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Hello, my friend and fellow seeker. I'm so happy you're here. Today we're delving into the big topic of past lives.

So we'll be covering past life trauma, symptoms and indicators that you might have unresolved

issues from past lives, and how the Akashik records are one of the most ideal tools for

healing these kinds of issues.

So let's start at the beginning, as I always like to say,

by getting on the same page. Obviously, the assumption that underlies this whole episode is that

there is such a thing as reincarnation, that there is a soul beyond the physical body, a soul that is

eternal and infinite, and that when we come to the end of

a specific incarnation in a human body, we leave that body behind and return to non-physical form.

So we return to an infinitely expansive and eternal realm where we don't need bodies, we don't need money, we don't need cars,

thank God, and we also don't need our human egos. This episode also rests on the assumption

that there is such a thing as a wheel of reincarnation or a process of reincarnation through which our souls help us grow and develop

and shift to higher and higher levels of evolution and ultimately higher and higher levels of

unconditional love. For me, the process of reincarnation and spiritual evolution is really about clearing out and undoing anything that might block us from freely experiencing and giving and receiving unconditional love.

Of course, each of us also has more specific and pointed missions or purposes as we are incarnated in human bodies for each one of our lifetimes.

But the general or broader mission, I believe, is to move closer and closer to this state of unconditional love and complete non-judgment of ourselves and others.

Another important assumption that will help us get on the same page is that our souls,

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