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The roots of our present status-heredo-familial and social as well as the capabilities or limitations-physical, mental or spiritual inhered in our present life -- are traceable to our attitude and actions adopted during our previous births.
In chapter 3 reference has already been made to Dr. Edith Fiore the psychotherapist who, using hypnosis as a psychotherapeutic tool, arrived at the theory of reincarnation. In this regard she says,
In my work reincarnation theory, I am finding that there is not one aspect of character or human behaviour that cannot be better understood through an examination of past-life events. My patients and subjects have gone into previous existences to find the sources of their talents, skills, interests, strengths and weaknesses as well as specific symptoms and problems. The tapestry of our life is woven with threads that are ancient and the pattern is complex. 35
Dick Sutphen, one more research worker, who has written about ten books on the subject and has conducted age-regression experiments on television, says,
Today's situation could be explained by what happened yesterday. Or, to put it another way, because of 'cause and effect' which is Karma .... the effects you are feeling now, both positive and negative, are the results of causes from this life-time or from previous life-times. The seeds (cause) you are sowing now will bring forth the effects yet to come in this lifetime or future life-times.
Your entire life--your mental state, your health, your relationships with others, the money that you have or haven't made--all are effects, but somewhere in your
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