Have My Past Lives Influenced My Suffering in My Current Life?
This post answers questions for The Council from a reader named, Mari, who asks which of her past lives has influenced her suffering in her current life?
The Council says you wished to have a life where you could learn from the suffering in a past life. The one big past life we see affecting your current life was when you were Polish and were put into Nazi concentration camps.
In these camps you saw much suffering. You tried to help the people, but you weren’t successful. In that particular lifetime you were overwhelmed and depressed from seeing the suffering around you. You didn’t want to continue living because you were concerned you were unable to help anyone else.
In your current life you wanted to bring in all the emotions you went through and all the suffering you saw in that past life in the concentration camps so you could understand, on a much smaller level, what these people felt. You wanted to have that feeling so you could try to heal yourself while you were going through what these people went through in that life. Because you were unable to help these people and you felt you didn’t grow and you weren’t supportive in that life, you chose to go through emotions where you’d have suffering and more control in the healing of it.
This is the experience you wanted to have in your current lifetime. You want to do everything in this lifetime to heal your depression and the physical infirmities and to have more understanding and compassion for yourself as you go through this.
In that past life you had lots of compassion and a lot of feeling for these people that were suffering. And in that life you always had the hope that maybe you’d get out of the camps and maybe these people would survive. You had hope. In your current life you want to find that hope again, but have it for yourself.
Now you’re experiencing the other side of the coin. On this level, when you go through all the things you go through, do you understand how it makes you feel? What can you do, in any small way, to change your experience for the better rather than stay in it? Do you grab onto the hope you had in that past life and brought with you into your current life? Are you using this hope? Are you learning about healing with your mind and with energy? What are you doing to help yourself? This is the experience you wanted.
Know that you have the ability to heal yourself. We ask you to find the hope and don’t give up. You didn’t give up in the past life in the concentration camps, which was a tremendous thing. In your current life, because you’re going through similar things, the hope you’re supposed to have is for you. Your challenge is to have confidence in yourself and know that you are the healer and you are the creator in your life. Don’t stay in a state of hopelessness. Do everything you can, even in the smallest ways, to begin helping yourself, and you will see things change for the better.
Begin with the chakra breathing. Read books on spirit. Read books on life after life and life between lives to get ideas about how you planned your life. Know that you set all of this up. In spirit you were sure you’d be able to change your depression. We want to tell you that you can. Try and feel the courage you had in the concentration camps. Try and feel the love you had for all those people and yourself in that lifetime, and how you willed yourself to get through it and help everyone else. You can change your current life. You can turn it around. It’s not hopeless. You didn’t plan for a hopeless life.
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Understanding Past Lives to Heal Drug and Alcohol Addiction
This post answers questions for The Council from a reader named, Vlad, who says I’ve been battling drug and alcohol addiction for most of my life and nothing I try seems to release me from these addictions. I’d like to find peace for myself on this Earth before my time is up.
The Council says it’s wonderful you’ve tried many ways to heal your addictions and there were lessons in that for you, but you’ve come into this life to bring information about reincarnation. It’s also important to learn how to meditate. Chakra breathing will help you immensely. But what you came into this life for was to understand and bring forward the ideas of reincarnation.
Read all the books you can on reincarnation. Read books on life between lives. Read books on lessons that are set up before you came into this life. And read books on why you chose to be addicted to drugs and alcohol. As you read you’ll get more understanding on these topics. Then you can get information in meditation and dreams.
Read Brian Weiss, Robert Schwartz, and Michael Newton. These books will have the information you need to move forward, feel better about yourself, have more understanding, and heal yourself. Begin by reading Only Love is Real, by Brian Weiss. Then go into the works of Robert Schwartz and Michael Newton. These will give you more understanding how you plan each lifetime.
You’re one of many people who have prepared in spirit to go into a problem, learn about past lives to heal this problem, and bring that information forward to share it with other people.
You had a past life as an alcoholic who died early from drinking-related disease. This was a very unhappy life, which you tried to heal by drinking to forget, but that didn’t work. You came back into this life to find another way to heal this problem. The healing comes by staying in the problem, going through it, and then getting understanding why you created this problem.
In a different life you were a physician who helped many sick people, but never thought you did enough. In your current life maybe you have feelings about not being able to do enough and this comes from that lifetime. This memory is brought in on a subconscious level, but you don’t know that until you learn about past lives and how they affect you in your current life and how you can change this problem now. When you have this understanding you’ll have more choices than you can imagine.
Don’t be afraid to share what you’re learning about reincarnation with other people. You’re here to bring this information in. You have an important journey this time around as a soul who has gone through a lot, but can heal. You need to share this information.
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How Much Privacy Do We Have When We Return to Spirit?
This post answers questions for The Council from a reader named, Trisha, that are inspired by Michael Newton’s book, Journey of Souls, about our spiritual life after we die, but before we’re born again into a new life on Earth.
Trisha says someone in this book was regressed by hypnosis and this person mentions that in spirit, souls can have private conversations which can’t be picked up by other spirits. This got Trisha wondering how much privacy we can have in spirit. She asks if we can create private spaces where we don’t have to worry about others intruding. And if this is the case, Trisha asks how this works if there’s no separation in spirit?
The Council says when we’re in spirit we never think that we don’t want to be intruded upon. The idea of privacy and being intruded upon by others doesn’t exist in spirit. There’s nothing in spirit that makes you intrude on another person’s thoughts, but when there’s a time where you only want thoughts for yourself, you can create this. There isn’t any spirit that can come in and hear your thoughts if you don’t want this to happen.
In spirit no one else needs to know what you’re doing or where you are. Every spirit is going about their own business. There’s never any getting together to gossip or complain. It’s all private when you want your experiences to be private and experiences are shared when you want them shared. It’s all about allowing yourself to grow in spirit and then sharing your experiences when you’re willing.
In response to Trisha’s question about there being no separation in spirit, The Council says we’re all connected energetically. But in the case of Cynthia, Bob, and The Council, just because we’ve invited The Council to be part of our physical reality doesn’t mean they know everything we think or do, and it’s the same way in spirit. In spirit we’re all energetically connected, but this doesn’t mean we know everything about every other spirit.
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Have I Incarnated as Different People with Different Parents?
This post answers questions for The Council from a reader named, Jaden, who asks if there are Earths where he’s incarnated as different people with different parents, and if so, how many?
The Council says it’s difficult to answer how many lives Jaden has lived because at each moment we all have the ability to create new lives in what we’d consider the past or the future. Jaden has had many lives on Earth where there’s a tendency to come back into a new life and work on other lives you’ve had with souls you have worked with before.
While you’re creating in your current lifetime, there’s a part of you that sets up experiences that’ll be created in what you think of as your future. You are pure spirit and there’s no ending to what you can create. There are lives you’ve created in between your lifetimes on Earth where you’ve helped others souls. You are always creating and living.
Once you create a life it goes on forever and that part of you is with you in this particular lifetime. It’s important for you to know you are spirit and you’re ability to create is why you and all of us are here. We create what our life will be like in spirit, we create how we’re born, we create the families we’re born into, the friends and partners you’ll have, and how we’ll die when we decide to leave the Earth plane (or whatever reality we’re in).
The life you live and the people around you are all energy. When you die you remove your consciousness from that life, but it has been created, it is energy and it doesn’t disappear. It just goes on and on as if it was floating further and further away on a wave, but this life is always out there.
In response to Jaden’s question if there are Earths where he’s incarnated The Council says this is true. It’s the Earth at another stage. You can create the lives in any time period on Earth and you also can create lifetimes that aren’t within the Earth. There are many ways you experience life.
Everything is created by the person who’s experiencing it. If you believe and imagine with your thoughts and visualizations that you are here, but also feel you’re on another Earth that’s beyond this Earth and you’d imagine in your mind what this other Earth would be like, you would have created another Earth. It’s all up to your thoughts and beliefs. Some people believe this is the only Earth and in their reality it is the only Earth. You may create another lifetime in the future or the past where you believed you lived on two or more Earths.
The Council sees two particular lives that Jaden really enjoyed as a male on the water. In one life he was a Viking and in another he was on the sea with Christopher Columbus, the discoverer of America. In Jaden’s current lifetime are you drawn towards the water? These were important lives for Jaden’s spirit. Read about Vikings and about Christopher Columbus and see if you’re drawn to this.
When The Council was asked how we can create new past lives they said you can split your consciousness off into another creation of whatever it is you want to experience. You can experience this past life through your imagination while still in your current life. Or you can truly experience this past life by letting go and have another part of you there in another lifetime, but you’re not aware of this past life in your current lifetime. It’s just a part of you that you send off to experience something else. Eventually we’re all working towards being able to project ourselves into these other lifetimes. The Council acknowledges this is beyond what’s understandable for some people right now.
Jaden also asks when we return to spirit can we be greeted by people who are our family in parallel Earths? And The Council says definitely. When you go back into spirit you become one with everything. There are spirits you work with continuously and they’ll be there in spirit to greet you. Even if these spirits are living another lifetime and you were to end your current life and return to spirit, their spirit can come and welcome you and then go back into their life and continue with what they’re creating.
This session has some admittedly difficult to comprehend ideas about what we’re able to create as spirit. Listen to the entire 10-minute audio recording of our session with The Council (below) to hear all their guidance for Jaden and the rest of us, and let us know what you feel about it.
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The Purpose of Her Life After Her Abortion
In this post The Council answers questions from a reader who goes by the name, Important Or Not Blog, who says it’s been almost three years since her abortion. She’s been through therapy, she takes a high dosage of antidepressants, and feels she hasn’t been able to communicate with the spirit of the fetus she carried. She tells herself everyday that her abortion was the result of a spiritual agreement she made with the aborted fetus, and that she’s a human being having a spiritual experience, but she’s unable to move forward. Before the abortion Important Or Not Blog was fairly happy and now she’s full of sadness, anger, and blame. She’s afraid she’ll feel this way for the next 50 years and she asks if The Council can explain her purpose in this life?
The Council says one of Important Of Not Blog’s purposes is to experience the quality of forgiveness and to show this quality to other people in her life.
The Council says in looking at the way Important Or Not Blog feels since her abortion, if she knows there was a soul agreement with the fetus and this soul has moved on, they ask if she’s able to see the situation as something both she and the fetus wanted to experience and learn from? If you focus on the abortion as something that was traumatic for you and can keep thinking both you and the fetus are spirits, ask yourself what is the purpose of hanging on to blaming yourself and feeling bad you had this abortion? The Council says this whole episode was designed to push you to learn more about spirit, about past lives, and about life in between your lives when you plan what you want to learn moving forward.
When you think about how you can turn around your feelings about the abortion by reading about past lives, soul agreements, and in between lives, that should take you out of your depression and give you more of a feeling of understanding. When you understand why you both chose to have this abortion you’ll feel more forgiveness for yourself. And when you can learn to forgive yourself, you can learn to forgive others that you feel have abandoned you or hurt you in some way in this lifetime.
Brian Weiss is good to read for information about past lives, Robert Schwartz is recommended for information on soul agreements, and read books by Michael Newton for information about life between lives. If you read this material it will open you to bring in new energy and make this lesson a lighter one – one where you can understand how you succeeded in the first part of what you wanted by going through this abortion. The second part will be to turn your feelings about this abortion around and find ways to feel okay about it.
Reading the material The Council suggested will help you find the love, and once you start to get this feeling of love, bring it into your life on a daily basis. This will change your focus on what you go through as you create for the future.
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Questions About A Very Satisfying Past Life Regression Session
This post answers questions for The Council from a reader who goes by the name, She’s A Maineiac, about a past life regression therapy session she had last summer. During this session she traveled to another dimension that she assumes was the place we go when we experience what it’s like in between our lives we incarnate into on Earth.
She felt like she was floating in vast space, but it was incredibly peaceful and full of love and light. She felt her spirit expanding and all encompassing, like she was near the Source of all that is. During the session her spirit guides or higher spirits spoke through her and gave her advice. Her first questions for The Council are, who were these beings? Are they just my higher self?
The Council says these beings are your spirit guides that have been with you for many lifetimes and they’re here to help you plan the experiences you want to have during your next incarnation. They also help bring in other souls that would be interested in being part of your life. You get to speak with these guides in your dreams as well as when you leave this lifetime. Your higher self is there with your spirit guides, communicating with you in any way necessary to allow you to see, feel, and hear this connection with your spirit guides.
She’s A Maniac asks why she experienced this apparent time between lives rather than experiencing past lives like she expected to. The Council says at this time in her life she wanted to know what it’s like when you pass over to the other side. You also wanted to know the feeling of peace. She experienced this because it’s something her higher self knew the physical part of her wanted to experience.
Where you went many souls can go at night while they sleep. It’s a place you experience between your Earthly lives. You go there to become refreshed and to re-energize yourself. You are in the highest spiritual energy when you’re there. You can learn more about this place between lives by reading books by Michael Newton. If you wish to return to this place between lives and remember being there you don’t have to be regressed. You can ask to go there before you go to sleep and ask to remember it.
She’s A Maineiac asks if her spirit guides see whether she’s heading down the right path in her life or if she’s stuck? The Council says there’s never a wrong path for you to go down and there isn’t any stuckness. Sometimes you’re waiting for additional information or new ideas to come through from spirit and help you further down your path. This is where you were at the time of this session. You’ve come to the point where you wanted to open up more spiritually and have more understanding of the spirit world.
Incorporate that loving feeling into your everyday life and you’ll see positive changes in your life. Things that bothered you before will no longer bother you. Your higher self is telling you this experience is needed at this time so you can go further on your path and become more enlightened.
Whatever path you choose, you’ll learn the lessons you planned in spirit. You’ll get to where you want to go in this lifetime and have the experiences you wanted. Whether you choose to learn from these experiences, enjoy happy things and invite more of them into your life, or whether you wish not to learn the lessons from the harder experiences, how you learn to accept what you create will bring you down one path or another. There are easier paths and harder paths, but you are on the right path. We don’t see any stuckness.
For all of us there is one path or another and you choose what path you go down. And when you choose and you don’t like the path you’re on you can change your mind and choose again. Your guides are always with you. You receive information every night, whether you recall it consciously or subconsciously, it will come to you when you’re at a point in your life where you need this information. It will come to your conscious mind as an idea, or something you see or read, or some other way.
She’s A Maineiac closes by asking what was this dimension I went to during this session? The Council says it’s Nirvana, it’s Heaven, it’s a place of holiness, it’s a place where you experience only good. You connect with spirit strongly there. It’s a place of light and love. The name you give this place doesn’t matter. What matters is that you remember the feeling you had while you were there.
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Welcome to Ask The Council, a blog where you can ask a group of loving and wise spirit guides a question and get an answer, for free. You can also contact us for a paid private phone session with The Council, and you can read the questions other readers have asked and the answers they’ve received. Other posts contain quotations from The Council that we hope you find inspiring, uplifting, and educational.
Ask The Council a Question
If there’s a question you’ve been thinking about and you’re curious how The Council might answer it, we encourage you to either use the blog’s Comments feature to ask your question, or contact us for a private phone session. You can click here to go to the ‘Let us know what you think about this post, or ask The Council a question’ section of this Welcome post and type your question there or you can type your question in the same section at the bottom of any post that inspires you to ask a question or leave a comment.
Since the blog is currently a project we do in our spare time it can take a while for us to do a session with The Council on a question and then publish a post on the session. Depending on the question and the session it can sometimes take weeks after a question is asked to publish a post with The Council’s answer. Please be patient.
The Council
Cynthia is able to communicate with a group of five non-physical spirit guides in a manner similar to the way Esther Hicks communicates with and speaks for the spirit guides, Abraham, and Jane Roberts communicated and spoke for the spirit guide, Seth. I (Bob) basically interview The Council as they speak through Cynthia during what we refer to as a session. Sessions generally last 5-15 minutes and are usually audio recorded. During the session Cynthia is aware of what The Council is saying and she also receives visual impressions and other types of telepathic communication from them.
The Council’s Basic Guidance
Since we began these sessions with The Council around 2009 they consistently emphasize a few basic ideas that we attempt to summarize here:
1) You are an eternal spiritual being in a physical body.
You are the energy and vibration of continuously expanding love, intelligence, and joy.
Your physical experience in your physical body and your psychological experience of your personality is a small part of the totality of who you truly are.
Let yourself imagine from time to time what it might feel like to experience more of the wondrous totality of who you really are, and don’t be surprised if you are able to experience this more often.
2) You are the creator of all that you experience.
As you open to the possibility your true nature is greater than you ordinarily perceive, it becomes easier to consider the possibility that this expanded you is truly the creator of everything that you experience.
If you’re used to thinking of yourself in a more limited sense, the idea that you are the creator of your experience may be difficult to understand. Our post, What About This Idea That We Create Whatever We Desire, offers insights into this idea.
3) You are here to expand the love you are into physical reality.
You chose, as a spiritual being, to come into this physical reality to experience the joy of expanding the love you are as a spiritual being, into this physical reality. This is your purpose for being here.
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