to be considering past life regression?

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I love messing about in boats off UK coasts or the eastern seaboard of the US and in the Med.

HOWEVER, merely the names 'South China Sea' and 'Cape Horn' fill me with dread, as does the thought of the extremely deep waters of the southern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

I'm not likely to venture into these regions in any kind of sea-going vessel but, nevertheless, I'm wondering why I have this seemingly irrational fear of the deep in those particular parts of the world.

Would it be unreasonable to explore whether past life regression can shed any light on my fears? Have you had any experience of recalling past lives and, if so, has it helped you in your present life? Is it something that you would like to do (someday, sometime, when you get round to it) or are you disbelieving of the concept of reincarnation?

Great post LaurieFairyCake :)

izzy - :) I think there are lots of things we're still learning about how brains and minds work, let alone the universe. Part of me's weary and cynical (eg about the exploitation of vulnerable people looking for help) and another part of me thinks, who knows?

load of old codswallop.

Is there any particular reason why you hold that view cumbria?

if every medicine you ever take leaves a trace in your body, a physical memory if you like there is no reason to think that you cannot experience past lives that your soul has lived through.

I am also a jungian!

it doesn't actually. And really, there are still jungians about? Who knew?

I would like to have that done, but I've also done a genetic test to see where my maternal DNA came from. Involved sending a swab from my cheeks to Canada and getting results back 8 weeks later.

My genetics start off down near Tunisia and then travel up through the middle of Europe and finishes off in Sweden. Very interesting.

Ripeberry - that sounds really interesting! How and why did you have that done?

I know a lot about my side of our family - but there is nothing about DH's. Would be interesting for my DC.

I think past life regression is a load of bumkum, but if I were told I was once wealthy and lived in Italy it would explain a lot.

I've always thought DS1 has lived before. He just has a certain way about him...but the way he behaves makes me think he must have been through some awful trauma. When he was a baby I did wonder wonder if he had experienced the Holocaust in a past life. Then we he started to talk he would tell us his name was Eric.

I read a great book on past life regressions. I think it is called 'Many Lives, Many Masters' or something along these lines.

It is written by a US psychiatrist and I would highly recommend it.

Not sure I would like to do a past life regression though...ignorance is bliss

I don't believe in it one little bit.

But I've had it done - and it really threw me. I just could not rationalise the things she 'knew' about me.

Why is a fear of deep dangerous oceans irrational?

Also, if we all have past lives and the population is growing damatically, where did all the extra souls come from? By the stastical odds of it, none of us should have past life recollections simply because very very few of us could have been around to occupy all the far fewer bodies...

Ah Coconuts, don't start introducing reason into this, you know that the woo depends on the mystery...cue spooky music....

I read somewhere (helpful, I know) that past life regressions or feelings are linked to your genes. For example, when I visited Wicklow in Ireland I had a feeling I had been there before, really felt comfortable there etc. Found out that I had ancestors there (honestly never knew that).

really?

Can you explain the biology behind that?

Is it in the base pairings?

How does an environmental experience manifest itself in a chemical?

I am intrigued by this and would love to try it. The hypnotherapist I saw to try and stop smoking did it (although not advertised) but as I never felt actually hypnotised - and continued happily smoking - and have done so much genealogy I decided not to bother. I thought I would probably just have talked about one of my ancestors.

But... I do get very strangely emotional and tearful about WW1 stuff. I have no reason to other than the normal respects one would pay to the fallen in any war. No members of my family were killed. Only my GGF served and he was a cook as he was too old for active service. Everyone else was far too young or far too old to serve.

And I did use to work with a woman who could not bear to have anything around her neck. She couldn't wear blouses with collars, halter necks or necklaces. She said the feel of anything around her neck made her feel like she couldn't breathe and she would panic. She once joked she must have been hanged in a previous life....

I've seen a couple of interesting documentaries about it and think maybe there is something in it. The woman with the family in Ireland sticks in my mind, that was very compelling.

ok, so this is a little off the subject but the thread caught my attention for reasons linked with my ds.

has anyone any experience with children that talk about their other family? ds2 (5) has talked about his other mummy "who he used to live with before he came out of my tummy" since he was able to converse and when he was 2 he named his new teddy bear "Michael" after his brother. he talks about his other family often and I tend to let him just run on about things. but its always the same things he mentions.
im not really sure what to do about it, if anything.
its just awkward when he tells people his other mummy died!!!!

do you like wasting money
employing quacks and looking for stupid explanations to things we don't understand (err like science,maybe)

save your money ask your cat,or neighbours cat what it all means,save a fortune and cat will be happy with some 99p whiskas and itchy ear scratched

HAng on- did someone say that this crap has a place in psychotherapy??????which school of psychotherapy would that be??

the very lucrative one, apparently .

I'd love a cat

It's bollocks. It has as much real life basis as your dreams telling you who you were in a past life. It makes you suggestible, and allows your imagination to go into overdrive. People often have great revelations about "repressed" memories, that have been shown to have been made up during the process.

Don't bother. Give the money to homeopathists instead. You're pissing in the wind either way, and at least homeopathy isn't actually bad for you.

imagine that at the tavistck module 13: Jung,archetypes talking out your arse about previous life were you fancy having been someone significant but not the cockeye kitchen hand

MigratingCoconuts were those questions addressed to me? If so, yes, really, don't know, no idea, would love to be able to answer that!

Where is Expat when you need her? She had some amazing stories about her DC giving them guided tours around villages where they had never been.

'That's where I was buried' rings a bell!!