Shortly after I met Nina, I was informed that she would, if I paid her for her
work, tell me my best and worst past lives. "Do I have past lives?" I asked.
"Almost everyone's soul has lived before, so, yes, probably. Why not find
out?"
Was it possible that there was a place outside my life where I could stand and look at who I was and what I had done? More than that, was this life one part of a larger pattern? If I knew how my soul had lived in other times and places, would the constant part of what I think of as myself appear? Would it be that which does not change as circumstances change? Would it be like recognizing the same actor in a series of plays, while different roles, costumes, and sets were switched around onstage? So, of course I asked Nina to tell me as much as she wished. (Or, rather, as much as the ones who speak to her wished to have revealed.)
But, you ask, is any of this true? Can it be real? Even if our spirit has lived through existences on earth before the present one, can a person such as Nina describe what someone else's lives have been?
Here's a bit of evidence from my own experience. Nina told me of a life as a maker of textiles and furniture around 2240 B.C. in a city in the Middle East called --- and here she spelled out a name. She said, "I don't know what this means, but it sounds like E - B - L - A."
This was before Google and Wikipedia. Even the World Wide Web was new. I had to look for Ebla the old-fashioned way, and for months I came up dry. "EBLA", "EBAL", ALEB" --- nothing popped up in that time and place. Then I happened to be walking through the stacks of a university library and passed a book on whose spine was the word "Eblaitica". Bingo.
Google "Ebla" now --- I just did --- and see what you find. "Ebla" did exist, and at that time, just before 2200 B.C., it was rebuilding itself into a center of commerce, crafts, and bookkeeping, rising again from the ruin left after an attack by Sargon.
I told Nina, and she was not surprized: "I have no way of knowing the meaning of everything they tell me; I just pass it on accurately. Even so, sometimes the words are hard to understand, and often they are approximations of other languages. But I am not surprized you found something."
Every other past life she told me of also had an historical context which made sense upon being researched.
Think about this. Any person who could send me off to look into a dozen or so odd corners of history would have to possess a body of knowledge literally more than encyclopedic. As well-educated as she is, Nina does not claim to know details from the histories of as many cultures as she caused me to investigate. She told me of these first past lives before search engines were common, and besides, Nina does not use computers or spend hours in libraries taking notes on obscure events.
So, if Nina is not drawing on her own knowledge, then what is the source of this information? The simplest answer, it seems to me, is that what is going on is exactly what she says is happening: spirits with access to the records of all the lives of all the souls speak to her and answer questions.
And ordinary people like myself are allowed to ask those questions. It is really quite humbling, when you think of it. My opinion, also, is that it is an opportunity not to be neglected or misused. One could use this as a way to gain a better knowledge of who "you" are, of where you tend to succeed, of where you tend to fall short.
As you can see on the "Books" page on this site, this opportunity has prompted me to write a novel chronicling what might have happened to a group of souls after they were sent to live on earth.
What would you do if you began to understand what your own spirit has done and undergone?
Nina would like to make an observation that is connected to past life information and how to handle it.
She says that in her experience, more than nine out of ten people whom you meet more than casually in this life will turn out to have had a more-than-casual relationship to you in some past life, too. In many instances, friends now were friends before, but not without exception. It has happened that a person may be close to someone in this life: all well and good. But, what if that person caused the first person grievous harm in a life before?
If a mother finds out that she was (entirely properly) married to a man whose soul is now in her present-day son, should she be scandalized? Does that give her license for questionable behavior?
Just about any combination of events and relationships you can imagine --- plus some you hopefully cannot imagine --- seems to have occurred to someone somewhere at some time.
Nina recommends that a person who wants this kind of information either know themselves very well beforehand or have access to a supportive counselling environment before and after asking. Also, she reminds us, live the life you're in and don't use what happened in another life as justification for your actions to another person now.
You would, however, be urged to right whatever wrongs you may have committed to another person previously, for otherwise, what would be the point of it all?! Even that is often a matter to be worked out between the souls, and you will not be surprized to hear that Nina has long experience in those matters, too. Both people often feel much better after reconciliation.
Nina says that one of the best ways to use past life information is to treat a
fear or aversion. A person who is terrified to cross a bridge may have been
pushed over the balustrade of a span in Central Europe, say, as a wild crowd
fled before the swinging sabers of charging cavalry. Not all traumas are
traceable to early childhood; some go farther back. To unseat them, it may
help to know events in prior lives.