Dr Michael Newton, a clinical psychologist, was an atheist (no belief in religion or spirituality of any kind) when he first started out. He was very good at hypnosis and helping his patients deal with their psychological issues, so much so that in the course of his work, when instructing his patients to go back in time to when they first began to encounter the roots of their issue, some of them started reporting going back into their past lives.
At first, being an atheist, that disturbed Dr Newton. Afterall, while some other psychologists were already practicing past life regression and therapy, Dr Newton himself was an atheist, and so was reluctant to accept the idea of past lives. But he was an excellent scientist and highly professional psychologist, and decided to keep an open mind, and continued to work with his patients including past life links, where relevant. Eventually, because all his patients who worked with their issues including their past lives made full recoveries, it meant that psychologically speaking, there must have been some truth to the matter, and Dr Michael Newton began to (reluctantly, at first) accept the possibility in his own mind and heart. But he rejected religion still, and at this point, would describe himself as somewhere between an atheist and a free thinker. (Today, Dr Michael Newton is a free thinker, who understands that there is no need to have a religion; every person has free will, and is self-responsible for his/her own choices, decisions and actions.)
Then, several years later, came the shocker. At that time (several decades ago), while there were other clinical psychologists who also dealt in past life regression and therapy, no other clinical psychologist on the planet, had any idea on what happened in between lifetimes (what we shall term as "the intermissive period", an International Academy of Consciousness terminology rather than Dr Michael Newton's terminology). So most people, including the other psychologists, either assumed that nothing much or important occurred in between lifetimes, or nothing happens at all in between lifetimes, or that it was something that for whatever reason, physically incarnate human beings could not, or were not allowed, to know.
Again, because Dr Michael Newton was an excellent clinical psychologist, he developed and used deeper states of hypnosis (requiring more time and effort) than any of his contemporary psychologists, and improved upon his methods throughout the years.
There was this clinical patient of his, a woman who described suffering from a terrible sense of missing her 'real family of loved ones', and she wasn't referring to her immediate family members in this lifetime. So Dr Newton regressed her into her various past lives, and she did manage to glimpse some individual members of her 'real family of loved ones', but there were only scattered here and there all across her different past lives, and she still felt sad and missed them terribly, lamenting that even in these past lives, her 'real family of loves ones' were never altogether at once, the feeling and soul memory of such that was causing her the powerful emotional longing.
After many months of intensive past life regressions, Dr Newton still couldn't get at the root of this woman patient's longing. Becoming understandably impatient and frustrated, one day Dr Newton couldn't take it anymore, and tried something extremely direct, "Ok was there ever a time in which all your real family of loved ones were present with you together?", and she replied excitedly, "Yes!", and Dr Michael Newton exclaimed, "All right then, go back to that time, right now!"
To both their surprise and subsequently (when Dr Newton began to realized what was going on) even Dr Newton's shock, she had managed to go, with full conscious awareness, back into the time in between lifetimes, her intermissive periods! That was the first time anyone (in documented clinical psychology cases) could actually recall not just their past lives, but their intermissive periods.
Soon, Dr Newton realized that, among other things, one of the key reasons why he succeeded in accessing the intermissive period for the first time, and succeed where other clinical psychologists failed so far, was his own method requiring a deeper state of hypnosis, significantly deeper than the hynotic state used by other psychologists to access past lives.
Over the years, Dr Newton continued to improve his techniques, and share them with other clinical psychologists (at least the ones who were open minded enough), and soon, more and more clinical patients, both of Dr Newton as well as of other clinical psychologists who used deeper states of hypnosis, began accessing and working not just with their past lives, but with their intermissive periods as well.
Over many years, Dr Michael Newton realized one thing : out of hundreds of his own case studies of patients who recalled their in between lifetimes or intermissive periods, regardless of their personal religious beliefs in the ordinary waking state (eg. from atheist to agnostic to free thinkers to those in abrahamic monotheistic religions such as christianity, islam, etc, polytheistic religions such as hinduism etc, philosophical systems such as buddhism, etc, paganistic religions such as wicca or witchcraft, shamanism, etc, even to those in various unorthodox religions such as various cults eg. scientology etc, occultic practices, even satanism, etc), ALL of them when regressed into the intermissive period, all described the 'spirit world' or extraphysical or intermissive period consistently, and they ALL agreed that :
It totally doesn't matter what religion you belong to, or whether you even have a religion at all. The only thing that really matters is, how you live your life (including your actions and how you affect others), and what's in your heart (ie. your intentions).
There are also two questions that will be asked of every soul after he/she has just completed his/her lifetime or discarnated, and although the exact phrasing and line of questioning may differ, but will still be along the lines of :
In this lifetime just over, What have you learnt, and Whom have you helped?
The questions asked during a Life Review, which takes place sometime after a lifetime is over, though not immediately (it varies from person to person), of which the above 2 questions are asked in some form or other, are not meant to interrogate or judge (there is no judgement, no heaven and no hell), but are meant to guide, assist and prepare for the next few lifetimes (in a similar manner as how in the corporate world these days, the department holds a so-called 'post-mortem review' to learn from the project just completed, to perform better in future projects).
There actually three sources (amongst many, actually) that I recommend anyone interested in understanding your own past lives or intermissive period experiences to seek out. Afterall, the purpose of your lifetime (which is unique to every individual, like a specially written list of objectives or syllabus), which we may term as one's existential program (also known as one's life plan), is largely planned by yourself in your last intermissive period, in collaboration and advisement with your guides & helpers, spiritual teachers and angels, council of elders and evolutionary orientor (much like how friends, parents, school teachers, guidance and career counsellors, will offer you advice to help your plan and decide on the next step in your life, your career, etc). In other words, no 'god' or external authority tells you or imposes upon you what you must do, or what this lifetime is about, it is your own free will and responsibility, to decide for yourself, to plan for yourself, to make the most of this lifetime, for yourself (directly) and for everyone else (indirectly).
Most of the important people in your life (friends, family, lovers, etc, both current ones, as well as the ones you've not yet met), will already have been known to you as associates, friends, family, lovers etc, in past intermissive periods and past lifetimes. Hence, love at first sight, is really a manifestation of a karmic agenda or objective. Karma and reincarnation is
not punishment (as many wrongly think), but rather are tools for personal consciential evolution, and assistantiality or working productively with others.
The 3 sources are :
1) Hilarion Reading, in which you get to ask any personal questions you have (eg. relationship, medical, career, supernatural, spiritual, etc), particularly suitable are questions seeking advice, eg. Aunt/Uncle Agony type questions. You use credit/debit card to pay for your Reading, which you can download as an mp3 after it's done. I'll share a little more about the Hilarion Reading below.
http://hilarion.com/infoch.html
2) Dr Michael Newton's Life-between-Life or Intermissive Period regression therapy. Unless you're willing and have the time and money to travel to USA or Europe, the nearest clinical psychologist proficient in Dr Michael Newton's methods, is Dr Teoh Hooi Meng.
http://www.newtoninstitute.org/members-info.php?name=44
3) International Academy of Consciousness. An institution or University dedicated to studying consciousness and existentialism. Some of the courses offered are open to anyone, while other more advanced courses require prior experience in prerequisite modues, and/or a professional degree in Medicine, Clinical Psychology, etc. Interestingly, some of the lectures and tutorials of the more advanced modules, take place outside the body, ie. the course instructor together with extraphysical guides & helpers will assist in helping the course participants project their consciousness out-of-body together, and the learning will take place in the extraphysical.
http://www.iacworld.org/
