To have a Past Life Regression session?

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Anyone tried this? I can get a one to one session locally for £25 but would I just be wasting my money?

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

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.

@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.

*”tried”, not “trek”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

@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.

@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.

Have some damn respect towards others

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@lifecraft The only idiot here is you.

Anyone else seeing the irony here?

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.

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.

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?

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

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 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?

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.

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.

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.

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.