Dr. Michael Newton, Life Between Lives

After reading the histories in Dr. Newton's three books, written for people like you and me, the conclusion that you've been given proof, not only of life after death, many lives after many deaths, in a God-centered universe, is unavoidable.

An organized, if incredibly complex all-encompassing reality comes into view. The logic of how the time spent between lives is experienced is consistent with longheld insights taught by spiritual teaches for thousands of years. The revelations fit neatly into Carl Jung's writing about symbols and transcendence. And it doesn't disrupt anything, except the belief, sternly held by some, that there is no God and that your trust in an eternal soul is wishful fantasy. 

Concisely, what Dr. Newton and associates have discovered time and again, working with clients from all sorts of backgrounds in many different communities, is a deeply embedded foundation of "who we are," for lack of a better term, an eternal place where we are always conscious and aware, before taking a physical form or after having left it. We come from there, and we always return.

The sheer volume of recorded sessions with Dr. Newton and his colleagues and their subjects,  their consistency, is remarkable. Everyone, it seems, can go deeply enough to touch base and learn about their mission or purpose and, often, heal.

The most difficult challenge for grappling with understanding about life between lives is that we are physical beings trying to get a grip on a universe without physical anchors. In describing their experience in a completely different world, Dr. Newton's subjects solve the problem of description by conjuring a physical environment that resembles the one from which they've regressed.

One element in this that initially made me, among others, uncomfortable was the description of souls between lives attending "classrooms" for learning lessons drawn from their past lives and gearing up for the next. Clearly, a nonphysical universe would be without classrooms. But then, how else could his clients or anyone else describe what was happening? They reach for the next proximate physical thing. 

Another issue that came up for me as I was into the third of his books, this one only edited by Dr. Newton, the stories offered by his colleagues with their clients from around the world, was that every story was problem related. Because the people regressed through hypnosis had mostly come looking for solutions for personal and physical problems, this tended to make the stories more like case studies about people in trouble or who were hurting. What about people like me who find our current incarnations a joy, a rich collection of adventures and reflections? 

Well, people like me are unlikely to show up for psychological counseling of any kind, hypnotherapy or anything else. If nothing's broke, why would we fix it? I assume we're a small minority of those who end up benefiting from life between lives regression therapy, and that makes the slant of Dr. Newton's books a little different than a random sampling. 

The stories do have happy endings or at least feature personal revelations impossible to achieve without insights gained through regression. So, they make uplifting reading as people make more of their present after excavating lessons from the past.

For most of my life, I've had the intuition that the world we live in and every object in it, including us, is a vast complex symphony searching for harmonic convergences. Although as far as I know Dr. Newton has never shared a similar idea, it's what I get when I step back and take in all that we learn from his books. 

For me, it's extremely satisfying in a way that religion never has been.

We have our own song to sing, our own message to carry, our mission to accomplish. That's what I've thought, and the research into life between lives has confirmed it. But a caution remains:

There is no way that we've seen the whole picture, even in the mountain of evidence we're given in these books. We're given just enough to spike our apetites for more. If each life is a journey, it's a challenge too. Our fulfillment increases the harmony, and the better we're tuned, the more we help those around us.

A Continuum of Alliances

The most interesting piece of evidence we pick up from the stories is how our lives are mingled with those of others through time. Not only are we loved members of soul families, we also enjoy alliances with specific members in a continuum without the limits of time.

In our time between lives, when we gear up for the next incarnation, we reach agreements with partners with whom we've shared other lives about the roles we'll play in the next one. Except in the physical time when memories of past lives are filtered out, we neither gain not lose loved ones. They are with us when we take the next physical form, and they are there to meet us when we return.

We have dedicated guides (probably the source of legends about angels) who are with us to help us learn and find our way in the physical world. They come for us when it's time to go, but more important, while we are here, they communicate with us in many ways and help create the conditions and resources that help us along our spiritual paths.

This all too brief overview, I hope, whets your appetite for more. More learning, more of knowing ourselves, helps us all.