A Quick Return–The Reincarnation of a Child
By Ann Jaffin
In 1943, Edgar Cayce received a letter from a woman asking for a physical
reading for her four-year-old daughter. The mother described the child as
being high strung and nervous. She wrote that, sometimes after taking her
afternoon nap, the child “awakes in a lost, distraught frame of mind,
[w]rings her hands and cries ceaselessly. It seems to be a sort of seizure or
fit. I am very quiet with her and in about a half hour she becomes normal
again, and she doesn't seem to have any recollection of what troubled her.”
Cayce nailed the cause of the child’s distress right away. It was a quick
return. She had reincarnated too quickly and was carrying over memories and
fears from a former life during World War II, less than nine months before her
present birth.
"For, here we have a quick return - from fear, to fear through fear. [The
child should] be kept away from fear, away from loud noises, darkness, the
scream of sirens, the shouts of individuals...
For, the entity was only just coming to that awareness of [the] beauty of
associations, of friendships, of the beautiful outdoors, nature, flowers,
birds, and of God's manifestations...and then the tramping of feet, the shouts
of arms, brought destructive forces.
The entity then was only a year to two years older than in the present
experience [and] finds the world such a turmoil...in its dreams, its
visions...Then...in the name Theresa Schwalendal, was on the coasts of
Lorraine [France]. The entity only passed out and then in less than nine
months again entered a material world."
The reading closed by telling the parents how to heal the child’s trauma and
promised a blessing to many people.
"Be patient. Do not scold. Do not speak harshly. Do not fret nor condemn...But
do tell [her] daily of the love that Jesus had for little children, of peace
and harmony; never those stories such of the witch, never those as of
fearfulness of any great punishment; but love, patience. This do, and we will
find a great, a wonderful soul, that has come again to bless many." (3162-1)
Because life in the earth is so very challenging, the Cayce readings state
that the longer the time period that we spend out of the earth in the
nonphysical dimensions between lifetimes, the greater our progress tends to
be. Souls who rush back to reincarnate quickly are often making it more
difficult on themselves.
"For oft, the longer the periods between the earthly sojourns the greater has
been - or may be - the development of the soul entity to that which EACH soul
IS to attain through its appearances among men." (1486-1)
Even Edgar Cayce wondered about his next lifetime. When he asked about his
next incarnation, he was told:
"As to when - it may be perhaps a hundred, two hundred, three hundred, a
thousand years - as you may count time in the present. This may not be given.
For how gave He? The day no man knoweth, ONLY the Father in heaven knoweth
it..." (294-189)
Ann Jaffin, MS, a former teacher, is an A.R.E. Life Member, and a forty-year
student of Edgar Cayce’s work. In a stunning karmic “coincidence,” Ann and
her husband discovered that 20 Cayce readings were given for their extended
family. Her book, "Past Lives and Present Karma," published by A.R.E. Press,
is a comprehensive study of reincarnation. She and her husband, Stan are this year's featured speakers at Wildacres Retreat held in North Carolina. Retired from the Federal
Government, Ann has a Masters Degree in Family and Community Development from
the University of Maryland.