Global Soul by Joseph Costa, PhD
How many lifetimes have you lived on Earth? When was the last time you came to Earth to live—to experience human life? Did you know that you were going to inhabit a place that would be chaotic and violent? Did you really come to save Earth from destruction? Where and how can we get answers to these kinds of questions?
There were times on Earth that were natural and peaceful; there were also times of violence and destruction where pain, fear and death were rampant.
Past lives investigations reveal personal and collective stages of life repeating, perhaps as ways in which to learn the lessons of life—individuals and cultures both. Some past lives reflect simple everyday living. Others reveal secrets of destructive and violent experiences.
I lived through America’s Great Depression. Hunger and breadlines were my childhood. As a youth, I was marched in uniform; I crossed the Atlantic, invaded France, was blown up in Germany, took prisoners to Russia and lost my family in a divorce. Now, I am a psychology-trained healer of sorts—I take clients into past lives so that they can find the connections as to why they have cancer, perhaps, or why parts of their bodies are sick or why they need guidance about what to do next.
More often than not, investigating past lives reveals the secret to what the Soul Being has been up to and what it may be doing in the near future. Some of my clients in this life are just everyday people, yet in other lives they led soldiers into battle or saved villages from extinction. One thing is obvious from all the years and all the people (around the globe) I have had the opportunity to work with, in past life investigations: They all range over the Earth as Global Souls. What have I discovered from those I have ‘followed’ in past lives? The Soul Being of everyone is far more than the meager acting out each one does in life.
I was there to see and smell the piled-up bodies of Soul lives in 1945 Germany. I walked around angry and helpless as hollow eyes in decaying bodies begged me for the Oneness that I could not give. My eyes were crying as I pointed my rifle at their torturers—this made me want to kill. But I just sat down and cried.
Slaughtered soul bodies lay all about and I tried to reason how one human could do such a thing to another, and on such a tremendous scale. The magnitude of so much death was beyond understanding. The fact that communities—made up of many humble men and women from the towns and villages, who refused to see the butchery and slaughter—was astonishing to me.
I saw German-made movies of the butchering and tried to understand how a cultured nation could participate in the slaughter of millions. But what troubled me the most was how the Jews could calmly yet stoically go to their deaths; so many holding hands and boldly and without panic. I could not grasp the meaning of this. What was there in them that seemed to give themselves over to death—by the hundreds daily!
What was it—is it—of the Soul that could be a party to the slaughter of mankind—day in and day out? I asked that question again and again. I could see in their dying eyes, a resolve of, “You have finally come to save us.” That reminded me of what I said when I saw those eyes pleading with me from the piles of dead and dying. “Jesus,” I cried out. “Oh my God, we are too late—my Jesus!”
But there is an awesomeness to the awakening and realization of the Oneness of the Global Soul. You and I are a part of the Global Soul. Every lifetime you have ventured onto Earth was with purpose. Whether the lifetime was made up of twisted bodies and pain or majestic glory as a leader or giver of life, you and I have been a part of “All that is—the Oneness of being of all life.”
I am an elderly man of today and on another day in another life I died as a woman in childbirth. You may be of crippled body as you read this, but in our hearts you—we—know that you have been in a life of physical perfection once. Why all this senseless pain? There is a purpose. All of these lives we venture through have meaning. This is learning to be of Oneness.
I was twenty-one years old and I have not been to church in years, except for the day I got married—just before we went charging across the Atlantic Ocean to France. As I write this in 2010, I am still trying to understand the essence of the Global Soul of today.
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