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Retire Your Family Karma: Decode Your Family Pattern and Find Your Soul Path »

Authors: Ashok Bedi, Boris Matthews
ISBN-13: 9780892540815, ISBN-10: 0892540818
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Nicolas-Hays, Incorporated
Date Published: November 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Ashok Bedi

Book Synopsis

	List of Journal Exercises	ix
	Acknowledgments	xi
	Introduction	xv
Part I	Tracing Your Family Karma
Chapter 1.	Beginning the Work of Retiring Your Family Karma	3
	How to Use this Book	5
Chapter 2.	What is Karma?	7
	Means and Ends	9
	The Three Sources of Karma	10
	The Matrix of Karma	16
	Introduction to the Journal Exercises	17
	Repetition and Reversal	19
Chapter 3.	Evidence for Family Karma in Ancient and Modern Legends	21
	Family Karma in the Bible	21
	Family Karma in the House of Atreus	22
	Violent Death in the Kennedy Dynasty	28
Chapter 4.	Exploring the Family Dynamics and Our Relationships	33
	The Authors' Experience with Family Karma	34
	The Importance of Relationships to Our Soul Growth	36
Chapter 5.	How We Inherit Family Karma	51
	The Unconscious	51
	Family Complexes and the Word-Association Experiments	52
	Morphogenic Fields and the Kundalini Chakras	55
	Family Legacy in the Seven Chakras	57
	First-Chakra Family Karma: Tom's Horror of Insecurity	62
	Second-Chakra Family Karma: Karen's Sexual Fantasies	67
	Third-Chakra Family Karma: Edward, the Benevolent Tyrant	73
	Fourth-Chakra Family Karma: Sex with the Stepson	79
	Fifth-Chakra Family Karma: Ann Finds Her Voice	84
	Sixth-Chakra Family Karma: Ruth Emerges as a Leader	89
	Seventh-Chakra Family Karma: Esther Hears the Whispers of the Sacred	94
Part II	Working Out Your Family Karma
Chapter 6.	Clues to Karma and How to Sort Them Out	101
	Where We Start: Awareness, Knowledge, Responsibility	102
	Tools for the Search	105
	Family Karma and Adopted Children	107
	Relationship Patterns and Problems	110
	Examining Our Parents' and Relatives' Relationships	112
	Career Choices	116
	Fantasies	117
	Complexes	119
	How to Work with Complexes	123
	Fascinations and Antipathies	128
	Psychiatric and Medical Conditions and Chakra Imbalances	131
	Dreams	135
	Working with Dreams	138
	Tragic Events	139
Chapter 7.	Mapping Your Family Karma	143
	Basic Components of the Genogram	143
	Using the Genogram to Map Family Karma	144
	Setting up Your Genogram	148
Chapter 8.	Encouragement for Your Soul Journey	151
	What Do You Do after You've Identified Family Karma?	152
	The Archetypal Pattern	154
	The Courage to Become Yourself	158
	Appendices
A.	Additional Reading	159
B.	Genealogy	161
	Notes	165
	Bibliography	169
	Index	173