Past Life Regression

Sandy2004

I am scheduled to get a Past Life Regression reading done. Wippee! Has anyone got one done before, if so what kind of experience was it?

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We are each on a journey through life, but what many of us don't contemplate is that while the journey may end for our body, our soul endures through birth, life, death and beyond in an endless cycle.

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Zillah

No I havn't but I'm fascinated. Do tell us how it turns out. When is it?

solas

sounds interesting, who is doing it?

magnumlady

I would love to have that done, I asked a local hypnotist if he could do it, but he looked at me like I was mad. Please do let us know how you get on.

Bazz

When you say "Reading", what does that imply?

Zillah

magnumlady wrote:

I would love to have that done, I asked a local hypnotist if he could do it, but he looked at me like I was mad. Please do let us know how you get on.

I'm not surprised, hypnotism is psychology, not parapsychology.

Oryx

phlematic wrote:

I'm not surprised, hypnotism is psychology, not parapsychology.

Ah, but these readings are done through hypnotism. A guy called bloxham produced some intruiging tapes years ago, there was a book about it, but Id have to google it to get you more info.

A lot of doubt has been thrown into the whole area of hypnotism and recovered memory. It is alleged that the practitioner can lead a client by asking questions that provoke an answer in a particular vein, and that answers are invented by the client in order to satisfy a line of enquiry.
That said Id be very interested in seeing how the op gets on.

Kernel

KatieK wrote:

Ah, but these readings are done through hypnotism. A guy called bloxham produced some intruiging tapes years ago, there was a book about it, but Id have to google it to get you more info.

A lot of doubt has been thrown into the whole area of hypnotism and recovered memory. It is alleged that the practitioner can lead a client by asking questions that provoke an answer in a particular vein, and that answers are invented by the client in order to satisfy a line of enquiry.
That said Id be very interested in seeing how the op gets on.

Whereas there is some impressive evidence of past lives, and reincarnation, I'm not sure about past life regression. IMHO I don't think we yet understand enough about the brain and the subconscious in particular, to say that these past lives are not just fantasies of the sub. mind.

Then again, there's a good case that reality is just a fantasy of the subconsious mind too... hehe.

Zillah

...there is no spoon

Nevyn

The thing is it can be a bit upsetting for it is only 'big' events that will stay
with a person/soul and they can be at times traumatic ones.

Ot the memory of being some where outdoors on a wonderfull summer day,
as vivid and vaild as it may be it is unlikly that you will remember looking at a turn of the century paper, remember the head line and be able to look it up and verify it.

LegacyUser

I would do it for a laugh and not pay attention to any of it. But i say it could be entertaining...

stormkeeper

I'd be interested in getting it done myself, but I've been warned against it...

Zillah

Kennett wrote:

but I've been warned against it...

...by?

...why?

MeatProduct

I had a past-life regression session. Well worth it, just make sure whoever is doing it on you is experienced.

Nick

Kernel

phlematic wrote:

...there is no spoon

Precisely! Have you watched that new US documentary dvd "What the bleep do we know?" too?

Zillah

I havn't had the priviledge, but I've heard good things.

stormkeeper

phlematic wrote:

...by?

A good friend of mine.

...why?

It's not a good idea to know about one's future or past, I believe he said...

Kernel

phlematic wrote:

I havn't had the priviledge, but I've heard good things.

It's very good... very scientific (if you accept quantum physics are being true, I think they are more believeable), and in fact I found that after many years of study/reading on the paranormal, the fringe theories of quantum physics are offering potential explanations on the phenomenon.

I recommend anyone interested in science, or in paranormal phenomenon to check it out (you can buy from amazon).

Zillah

I love quantum physics! To amazon!!!

Ozzy

Don't waste your time! Absolute drivel

stevenmu

Ozzy wrote:

Don't waste your time! Absolute drivel

Looks interesting to me, care to explain what's wrong with it ?

Sandy2004

I believe it depends on how strong a person you are. If you can handle it, get it done, if not - don't.

I am getting it done by one of Ireland's foremost Astrologers, she has been a Past President of the Astrological Federation of Ireland and is a Past Life Regression Therapist and Healer and trained Hypnotherapist.

Usually Past Life Regression is used to assist people to recall past existences and to heal circumstances blocking their progress today. It can help overcome fears, phobias, difficult relationships, blah blah blah. I am getting it done mainly because I am curious to see if there is an afterlife? I have had dreams in the past where I went back in time, I want to see if any of these people in my dreams where in fact me in one of my previous lives..

I will write up how I get on...

Kernel

Ozzy wrote:

Don't waste your time! Absolute drivel

Whoah, sorry guys, Ozzy is on to something here. After investigating the movie/documentary, it seems to have been produced by a cult organisation, and many of the scientists interviewed were taken out of context, and even some quantum theory was used liberally and stretched a little....

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/blog/archives/000083.html

Need to investigate it further I think.... Sorry about the recommendation comrades, I was a little too hasty and accepting of this.

And I'm normally a skeptical believer.

stevenmu

Sandy2004 wrote:

I will write up how I get on...

Sounds really interesting, looking forward to hearing about it.

Sandy2004

I was told by the regression therapist that only lives relevant to current problems would come through, I would have liked to have heard them all (then again I class myself as an old soul - this could have taken forever!) I was fully aware of where I was and I did all the talking so the therapist had little or no input on what came through.

I was right about one thing, the dreams I had about living in past times - came through as my past lives.

I was both female and male and certain people in my past lives play different roles in this life, (that was hard to take on board).

On one hand, I believe it could be possible, the emotions I felt associated with reliving the lives, the knowingness of being there before, information I gave (dates, kind of clothes worn at that time etc - something I wouldn't have normally known.) On the other hand, I am still a little skeptical if not confused about the whole thing, was it just my subconsious making up these "lives" to heal present situations or was I reliving my dreams or was it in fact - me before? I guess no one can answer this question.

The truth is out there somewhere, will we ever find it? .............................

Zillah

Where'd you get it done...

Sandy2004

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Zillah

I'm curious as to the process. Were you aware of what was happening as you were regressed? Or did you come out of it and hear a tape later or what?

smileygal

Did you feel any different afterwards?
Did it clear up any previous fears/feelings of having been alive before?

saibhne

Hi All,
I've read two books on the subject by a chap called Michael Newton - Journey of Souls, and Destiny of Souls. He is a psychologist/councillor type who uses hypnotherapy to regress people. His intention is to help people work through problems/issues they have in this life by identifying it's source which sometimes could stem from a previous life.
I found it an amazing read as he recounts verbatim actual hypnotherapy sessions where people not only visit previous incarnations but he also then takes them through their death in that incarnation and then examines what happened after that... I won't spoil it for you but whether you believe him or not it's a great read.

S.

Sandy2004

I was 100% aware of where I was, what was happening around me and what emotions I was feeling. There was no input from the therapist - only to ask questions. I have the tape of the reading (still have to listen to it).

I have since read a book, past lives, future healing.. and I have to say after reading the book, I am more inclined to believe what I experienced was in fact somewhat "real". The author tells of different past life regressions she has done and how it has healed alot of people both on an emotional and physical level.

I have had more vivid and reoccuring dreams after getting it done, it is like I am reliving certain scenarios from the regression... and now I feel like the lives are in fact very very familar to me and always have been (through my dreams and/or subconscious) - (dont know if anyone can understand that?)

I do believe some healing took place whilst under, an example is :
I have been afraid of water since I was about 12 (before that I could jump into a 12ft pool no probs!) - I dont know how I developed the phobia (but after finding out that I drowned in a past live at 12, it kinda made sense). I went swimming at the weekend and I was not afraid (usually I would be terrified to swim in water that went past my waist).

I would say to anyone getting it done - read up on past life beforehand - that way you might get more out of it and know what to expect...

Zillah

That sounds very interesting. I'm intrigued

stormkeeper

Wow, sounds like quite an interesting experience....

ISAW

Zillah wrote:

No I havn't but I'm fascinated. Do tell us how it turns out. When is it?

About 2500 BC

I do apologise but I couldn't help it.

ISAW

Kernel wrote:

Whereas there is some impressive evidence of past lives, and reincarnation, I'm not sure about past life regression. IMHO I don't think we yet understand enough about the brain and the subconscious in particular, to say that these past lives are not just fantasies of the sub. mind.

Then again, there's a good case that reality is just a fantasy of the subconsious mind too... hehe.

Im not aware of any convincing evidence of past lives. I also believe that False Memory Syndrome explains a lot of this. I seems it can happen without past lives. Alledged victims of child abuse for example. thay can be hypnotised and recall being abused by someone but the membory is later found to be false. To me the people with saying that you were alive at a particular time in the past is that it is hard to verify (but not impossible to disprove). One could be asked questions abou the past and this checked with known history.

ISAW

Thaed wrote:

The thing is it can be a bit upsetting for it is only 'big' events that will stay
with a person/soul and they can be at times traumatic ones.

Ot the memory of being some where outdoors on a wonderfull summer day,
as vivid and vaild as it may be it is unlikly that you will remember looking at a turn of the century paper, remember the head line and be able to look it up and verify it.

If you want to really go over the top on this one the following is OT3 the secret upper level of Scientology. Any scientologist reading further believes he/she will die if they are not prepared for this.

OT3 the so called "Wall of Fire" suggests our bodies are possessed with the spirits of dead aliens which were dumped into volcanoes about 64 million years ago by a Galactic Overlord called Xenu. To find out what I just told you you would have spent about 250,000 dollars.

Zillah

God I love scientology! Its hilarious. Thetans!!

Come on what a cool philosophy. I recal something about all of the thetans getting locked in a volcano and atomic weapons being used to attack them and them getting trapped in the atmosphere....

That beats the bible any day! Well maybe not the book or revelations...

solas

zillah wrote:

That beats the bible any day! Well maybe not the book or revelations...

sure you didn't pal around with Jesus in a past life?

sandy wrote:

I have since read a book, past lives, future healing..

would also recommend Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian Weiss MD.
A graduate of Columbia University and Yale Medical School, Brian L. Weiss M.D. is Chairman Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami.

ISAW

Zillah wrote:

God I love scientology! Its hilarious. Thetans!!

Come on what a cool philosophy. I recal something about all of the thetans getting locked in a volcano and atomic weapons being used to attack them and them getting trapped in the atmosphere....

That beats the bible any day! Well maybe not the book or revelations...

You know about OT3!

stormkeeper

solas wrote:

would also recommend Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian Weiss MD.
A graduate of Columbia University and Yale Medical School, Brian L. Weiss M.D. is Chairman Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami.

My mum had that book. I think she found it quite good...

Zillah

ISAW wrote:

Wow! You know about OT3!

Yes. I do. Good day.

(also that was supposed to be "book of revelations...", doi.)

Solas wrote:

sure you didn't pal around with Jesus in a past life?

I don't think I could ever be sure of that... Why do you ask?

solas

Zillah, I don't see the revelance of scientology within this thread, if you wish to discuss it further feel free to open a new thread on the subject, but for now I would appreciate it if you stayed on topic.

thanks.

ISAW

solas wrote:

sure you didn't pal around with Jesus in a past life?


would also recommend Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian Weiss MD.
A graduate of Columbia University and Yale Medical School, Brian L. Weiss M.D. is Chairman Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami.

Heres someting I picked up on sci.skeptic under the thread "seeking comments on book by Brian Weiss, PhD."

Mind you apparently he is an MD and not a PhD. Maybe he is both?

(Rob Lockstone) writes in part:


1. The book might be fiction. (I don't believe this, but it is a
possibility to be considered.) The book might be religious
allegory. It might be a satire of "past lives" books. It
might be a joke, it might be science fiction, it might be
plagiarized.

2. The "case history" might be "based on" rather than a simple
report. It also might be a composit of several individuals.

3. The author may be misremembering things, forgetting unrecorded
conversations, etc. Selective memory is not dishonest, just
inaccurate.

4. The patient may be very good at pleasing the doctor. This is
very common, not "phenomnal", and is often unconscious, not a "con".
Without an independent assesment, it is difficult to tell.

5. The doctor may have misrepresented his initial skepticism and
alleged conversion by the evidence. Believers often use this
"I was skeptical, but the facts forced me to believe" as a rhetorical
gambit to reinforce the "objectivity" of their motives. This
would be especially important considering the next point.

6. The doctor may have planted or elicited the amazing recollections,
unconsciously and accidentally. This is a big problem in any hypnosis
situation.

7. The doctor may have missed key parts of the situation, such as, a
third party who was deliberately or accidentally coaching the patient
between sessions.

The book only reports part of the total picture. It is difficult to
know what really happened.

By the way, there are even wilder hypotheses:

8. It wasn't past lives, it was possession by ghosts who lived in
the past.

9. The amazing things she mysteriously knew were obtained by ESP.

10. She travelled back in time, and witnessed the mysterious things
she wouldn't have known.

11. She is, or is in contact with, or is under the control of,
technologically superior aliens.

12. She obtained her knowledge through the auspices of the Illmunatti
or susidiary all-knowing secret consirators.

and so on.

Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
Date: 1993-09-24 10:29:57 PST

it continues ...

In article <mcgrath.748746868@hyperius>, mcgrath@hyperius.cs.uiuc.edu (Robert McGrath) writes:
|> 3. The author may be misremembering things, forgetting unrecorded
|> conversations, etc. Selective memory is not dishonest, just
|> inaccurate. ...
|>
|> 6. The doctor may have planted or elicited the amazing recollections,
|> unconsciously and accidentally. This is a big problem in any hypnosis
|> situation.

These two are quite likely, IMHO. Not only are they both quite
frequent, but they are the basis of one of the oldest fortune
telling methods known - cold reading. [And I suspect that cold
reading can be learned so well it is subconscious, not deliberate].

I remember somebody posting a study of cold reading where a
fortune teller was filmed telling fortunes, and then the subjects
were interviewed, and mostly reported how the fortune teller
knew all sorts of personal things without being told. The the
tapes were played back, and the places where the subjects actually
*told* the fortune teller these personal facts were pointed out.

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The above is someone elses opinion but I think a good critique since it even inculdes OTHER PARANORMAL possibilities.
I havent read the book.

solas

I would have my own reservations about past life recall, but I have met Dr. Brian weiss and spoken with him personally and one thing for sure is that he has a very deep and profound insight into the human condition.
I can assure you he was as sceptical as the next person, particularly so as his profession is one which previously would not accept or encourage such an approach to "healing the mind".
The book is good reading whichever way you choose to look.

Glipmac

I personaly have had Past Life Regression, I have been told not to bring the past to this life because it can have a large affect on you

Personal experience

In my first regression I was a cat unsure about the time but i was black and well looked after so that was nice.

In the second, i was a young Victorian girl, life was hard for me having no mother and being the yongest of 3 children, alas i was killed in a factory by a weaving machine.

and in my third regression i was a young tudor boy (i can remember this vividly) I slept in the stables as my master would not let a meer stable boy in to the house (my master was in the house) i remember waking up to the smell of smoke and the horses were riled up about somthing, there at the end of the stables a wall was ablaze, i rush to save the horses chocking all the while i rescued 3 but the forth wouldnt move I rember thinking that the master would beat me if i did not save all the horses, a creaking sound came from above my head. But i was more worried about the horse, the horse reared up onto its hind legs a hit me in the face as i lay choking upon the floor the horse belts, as the beam above me falls.

ladys and gentle men i kid you not what i have told you here is the truth i STILL dream about that night.

thank you for reading my story

Glipmac

ISAW

Glipmac wrote:

I personaly have had Past Life Regression, I have been told not to bring the past to this life because it can have a large affect on you

Personal experience

In my first regression ...

and in my third regression i was a young tudor boy
...

ladys and gentle men i kid you not what i have told you here is the truth i STILL dream about that night.

thank you for reading my story

Glipmac

this IS interesting. Can you supply the name of the family the boy was in? Or the name of the household he worked for? Was it in England or elsewhere? What was the year? did the horses race? Any other facts you can supply would be very helpful to me in building up a picture e.g. the architieture of the palce. Was there flowers / a lake/ a pool out side the front door. a family crest or coat of arms (very common in tudor times). The language spoken by the household. Anything additional you can supply really.

Kernel

ISAW wrote:

this IS interesting. Can you supply the name of the family the boy was in? Or the name of the household he worked for? Was it in England or elsewhere? What was the year? did the horses race? Any other facts you can supply would be very helpful to me in building up a picture e.g. the architieture of the palce. Was there flowers / a lake/ a pool out side the front door. a family crest or coat of arms (very common in tudor times). The language spoken by the household. Anything additional you can supply really.

Hey Isaw, I know you work for the government as a disinformationalist specialist! The truth is out there.

ISAW

Kernel wrote:

Hey Isaw, I know you work for the government as a disinformationalist specialist! The truth is out there.

Hah! rumbled!

Mind you disinformation isnt a bad site for conspiracy theories about Big Brother. I wouldn't mind being one of their specialists. their leved of expertese in "underground" phenomena is quite high.

As regards the epistemological inference of your comment, (i.e. the philosophy of knowledge) you do at least share something in common with me. I dont accept a lot of this relativist stuff and I DO believe that reality exists out there and it is not ALL constructed in your head. So the truth is out there is something I subscribe to.

judi

Hi:) iv never had this kinda reading done but one of my best friends have. she sez it one of the best readings ever to hav done. may of the habbits she has today are related to her past lives its quite interesting!! its said that our soul keeps going thru different stages(lives) until we get it right, i guess sum of us have a long way to go!!
neway enjoy ur reading and i do hope it goes wel for u=> & dont forget to let us know how u get on.....,

Gillo

ISAW wrote:

12. She obtained her knowledge through the auspices of the Illmunatti or susidiary all-knowing secret consirators.

Despite the fact that there is no evidence, these guys are blamed on everything. maybe they raided the Northern Bank...

If anyone can come up with a plausible explaination, I'd lvoe to hear it.

solas

a plausible explanation for the northern bank raid?
well...everyone knows that was just a conspired plot against the provos. Our own government was involved with it too. Just a very good (or bad) not less sucessful PR scam.


[just messin with ya]
if you mean past life regression, yea I have some ideas, might get the chance to put them down on paper some other time..