Past Life Talents: Lost But Not Forgotten

by Bryan Jameison

One of the most fascinating things about regression work, is that it’s like exploring an uncharted river. One never knows where it might lead nor what surprise may lie around the next bend. By 1983, I was well aware of the healing power of past-life therapy because of the consistently positive results my clients reported to me. Then one day, I regressed a woman into a past life, which took place in South America. There she had been an accomplished potter, and her unique and beautiful creations were in great demand. She began describing how she actually created one of her pots. As she talked, it was obvious she loved her work.

Since I never have anyone rush through any enjoyable or enlightening experience, I suggested she really get into the hands-on process and make a special mental note of everything she was doing. I wanted her to pay particular attention to what she was experiencing physically (to feel the texture of the clay as she molded it, etc.), as well as how she felt about being able to do what she was doing as she was in the process of doing it. After recalling, the entire process from beginning to end, we went to the time when she “threw” the pot of which she was most proud. By that time, she had been making ceramic pots for over twenty years. Once again she took herself through the entire creative process, describing in detail not only what she was doing but why she was doing it the way she did.

I then asked her move to the time just before she died, which was several months later. As she was approaching her final moments in the body, she paused to reflect on her life. She talked about how fortunate she had been to have a loving husband and eleven wonderful children, all of whom she was quite proud. Then she began reminiscing about the times when, as a child, she helped her mother make pots for the villagers. As she grew older, she began to experiment with the use of various colorful glazes, which were unlike anything anyone else had ever done. It was as though she felt she had imprinted a portion of her spiritual essence into the creation of each piece. In a sense, each pot was like a child to her. As she talked, it was obvious she was deeply moved by her thoughts.

After the regression, she was quite moved by her experience and said she always had wondered what it would be like to create something with her hands. It was something she often had thought about doing but had never done. She asked me if I thought it would be possible for her to become a potter again. Because I believe if we ever have accomplished anything once, we can do it again, if we decide to. I encouraged her to give it a try. I knew from previous regressions it was possible for people to reactivate their intuitive/psychic abilities, thus I could see no reason why she couldn’t reclaim her long-forgotten talent as a potter.

Several months passed. Then one day I received a surprise visit from her. In her hand she held a lovely, large ceramic pot covered with a unique and colorful glaze. She told me that since her regression, she had enrolled in a pottery workshop where she astounded the teacher with her beautiful creations. Although she could have developed some skill by taking the classes, she certainly lacked the training to produce the quality of pots she was throwing. When anyone asked her if she had any prior training, she jokingly would tell them it was something she had learned how to do in a past life.

For almost two years, her pot was one of my proudest possessions. I felt as though it were an artifact of living history. However, when I moved across the country, it regrettably was broken. Because past-life mementos are so hard to come by, especially by the original artist, it was a double loss.

As time passed, I regressed others who, in their former lives, either had sustained themselves as artists or had merely painted as a hobby. In two of these cases, after their regressions, the clients went on to become very gifted artists in their present lives. As a result of these successes, I routinely began to check with my clients to see if they had displayed any creative talents in any of their past lives. Whenever this was the case, I encouraged them to once again explore these abilities and to re-experience the creative process in a hands-on manner.

After several months of doing this, it occurred to me that if my clients were able to reclaim former talents and abilities in addition to ridding themselves of the malignant feelings they had brought with them into this life, it might also be possible to reclaim the positive feelings of love and nurturing from the past. Today, too many children are raised in homes that basically are devoid of love, caring, warmth and tenderness; homes where the children are largely ignored by their parents. Many of these unfortunate children have been my clients as adults. It’s not that they were abused or mistreated physically, nor did they lack any of the basic material comforts of life, but they had missed necessary childhood nurturing. This lack of “T.L.C.” in their early childhood had created a void within them, which for them caused them to develop into emotional cripples as adults.

Sadly, because they never had received tenderness and unconditional love, they were unable to give it, or feel it. Worst of all they couldn’t accept this desperately needed love. Many were helplessly co-dependent, often finding themselves in relationships with anyone who showed them tenderness or nurturing of any kind. It became obvious to me that if we fail to have these feelings of nurturing within us, we will continually seek them from without for the rest of our lives. One day the thought occurred to me that if my clients could go back into a life where they were loved and nurtured, they possibly could transpose those past-life feelings into the present. I decided to try it the next time I had a client whose childhood was lacking in love.

Because the first two to three years of a child’s life are so important in its emotional development, I had my clients go back to a life when they were continually with loving parents during their formative years. In most cases, to find such a life, we had to go back to some third-world culture where children were loved and appreciated more than they frequently are today. In nearly all of the more primitive cultures, the baby goes wherever its mother goes, and as a result, has her constant attention. She talks and sings to her child and constantly cuddles and touches it. The strength of the emotional and spiritual bond developed between mother and child under these conditions is profound and certainly worth reclaiming if possible.

As my clients were re-experiencing lives like these, I asked them to absorb all of the nurturing they could and to allow themselves to become immersed in the total experience of being unconditionally loved. Then I had them take hold of those feelings and transpose them into their present life. The process is very much like changing components on one’s stereo or computer. In a way, one could say it’s the equivalent of an emotional heart transplant. The effect of this process was that my clients’ former feelings of being neglected and unloved were replaced with their past-life feelings of being loved, nurtured and appreciated for no other reason than just being alive. Though there may be others, to the best of my knowledge, I am the only past-life regressionist who employs this transference technique.

I’ve been extremely gratified to see many of these former clients several years later and find that they’ve retained the feelings they were able to reclaim. Thus far, all have reported they no longer felt any necessity to look outside of themselves for either love or nurturing because they now had more than enough inside. All also said that, not only had their feelings about themselves improved, but their ability to love and accept love from others also had been dramatically enhanced.

Frankly, I can’t imagine the countless gifts, talents, and volumes of information we could reclaim from the past if only we dared to open ourselves to the unlimited possibilities of what we may discover. Yet, to the best of my knowledge, not a dime has been invested for this research in any institution of higher learning.

Of all the possible uses of past-life therapy I have ever explored, I believe this to be one of the most important.

Excerpt from Exploring Our Forgotten Lives: The Amazing Healing Power of Past Life Therapy