Introduction: Life Lessons Learned from My Past Life
Prologue: I See Other People's Past Lives

Part 1.
What it means to know your past life
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A drama of sorrow, pain, and joy
Some emails/readings are like this/watching a movie in one sitting/why she keeps failing the civil service exam/who is her younger sibling/incomprehensible accidents and their reasons
2.
Traces of Life and the Ladder of the Soul
A Time of Prayer and Purification / Reading and Recording / The Power of Understanding and Empathy / Clear People, Turbid People
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Misconceptions and Truths About Past Life Readings
Cross-validation of past life readings and hypnosis / I'm not a shaman / Dangerous readings
4.
Choices and Life Transitions
The Four Seasons of Karma / The Most Probable Adolescence / From Derailment and Wandering

Part 2.
Accept the talents given to you
5.
Let me tell you about myself
The Milk Thief Driven to His Maternal Grandmother's Home / Landscapes in My Memory / The Desert's Soul / The Earth Carries the Sky
6.
Live like a fool with the heart of an angel
An encounter that changed my destiny / A teacher who took off the mask of God / Like an angel who became a fool / An encounter with an ability I didn't know I had / My past life, my mission / My family's past life / My mission and the healing of my heart / Not recognizing the Maitreya Buddha who had already come
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What accumulates like dust becomes a rock
Pride breeds suffering / The study of the heart of service / The price of leading stock investment / Are smuggling and gangsterism necessary professions? / Does leading lead to misfortune?

Part 3.
The Secret of Soul Promises and Fate
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Just like when the wind blows on a lake, waves rise
Past life habits carry over to this life / Understanding and forgiving past lives / Current suffering is a promise of past life 'practice' / Meeting past lives at life's turning points / The wisdom of acceptance / Forgiving your father
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Why the mosquito brought the mule
Wife and Mother / The Master's Daughter Repays the Kindness of the Servant / A Hundred Years of Gratitude / Stories of Giving and Receiving Kindness from a Past Life / Keeping All the Promises Made Then / God's Gift, God's Code / Meeting the Six Martyred Ministers
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What Reading Teach Us
Tragedy, Suffering, and the Meaning of Forgiveness / The Life of a Righteous Lawyer / A Catholic Who Cannot Go to Church / A Promise Unkept
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The Past Life of a Westerner
Why do I see Korean girls? / A cosmic message / Why Westerners' reading is clearer / The many differences between Easterners and Westerners

Part 4.
The school called Past Life
12.
You reap what you sow
Illness is a shortcut to restoring karmic balance / My son's atopic dermatitis / Corruption leads to disease / The causes of urinary incontinence and endometriosis / Unfulfilled love
13.
Depression, Disability, and Suicide
Karma and Depression / The Many Causes of Disability and Past Life Readings / The Thousand-Year Wait / Suicide Returns as a Greater Burden / Is Sacrificial Suicide Different?
14.
Sex, Marriage, and Karma
A man who sleeps while holding hands / The reason they met as a couple / A marriage that contains various stories of past lives / The well of sex and karma / Where does homosexuality come from / The sorrow of a eunuch
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Desire and love are different
Adultery and the Karma of Past Lives / Is a Wife's Infidelity the Husband's Fault? / Unpurified Obsession / War and the Karma of Adultery

Part 5.
How to live now
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Things that make us grow
God's Care and the Evolution of the Soul / Reading Past Lives to Change Your Future / The Flesh of Fate on the Bone of Fate / Between Shamans and Psychiatrists / The Choice of Free Will
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Where does the solution point?
The Balance of the Three Powers / Continue to Do Good Deeds, Even if They Are Small / The Sailor Who Became a Shipping Entrepreneur / Beware of Arrogance / Pain is Our Soulmate
18.
Everyone is everyone's healer
Only good and earnest prayers / Karma of prayer and wish / Love and gratitude
Epilogue | The Report Card of a Past Life and the Choice of Happiness

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The mysterious ability to read other people's past lives.
Knowing your past life reveals the meaning and direction of life.

A message for true life from Jinyeo Park, who has read and counseled the past lives of 15,000 people over the past 15 years.

One day, a woman came to the author's counseling office without an appointment.
He was a job seeker who had been taking the civil service exam several years ago but had failed to pass and was contemplating whether to take a different path.
When reading the client's past life, it turned out that he had worked as a local government magistrate during the late Joseon Dynasty.
However, there was a scene of misuse of authority.
It wasn't serious corruption, but it was giving preferential treatment to people close to him.
Because someone got the benefit, someone else had to bear the burden.
The mistakes made in performing public duties at that time were the cause that prevented him from becoming a public servant in his present life.
I had to purify that karma to pass the civil service exam.
The author advised that solving the current problems and concerns requires time for service and sacrifice, and that it would take about five years.
Then, six years later, the civil service exam candidate I had counseled back then came back to visit me again.
I recently passed both the 7th and 9th level exams and wanted to say thank you.
He said that although he always had a part of his heart that wanted to give up, he was able to overcome the difficulties by living a life of service and perseverance with the thought of paying off his karma, as the past life reading had told him (case study, page 37).


Past life reading counselor Jinyeo Park.
The author has the mysterious ability to read other people's past lives.
By entering the client's deep subconscious, the spiritual information stored deep within that subconscious is discovered and read, and numerous scenes flow before your eyes like a movie.
As if the client himself were recalling past memories.
The author explains that at that moment, a resonance phenomenon occurs in which all information, including the client's memories, is shared with that person.
Among the past life information read this way, only the content closely related to this life is edited to answer the client's concerns.

It is fateful that the author discovered this ability.
The author, who was majoring in clinical pathology at university, had a special experience while practicing blood collection from patients at a hospital.
The feeling of the patient's health and future fate after the blood draw was conveyed in its entirety.
The author, who has had repeated experiences in the hospital where all of his premonitions come true, discovers that he has an intuition that can read fate (p. 90).
Afterwards, the author happened to follow a friend's hypnotic past life counseling session, and there he had the experience of reading not only his own past life but also the past lives of others.
The encounter with the wave meditation expert, Choi Young-sik, whom he met here, brought about a major change in the author's life (p. 93).
Master Beopun discovered that the author possessed a special spiritual talent, and through earnest teachings and prayer and meditation practice, he further developed his abilities.
Finally, the author was able to perform a reading by accessing the dimension where the client's spiritual information was stored while in a deep meditative state of consciousness, and then reading the client's past life information and then explaining it in detail.


This book is a record of the author's experiences reading and counseling the past lives of over 15,000 clients over the past 15 years since 2000, as well as the life messages he learned in the process.
It explains the causes of suffering on a larger level regarding the problems we face in this life and guides us to the true direction of life.
The author says, “The hardships we experience in life may be the result of spiritual commitments we made at a time we don’t remember now” (p. 142).
And I am convinced that “if, for some reason, we can view the suffering of this life in a larger context, life can change in amazing ways.”

The author talks about the secret to happiness that his long-term reading experience taught him.
“Accept life as it is, love others with a good heart, and share what you have with your neighbors.”
One thing she repeatedly confirms while reading the past lives of her clients is the simple truth that true change begins within ourselves.

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Your problem right now may not be of your own making.

Love, marriage, health, work, family and relationships - what does your past life advise you to do?

One fall, a woman in her 40s came to me and said she wanted to know what kind of life she had lived in her past life.
As we begin reading, a shabby house appears in a barren desert-like place.
It was an orphanage that raised children whose parents died early or went missing.
Rather than caring for the children, it was a place where they could stay for a while until they were adopted.
People who wanted to adopt came and the chosen children left the place.
The reading revealed that the client was the person in charge of the facility.
Most of them took the girls first, and some of them were seen secretly giving them money.
Other than that, there was nothing special, but the problem came after being adopted.
The next reading scene showed children being exploited and suffering.
There were scenes of girls being sexually abused by their male masters while doing hard labor from dawn to late at night.
There were also scenes of people working with iron chains tied to their feet like slaves.


Silence flowed between the client, the guide teacher, Beopun Seonsaeng, and the author, Jinyeo Park, as the result of the uncomfortable and cruel reading was revealed.
As the reading continued, these results were obtained.
“This life, though not of my own choosing, is connected to the karma of my past life, when the orphans I cared for were deprived of love and care, and suffered through hard labor and sexual exploitation.
In this life, we have a spiritual purpose: to practice sacrifice, service, and sharing to purify such karma.”

After finishing the reading, the middle teacher, who had already known the client's occupation, looked puzzled and asked the author, Park Jin-yeo, a question.
“What are you talking about? This person is a respected lawyer.
“He is a person of great character who serves society and fulfills his social role, so how can such a past life reading come about?” The author answers Master Beopun like this.
“That is why I was given the role of a lawyer in this life to repay the karma of that time and to do my best to purify my karma.”

Just as Master Beopun was about to press the author again, the female client spoke.
"you're right.
I have been representing orphans and sexually exploited women pro bono for many years.
By chance, I had the opportunity to provide free legal representation to a woman who had been adopted and sexually exploited, and that incident has been the catalyst for my continued work to this day.”

The client had started doing this work by chance, and had never refused a request for such legal representation. While he devoted so much time and effort to pro bono legal representation, he had a difficult time worrying about the salaries of his office staff.
So, he said he sought counseling because he thought that if he knew his past life, he would be able to understand why he had to play such a difficult role.
And I came to understand life through past life readings myself. (Case study, page 170)

The preface to this book is written by Professor Seong Hae-young of the Seoul National University Institute of Humanities, who has been researching various types of religious experiences.
He is also a religious scholar who has personally observed the author's reading process several times.
In fact, nearly 30% of our population believes in reincarnation, but in an era where positivist science dominates, the topic of past lives or reincarnation can be ridiculed.
This is especially true when it comes to people who claim to be able to actually read past lives, rather than through academic research.
Professor Seong Hae-young wrote this about why he willingly wrote the preface to a book, even though it was not an easy task for a scholar working at a university.


“From the perspective of a scholar studying religious experience, Professor Park Jin-yeo’s talent is truly remarkable.
Despite the extraordinary hardships and unusual life he leads due to his extraordinary talent, his efforts to cultivate that talent and alleviate the suffering of others are touching.
Her talent is not only rare but also precious to us.
Teacher Park Jin-yeo succinctly summarizes the insights she gained from her long history of past life readings:
Be willing to help your neighbors in need and share whatever you have.
“Only such sincerity can make us happy.” (Page 11, ‘Introduction’)

There is no way to 'objectively' prove that a remembered past life is actually one's own.
Because there is no way to empirically verify the continuity between the existence of hundreds of years ago and the present me.
Ultimately, reincarnation is literally a question of metaphysical dimensions.
However, it is difficult to immediately regard this criticism as the impossibility of reincarnation.
Professor Seong Hae-young suggests that we approach the question of whether Mr. Park Jin-yeo's past life reading story is true from a common-sense perspective.


"Is it possible to sustain this work of fabricating the past lives of nearly a thousand clients a year for 15 years? And even more so, to record every single session."
Moreover, Master Beopun Seonsaeng has made it a rule to not provide her with any information about his clients other than their names and ages.
Yet, in front of a client she meets for the first time, she closes her eyes and concentrates for a few dozen seconds before reading, and then immediately explains the past lives that have influenced her current life.
"How could this happen? And over the course of 15 years?" (p. 10)

The counseling cases in this book make for interesting reading.
The consultation cases are also very diverse.
It can be said to be a complex of various problems we face, from problems arising in love, marriage, career, and various human relationships, to issues related to sexual minorities, infidelity, the causes of various accidents and diseases, and even questions about the future.


The message, on the other hand, is serious and concise.
It makes me reflect seriously on myself and our lives once again.
Since the beginning of time, mankind has lived with the question, 'Where did we come from, who are we, and where are we going?'
Knowing about past lives provides a breakthrough in solving this question.
Past life readings show that each person is born with a karmic task to resolve.
Even if you lived a negative life in your past life, if you practice service and love and care for others in your present life, at some point your state of mind regarding difficult situations will change, your karma will be purified, and the entire aspect of your life will change.
It is said that if the negative karma is eliminated and purified due to the misfortune and suffering we are experiencing now, those events will actually become a welcome opportunity to free ourselves from the harsh chains of karma.
Only after going through this process can you regain happiness and balance.
And through this, our soul evolves.


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Knowing my past lives is understanding myself from a larger perspective of multiple lives.
A book that opens new perspectives on our interpersonal relationships, our criteria for choice, and our purpose in life.


Knowing your past lives means understanding yourself in the larger context of your many lifetimes, which in turn allows you to understand your relationships with family, friends, and acquaintances more deeply.
By accepting your true nature, you can better understand yourself and others, ultimately expanding the scope of your relationships.
A female patient who was receiving psychological counseling at a hospital came to see the author on the recommendation of her doctor of psychology.
She was in a car accident five years ago, and her husband, who was sitting next to her, died.
The woman was under extreme stress due to guilt.
Moreover, the marriage was conducted despite the opposition of the in-laws, and the in-laws did not hesitate to say that the daughter-in-law had eaten her son, which caused her deep mental illness.

According to her past life reading, her deceased husband was from a noble family, and the woman who was the client was originally from a noble family, but her family's fortune declined and she ended up becoming a gisaeng.
The two met at a banquet and fell in love, but when the man's parents found out about the affair, they encouraged them to break up.
To appease the woman who was suffering from her parents' persecution, the man planned to go far away with her and live in hiding.
On the day they were supposed to leave, the man waited for the woman, but she did not show up at the meeting place.
The woman, who knew she couldn't live in hiding her entire life, hanged herself the night before she was due to leave.
The man cried for days and lived with regret for the rest of his life.

According to the reading, the man who was wailing was her dead husband in the present life, and the woman who committed suicide at the time was a client who had lost her husband in an accident and was suffering from severe depression.
The man kept the promise of marriage he had failed to keep in his previous life, but he had no choice but to leave in this life to tell the woman who had left him in a hurry the sorrow he had experienced, said Reading.
After the reading, the woman cried for a long time and then left. Two weeks later, the psychologist in charge of the hospital that had sent her sent me an email.
“A patient came to visit me yesterday and said he had a huge burden lifted from his mind.
“It was more effective than any other treatment, and as I watched him live with a bright and grateful heart, I felt like I was being healed along with him, and my heart felt warm.” (Case study, pp. 198-199)

The author says:
“When we come into this world, our souls voluntarily choose the suffering of life for their own spiritual evolution and growth.
Because as we overcome trials, our souls regain wholeness.
Events and situations that seem unfortunate may actually be the keys to solving life's riddles.
We must do our best to find that key.
Because that effort is the hope and light that will save us.
“If you understand the truth that after darkness comes dawn, new meaning hidden in all the tragedies and hardships of life will begin to emerge,” says the author, and the message conveyed through his past life readings is forgiveness and love.
“Similar things attract similar things.”
The perpetrator and victim of an incident that occurred in the present reality may have been the opposite in a past life.
Therefore, you must know that by forgiving your enemies, you yourself are forgiven.
When we love our enemies with a forgiving heart, we understand that God loves us all.
There is no need to be sad or suffer with resentment over why such bad things happen.
Because there may be a message from God hidden within it that we cannot know.”

This book ultimately makes us realize that overcoming pain and misfortune has a positive effect of purifying karma.
By accepting that the many pains we experience in life ultimately serve a purpose, we open our hearts to accept and endure difficulties.
And it gives us a special perspective and mindset on how to wisely navigate the difficult problems we face and make the right choices when faced with difficult choices.


One of the biggest reasons people want to know about their past lives is because they are curious about their future.
We all want to overcome our given circumstances and live happier lives.
If you can accurately understand the family background and surroundings you were born into, and the strengths and weaknesses of your past lives that are influencing your current life, you will have a greater chance of designing a better future.
These are the things we can read through the past life counseling cases covered in this book.


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So, is everything determined by past lives and karma?
Can fate be changed?

Things that past lives teach us.
What should we choose?

So, is it a fate that everything in this life is inevitably determined by our past lives?
The author explains this using cows as an example.
“Let’s say some cows are born in poor areas with little grass and lots of gravel, while others are born on the banks of a river with lush grass.
And let's assume all the cows have leashes.
The local environment and leash length that a cow is born with are part of its destiny that it cannot change at will.
However, how much grass they eat within the reach of their leash may be a matter of free will for the cow.
Of course, even the extent of that free will is ultimately influenced by the habits of a previous life, but within a given framework, how much grass the cow eats depends on how much effort it puts in.


While karma determines our circumstances in a broad sense, we also have the potential to change our lives through effort and will within the given destiny.
This is because destiny, which is formed by karmic energy that is relatively lighter than fate, can be purified through one's own efforts.
For example, family background and gender are fates created by karma, but things like whether or not to move to a new company or residence are fateful and determined by our will.” (pp. 255-256)

The various past life reading cases covered in this book confirm that we are healing ourselves through various life experiences.
This leading case study demonstrates that we all have the power to heal.
Most people are unaware of this and seek help from outside themselves, but reading tells us to look within ourselves for answers.
The healing power that is already within us teaches us to be wary of being swept away by greed.
The author's reading experience tells us that all the misfortunes, difficulties, and pain we experience in life are essential opportunities for healing.


This book argues that through reincarnation, we must look at life as a whole in a larger, integrated way, beyond the dichotomy of right and wrong.
This also includes the dichotomous separation of you and me.
Past life readings teach us that you and I are inseparable.
I was you in my past life, and you can be me in the next.
When we have this kind of mindset, we become beings who can heal each other.
The author says:


“We have the power now to change the mistakes of the past.
Today could be the new trigger that determines the shape of your next life.
Even if we come to know this fact too late, we still have a chance.
As my reading experience has repeatedly shown me, even if we die as soon as we know that fact, that precious knowledge never disappears and continues into the next life.

We must live with a loving heart, sharing and giving whatever we have.
We should also be grateful for what others have given us and shared with us.
When we all have that kind of mind and attitude, a harmonious community is created.
And everyone becomes a healer who shares love in their relationships with others and with all things in nature.” (p. 282)

[Data 1] Readings of People with Clear and Cloudy Souls (Page 52)
The past lives of people with pure souls are clearly visible.
When you lead a clear-sighted person, you can get straight into their mind.
And I feel a sense of unity, as if I have become one with that person.
However, for people who are clouded by material greed or personal desires, reading past lives not only consumes a lot of energy, but also makes it difficult to see clearly.
Leading such a client is like wading through mud.
It takes a lot of energy to search and find the vision, like groping through murky water.
It feels like walking through muddy water or on a mountain path shrouded in thick fog, where you can't see even an inch ahead.

[Data 2] Why the author records the consultation (page 48)
Readings and consultations will be recorded and provided to you without your request.
Stories related to past lives are important things that we must know while living our present lives, so we must listen to them and learn them over and over again.
Every moment of our lives can only be properly understood when viewed within the broader perspective of many lifetimes.
At life transition points or when important relationships are formed, I would like to listen to the readings again and help clients make important choices or decisions based on the wholeness of their lives.


[Data 3] The author's life of purifying and praying 1,000 times daily (page 44)
Prayer is the most important thing in reading.
I pray morning and evening, reflect on myself, and look back on myself.
I also think about the people I will meet that day and sincerely hope that my meeting with you will be helpful to my clients.
Usually, I do 500 bows in the morning, and then again 500 bows in the evening after all the consultations are over.
Morning prayers are to prepare for receiving clients, and afternoon prayers are to purify the emotional byproducts and negative energy left behind by those who have received counseling.
The afternoon prayer is especially important because after counseling, each person's energy is directly transferred to me.
Therefore, prayer to purify it is also essential to have a clear mind for the next day's counseling.