past life, especially when the last thought in that life was, “I’ll never
starve again.” I’ve also seen the then socially-acceptable practice
of bulimic vomiting at Roman orgies being carried over into the
present life as a repeating pattern.
Anorexia may also be linked to past life beliefs about the
body as ‘bad’ and sexuality as sinful and can link into past life
sexual abuse. Fashion can also play a part. In 19 th century
England, for instance, many girls starved themselves in order to
achieve the then fashionably desirable 18 inch waist.
3. Addictions
If a person dies with the thought “There will never be enough
of something” or wanting more of something, then they may be
more likely to come back with an addictive personality. If the
thought was, “There will never be enough love,” then the addiction
may be to relationships and what passes for “love”; if it was
“money”, then the addiction is to material goods – for instance, the
miser hoarding his wealth. On the other hand, that person may still
be stuck in poverty consciousness. Believing that there will never
be enough money is often enough to ensure that there never is!
Alcohol addiction may be linked to the practice of giving
alcohol to deaden the pain of surgery in the days before chemical
anesthetics. In battle conditions a bottle would be passed around
to patients waiting for the surgeon to perform the operation. This
person might die with the thought: “There won’t be enough for me.”
People with this kind of strong desire, particularly when they died
in a wartime situation, often seem to reincarnate quickly, bringing
the potential for the dependency back into the body.
Some drug addictions continually re-run an earlier
dependency on medicine, sleeping pills, or “nerve tonics” (as they
used to be called). Laudanum was very popular as a pain killer in
the 1800s. In some cultures, drugs were routinely used as either
sedatives or as spiritual aids. Other addicts may be replaying an
opium addiction. In the 19 th Century, thousands of Chinese were