PAST LIVES, FUTURE LIVES REVEALED Dr. Bruce Goldberg NEW PAGE BOOKS A division of The Career Press, Inc. Franklin Lakes, NJ A1title cip.pmd 1 2/3/2004, 12:21 PM Copyright 2004 by Dr. Bruce Goldberg All rights reserved under the Pan-American and International Copyright Conventions. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or hereafter invented, without written permission from the publisher, The Career Press. PAST LIVES, FUTURE LIVES REVEALED Cover design by Cheryl Cohan Finbow Printed in the U.S.A. by Book-mart Press To order this title, please call toll-free 1-800-CAREER-1 (NJ and Canada: 201-848-0310) to order using VISA or MasterCard, or for further information on books from Career Press. The Career Press, Inc., 3 Tice Road, PO Box 687, Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417 www.careerpress.com www.newpagebooks.com Goldberg, Bruce, 1948- Past lives, future lives revealed / by Dr. Bruce Goldberg p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-56414-739-8 (pbk.) 1. Reincarnation therapy. 2. Reincarnation therapy—Case studies. 3. Autogenic training. I. Title. RC489.R43G643 2004 616.89’14—dc22 2003070221 A1title cip.pmd 2 2/3/2004, 12:21 PM Hypnosis Exercises 3 Dedication This book is dedicated to my thousands of patients who have been kind enough to share their past and future lives with me, without which this book would not have been possible. In addition, I dedicate this book to the Universal Laws, which, when followed, allow us all to grow and eventually ascend. Acknowledgments I would like to thank Michael Lewis, Acquisitions Editor of New Page Books, for his interest and assistance in bringing this book to the public. In addition, my heart- felt gratitude goes out to my editor, Nicole DeFelice. Without her experience and detailed supervision, this book’s final form would be quite different. Finally, I can- not express enough appreciation to my typist, Marianne Colasanti, for her tireless efforts and spiritual support. A2dedi.pmd 3 2/3/2004, 12:21 PM This page intentionally left blank Contents Introduction.......................................................................................................... 7 Chapter 1: My Mission ......................................................................... 15 Chapter 2: The Big Picture ........................................................22 Chapter 3: A Past Life in the Amazon.....................29 Chapter 4: A Documented Case of Reincarnation ................................................................................. 42 Chapter 5: Roots, Caribbean Style ............................... 56 Chapter 6: A Nymphomaniac’s Past Life .............. 69 Chapter 7: Hysterical Blindness and a Past Life in the London 8lums ....................... 84 Chapter 8: Anorexia Nervosa: Self-Punishment for Her Last Life ...................................92 Chapter 9: The 800-Year-Old Synchronicity.............................................................................................101 Chapter 10: Subpersonalities as Past Life Carryovers ..................................................................... 118 A3 TOC.pmd 5 2/3/2004, 12:21 PM Chapter 11: The “Light” People............................................. 123 Chapter 12: Seeing Into the Future ................................ 130 Chapter 13: The Future Lives of a TV Personality......................................................................146 Chapter 14: A Contaminated Future.......................... 160 Chapter 15: Past Life Therapy in the 22nd Century...................................................................... 188 Chapter 16: Time Travelers from Our Future................................................................................... 212 Chapter 17: A Future Life as a Time Traveler ...................................................................... 226 Chapter 18: Hypnosis Exercises ...........................................241 Conclusion...................................................................................................265 Notes .................................................................................................................... 272 Bibliography ................................................................................................274 Index...................................................................................................................... 277 About the Author ............................................................................. 283 A3 TOC.pmd 6 2/3/2004, 12:21 PM Introduction 7 Introduction Throughout this book, I will present cases of my patients who have seen their past and future lives. For those of you who as- sume a belief in reincarnation places you in the minority, think again. A recent Gallup poll showed that 58 percent of Americans accept the concept of reincarnation.1 We will also explore the concept of future lives and detail time travelers from our future who come back in time and interact with us. The concept of fragments of our own soul from past lives (subpersonalities) will be presented along with case histories. In order for you to experience these fascinating time ex- cursions, I present several hypnotic exercises to guide you back- ward and forward through time. There are many patterns we exhibit today that can easily be traced back to prior lifetimes. Obesity is often related to starvation in past lives. Desertion of a family member in centu- ries past can lead to an overprotective parent today. A fear of water today can result from a past life drowning. In addition, Egyptians cherish cats; a child killed by a bomb in World War II fears loud noises today; a man who was a celibate priest who always prayed for resistance to sexual urges during the Middle Ages is impotent today; and a woman who saw her children die of scarlet fever in the 19th century and swore she would never have another child is barren in the 21st century. 7 B0Intro.pmd 7 2/3/2004, 12:21 PM 8 Past Lives, Future Lives Revealed Those examples illustrate some of the principles of karma (cause and effect) and reincarnation. Let us explore this theory in detail with a case of male homosexuality I treated utilizing past life regression through hypnosis. A male homosexual came to my office with the desire to eliminate his previous sexual behavioral patterns. During a past life in ancient Rome as a female prostitute, he (as a she) very much enjoyed the work of sexually satisfying men. In another past life in England during the early 1800s, this male patient was again a female. His life was that of a shopkeeper’s wife. This was a hard life, as her husband was a cruel man who was selfish in bed and physically abused his wife. Having sex with him was more of “doing her duty.” The only solace she had in life was a lesbian relationship with a neighbor. In this life, she learned the pleasures of homosexual love, whereas her heterosexual relationship was completely unsatisfying. Within two months following therapy, this male patient broke up with his male lover and has since become engaged to a woman. Two years after this case was completed, a follow-up conversation with this patient revealed that he is very happy with his heterosexual relationship, and has had no relapses. This case is a wonderful example of past life therapy’s potential to resolve conflicts about sexuality. It is important to recognize that I did not advocate that this male patient should abandon being a practicing homosexual; the patient’s own desire was to alter his sexual behavior patterns. By exploring two of his past lives as a woman, my patient likely gained several valuable insights about himself with re- gard to his feelings toward both men and women. But even beyond the issue of sexual preference and gender identity, I believe this case has much to say to us about a soul’s desire to experience and advance through various social structures, which was an unspoken subtext to this man’s story. I think we can safely assume that the prostitute’s ability to satisfy men sexually, while psychologically empowering to her, B0Intro.pmd 8 2/3/2004, 12:21 PM Introduction 9 was associated with belonging to a taboo social class. By con- trast, the English shopkeeper’s wife, while likely enjoying the comforts and stature of belonging to a social class of greater prestige, was psychologically powerless in an unhappy mar- riage to an abusive man. To meet her sexual needs, she became engaged in a lesbian affair, embracing another kind of social taboo. It would appear that this soul had become well-skilled in the use of sex as the currency of relationships, along with gain- ing an understanding that women in any social class, be they prostitutes or housewives, are historically less powerful than men. By taking on a male body, this soul may have reasonably expected to continue climbing the ladder of social status that being male guaranteed. Because this soul had a pattern of living out sexual ta- boos, it is no surprise that he would, as a man, first adopt a homosexual lifestyle, for which men in our culture have his- torically suffered social discrimination. Given this soul’s steady social progression from lower class (prostitute) to middle class (shopkeeper’s wife), it is also logical that he would want to attain the more coveted, respected status of a male head-of- household, which, of course, required forming a heterosexual