Reincarnation and Soul Writing - LIVE from the Edgar Cayce A.R.E.

0:01 My name is Will and I'm Garen, and unlike moulderin Scully, we both want to believe. So we've embarked in a journey of discovery. We've talked to people deeply entrenched in the spiritual and metaphysical world. We've thrown ourselves into weird and wonderful experiences. I even joined a coven of witches. And wait, you joined a coven yep. All on the interest of finding something, anything, that will prove that there's something beyond this physical. Three dimensional world we all live in. This is the Skeptic Metaphysicians. This episode of The Skeptic Metaphysicians was recorded. Live at the Edgar Casey Are Welcome. To new Awakenings with Edgar Casey's AAR. We're together through some incredible conversations. We go on beautiful journeys of discovery that might shape the way you think about things and could even change your life.

0:48 Well. Our expert today is a very well respected expert on reincarnation as well as soul writing, which she describes. As a form of written meditation. I am really excited to tell you to that she's been actively involved with Edgar Case's AAR since nineteen eighty seven and has been the coordinator of the aarres in Charlottesville, Virginia since August two thousand and eight. She's earned her master's in trans personal Studies and her Spiritual Mentor certification through Athlantic University. She's been professionally pursuing past live research and therapy for over thirty years, so she is not a newbiet to the conversation. She's a prolific author who has written multiple books, and we are super excited to have her on the show today. Welcome to the show, Joanne Demaggio. How are you doing today?

1:41 I'm great. How are you guys doing? Never better, never better? We are so thrilled that you are here to join us, and we have so many questions. Yes, and I was looking at your website and your information. I see that you call yourself a reporter for the universe. What do you mean by that? Well, for the longest time, I've been a writer in my professional life, and even as a child, I was doing a lot of writing. I like to do research, I like to observe, and I love doing research projects and then taking that information and putting it into a book or an article or a lecture whatever, and then sending that out to the universe. So I always saw myself more as the observer and then the report or the sharing. And I've got, you know, going back in my old past life history. I've got a lot of past lives in which I was ascribed and I was doing basically the same work that I'm doing now, So it's comes as a second nature of me to do that.

2:48 Wow, it's super interesting. But since we're on the topic of writing, I've got to ask the questions because the thing that really stood out to me the most in your introduction is the in meditation. I'm an avid meditator, but I don't feel that I'm meditating what I'm writing. So how does soul writing fit into that? Well, the younger kid readings talk a lot about inspirational writing, which is the exact same thing as soul writing. I changed the name when I was working on my thesis for my master's degree at AU because the idea of inspirational writing that that term has been changed since Casey used it. So now when you talk about inspirational writing, it's about the Christian genre books, and that's not what he really meant. He meant that you were getting divine assistance coming from above, coming through you through pop your soul out your hand and onto the paper. So basically it's a written form of meditation. So you know, when you're praying, it's you talking to God meditating God's talking to you. Well, soul writing is you taking notes?

3:58 Okay? Is it the same as automatic writing? Absolutely not? Okay? Oh yeah. And also there's a lot of in the Casey readings, there's a lot of where Casey's warning against using automatic writing, and in Hew and Casey's book Venture Inward, he had a whole chapter with the case histories of people who got into trouble using automatic writing because you're not protecting yourself, you're opening yourself up and you've got some lower level influences kind of coming through, and they're really concerned about possession. So the area put out a booklet I saw this in the early nineties about ways to develop your psychic abilities, and they had some no nos, and automatic writing in the Luigi board were like number one and two too, So there is a difference between them.

4:52 So for people who don't know what exactly is automatic writing and how is that different than channeling and writing. Well, it basically it looks the same, which is why people get confused. But the difference is that with automatic writing, uh, sometimes you have no you have no control of your hand. You usually skip the meditation, you skip the prayer of protection. That's the most important part, surrounding yourself with that white light to keep yourself protected. It sometimes comes to you in the first person. I so there's an element of like a command. You know, you're getting a command from somewhere in the universe to do this or do that, do this or not do that. So the tone is completely different with with soul writing, you're just getting gently nudged.

5:40 And it's always in the we, the collective consciousness, we are with you. Uh, you know, so there's a there is a difference. I outline all of that in my I've got several books on soul writing, and also if anybody is interested in that, I can just contact me, send me an email, and I'll send you a handout about it, so that you could actually see all the differences between the two. That's excellent you'll hear from me, because I had no idea there was a it was a different thing. And what you need to do to me, not that I've done AutoMac writing, but you know, I'm I'm curious. It's really interesting too, like what she says between the I and the wei, because we we've interviewed a lot of different people people that channel and they're usually it's usually a collective, you know, a collective of angels, a collective of souls. But we've never had someone say, well, I channeled this one person and that does that would kind of make it creepy. I think, you know, if you've got someone in there saying do this, do that, I think I would question that.

6:35 Yeah. I just finished teaching for AIRIA seven week course on soul writing and the people that were in it. What many people thought, I can't do this. This isn't something that I have a challenge where anybody could do it. Mister Casey said, it's our birth right to have that information. So it's something anybody can do. You don't need a special for it. Okay, and let me clarify it. I mean like one person telling you what to do, not just like the inspiration from one. I'm gonna say. We've had people that actually channel one particular person, but then on the next go round they channel somebody else. It's not yeah, and it's but it's not like that same person saying you have to do this or you have to do that. It's more of like a guidance.

7:16 So I think if you had someone that's in there, like hey, and you got to do this that way. And like most a lot of people have talked to us before about if it's coming, if it feel it's coming from a place of love, you can trust that word as if it's more it seems much more of a place of yeah, you're feeling a little strange about it, maybe there's something to look into. Yeah. Absolutely. And I kind of want to get back into the reporter question because it made me think about, you know, communicating with souls and in your experience, in your research and the work that you've done, have you interviewed anyone that's past I mean, if I like channel some well, yeah, kind of like a kind of like that like an interview sort of thing.

7:59 I don't know, I just I think that would be kind of fun. I haven't the one of the things I do teach with the soul writing is that people I haven't connected to the past life work that I do so can actually have a conversation with your own past life aspect. Wow, I do teach that how to do that so that you have your regression. You know, who you were in a prior lifetime. You might have all kinds of questions though about that life that you didn't get answered in aggression. Because regressions, you know, are usually hour and a half to two hours. You can get it all in. Yeah, but you can have a conversation with yourself through the soul writing. I've done it. I've taught other people to do it. Frank DeMarco, who is a very prolific writer, has a whole book called Chasing Smallwood in which he's done it with his his past life in the Civil War.

8:55 And it's fascinating to do that because you get answers to questions at maybe you've had for years because you don't understand why is this going on in my life? And you can get those answers that way. It's just one of many, many, many ways to use soul writing. Or we're gonna be talking because I got lots of questions so interesting, Well, so you've not touched on another topic. I want to make sure that we bring up you are an expert in reincarnation, and there is so many thoughts surrounding that particular topic. So just a level set, how do you define reincarnation.

9:42 It's just simply the continuation of the soul's journey on the earth plane. So you know, you've had we all came to the earth at the same time. We're all created. As the Caseys creation story, you all came at the same time. So this whole concept of old souls, I don't buy into that. I think when people say so and so is an old soul, it's because that soul has chosen to come back in physical form a lot, and so they gained an enormous amount of wisdom, right. Right, So better to call them a wise souls a tired soul. Maybe they've been around the block a few times, right, they they know, they know the ropes a little bit more than maybe a soul that's chosen not to come very often. So yeah, so that there's you know, I think of the body as a vehicle for us. Like you know, when you have a car, it takes you just so far you can keep you could keep repairing it and fixing it up and all that stuff, but at some point it's going to break down on you and then trade it in and get another car. So that's the way I see our souls doing that. You know, we're for whatever purpose we decide in their pre life planning.

10:55 You know, we talk with the council of elders or guidance counselors, whatever you want to call them, and we think, you know, I'm going to work on this issue when I come into a body again, right, And then souls around you that travel with you, members of your soul family, decide they're going to come with you, and they may look different, they've changed their gender and their role, but they'll have a very specific purpose in coming in with you to help you with whatever it is your soul's mission is. And so that's what we do over and over again, you know, working on all the issues that we can only work on on here. Right. So basically it's the act of trading it in for a new model. So what you're saying is that I should actually answer that phone call. But those people trying to reach me about my extended warranty that.

11:41 We're saying, so kind of going back to that, when when you decide what your soul needs to work on. People have different ideas about soul contracts. Do you say, okay, well I want to come back as a soul that learns about you know whatever, or do you say I want to come back as a little girl who's six years old to like, do you get super specific on the make and model of the car or do you just say I want an SUV versus a sports car? Well, you know, you do choose your parents. That's your choice. I'd love to tell my children that because then I say, you know you picked me. Now you're stuck with me, kid? What you do? You look at what issues from a prior lifetime that you didn't finish. So you've got someone finished business, something happened to you in that life where you did something to somebody in that life and you never resolved it, so it's hanging out there, right, So then you decide, I have clients who they're working, and stuff that happened a thousand years ago right at lives in between that. But it's never been quite the right life.

12:49 So you look at what what's going to be the socioeconomic environment that I'm going to be born into, and then who are my parents going to be? Why am i choosing those people. What are they going to offer me? What lessons are they going to teach? So it's really all about fulfilling, uh, you know, resolving that those karma issues that you've brought in with you. So that's how a life is designed. It's designed around there. You have yourmission statement, you know what you want to work. Some people will say, no, I want to work on abandonment because they may have abandoned somebody in a prior life and now they're gonna you know, you've got to balance things out right in the universe where it's all those harmony going on. So people around them will go, Okay, I'm going to come in with you when you become George.

13:36 At some point I'm going to abandon you so that he works through that karma and put that behind you so you can move on. So in the past life, I was definitely a much skinnier man than this means because now I'm balancing it out by I. Need order now for your next body. There you go, you know what I'm going to do that. No, that's not okay, I got it. Here's the burning question in my mind. Most people that have watched the show know that I'm a little more on the pragmatic mindset, and so I have been. I've undergone a past life progression a few times to get in touch with my past lives or to get some idea of what I've gone through in the.

14:21 Past, to see how that's affecting me in this lifetime. Inevitably, I think I'm being regressed, But at the same time, my really just making up stories, like how can someone delineate between your own imagination and true past life memories? You know, everybody says that going into it, I'm afraid I'm going to be making this up. And what I say to that, And it's not until they actually go through it that they realized they couldn't have possibly made that story up. And then I'll say to them, so, did you spend time before our session thinking about it story you were going to tell me? And then you know, we spend a couple hours together and you actually paid me to listen to your story. Would you have done that? No? No, no, no no. If there's a motion that comes up during the course of the session that is a true memory, because I cannot make you cry, laugh, I don't tell jokes during a regression you'll feel it. You'll feel it, and if it answers all the questions that you have about what's going on in your life now, questions that you didn't have, you had no answers for prior to this session. It's a healing, it's a transformation tool that have been given to help us understand the continuum of our soul's journey. So, yeah, it's a common concern about whether I'm making this up or not. And I you know,

15:53 I have not had anybody tell me at the end of a session, yeah, I'm sure I made that up. They're sure was real. Okay, So I have I had a long time ago. I did a past life progression a long time ago, and I don't know. I mean, it was in a big group and I wasn't really kind of a past life maybe, but but I haven't done one since because I thought, okay, so what if I do this and I sit and have a just a very serious session with someone and I find out I was awful, like a child killer or something. I don't know. I don't know that I could. Get past that in this life. Like, what do you do if you find out something that you were really terrible? I mean, I just, well, you know. What, I don't know if this is comforting at all, But we've all done things that were ashamed of or that we don't want to admit, or that are at their cringe worthy lifetimes right the same token, you've also had beautiful lifetimes in which you lived an exemplary life with nothing but love in it and no trauma. It's just part of our journey. This and spirit will not send you a lifetime to review that you couldn't handle, and it also will only send you the lifetimes in which there are issues that you're working on right now.

17:10 So it's not a pleasure because it's not like you know, some people say I only want to do it for entertainment purposes. I won't work with them, as to me, it's sacred work. It's healing, and so you know, you have to be willing to see the good, the bad, and the ugly. Right and really, you know, when when we're going through it, I have you stepping back from it and watching it as if it were a movie so that you can de catch yourself from it. I know some therapists have you going through the emotions. I mean, if the emotions come up we'll work with that, but I don't ask you to there and feel what it felt like to get that spear in your goal, you know. So, So anyway, it just as like I said, I think spirit only sends you what you can absolutely.

18:01 And sometimes these things happen spontaneously, right, it doesn't necessarily have to be guided by with someone like you. I experienced something similar. My very first one was spontaneous. I was being in a raiki circle. I was receiving a lot of energy from someone that just set me out there. But the story or the life that I lived at that during that spontaneous regression was not a fun one. And since said it was many years ago, since and I've been trying to put the pieces together as to why I was shown that particular piece. So can you give us an. Example of how someone can take a past life memory and use it to help you in this lifetime?

18:46 Well, like I said before, usually is because it'll answer a specific question that they have. I have one client who she doesn't her she interacts. I'm doing a whole project right now on soulmates. So I'm doing a lot of research into people with soulmate relationships. And you know what, one in particular, was like, you know, I don't understand. He's totally disrespectful to me in this life. There's so much anger in him. And she just listed all the things that were going on. Well, then she goes back to the previous lifetime and she finds out where it all began. This is what happened, well one hundred years. That's set the stage for this recurring karmic dance to go on between the two of them. So I think that that's and I have had so many people this is so humbling for me when this happens, when they contact me and say, you know, I feel like heaviness has been lifted from me because now I understand because consciously on these answers would never come to you. It's only when you're able to really get in there and find out what's tarted this, what's the root cause of it, which is my Past life work is so fascinating to me because you usually only need one session to get to the bottom of something and to heal it, as opposed to the regular psychotherapy in which you're going back week after week after week. That's because with the past life work, it going right to the root cause of it,

20:18 what happened to get this started, what's set this parallel in motion? And I think that that, to me is just the most fascinating part of my job is to it's to be like a detective. Right You're going looking at clues to find out the answers, and then once you get the answers, the cases all. I like that you're a detective and a reporter. So I have a question. So I understand what you're saying about the past lives, and I do believe it's an incredible tool to help you heal things that you didn't know how to heal otherwise. But I've heard also that from people that have had near death experiences. When you die, you go into the state of bliss and everything is perfect and there's all the love, and it's hard. You don't you know, sometimes you don't want to come back, but you need to come back because you.

21:09 Have cure, kids or whatever. So if that's true, if you're in this state of bliss and perfection, I feel like here now in today's like we're working with people and we're talking with memes and psychics and trying to figure out how to make ourselves better. So we can get to that point. So then if we're there when we die, why would we come back. You come back because you still have things to learn that you can only learn in a physical body, that you can't learn while you're in spirit. So it's all about you know, mister Casey said, you know, whatever starts on the earth has to end on the earth. So you come in with a curriculum. That's how I look at it. There's a school and you're a student, and you know, you say, I want to work on I'm going to take these classes. I'm going to take a class on on greediness, or I'm going to take a class on unconditional love, or I'm going to take a class on a traumas. I mean, I don't know, there's just so many. Think of them, and then you set it up so that you can come and learn that because you can't learn that while you're in spirit. This is all about actually it's it's it's cyclical, right because you are trying to get back to spirit where you were.

22:32 You could opt. There are many souls who opt not to come back, They ought to go to a different planet. So but it's a it's a school where so once you graduate, you're on your own. That's a party, that graduation. So we see a book over your right shoulder called the Inner Light of My. Latest tell us about that well, And as this is going to reveal age as a teenager, I was president of Beatles Fan Club. I started it in nineteen sixty four.

23:15 I had it for eight years and I was really immersed in it, and a lot of things happened in those eight years. It was the sixties, don't forget, and having been raised Catholic, I simultaneously was having a lot of questions about my faith and having gone to twelve years at Catholic schooling. And I mean so when the club ended in nineteen seventy two, and I've got chapters that talked about what it was like to be at president of Beatles Fan Club, I ended up president of the Paul McCartney Fan Club, and I ended up being the national chapter director for Apple Records. So involved as a teenager doing this. I had meetings in traveled to New York to the Bangladesh concert that George Harrison gave.

24:11 And then when it all ended in nineteen seventy two, because they shut down all the clubs because there were Beatles. Then I kind of went to sleep for a while, and then in nineteen eighty seven, Shirley McLain came along with her on a Limb. It became a mini series and I watched that and it rekindled my interest in metaphysical topics because I had been reading books about Edgar Casey and written by Jesstern and Ruth Montgomery and all those people in the early sixties. I forgot about it when the Beatles came out and so lo and behold, here comes out on a limb, and I just nineteen eighty seven was my year. I joined the AAR. That year I started my own p life research organization, and I just emerged myself in that world again. Over the years, I've always wondered, how did somebody like me, you know, coming from an Italian American Catholic family on the South side of Chicago, in a neighborhood that never used the word reincarnation that was something. How did I become a pantslife there? Why did I become so passionate about past life work? And I wondered, did it I have something to do with the Beatles? Did they plank the seed of spirituality? In my soul, and so that's what I

25:42 wanted to find out. So I went back in. I dug out all my old newsletters because I had kept them. I had done a newsletter every month for eight years. Wow. I went back and I was looking for clues. Did I Did I ever say anything? Did this ever come up? And then I started reading I'm about to fifty sixty books on the Beatles, and I started researching to find out what they said on different spiritual talkics. And of course, you know George Harrison just as a treasure trove of he and John Lennon primarily. So I started reading and putting the pieces together and realized that they planted those seeds in me. And if they planted the seeds and me, they must have planted them and others of my generation.

26:26 So that's what that research was all about. And by the way, while I was doing the research for this book, I found out that both both Paul McCartney and John Lennon used to form the soul writing. They didn't call it that. I'm sure they didn't even know what that was in writing some of their music. Wow, Yesterday across the universe nowhere man, let it be those all came to them using the same exact process that Casey describes when we do soul. Very that's that's fast. Cool. So they tied it together even more. And then you know, I started to do research. I started to interview other Beatle fans my age and found out that there were several of them who were introduced to Edgar Casey into the A I E. Because of the Beatles. So wow, wrapped it all up for me.

27:26 Those are two and two that I never would have put together, Casey and the Beatles. That's pretty awesome, So thank you for doing that. For this has been tremendous fun. I've learned a lot. If someone wanted to reach out to you to either get your book or book a session with you right what what is the best way for. Someone to do that. I go to my website, which is Joanne Demajo dot com. J O A N N E D I M A G G I O dot com. You could read about the different types of regressions that I do. You can book them right online. I do them all by zoom, so I'll work all over the world and all of my books are on that website. You want to see the books that I've written, and also there's a blog there different articles. I do a monthly newsletter. You can sign up for that to talk about the different research projects that I'm working on. People want to volunteer for them, They're more than welcome to do that. And any kind of classes I'm teaching or conferences I'm going to be at are also on there, so it's a pretty inclusive website.

28:38 And if they want to email me for any reason. Joanne Joa n Andy at joandamajo dot com. All right, that's right. Well, thank you, Joanne so much for coming on the show. It was an absolute pleasure meeting you. I've loved every moment. And a huge thank you to you. We know that there are tons of options out there, and having you just had to come along on our journey of discovery with us is an absolute honor for us. We hope you've enjoyed this conversation as much as we have. If you did and you feel called to give back, we invite you to visit our website at Skepticmanaphysician dot com, where you can donate to the show or subscribe as a member through our buy me a Coffee campaign. Your support will go a long way towards allowing Karen and I to bring you these wonderful conversations and teachings in more and more robust ways. Well, that's all for now.

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