Soul Agreements

by Dick Sutphen, Tara Sutphen

While in spirit, before you were born, you wrote a script for your life on earth that included soul agreements establishing your relationships with your parents, lovers, children, and others who would affect your life in meaningful ways. Your career directions were planned out, as well as the major challenges you would encounter. This karmic road map was programmed at a soul level and can be examined by psychic researchers like Dick and Tara Sutphen. In his bestselling book, You Were Born Again to Be Together , Dick explored the concept of destiny through romantic relationships. In Soul Agreements his investigations expand to a variety of a woman born with a severe disability; a couple who came together to experience tragedy; and others who incarnated to be famous, or influential, or to become healers. Once you understand how soul agreements work, Dick teaches how to make the most of your destiny. The more self-actualized you are, the less likely you will be adversely affected by negative life experiences. This awareness shows you how to best override fate and create your own reality of love and success.

Genres: Spirituality

232 pages, Paperback

First published April 25, 2005

About the author

Dick Sutphen is President of the American Board of Hypnotherapy, and the author of the million-copy reincarnation bestseller, You Were Born Again To Be Together (Simon & Schuster Pocket Books). His latest book is Soul Agreements (Hampton Roads Publishing). He has authored 21 New Age books — seven for Simon & Schuster who calls him "America’s Foremost Psychic Researcher." Dick is called "America’s leading past-life therapist" by the Body Mind Spirit Festivals in England and Australia. As a specialist in brain/mind technology, Dick instructs medical professionals in how to use his life-changing techniques. He has created over 300 mind-programming CDs. Over 180,000 people have attended a Sutphen Seminar, workshop, or retreat. Dick is also a featured speaker and teacher at all the major Professional Hypnosis conferences. He has appeared on over 400 radio and television shows. As a practicing hypnotherapist, Dick conducts private sessions at his offices in Westlake Village, CA. Since the karmic roots of all problems go back to past lives, he specializes in Spirit-Contact and Past-Life Therapy.

Reviews

[Jeanette · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is New Age perceptions of past lives and regressions using chakra concentrations to communicate between two souls who have had previous close combinations of experiences before/again in many different physical lives. It's for those who believe in these definitions of soul entity and reincarnation to Karma and Dharma. Of which I am not a believer, so I have to say that straight up. Most of this to me was exactly like pyscho-babble theories and with far, far less proof. Some was so self-serving and one star that I really did laugh out loud. Not the least aspect being, that the author and wife seem to be in every deluxe island resort or posh hotel location on each continent to "help" these people who they read and assist to self-analysis.

I would have given it one star, except for the few lengthy explanations of how best to face unfairness, adversity, negative affect or other tragedies of human existence (like being chronically sick, disabled, huge grief from death of most loved ones, or just always feeling unconnected during your life). Those sections of answers were just basically cognitive behavioral changes you could make in becoming non-reactive to anger from the hurt. They are not much connected with any New Age overreach approach, at all.

Refusing to "take it personally" and identifying as a victim or with self-pity from the get-go, being #1. Never holding that cognition of "it's not fair" at any core thought. Furthermore with time, how to achieve constructive bridges through some of human's most common suffering experiences to achieve a far more possible peacefully cored strength or joyful progression to ultimate purposes. Separating the negative self-injury and reactive anger to components that pass through us to their ultimate purposes or plan (God, Karma, eternity repayments etc.)

It is correct and accurate that the most happy and fulfilled humans believe they are both (happy and whole self-defined), first and foremost. They filter the bad stuff right through, as if they were a glass window and all the pains of life, the light. Their "knowing" this correlates far more than the luck or terrible fates of what real individual experiences have happened to them. Dying people, horribly abused, terribly rejected, repeatedly impoverished- they all may be far happier than the most favored by fate who do NOT "know" these things and react to negative circumstances by holding personal reaction. That's merely a cognitive behavioral consequence and not as tied in to this whole cloth philosophy of 600,000 repeated incarnations as the book makes it out to be.

Some of the seekers of their karmic pasts put me into silly giggles. Truly. He & she of the clairvoyance seem to focus on the B or C class celeb or celeb connected person, not the school clerk or the crossing guard lady. It sure gives their workplace views a much better setting!

They should be able to make highest end travelogues on the side.

[Joseph · Rating 2 out of 5]

I find it hard to swallow that the author uses numeric biblical predictions of 9/11 as means to establish a metaphysical belief system.

[Hannah🌱]

Interesting premise. I find myself thinking about soul agreements from time to time even though I read this book 15+ years ago

[April Braswell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting metaphysical idea about Soul Agreements. Didn't love them all. However, I did enjoy the book.

[Rose Klix · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very interesting reading. The author opened my mind further to the idea of reincarnation. I've believed in past lives most of my life. His book helped me understand the process. My curiosity was peaked and I discovered 23 of my previous lives through dreams, deja vu, and regressions.
Rose Klix - author of "Past Lives Before Now."

[Katie · Rating 4 out of 5]

It took a few chapters for me to get into Sutphen's writing style. But once I did, each chapter built upon the last until the final culminating few shifted from past lives to parallel lives and ultimately to the point of life: evolution. A good read!

[Victoria Cumberbatch · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love love loved this. Recommend it all the time