Some licensed therapists diagnose marital problems via past-life karmic claims

Evidence

After 20 years of marriage, my husband and I lost sight of each other a bit. We had few arguments, but hardly spent any time together. Sex was also rather infrequent and more of a chore. We decided to change that in couples therapy. The therapist had all this described to her, then she said she had to “connect with the field,” closed her eyes, and made a strange grimace. After a few minutes she looked at us and said, “No wonder you have these problems. You were siblings in the previous life, and of course that is still having an effect. There needs to be a karmic cleansing.” We were stunned. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 655

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• SHARE: A perfect story to tell a therapist friend: a couples therapist who diagnoses an ordinary marital stall as sibling karma requiring ‘karmic cleansing.’
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