i am as a painter paint such an ugly subject there was a kind of a shriveled up old woman well i didn't think very much of it and then one day he was on vacation with his wife in new orleans and they were poking around in antique shops and art shops and he went into i am getting goose bumps telling this story every time i get goosebumps he went up the stairs down the hallway and there was that painting he with in shock and  his so he assumed that he had seen this painting in a book some time maybe in our book but the the owner of the stores that that is absolutely impossible this was he said the artist's name is carol beckwith very minor artist a good artist but very minor not really in books this was a commissioned piece never seen until with the with the death of the family and i bought it on an estate sale or something like that so he could not have seen this painting he could not have seen it so his being the detective he is he said ok i'm going to write down all the facts that i reported in there there were twenty two of them and i'm going to just like i investigate cases i'm going to investigate this one and if i can prove find evidence of these facts then i will believe that i have proved there is such a thing this past fall took him a long time and it's a fascinating read because some of the things that he looked at to prove this were obscure like he had to get a hold of this man carol beckwith journals diaries to prove some of them but he proved twenty out of twenty two of those and he said that that's more than enough to close this case that's a great read another one is a book called someone else's yesterday of this one is by jeffrey keene who is a firefighter and he and his wife were  traveling in the south and visiting civil war locations and he had what now he realized was a spontaneous flashback to a battle a civil war battle where he was really being in the battle shouting hearing himself shouting and feeling himself shot it took him two or three years of research and a great number of spontaneous synchroni to prove what he himself had seen then a couple of really interesting things well i think the most interesting thing is th yes yes and we do see that we do see that sometimes past life wounds will show up as birth marks or just dark spots or just sort of mysterious spots on the body so that's some evidence too and the third case is  the story of a man who now lives in arizona and i have to look to see if william burns is his name but this is sort of a combination of a child speaking about a past life a past life regression and lots of spontaneous memory as a child he had nightmares about shipwrecks and he's kept telling his parents my name isn't bill it's tommy sinking saying that there was a defect in the construction of the ship when he said no my plans were perfect the owner skimped on money and did not construct the ship as i had designed it so he was like this restless soul that had to come back and clear is a name so his book is about the regressions but it's also kind of insisting that he's innocent and it sounds like we can come back from the past and claim our innocence and clear things up as we continue through our journey another thing that's interesting about that story and and the thomas gordon jeffrey keen story is that these present life men highly resemble their past life features in fact jeffrey cain if you look at his photographs in his books you'll see that if you over laid one on top of the other they would be identical suggestion that we not only can remember a past lives but we may also sometimes have the same or similar bodies it's interesting because we had that past history as well as maybe a genetic history that we're carrying as as from life to life yes we actually call it spiritual d n a which could be informs our personality as well as perhaps or our bodies you know it's i think the more you look at our journeys and the details and the past lives it's just it's so amazingly interesting do you have any other because i'm sure you get a lot of unusual cases that come through in the work that you do and you've accessed people with lives with jesus and mary and in your book sisterhood you know a lot about at that time can you share with some other what you're saying you're speaking of the archetypes that sometimes show up and speak to that just just briefly for people who want to do like some  really a series of past lives to find out what am i as a soul what what have i done that's that i'm proud of what have i done that i need to make compensation for sometimes you'll see really major themes archetypal themes like the king or queen or the warrior or the magician or the lover or the savior or the bee tray or or the mother so in  the my two books the messengers which are co wrote and the last sisterhood they're the archetypal stories of the holy family as a very large arc archetype and when i think it's very active right now as we're trying to balance masculine and feminine in this very masculine world that we live in a fire is unusual people ask me if i think there's life and other planets around other solar systems and my sessions convinced me that yes we are souls who have seemed to love planet earth but we've also incarnated in other life forms and in other places around the  he frankly transformed in front of me as he went into trance his his fingers got very elongated his neck got very long it was talking like that and i asked him to tell me about himself and he was kind of a lizard like creature and he explained that he was on assignment from his planet or his solar system from his race  study human beings and i so when i brought the boy out of trance i said well here's the deal are you comfortable being on assignment there bothering you he said no i'm pretty happy being human i just assumed they went away so he stood up and he said like very cute begone i've had reports of people being animals the hindus believe that if you are if you've made mistakes or done something wrong you may reincarnate as an animal like a punishment i don't see evidence that that is true what does appear to me is that being an animals a lot of fun i would think so birds and i'm going to take a my next break i'm going to be a big  i've had reports of people being spirit guides angels fairies those are deal light full one of the most fascinating ever was a woman who said i am the deva of a mountain and my job is to just hold the spear of the mountain and encourage the trees to grow and the flowers to bloom and the birds  sing lovely but sounds like an amazing process as you're going through it just this one your full information comes through but i don't know that everyone has had the experience of going to a past life regression therapy session can you share  what what would you expect if we came to see you what would we do and we sat down in your chair to go through a session first of all i ask you a few questions about your history if you've had a new experience with hypnosis and what you think it's it is because most people have a little bit of a skewed idea of what hypnosis is based on movies and television it's really simply deep relaxation the relaxation that you would experience if you were a meditator or even relaxing at the end of the day when you're in your chair it's just deep relaxation but the opposite of meditation where you're not supposed to notice your job is to notice it's very easy to access past lives if you can let go of any need to control what happens but that's just allow the story to show up and it does so my job is to guide you through the experience some people enter a past life at the end of a lifetime some people enter it early in the middle earlier or in the middle my job is to figure out where to take you so i'm asking questions and guiding you through the experience a lot of people i fear the process because they think well what if something awful shows up or what i human being and you've made it on the planet this far then you are as curious as the rest of us and we have we have played all the parts we've been the victim we've been the rescuer and we've been the perpetrator and perhaps that's the cycle that we're trying to get off of if the buddhists have it right so that you want to know what those things you want to know what have i what have i set into motion that i can get my hands on and change but the thing is your heart your high selves decides the order in which stories will show up and usually the ones that come up first are the ones that are holding you back so the victim stories or the trauma stories will come first and then you balance it off with the with the meritorious stories those in which you accomplished a great deal and you're you're proud of yourself and sometimes they show a kind of alternatively so that you can improve your self esteem and your courage in the process and then comes graduate work and that's when you  conscious is ok now it's time to look at who started this fight the been there perpetrator ones will come up and those are very powerful i always have to admit to my perpetrator stories because  a really nice person in this life to open hearted and you know i've dedicated my life to helping people but there was a lifetime in which i was the captain of the ship and i was very very c can't remember a scene where i had my boot on the throat of one of the crew to get down on the deck and him looking up to me with extreme fear in his eyes and how satisfying that feeling was and you need to know that about yourself as well that is an aspect of everyone's soul so i may have that still in the to do that but  higher and why is there being at this point i can see how that would be very instructive to know that there is a part of you because i think oftentimes we don't want to recognize that part of us that might have a darker side or the perpetrator scientists but if we can recognize it and work through it then we don't fear it as it's right in this life that's right and we don't fear other people as much either because we realize we really co created this culture that may helps people who tend to drop into a to a victim place to realize especially if they're the ones who started that you know you're you're in us you're in and you're doing a dance and you can stop that dance and change your life through it so next are there any really inspirational stories that you could share with us where in just having a past life regression really just change someone's life i hear that a lot that there are people's lives have been changed i want to tell a sweet story this is a life changing a mother called me about her eleven year old daughter who wanted to go on a camping trip camp actually but she was deathly afraid of bugs and and stakes and so she she was just not even entertaining the idea of going and she wondered if the past life regression would help well this child reported three horrific horrific past lives terrifying gross i didn't allow our mother in the room it's a good thing because her mother would have probably stopped the process because here's this eleven year old girl sweet faced little girl talking about decaying flesh and so forth so she didn't hear the tape until later after she was aware that something that really changed in her daughter she reported that they were at a picnic and that her daughter brushed a bug off of her jacket without even thinking about it and she said she would not have done that she would have screamed and run the proof so that was my happy story but it sounds like you can really change your life with her aggression you can be well it's been so and wonderful talking with you and hearing about the journey that we all take so thank you so much for joining us here today thank you for having m you can learn more about past life regression at our website at w w w new connection journal dot com join us next time a new connection where you can tune in and grow