Why did I write this book?

Thank you for asking me to write this blog and add it to yours. My name is Gloria De Pietro. I am a past life regression specialist. That’s a mouth-ful I know, but what I do is I get my clients in touch with their former lives to help them understand and learn from what they’ve experienced before.

The reason I wrote the book; A Soul’s Journey is because I feel that this is the time that has been written about for a millennia in every major religious text known to man, from the book of Enoch to the Koran, to the Old and New Testament and even the Vedic writings from 5,000 years ago which all speak about a new age dawning, when our creator will establish a new earth, a heaven on earth. This is an opportune time for all of us to move forward in our evolutionary path. It is difficult to embrace a higher level of consciousness, one of love and living in our fourth or even fifth dimension, when we are still killing each other, starting wars, harboring thoughts of greed and power, and bickering with each other about how we should live. When we realize that we must atone for our every thought and action, we would think twice before we act contrarily to the universal law.

You cannot attain a light body while living and thinking with a third-dimensional mindset. We live in a world of duality of cause and effect; we are mostly living in our reptilian brains, which is the thought process of survival. Once we learn that we are our own judge and jury, then perhaps we’ll start acting accordingly. I do not profess to know better or to tell you how you should think or act. I do not judge anyone because I know we act out our belief systems according to what we have been taught from our past experiences. This is why I have dedicated my life to helping people release old belief structures and forgive themselves for what they have done in their previous lives.

Think for a moment if you were tortured and killed by the medieval inquisitors. How do you think you would feel toward the church now? Or perhaps; you were a courtesan in the 15^th century who tried to help children who were sold into the sex trade. How do you think you would feel about abused children today? I have memories such as these from my past lives, one as a monk who lived in the 12^th century and one as 15^th century woman who lived in a bordello. You might think that’s it’s impossible to remember such lifetimes, but it’s not impossible or difficult for me, and I know how to help anyone release these memories.

How can you remember lifetimes from so long ago?

The question is not whether we’ve lived before ̶̶ this is a fundamental truth. Rather, the question is, why do we continually return again and again?

My research on this subject has brought me to the understanding that we come back to learn important lessons, to finish business left unresolved, and to forgive and let go of deep-rooted prejudices and resentments. The soul is an energy form that cannot be destroyed. It attaches itself to a physical body to experience this life of duality to purify itself, for the sole purpose of returning to its original state of perfection. This realization brings us to the understanding that every thought and action creates an outcome. This state of being makes up our reality of the third dimension. Everything here is based on the principle of cause and effect. It makes perfect sense that universal law is ruled by karma; this is how we learn.

As children, we learn that if we touch a hot stove, we will get burned. Once we feel the pain of our burned finger, we remember not to touch the stove again. The pain becomes an imprint. The memory wants to be resolved in some way, and how we correct the situation is open to a myriad of possibilities. You can leave the kitchen altogether, you can ask someone else to remove the burning pot from the stove, or you can put on a protective glove. We have free will to choose how we want to overcome our defeats. It is up to us to decide. We can remember the past lives by going within and asking our bodies to tell their stories using the imprint that is there. I know the regression techniques taught to me by my teacher Dr. Roger Woolger; it is easy to remember past lives with a trained practitioner. We remember the lives we’ve lived before that are still resonating with us today because our souls want to heal and move on. It can be because the lesson hasn’t been learned yet or because we have come back to make amends or  just rectify the wrong that was done.

The past lives reviewed in this exposé were analyzed for their content, and the criteria were as follows: (1) What was the main purpose of that life? (2) What lesson was learned? (3) What was left unresolved? (4) How was the lesson integrated into the soul’s overall understanding? (5) How did the lesson fit into the bigger picture of the soul’s evolution?

Taking responsibility for our every thought and action is the only way to block the effects of karma and to end the cycle of death and rebirth. No more pointing fingers or blaming someone else for your reality. No one is coming to save you. You have to save yourself. You must take responsibility for your own actions. Once you get to that place, you will develop compassion and empathy for those who are still on the path of self-realization. A Soul’s Journey is a story of traveling through time to find the truth. You are the truth; you are the way.

What makes you qualified to write such a book?

I have been a certified regression therapist since 2010, having studied with renowned Jungian analyst Roger Woolger Ph. D. since 2006. I have performed hundreds of regressions and have researched this particular book for 15 years. I have also worked with trauma victims as an art therapist since 2000. I have put my hours in, and I am confident that the material presented in this book is authentic and has not been presented in this manner before.

I began to investigate karmic patterns as a way to understand my own life to help answer the question why am I here and what is the purpose of this life. It was while studying with Dr. Woolger that I began to understand how the wheel of karma teaches us the lessons we need to learn here and now.

Thus, this lifelong journey has taken me to do this research on how past lives influence our current thoughts, deeds, and actions. This book can explain many of our unanswered questions about our origins, and it is timely and relevant. 

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1. You are a hypnotist specializing in Between Lives Soul Regressions (BLSRs). What exactly is that and what do you do?

A Between Lives Soul Regression or BLSR (also known as a life between lives regression or LBL) is a sacred experience in which you can return to the nonphysical realm you call Home between your earthly incarnations and so experience and remember your identity as an immortal soul. A Between Lives Soul Regression is a powerful and deeply healing way to gain an expanded awareness of who you really are and a profound understanding of the plan for, and purpose of, your life.

A Between Lives Soul Regression begins with some preliminary steps that are intended to help you relax deeply. I will then guide you briefly into a past life. The past life will be one that is directly relevant to your current lifetime. For example, you may see something that was left incomplete in a past life and that you planned to complete in your current incarnation. Or, if you’re struggling with something in particular, Spirit may show you a past life in which you had success with that issue as a way of saying, “You succeeded in this area before, so you can succeed again.”

After the past life ends, you can talk with one of your guides about why you were shown that particular past life and how it impacted the plan for your current lifetime. We then ask your guide to escort you to the Council of Elders. The Council consists of the wise, loving, and highly evolved beings who oversee the cycle of reincarnation on Earth. The Council knows everything about you: the plan for your current lifetime, as well as everything about every past life you’ve had. You can ask the Council any questions you have about what you planned for your current lifetime, why you made those plans, how you’re doing in terms of fulfilling your plan, and what you can do to better fulfill your plan. You can also ask any questions you have about any of the significant people and pets in your life. Many clients describe basking in the Council’s pure, unconditional love and total nonjudgment. Often the Council will provide a powerful energetic healing.

Talking with the Council is a wondrous opportunity to ask any questions you have on any subject. After a Between Lives Soul Regression, many clients state, “I received an answer to every question I asked, and I have no more questions about my life!”

2. Part of your work is to help people discover what they planned BEFORE they were born for their current lifetime. Can you give any interesting or compelling examples of someone you worked with and how this was able to help them?

In my second book Your Soul’s Gift: The Healing Power of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born, I share the story of Caroline, who lost her only child Cameron to suicide. In a channeling session in which Caroline and I talked with Jesus, he told us that if a suicidal person has the slightest willingness to change their mind, Spirit knows, and Spirit stages an intervention. What this means, then, is that every suicide preventable by outside forces was prevented. So, if someone reading this has lost a loved one to suicide, please know that there was literally nothing you could have done to prevent the suicide. This is on pages 410-411 of the book. I consider this to be perhaps the single most healing piece of information I’ve come across in all the years I’ve been doing this work.

3. What role does free will and destiny play in your work? For example, if someone planned to do something before their life, does that mean they are destined to do it or do they have the free will to choose to pursue that during their life? 3a. If free will is involved, why do you think some people accomplish what they were hoping to accomplish or planned to accomplish BEFORE they were born and other people do NOT accomplish what they were hoping to accomplish or planned to accomplish before they were born.

When I say that things are planned before we’re born, I mean that most things are planned as possibilities or probabilities. Very little is set in stone. Whether a particular possibility actualizes depends upon our free will decisions. This is how we learn and why life on Earth is a great teacher. If everything were predestined, we would be nothing more than automatons, and no learning would occur.

4. What are some helpful suggestions you have for people to better understand what they planned to do BEFORE they were born and how they can accomplish that during their lifetime?

The most powerful way to find out what you planned and how best to fulfill your plan is a Between Lives Soul Regression. That’s a direct experience in which you yourself talk with Spirit; you aren’t relying on someone else to be accurate in retrieving information for you. Other ways to learn about your plan are: meditation, dreamwork, astrology, numerology, palmistry, automatic writing, The Michael System (a body of channeled literature; you can have a session with someone who channels Michael); mediums or channels; Chinese face reading; nedi leaf reading (you have to go to India for this one); Akashic Record readings; a soul plan reading (the Blue Marsden system). General indicators you’re on track with your plan: feelings of joy or excitement; following aspirations and inspirations; engaging in any activity that creates time distortion or what some call the “flow” state.

5. What advice would you give to counselors or coaches who are working with people who are severely depressed and considering suicide and do not believe they have any soul plan or purpose in life?

Tell your clients that if you weren’t learning and growing, you wouldn’t still be in body. The fact that you are still here means your soul sees some beautiful and great purpose being served by your life. Your work is to shift from body-personality consciousness, which sees only a small slice of the big picture, to soul consciousness. My books Your Soul’s Plan and Your Soul’s Gift can help with that.

6. Do you have any interesting examples of serendipity or synchronicity in your life or work with people and how that has helped them accomplish their soul plan?

In Your Soul’s Gift there’s a chapter about the pre-birth planning of miscarriage and abortion. The miscarriage story is about Rebecca, who loses so much blood during her miscarriage that she nearly dies. She is saved when one of her spirit guides assumes human form and instructs the emergency medical team as to how to save her. I can’t do justice to the story here, but it’s an amazing example of how the Universe creates “serendipity” to help us fulfill our life plans

7. Anything else?

Only the most courageous beings choose to incarnate on Earth. The fact that you are here in body on Earth automatically places you among the most courageous beings in the Universe.

1. What is your book “What was in Buddha’s Left Hand:Tantric Teachings to Transform Neurosis into Sanity” about and why did you write it?

The answer to the first part of your question, what is this book about, is in the subtitle. Tantra is about working creatively with negative emotions and neurotic states of mind in order to transform them into their essential state. A concrete example of this is how a grain of sand that gets lodged in an oyster, causing considerable irritation, produces a pearl. When we work skillfully with our problematic states of mind (and these methods are described and explained in the book), we are able to use their energy to highlight their positive aspects.

I wrote the book because the teachings of the five wisdom energies, modeled after the five elements of earth, water, fire, wind, and space, which is what my book is about, is a cycle of tantric teachings that my Buddhist teacher taught beginning in the 70s. These teachings are extremely powerful, and remarkably, they are under represented in the modern Buddhist world.

2.  How can we transform our neurosis into sanity if it has been ingrained in our psyches for many many years

    Neurotic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior are primarily reinforced by our ceaseless inner dialogue. Learning how to bypass our “story” and communicate with the energetic aspect of our problematic patterns, we decrease their electrical charge. In other words, by not feeding our patterns with a repetitive problem-saturated story, we starve of them, liberating ourselves from their power to shape our thoughts and feelings, and habitual behaviors.

3.  What do you mean by tantric teachings and how can the average person use them to help their life?

Tantra teachings and their methods distinguish themselves by their direct approach to working with the stuff with everyday life—money, food or substance, sexuality and power, as well as our negative emotions and behaviors. Tantra holds the view that neurosis and sanity, samsara and nirvana are inseparable. If we know how to work creatively with our unruly thoughts, conflicting emotions, and dysfunctional behaviors, we can elicit their positive aspects. Each of the five wisdom energies, represented by earth, water, fire, winter, and space are five different aspects of how we experience life. Each of the elements is associated with specific techniques for how to work with our unique personality. 

4.  You’ve been a psychotherapist for the past 25 years, integrating spiritual vision with psychological process in an effort to return ‘soul’ to the helping relationship. How do you that? Can you provide any specific techniques or interventions?

This is a big question and not easily answered in written form. To put it simply, the fruition of working with the Tantric teachings is to discover beauty in the places we’d least expect to find it—-in our everyday bread and butter world. The perception of beauty opens our mind and body, heart and soul, and disposes us to love the world. It should be understood that this beauty is not the saccharine version of beauty of a Hallmark card. It includes the raw and rugged aspects of life that may be painful. With the meditative state of mind we’re able to perceive the isness or beingness of ordinary things, and this gives us confidence and inspiration to explore the good, the bad, the ugly, and the beautiful of ourselves and of life.

 Specific techniques or interventions make sense when they appear in the context of particular situations, which my book provides examples of.

5. In general, how do you integrate spirituality into your psychotherapy practice?

  The world has become disenchanted and most of us have lost the sense of life’s miraculousness that we felt as children.  In essence, the spiritual path is a growing awareness that we are in dialogue with an intelligent, living cosmos, of which we are an intrinsic part. We are both embedded in nature, and life force animates every cell, every molecule and atom of our mind and body. Spirituality is the process of deepening this understanding and dissolving the false sense of separation from nature and the world.

5a. And, Is this ever difficult for people who do not have any spirituality, religion or spiritual beliefs? Does that change the way you work with them?

It’s crucial that we meet our clients where they are. Having religion or spiritual beliefs can sometimes be a huge obstacle to having direct and immediate experience of oneself and one’s life. My emphasis with my clients is on developing an embodied presence—being in the body, here and now, with a growing courage to experience whatever is going on. We don’t have to call this spiritual. Even the most gnarly emotional states have a pearl of great price embedded in them.

6.  A lot of people have difficulty with meditation because their mind is so active. What advice would you give those people to help improve their meditation practice?

Well, this is the perennial question that’s been asked for thousands of years. There’s no quick fix, but it does help to get a good instruction (which my book includes) that cuts through the comic book version that many Westerners have about meditation, ie. We’re not supposed to have thoughts when we meditate; alternatively we’re only supposed to have spiritual, philosophical, or good thoughts. Of course this is nonsense, and it causes many people to stop meditating. The five wisdom energies, which is the theme of my book, suggest a number of different methods for how to bring the meditative state of mind into one’s ordinary life.

 It’s also very helpful to have regular communication with a seasoned meditation teacher who can correct your approach and make suggestions.

7. Have you experienced any serendipity or synchronicity in your life journey or the creation of your book? If so, what?

It’s been my experience that whenever my attention focuses intently on a particular theme, that theme will begin to echo throughout my life. There will be seemingly random events that crystallize the theme of the very chapter that I’m currently writing.

More generally speaking, the more that we evolve as conscious beings, there will be a higher degree of meaningful coincidence or synchronicity. When I began meditating four decades ago I couldn’t help but notice such auspicious coincidences occurring with greater frequency.