"As we evolve, we begin to stretch and expand the boundaries of our awareness. By reaching into the unconscious, we can reclaim knowledge of our past, understand the circumstances of the present, and intuit visions of the future. In this process it is inevitable that our terror of the unknown that keeps us frozen and constricted in pain will dissolve, and our images of the darkness will have to be revised. This is the courageous movement toward accepting the wholeness of our being which challenges our misogynist cultural conditioning of fearing the great and dark unknown.

Today there are many practices which are providing people with the passageway into the Unconscious mind with the intention of uncovering forgotten treasures in the underworld of the psyche. Regression and hypnosis are techniques that help people explore their past lives. The idea of karma has been used by Eastern philosophers for thousands of years to explain how unconscious forces from the past affect the present and the future.
Karma is the law of cause and effect; it is the result of any previous action whose seed will eventually bear fruit. This law implies that it is inevitable that we will at some time encounter the results of all our previous actions. Positive activity bears joyous and enriching life circumstances. Negative activity yields misery and misfortune.

Reincarnation proposes that we have not one, by many lives, one right after another, here on earth. These two principles working together imply that throughout countless lifetimes, we reap the results of our own actions.
 
This view holds that our present circumstances are due to our own making by our own actions in past lives. There exists both individual karma and group karma, the latter being the conditions created by the collective attitudes and actions of a family, tribe, race, nation, group or generation. However, the theory of karma does not remain static in simply keeping the account of a cosmic balance sheet of rewards and punishments from one life to the next. It further goes on to suggest that how we respond to the present conditions of our karma will determine our future. A Buddhist adage teaches,"

“If you want to know who you were in your past life, look to your present circumstances. If you want to know who you will be in your future life, look to your present actions.” From Finding Our Way Through the Dark, by Demetra George .

Experiencing Past Life/Future Life
For Spiritual Healing