Destiny of Souls

DESTINY OF SOULS by Michael Duff Newton

After reading chapter 2 of Destiny of Souls on how spirits of our loved ones come back to comfort us, I cried for joy.

Ssan, Sacramento, CA I was thrilled that Dr. Newton’s teachings were published in another book. It gives us an even greater understanding of what we learned in his first book.

Laura, Denver, CO Destiny of Souls is going to excite a lot of people like me who wanted more after Journey of Souls.

Jerry, Albany, NY I never understood my flashback memories about the afterlife until I read your work.

Dave, Atlanta, GA The quality and comprehension of your writing about spirituality is so profound and yet you are able to convey complex ideas so simply. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your inspiration.

Doris, Riverside, CA I applaud your courage in being able to confront the mainstream of negative religious thinking in this country.

Marcia, Topeka, KS Your analysis of the structure of the spirit world as a place of order and love is inspiring.

Tracy, Jasper, IN Your book brings me a lot of comfort and helps diminish my fear of the great unknown.

Rene, Paris, France The enlightening messages from your case interviews are priceless.

Holtz, Bonn, Germany I have often felt a deep loneliness and sense of not belonging to this present life. You have made me see where those feelings come from and who I really am.

Rachel, London, UK About the Author Michael Duff Newton holds a doctorate in Counseling Psychology, is a certified Master Hypnotherapist and a member of the American Counseling Association. He has been on the faculty of higher educational institutions as a teacher while active in private practice in Los Angeles. Dr. Newton developed his own age regression techniques in order to effectively take hypnosis subjects beyond their past life memories to a more meaningful soul experience between lives. The author is considered to be a pioneer in uncovering the mysteries about our life in the spirit world, first reported in his best-selling book Journey of Souls (1994), which has been translated into ten languages. Dr. Newton has an international reputation as a spiritual regressionist, appearing on numerous radio and TV talk shows and as a lecturer at New Age expositions. In 1998, he received the annual award for the “Most Unique Contribution” in bridging mind, body and spirit from the National Association of Transpersonal Hypnotherapists. He was honored for his years of clinical soul memory research and discoveries into the cosmology of the afterlife. The author is a historian, amateur astronomer and world traveler. He and his wife, Peggy, now make their home in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of northern California.

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DESTINY

OF

SOULS

New Case Studies of Life Between Lives Llewellyn Publications St. Paul, Minnesota 55164-0383, U.S.A.

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paper Acknowledgments This book is dedicated to my father, John H. Newton, for instilling his love of journalistic writing early in my life and to my son, Paul, for his humor and encouragement during the later years.

In gratitude to my wife, Peggy, who assisted me in reviewing hundreds of client cases in the preparation of this book. Special thinks to manuscript readers Norah Newton Mayper, John Fahey, Jacqueline Nash, Gary and Susan Aanes and my editor, Rebecca Zins.

I also wish to express my appreciation to the many people who have connected with me since the 1994 publication of Journey of Souls to say how much knowing about our afterlife has meant to them. Eventually, they persuaded me to take them once again to the other side of time.

Contents

Introduction … xi

1: The Spirit World… 1

2: Death, Grief and Comfort… 11

Denial and Acceptance, 11

Therapeutic Techniques of Souls, 13

Ways Spirits Connect with the Living, 16

Somatic Touch, 16

Personification with Objects, 19

Dream Recognition, 22

Transference Through Children, 31

Contact in Familiar Settigs, 33

Strangers as Messengers, 37

Angels or Other Heavenly Hosts, 38

Emotional Recovery of Souls and Survivors, 42

Reuniting with Those We Love, 48

3: Earthly Spirits … 51

Astral Planes, 51

Nature Spirits, 53

Ghosts, 54

The Abandoned Soul, 56

Spiritual Duality, 62

Souls in Seclusion, 64

Discarnates Who Visit Earth, 69

Demons or Devas, 74

4: Spiritual Energy Restoration … 85

Soul Energy, 85

Standard Treatment at the Gateway, 86

Emergency Treatment at the Gateway, 87

Recovery Areas for the Less Damaged Soul, 90

Regenerating Severely Damaged Souls, 93

Souls of Solitude, 104

Energy Healing on Earth, 109

Healers of the Human Body, 109

Healers of the Environment, 113

Soul Division and Reunification, 116

The Three Stations, 120

5: Soul Group Systems … 125

Soul Birthing, 125

Spiritual Settings, 134

Memory, 136

Community Centers, 138

Classrooms, 144

The Library of Life Books, 150

Colors of Spirits, 170

The Mixture of Colors in Soul Groups, 170

Colors of Visitors in Groups, 179

Human versus Soul Color Auras, 180

Spiritual Meditation Using Color, 182

Forms of Energy Color, 184

Sounds and Spiritual Names, 188

Soul Study Groups, 190

6: The Council of Elders … 201

Human Fear of Judgment and Punishment, 201

The Setting for Soul Evaluation, 204

Appearance and Composition of the Council, 212

Signs and Symbols, 224

The Presence, 243

The Chain of Divine Influence, 249

Processing Council Meetings, 251

7: Community Dynamics… 259

Soulmates, 259

Primary Soulmates, 263

Companion Soulmates, 264

Aliated Souls, 265

Linkages Between Spiritual and Human Families, 274

Reuniting with Souls Who Have Hurt Us, 279

Interaction Between Soul Groups, 287

Recreational Activities in the Spirit World, 290

Leisure Time, 290

Recess Breaks, 291

Quiet Solitude as, 292

Going to Earth for R 6 R, 293

Creation of Earthly Settlements, 295

Animal Souls, 296

The Space of Transformation, 302

Dancing, Music and Games, 304

Four General Types of Souls, 315

8: The Advancing Soul… 317

Graduation, 317

Movement to the Intermediate Levels, 320

Specializations, 323

Nursery Teachers, 323

Harmonizer Souls, 330

Masters of Design, 334

Explorers, 344

9: The Ring of Destiny… 355

The Screening Room of Future Lives, 355

Time lines and Body Choices, 360

Time masters, 365

Free Will, 370

Souls of the Young, 381

The Loss of a Child, 381

New Body-Soul Partnerships, 384

10: Our Spiritual Path … 395

Index… 403

Who are we? Why are we here? Where are we going? I endeavored to answer these age-old questions with my first book, Journey of Souls, published in 1994 by Llewellyn. Many people told me the book provided a spiritual awakening of their inner selves because they had never before been able to read in such detail about what life is like in the spirit world. They also said the information validated deep-seated feelings about their soul living on after physical death and the purpose of returning to Earth.

Once the book was in print, and later translated into other languages, I received enquiries from readers around the world asking me if there was going to be a second book. For a long while I resisted these suggestions. All my years of original research had been difficult to collect, organize and finally write as a comprehensive study of our immortal life. I felt I had done enough.

In the introduction to Journey of Souls I explained my background as a traditional hypnotherapist and how skeptical I had been about the use of hypnosis for metaphysical regression. In 1947, at age fifteen, I placed my first subject in hypnosis, so I was definitely old school and nota New Ager. Thus, when I unintentionally opened the gateway to the spirit world with a client, I was stunned. It seemed to me that most past life regressionists thought our life between lives was just a hazy limbo that only served as a bridge from one past life to the next. It was soon evident I had to find out for myself the steps necessary to reach and unlock a subject’s memory of their existence in this mysterious place. After more years of quiet research, I was finally

able to construct a working model of spirit world structure and realized how therapeutic this process could be for a client. I also found that it did not matter if a person was an atheist, deeply religious, or believed in any philosophical persuasion in between once they were in the proper super conscious state of hypnosis, all were consistent in their reports. It was for this reason that I became what I have come to call a spiritual regressionist. This is a hypnotherapist specializing in life after death.

I wrote Journey of Souls to give the public a foundation of information, presented in a tight, orderly progression of events, of what it is like to die and cross over who meets us, where we go, and what we do as souls in the spirit world before choosing our next body for reincarnation. This format was designed as a travelogue through time using actual case histories from clients who told me of their past experiences between former lives. Thus, Journey of Souls was not another past life book about reincarnation but rather broke new ground in metaphysical research which had been virtually unexplored by the use of hypnosis.

During the decade of the 1980s, while I was formulating a working model of the world between lives, I closed my practice to all other types of hypnotherapy. I became obsessed with unraveling the secrets of the spirit world as I built up a high volume of cases. This made me more comfortable with the validity and reliability of my earlier findings. While these years of specialized research into the spirit world rolled on, I worked practically in seclusion with only my clients knowing about this work and only as it pertained to them and their friends. I even stayed out of metaphysical bookstores because I wanted absolute freedom from outside bias. Today, I still believe my self-imposed isolation and not speaking out publicly was the right decision.

When I left Los Angeles to retire in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and write Journey of Souls I expected to slip into quiet anonymity. This proved to be a delusion. Most of the material presented in the book had never been published before and I began receiving a great deal of mail through my publisher. I owe Llewellyn a debt of gratitude for having the insight and courage to introduce my research to the public. Soon after publication I was sent out on road trips to give lectures and engage in radio and TV interviews.

People wanted more details of the spirit world and continued to ask if I had additional research material. I had to answer, yes. Actually, I still had a wide variety of unreported information that I assumed would be too much for the public to accept from an unknown author. Despite the fact people found Journey of Souls very inspirational, I resisted the idea of writing a sequel. I decided on a compromise. With the printing of the fifth edition, an index was added to Journey of Souls along with a new cover and some added paragraphs to meet requests for greater clarification about specific issues. This was not enough. The volume of mail I was receiving each week continued to increase dramatically with queries about life after death.