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congruent for them. The foundation of changing consciousness in contrast to fixing problems began withthis activity. The archetypal approach is one of changing consciousness. How are we right? What do weneed to add to get to where we want to go? How do we add what we need? It is much like cooking; doesthe soup need more sage or salt? Do we need to seal off a passage or add one?When I traveled with Dr. Neva Dell Hunter, she would go into trance and give past life readings. Iwas allowed to sit in on these sessions, and from that gained a deep sense of how our past livesinfluence this one. The convention of these readings was to focus on five or six past lives that hadrelevant meaning and application for this life. The past lives were shown to relate to the variouschallenges and opportunities appearing in the current life. The sessions I do now also include past livessometimes. From my perspective, past lives present in our field of consciousness as archetypes. Theaffect on the client of hearing or seeing the past life is immediate. Our witness, as a spiritual alignmentof the archetypal, results in our awareness clearing or resolving the related patterns, and shifts thereality. If we were to focus on analysis of the past life, or debate whether it was even real, the patternwould lock into the mental, becoming a mind process and generating a false sense of knowing. This inturn would replicate, perhaps even be exciting, but transformation would not occur. In the archetypallevel, the intelligence process is different than that of the intellectual mind. It is like a super mind thatworks in patterns and gestalts. In other words, awareness brings resolution. That is intelligent.The past lives are archetypes and, as such, they are not time-bound. From an archetypalperspective, we can look at past lives in terms of a variety of models. We can look at them as imagesfrom the collective - that this life is a composite of a collective working-out of issues, and that our issuesmatch those of the collective, or that our issues are collective resolution. It is not necessary to believe inreincarnation, although it does seem that having a prior existence to this one is an archetypal themethroughout humanity, whether as an expression of an eternal soul or the soul of eternity. We appear tobe living a deep fulfillment from a primal impulse formulated by archetypal design. From myperspective, all the cosmologies are true. I have a rule of thumb for the archetypal and spiritualapproach: If you find yourself saying is it this or that, say both. Life is a circle, a mandala. We are in themiddle and the circumference of life reflects back to us all that we are. Our physical body has thecapacity to register and engage the full spectrum of life and spirit. The ancients used mandalas toconnect the relationship of oneself to the whole, to the cosmos, to God, to all that is.When the body definition is based solely on life in the physical world, we make sense andpursue agendas based on that duality. This is fine, and we incorporate these dynamics and states ofconsciousness in our evolutionary expansion. As we develop, old and new archetypes and perceptions ofarchetypes are included, never excluded. When two seemingly oppositional archetypes are included in alarger context, they transform and reconfigure to the larger formation, which ultimately becomes apresent essence of all that is. This essence is universally unconditional living love, as the ultimatetransformer. This love is not an archetype, yet its existence is archetypal. In quantum terms, coherencyinforms all archetypes. Love is coherency.Our nature is to unfold an ever-expanding and deepening awareness and understanding of selfwithin this relationship of center to circumference. When we make a mandala, we do so as a reflectionof this relationship of center to circumference. We can find center in the vertical central channel of ourphysical body. We are aware of our physical body in the middle of the circumference of life; however,12