Dance With Me
By Jonathan Yorks M.A., LMFT, CHt
Certified Life Between Lives Hypnotherapist, USA
“Dance with me. I want to be your partner can’t you see… let it lift you off the ground, starry eyes and Love Is All Around Us, I can take you where you want to go.” Orleans, American Pop Group, 1975
When I heard that the topic of our March issue was going to be, Love Is All Around Us, this song from my adolescence came to my mind. At the time, my hormonally charged adolescent mind took the lyrics of one person asking another to dance to be a metaphor for sex. Yet now, more than forty-five years later as I listened to the song again I heard it differently. This time I thought about Source, God, All That Is, whatever name we give to the field that generates our existence as souls, singing to us, reminding us to dance with IT. Partnership is woven into the fabric of our existence. When we bring our mind and hearts to the knowing that Love IS All Around Us, we partner with Life Its Self. It’s like a first step into spiritual presence. When you see that love is all around you then and only then, I can take you where you want to go. Love is the only way you get there. Makes sense to me.
“Come with Me to the Sea of Love,” Roosevelt Sykes, Blues Musician
In 2005, I trained with a precursor of the Michael Newton Institute, called the Society for Spiritual Regression. During the weeklong intensive the participants had to facilitate and receive a Life Between Lives Regression. It was an experience in my personal regression I’d like to share. I called it the Place of Oneness. It felt like a pool I was submerged within that allowed me to drop my ego nature as a soul, to feel totally self-less. Yet, what struck me most about my experience was the feeling I had while I floated in this field of energy. It was the feeling of unconditional love that went through every fiber of my being. It felt different than the atmospheric love of the spiritual plane. It felt like an energy that first washed over me and then permeated and filled me. I could feel the vibration in my physical body and an opening in my chest. As I felt ego-less I came to see that all that has challenged me, people who have opposed me, have done so because they love me. They are my spiritual kin, allies rooting for me to grow. They MUST play their roles for me to grow as a soul as I must for them. I’ve mentioned this in my other articles. We can give no greater love to one another than to be each other’s Judas.
“That which seemingly opposes me is actually participating in my growth and evolution, in my spiritual resurrection.” The Judas Principle of Life
During the time of the Messianic Age in Jerusalem two-thousand years ago, each sect of Judaism was promoting their messiah as the one messiah. Those who preached a messianic message that did not have followers were left alone as they were no threat to Roman rule and governance. Yet, the preachers that had amassed a following of believers were a threat to Roman occupation. These supposed messiahs were arrested, tried, and crucified. Many supposed messiahs, each with a propaganda machine behind them of performing miracles, were killed during this time. Yet, only one in the story proved to be the true messiah, the son of God. Only one character in the tale resurrected. It was through the resurrection of the character Jesus that distinguished him from all other supposed messiahs of that time. It proved his God-Self. Yet, he is not the hero of the tale, Judas is. He took on the role of the oppositional persona for the fulfillment of the drama. Without Judas, there is no Jesus resurrecting, and thus, no Christian movement arising from Judaism. Whether or not this story is fantasy, history, or allegory, its lesson is no less valuable. In order to evolve as a soul, to spiritually resurrect within your lifetimes, you, like all souls, will be faced with times of challenge, conditions of hardship, and people of opposition. When and how are you to know that all is lovingly participating with you to grow your spiritual nature as you had requested and planned? You need a Judas to love you enough to do that.
Namaste’,
I see you as the divine being that you are in the divine journey you are on, in the divine moment we are in, for whatever divine reason we are here to help each other grow. I may not like the feeling I have in relation to you, but I value there is meaning here for me and once I see the meaning I find gratitude for you, for without you I do not grow as I have intended, thank you, Namaste’.
I’ve often reflected on the word Namaste’. It’s a beautiful word. It is pleasant to the ears. Its definition is I bow to the Divine in you. Yet, what does that mean? How do I translate this into an understanding that I can apply it to my life? As I’ve learned and grown as Jonathan, I’ve come to live through a recognition that whatever is taking place in my life is divinely driven, spiritually inspired, and agreed upon by me, for me to grow. What has been essential for me to live through this viewpoint and recognize it in the moment is the meaning I apply to the word, Namaste’. It is a word that encapsulates all that is expressed above. When I bring to my awareness through the meaning I have placed on the word Namaste’, it alters my perception and shifts my mood. It reminds me of our journey as souls and the love we have for one another. As Life Between Lives Regression Therapists, we commonly hear that the spiritual dimension is a place that permeates the feeling of love. I get what they mean. For me during my Life Between Lives Regression, it felt like Love is the atmospheric condition of the spiritual dimension that shapes and forms the spiritual plane. It also made me think how we, as souls, are creatures of this dimension, and therefore, beings of love. So, how come beings of love would incarnate into life forms that are capable of hating? We do so to show our love for each other, of course. In my mind I can see me as a soul before my lifetime as Jonathan putting out a request for souls who will challenge me to grow; souls that would risk developing negative karma with me that may require lifetimes to work through together. It is the souls who would take such a chance with me, put their trust in me to grow, that I know are the ones that love me. In my human life, when I am challenged by people, events, conditions, you name it, I smile inside and give them the Namaste’. Thank you for loving me.
“There is the kind of relationship involving love which is so deep that both partners genuinely don’t see how each could live without the other. This is a mental and physical attraction which is so strong neither partner doubts that they are meant for each other.” Dr. Michael Newton, Journey of Souls, pg. 250.
In my work as a Regression Therapist and Spiritual Counselor, I see many people who question the nature of love between souls. Some people are in relationships that profess love, but are occupied with conflict, while others have yet to find love in their lives and deeply feel its absence. Yet, the couples that come through my door, that I perceive as genuine soulmates as described by Dr. Newton above, are few and far between. When I have met couples that are soulmates, I find them to be grounded people that exhibit a joyful and playful nature to life. To me, it is the effect of feeling that at your core you are safe and supported. If they have conflict in their lives, it is not between each other. For theses souls whose attraction is based on a profound love, it’s loss that scares them most.
Recently, I had a client who lost her soulmate unexpectedly to a heart ailment after 25 years of marriage. My client described their relationship as one of loving bliss that started from the first time they met in high school. She stated she and her spouse were inseparable throughout their time together spending all their free moments with each other right up to the time he passed. It had been sixteen months since my client had lost her husband when she came to see me, which isn’t very long to grieve considering their bond. She was raising a fifteen-year-old daughter and was concerned because she still felt wounded by her loss and had difficulty functioning. As she declined, her relationship with her daughter did, too. She reported her grieving felt more pronounced now than it had been since she first lost her husband, and she wanted to know why she wasn’t getting over it. It was in her Life Between Lives Regression where she realized that love is all around her.
My client crossed from a past life of a Jewish Holocaust survivor who lost her husband and children during World War II. She survived the war hoping to be reunited with her family, but never was. She moved to the United States and married a man she did not love out of necessity. She had a child with her second husband that died of illness at age ten. She lived a fairly long life, which she described as filled with heartache and pain. When she died my client left with tremendous guilt for surviving her children and never loving her second husband. When my client crossed into the spiritual dimension she was surprised to see a large group of souls waiting for her. She reported she was usually greeted by her guide when she returned from her lifetimes, a deep blue light male figure she called Tay, and that this greeting with so many souls was unusual. As my client was surrounded by the souls greeting her, she let out a heavy sigh and started to cry. When asked what was taking place my client said this,
“I feel an overwhelming sense of love and support coming from my group. They are filling me with a feeling of how loved I am. I feel unconditional acceptance and love from them. They’re letting me know they’re always with me. I am never alone. I see my children and husband [from recent past life]. It’s Eric [husband from present life]! They’re hugging me. I can feel their forgiveness and love for me. (Sobbing) Eric’s reminding me that we chose this life and that he would leave first, but our daughter would remain. My test is to not be so lost in grief that I abandon my child, which I have done [emotionally]. When I overcome my grief, the problems I have with Elisa [daughter] will get better. (Deep sigh) I am always loved and supported. Okay, I can go on now…”
What my client was referring to was she was ready to go further into her LBL. She came in fearful she was carrying too much grief for a successful LBL. She did wonderfully and from her LBL she came to discover lifetimes where she had abandoned others, mostly for survival. This, her guide helped her see when processing her recent past life, explained the heightened feeling of survivor's guilt she has in her present life. After coming out of her LBL, my client stated she was surprised at how emotional she was and how much she felt it in her body. What my client had yet to know, and for all of us who have had Life Between Lives Regressions can tell you, just as much as the LBL itself, the after session processing and integration period is where the work deepens its effect. So, after about 3-4 weeks I schedule a post-LBL process session with my clients to get their feedback and answer any questions they may have. When I spoke with this client, she told me her LBL had a profound impact on her grief. She reported that her grieving had lessened and that she still felt the love and support from her soul group and late husband. She said her relationship with her daughter had improved as she is more emotionally present for her. She stated she holds in her heart the feeling she received when being greeted by her soul group and family upon return from her most recent past life. Before ending a post-LBL chat I always ask my clients the one take away they received from their LBL. This client said to me, “I’m not alone…I have love around me.”
Yes, we do 🙂 ♥
Jonathan Yorks is an LBL practitioner in Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, USA and online worldwide.