A Soul's Journey

A Soul’s Journey

Empowering the Present

Through Past Life Regression

By Jeanne Avery

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A Soul’s Journey © 2004 Jeanne Avery. Originally published by Boru Books in 1996. Republished by Paraview Special Editions in 2004.

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Library of Congress Catalog Number: 2004100168

OTHER BOOKS BY JEANNE AVERY

Astrology and Your Past Lives

Astrology and Your Health

Past Lives, Present Loves

The Rising Sign

Astrological Aspects

Dedication

To my two Pisces mothers, now in spirit form; my angelic birth mother, Lucy, and my adored Missy, known to my children as Granny, both strong and extraordinary southern women. My two steel magnolias insisted on intellectual accomplishments and encouraged creative expression, especially in my music. Most of all, they stressed the importance of expansion of the heart and growth of the mind.

To my dear friend, Peter Cooper, who has recently departed from the earth plane—a fellow traveler and heart-connected friend forever and to his beautiful wife, Mary, who holds an equally huge space in my heart.

To the gracious gentleman, Adam Jung, who made it possible for me to write amidst the serenity and beauty of his marble villa in Ibiza, Spain. And to a newly refound friend (no doubt my past life associate in riotous, good fun), Adrienne Papp, who facilitated my being in that special environment with the Mediterranean at my feet and just down the cliffs from my computer.

To my editor, Nan Gatewood, who has guided me and held my hand through all five books, and to her baby who will be born at the same time as A Soul’s Journey. To Ann Weems, Sally Arteseros, and Cindy Clark who added special editorial support—my deepest thanks.

To the most wonderful and loyal secretary/associate one could hope to have—Linda Wendover.

To Uttara McGhee.

To my Ibiza friends who gave aid and comfort in so many ways throughout the gestation of this book—an emotional and heart wrenching time. To my Ibiza families Mac and Trudy Adams, Sally and Bartolo Noguera, and my adopted kids, the Noguera children—Carlos, Carolina, and Elena; the Von Ryckevorsels, and my family in Spain, Juan de Aguirre and Magdalena.

My gratitude goes back in years to friends who have helped me in many ways and throughout difficult times—especially Marilyn Rothkopf, a friend and sister from our early twenties. Among many others, special mention goes to Casey, Marsha and Walter Arnheim; Kay and Ken Chapin; Sicily Williams; Clark Johnson; Sam Green; Gerda and Stan Cooke. To all my extended family— the Truaxs, the Normans, the Henesys, the Millers; and the Strasbergs, Susan and Jennifer. To many wonderful friends.

To the healers who have energized me when the spirit was overloaded—Dr. Richard Blasband, Sigmund Bereday, Karen Bolander, Dr. Byron Gentry, my darling Swami Chakradhari, and most recently Nicolai Levashov, physicist and master healer whose book, The Final Appeal to Mankind will be published in early 1997. And always to my adored children—Sharon, Diane, and David—and my fabulously gifted grandchildren—Charles and Stephanie Andrews, and Lucas and Charlotte Jane Henesy. To Lori and Lee.

We have all walked together throughout many lives. For that I’m grateful.

Jeanne Avery

June 1996

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

1. Awareness

Surfacing Past Life Memories of Nazi Germany

Healing the Present

2 Reincarnation, the Wheel of Karma, and Regression

Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet

How Did It All Begin?

Reincarnation in Culture and Religion

Finding the New Incarnation of the Dalai Lama

Lifetime lo Lifetime

Reincarnation and the Catholic Church

What Is Karma?

Love and Forgiveness

Group Karma

The Essenes

Regression Therapy

3 Awakening

Past Life Psychic Connections

Beginnings of a Search

Understanding Universal Laws

Painful Awakening

My Own Image

Health Problems As a Means of Awakening

4 Tell As a State of Consciousness

State of Consciousness in Between Lives

Hasty Return to Earth

Nerve Damage from the Past

To Die is the Beller Deal

Finding the Light

5 Persecution Begins

Beginnings of Present Day Terror

Rape by Nazi Officers

The Beginning of Evil

Finding a Safe House

Risk of Hiding People

Methods of Extermination

Peter’s Regression Session

6 Rapid Rebirth from Nazi Germany

Understanding Death

Holding Hands and Walking toward the Light

Carryover of Responsibility from Past Life

My Father—My Son

7 Past Life Memory As a Nazi

Sexual Violence in Childhood

Form er Human Experimentation

Former SS Officer

Surprise Twist to Past Life

8 Mengele and His Twins: The Two Lives of Eve

Mentors of Hitler and Mengele

The Lives of Eve

Eve and Mengele

Dawn of Awareness

The Nurse Al Auschwitz

Finding

Brett’s First Wife

9 Methods of Growth Toward Unity

The Akashic Records

A. Sel Regression

B. Steps for Self Regression

Birth Patterns

Meditation

Methods of Meditation

Bibliography

Foreword

ASoul’s Journey is an important book. I am not surprised because Jeanne Avery has written important books before this one. To do so again, at this critical point in human history as the twentieth century is ending, has to be as gratifying and pleasing to Jeanne as it is to us, her readers.

The book’s message unfolds on at least three levels. The first is the level of the individual, his or her personal understanding, health and evolution. I have been using regression therapy in my psychiatric practice for the past fifteen years. I use hypnosis, although Jeanne’s method, where the patient remains more conscious, is every bit as acceptable. More than thirteen hundred patients of mine have remembered vivid childhood, in utero, or past life scenes. Others have had intense spiritual experiences. Many have witnessed their psychological and physical symptoms resolve as the childhood or past life roots of their current problems have been identified. As the past life recall is integrated into their current life understanding, patients feel more peaceful and experience more joy in their lives.

In addition, many of my patients have recognized present day loved ones while scanning the vistas of their past lives. Reconnecting with such soulmates or soul companions, and we all have more than one, can be a powerful learning experience. In our physical bodies we learn primarily through our relationships. Reunions with soulmates can be very dramatic, and I have described these meetings in detail in my books.

The second level is that of the community, whether small or large. Our individual karma must intersect and influence the individual karmas of others in our groups, our communities, our nations. We are all rowing the same boat. We are all connected; we are all mutually interdependent. What we do affects everyone and everything.

The Holocaust was one of the worst nightmares in our history. Jeanne skillfully documents its lasting effects on various individuals, groups, and cultures—whether Jewish, German, or Other. Yet we see, as I have similarly seen in my regression work, Jews returning as Germans, Nazis coming back as Jews, and other permutations. We are here to learn, and to do that we must learn from all sides. We come back to experience directly the fruits of our actions.

I frequently point out to people that we cannot shrug off the global consequences of thermal warming, of ozone layer depletion, of the elimination of whole species and the resulting chaos in the balance of nature, of overfishing and over-farming as the world’s population increases, or of widespread pollution. It is not only our children and grandchildren who will be born into such a noxious environment. We are coming back, too.

The third level is that of human consciousness. As the soul progresses it must shed negative thoughts and emotions. We have incorporated the fears and prejudices of others as we have traveled through lifetimes. These must be unlearned. Qualities such as fear, hatred, violence, greed, anger, and worry need to be released. Underneath these negative traits are the positive ones: love, hope, faith, harmony, compassion, understanding, patience, and balance.

This raising of consciousness is happening, although slowly. It is the best hope for mankind. Teachers such as Jeanne Avery help to hasten the process, and I hope that she continues to write, encouraging spiritual transformation.

Brian L. Weiss, M.D.

Miami, Florida

July 1, 1996

Introduction

IHAVE BEEN doing regression sessions with my clients since 1967, but it is only since 1987 that people have come forth with information about a life lived in Nazi Germany. Of all the myriad memories that have emerged from the consciousness of my clients from the beginning of my experience with past life regression, I chose to connect a book about a search for the soul and its journey to past life memories of Nazi Germany. I had two good reasons before beginning the book, but a deeper reason became clear while I was writing the manuscript.

I have long wanted to share some of what I have discovered over the years about the evolutionary process of the soul. My own investigation has taken place over three and a half decades; information has been gleaned little by little. When I thought about thousands of regression sessions that I have conducted during my life, it seemed to me that if I wanted to demonstrate the resiliency of the soul, the most profound and moving way to do so would be to discuss some of the events that took place when the Nazis controlled Germany. If I could share information that came forth from the very people who died so needlessly, who could survive the Holocaust after dying, and quickly return to tell the tale, how could anyone ever doubt the amazing continuation of life and the survival of the soul?

My purpose is not to leave the reader with a sense of horror or of sadness, but with a new perspective. I would earnestly hope that the retelling of these past life memories can be healing, because many of the victims of those brutalities are on earth once more. They have survived and emerged through rebirth to express life once again. They can kill us, torture us, ridicule us, and here we are again.

That was the first reason that occurred to me. Second, and even more important is the conviction that as thinking, caring humans we cannot allow such evil to flourish again. Awareness is a first step. Fifty years after the end of World War II, we are reviving memories of the Holocaust through photographs, books, films, and museums. In all the times in history where acts of brutality have occurred, there has never been such an example and stimulus to force mankind toward positive, preventive action. It is imperative that we stop this kind of inhumanity by learning about it, confronting it, and taking action to prevent its reoccurrence. As it has been said over and over, but never too often: never again.

I began to ask inner questions at a very early age. Why did certain things happen to me and my family that were not what one would consider part of a normal course of events? My life was changed when I was only two years old because of my father’s tragic death. In retrospect, the sad events of that time forced an early search for the meaning of life. At some point, it dawned on me that many people also had some early hardships that they, like I, took great pains to conceal. I suddenly knew I was not alone.

My search brought some answers, but mostly it brought more questions. Since World War II began when I was very small, a lot of those questions were stimulated by what was going on around me. I began to ask why? As all parents know, young children always ask that endless question. My questions were not about why the sky was blue, however, but about why people should die. And why they should fight with each other to bring about more death and sadness.

Some of those questions remain unanswered to this day. Why were Nazi atrocities allowed to escalate? Why didn’t people in war-torn countries know about the catastrophic treatment of Jews? Why was such evil allowed to flourish right under the noses of fellow countrymen? Since my early search coincided with what was happening in Nazi Germany, it seems fitting that I should use examples of regression sessions related to that time frame in this book.

I have been privileged to peer into many thousands of people’s lives through their venture inward. The information that has emerged has never ceased to cause me wonder, as the logic that arises from the revelation of patterns is both consistent and amazing. From the beginning of our soul experiences, we create attitudes and behaviors that continue throughout each life. We may put on a new suit of clothes or a new body each time around on the earth plane, but we don’t change inside. When a person can achieve an understanding of his or her deeply entrenched patterns in the short space of three hours of regression therapy, the new perspective he has on himself or herself and his or her existence is life-changing. It goes beyond the mere words and understanding of reincarnation, for the person reaches an eons-deep experience of himself.

I began doing regression therapy because of the profound change my only formal regression session had on my own life. Some very sad things emerged and were aired during that process. I recalled details of my father’s death, and saw precisely what occurred from the moment my mother learned of his demise. I had always said, I didn’t know my father, but I discovered that within the short space of two years I had established a very strong bond with him. I realized that my own reaction to his death took the form of anger rather than sadness, and could then understand much about my later reactions to many things. I was able to verify my visions by reading a newspaper account of the events. The story was written in a narrative style, even giving details about neighbors’ reactions. That story dovetailed exactly with the film that ran through my mind during the regression. (Journalism in the South, when I was two years old, was somewhat lurid and certainly less cut and dry than what we might expect to read today.)

What I had observed in my regression was my mother’s reaction to the loss of my father. As we walked toward our house, returning from an errand—my mother protectively holding my hand—we saw a large group of people gathered on our porch. These well-meaning people took me away from my mother, down a hall to a kitchen, and gave me a biscuit to eat. I wanted to be with my mother so I cried. As I was nibbling on that biscuit, the tears were running down my cheeks and the biscuit became quite wet. The well-meaning people finally took me back down a hallway to the room where my mother was slumped in a chair. Then the real significance of that moment hit me—in her grief my mother didn’t turn to me for comfort. In fact, as I was placed in a child’s rocking chair nearby, she didn’t seem to know I was even there. I was quite angry at my father for causing her unhappiness. I could hear myself saying to her in my mind, Who needs him anyway? I’m here, Mother. You can depend on me. A major part of my loss was that of my mother’s attention. Throughout my life, until she died, I never felt that she needed me.

Those memories were deeply buried. I had no conscious recollection of my father’s death. When I was older, my mother had explained to me why I didn’t have a father, and I cried for him. Still, my heart went out to her because I finally understood why she had an underlying sadness, even though she laughed and smiled most of the time. But the regression session revealed my decision to protect my mother by leaving her alone! Although that may seem simplistic, to me it was a deeply profound realization that explained much about my later life.

Few of the people who came to me for regression sessions had any clue that they might have lived in Germany as recently as the late 1930s or 1940s. The three examples of people who saw themselves on the Nazi side of the war certainly did not expect anything so shocking to come to light. Yet in spite of the shock, all of the individuals, no matter what their role in the terrible drama, achieved a new understanding of their current lives and experienced deeply felt healing.

Since the purpose of a regression session is to untangle knots on the thread of consciousness it is my belief that everyone can release a special quality of joy by untying those knots—knots that have tangled and accumulated over many lifetimes.

Thought of in another way, the individual undergoing a regression must reach what I call a dropped stitch in the fabric of his or her life and be able to see the stitch weaving itself right again before I can end a session. When that dropped stitch is reached, I don’t have to offer very much to help the person see his or her own patterns and begin to release joyous energy.

The Tibetan Lamas that I have been acquainted with have been exiled from their own country by the invading Chinese and they own nothing except perhaps some shoes, the pieces of cloth they wear, and a few items they need for special ceremonies. Yet they have a particular kind of humor and joy. They laugh and laugh. I think it is called Cosmic Joy. Their joyousness comes from an inner sense of peace.

I earnestly hope that reading A Soul’s Journey will help you in the discovery of your own karmic knots and the eventual unraveling of them, and the realization of cosmic joy.

1.

Awareness

IN THE Most popular spy novels there are always intricate plots with powerful figures using fiendish machinations to exploit situations to their own ends. People are murdered, disappearing so that they are never found again; enormous amounts of money change hands; morality is nonexistent; international power dealings remain concealed; spies, Interpol, the Mafia, and secret agents go about their terrifying missions. Usually in these novels, the hero wins out— good over evil.

But none of these plots can compare with what happened in real life, under the Nazi regime in Germany, before and during World War II. We stretch our imaginations as we read popular novels, but we put aside our practical belief system. After all, these are only plots born from the vivid fantasies of writers. It couldn’t happen in real life.

But it did.

How could such wide-scale atrocity have happened in a civilized world? And why do we continue to ignore mass murders, terrorism, and gruesome tortures around the world? Why would some people deliberately choose evil over good?

Psychology and psychiatry make an attempt toward some kind of explanation of mankind’s actions by pinpointing early moments when events occur that might warp the mind and set a person on a downward spiral. It is obvious that a traumatic situation can produce one result in the behavior of one person, whereas the same situation may cause a different reaction in another. But no psychological examination can begin to explain the degree of evil that existed in the minds of the Nazis, or the fiendishly warped plots that were conceived to torture Jews.

Persecution policies against the Jews had been brewing in Germany since 1933. By September 15, 1934, The Nuremberg Laws, enacted by the Nazi Party Congress, deprived Jews of German citizenship and made intermarriage between Aryans and Jews punishable by death.

At the same time, SS (Schutzstaffel) leader Heinrich Himmler started a program called Lebensborn, or life source. Young women of pure Aryan blood were encouraged to volunteer their services for the welfare of Germany and mate with SS officers to produce blond, blue-eyed babies. These children were to carry on the thousand-year Reich. The women were housed in comparative luxury, almost as if they were staying at a country club or resort, with plenty of food, leisure, and companionship. Since Germany had just emerged from a depression with 5.6 million people unemployed and in a bankrupt state according to capitalist standards, this deal with the SS must have seemed attractive to some women. At least it was a way of having security for nine months. After that the women would leave their children to be brought up by the Nazi regime as part of the state breeding program. More than likely these women were caught up in idealistic messages concerning duty to the new Germany. However, nothing may ever quite explain to their now-grown children how their mothers would agree to such an offer, for they were orphans, martyred to the cause of Nazism. Hitler also offered cash incentives to Germans who would marry, and cash awards for each new child born of the union. Jews were not entitled to these benefits, as they no longer had German citizenship.

The campaign against Jews progressed rapidly as Hitler in 1935 promised a new order for Germany based on racial purity. How could the majority of German Jews ignore the writing on the wall? Why didn’t other countries come to their aid? Did everyone think the situation would simply go away?

On May 13, 1939, The SS St. Louis of the Hamburg-Amerika Line left Hamburg, Germany carrying 937 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi oppression. It was the last major shipload of people to leave before the war began. The passengers all held apparently valid Cuban visas, and had been approved for exit from Germany by Joseph Goebbels. But Cuba refused them entry. The ship applied to the United States for asylum, but the U.S. quota of 25,957 German immigrants had been filled. The ship was turned away from American shores as well. At the last minute, as the ship was heading back to Germany, four countries—Britain, France, Belgium, and Holland—agreed to accept the refugees. A conference was then organized by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt to develop facilities for Jewish emigration. Although delegates from thirty nations attended, nothing was accomplished.

After the war’s start, years passed before Hitler found a solution to mass extermination. The rest of the world gave him plenty of time to experiment with methods of death, however. Before the gas chambers, there were many types of clumsy attempts to rid whole towns of Jewish inhabitants.

Eventually, German civilians were organized into squads called Einsatzgruppen. These were special action units of ordinary citizens who had but one mission—they were traveling murderers who had unwritten orders to kill Jews without regard for age or sex. These groups were made up of doctors, lawyers, and businessmen who for some reason were unable to serve in the regular army. Some were university graduates, even theologians. They were substantial, law-abiding citizens, not criminals. How could the world stand by and allow this to happen?

To even attempt to understand how these people were able to commit cold-blooded murder, we need to look at the subtle but effective campaign by the Nazis to convince the populace that the Jews had been the cause of the past German economic difficulties. Throughout centuries, persecution of Jews had been linked to economic depression. Confiscation of Jewish goods and property was a sure way to increase revenue. Sometimes the Nazis used haranguing and the instilling of fear to influence the populace to carry out orders to kill the Jews. Since a prime German virtue was to carry out orders from authority figures without question, the Nazis could use this sense of duty to further their ends. But, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, in his book, Hitler’s Willing Executioners, Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, says that the citizens acted as they did because of a widespread virulent regard of the Jews as a demonic enemy. Certainly there were many non-Jewish Germans living in fear, as well as their Jewish compatriots.

Other nations were aware of some of these atrocities, but humanity chose to look the other way. Even after the war, when concrete evidence of concentration camps was made public, many people either refused to believe that they existed or simply didn’t want to know. Even now, many people would prefer to live in a state of unawareness, even denying the existence of persecution and death camps. Any denial may be an unconscious way to avoid heeding a call for action. As long as one can stay safe in one’s cocoon, he or she can avoid taking personal responsibility for group injustice.

Many people may acknowledge what happened in Nazi Germany, but naively believe that nothing so evil could happen again in a more enlightened world. Many survivors of camps just want to forget the past and get on with their lives. This is an understandable reaction, but lack of confrontation on the part of the general public is dangerous. This attitude may stem from a lack of information about,