Page 6 University Daily Kansan. July 29,1983 Karma group studies past lives By MELISSA BAUMAN Staff Reporter Staff Reporter Blaming tests, beer or parents for frequent headaches may be focusing the blame in the wrong direction, according to a believer in reincarnation. One cause of headaches, said Ruth Davis, founder and president of the Association for the Study of Karina, is a chemical in your head was cut off in a previous life. DAVIS SAID YESTERDAY that a person's former lives affected his present life — the basic principle of karma — as in the case of one man who was a victim of an insult and that his headaches were caused by his decapitation in a previous life. The association, which Davis operates from her real estate office in Tulsa, Okla., plans to establish a chapter in all 50 states, she said. Davis said that she would like to establish a group in a university town in Kansas and that she was considering Lawrence. Two Lawrence women who are interested in psychic phenomena said that they had mixed feelings about the group group would succeed in Lawrence. One of the women, Jo Anderson, 1402 New York St., said that she thought there would be people interested in the groom if it started in Lawrence. THE OTHER WOMAN, Penny Hemphill, 1217 Tennessee St., said she was not sure whether Lawrence psychics would respond. "I'm aware that Lawrence has a fairly large psychic community, but I don't know whether or not there are people with it," she said. Davis said that the non-profit organization was chartered October 1, 1982, and that it had 250 members on its mailing list. About 25 members of the group meet on Friday nights at Davis' home in Tulsa, she said, for sessions in psychic development. Members do this through phone calls and online video that necklace that have vibrations from the person to whom the object belongs. The group sometimes conducts seances at the meetings, Davis said. SHE SAID THAT at last Friday's seance she received an image of the name "Butterball." Although the name meant nothing to Davis, another member of the group once owned a dog named Butterball and claimed that her dead father was using this signal to contact her. Davis said that she had discovered four of her former lives. "One lifetime I know about from my own hypnotic regression. The rest of them are from people I have put under my care. I have told me about them." Davis said. She said that she had hypnotized six people who told her that she was part of the war. Davis said that she was once a nun in Medieval England. "A METHODIST MINISTER'S WIFE sent me back through that time, and I saw on a floor and knew that I had been burned on the stomach because I had been pregnant," she said. "I knew that they had given the baby to the knight who had made me pregnant." Davis said that she had also discovered that she had been a priestess in the Temple of the Sun in Babylon, that she had been a member of a harem in Syria and that she had lived in colonial America. DAVIS SAID THAT everyone had psychic abilities but that the ability was more developed in some people than in others. She said, however, that with practice a person's psychic abilities could be developed to a higher degree. that the psychic could help find the person. When Davis performs hypnosis, she said, she records the conversation because the person hypnotized may forget details. "I've hypnotized some people who didn't believe in reincarnation," she said. "One lady came in for weight loss. I asked her if she'd like to go back in." "All of a sudden she was watching a dog and a pony in a fire." Davis said that there were many ministers from different religions, including catholicism, presbyterianism and unitarianism, in the group and that these people found no conflict between their religion and reincarnation. She said that reincarction theorized that a person has former lives. Karma says that these previous lives affect the person's present life. Reincarnationist think that a person makes his own heaven or hell, Davis said, and that the time between lives is for the spirit to rest and grow. "EVERYBODY BELIEVES the way they want to believe, plus they believe that you should." She said that the group's members thought that souls were energy that returned to Earth to be used again. She does not know whether God creates new souls. "don't try to limit God. Nobody has any idea how many souls there are," she said. Spencer museum shows sketches of sculptures But is it art? 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