“Clearing Past Hurts for a Healthier, Happier Now”: A Review of Soul Healing: Breaking the Chains of Past Life Influence by Carole Serene Borgens and the Divine Spirit Wisdom Source, Pax

 

(Waterside Productions, 2023). ISBN: 978-1-960583-84-0

A few years ago, I reviewed Do Unto Earth: It’s Not Too Late, by Penelope Jean Hayes with Carole Serene Borgens, Channeler (2020). Borgens channels a being named Pax, the Divine Wisdom Source—who was the uncredited author of roughly half the text of that book, which dealt with such pressing subjects as climate change, fossil fuels, and the future survival of humankind.

My wife is a psychic medium, energy healer, and certified past life regressionist and hypnotist who channels information in much the same way as Borgens, so I accept that Pax is providing this information. In addition to witnessing my wife’s automatic writing, I’ve been studying channeling for more than a decade, from the lens of both a paranormal investigator applying numerous tools for evaluation and as a lifelong actor and acting teacher/director with three decades of professional experience. Watching a channeler who is allowing a higher being to speak through them (e.g., Darryl Anka/Bashar, Esther Hicks/Abraham) with a practiced eye toward syntax, rhythm, changes in vocabulary, not to mention increased speed of thought and complexity of ideas flawlessly delivered, I believe there is considerable evidence for higher intelligences speaking through channelers.   

Soul Healing is different than Do Unto Earth. Instead of a meta focus on so-called Wicked Problems, this book is intensely personal, dealing as it does with past life traumas that may be causing emotional difficulty in one’s current life (termed by the authors dis-ease). Pax gets a coauthor credit, and Borgens shares her journey, including connecting with Pax in the mid-1990s. Rather than a Q&A with clearly delineated passages authored by Pax, Soul Healing is a seamless collaboration between Borgens and Pax. There are quotes attributed directly to the Divine Wisdom Source, but overall the text at times will subtly shift in syntax as Pax steps to the fore.

Having experienced past lives both spontaneously and through guided regression, knowing many others who have experienced past lives, living with a certified hypnotist with an additional certification in past life and soul contact from the Edgar Cayce Institute, and having researched compelling past life cases for nearly a decade, I engaged with this book as a believer. I have used the exercises and guided regressions in the book to great effect in my life. More on that to come.

Borgens and Pax expertly lay out what functions in the end as a practical handbook, employing scaffolding and repetition to ensure the reader regresses to past lives safely to find the traumas that are affecting their current incarnation on Earth.

The authors recommend this journey via a very provocative question: What if None of This is Your Fault? I say provocative because authority figures tell us from the time we are young to take responsibility for our actions. Many religions and spiritual systems urge us to Live in the Present. Although there is no question that our current incarnation provides plenty of Present Life trauma—especially for someone like me who has lived an active, risk-taking life of 55 years under at times chaotic circumstances—we have habits and inclinations that do not align with our current history. This teasing out of easily accounted for and more mysterious thought patterns and addictions was my step one. Adding further credence to Soul Healing, what I found was hand in glove with struggles in my career (which bleed over into my personal life) that have prevented me from realizing my full potential.

The authors also mention gifted and talented students, child prodigies, and Old Souls. Perhaps highly advanced skills in young people are not the product of brain anatomy or some mysterious bestowment, but bleed-overs and remembrances from previous lives. This gives credence to the notion of the Old Soul. Perhaps some drink more deeply from the River Lethe than others (also accounting for past life recall) or their mission is so complicated that it takes lifetimes to fulfill. Mine is the latter.

As a storyteller and teaching artist, I love that Borgens and Pax employ the magical, mystical What If? Much of this work involves Imagination (as distinct from Fantasizing), as does most spiritual work. Any Transformation begins with imagining what you wish to become.      

As with any worthwhile endeavor concerning our mental and physical health, Intention is key. We should not take these journeys into past lives lightly; there are obstacles and challenges if you approach them incorrectly.

Having identified on what I wanted to work through the authors’ guidance, the Intention surrounding my journey was very clear, giving me the confidence to visit these unchartered waters.

Something that truly impressed me is that—unlike what we often see on TV and in film with regression—Borgens and Pax stress that what you encounter should be observed like a film. There’s no need to invest emotion in past hurts. This starts as a fact-finding mission; it may take several visits to the same “scene” (instance in a past life) to have enough understanding to undertake Forgiveness.

Through detailed case studies (sessions with clients) the authors tackle several thorny problems. They share instances of past life alcohol and drug dependency, gambling, codependence, male and female depression, rage, racism, and self-abuse as examples of what caused the present trauma and habits and how they were worked through using the soul healing process.

There is a special section devoted to weight management, including comfort eating, binge and purge, and other eating disorders. The six case studies often link back to starvation, imprisonment, extreme poverty, and societal trends throughout the ages about how a woman’s body should look. There are also instances of past excess causing problems with one’s relationship to food in this lifetime. If you know anyone with weight management issues, much of this will be familiar. Now they have an additional tool—one I have already recommended to a few women about whom I deeply care.

Borgens and Pax employ a variety of tools to frame this work. They incorporate Archetypes, addressing the Inner Child and Higher Self.  They use the metaphor of the high and low roads in their closing material, along with such easily digestible maxims as “you are what you think you are” and “follow your heart not your head.” They offer Affirmations and “personal power seeds,” which will be essential to ensure what gets cleared stays cleared. Feedback loops are tenacious, after all. These guideposts on the journey are important, because the core of the work is about Reclaiming Personal Power, which allows you to live a new story. I believe so strongly that this should be a daily intention for us all, the tagline of my storytelling work and title of my forthcoming book is Every Day Is a Story All Its Own.

The final forty pages of Soul Healing lay out the process for using Inner Guidance to journey to your past lives in increasing detail. There is a seventh weight management case study, and the authors answer questions about how this all relates to karma. By the end, you have all the tools you need—as I did—to do this life-enhancing work, led by two gentle spiritual guides and their sincere wish for the betterment of humankind.