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An Illustration of a Past-life Channeling
"Yes, I am a man, 42 years old. You see me on a ship, that's right, I'm a sailor. I've injured my right arm... my elbow is broken, I think... We are in a terrible storm. There's more, though... yes... another sailor has just been washed into the ocean. I... I...
(tell me more, I'm listening)
I can't say more. I'm all choked up.
(Can you tell me more about that sailor, then?)
... I didn't get along with him. We had a fight last week, see, here we are in a bar, arguing about a woman...
(but now he is overboard, and he might drown... and you have strong feelings about that...)
Yes! I do! I don't want him to drown! Although we argue a lot, underneath it I love him... I guess... I don't know! He seems so familiar! I am paralyzed! I want to try to save him, but I also have to save myself!
(Listen, I believe you are stuck in time, paralyzed by your strong emotions. I believe you can go forward a week just as easily as you went backward a week, to the bar. Why don't you relax and try? Go forward a week, and maybe you'll see that this other sailor is dead, or you are dead, or both -- but it is OK. Then you can also look back and see why he is so familiar, and look forward to see if there is a connection between you and my client, Mary.)
OK... I will try... it is hard. I'm so afraid, and the pain in my arm... it's hard to think about anything else. I'm looking forward... the other sailor drowns, but I do not. I feel bad about it, but I hide my feelings and pretend it isn't important. Years later... I die. Now I see... that man was my brother in several other lifetimes! I always let our little rivalries get in the way of telling him I loved him! That's why I keep scheduling to meet him again. And the elbow! I schedule injuries to my elbow to help me find the memory of that old feeling, so that I can make things right. Poor Mary! She has my bad elbow, and my fear of drowning, and she is dealing with a very unpleasant woman at her work, because I didn't finish my Soul work then.
(But that's OK, you know! We all have so much Soul work, and there are always more opportunities. Why don't you take this opportunity now to get "unstuck" from your time, and come forward to help Mary?)
Yes, that is a great idea! I don't need to hang on to the pain in my arm, or the fear, or the rivalry. I choose, in this moment, to release the past, and to help Mary release it also, in her present moment.
In the hypothetical session above, I speak the part of the sailor out loud, and say the italicized words silently in my head. I am able to say both parts out loud, but for some reason it is much more difficult. It is as if I have to "hang up the telephone" to the sailor to say my part and then "dial him up" again. By contrast, it is very easy to keep the role of the sailor and just report my questions. "Emily is asking me now if I'm on a fishing ship... no, I'm not, but that doesn't matter to the story." In this way, I can construct a one-sided dialogue that makes some sense to someone else who might be listening.
Why do I speak these dialogues out loud, instead of simply getting information from the images? Over time, I have found that speaking out the words of the people in my images helps the people and the images to get "unstuck" more quickly. The effect is even stronger if I also act out the role, by adding expression to my voice, and even moaning, gasping or crying where appropriate. Sometimes my clients worry that I am suffering during these sessions, but I'm not at all. In a way, it is exhilarating, like being an good actress, except that my reward isn't a round of applause at the end of a performance. Instead, it is the wonderful feeling of release and gratitude I receive from my invisible clients, at the end of the channeling.
With my physically present clients, the effects are not always so clear. Many times people will recognize parts of themselves in the story -- for example, Mary might tell me after the channeling that she does, in fact, have a terrible fear of drowning, in addition to the painful elbow which first brought her to Inner Fire Works. Almost no one stands up and says, wow, my elbow doesn't hurt any more and suddenly I feel only warm, loving feelings toward my rival at work. Now and then, I'll have a client whose pain vanishes on the spot, but I've learned not to hope for it or expect it every time.
My belief is that these sessions are a useful step in someone's healing process, but the healing still takes time, especially when there are physical symptoms. I noticed in myself, for example, that a mild fear of heights went away after I spoke to a "past me" who had jumped off a cliff, but it wasn't a sudden thing. At first, there was just some relief, a sense of "ah ha, now I understand where that has been coming from." Some time later, I realized, "oh hey, I was in a high place today and that used to bother me a bit, but today it didn't... strange!"
From what I have read, I believe that these sessions I give are quite similar to what shamanism calls a "Soul retrieval." I don't know for sure, since I didn't learn this technique from any person or school.
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