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and on a free evening, decided to go out to a nearby arcade that she had enjoyed on other visits. While there
she had a conversation with a man that thought he knew her from work. She went to the rest room and when
she returned, he had a beer for her. She thought nothing of it but later found out the beer was drugged and
the man raped her all that night. She awoke the next day in a hallway somewhere, barely clothed, and had to
make her way back to her hotel and to the airport to return home.
As is oftentimes the case in situations like this, the victim feels terribly guilty and responsible. She was
ashamed and felt she had been so stupid in accepting the beer. She also had not been able to tell her
husband. I was very glad that she had decided to seek therapy. Now, with a simple view of karma, you might
think that perhaps she had been a rapist in a past life and that she was meeting this is some way.
As I got to know this woman, I began to slowly develop a different idea. She was an especially loving and
kind person. She and her husband had adopted four Down?s Syndrome siblings from a South American
family. She and her husband knew they had Down?s Syndrome and they knew these children would be
dependent their entire lives. I reflected on this. Who does that? Who adopts one ?handicapped? child, let
alone four? She also told me about her very special relationship she has always had with Jesus. She had
been given a cross on a necklace as a special birthday gift by her mother and she cherished that cross. Then
some years later she was given a saint medallion that she also put on the necklace. Then one day she was
invited to a religious retreat with a friend. When she was washing her face, she took off the chain and the
saint medallion went down the drain! Then she said she heard the voice of Jesus
in her head saying, ?Now I have your full attention!?
As I continued working with this woman and reflected upon her stories, how it
felt to be with her, what a good and spiritual person she was and then on how
she had suffered such a painful and traumatic experience, it tossed about
unsettlingly in my head. I know that bad things happen to good people. But I
was seeking a deeper understanding. How could this be possible? How can this
make sense? As I prayed for her healing and for understanding, it came to me
finally like a lightning bolt. That night that man was going to rape someone. And
on some deep unseen soul level, she said, ?I?ll take it?. She volunteered to be
that man?s victim and protect another woman from that fate. Somehow she
knew she could survive it. Somehow she showed that man love.
As I have told this story around the country, tears stream down people?s faces, as they are mine as I write this
and perhaps yours as you read it. The tears come from many because we acknowledge this as truth. Many
have come as the older sibling who takes the abuse from the parents and protect the younger siblings. How
many sick parents are there that no child would ever chose to be born into such certain pain and suffering?
And yet a child, a soul, comes into these parents. Perhaps some are karmically tied, but many are highly
evolved souls that come because no one else would. They truly come in God?s
name, to glorify God, as Jesus said.
There is so much bad news when you read the newspaper. But ?truly I tell
you? there are many unseen and unacknowledged spiritual lights among us
leading the way. And perhaps one of them is you.
Peter Woodbury, MSW, teaches around the country on behalf of the Edgar Cayce
organization, The Association for Research & Enlightenment. He teaches their
Past Life Regression course in Virginia Beach this October. For more information,
visit peterwoodbury.com
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