Life Between Lives: The Soul’s Journey Beyond The Veil

As the candlelight flickers and the world outside falls quiet, I often find myself reflecting on what lies beyond our waking life.

What happens when we leave this body behind?

Is there a place where our souls go to rest, to remember, and to choose what comes next?

For centuries, mystics and healers have spoken of this in-between — the sacred space where the soul pauses between lifetimes, existing in luminous stillness before returning to Earth.

Modern regression studies call this state Life Between Lives (LBL) — the realm of the soul between incarnations — where purpose is rediscovered, and love becomes the guiding light.

The Origins Of Life Between Lives Research

The modern understanding of LBL was pioneered by Dr. Michael Newton, a hypnotherapist and author of Journey of Souls (1994) and Destiny of Souls (2000).*

While performing traditional past-life regressions, Newton’s clients unexpectedly began describing vivid memories of what occurred after death — a place of radiant light, councils of wise beings, and reunions with soul companions.

Across more than 7,000 case studies, a striking consistency emerged:

• Souls described being greeted by guides or loved ones upon crossing over.
• They experienced a life review — not of judgment, but of learning through empathy.
• Many met with soul groups — beings who reincarnate together in various roles.
• They often spoke of meeting a council of elders to plan the next incarnation and choose lessons for growth.

These findings suggested that life and death are not opposites — but part of a continuous, cyclical journey of learning, healing, and evolution.

Echoes From Ancient Traditions

Though regression therapy gave structure to these discoveries, ancient traditions have spoken of the same mysteries for millennia.

• Ancient Egypt described the Duat, where souls journey through realms of transformation before rebirth.
• The Greeks envisioned the Elysian Fields, a resting place for souls who lived with virtue and truth.
• Tibetan Buddhism speaks of the Bardo — an intermediate realm where the soul prepares for its next life.
• Celtic spirituality teaches that souls spiral through lifetimes, evolving in rhythm with nature’s cycles and the turning of the stars.

All point toward the same sacred truth: the soul is eternal, learning through love, returning to light, and reincarnating with purpose.

Science And The Study Of Consciousness

While conventional science treads carefully around metaphysical claims, research into consciousness after death has gained momentum.

The Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) at the University of Virginia has documented thousands of verified past-life recall cases and near-death experiences.

Dr. Ian Stevenson and Dr. Jim B. Tucker reported numerous cases of children recalling verifiable details of previous lives — information later confirmed by living relatives.

LBL hypnotherapy has also been used therapeutically, helping individuals resolve deep emotional wounds, uncover fears carried across lifetimes, and reconnect with their soul’s greater purpose.

The Soul’s Purpose Between Lives

The time between incarnations is described as a period of deep peace and understanding. Souls review their past actions through the lens of compassion — not punishment — feeling the ripple effect of their choices on others. They reconnect with their soul family, rest within healing light, and design the blueprint of their next incarnation — choosing lessons to refine love, patience, courage, or forgiveness.

Time does not exist there as we know it. It is a realm of timeless awareness, where energy flows in patterns of color, light, and vibration — each frequency a song of remembrance.

Living With This Awareness

When we live with the understanding that our soul continues on, our approach to life shifts. Pain no longer feels meaningless. Love feels infinite. Even loss becomes a temporary separation in a far greater cycle of connection.

We begin to move with grace — forgiving more easily, creating more authentically, and trusting the unseen rhythm guiding our path. Every challenge becomes an invitation to grow, every ending a passage into renewal.

Closing Reflections

If you are reading these words in a moment of grief, uncertainty, or quiet wonder — know that your soul remembers. You have walked this path before, and you will walk it again. Each lifetime is a chapter, not the full story. 

Perhaps that’s why certain places feel familiar, or why we meet people and instantly know them — echoes of a bond far older than this life. Perhaps that’s why you feel drawn to certain callings or fears — remnants of what your soul once experienced and came here to transform.

The realm between lives is not distant. It lives within your intuition, your dreams, your sudden bursts of peace that feel like coming home. It reminds us that we are not bound by endings — only by the lessons we resist learning.

Tonight, as you sip your tea and gaze into the flame of a candle, remember: you are eternal. You are both student and teacher, traveler and light. And when this life closes its curtain, another will open — guided by the same loving hands that have always held you.

By Candlelight,

HN Staples

“Death is not the end. It is a doorway — one that leads us home.” -HN Staples