Diving into the Afterlife
By Deborah Bromley, Certified LBL Hypnotherapist, UK
Karin contacted me from Switzerland to arrange a Life-Between-Lives regression. She planned to travel to the UK for a week-long course at the Arthur Findlay College (for the advancement of Spiritualism and Psychic Sciences), then round off her trip with her own LBL experience. Karin told me that she worked as a psychotherapist in her own thriving Geneva-based practice, and her emerging skills in mediumship were proving invaluable in her work with clients. She would be seeking information about the events in her life, including understanding past relationships, and she expressed a profound desire to experience life as a soul and meet with the other souls in her group.
Karin and I enjoyed a long telephone conversation prior to her visit, and we agreed that her planned course in mediumship would provide a fascinating background to her LBL session. Karin’s information about her life described her many and varied human relationships. Some of them were abusive and some were unconventional. She wanted further information about her soul relationship with her husband, whom she believed was connected with her spiritual awakening.
Karin arrived fresh from her course and explained that it had been very intense. Her understanding about spirit world communication had been tested. She then went on to explain how, during the course, spirits gave her images and feelings to interpret and put into human words that made sense. It was this part of her course that she had found so challenging. I told her I hoped her LBL experience, deep in trance, would help her to understand more about the way her own guide wanted to communicate with her.
Karin regressed to a vivid past life around the 1900s and found that she had married an educated man. She had two young children and worked in a laundry. Although the work was hard, she knew it had to be done to put bread on the table. Her husband in that life reminded her of her current husband. She worried about her children.
At age 35, she passed over, sick from a disease of the lungs. She died, afraid for the future of her children but trusting that her husband would care for the family.
Client (C): I can breathe again (with a sigh of relief). My husband is so sad. I am worried for my youngest son, he is too sheltered, too much in his world. When I was alive, I felt I had to protect him all the time.
Therapist (T): Do you want to visit your family and comfort them before you leave?
C: I have to go from behind, so they can feel me better. They are sad. I take energy from the heart and try to push it into them, into the energy around them. I am trying to comfort my younger son, to send him some healing energy, to put energy around him, to lighten him.
Karin spends some minutes explaining how she attracts her family’s attention by shuffling objects around the house, beaming energy at their backs and sending them soothing images. When she is happy she has comforted them, she tells me she is ready to go.
C: I feel like I am flying. It’s like being in the sky. It’s dark. I know I am moving in the right direction. I feel pulled towards something, like when you are diving and the current pushes you towards something. I feel like I’m going through layers … I am floating away. I know I am going home.
Karin then describes resting in an energy spa where she recharges herself. Her guide, Amon, has come for her.
C: He is wearing a purplish celestial robe. He has a golden medal with a triangle on it around his neck. It means I have achieved something in this life. He is carrying books again. He is pushing us to study. He is walking now, and I am following him. He walks fast. He is taking me to my group. My soul group is in a study, a classroom, with lots of books and energy.
Karin’s main questions relate to knowing and understanding the other souls in her group and those she is working with in her current life. Possibly because of these questions, her parents quickly appear and reveal their characters. Her father is like “the scientist” of their group, experimenting with light, colours and shapes. Her mother, however, comes in from another group.
C: She was to make me understand about being alone. My life is to be alone. I am not supposed to be with somebody/someone. In my former life, my husband was the clever one. I wasn’t educated. In my current life, I have to shine by myself and be independent.
T: Who else do you recognise in your group?
C: My elder brother is here. He was my young child in that past life. He’s looking at worlds, different worlds and planets. He is trying to put things together so they fit. He has a very, very wide vision. Working on these planets and how they fit together. It is not just Earth, it is others. It is more the universe; something we have to do together, to make it expand. He works with another group as well … in fact he is from another group.
My friend Paula is also here. She is like a ball of energy going on all senses. A profound, soft purple and green energy. She pushes me (in my current life); knows how to press my buttons. I was sensitive and I didn’t know what to do. Paula is here to increase my sensitive side; we agreed on that (before I reincarnated). She does well. She is so clever. When she reads books, she doesn’t need to read them … she is feeding on what is in the books.
T: Is your husband there?
C: Yes, he is here. We have reversed our roles from that past life. Now I am the decider, the boss. He says I make him laugh. He is pushing me to dare to do things, to try out new things, to be myself. It is really what this is about. About what he gets from it. When I am opening, he is opening as well. He is learning strength, but in another way. He’s absorbing things passively. His energy is very firm. He is very reliable but he takes duty too much to his heart and needs to learn more about shining.
Karin then sees her close friend and colleague, Sarah. They are an energetic team who work together.
C: She is happy to see me. She has a yellow-striped energy. She is the studious one. She studies books all the time, like she does on Earth. She is taking my hand, and wants to show me everything she’s been doing. Come on, girl, relax (I tell her)! She’s into the healing of people and plants. She is finding new ways of healing the world, trying new things, with sounds, energies, colors. She is fun. In my current life, she is always finding new things for me to do. I do one of them, and then I get very involved in it. Sarah is like a butterfly, trying 1,000 things all the time.
Then Karin reviews her own role on Earth. In discussions with Amon (guide) she comes to understand what work she is involved with.
C: I am more attached to Earth than the rest of the group. I am attached to the health of the Earth. The mineral and the animal kingdom. I’d really like things to get better. Things go wrong (on Earth), and I am trying to fix it in some way. It’s dying. Plants and animals are not going to last longer in the environment they are in. The Earth is changing. It cannot go on like this. We (our group) are working hard on these healing things. Material that could grow and stay there. A new life form that would fit in. Not new material, but something that could thrive at a higher level, because this (our current world) is not going well. My father is trying to put energy into things. We are all working on the same thing, really. We are also trying to find things from other planets that could help. We have to accelerate things on Earth… the chaos (happening on Earth) is meant to shake everything up. If we communicate better and relate more to one another, free will has less power, and will be less destructive. Amon says we are trying to sort it out but maybe also prepare as well for another kind of life.
When Karin has greeted the other members of her group she travels with Amon to a green space by a lake to discuss her work in this life and gain answers to her questions.
C: Amon says I need to open up. I can be too focused. He’s been trying to get me to open up and glue things together in my role as healer so I can move faster. My goal in this life is definitely to be independent, and also stick to what I want to do. To decide on my own.
T: Do you have any clarity about mixing psychotherapy with your spiritual channeling work?
C: When I am building things, designing for a better Earth planet, they have a mind of their own. So I also need to really understand what I am doing. This is to help me and our group to work on better species. Species more compatible with Earth’s destiny.
This work is also reflected in my relationships in this life. It is all about learning independence. My difficult relationships have helped to make the link about what energy is stored in the body when relationships are negative. What I learned helps me in my psychotherapy practice. In my work with my soul group, I need to take a step higher. I am the shyest one.
T: Can you explain how your mediumship fits?
C: Mediumship is not only about healing us, but also about healing the people who are deceased. When we give a voice to someone who is deceased, we heal the spiritual world as well. The spirits are trying to help the people here, and when they do that, they get something back (in return). It’s about healing our soul in the spirit world.
My guide says I could use the mediumship and psychotherapy the way I already do. But I need to take it one step further, presenting it wider, perhaps through platform work. I feel like I have to start small, but also to open my mouth more. I have to do that now.
We then move to the Council chamber where Karin meets the members of her Council of Elders who oversee her progress. This part of the session is very lively, with differing views from different members. The final message to her is to be more daring and take more risks with her work. They then show her an image of ISSNOE in Geneva, a local organization researching altered states of consciousness. Karin is encouraged to understand that this might be a way to expand her mediumship and connect with like-minded people.
She witnesses her reaction in the Place of Life Selection to potential bodies/lives for her current incarnation, and she agrees that her current body and mind suit her, the quick mind and the way she perseveres with things.
Karin completes her LBL session with some interesting recreational time with her group, playing as if they were scuba diving (one of Karin’s interests in her current life).
She says goodbye to her guide, and they share some final advice about her remaining challenges for this life.
Karin’s session fulfilled all the main points she had asked for with lots of details and interesting communication between her soul and those members of her group that she is currently working with. She received sound confirmation that she is on the right track, building her conventional psychotherapy work and allowing her spiritual work to flourish.
Her powerful descriptions about healing the Earth planet, and researching solutions from other planets so Earth can thrive in the future were a reminder that there is always much work for all souls to do.
Several weeks after her LBL session Karin contacted me with a transcript of it. This provided a level of detail that has allowed her to analyse what she had said during the session. The LBL validated her purpose as a healer, so she now feels entitled to use her intuition and spirit sensitivity in her psychotherapeutic work, and keeps on communicating with her guide, Amon. Nearly three years later, when I contacted her for permission to publish her experience, Karin tells me her psychotherapy practice is thriving and that she has opened up a second practice as a medium. She no longer worries about the meaning of her life or of her relationships. She feels reassured she’s fulfilling her soul’s purpose. ♥
Deborah Bromley is a certified LBL Hypnotherapist practicing in Bedford, UK
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