Were the traumatic episodes of abuse revealed by the deep subconscious of the young girl in the channeling session we did, all from prior lifetimes? Was she subjected to actual ritual abuse by the father in her current lifetime, or was she, at age 5, recalling trauma from past lives by that father and talking about it to others?

The scenes, the episodes of trauma recounted by her deep subconscious in your channeling session, were indeed from prior lifetimes, not the current lifetime. This was the same father, so there is a strong carryover, especially of the pain from the prior occurrences, because the deep subconscious has been concerned and reviewing past history fervently to help to cope with perceiving the father as a menacing and dangerous person, which she could see intuitively from a quite young age, prior to the onset of the abuse, in fact, that occurred in the current life. Her recounting a ritual abuse-like episode to caregivers was not simply the surfacing of an old memory of prior lifetime difficulties. Keep in mind, as you well know, the deep subconscious cannot inform the conscious mind about anything, it can only speak through emotion alone. There would need to be an intuitive reach by the young girl herself to see other lifetime experiences and piece together she might be in danger. While that happens many times in dreams about such things, this is rarely hugely traumatizing as the purpose of dreams is to work through the prior experience and rebalance the negative energies, in some respects at least, as a coping mechanism. So she was not simply recalling or fantasizing about prior lifetimes but reacting to actual events in the current childhood. The fact that this is the same father as in other lifetimes of abuse only adds additional amplification of the pain involved.