Are Past Lives Real? with Karen Kubicko

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Apr 6, 2026

Karen Kubicko, past-life hypnotherapist, intuitive reader and Reiki Master, shares how near-death experiences pushed her into past-life work. She recounts vivid regressions, training with Dr. Brian Weiss, and ways memories surface through intuition, talents, and even xenoglossy. The conversation explores birthmarks, validation methods, the death/greeting-room process, and using past lives for healing and forgiveness.

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Near Death Birth Experience Sparked Her Path

Karen Kubicko had a near-death experience during her daughter's birth where she floated above the operating room and saw otherworldly beings.
That event awakened her intuition, led her to a psychic, and eventually to reading about children's past lives which began her career path.

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Car Wreck NDE Included Choice To Return

In a separate car-wreck near-death experience Karen says Archangel Jophiel invited her into a luminous afterlife vision and asked if she wanted to stay.
She consciously chose to return to care for her young children, strengthening her connection to spirit guides.

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Onstage Regression Revealed 1800s Midwife Life

While attending Brian Weiss's class Karen was regressed onstage and vividly recalled being a 19th-century midwife in Johnstown, Pennsylvania who lost a mother in childbirth.
She described visual details, an accent, and later recognized links between that past life and people in her current life.

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Are Past Lives Real? with Karen Kubicko

Karen Kubicko, CHt, is a past life hypnotherapist, intuitive psychic reader, and Reiki Master. Karen completed the Past Life Therapy Professional Training course with Dr. Brian Weiss. She received her hypnotherapy certification through the National Guild of Hypnotists. She is author of Life is Just Another Class: One Soul’s Journey through Past Life Regression, Making True Love: Healing Relationship Patterns through Past Life Regression, and 10 Signs You Have Lived a Past Life: Inner Exploration Workbook. Her website is karenkubicko.com.

Karen describes her own near-death experiences that awakened her spiritual awareness and led her to explore past lives. She suggests that by remembering past lives one can learn, heal, forgive, and gain new perspectives on a soul level.

00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:45 Karen’s near-death experiences
00:11:11 Past life regression training with Dr. Brian Weiss
00:22:23 Trusting past life memories
00:31:16 Innate talents, skills, and xenoglossy
00:36:31 Benefits of recalling past lives
00:42:26 Catharsis and healing
00:51:15 Intuition’s role in past lives
00:54:01 The death process and afterlife
00:59:58 Soul learning, love, and free will
01:06:26 Conclusion

New Thinking Allowed CoHost, Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L, is a licensed occupational therapist, intuitive healer and coach, and spiritual guide based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Emmy is the founder of the Intuitive Connections and Holistic OT communities. She is the author of Intuitive Development: How to Trust Your Inner Knowing for Guidance With Relationships, Health, and Spirituality. Her website is https://emmyvadnais.com

(Recorded on February 5, 2026)

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