Is the karmic story that just came up true?

“Is the story that just came up true?” is one of the questions I often get asked in the Karmic Constellation.

In a Karmic Constellation session, many stories come to the surface, stories that are not necessarily related to our current reality: the death of a loved one during war; someone’s murder; being murdered by others; our murdering of others; our being abused; our abuse of others, and so on.

Sometimes the most spiritual of people stands in front of me, and their previous incarnation tells me how they abused another person.

So, then, are these stories true?

In his book Other Lives, Other Selves: A Jungian Psychotherapist Discovers Past Lives, Roger J. Woolger wrote that the descriptions people give are so real, so full of life and detailed, that nobody could fabricate them.

In my opinion, the question of whether these stories are true is a good and legitimate one, yet at the same time, irrelevant.

These are questions of the mind, which is trying to understand something it finds hard to grasp or that it wants to push away.

Daan van Kampenhout describes the Constellation as entering dreamtime.

I love this idea.

In a Constellation, especially a Karmic Constellation, we enter another dimension, and the stories that arise come from the client or the field, not from me, the facilitator.

As such, these stories allow the client to meander through the deeper layers of their soul.

The stories are not the physical reality of the person’s life but rather, a hidden reality that exists within the person; a hidden reality that affects their life without them even being aware of it.

And at the end of the day, what’s important in my eyes is the change to the client’s life and inner self.

After all, this the aim of working with a Karmic Constellation—to spark change; to change feelings, emotions, positions of representations, and finally—to bring change to our lives.