Synopsis
In Ending the Endless Conflict: Healing Narratives from Past-Life Regressions to the Civil War, Dr. Joseph Mancini takes the reader on multiple journeys to the Civil War, the main source of the shadow-filled, polarized, stereotyped and simplistic thinking haunting America today. By investigating the Civil War, past lives of seventeen individuals living today, Dr. Mancini provides the potential for healing on both the individual and collective levels. Readers will meet captivating Civil War personalities, including • Gregory, a young slave who flees Union invaders only to find freedom more onerous than slavery; • James Matthew, a Negro soldier who fights for and is ultimately betrayed by the Union Army; • Jen, a Confederate, White girl who is more connected emotionally to Negroes than Whites; • John Roberts, a Union doctor who abruptly leaves the battlefield to care for people back home; • Edward Fitzgerald, a Confederate doctor who treats a Negro Union soldier and then deserts to treat both Negro and White communities on the home front; • Anna Beechum, a Confederate wife who fears her husband has deserted and, consequently, makes a home with her former slave; • Margaret Ann Tanner, a Confederate wife who copes with the difficult home front by “turning a blind eye”; • Ruby, a naïve, Confederate girl who sleeps with a seductive and callous Union officer; • Elizabeth Fisher, an emotionally fragile, Confederate girl who sleeps with a Negro slave who is consequently murdered; • Carlita Mendez, a young, Hispanic, Confederate woman who gives up her love life due to fear of loss; • Joe McIntyre and his brother, two young, idealistic boys who join the Union ranks, but face unexpected horrors; • Raymond Banks, a Union Drummer Boy who becomes a combatant and turns into a brutal warrior; • Amos Adams, a Southern young man who surrenders his power to choose his own destiny; • Theodore Charles Woodruff, a Confederate, young man who faces his killer Shadow and, paradoxically, becomes a creator of life; • John Morrison Oliver, a fierce, Union soldier who becomes a General, finds his heart, and then reaches out to his former enemy; • and an Unknown, Union Scout, who becomes a combatant and is a Counterpart Self to another, Union scout in a reconnaissance balloon. A final, past-life personage, Robert E. Lee, is accessed, not as his actual self, but rather in terms of his still “living” worldview by one of his descendants. Besides illustrating the sometimes overwhelming tragedy of those past lives, the stories that unfold are fascinating windows into the era’s many cultural aspects, including slavery, Northern as well as Southern racism, concepts of honor, and the hopes for, as well as horrors of War for both sides. The underlying metaphysics for this work are spiritual concepts voiced by Seth, an “energy personality essence” channeled by Jane Roberts. With the help of the Seth Material, spiritual phenomena like Past Lives, Counterpart Selves, Future Selves, Parallel Selves, and “living” worldviews—all encountered in the regressions—are explained. Sacred Contracts between individuals, as well as ghosts and spirit attachments are also part of the mix of fascinating topics. All of these purposes coalesce into a timely, informative, powerful, and immensely engaging work.
À propos de l'auteur
Joseph Mancini, Jr., Ph.D., CCHt., PLt., LBLt., CRT., M.S.O.D., M.S.W., is currently an Executive Coach and Business Consultant, as well as a Spiritual Counselor and a Clinical Hypnotherapist certified by numerous national and international verifying associations. He had also been an assistant professor of American and English Literature and a traditional therapist. Always eclectic in his intellectual interests, he published, in 1987, The Berryman Gestalt: Therapeutic Strategies in the Poetry of John Berryman. More recently, he published Ending the Endless Conflict: Healing Narratives from Past-Life Regressions to the Civil War and The Present Power of Past Lives: The Experts Speak, a compendium of interviews he conducted on the 7th Wave, a channel of the global radio network, VoiceAmerica. Currently in Frederick, MD., Dr. Mancini has a hypnotherapy and spiritual counseling practice, one informed by several spiritual traditions, especially the one presented by Jane Roberts’ Seth Material.
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