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I'd like this Blog to address what I believe are some really relevant issues and questions in our lives.  Questions like our purpose; Why are we here in the first place? Toward what end? 

I'd like to have discussion on such issues as our values; for instance, how do we equate success or, happiness.  I'm curious to know what others see as their gifts, and are they using, or not using them, and why I believe that's of extreme importance. 

Since I am first and foremost a storyteller, sometimes, I'll simply tell a story and encourage readers to think about the meaning the story has for them.

Finally, I'd like everyone who visits Claudette Blog to come away from this website with something positive and hopefully, some measure of added insight on various issues and topics that impact our lives.
  
I think it is important to acknowledge that at the end of the day, we're all in this thing called 'life' together. Perhaps, we can work through some of these issues TOGETHER.

Love, Claudette



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5/31/2008


 

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Dr. Brian Weiss on The Oprah Show


Past-life regression was the subject of a recent Oprah Winfrey television show. The point of the discussion was attempting to determine the veracity of past lives. Is it true or false. Do we really live more than one, and in some cases, numerous lifetimes? And if so, how do we remember them?


Oprah’s guest for this particular show was Dr. Brian Weiss, who uses hypnosis to facilitate memories and impressions of former lifetimes. Dr. Weiss attempted mass hypnosis of Oprah’s entire audience. A recap of the show on her website states:


"Between one-quarter and one-half of the audience say they had some success being hypnotized and recalled old memories from their current lives. Some even say they experienced visions of past lives.

One woman says she recalled how, in a previous life, she was a man who was murdered by someone while in a swamp. ‘I could feel blood running out and I could see my attacker and I was killed with a knife’", she says.   


Another woman who was childless experienced several past life-times in which she had children, but they lived and she died each time.

An African-American woman said she was a nun in a past-life and was white.    


“Dr. Weiss says these experiences are all quite common. ‘We change race, we change religions because we have to learn from all sides. Souls don’t have those characteristics. We’re all connected. It’s not about color or race. You have to learn from all sides, and that’s part of our learning here on the planet.’”

                       

Reincarnation is a Premise of … The Secret of the Veil


That we all live multiple lifetimes is a premise of my novel, The Secret of the Veil. I believe, as Dr. Weiss does, that we are here on earth to learn … to elevate our level of spiritual consciousness during each lifetime.   


I also believe that children have natural memory and impressions of past lives, perhaps the most recent one lived, but don’t have the ability or understanding to articulate those memories.


In my book, the strange occurrences experienced by the heroine, Alexis Ashley are based on her eventual awareness, and acceptance of the connection of all life, including hers … to the past, present and future.  


Not to give anything away to those who haven’t … but might read the book, one such passage that deals with the subject of past lives is found in book two, chapter two. It is an instance where the past and the present inadvertently meet.

When I reach the bottom of the stairs, I turn to go down   the hall to the kitchen, but  just as I turn, I catch a movement out of the corner of my eye.

It looks like someone turning to go into the dining room. I run down the hall into the dining room and turn on the light. There’s no one there. I run through the dining room into the parlor and then, across the hall into the sitting room.  Nothing. I don’t feel it is a trick of light as I had that first night. This time I definitely made out the figure of a woman … a woman in a long, dark dress.

                    (Skip several paragraphs)

 I look around but there’s nobody in the room, which is quite a switch. It is the first time I have walked into an empty vision. I check the furniture, and except for the       chandelier and the basic design of the room, it is totally different from the one I so recently walked through.


Then, a movement at the front of the large room catches my attention. I look down and there she is. She’d been there all the time .. on her knees, scrubbing the floor. I know it’s the woman I glimpsed earlier, only this time I’m looking directly at her.            

                       
She’s a black woman who’s perhaps around thirty, maybe a little younger or older. She has on a plain, floor length rustic dress, and a wrap on her head that’s knotted in front. With a pail of soapy water at her side she’s scrubbing the floor with long, slow strokes of a brush. Her dress, covered in front by a long apron, is damp but she doesn’t seem to notice.

 Alexis has walked into another time. The woman scrubbing the floor, and some others that she will meet has a special relevance to her life. The whole point of the book is her discovery of that relevance.

So, when people ask at book signings if I actually believe that people live more than one lifetime. The answer is  an emphatic … "Yes, I do." 

9:31 pm cdt


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