Reincarnation Realities

By Phil Aghedo

When I met my husband, he had just been divorced. His wife had deserted him, leaving behind their two young children. Around the same time, he also lost his job. Now he had no wife, no job, and no money.

His life might have seemed miserable and uninviting to most young women. But despite all his troubles, I was attracted to him and wanted to marry him.

When my parents and friends discovered I was interested in this man, they were angry with me. Why would I want to marry an unemployed, divorced father of two?

Yet no matter how hard my friends and family tried to separate us, I was determined not to be dissuaded from this relationship. Each time I saw this man with his children, my heart melted. I had boundless love for him, and nothing people said could make me change my mind.

But their fears worried me. I began to wonder why I was so strongly attracted to this man and his children.

One night, the Inner Master gave me an answer. I had a dream where I was shown a vivid scene, as if I were watching a television show.

In the scene, there was a man and his wife with two little children. The husband and wife had a serious disagreement. Their argument led the wife to abandon her husband and children and get a divorce.

Filled with pity and compassion, I watched as the man struggled to raise his children alone. I blamed the wife for her callousness. Then the Inner Master spoke to me.

“You are the lady in that scene,” he said. In that lifetime, those two children were yours, and you abandoned them. Now they are back in your life, and you have the opportunity to give them the love you denied them in that previous incarnation.”

I awoke filled with shame for my reckless conduct in that lifetime. But I was grateful to the Mᴀʜᴀɴᴛᴀ for giving me an answer to my question. Now I knew why I had such love for this man and his children. We’d been together in a past life. This current lifetime held an opportunity to resolve the karma between all of us.

Eventually, my parents let go of their concerns, and we contracted our marriage a few months later. Today we are a happy family and have been blessed with more children. My husband’s new business is also flourishing.

I am grateful for this past-life dream from the Inner Master. It helped me see a greater truth about my relationship with my husband and his two children. It also showed me that all my experiences in life come from choices I made in the past.

Now I know that the relationships in my life are sacred opportunities to help me take another step on my journey home to God.

By Sri Harold Klemp

“Rose,” a woman from Germany, had a dream where she was at a great dance, but everything looked like it was from the early 1950s. The clothes, the people, the music, the decorations, even the very structure of the room—it was all from the early 1950s. It occurred to Rose that that was when she was born.

In the dream, Rose looked around for a partner. She was going to dance with her aunt. But her aunt was dancing with someone else, and she looked happy. So Rose looked for another partner. But everybody was already dancing.

In this lifetime, Rose has had a very difficult time with her mother. It’s been a rough road. They haven’t always seen eye-to-eye. Her mother would give very definite rules, and Rose would have to follow them. Rose didn’t like it, and this caused hard feelings.

In her dream, Rose looked along the wall. There, sitting on a chair all by herself, was her mother.

“I’ll go dance with her,” Rose decided. “She looks unhappy.”

She went over to her mother and asked if she’d like to dance. The mother said she’d love to. So they started dancing and, true to form, her mother said, “Straighten your shoulders. Put that arm up higher.” And other rules that a German mama might have for her child.

But Rose noticed that they danced together extremely well. In fact, it was the best she had ever danced. Rose admitted to not being a very great dancer out here in the physical world. But there, even with her mother, it was just wonderful.

Rose thought to herself, No one’s ever led me through a dance like this before.

When Rose awoke, she knew the meaning of the dream. Between lives, before this one, Rose had chosen that particular Soul to be her mother. Rose had said, “This is a onetime deal only, OK?” Rose knew she needed certain spiritual disciplines so that she could lead a safe and happy life and eventually find Eᴄᴋᴀɴᴋᴀʀ.

In a very special way, her mother led her to a very secure future and a good life. Rose is a happy woman now. She has a lot of zest for living. She accepts the blessings of the Holy Spirit with all her love and gratitude.

By Thomas Stemmer

It was an especially cold winter day. Temperatures were far below the freezing point, as I sat alone in the hospital waiting for my daughter to be born.

My wife had gone into labor, so we immediately took her to the hospital. Then the contractions suddenly stopped. We waited and waited for them to start again, but nothing happened. It seemed as if our baby had chosen to delay her entry into this life.

After a while, the doctors suggested we might want to go home and wait until my wife went back into labor.

We hesitated, wondering what we should do. It was so cold out, and the contractions could begin again at any moment. We decided to stay at the hospital, knowing we would probably be waiting a long time before the baby was born. Now I tried to relax in my chair as I waited for my wife to eventually return from behind one of the many hospital doors.

Suddenly, a clear scene opened up in my Spiritual Eye. I was surprised at what I saw!

A group of beings were standing together in the inner worlds. Intuitively, I understood these Souls were a circle of friends. There was a feeling of light happiness among them.

After a few moments, one of the Souls left the circle and began drifting downward, saying Good-bye! We will meet again in some eighty years or so!

Everybody was joyful and laughing as the Soul left the group, and then the scene faded from my inner eye.

No sooner had the scene ended than shouts began on the hospital floor. Everybody was running toward one of the rooms.

I followed them and soon discovered my wife had gone into labor. Fifteen minutes later, my daughter, Olga, was born.

I had received a special gift. I was so grateful and honored to have the opportunity to witness that Soul’s farewell from the inner worlds who is now my precious daughter!

By Sri Harold Klemp

Sometimes we don’t understand that the tragedy we face has all kinds of experiences involved—if we handle it a certain way, we will end a chain of karma that has probably been going on for centuries. We will resolve a debt that needs to be repaid before one of the individuals involved can gain spiritual freedom.

A man in Africa was deeply saddened one day when his young daughter died suddenly. The mother had taken the child to the hospital, but it hadn’t been for any great illness. Suddenly, because a wrong inoculation was administered by the head nurse, his daughter had passed over to the other side.

As a father, he was very distraught, and he asked the owner of the hospital and the head nurse to come and explain why his daughter was gone. What had they done?

“We didn’t do anything,” they said. “It was just a certain medicine that didn’t work.”

But the man wasn’t satisfied with that. He was so distraught when the nurse told him of his daughter’s death that he just wanted to hit her in anger and frustration.

The day of the funeral arrived. All the neighbors in the community came. The link between families is very strong in some of these communities, and the community came to help him bury his dead child.

But as they stood by the grave, they saw a beautiful golden butterfly hovering over the crowd. Then it flew away. As the father looked closer at the dirt around the grave, he saw a caterpillar. He realized that Soul going into a higher state is like the caterpillar transforming into a butterfly.

While this was going on, he also saw white-and-blue birds—about a dozen of them—flying in a circle right above the crowd.

Yet through all this, he was very upset. He went home, wrapped himself in a sheet, and began to cry and cry. He said, “Mᴀʜᴀɴᴛᴀ, why have you allowed my daughter to leave like this?”

Soon he fell asleep. While he was asleep, the Mᴀʜᴀɴᴛᴀ came to him and said, “Have you learned nothing from the ECK teachings? Have you learned nothing? My son, I have tried to teach you, and yet you carry on like a child.”

Suddenly, the scene changed and a room appeared. There was his daughter. She came running up to him and hugged him. After he had hugged her a little while, she began squirming and wanted to get down and run off and play.

The Mᴀʜᴀɴᴛᴀ said to the father, “Just wait a minute. I want to show you something. Please hold your daughter.”

A TV appeared on the wall. A movie began to play. The Master said, “We are now going back to the Oracle at Delphi.” As they watched, a scene appeared. Five warriors were in mortal combat. Two of the warriors were the parents of this girl, and this little girl was also fighting. In the scene she was a very strong man. The warrior had taken the life of two other warriors. But then the two warriors who were the husband and wife finally overcame this warrior who was very strong.

The Mᴀʜᴀɴᴛᴀ explained, “In that lifetime, your daughter was the very strong warrior and killed these other two warriors in battle. One of the warriors is the owner of the hospital. The other is the head nurse. If you had struck the head nurse in the hospital, she would have died and this would have extended the karma for another round.”

“The only way this karma could resolve,” the Mᴀʜᴀɴᴛᴀ told him, “was for your young daughter to pay it back here, so she could be released from her last life on this earth.”

Then the father realized that this collection of characters—himself, his wife, his daughter, the owner of the hospital, and the head nurse—weren’t just casual strangers. They had been together before, and they had hurt each other. In this experience, the entire karmic chain was broken. It allowed the daughter to move forward spiritually and never have to return to this earth.

His daughter was now so full of light and happiness. The Master said, “This is how you knew her, and that’s why she has appeared to you in this form.” The daughter could now go on to higher, happier places.

Once he saw and understood this, the man woke up and told his grieving wife the story. They could still grieve the absence of their child, but now they could also understand why this apparent injustice had to occur to their daughter. The man realized it wasn’t injustice at all, but perfect justice.

In ECK we realize that whatever we face—the good karma as well as the bad, the up wave and the down wave—is here only to make us a more experienced Soul who will one day become a full Coworker with God.