To have a Past Life Regression session?

In which case she's deluded. People who practice past life regression are either deluded or con artists

I agree. The same applies to 'psychics'.

I think a few genuinely believe they have 'the gift' to cold read but the majority know exactly what they're doing. If you watch the 'celeb' ones you can see it happening - yet people still get taken in by it, because they want to.

My DM is really into it all and has a personality disorder and it's a real bone of contention between us that I 'am so close minded'.

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. It's woo. From Woo Academy.

Our personalities are developed due to our brain, shaped by our DNA and our experiences. Once the brain is dead, we are gone. There is no 'spirit' can gets recycled, we are simply conscious.

We get this one life, one chance.

Have some damn respect towards others

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@lifecraft The only idiot here is you.

Anyone else seeing the irony here?

@mnhq this person is here being horrible but yet MY post gets taken down??? Are you serious?

@lifecraft The only idiot here is you. Thank.

@Lifecraft who the hell gave you the right to ridicule anything?

Who the hell gave you the right to stop me?

Have some damn respect towards others

No thanks. Respect isn't a right, it has to be earned. I am under no obligation to respect idiots and con artists.

I don't have to respect frauds making money out of vulnerable and naive people.

My aunty-in-law is a registered and fully trained hynpotherapist who used to do 'life between lives' regression and whether you choose to believe in it or not I can 100% tell you that she is not a con artist or anything of the sort. She is a truly lovely, gentle and caring lady who has these beliefs and who believes that she can genuinely help people. She would NEVER mislead anyone.

In which case she's deluded. People who practice past life regression are either deluded or con artists. Those are the only 2 options available. Take your pick.

A warning though: I ended up with extreme anxiety after I found out I had a pretty traumatic past life. Turns out in a past life I was a Hedgehog that got run over by a chariot.

in the same way the light from a bulb doesn't transfer to a new one when you switch it off.

Ah, but the currents still there.

He fact that it involves being hypnotized, which is scientifically proven to make the mind come up with all kinds of false memories, tells me it's very unlikely to be real.

That and the fact our consciousness is formed from electrical activity in our brains and there is no way for it to carry on after we die in the same way the light from a bulb doesn't transfer to a new one when you switch it off.

*”tried”, not “trek”

@carla1983 are people who don’t believe in Father Christmas also closed minded? Where exactly do you draw the line between a closed minded person and a rational person?

Also, you don’t need to have treks something to know it’s not credible. I know I can’t fly without throwing myself off a cliff.

If you have issues you want to explore/resolve I’d suggest your money would be better spent on a properly trained and qualified psychologist, not someone whose gone to 6 two hour sessions in Woo at the community centre.

I had one a few years ago. The practitioner used the Edgar Cayce technique. It was interesting and made sense to me.

carla1983 this was a very well respected tutor with much experience in successfully conducting past life regression sessions. She was the lead tutor on course. It wasn't a private course/organisation. It was at a reputable state college.

She frightened herself as well as students on that occasion it seems. It worked, but the outcome of the regression caused trauma.

I'm a skeptic but this incident shocked me. I wouldn't ever undergo past life regression myself and I do think some things should just be left alone

If I was an accounts clerk from Tamworth I would be sincerely hoping there were other lives....

People say you wouldn't say that to Christians Muslims ect

Well I respect your right to be religious

However it is also my right to believe and say that it is all complete rubbish. And any diety who wants constant worship whilst doing naff all isnt worth praying too.

I also want to get a psychic reading, even though I know it's all fake. I want someone to cold read me and see what they come up with. I would pay £5-10 for that.

You can dictate to a large extent what your 'psychic' will say, @1300cakes, by how you present yourself. The only time I saw one (not coincidentally at a very low spot in my life) I was visibly disabled, dressed in cheap, badly-fitting clothes with unkempt hair, and arrived on public transport (I'd been been in an accident and shattered my leg, and had to move back in with parents temporarily, buy loose clothes I could fit over the plaster etc, and wasn't able to bathe or shower easily for a while).

Basically, I looked dog-rough and defeated by life, and I got 'read' the kind of future that the 'psychic' clearly imagined was fitting for the person she thought I was. I was definitely never going to live overseas again or go back to university (I'd asked her this), but was going to move in with my boyfriend locally, work a bit in his 'little business' and have three daughters in quick succession within the next few years.

Except I almost immediately afterwards got a major postgraduate scholarship for a prestigious foreign university, recovered entirely from my injuries, and have never lived in my home country since -- I have a professional career, and one son, born more than 20 years after the 'psychic' visit.

I'm not a believer but the way Will0wtree describes it makes it sound quite fun. Like having a vivid dream or having a cool idea come in to your head. So go for it OP, if you can afford it. There are plenty of equally silly or sillier ways to spend £25 and you'll get an hours entertainment out of it.

I also want to get a psychic reading, even though I know it's all fake. I want someone to cold read me and see what they come up with. I would pay £5-10 for that.

@DeeCeeCherry -

This is why you should go to someone who has done it for many years and has a solid reputation in the field (those people usually charge more than £25 for a session), preferably someone who helps to release past life trauma. Some therapists only do exploration - they can take you through a bad experience and then leave you dangling. You need someone who also specialises in trauma release so you get resolution and it's cathartic not traumatic.

I like the DMP method (deep memory process) developed by Dr Roger Woolger.

OP.- Please don't unless you at least research thoroughly

I'm the most non-woo person you could find, I think people waste loads of money on psychics and the like but due to a relatives' traumatic experience during and following regression, I now know it can and does work.

I can't say what happened as it's too outing - but the Tutor herself was petrified and whole thing led to course/sessions being closed down immediately, and my relative having further (different) therapy to resolve what had happened

When you're 'under' what you see may not all be sweetness and light and you living a peaceful humble past life. So read up on it and have a think

My post above was aimed at anyone who has been insulting, they know who they are. Not necessarily at @TheYeaSayer.

I can't be bothered to go back through the thread and look at all the comments.

@HPLikecraft I don't think you've said anything insulting or nasty, no, it wasn't aimed at you.

Ah, I see, crosspost.