| Whoever makes visible the complex paths of karma does a service to mankind. H.P.Blavatsky
The concept of karma or karman comes from Sanskrit, originally meaning deed, doing, acting, work, action. Everything is thus named which results from doing. According to the law of karma everything that I do - as well as everything that I think and say - has its consequences. If I do good things, good things will be done to me; if I do evil things, they will also be my lot. These are the actions of my soul. But because my soul lives a number of consecutive lives as a human being, this law is not necessarily enforced in my present life, but usually in a later life, whether this is the immediately consecutive or a later one. Based on cause and effect, e.g. action and reaction, it works just as the (better known) physical law of "cause and effect" does - for example as seen in the "law of gravity": the greater the height from which we fall, the more we get hurt.
What led me to write this book was the wish to inform mankind of the fundamental and axiomatic validity of the law of karma. It is just as fundamentally - i.e. indisputably - and axiomatically true as e.g. the law of gravity! From the unnecessary ignorance and resulting inattention of the majority of mankind toward this law a great amount of unnecessary suffering also occurs - suffering for the individual as well as for the human race as a whole!
But I do not want to set before the reader another one of those usual repetitious books on karma of which there are probably hundreds. Rather I would like to present a
totally new book on the realities of karma. Namely, I want to describe here the often quite new concepts evolving from my daily occupation as a regression therapist.
In the first part of the book I would like to introduce the reader to Indian thought on karma in general in order to lay the groundworks for a clearer understanding of the
remainder of the book. The third part is the main part, in which I would like to show how the the law of karma works in the light of thirty-one cases of people having
undergone Regression Therapy. The second part gives the reader a short introduction to Regression Therapy, helping him or her to understand the third part better.
Almost ninety percent of all humans believe in an at least occasional supernatural intervention in the private and public destiny of mankind. Of these about half believe in repeated life on earth, i.e. in reincarnation. And of these latter most see reincarnation as connected with the effects produced by the law of karma. But up to now there was still no "scientific proof" for these two fundamental laws of life.
With his monumental work Reincarnation and Biology (1997), Ian Stevenson, professor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, U.S.A., has achieved no less a feat than demonstrating reincarnation conclusively to be a fact. And I would like to be just as bold in undertaking with the present book the attempt to prove conclusively the law of karma to be a fact!
What gives me the courage to make such a statement? For many years I have been active as a regression therapist in Germany and abroad, training also others in Regression Therapy. Not only I personally, but probably all regression therapists worldwide, have repeatedly discovered - along with the root causes for their clients' symptoms - conclusive evidence for the validity of the law of karma.
Let us take a look at the treatment, for example, in our office of a woman with chronic constant coughing. After leading her to the cause of her disease and guiding her to the point where she may see herself at the moment in the Middle Ages when she is being burned as a witch, we then delve further into why she had to suffer this fate. We will inevitably find an earlier life in which she was an agent in causing the same or a similar fate, helping directly or indirectly to destroy someone else by burning. This then is the real cause of her present situation.
And I am sure that regression therapists would be able to prove in hundreds of thousands of such cases that this law - "As you do unto others, so shall they do unto you" - is constantly and definitely manifesting itself. This cannot be only by chance. If Carl Gustav Jung was still unsatisfied as a scientist with the idea of reincarnation and the law of karma as posited by the Indian philosophers - in his opinion empirical proof being lacking [2] - we can now say, as regression therapists confronted daily with the effects of this law, that even from the empirical standpoint it has finally to be accepted as irrefutable. Not only the fact that our clients' symptoms unfold under its magical sway allows us to speak with such certainty of the validity of the karmic law. There is also the fact that understanding the law itself allows them to overcome its effects and often even to experience an immediate release from its symptoms!
Such successes in healing are in my opinion the surest and most valid proof for the reality of the karmic law. While reading the third part of this book the reader will be astounded how breathtaking these successes are - successes of which contemporary medicine and psychotherapy can only dream. For the same reason they also will not be able to ignore this form of therapy in the long run. Cooperation between (psycho-)medical practitioners and regression therapists will necessarily evolve. These successes in the areas of somatic, psychosomatic and psychological treatment will be passed by word-of-mouth to sufferers in the respective areas. A huge army of doctors and therapists with training in Regression Therapy will then be necessary in order to handle the great demand. Other regression therapists will possibly demonstrate (as I have done) at professional congresses or on TV the wonders of Regression Therapy, so that everyone should soon be convinced of the rapid effect of this therapy form. But above all the insurance companies will be willing to pay for the training of regression therapists, as they will soon notice how many million dollars can be saved by this treatment, which is generally the quickest and most effective method. Furthermore, Regression Therapy has the spiritual result that even the client's soul can experience a healing effect, if it, by accepting the karmic law, no longer deviates from the path of righteousness and love (dharma). But Regression Therapy should not be a privilege reserved only for the ill and suffering - everyone can greatly profit from insight into his/her past actions.
This book should obviously not only be of interest to the general reader, but also to all those persons concerned with healing. They should be especially open to and interested in these new treatment methods. Therefore the reader is encouraged to make such persons aware of this book or possibly even to present it to them as a gift of a very special kind.
The fourth part is of no less importance than the third. In many respects karma will be shown here in a completely new light and within a new framework, namely on the basis of the insights gained from Regression Therapy. For instance, there is an important fact that has hardly received any consideration throughout the whole previous history of karma research and philosophy: We ourselves - in the period of "afterlife" before beginning a new life - have determined the amount and type of "karmic baggage" to be carried in our coming life. This we have done on the basis of the karmic material still to be dissolved and with the help of the advisors in the beyond who aided us in planning our life to come. So we have taken upon ourselves everything we encounter in life and that even the worst karmic experiences in every life are previously chosen - or at least accepted - by us previous to entering upon this new life. This can be certified to by all those regression therapists who take their clients back to the time before their entry into a new life on earth.
In America there is an excellent researcher on this topic who, with the help of his clients, has given us in recent years some completely new revelations on this area of "the beyond", including the preparations made for karmic re-entry. He is Dr. Michael Newton, and his name will probably soon be just as well-known in research on the karma and the beyond as that of Professor Ian Stevenson in the area of reincarnation. Whatever truths have revealed themselves through modern research into reincarnation have been due to the memories stemming from the subconscious of thousands of clients. And if thousands - soon hundreds of thousands - of clients repeat the same basic - and often very logical - facts, there will be common denominators that can stand up to critical scientific testing. On the basis of this research we can now maintain that knowledge of the basic truths of existence and fundamental self-knowledge about one's own existence is hidden in the subconscious of every individual person. When these basic truths are uncovered, they may be viewed or explained differently in detail, revealing many common principles never consciously available to normal persons outside of trance.
My own experiences in reincarnation duplicate those experiences of the beyond described by Dr. Newton. In addition I have been able to discover as an empirical fact that we ourselves have by our own higher consciousness set up our own basic karmic "burden" because we wanted for very special reasons to experience personally the different forms of suffering.
In the forth part of this book I have collected as well the different previously known forms of karma, supplemented them by various new forms arising through our experiences with Regression Therapy, and catalogued them into 23 different types. No one who aims to do research on karma in the future would be advised to ignore this data. As human beings we need no longer remain "in the dark" about reincarnation and karma. Researchers have now delved by hypnotism and trance into the previously little-known secret vaults of mankind, shedding the light of the subconscious on the treasures hidden there. These newly discovered treasures should now eliminate the need for speculating on possible "hidden lodes" (as earlier belief-systems and researchers have done), because such speculations have now largely become superfluous. Of course, there will be even more treasures to discover, and certainly there will also be some major surprises in store for us. The present book aims to reveal some of these discoveries, and I wish the reader great pleasure in perusing them!
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