Past life regression

[Marinamay44]

Do you know anyone that got a past life regression?

I am thinking about it, as my mum was just talking to me about it.

My mum was a very practical and sensible person, while my dad was into stuff like past live regression.

Mum was telling me yesterday that my dad dragged her to a psychic fair in the 1980s, and there was a past life regressionist there. He did it by hypnosis.

My dad paid to get a hypnosis done, but the man couldn't hypnotise my dad. Not everyone can be hypnotised. The man asked my mum if she wanted to try. She told me that she said yes because she thought it would be a bit of a laugh and she didn't think anything would happen anyway.

Next thing, she was in a deep hypnosis. The man recorded a tape of her talking about her past life. It is really interesting. She still has the tape and I listened to it.

On the tape, She talks about living in England, (my mum was not from England in this life) and she talks about being married to a merchant in the 1800's. She talks on the tape about having four sons, and she starts crying. She says that she is very sad, because one of her sons has been killed after a kick from a horse.

It's very interesting to listen to!

I was wondering has anyone done this, or have you heard of anyone that did it?

Save your money, it's all nonsense.

I didnt say that I was getting one done, did I.

I asked has anyone heard of some-one else that has done it. I am interested to hear about it.

i have wondered about it but do not know anyone who does it. having such a miserable life now i hope the past is better

In her past life regression, my mum said she was rich.

It is interesting, because she was born into total poverty in this life

Anyone I know who has done this hasn’t had a banal past life. No agricultural labourers or peasants struggling by in mundane, bleak environment. Funny that. Lots of Mary Queen of Scots etc.

My mum's past life was banal. She was just a stay at home mother with four sons.

She wasn't a queen or anything

Sorry to derail but this did remind me of that scene in Red Dwarf when Rimmer tells Lister that he'd done one.
Rimmer: "You see, it turns out, that in a previous life, Lister, I was Alexander the Great...'s chief enuch."
Pause.
Lister: "You know something. I believe you."
😁

She was rich & in UK. That’s prob statistically unlikely? It’s all very interesting though I think.

Many years ago one of my friends was regressed. He talked about being a Japanese fighter pilot which was extremely interesting as he had learnt to speak Japanese years before and he had a pilots licence too as her was in the RAF. The person who did the regression with him said that sometimes the interests you have now are linked to things you did in a past life.

Arguably ‘Rich’ isn’t banal too or 4 sons & a dramatic death for one via horse, like a movie. That said again I am personally open minded. It’s crazy we’re ‘here’ at all.

She wasn't really rich.

She meant that she was richer in that life than she was in this life.

It is not unusual to be relatively rich. There are always rich and poor people around. Someone had to have a rich life in a past life, and someone had to have a poor life.

I don't think having a child die is that unusual either, especially at that time (1800's)

Haha!

Very interesting that he learned japanese in this life.

I think it’s all fascinating. I would have loved to hear the tape.

The vast majority were poor & had children die in past in UK in 17th C etc, it was an accepted part of life which I expect they took to be God’s will. Colourful though re: regressions more dramatic deaths & NB: Japanese fighter pilot, not ordinary Japanese dull, humble chap. But I am open minded if anything recalled perhaps the show reel & most keenly felt emotion (?)

Were there other details? Does anyone recall the doc on young boy who recalled life on Scottish isle?

Isn't this more of a reason not to believe in past lives? Somebody being hypnotised / "regressed" would naturally say things dredged up by their subconscious that were things they had done or were interested in. It'd be more convincing if someone under hypnosis started speaking a language of a country they'd never visited or shown any interest in.

@analyseyourdaydreams

No? Wouldn't it make sense that if he was Japanese in a past life, that he would be interested in learning Japanese in this life.

It's like how they say that we could be drawn to some countries because we have lived there before.

Yeah I saw that one!

It was a scottish island called something like "Barra". I can't remember the exact spelling.

He kept talking about his Barra mum

I did a course on therapeutic hypnosis and past life regression was touched on. The tutor was a respected medical doctor and said in his experience the past life memories are not very consistent or reliable, but they can be useful in the way that dreams are - because they use symbolism and metaphor to express deeply held and possibly unconscious thoughts, feelings, emotions etc.

Or his subconscious constructed a fantasy based around his interests, skills, hobbies, etc. due to reduced periphery awareness combined with increased susceptibility to suggestion...?

From a psychological point of view, it's fascinating. As evidence of past lives, it's absolute bunkum.

A lot of young children remember their past lives, which is interesting.

There are loads of videos on youtube.

Yes it's possible, and you are entitled yo your opinion.

I think that I believe in past lives though.

There are so many videos of children on youtube talking about their past lives.

I agree, daydreams.

Regarding the point made by a PP about the number of people claiming to have been the same historical figure… yes it’s fishy that so many people believe they were cleopatra while significantly fewer were nameless laborers… but multiple people with the same past lives could be explained by my theory, totally untested of course, that past life memories are simply memories inherited through your DNA.

After all, we know that animals are born knowing how to do things they were never taught to do by their parents (for instance, weaver birds create highly complicated nests without ever having seen it done before)… so if animals can inherit knowledge maybe we can inherit memories.

While this idea might both provide a kind of scientific hypothesis that both explains the phenomenon and explains the number of Cleopatras out there, it is probably quickly challenged by every instance of someone remembering their past deaths (these memories cannot, surely, be passed on to offspring), and also anyone claiming they were a historical figure who we know died childless.

I’ve always been torn but there are way too many Cleopatra’s/Joan of Arc’s/Genghis Khan’s running about for it to be taken seriously. Have never heard of anyone who was a peasant, had a dull life and died at 17yo from an infected wisdom tooth, which is much more likely than being Genghis Khan. People then try and validate it ‘that’s where I got my love of horses’, uhhm, no, you were not Genghis Khan and are just someone who likes horses, it is not related.