So, you found some of your past lives. Maybe even some of them were of historical note. The past is a nice place to visit but you don’t want to live there. Immersing yourself in any of those lifetimes to the extent that it adversely affects this one would run counterproductive to the reason you are here in this life.

As the famous “Sleeping Prophet” Edgar Cayce once said, and I paraphrase, “It is not important who you were in another lifetime but what you were.” You went through lessons in those lifetimes just as you are going through lessons in this one. Let us hope we learned our lessons well and need not repeat them.

I feel, I mean, I know we are guided during our lives. I was guided to a little farm road on the Antietam Battlefield where the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War was fought. What I experienced in that old dirt road put me on a course to discovering the truth of reincarnation. I found that I had been a famous Confederate general named John B. Gordon. That is who he was, but what was he? He was a soldier, statesman, lecturer, father and husband. He was many different things to different people.

I found remarkable similarities between his life and my own. Like the rest of us, he had his good points and his bad points.  Now what to do with all this information? The answer was simply put in an old song many years ago, “accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative.”

Albert Einstein said, “God does not play dice with the universe.” I believe we have a great amount of input into the blueprint of our lives. We may not follow the blueprint exactly (free will), but when we come to the different signposts along the way, it is up to each of us to decide which road we will take. Just like Gen. Gordon, I too wrote a book. My book is titled Someone Else’s Yesterday and my reason for writing it can be seen in the following excerpt:

“The most heroic battles are not fought on the battlefield, but in everyday life. We are here to learn through experience and to put those experiences to work for us. Many times our greatest strides forward come after we muddle our way through some of life’s difficulties. There are no free rides. For many years, I thought it ironic that we go through life gathering information, and when we are able to understand much of what these life lessons have taught us, we die and the knowledge is lost. I see now this is not the case.

The experiences of this lifetime have brought me to the conclusion that we are both, the archer and the target; the deceased and the heir. People worry about the legacy we are leaving our children and grandchildren.

What kind of world should we leave them as their inheritance? It should be a world that we would enjoy living in, for it might just come to pass. The purpose of my writing this book was to get people to think, to start them on a path of self-discovery and assist them in finding their true identity. Hopefully they will notice in others not just their differences, but their sameness, and maybe, some day, their oneness.”

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