For more than twenty-five years, I have been a past-life therapist. I have regressed more than a thousand individuals during that time. Through it all I have met many unique characters who have explored their respective past lives and blessed me with the opportunity to help each of them on their own spiritual journeys.
My wife, Carol, and I founded the De Long Ancient Mystery School in Saskatoon, Canada, almost fifteen years ago. It was our intention then, as it still is now, to help others awaken their true psychic and spiritual potential within. We teach psychic development classes and ancient healing techniques, and provide spiritual counseling and energy healing for people in the area. Past-life therapy has always been one of the many services that is provided through our unique school. People have come from far and wide to take our classes and to explore their past lives through therapy.
I have used my reputation as an international author to promote our school along with the services that we provide. We have traveled throughout Canada and the United States in order to reach and teach people seeking to explore their gifts and enhance their spirituality. Reincarnation has always been one of the most fascinating subjects that many of our students and clients show intense interest in. Exploring a previous lifetime is one of the most powerful tools that can be used by someone to understand their true self.
Between radio and television interviews, book signings, article writing, and teaching classes, I have been able to work at what I love to do. I strongly believe that I am following my path, my life purpose. At our mystery school, we continue to help others on their spiritual journeys.
I live in a medium-sized city in Western Canada. Many of the people living here neither embrace nor explore their spirituality. In fact, as a past-life therapist living here, many of the residents I meet feel uncomfortable with the type of work that I do. For many people, reincarnation is a subject that they do not believe in. Others may believe in reincarnation but do not wish to pursue this fascinating phenomenon. This attitude shown toward my work only stiffens my resolve to follow the path I am on. The more people I can help to explore their own past lives, the better I feel about what I do and what I strongly believe in.
It is my hope and intention to help you recall many of your past lives. At the same time, I want to assist you in developing your potential psychic and spiritual gifts. These gifts allow you to access even more information about your previous embodiments on Earth. When you explore a past life, you can heal the past, change the present, and affect your future in a more positive way. Our traits, our characteristics, our idiosyncrasies, and our unexplained physical as well as emotional pains can sometimes be traced back to previous incarnations. Some of our gifts that we have are brought forward from the past. For instance, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatzo, both the head of state and spiritual leader of Tibet, most likely came back into a physical body with the knowledge and information he had from a previous lifetime.
As a child, I would often see visions or memories from some of my past lives. I would be fascinated by certain time periods and regions of the world. For instance, watching movies about ancient Egypt and reading anything that I could in regard to this wondrous civilization became a mild obsession on my part. In my mind, I could envision the scenery of that area, including the mighty Nile with palms trees blowing gently in the warm breeze. Even the smell of exotic flowers and others scents from that ancient land would be very real to me in this lifetime. It is this fascination with my previous lifetimes that has influenced me greatly and placed me onto the special path that I follow. It encourages me to guide others to explore their own past lives as well.
Although this book is a teaching instrument, it is also much more than that. Along with several exercises and techniques designed to help you recall many of your past lives, funny, informative, and inspirational case studies are shared with you too. From these stories and case studies within the pages of Past Lives for Beginners, you will see the great potential of past-life recall and recognize the true value of reincarnation. Please be aware that all of the names mentioned in this book have been changed in order to protect the confidentiality of my clients.
As you explore your own past lives, you will discover numerous things about yourself. You will recognize that you are the culmination of many previous lifetimes. Soon, you will develop or enhance more of your spiritual gifts and psychic abilities. You will know that you are truly eternal and that you are loved and protected by angelic beings and spirit guides. These beings of light can assist you when you explore your past lives. As you recall past lives, you will start to astral travel more often. If you are already doing this, that is great! We will be discussing the close connection that exists between astral travel, reincarnation, and past-life regression later on.
All the techniques and exercises in the book will aid you to recall several of your previous embodiments upon this earth. I have successfully used these very same techniques personally and with clients for many years with great and productive results. Developing the ability to recall past lives involves more than just practicing meditation. It takes focus and direction with a clear intent to succeed.
When we are born, a veil closes down on most of us, hiding our memories of previous lives from us. In most cases, it takes special techniques to lift that heavy veil and gaze into the remote past. The techniques provided within the pages of this book will lift that veil, light the darkest recesses of your mind, and guide you to your past lives. Your higher self will assist in this process, allowing you to see and feel the past for your greatest spiritual growth.
If you can think of Planet Earth as a school where your soul learns and grows, you will then see this world in a very different light. You will recognize that schoolhouse Earth is a wondrous journey for your soul to embrace. All the trials, tribulations, joys, and events of life can be experienced, allowing your eternal soul to grow and blossom.
The mind and the soul are joined as one. Your mind as part of the immortal soul contains wisdom, knowledge, and memories from many past lives. You will be taught to tap into this great resource.
You will be taught all the techniques I employ in my past-life sessions with my clients. These techniques have been used for many years and work effectively. Roughly 85 percent of the people I have worked with over the last twenty-five years have had great success with the implementation of these exercises and unique techniques.
From years of experience and research, I know that one out of every three people can be hypnotized in the traditional way. Many of my clients and students have mentioned to me that they cannot be hypnotized. A few of the techniques I employ are designed to work with your chakras, or energy centers. By using the chakras, you can feel this energy flow throughout your body. This also slows down the brainwave patterns and allows you to drift. Most people will feel very relaxed and allow themselves to enter into the deep state of consciousness that is necessary to receive past-life information. People who have a more difficult time being hypnotized find that moving energy through the body lets them enter into a hypnotic state without the use of hypnotism.
The chakra-energy techniques explained in this book are very effective and will help you to experience your own past lives.
Many people experience past-life recall from hundreds or even thousands of years ago. Some people will remember an ancient lifetime. These types of past-life experiences cannot be verified with documents such as birth certificates, family photographs, marriage licenses, death certificates, and other printed matter.
However, some people will recall past lives that happened in the relatively recent past. When this happens, these individuals can do their own research. A client of mine, Roger, is a great example of someone who successfully researched his own information about his last lifetime. Although he was very aware of its manifold horrors, Roger had always held a fascination with Nazi Germany. He collected Nazi memorabilia, including some books containing photographs. His initial regression work with me only added to his interest in exploring that lifetime, since it explained the lifelong interest he’d had in his present life.
At one point, Roger showed me a particular book that contained several photographs that were pertinent to his previous embodiment. He flipped through the book until he found a photograph of an airfield in Germany. In it were several World War II German planes. With excitement he pointed to the page and said, “See the man standing beside the plane near the back of the field? That’s me!” And indeed we did confirm that it was an officer in the Luftwaffe, the air force of Nazi Germany, who had been revealed to him in a past-life experience, in which he died in a fiery plane crash around 1943. Roger mentioned his rank, his name, and a great deal of intimate detail about that lifetime as he talked to me.
Roger continued turning the pages of the book and found another photograph. He pointed to a photograph of Adolf Hitler and several of his military staff who were at a function in a huge ballroom. Obviously, the photographer had taken the picture from the other side of the room. His eyes held a gleam as he stated, “I remember standing right beside the photographer when he took the picture. I had just been given a medal for bravery.” When it’s possible, this kind of research can be very rewarding with its confirmation.
The Many Reasons for Past-Life Regression
Over the years I have had the same question presented to me in different ways. My own mother, may she rest in peace, voiced this very question: “Douglas, my life has been very hard. It has been hell at times. Why would I want to know about another past life?” Fair enough. This is an honest and valid question.
At that time I did not have an answer for her or, for that matter, anyone else who voiced this insightful question. It took some deep soul-searching followed by years of working as a past-life therapist and spiritual counselor to receive the right answer. For many of you, the answer is very simple.
When you look at a past life, you can heal from it, change the present in a positive manner, and ultimately create a better future for yourself. In other words, if you can heal the past, you can also heal your present lifetime and the immediate future. The veil that comes down on you during the traumatic process of being born, causing you to forget your past incarnations, can be lifted through past-life regression. There are many reasons to delve into the past, exploring your previous lives:
A past-life experience can be achieved through guided meditation, astral travel, hypnotherapy, or through past-life recall either with the help of an experienced professional or on your own. Any or all of these options can be great tools to truly explore your soul’s journey.
Through either a guided meditation or a deep meditation you do yourself, you can slow down your brainwave patterns, open up your subconscious mind, and start to recall past lives. Breathing and meditation techniques will be explained within the pages of this book in order to help you enter the right altered state of consciousness. This state will allow you to start accessing past-life information. You have the potential within to explore your own previous incarnations. This will open up many doors on a spiritual level for you.
Throughout this book, you will be presented with detailed exercises and techniques designed to help you recall some of your past lives. Many of these techniques will also help you to awaken or enhance your psychic and spiritual gifts.
As a human being, you are multidimensional. Your soul can exist here on the earthly plane now yet be able to remember many previous lifetimes. As an eternal soul, you have traveled back and forth between Heaven and Earth many times. The techniques within Past Lives for Beginners, along with the case studies, will help you to recognize your soul within and embrace your full potential. Enjoy your spiritual journey that you are about to embark upon!