Work of the Soul
Past Life Recall and Spiritual Enlightenment
by Dr. Barbara Condron

“You will find these readings illuminating, empowering you to embark on new journeys that may include past life readings of your own.” --Leading Edge Review

What if you knew you had lived before? You knew who you were, where and when you lived,
what kind of family you had, the work you did. You knew if you were pauper or king, devout or irreligious, genius or idiot.

Would it change how you live your life today? Meet over a dozen people who can answer these questions. They are among the hundred thousand on six continents who have requested significant Past Life Readings from the School of Metaphysics. Uncovering proof of previous life existences has indirectly occurred over the past quarter of a century as a result of the School of Metaphysics' research into Mankind's potential and spiritual evolution.

Through years of concentration and meditation practices, individuals have reached deeper and deeper states of consciousness. Lucid dreaming, psi development, intuitive skills, and accumulated wisdom are experienced within these inner levels of awareness. So is the record of where all souls have been and the work they have accomplished. By "reading" these Akashic Records past life information can be accessed and reported.

Many people find these readings reminiscent of Edgar Cayce's work, a Midwesterner who found he possessed a very real psychic ability which was shared with several hundred people during the early part of the 1900's. It is not chance that during the final quarter of this century, again out of the Midwestern United States, comes a very real psychic ability which has been refined into an intuitive skill that can be and has been honed and developed by not just one person, but several.

This is in fact the mission of the School of Metaphysics -- to teach what up to this point in history has been in the hands of only a few, revealing what has been kept secret throughout the ages, taught only in small groups ranging from the Freemasons to the Vatican to the Tibetan Buddhist monks. Making past life knowledge available to anyone is one way this mission is being fulfilled for it empowers people to do The Work of the Soul.

"My first reaction upon hearing my reading is that the truth sets you free."
- B. Jones, N.S.W. Australia

"The life described is almost a duplicate of my present one!" - D. McDermott, New Jersey


What you will receive from the reading is an image of you, your loves and hates, your desires and fears, your talents and shortcomings. You will better know yourself. You will have a greater understanding of why you do what you do and why the people and situations exist in your life as they do. You will know your karmic obligations and have keener insight into your purpose for life. You will indeed become aware of the work your soul is here to do.

The Work of the Soul introduces you to three types of significant Past Life Readings. You will meet many people, from all walks of life, who share the questions you have asked yourself: “Where did I come from?”, “Why am I here?”, and “Who am I?” People have found the readings to be candid, genuine, and revelatory to their everyday lives.

Assignments from the Soul
by Dr. Pam Blosser

Just like you have the memory in your brain of the yesterdays leading to today, you also have a sense of the continuity of the steps in your learning from lifetime to lifetime. This is stored in the permanent memory of your soul called the subconscious mind. Most of you, however, are not consciously aware of the steps you have taken as a soul that have brought you where you are now in your own evolution. Most of you have forgotten how to access the information in the Akashic Record - the holder of your soul’s past. Nor do you remember how to access your own subconscious mind - the holder of your understandings. These understandings are qualities such as courage, compassion, self-value and a sense of order, to name a few, that you have built through repeated purposeful action in previous lifetimes. They are now a permanent part of your identity.

You might think of your mind as a giant iceberg. Only the top of the iceberg appears above the surface of the water. This is the part of yourself that you can experience with your five senses. It is called your conscious mind, your physical body, and to some extent your emotions. Now look below the surface of the water and what do you see? The majority of the iceberg exists below the water’s surface just as the majority of yourself exists “below” the surface of your own conscious existence. This vastness is your soul, your spirit, your essence. If you identify with the physical body only it would be like thinking that the tip of the iceberg is all of you that exists. What is real is only what the iceberg can see, feel, hear, taste, and smell. You as the tip of the iceberg identifies as incomplete and separate. The quest to understand who you are is to identify with the whole and reunite the iceberg once again.

Each lifetime you have the opportunity to explore a chosen facet of yourself to be united with it, or to make it part of your identity. In the beginning of evolution this completeness was more like a blueprint of your potential than the finished product. It takes the soul and the physical conscious identity working together to identify each part of the blueprint and then actualize it.

The actualization process begins with a belief - a belief that you are strong or organized in your thinking, for example. It is a belief in yourself that you can create something valuable in your life. By applying this belief in your daily life you have an experience that calls for the quality you believe you have. You discover just how strong or organized you really are. Then it becomes a knowing. You know through the experience that you are as strong, stronger or not as strong as you believed you were. If you believe you can be stronger you begin to imagine what you would do differently the next time a similar experience occurs in your life. This reasoning process gives you a place to grow and expand your identity toward your real potential. Each time you respond to a belief that you are valuable to humanity you are setting up a condition to learn something about yourself and unfold your identity - fulfill the blueprint, as it were. Evolution is this process of unfolding.

The soul needs the physical self in this process because knowing comes only through purposeful experience. These experiences do not “happen haphazardly”. They are caused intentionally by yourself out of a need to identify and understand. Now this Self I am referring to is not the self that can be tasted, touched, seen, heard, or smelled. I’m not talking about the tip of the iceberg. I’m talking about your soul. Your soul knows what parts of the blueprint have been fulfilled and what parts are yet to be fulfilled. Your soul perceives the physical experiences as the means to fulfill this blueprint. Your soul draws you, the outer self, “mysteriously” to these places of learning. And your soul receives the understanding from the experience into itself as a permanent part of your identity. The outer self feeds the soul by learning from experiences.

Each lifetime it is the soul that chooses what physical conditions will offer the best opportunities to begin the learning process for that lifetime. Then it is up to the outer self to cooperate with this learning process by the choices it makes. How well are you living up to the learning your soul or inner Self has assigned to your physical or outer self? As the following excerpt reveals, fulfilling the soul’s assignment is the key to happiness in our present life.

“We see at present time within this one there is a love that this one does have for structure and discipline. We see at those times when this one is devoting the mind and devoting the Self to some form of discipline that this one is very content, for this one does reach greater understandings and does produce what this one desires in her life. We see however there are times when this one does scatter the attention and does not pursue what is true to this one’s desires and at those times when this one is turning away from what this one truly desires, this one does become very unhappy.” (7-26-90-10-LJF)

When information concerning past lives is made known, you can enhance your ability to define who you are by adding to what has already been built within the Self. Notice how in the following reading examples there was a quality gained in a past life now being added to in this lifetime. The first is of a female who in a past life was raised in a poor family in the Middle East. There was much love in this family. She was taught as she grew up that she was beautiful, she had much love and she would always find blessings in whatever experiences were in her life. She perceived her hard work as a labor of love and a giving to God. She knew she would be rewarded in the afterlife. She was seen by others in her community as a source of freshness and joy and she passed these ideals on to her children. In that lifetime she learned about loving and giving unconditionally.

In this lifetime she is adding to this understanding because she is discovering that although she wants to give, there are those who do not want to receive from her. She is learning she need not gauge the value of her love by how others wish to receive. Rather her lesson is to continue to give freely, respecting those who do not wish to receive and seeking out those who are receptive to her love.

Weren’t You in Egypt, Say 800 B.C.?
by Paul Blosser

Star-crossed lovers may have the mistaken belief that they were great lovers in a past life; Romeo and Juliet, Samson and Delilah, Cleopatra and Mark Antony. Such thinking leaves little room for all the ordinary couples in history, couples like Ezra Haddim Hezediah and his wife Esther around 800 B.C. in the area we know now as Palestine.

In their present incarnation Esther and Ezra are Laura and Calvin respectively. They met because they were students in the School of Metaphysics, he in Kansas City and she in Michigan. Their past life association revealed physical circumstances that were very similar to their current relationship. In both past and present associations, spiritual duty formed a significant role in the lifetime at that time and served as a strong foundation for the relationship. It was at least part of the mental attraction that drew the physical beings together.

“We see for these ones to have been a part of a group of people whose affiliation was religious in nature. We see for this to have been Hebrew. We see that the families were very close and that there were many opportunities these ones had to be in the same physical vicinity of one another.

We see for the one of the male to have been trained to tend sheep and we see for this one to have considered this a type of sacred duty. We see there to have been religious significance to this and we see that this one felt honored to accomplish this in the ways directed or expected by those in positions of authority.

We see for the one of the female to have prepared for caring for large groups of people. We see that this was primarily involving that of preparing food. We see that this one took this responsibility in a serious way. And we see that this one, although there was a desire to experiment, refrained from it because this one respected the traditions and the significance of the position this one was being trained for. We see that there was a kind of respect that these ones held in regards to their own chosen duties as well as in regards to their relationship to each other.”


In the present , one way Calvin and Laura expressed a commitment to pursue their spiritual growth was by aiding others by teaching spiritual principles.

Like Laura and Calvin, each party in a relationship has expressed some degree of commitment to the relationship. The commitment is not always a spoken or written commitment, yet it exists and can take many different forms. For example, in your relationship with your employer, you have made a commitment to perform a certain type of work for a specific number of hours for financial gain, medical and vacation benefits and security. In a relationship with a sibling there may be a commitment to listen to the other’s problems or concerns, share the care and responsibility of aging parents or trade babysitting services. In a love relationship there is probably a commitment to be the “one and only” or “significant other” in someone’s life, “to honor, cherish, and obey in sickness and in health”.

Much of this type of commitment may be expressed as contractual commitment. Some form of contract, whether written, spoken or unspoken, is the foundation for the commitment.

The most beneficial form of commitment in any relationship is the mental commitment first to your Self and your learning in the relationship, and second to the other person and their learning in the relationship. This is a very personal and intimate application of commitment. This is the type of commitment evident in Calvin’s and Laura’s relationship. Each desires to aid the other in becoming the very best they can be.

To begin that process in any relationship, it is important to recognize how the relationship currently exists. The significance of a Past Life Crossing pinpoints the relationship as it exists now:

“We see once again for there to be common interests between these two and we see that there is a respect that these ones hold, once again in regards to duty or position. We see that there is much that these ones are seeking in terms of what can be brought to the positions that these ones hold. We see in this way there is once again the accomplishment of the type of respect and the type of openness to experiencing in terms of how each can affect others. We see there is a kind of admiration these ones have for one another in regards to this.” (9-9-90-2-BGO)

When you make a mental commitment to a relationship, you are making a commitment beyond the physical and emotional needs of the individuals to the souls that are involved in the association. The ideals or desires of the souls determine where the relationship can go. As you examine the relationship from the perspective of the soul and the learning that can occur, you can determine spiritual goals for the relationship that are in alignment with the individuals. You know where the relationship is and you begin to formulate where you individually and collectively want to go. The focus of a mental commitment to a relationship centers around personal growth and soul progression. You are investing your Self in aiding your mate to achieve their soul’s desires or helping them fulfill their “mission” for this lifetime.

The Soul’s Lineage
by Dr. Daniel Condron

Each lifetime provides a different set of situations and circumstances, a different “classroom” in which to learn and grow. In school, you may take a course in chemistry, another in languages, and still another in history. Many different courses are required in order to learn the lessons necessary to graduate from high school and earn a diploma. Similarly, through many lifetimes the soul incarns into different environments, sometimes in a female body, other lifetimes in a male body. Between lifetimes the soul exists in subconscious mind for the subconscious mind is the abode of the soul. The soul will incarn in one race, and the next lifetime in a body of a different race. Each of us in our soul travels have incarned in many places on this earth, from Europe to Africa to Asia to North and South America.

Each individual has a unique purpose. It is the duty and responsibility of each individual within that family to discover their purpose for choosing that particular family in order that they may use the association to the fullest. Insight into these purposes is revealed in the significance of the past life association to the present life. This is illustrated from the reading cited earlier in this way:

“We see once again for the commonality between these ones to be in how they are motivated. We see that once again there is a need for external motivation for all of them to be able to move forward in their thinking. We see that they are often prone to falling into rash decisions or opinions which actually do not have much of a foundation, and we see that in doing so these ones rely upon each other for support of their opinions or belief.

We see that many times, as was in the past, this is not in a productive sense to find courage in confidence in being able to reproduce but rather it is in being able to justify their limitations...

We see that there is a great sense of connection that these ones have, there is a very real sense of bonding that these ones have, and we see that no matter what disagreements they may entertain or what kinds of conflicts arise, it does not hinder the bond. We see however that there is an attempt upon these ones part, once again, to expect a kind of magical revelation from the bond in producing understanding. As was in the past this did not occur, and it does not occur in the present.

We see there is some need on each one of these one’s parts to recognize that understanding is the result of individual desire and effort, it is not something that occurs merely because situations force the self into understanding. We see that each one of these ones are capable of much greater understanding than they give themselves credit for in the present time period...” (10-6-92-1-BGC)

This reading goes on to give suggestions for change to the family as a group as well as offering specific insights for each of the four family members. Jason is encouraged to face what is unpleasant rather than becoming distant and backing away when conflicts arise by creating a fuller realization of responsibility for Self and his life. William’s tendency toward vacillating between stubbornness and indecisiveness is noted as a root for personal and family frustration. Suggestions for contemplation and reflection on ideals and purposes are given. Melissa is described as dynamic and aggressive, having powerful influence in the family. Her short-sightedness and narrowness of vision causes her to discount this, thus becoming irresponsible. She is encouraged to extend her thinking into the future to realize her influence over a prolonged period of time. Ethlyn’s attachment to people causes her to change loyalties easily, leaving her dependent and needy. Ways of developing confidence in weak areas are outlined to aid in her individual growth and progression. When put into practice, the specific suggestions for the individual family members will improve not only their relationships with each other but with others in their lives.

Within an immediate family, there needs to be a variety of different associations so that individuals can experience different kinds of learning. The father in this lifetime may be practicing authority while the son is developing trust, follow through, and discipline. Some of the types of understanding or permanent learning that a person can develop in a lifetime are: discipline, pride, authority, love, value, respect, follow through, will power, receptivity, reasoning, intuition, determination, perception, communication, power, commitment, and Self motivation.

A Family Reading provides a case history of that particular family. The significant events of the past lifetime many times parallel events of the present association in the way that people act, react, and respond to each other’s desires. You might consider this to be the soul’s lineage, its roots so to speak. For just as an individual may investigate his family tree, discovering his physical ancestors, so he may also desire to know the history of his soul and the other souls he has associated with throughout history.

Our individual karmic obligations become apparent as we interact with others, and family units often reveal commonalties in the need for understanding certain qualities. These commonalties can be described as group karma. Group karma is often addressed in the section of the reading called the significance.