Past Lives - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 3/23/23

His intuition works well with his analytical mind to bring through messages from spirit and help recipients interpret what is often deep symbolism. Through his work with spirit, Jeff feels privileged to support healing and a greater sense of contentment, joy and peace. He's also a noted author, included in his books The Power of I Am Alining the Chackras of Consciousness. Jeff, welcome back. Always a pleasure of having you on the show. Thank you so much, George. I

appreciate returning and sharing more interesting topics with you. How have you been doing? Wonderful and enjoying looking forward to contact in the desert this year. Now that we're getting back to normal. Absolutely, and I'll see you out there. I'll be there too. It's coming up in a couple of months. It's going to be here before you know it. We're going to celebrate my birthday. They tell me, Oh, excellent, excellent, we will do that. How did you get involved in

all of this, Jeff in the first first place? Now, ever, since I was a kid, I saw spirit, but I also saw energy fields around all living things, especially people, and didn't understand that other people didn't recognize them. And so I went the root of science because I wanted to understand things from that perspective and searching what's the meaning of life and what is life and what it's

mean to be living. And it's just taken me on such a beautiful and interesting path, merging science and metaphysics together and really realizing how much more they compliment and

compete with each other. Did your parents encourage you? Yeah, I have to say I was raised Catholic, and I think a lot of my family members thought I was going to probably become a priest, because you know, I was always seeking something beyond the physical, But no, I was fortunate to grow up near lily Dale in western New York State, so they could put me in touch

with mediums. There's a whole community of mediums there and they have programming in the summer months, and as a young boy, I got to meet with the mediums and they helped me understand and develop and really help and support messages from the spirit world. We're going to talk tonight with you, Jeff, about souls and spirits and all these fascinating things. But what does your overall take the

other side? Well, the most interesting thing I've discovered about the other side, and this has been just really more or less than the last to seven years, is how much we help them in their evolution of their own souls. It's as if they're watching a reality show and they're watching the choices and decisions that we make, and that helps them understand some of the shortcomings they might have

had while they were here. So there's a continuous learning process, or I should say a remembering process, because your soul knows all. But when we manifest into the physical, we tend to put blinders on so that we focus specifically on a lesson, you know, for exam, for example, if you're studying calculus versus algebra versus Trigg. You put your focus on that one course so that you can develop it fully, which will eventually complement all the other understandings.

So the spirit world is really engaged with us, not only for our own benefit, encouragement, inspiration, but also for their continual evolution. What is the soul progression? What does that mean? Yes, a spirit and really impressed this idea to me. I went to visit the Edgar Casey Center in Virginia Beach and I had this amazing meditation. This would have been about fifteen years ago. And my ability to be intuitive, which means I listen to my higher self,

my soul self. I'm able to connect with an understanding of why someone's soul is here and instead of calling it reincarnation or calling it karma, the soul progression is a term to help a person understand the relative growth and development their soul is achieving at a specific point in time. So as I look back at past life, they can see where their soul was, but they also get a great understanding of how much progression they've made. In our day to day life, we don't always understand

that we are evolving, that we are moving forward. Sometimes it's you know, two steps forward, one step back, but there is a continuum that's pushing us a forward toward enlightenment. Does one need to reincarnate in order to get the

sole progression? I truly believe so. And you know, I liken it to the fact that, let's say you're an actor and you're going to play lots of different roles in that opportunity to look at yourself and understand yourself from many perspectives, rich, poor, male, female, powerful, powerless, you have the opportunity to really know yourself and understand yourself

and apply your understanding to universal law. So I think it's invaluable to have many, many lifetimes so that you can have all these different experiences and really have the ability to understand the whole from so many perspectives. Jeff I always thought that reincarnation when I wish way young, was based on the more lie you have, the better you get, the closer a perfection. So you know, life number one you're at a certain level, but life number

seven you're much higher. And you know life number ten you're even higher. Was I right? There's a there's a gentle progression. It's probably not a linear line. It probably waivers more like a sign or a co sign. There's waivering that happens, but not in judgment of your understanding of things. It's just as you have a different perspective from your lower lower self lower life, you know, based on fear, anxiety, worry, that actually can be very helpful

to boost you up. But yeah, there is a general like if you applotted all your lifetimes on a chart, that you would see an upward momentum toward enlightenment, which is understanding and the goal is to alleviate all karma. Once you're done with karma, they call it zero point karma. You've achieved all the lessons you need in the physical plane, and then there's other planes of existence you can work on to continue to develop. What is a sole agreement.

So a sole agreement is similar to what some people refer to as a sole contract. Your agreement with your higher self and some of your higher guides is to come here and work on a specific lesson. And I look at the archetypical patterns of the chakras and those help you understand the various lessons someone might be working on. So, for example, if someone's working on heart chakra, it might be trusting in love, it might be believing in love.

It might have to do a self love. It might have to do with just balancing giving and receiving love. But there'll be an aspect of love that they're working on. So what they'll do is they'll the most important choice they make first is the body costume. And to think of when you're incarnating your spirits coming here, it's picking a costume to where your body has the personality that's going to make it likely for you then to take

on that specific lesson. And then you're going to pick a whole cast of characters that are around you, part of your soul family, who usually are working on similar lessons, and you're going to play out dramas. I mean, this is the dramatic playing. This is where we use our emotions.

And we're really brave to come here to do that because in doing so, as opposed of just observing someone having the experience, being down in it emotionally is very very It gives a greater depth of understanding the richness and the lesson so that the soul can progress. Jeff is the soul and the spirit one and the same, or is it different? They're terms that are often used synonymously,

but they're actually very different. So your soul is buying eternal aspect of yourself, and I give the bathtub analogy. Think of a bathtub of water. That's your soul. When you incarnate, you're only going to take a piece of your soul. So you take a glass of water, which would represent your body. You take a glass of water. Out that water in that glass we would call your spirit.

So a piece of your soul, your spirit will come incarnate, It will have its life experience, it will generate karma, it will have understandings of lessons, and then when it's time to leave the earth plane, we dump the water back in the tub. In the next incarnation, we take out another glass of water. It's not identical, but the

insight and information is avaluable in that of water. So that from lifetime to lifetime to lifetime, there's different aspects of our soul that is incarnating and having those experiences, but we're always bringing it back to the mother ship so that it can be processed and understood from a higher perspective. Why does the soul of incarnate in the first place. It wants to understand itself and it wants to you know, to me, it's it's organic. It's like

the breath of life in anihilation, exhalation, innhialation. There's a motion, there's a movement, there's seasons, there's tides, you know, there's phases of the moon. There's this aspect of I guess i'd call it the law of vibration. Everything's vibrating, everything's moving, everything's in in some type of either harmony or disharmony. So for the soul to choose to have an aspect

of itself, it's spirit to come and incarnate. It's just exploring an idea, a thought, a lesson, and then it's bringing it back and then it's going to explore it again. It's just it's a perpetual, infinite wave of vibration of learning and understanding. Pretty fascinating. Indeed, how did you learn all this? Through meditation? Most of it? But there's some really great authors out there of a lot of some of my favorite are Brian Weiss, Many Likes, Many Masters.

That was one of the first folks I read on reincarnation. But Michael Newton has Destiny of the Souls. The Loris Cannon did a lot of work. So there's there's been some really great authors out there, but there's some great research now and one of my favorites, through the University of Virginia, Ian Stevenson, started the research and it's been

taken over by Jim Tucker. They studied thousands of young children, children before I believe it's the age of five or six, and they're part of the Division of Perpetual Studies at the University of Virginia. They studied children in India, Lebanon, Brazil, all pretty much all over the world, but thousands of children, and they learned that that a huge percentage of it's over seventy have this strong memory of a past life.

And you know when you're new to the veil, when you come to the veil into this lifetime, there's a there's a memory, but you're conditioned to be in an intellectual society where we want data and facts, and you know that the belief is seeing is believing, whereas when you become metaphysical, believing is seeing is what we learned. But as a children, we're not we don't have the limitation set. So they took time and they've written some really good books on children and their memories are just

absolutely amazing studies. So I encourage people to look into Ian Stevenson and Jim Tucker at the University of Virginia. When when people come to you to understand more about

their lives, their souls, what did they ask for? You know, many times they're at a crossroads in their life and they realized there's a pattern in relationship or there's something relative to their career that just comes to them and they realize they're they're they're fighting themselves, They're they're in conflict with themselves, and they're in what I call resistance. And when people are in resistance, they can feel it, they can sense it. They no matter what they do,

they just don't feel like they're moving anywhere forward. And that to me, it's a time to self reflect and really have an understanding of Hey, why am I feeling this way? Help me understand so that I can break the pattern, because there's usually just like we get inhabits the older we get. You know, I've hit my sixties, now I understand when I'm younger. When people say, you know, people get older, they get stuck in those patterns. Well,

your soul can get stuck in a pattern too. For instance, if it has to do a self expression, that's silent child syndrome, where I don't feel like I'm either worthy to speak my truth or I'll be persecuted, or I've had path lives where I've been punished or humiliated if I've done so. And so the big lessons are, hey, let's get over that pattern, Let's let go of that paradigm, let's grow, let's take a chance. Let's do it from

a different perspective. So the people that are coming to me realize that, hey, I got to do this different. I don't quite understand what it is, but if you could help show me. And that's what I do with the soul progressions is I can look at relationships, I can look at their hobbies, I can look at their passions. I can look at even their career path and the health of the individual. You know, I was blessed to have an education and sell molecular biology, and I did

epidemialogy studies and studied cancer. And when you look at all these patterns within the families. I believe in genes, but I believe genes are only turned on by really strong belief systems and thought processes. So within a family, if you know Grandma and my aunts and mom had breast cancer, Oh my gosh, I'm going to get breast cancer. So is it more that the gene or is it more of the thought process or is it the karma

connected to that in that case the heart chakra. So there's an interesting dynamic to look at in this integrative approach to look at disease, you know, within a family, and is it actually a belief pattern and or is it actually a gene or probably you know a combination of all the above. Jeff, Do we all have soul families?

And what are they? We do? We're not independent? And you know the way that I like to think of a soul is I go to my anatomy and you think that we're all a cell in the body, and there's billions of cells in a body, and that body is God's source creator. We all have, like every cell in your body has the same genetic material. That material

you have access to. It's just for inst and your skin cell expresses a different gene than your skeletal muscle cell or your liver cells, but you all have access to the same insight and information, And the way that I see a soul family would be like an organ in the body. They all work together, they're working on a commonality, like you know, the digestive system or the

respiratory system. So within your soul family, you choose to gravitate toward individuals that are working on similar lessons, and your greatest teachers and your greatest adversaries are going to be those close family members. And the family extends beyond biology. It can be close friends, work associates, and so forth. But there's a natural affinity law of traction that you're going to draw people in that are learning similar lessons.

And the people that really push your buttons the most are probably going to be your greatest teachers because they're showing you something about yourself that's a call to healing. And the people that you really have love and compassions or tend to compliment the lesson that you really understand and assimilate. So it's it's fun to do an analysis. When I teach workshops on this, I have them analyze like three main family members, three work associates, three past relationships,

three close friendships. They can easily see these patterns within them and how they're they're all really their synergy in growth between individuals. Is there a tie in between the soul family and the real biological family that you might have, Yeah, there is, but it's not so many many times people come to a reading and they're like, you know, I feel like I was adopted. I didn't belong to this family.

But again, being the black sheep or the person outside the what might be the normal belief within the family might give that individual either you know more they're gaining self confidence or self expression or self love. But what happens, and this is what I really appreciate about Carl Young and Rudolf Steiner's studies. They were psychologists. Rudolph Steiner especially started a society where they their belief system was that by the time you hit thirty to forty, you actually

have gravitated towards your true soul family. So in some cases and probably most cases, people will that will include their biological family. But in other cases you might develop friendships through societies, through work, through just your your geographic

location that will become more harmonic with your family. And their belief is is that it usually takes us to at least to our thirties before we really start to know and understand ourselves, and we tend to have a affinity towards those like, energetic or minded people that we want to grow with. Listen to more Coast to Coast am every weeknight at one am Eastern, and go to Coast to Coast am dot com for more