Interactions with other embodied beings produces experiences which can be loving, healing and uplifting, or emotionally and physically painful and damaging. When the body falls away in death, the being returns to a specific level of the Light, or spirit space, a place of expanded awareness. After an interim in the Light, during which the being learns and prepares itself for another human experience, and develops the Lifescript for the coming lifetime, the spirit returns to the Earth and joins with its planned body. The contracted spirit, in this body, then follows its own Lifescript. The foremost spiritual lesson is to learn love in its many variations.
Every spiritual tradition focuses on love as a primary learning goal.
As the client describes personal problems and discomforts, emotions usually surface. The emotional turmoil is the opening into the subconscious mind and the memories or images associated with those emotions. Whether these are memories of actual events or metaphoric, symbolic, even archetypal images, the therapist must work with the imagery and narrative and emotions as if they were real. They are real for the client, and the emotional impact of these memories can seriously disrupt a person's life. It is the task of past life therapists to guide their clients in unraveling the mystery of traumatic past life memories and see the bigger picture, the spiritual meaning, of the past life experience.