After 30 years of research and running Carol Bowman's forum for 25 years, I decided to share what I had learned and experienced. There are various ways to experience past lives and different approaches in which personal validations can be achieved. Meditation, dreams, spontaneous recall, regression and shared experiences are all valid and important ways to explore past lives. Looking for understanding between the past and present is an integral part of past life work. It can also be a vital part of learning to know oneself.