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Karma and the Lost Child
By Dr. Michael Newton
FATE :: December 2004

Brenda, a woman in her 40s, was crying softly in my office. A mother of three daughters, she had come to me seeking help for a family dilemma: “I have always suspected that my middle daughter, Kathleen, was switched by mistake in the hospital nursery room. She could not be more different from her sisters because she is so hateful to me. My oldest and youngest are dream children with their love and consideration toward my husband, Bob, and me. From the day Kathleen was born she did not seem to bond with us. I have tried to be a good mother. We have worked so hard to treat Kathleen with the same devotion as we give to her sisters. However, her rage has caused me endless pain and today we hardly speak to each other.”

Before I retired, my counseling psychology practice centered on the specialized use of life-between-lives hypnotherapy. FATE readers may remember from my previous articles that over many years I developed a deep trance technique called spiritual regression. This hypnosis methodology assists us in recovering our immortal soul memories about our life in the spirit world.

Brenda came to me as a client because traditional therapeutic treatment for Kathleen’s negative behavior patterns was not progressing. A friend of Brenda’s told her about my work, and out of desperation she called for an appointment.

Middle children are often characterized as being overly ambitious, self-protective, rebellious, and envious of their siblings. However, to fully understand these family dynamics one needs to know about the souls involved. Siblings often have certain genetic predispositions toward shared personality traits, but each child has their own soul identity. The duality of egos between the soul and the human brain plays an important role psychologically in determining human behavior. In my experience, the behavior of some severely disturbed people is a consequence of negative factors relating to the melding of soul and brain. Getting to the root of the underlying problem of family dysfunction involves an exploration of past lives and particularly our life between lives. It is here that souls make decisions about what bodies they will occupy in the next life. Above all, one must take into account the issue of karmic influence. This information would prove to be vital in Brenda’s case.

Karma has been misunderstood by many people. Too often, it is looked upon as punitive action for earlier misdeeds by souls in other lives and nothing more. In our culture, karma is frequently seen as moralistic retribution, when in fact it represents an opportunity to learn and grow from our experiences over many lives. We always have free will in making choices. Karma is the cause and effect of our deeds involving memory, desire, and action. In our spiritual life we evaluate what we have done as physical beings and are given assistance in the selection of our next body to help bring balance and harmony to future incarnations. Karma essentially involves the development of our soul.

Brenda’s feelings of helplessness about her daughter Kathleen were manifested by calling her “my lost child.” I told my client to have faith that her spirit guide would allow the memories to unfold that would unlock the mystery of Kathleen’s anger and dysfunction. Before taking clients into the spirit world, I use age regression to visit their most immediate past life (or another significant life) and then employ a death scene to mentally take them across. When I placed Brenda in hypnosis, she described a former life on the American frontier where she had lived in a log cabin. After her death, we entered Brenda’s life between lives where the following dialogue (condensed for this article) came to light ...

Read the rest of this article in the December 2004 issue of FATE

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