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Terry?'

    'Yes. Probably.'

    'Why are you addicted?'

    'I have been under a great deal of pressure. My youngest son is a teacher and has written a book questioning the caste system of the Hindu religion. Many Brahmins and priests have turned against him.'

    'What is this caste that you talk about?'

    'Hindus believe that your position in society is determined by birth. Many people are treated unfairly due to this. Untouch-ability is a direct consequence of this system.'

    'You must be very proud of your son for having written about the problem.'

    'No. I dissuaded him from doing it. Why rake up contro-versies? Let sleeping dogs lie. He is very upset with me.'

    'Do you see any familiar faces from your present life?'

    'Yes.'

    'Who?'

    'My mother, in my present life as Terry . . . she was my wife in my previous life.'

    'Anyone else?'

    'My father in my present life . . . he was my eldest son in my previous life--the one I used to hit quite often.'

    'Any other faces that look familiar?'

    'Susan. My wife in my present life.'

    'Who is she in your previous life?'

    'She was my daughter in my previous life--I arranged to have her married off to someone when she was just thirteen! Poor kid!'

    'What can you learn from all this?'

    'My mother gave me intense love in my present life. It was because I had intensely loved her when she was my wife in my previous life. She was merely returning the favour.'

    'And?'

    'I used to take out my anger on my eldest son in a previous life by hitting him.
    He became my father in my present life to teach me how dreadful it feels to be at the 34

    receiving end of a parent's anger.'

    'Anything else?'

    'I ensured that my daughter was parted from me at an early age as a result of her early child marriage. She became my wife, Susan, in my present lifetime. She taught me the intense sorrow and despair of separation--through her early death.'

    'Anything that your younger son taught you? You know, the one who wrote about the evils of caste discrimination.'

    'One should never let sleeping dogs lie.'

    London, UK, 2012

    Professor Terry Acton looked unkempt. His hair was finger-combed and his face had a permanently unshaven look. His jeans and sweater had certainly seen better days. Strangely enough, all of this only enhanced his appeal to the opposite sex. There was pain in his eyes and this seemed to make him more attractive to women.

    The sixteen years since that fateful day of his session with Martha Sinclair had produced positive healing for Terry Acton.

    Terry had decided to use his background in psychology and combine it with past-life therapy and a comparative study of religion at the Spiritualist Association.
    Terry had first started out by being a spiritual medium. He then mastered the art of hypnosis. He moved on to practise regression when Martha moved back to New York to start her yoga academy.

    After his first few sessions with Martha, Terry began attending lectures on spirituality at the Department for the Study of Religions at the University of London. His teachers awoke Terry's interest in religion and spirituality. This eventually led to a prestigious teaching assignment at the university.

    Today, Terry was delivering a lecture on Hinduism and its twin pillars of reincarnation and karma.

    'It's impossible to place a date on the origin of Hinduism, but even way back in 4000 B.C., it was being practised in the Indus Valley. Hinduism is the third largest religion in the world with approximately 940 million followers,' started Terry. 32

    Without consulting any notes, he continued. 'Hinduism is similar to many world religions. For example, the Holy Trinity exists in Hinduism. The trinity is that of Brahma the creator, Vishnu the preserver, and Shiva the destroyer. The Trinity is also repeated in the divine Hindu Mother Goddess, with Lakshmi, Saraswati and Kali being three manifestations of the supreme feminine force. Hindu mythology has an abundance of gods. This is quite similar