If intuitive healer Caroline Myss is right and “biology is biography,” meaning that the body encodes not only early life physical events but also significant psychological events, then for many transpersonalists, the body encodes significant other life (past, present, and future) events that have been brought into the present life for a reason. Once we accept that in some form reincarnation is a reality, then the question arises, what really is transferred from life to life or, put another way, what are the common features between existences of the soul? There is considerable evidence that biological information may transfer from one reincarnational body to another. Not only is this interesting in its own right but has been used as supporting evidence for the fact of reincarnation.
Many transpersonalists, particularly past life regressionists, are familiar with the transfer of the dynamics of a past life issue into a symbolic biological representation in the current life. For example,
The case of someone who falsely accused another in a previous life, which lead to dire consequences for the accused. The accuser may have a deformed arm in the present life which symbolically hinders that person from pointing out another.
In the same example and if the accusation was done vocally, there can sometimes be a problem with speaking such as stuttering and the like so it is symbolically difficult to do that in the present life.
Therapist Thomas Paul reports a client who had problems with premature ejaculation and another with impotence issues. Both reported a past lives as a black male slave who were selected for a breeding program. Because the slave master’s did not want them to have pleasure during the act, they were routinely whipped and forced to finish fast, “You’ve got to come quick if you want to stay alive.”[1]In these cases the biology may or may not be directly impacted but personality and personality dynamics certainly are.
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