Karen Joy - Lost Soul, Wise Soul: How Challenging Past Lives Shape Our Future

v Llewellyn Publications

Woodbury, Minnesota

ix What you disown in yourself

owns you.

Acknowledgments

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There are many to thank. My deep gratitude to my clients who have taught me so much and made this book possible. My teachers are many, including colleagues and members of the Newton Institute for Life Between Lives Hypnotherapy. Thanks to all the skilled people at my publisher, Llewellyn Worldwide, who have backed the book and significantly improved itin particular, Angela Wix for her advocacy and support, my copy editor, Hanna Grimson, and the great publicity team.

I am forever thankful to family members and friends who have been supportive and encouraging, including Colleen La Botz, Marina Mueller-nixon, Jane Teresa Anderson, Michael Collins, Erica Duguid, Tracy-Jayne Webb, Glenn Martin, Helena Wilson, Elizabeth Watson, Lisbeth Lysdale, and Rachel Hannam. Special thanks to those who read the draft manuscript and made helpful comments: Joanne Selinske, Lynn Parker, Ann Clark, Sally Douglas, and Liara Covert. The help of Jim Demack and Lionel Hogg is also appreciated. My eternal gratitude goes to the one who has taught me so much I wouldnt know where to begin, my writing mentor, husband, and love of my life, Ian Demack.

Disclaimer

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The material in this book is not intended as a substitute for trained medical or psychological advice. Readers are advised to consult their personal healthcare professionals regarding treatment. The publisher and the author assume no liability for any injuries caused to the reader that may result from the readers use of the content contained herein.

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Contents

: Before the Fall

: Beginning the Journey

: Getting Lost

: Into the Depths

: Agreeing to Be the Perpetrator

: Descent into Assault and Torture

: The Dark Path of Vampirism and Domination

: The Transition of Lost Souls

: Arising

: Softening

: Emerging

: Learning to Love

: Building Balance

: Avoiding the Depths

: Inner Strength and Balance

: Spiritual Surrender

Introduction

Soon after I started conducting past life regressions, one of my former psychology clients came to see me. Yvette, an engineer, was an attractive young woman whod recently broken up a short relationship. As a psychologist, I had helped her work through her childhood traumas several years earlier. Her parents had used her as a pawn during their tumultuous relationship, separation, and divorce. During our sessions, Yvette resolved the hurt she felt toward her mother and any anger directed at her father. She saw me regularly for over a year, and I came to admire her intelligence, courage, and honesty. Now, she wanted a past life regression.

This time her issue was completely different. She had made peace with her family and was happy with her life, apart from one recurring problem. Im attracted to narcissists, she blurted out. During the last twelve months, the three men with whom shed become involved all turned out to be self-centered, arrogant, manipulative, and controlling.

Yvettes well-developed intuitive sense rarely let her down. She couldnt understand why shed failed to discern the nature of these men sooner. In the beginning, she was strongly attracted to each of them. Only after several months of dating did she realize how demanding and critical they were.

After she has described her problem, Yvette settles back in her chair. I induct her into a trance state. As she goes in deeper, I ask why she gravitated toward such unsatisfactory relationships. While she is lying in the chair with her eyes closed, I click my fingers to indicate that the information is now available. I ask her what is happening. Even before I finish my question, she exclaims loudly, Oh my God! I am a man in a market. I am struggling to believe this, but I know it is true. I am selling people! I am a slave trader!