introduced to opium by the British government who controlled the
opium trade and thus had a vested interest in maintaining the
addiction.
4. Illness & Disease
Illness and disease is an enormous subject when looked at
from a past life perspective. Past Life Therapy will not eliminate the
need for medical treatment, particularly when a physical condition
has already damaged the body, but those suffering from illness
and disease are oftentimes found to have a psychological need for
their condition. And many times this need may be rooted in a past
life.
Old attitudes such as “hard-heartedness” can affect the
present life, hardening of the arteries and other cardiovascular
disorders being common manifestations. Old emotions, injuries
and traumatic experiences may create physical disease and
illness. Take the woman who had constant heartburn for which her
Doctors were unable to find a cause. During a Past Life
Regression she relived drinking a cup of poisoned wine given to
her by her lover. The heartburn was cured when the therapist
“erased” the memory of the poison by having her imagine drinking
the antidote.
5. Sexual Dysfunctions
Sexual difficulties can stem from varied past life causes. One
of the most common problems are vows, such as celibacy or
everlasting faithfulness taken in other lives and subtlety interfering
with current life relationships. Frigidity and impotence can be found
among people who have taken a vow of celibacy in a past life. The
subconscious can simply switch off sexual arousal when
confronted with the deep inner conflict of desire for another person
versus an eternal vow of celibacy. Women may have had such
awful experiences in labor or with a primitive abortion that they