To have a Past Life Regression session?

I had a past life regression session a while back and I still think about it — whether you believe in it or not, the experience itself was really vivid. Afterwards I had a look at destinymatrics.com/major-arcana/ just to see what my birth date would point to. Interesting, even if you take it with a pinch of salt.

I find this really interesting. I have never had a session myself, but I can see why people are curious about it, especially if they feel stuck with something they cannot quite explain. I would go in with an open mind and see how it feels. If it helps you reflect or feel calmer afterwards, that seems like a positive in itself, even if you stay a bit sceptical about the past-life part.

Handbagfetish, do you really believe in reincarnation? You must do if you are prepared to spend money to delve into a past life.

There are no 'past lives', there is only this life. You could delve into half forgotten/buried memories from your life but going back to a life before you were even in earthly existence is quite ridiculous.

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See, Penguin, what you're saying makes sense.

My approach is - I know it’s not real, you know it’s not real so let’s get on with it. If people ask - nope. It’s not for a laugh. It’s just a therapeutic technique.

It can be useful for people to use their imagination to try to resolve some issue - so if they have an irrational fear of dogs and don’t ever remember being bitten, or it would be a bad idea for them to remember an attack (for various reasons) their imagination might very well conjour up some past life where they were brought up by hounds or saw someone eaten by a wolf. Hey presto, ‘oh so that’s why I don’t like dogs, it all makes sense now’ and the fear lessens because they have a reason.

The brain is a funny old thing. I learned it as a part of my training and we all had a go - soooooo many ancient Romans! I assume they must’ve shown Gladiator on tv that week.

Good Lord, and I thought I talked a load of bollox. Past life regression indeed.

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That’s so interesting!
How does it all work? How are you trained?

I am trained to do this - it it’s a therapeutic tool rather than a real thing.

It’s useful to let the mind explore issues and try to make sense of thing that you don’t feel in control of. Otherwise Cleopatra and Napoleon would have been full of the souls of future people. No one is even a housewife from Milton Keynes. It’s fun but not real.

It’s fascinating what comes up in these sessions, what people are about to conjure up and describe. I can understand why people would like to experience it.
Its certainly not evidence of previous lives, though!

I’d love to have it done

Sorry, should have clarified, they are about hypnotising people and accessing their lives between lives.

I'd love to have this done. I am a bit woo though, and have always felt like if ever been here before.

To anyone who is interested in reincarnation, or lives between lives, this book is good: Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives by Michael Newton Ph.D
He also did a follow up book, Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Lives. Both available on Amazon.

Very interesting books to read. I don't know if I'm 100% convinced by it (Saying there is no hell, but what about people that have hellish NDEs?) but it is comforting and on occasion says his clients are consistent with their reports so who knows? I enjoyed reading them anyway, they are very thorough.

it would be interesting to see what my brain could come up with under hypnosis, how creative it would be.

Me too. I'm a skeptic with no imagination and a limited understanding of what life was like during different periods of history. I might actually be willing to pay £25 just to see how appallingly historically inaccurate my past lives would be...

Back to the original question: I suppose anything that gives you a new perspective or helps you work through some unconscious issues is worth a try, but I fundamentally don't think the whole "past lives" thing is real. Surely it's all predicated on the existence of an actual soul (where's the evidence for that?) which then somehow transfers itself into a new life (when? at conception, during gestation, after birth?). It's beyond all sense of reason. Sorry if that makes me "closed-minded".

One PP mentioned the idea that everyone we love is somehow reincarnated as someone close to us, but different, in each life. What a logistical nightmare that would be! Like lesson planning, but with billions of people.

That’s right, Lifecraft and there were times when the life expectancy was so low because of very high infant and child mortality; most people never actually making out of childhood.
Which makes it strange that most of these recovered “memories” of past lives are usually of adults rather than of children.

Great point. Humans, in our current state, have been around for about 500K years. We've only had civilisation for about 12K years. For 488K years, will lived in small groups as hunter gatherers. And died before we were 25. Women died in childbirth, men in skirmishes with rival groups, or injuries picked up hunting. If none of those got you, then you'd die of a dental infection. 25 was very old. Strange that in these past lives, no one is ever a hunter gatherer, given that is accounts for about 97.5% of our existence.

But I am open minded - I totally consider the possibility of past lives, the science, the fact, the psychology and my conclusion is that it's crap.

I really don't think people get this. Being open minded isn't believing any old stuff is possible. It's thinking about what's being suggested, examining the evidence, and the evidence against it, and reaching a logical conclusion based upon the evidence. It's completely closed minded to think "anything is possible".

The Duke of Edinburgh is not going to win the 100m Olympic gold. because he's 98 and frail. Anyone who says "it's possible if he put the effort in" is not being open minded. Just foolish. And I'm not being closed minded to say he won't.

That’s right, Lifecraft and there were times when the life expectancy was so low because of very high infant and child mortality; most people never actually making out of childhood.
Which makes it strange that most of these recovered “memories” of past lives are usually of adults rather than of children.

there's no such thing as reincarnation anyway. How could there be, when there are more people alive now than there have ever been before?

I'm with you that there is no such thing as reincarnation. But this urban myth that is often bandied around, that there are more people alive today than have ever lived before, is complete nonsense.

I think it would be a great and entertaining way to spend £25! I quite fancy it.

But apart from entertainment (which would be my chief motivation) it would be interesting to see what my brain could come up with under hypnosis, how creative it would be. Whether what came up would be in any way enlightening or helpful to me, or perhaps revealing about me; would it be helpful to me in some way, resolve some current issue?

What it wouldn’t be, though, is a life I’ve previously lived. I’ve only had, and will only get, one.

All this woo stuff is so speciesist, too. People presume that a dog looking at an empty corner and growling is evidence of a “human” ghost. We’re only mammals, primates. Don’t dogs (or butterflies, dugongs, snakes...) have ghosts and past lives, too?

I had a psychic do a past life reading so maybe slightly different from a regression. She was describing my brother and his influence on my life back in the 1600s and it was like she was talking about my real life brother - so similar it was spooky. It was pretty interesting but then my exh had a reading and his was utter bullshit.

I keep meaning to listen to the tapes to check how bad it actually was 😄.

I’d quite like to do it. Just curiosity. No issues.

I've had one too & thought it was very interesting. I bet none of the closed minded people on here have ever had one done so their opinions are not exactly well informed.

My mind is very open to anything that can actually be proven and by that I mean I can see, hear or touch it. Anyone can say anything, it doesn't make it factual. People who believe in this type of thing along with spiritualism and other unscientifically proven activities are frequently vulnerable to suggestion anyway. You don't see a spiritualist or medium of 'past life regressor' if you think it's a load of crap!
Each to their own; if you want to waste your money feel free!

I wonder if the past lives visited under hypnotherapy are the sub-conscious’s imaginatively created metaphors, dredged up as they are easier to depict than the early real-life event which sparked a specific emotional response.

So does it really matter if you are unlocking that emotion through a metaphor or a concrete memory? Surely what is important is that you are able to deal with it if it’s causing present day blocks/issues and move on?

Depends if you believe it or not I suppose, I'm in the not camp, as there's no such thing as reincarnation anyway. How could there be, when there are more people alive now than there have ever been before? where did the extra people come from? and if you can't remember these 'past lives', in what sense are they even you at all?

But if you gave time and money ro waste on mumbo jumbo clap, go for it.