Dr. Linda Backman, EdD, licensed psychologist, has been in private practice since 1978. Dr. Backman is the author of Bringing Your Soul to Light: Healing Through Past Lives and the Time Between (Llewellyn Publications, 2009). She also has graduate education and training in the fields of speech pathology, audiology, and special education. After experiencing the premature birth and death of her second child, Dr. Backman discovered the great need for more psychotherapists who are trained and devoted to working with those in grief. She cofounded an agency in Charlotte, North Carolina, dedicated to serving individuals and families who have experienced the death of children. In line with this work, she was asked to provide the commentary for the book I Never Held You by Ellen M. DuBois (DLSIJ Press, 2006).
Dr. Backman began her private psychotherapy practice in 1978. Since 1993, she has guided innumerable individuals in regression hypnotherapy to access their past and between lives. In this way, she helps people to more fully recognize who we are as a soul throughout our many lifetimes and during the time that we are not incarnate. Regression hypnotherapy allows the client to understand their soul mission, soul progress, soul relationships, and much more. Dr. Backmans work today includes guiding regressions, as well as speaking, writing, spiritual mentoring, and training others in the benefits of soul regression hypnotherapy both in the United States and abroad.
Dr. Backman studied and co-taught with Dr. Michael Newton, author of the seminal books Journey of Souls and Destiny of Souls , and co-created and served on the founding board of the Society for Spiritual Regression (now the Newton Institute) as membership chair and president. In 1997, Dr. Backman and her husband, Dr. Earl Backman, established the Ravenheart Center, a Mystery School in Boulder, Colorado, dedicated to guiding individuals to discover their path as a soul. In addition, Dr. Backman co-founded the International Between Lives Regression Network in 2005, a network for regression therapists and for the promotion of awareness among the general public, in the United States and abroad, of the benefits and purpose of regression hypnotherapy.
The Backmans have been married for forty-seven years and have two married children and three grandchildren.
For further information, please visit www.RavenHeartCenter.com or contact Dr. Backman at Linda@RavenHeartCenter.com.
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I dedicate this book to each of you who is committed as a soul,
and in your embodiment, to attain coexistence
with the earth and with humanity,
achieving the dream of evolution,
unity, and oneness.
Contents
: Tripping Over Your Soul Self
: Soul Ascension for You and for Humanity
: You Are Intuitive
: Progressing from One Life to the Next
: Communicating with Your Spirit Guides
: Seven Soul Archetypes and Your Soul Ray
: Your Pre-Birth Blueprint
: Evolving through Relationships
: Simultaneous Incarnations
: Lives on Earth and Elsewhere
: Attachment and Detachment
: Choices to Master Divine Power
: Resolving Past Lives through Self-Care
: Bringing Spiritual Evolution to Light
: Practitioner Notes
: Soul Regression Hypnotherapy
Foreword
With our current transition into a new cycle of ages, there is a major spiritual reawakening going on among a growing and important segment of the population of North America and Europe. This is especially important because it includes well-educated and well-read people who are in social and professional positions from which it is possible to influence the cultural mainstreams ideas and trends. Within this group, several distinct belief systems are being molded into a new spiritual complexones that are based upon mystical insights that differ markedly from the religious dogmas so familiar to the general public. Dr. Linda Backmans book The Evolving Soul reveals core aspects of the shape and the nature of the spiritual upgrade that is taking place in our time.
Dr. Backman begins by inviting us to remember that we are all embodied souls who come into life with a soul purpose and a life blueprint that serve as our guiding map. She introduces us to who and what our spirit guides really are, revealing them to be among the higher organizing intelligencesthose who are familiar with our soul path, providing unwavering support and dedicated to guiding and enhancing our ever-growing soul matrix.
In this extraordinary book, Dr. Backman explores the reality of our souls evolution in our long walkabout across eternity, as well as our relationship with the celestial realms. She reveals that our ongoing advancement as souls, as well as the organization and the coordination of our destiny as souls, is democratic, just, and rational. In her words: Many may not believe or comprehend that there is an overriding management of souls and consciousness. With the current world order in chaosas exemplified by conflict, mass shootings, and war; economic instability; natural disasters; and lack of respect for the environmentour human lifestyle is truly a mess .
Yet she and many others in the transformational community know that redemption can only happen when we become aware of the true nature of the sacred. And when we come to that awareness, we may then function in the impartial, respectful manner that is constantly mirrored to us from the celestial realms by the advanced master guides in spirit who work through us and with us to contribute to the greater good of all. In her words, We are the boots on the ground of the masters.
In this book, Dr. Backman explores our souls genius as it creates an intricate pre-birth design for our progress through our embodied lives, as well as how this design contributes to the overall benefit of humanity. She reveals how the specifics of our life plan may be complex or quite simple, in response to how our souls intention for our current embodied incarnation may be focused. She discusses how evolution (which simply means change) requires each of us to live as a soul in the now, while acknowledging, learning from, and releasing our past, so that we may create positive outcomes in the future.