Arthur Guirdham was an English physician and psychiatrist who researched and wrote about past life memories and reincarnation. In the course of his investigations, he became acquainted with a “Mrs. Smith” who, as a twelve-year-old girl, had written down copious memories of a past life as a young Cathar girl who had fallen in love and left home with a much older Cathar cleric named “Roger.” Mrs. Smith identified the author, Arthur Guirdham, as Roger, her lover and mentor, from that past life she remembered so well. Was there a divine mission involved for both of them in collaborating to bring this compelling and extremely detailed medieval story of love and tragedy, as well as the reality of reincarnation, to modern humanity’s attention?

This is an accurate account and retelling of ancient history that was truly lived through by this woman and her great love at the time in that ancient life, who was also reincarnated on the Earth to be a contemporary, so each would have the most recent life, and run into one another, and develop an inner awareness that was shared of what took place long, long ago. This was a divine mission, to have this recognition and a retelling that would reach the eyes and ears of many other people because this is an important topic to bring up, to reinstill an awareness, and help to cultivate a belief in the phenomenon of reincarnation. Not only is it the way things work, the reality of what one has gone through in the past looms large in every new incarnation if it led to traumatic events and has been unhealed. The universe is designed this way, to never escape the consequences of misfortune; whether caused by the self or experienced as a victim, you have a duty to your soul to clean up your own mess and if that is not attended to during the lifetime, the consequences will circle back through the Law of Karma to drag you down in the future. This woman, indeed, was haunted by that past life, and having reencountered the man she was with when things fell apart and her life ended in tragedy, was able to relay a compelling story of karma and its consequences to remind people of this reality, and inspire them to look further and ask the question about their own life—what might they have as a legacy that is influencing them, and perhaps harming and holding them back, still, from prior lifetimes lived where there was trauma from loss, failure, and victimization?