MB: There is a record of every single moment of every single life
and existence. Think of your physical body as a glove that you take off
when you die, but you still have a soul. As a person is reborn with a new
body and a new personality, I think we are also reborn with a new
memory.
PT: Does anything carry over?
MB: Often you carry over personality tendencies, tests and lessons,
and family connections. People are able, now, to have glimpses of things
in their past, with proper professional help.
But I think we learn most about our past lives by looking at this
one.
PT: Why is it that no one remembers being a schmuck? They were
always Napoleon or Peter the Great.
MB: I have a lot of Emily Brontes and Cleopatras. But if you have
the personality traits, gifts, and talents of Cleopatra, who brought a
country to its knees, I think you are going to have quite a bit of moxy
in this life. You are not going to be constantly bombarded with an
unsuccessful personal life. But we need to be practical and focus on this
life, not the past life, not the next life, not the afterlife. The here
and now. Everything we need for our development is here. Yes, there are
mysteries and there are people who seek answers in the metaphysical,
became the physical does not last.
PT: You have just written a book about death. It was once a topic
nobody wrote about. Now there is a sudden acceptance of the physical
reality of death and a spiritual approach to it. What's going on?
MB: I think the AIDS epidemic has opened people up to the
discussion of death. When I was younger, I don't remember too many
30-year-olds passing over. We had no epidemic that took the lives of
vital, creative young people. Faced with the death of their friends or
significant others, people want to understand and explore life and
death.
There has also been an opening of a more spiritual discussion of
death. It is amazing how many people have had a miraculous experience
connected with the death of a family member or loss--like being visited
by their father after his death--and how they want to share it.
PT: Do you get any angry calls from priests and rabbis?
MB: Some people sadly have a misconception that a psychic gift is
dark. And I think that comes from a gross misunderstanding. It is
misunderstood as witchcraft or controlling.
PT: Do they fear that psychics will be confused with religious
prophets?
MB: Right, thank you. Religious leaders first tried to stop
psychics because they feared they would lose control over people if
someone could tell them their future. Those poor people in Salem, I mean,
how awful. That was a dark point in history. I don't even like to stop
for gas in Salem just because of the vibration.
But Jesus was psychic. He told Thomas, "Before the cock crows, you
will betray me three times." Tell me, is that not a psychic
prediction?
PT: Yes, but he was extraordinarily well connected.
MB: Well how nice to have a touch of that--though I am not in
anyway implying any of us are at that level of development. But I
listened to the most psychic man that ever lived. If you are going to
walk in his footsteps, my goodness, what a perk to be psychic too.
But motivation has so much to do with the gift. If a psychic or a
religious leader uses his or her position to control people, how awful.
If you use it to help guide, and love people, how great. It is the motive
behind the deed.
PT: How important was growing up in Iowa, an agrarian society, in
your life? Did it have anything to do with how you look at growth and
death and cycling?
MB: I am very grateful for Iowa. It is the basis for my emotional
balance. I think Midwesterners are wonderful people. They are open,
loving, pragmatic, and believe in afterlife and spirituality. My grandma
Grace raised me with the tools to trust my judgment, to respect a gift,
not to go loony-tunes about it.
Common sense reigned there. I think lot of life's problems that
people think are psychological or spiritual are really just common
sense.
People worry too much, instead of others taking action. They think
too much about themselves and not the needs of others. But it is all
basically a process of growth. That's why we are born, that's why we live
on this side, then go to the other side, and come back until we do it
right.
Life is all about getting it right and get it right when we master
ourselves.
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