In the second part of this two-part episode Gavin is joined by David Bettenhausen and Carla Bogni-Kidd whose experience and unusual, somewhat mystical skill all started from meditation.
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KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Meditation increases serotonin and dopamine, which are the same medications we give people with depression, it lowers cortisol. When I started to meditate I started to lose weight, in fact I lost over 100lbs over a year. We found it lowers blood sugar, lowers hypertension, makes you relaxed and calm, you sleep better because it increases melatonin. We found that during the period of meditation you actually have a hyper-sense of memory because it increases alpha and theta waves in the brain.
- We were both raised Catholic and I had a questioning mind. Just going to church and being told to believe and have faith just wasn’t enough for me. Through meditation Dave started communicating with my Mother, we didn’t know that could happen and I wondered why she didn’t come to me?! She had died 18 years before and he had never met her, but picked out the dancing shoe she had shown him and got very emotional when he saw a picture of her. This took our interest and we started wanting to do nothing but meditate and wondered who else we could talk to.
- Another time I was meditating and I looked across the room and suddenly I’m in a dark alley looking at Carla. It wasn’t quite Carla, but I know it was her, she was younger, had blonde hair, wore a gold band and a fringed skirt. Then there were two large flashes and I realised I’d been shot, it threw me to the ground and I was dying in this alley. I didn’t know what any of it meant. The next day I meditated again and got more of the story: I met this woman at the wedding of a man named Angelo on January 10th 1925 in Chicago. I asked her to go to breakfast the next day, she told me her name is Ruby Donaldson, her father’s name is James, mother’s name Anna, and she’s from Bulloch Georgia and she moved to Chicago to become a dressmaker and a singer. I still didn’t understand what this meant. Carla went on ancestry dot com and looked up Ruby Donaldson from Bulloch Georgia, the daughter of James and Anna and one of 11 children. Then I found newspaper articles from the wedding of Angelo Jenner, her boss, to Lucille Spinolla on January 10th 1925. There were pictures of the wedding cake, it served over 3000 mobsters as Angelo preceded Al Capone in the mob in Chicago at the time.
- The other thing that can help you here, which has a basis in neuroscience, as far as consciousness and subconsciousness. We start to look at the way we learn lessons – if you touch something hot it burns you, the next time you touch something hot you pull back faster – if you had a bad experience in a past life (say, being shot in a dark alley) you’re going to try and avoid being shot by mobsters in a back alley in future. There are certainly lessons from the past that can protect you, even if you can’t exactly remember them, you pull them up from the subconscious. That’s where altered states of consciousness – meditation, hypnosis, the time between wake and sleep – are times where people have these experiences, because they have heightened alpha and theta waves in the brain, increased endorphin release and those things will cause a reaction and a memory.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Dave’s spirit guide, Isbella, was feeding Dave information. She said: “Most people know what the 10 Commandments are, but I can give you a shortened version that’s easier for everybody to remember – in order to get off the wheel of karma we should live a life without conceit, selfishness, jealousy, and unforgiveness. We should do everything in love and compassion because, unless you learn that, how else can you truly love anybody and find your way back to God? With reincarnation you return to learn those lessons because you didn’t reach your potential in life, so you came back again”.’
‘We’ve found 29 past lives together. Not just in a romantic way, I’ve been his sister, his mother, we’ve been neighbours, school chums. In each one of these stories there was a lesson to be learned, there was a reason we didn’t reach our potential and we had to come back to another life. We’ve been doing this for over 6000 years. We’re still learners apparently!’
‘If we’d all learn lessons from history, whether it’s your past lives’ journey or even from history alone, you can start to improve the future.’
‘If you believe in reincarnation, like we do, there’s really no need to feel jealous, selfish or unforgiving, there’s enough to go around. We’ve all been kings, queens, rich, poor, black, white, saints and sinners, we are infinite human beings.’
ABOUT THE GUEST
David Bettenhausen and Carla Bogni-Kidd are like-minded souls. They have been close friends since 1998. The two have a spiritual kinship that has taken them through 29 past lives together.
The story they tell in The Gift of Past Lives with Mother, Isabella, God and Elizabeth aims to liberate people from the traps of conceit, jealousy and selfishness and choose love in all actions.
David Bettenhausen
Dr. Dave serves as the vice president of medical affairs at a small Midwestern hospital. Whether he is at the hospital or his private practice, he daily coaches his patients about their well-being mentally, physically and spiritually. He believes in a holistic approach to life and regularly lectures and conducts discussions with groups of patients and physicians on healthcare. He has a personal interest in the stages of grief with death, dying and spirituality. Before he entered medical school, Dave practised as a registered nurse for ten years.
After years in private practice as a physician in Ohio, Dr. Dave was approaching personal burnout. He had always valued being a positive example to his patients, and as his life became less joyful, he felt he was no longer doing that. He had weight issues, and his life was spiralling downward. Carla, as his office manager and friend, was the vessel that carried Dave to meditation and the ultimate healing of himself. Meditation led both of them to an encounter with a set of wise spiritual beings known as Mother, Isabella, God and Elizabeth, which revealed many past lives to Dave and Carla. Through the insights Dave received during meditation, he underwent a personal transformation and regained his sense of self, which led to a weight loss of 116 pounds. He again found his joy in practising medicine and with his patients.
Carla Bogni-Kidd
Carla Bogni-Kidd has been on a lifelong journey of spirituality, always seeking her purpose and very often serving as a vessel for others’ journeys. The theme running through her life has been to help others—that is where she feels the happiest.
Carla is quite comfortable speaking with people about their innermost feelings and challenges. Her closest friends have often referred to her as their personal counselor.
Website: https://thegiftofpastlives.com/
ABOUT THE HOST
Gavin Scott is a born entrepreneur with a passion for start up and scale up. He has over 20 years real estate experience in investment and development.
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