Carol, I love the latest pieces you've been putting out about mystical experiences. It's so important for mental health professionals to be vocal about this. Keep these essays coming!

Fwiw, I remember having past-life inklings as a kid, but one past life seemed traumatizing. This didn't prevent me from wishing I could explore and understand that lifetime more, but I learned many years later that it just wasn't appropriate for me to "see" the bigger picture of that lifetime when I was a kid. It wasn't until my 20s — after years of therapy (and in absence of any sort of history with psychosis) — that this same past life resurfaced to be examined and healed. By then, I could see why some of the past-life information was withheld from me in childhood, but I also by then had an adult's self-consciousness about having past-life dreams and "memories." The journey of integrating it all, though, was so transformative and life-affirming that I am forever grateful.

If you're interested, I'd like to share with you a link to an essay of mine relating to past lives, mystical experiences, psychosis, and situations in which I've been blown away at the intuitions of people with untethered minds. I don't want to spam your wall, but it sounds up your alley, so I'm mentioning it just in case. ;)