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NEWS, VIEWS AND VISIONS FROM T.P.A.

SYRACUSE TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY ASSOCIATION...SYRACUSE, NEW YORK

TPA / P.O. BOX 122-TP / LIVERPOOL, NY 13088

FOUNDED 1979 www.tpasyracuse.yolasite.com IN THE SPIRIT

VOLUME 33 NUMBER 3 MARCH 2018

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Next Meeting:

April 21, 2018 "Answering Avalon's Call:

Honoring the Pilgrim's Path"

--Carol Ohmart

Past Life Regression

—Virginia R. Waldron, CH, CI

In order to properly understand what past life regression is, we must begin with a brief discussion about Karma and Rein-carnation. It is all part of the ‘flow chart’ of the Soul’s Journey. This will include the history and philosophy of the pre-existence of the soul, and how these be-

liefs and ideas have changed through history.

We will also discuss what part of our consciousness survives as we move through lifetimes, and how our past lives affect our current lifetime. Next we will ex-plore past life regression, as a healing modality, and how each lifetime adds another chapter to our soul's progression.

With the aid of tools such as hypnosis and age re-gression techniques, past life regression sessions explore individual past life journeys, how they con-nect with our current lifetime, along with other ques-tions such as why do we keep coming back, and what are the challenges and lessons we face in a given lifetime? With regression techniques, we can investigate the people in our lifetimes, who overlaps lifetime after lifetime, who are our soul mates, etc.? How do we help each other, how do we move through issues and challenges with the aid of our fellow companions, and what is it we come back, time after time, to work through, with a little help from our friends?

Virginia R. Waldron has been working with clients and teaching classes throughout the CNY area since 2000. She is a certified hypnotist through the Na-tional Guild of Hypnotists and a certified instructor through the NGH. She is also certified in past life repression and life between lives. She teaches clas-ses in Reincarnation, Karma, working with Guides and Angels, and Introductions to Meditation at the RoseHeart Center. To find out more or ask ques-tions, you can contact Virginia at email her at www.GateKeeperGuidance.com or gat-kepr@gmail.com..

www.TheRoseHeartCenter.com

Date: Saturday, March 24, 2018

Dinner: 6:00-7:00 Bring: Food/drink to

share.

Meeting/Announcements: 7:00

The Gift: 7:30

Place: Friends Meeting House

821 Euclid Avenue

Syracuse, NY 13210

315-476-1196

Directions: The Meeting House is be-

tween Maryland and Westcott on Euclid

Ave in the University area. It is located

directly across from the Westcott Com-

munity Center. Parking is available on-

the-street (follow the alternate street

parking rules). Limited parking is availa-

ble behind the Meeting house.

Meeting Fee: $5

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Could the answers to your current health be connected to your past life? Even if someone does not be-lieve in past lives, many clients are successful at resolving their issues following a session. For more on past life regression therapy, check out Ann Barham’s book, The Past Life Perspective: Discovering Your True Nature Across Multiple Lifetimes. Suppose you are hoping to get to the bottom of your anxiety and claustrophobia or a fear of being trapped. During a session, you might see yourself as a woman in the 1800s who had previously lost her baby. A therapist can help you connect the loss of a woman’s baby with his/her present day fears. Or suppose you realize that you are repeating a pattern over and over in your life, such as continually getting into relationships with women who are your social inferiors but seek to dominate you? That answer may often lie in a past life experience. Once the connection is made, the cur-rent pattern is easier to overcome. Past-life regression is typically undertaken either in pursuit of a spiritual experience, or in a psychotherapeutic setting. Most advocates loosely adhere to beliefs about reincarnation, The technique used during past-life regression involves the subject answering a series of questions while hypnotized to reveal identity and events of alleged past lives, Psychotherapy aims to improve an individual's well-being and mental health, to resolve or mitigate trouble-some behaviors, beliefs, compulsions, thoughts, or emotions, and to improve relationships and social skills. Psychotherapists may be mental health professionals such as psychiatrists, psychologists, clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists, or professional counselors. In ancient Indian literature, the Upanishads mention past-life regression. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

discuss the concept in greater detail. Written during the 2nd century BC, the Hindu scholar Pantanjali discussed the idea of the soul becoming burdened with an accu-mulation of impressions as part of the karma from previous lives. Patañjali called the process of past-life regression prati-prasav (literally "reverse birthing"), and saw it as addressing current problems through memories of past lives. Some types of yoga continue to use prati-prasav as a practice.

In the religious mythology of China the deity Meng Po, also known as the "Lady of Forgetfullness,” prevents souls from remembering their past lives: she gives them a bitter-sweet drink that erases all memories before they climb the wheel of reincarnation. In more modern times, it was the works of Madame Blavatsky co-founder of the Theosophical Society, which brought it a new found popularity in the 1800’s, especially in the West. French educa-tor Allan Kardec also researched into past life re-gression in The Spirits Book and Heaven and Hell. According to Brian Weiss (who studied at Columbia University and later graduated from the

Yale University School of Medicine in 1970, completing an internship in internal medicine at the New York Univ. Med. Center) in 1980 one of his patients, "Catherine", began discussing past-life experiences un-der hypnosis. Weiss did not believe in reincarnation at the time but, after confirming elements of Cathe-rine's stories through public records, came to be convinced of the survival of an element of the human per-sonality after death. Weiss claims he has regressed more than 4,000 patients since 1980. Weiss advo-cates hypnotic regression as therapy, claiming that many phobias and ailments are rooted in past-life ex-periences whose acknowledgment by the patient can have a curative effect. Weiss also writes about messages received from the "Masters", or "super-evolved, nonphysical souls", he claims to have communicated with through his subjects. Weiss has written many books but is especially known for his first: Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives.

Madame Blavatsky

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Gossamer Wood Update

Owner Bill Dewey has agreed to sell us Gossamer Wood, 9 acres of wooded trails in Canandaigua, NY (2235 Cty Rte 28) for $25,000. When I wrote about Gossamer Wood back in January there was no firm price set.

We ask that you please consider donating to our effort to buy the land and ensuring that it becomes a sacred pre-serve for all to enjoy for perpetuity. Make a tax-deductible donation online at, www.gossamerwood.org, or send a check payable to Jubilee Initiative and send it to:

Jubilee Initiative, c/o madis senner

321 Burns Ave

Syracuse, NY 13206

Gossamer Wood is one of the top places listed in my book Sacred Sites in North Star Country. It has an incredible vibe with all sorts of wonderful aspects of Mother Earth. This would be a great place to nourish your soul and raise your consciousness, as I mentioned in my January talk.

Gossamer is to be experienced and the grounds and trail system were designed with the spiritual aspirant in mind. I have been leading group meditations and nature walks to connect with Mother Earth there for over a decade. We have placed hundreds of stones on the ground to mark power spots and created stone structures as well.

There are so many locations to choose from—Fields of Consciousness, features in the Energy Plane, aspects of Mother Earth that deal with health and emotions—basically it is like a large candy store, only its not for kids; but for people that want to experience our Mother, have consciousness raising experiences, need healing, want to enhance their mood, have a deep cathartic cleansing, looking for answers/insights, want epiphanies, or just want to go on a wonderful mystical journey. I kid you not; there are a variety of stone circles, stone structures and single stones with specific purposes.

Ancient Sacred Pilgrimage Site

Gossamer has been a sacred site for millennia and contains several ancient stones and stone structures. Incredible that they have withstood the onslaught of modernity given that the area has been well farmed.

The black oblong marks the special aspect of Mother Earth found in the Women’s Circle. Notice how strategically well the rocks were placed over the aspect.

Not surprisingly there is a water dome underneath the Women’s Circle. A water dome forms in response to prayer and ceremony and is a very positive indication that the Women’s Circle was used for spiritual purposes. Positive intention draws water to the surface of the earth. When it meets an impediment a dome forms and water veins fracture from its side. Had it not met an impediment the water would surface to the earth as a holy spring.

We will have gatherings and educational programs at Gossamer Wood. For those interested from Syracuse TPA I would like to coordinate a day where several of you come at the same time, if you are interested email me at motherearthprayers@gmail.com. For more infor-mation go to, www.gossamerwood.org

Blessings, Madis

Kareen (l) and Brooke in the Women’s Circle

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Dear TPA:

We have received this message from Bob Yavitts:

Please send loving thoughts and healing light to my dear wife of 34 years, Betsy, who is struggling with ovarian cancer

We are following this up with our March 24 Closing Circle.

Please read below and join with us NOW in this HEALING INTENTION for Betsy.

CLOSING CIRCLE:

At this March 24th TPA meeting is offered by Joanne Verone and is dedicated to Betsy’s healing. Those of us who have been with Betsy at TPA meetings know of her kind heart, her warm personality and her amazingly friendly smile that light’s up a room! We invite all of us to begin right now to share our loving healing energy with her, our well wishes and our heartfelt intentions towards her healing. See Betsy perfectly healed and totally comfortable in her body. See Betsy with us celebrating Spring at upcoming future TPA meetings. Our love and gratitude to both Bob and Betsy for giving the best of their love to our AHP / TPA community for many years!

Mark Briggs / Evy Kenwood will host meeting

Nancy Gallagher will facilitate Community Meeting

Martin Otto will introduce Virginia (Kiki) Waldron

Joanne Verone will offer Closing Circle

Joe Thompson and ALL will help with Clean Up

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…….Annine Massaro delivered a very calming, yet powerful experience of the Native

American Medicine Wheel. She delivered “good medicine” in the form of gentle words

leading us into a meditation. Sage was used to smudge us. Tobacco and other cleans-

ing materials were passed around our large circle. The healing

journey we were guided to seemed to trans-

form us gently into a more satisfied state of

mind. She shared with us some of the trau-

mas she experienced early in life and how

her later practices with herbal medicines

and other forms of holistic healing enabled

her to live more wholly and positively.

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You will notice that those who speak most of prosperity, have it. Those who speak most of health, have it.

Those who speak most of sickness, have it. Those who speak most of poverty, have it. It is Law. It can be

no other way… The way you feel is your point of attraction, and so, the Law of Attraction is most under-

stood when you see yourself as a magnet getting more and more of the way you feel. When

you feel lonely, you attract more loneliness. When you feel poor, you attract more poverty. When you

feel sick, you attract more sickness. When you feel unhappy, you attract more unhappiness. When

you feel healthy and vital and alive and prosperous—you attract more of all of those things.

Excerpted from The Law of Attraction, The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham on 7/1/06

Love

Esther (Abraham and Jerry)

TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY ASSN.

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