What positive results can I expect from past life regression?” As one might suspect, a great many of our physical and mental problems are brought into this present life from our past ones. Chronic pain such as headaches, and arthritis, as well as cancer, heart conditions, asthma, ulcers, sexual dysfunction, depression, extreme anger and fears such as claustrophobia, anxiety, panic, and other physical, mental and emotional ailments as well as mal adjustive relationships can be the result of problems unresolved in earlier lifetimes. Through the use of past life regression, the patient is presented with answers unavailable to him or her through any other means. Once he or she understands the cause of these difficulties, their cure becomes realizable. Past life regression, conducted through hypnosis, permits us to peer, as it were, into multiple layers of former lives which have gone to shape our present existence. Q: Will I meet my friends and loved ones in future lives? Have I known them in earlier ones? According to those teachers who possess knowledge of spiritual laws, we journey in groups. We reincarnate with those to whom we are bound through love — or hate. Sometimes it is necessary for us to learn the lesson of the Golden Rule by meeting in this life those whom ,we have injured or treated unjustly in former lives. We may also find ourselves in a series of alternating relationships–as master and servant, parent and child, or husband and wife. All these experiences help us to understand how an individual feels in various situations, and to learn how we would like to be treated in these circumstances. Q: Why are we born under certain conditions or with certain characteristics? The lesson we must learn or experiences we are required to fulfil are in accord with the law of cause and effect known in Eastern philosophy as karma, or in Western physics as the Newtonian Law of Action and Reaction. This universal law works in concert with reincarnation by insuring that we are born in the proper time and place to either pay our debts or receive our rewards due us from past lives. We are born with various talents and skills which may need almost no training to elevate themselves into superior attributes. This does not happen by accident. These gifts are the result of hard work and perseverance in previous lives. In the cycle of reincarnation, nothing is forgotten. On the other hand, we may be born with a disability or with certain limitations which compel us to develop capacities which we may find not altogether to our liking. For, as we have already said, life is a schooling ground. We reincarnate into the classroom of earthly existence with a certain curriculum of instruction. Those subjects, which we have mastered earlier come easily; those we have failed will have to be repeated until they are mastered. Q: Why can’t we recall our past lives? When your realize how difficult it is for us to recall the events of our childhood, not to speak of events occurring only a few years back, you can readily appreciate the difficulties imposed on a physical brain to remember happenings of a century ago–or several centuries ago. However, as one proceeds along the path of unfoldment, like through hypnosis, guided imagery and other forms of meditation, the conscious mind becomes more and more sensitive to the vibrations of these past experiences. These vibrations create images in the mind of scenes from one’s past. Gradually, the memories of past lives become more vivid. Q: What is the purpose of our having to return to this earth plane again and again? Only in this way can we evolve spiritually. Through such evolution all negative vibrations are eventually absorbed into the positive good. This means reaching the great White Light as stated in the Eastern esoteric teachings. God said, “Let there be Light: And there was Light.” All creation has come from the Light. And these teachings are based on the understanding that from that Light we have come and to that Light we return. It is a lesson our souls must learn, and thereby acquire wisdom, love and strength.