AboutSandra Sparks Expertise I can answer questions on reincarnation, personal past life research, famous past lives, and alternative memory theories (otherwise known as: if it's not reincarnation, what is it?) I DO NOT DO PSYCHIC READINGS - there is no quick answer to who you may have been in a past lifetime. But I can help you find the ways to uncover the past life memories you have within.
Experience I have written a workbook for past life recall called Going Past, which will be re-issued in an updated version in the near future. I run a discussion group called The Reincarnation Cafe, and a comprehensive website called The Reincarnation Compendium. I have just launched a youtube channel called Far Memory, http://www.youtube.com/farmemory which offers a selection of videos on past life recall.
Publications I have new books coming out within the next few months on Amazon.com: "Psychic Sensibility," which is coming out in June 2009, and "The Waterhouse Witch," which is an account of my own past life discoveries. For other writing, you will find the most pertinent examples on the internet, at the Reincarnation Compendium: http://home.earthlink.net/~reincarnationcafe, and at The Chip Coffey Message Board, for which I am the moderator: http://chipcoffey.proboards45.com/
Education/Credentials My work in reincarnation developed as I researched my own past lives, and discovered the best ways for conducting personal past life recall. I have been writing regards reincarnation and related matters since 1997, primarily on the internet.
Question I have a problem with my knee since more than 6 years. I have had surgery and even alternative ways of healing but nothing helps. Could this be some karma from a past life? Is there any way I can find out?
Answer There are times when physical resemblance and features are repeated from lifetime to lifetime. I have yet to see the actual physical illnesses repeated blow for blow amongst the people who are able to verify their past lives. But, similar conditions - yes. There have been some reports of this. These may arise out of an expectation of being the same as one used to be, when this isn't true at all.
I know one family who is concerned that their daughter may be mentally disabled. I feel they should give her a few years to get used to being her new self, because I know who she used to be: her mother's brother, who had Down's Syndrome. She's still so young she is caught between the last lifetime and now. Yes, she is quiet, and she does act like the brother, but the doctors have found nothing wrong with her cognitive skills for her age. She will outgrow this by the time she is four or five years old.
In your situation:
You need to look at all physical possibilities now before you start looking to the past. Diet, weight, circulation, nerve location (I have that problem), all sorts of things can create knee problems that are easy to miss.
If nothing shows up, start keeping a journal. See if you have any affinity for other places, times, anything that feels like memory. Do your best to do this on your own, but if nothing answers your questions, then a past life regressionist might be able to help. I never recommend going to one first - rely on your own mind before someone else suggests something that might lead you the wrong way. Hypnotherapy always involves suggestion - it's not a truth serum.
As for karma -
I believe that we do carry some issues forward from lifetime to lifetime if we have not resolved them, but these are usually life issues, not health ones.
