Overview
We are spiritual beings having an earth experience. It is a complex
process of self discovery and self-knowledge that can sometimes be difficult
or confusing. Past Life Regression can locate and move you through the
stuck places. You don't need to believe in past lives to have an experience
that is life changing. If you can simply allow yourself to be curious,
your subconscious mind will find the right way to communicate the information
you need through symbol, image, color, sound, or feeling. Using hypnosis
allows you to deeply relax. Information is gained step by step through
witnessing significant events in another lifetime including how you
died. From the clarity of the afterlife, you then look back on that
lifetime and reflect on what you accomplished. If you wish, you can
meet with a spiritual support team to help you review your progress,
and understand how it is connected with your current life. This is a
fascinating way to learn more about yourself and human consciousnes.
Why Past Lives?
People usually come to Past Life Regression for two reasons - as a therapeutic
process or as an avenue of spiritual discovery and growth. Both are
valid approaches.
The underlying purpose of Past Life Regression is to expand
the perspective on what your life is about. PLR can uncover the deeper
cause of a behavior or life experience that seems confusing or unsolvable.
Viewing issues from a different perspective, especially one that is
more self-accepting is very powerful. Often repeating themes are found.
Understanding the past and recognizing links to the present is often
a relief. It actually does make sense after all if you can find the
key.
The Session
At the beginning of the session we talk briefly about what you would
like resolved, or a question you would like answered. Using hypnosis,
you are guided into deep relaxation. Activation of the right side of
the brain, and a process of deepening allows subconscious memory to
surface. Information can come to you in many ways - through your awareness
of image, sounds, feeling, sensation, or knowing. There is no right
or wrong way to access information.
In each session you are gently supported and encouraged
to explore how a past life experience is related to your current situation.
What feels familiar about this experience? What patterns do you notice?
How can you use new insights to help improve your life? What are the
soul lessons learned in another life and how can that be assimilated
into the present?
Most people come away with the awareness that they are
a "work-in-progress".One of the most important lessons is
to have compassion for your experience, no matter what it is, no matter
how difficult. There is always respect for you as a human being. You
will not be judged. For some this may be the first experience of such
self acceptance. All sessions are completely confidential. Everything
you say will be safe and never shared with another person without your
permission.
Here are some theories of Reincarnation for your
consideration:
Traditional
View of Reincarnation
“The
Soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are
manifold…Thou puttest off thy bodies as raiment; and as vesture
dost thou fold them up. Thou art from old, O Soul of man; yea, thou
art from everlasting” (Hermes
Trismegistus, purported author of Egyptian Book of the Dead)
We
are all eternal beings. Our bodies can die, but not our souls.
The
traditional view of reincarnation is that the soul incarnates in a body
in order to learn about itself as a multi-dimensional or divine being
and then return to the GodMind. This process is not accomplished in
a single lifetime, so the soul continues its journey through birth and
death, incarnating many, many times. Each life is an opportunity to
gain information and experience through different human enactments and
personalities.
When there is injury, or unfinished learning, a marker is placed on
the soul. Sort of like a bookmark to let you know where to pick up next
time. This marker is sometimes called samscara or "soul scar".
Each lifetime, the samscara attracts the experiences needed to resolve
the issues still at play.
The productive aspect of reincarnation is that we can build talents
and abilities over lifetimes of experience.The difficult aspect is that
woundedness can linger over multiple lifetimes. When a soul returns
to earth to continue the work of learning, it comes in with repressed
subconscious memory and certain dispositional tendencies rooted in "samscara"
which is word from the ancient Sanskrit language that translates as
"soul scar". See
Trauma & Spirit
Reincarnation in
History
Reincarnation
has an ancient history in cultures around the world and is still a basic
tenet of many religions. The dialogue of Socrates with Meno, as recorded
by Plato, discusses the nature of past life memory. Socrates was not
interested in recall of mundane detail of previous lives, but in retrieving
the capacities of knowledge which had been accumulated in the course
of many lifetimes, such as medicine, mathematics, or poetry. “All
enquiry and all learning is but recollection.”
In the Hindu epic, the Bhagavad-Gita, Krishna explains to Arjuna the
mechanism of rebirth, how unconscious memory guides personal growth,
and that there is a purpose for these lifetimes of work. “ Being
thus born again one comes in contact with the knowledge which belonged
to him in his former body, and from that time he struggles more diligently
towards perfection. For even unwittingly, by reason of that past practice,
he is led and works on…The devotee who, striving with all his
might, obtains perfection because of his efforts continued through many
births, goes to the supreme goal.”
When the subconscious, the ego and the True Self align, the soul is
free from further incarnations on earth. The Tibetan Book of the Dead
calls this moment "merging with the Primary Clear Light of Pure
Reality."
Reincarnation Today
Psychiatrist
Ian Stevenson (1918-2007) was head of department of psychiatry at University
of Virginia. Over the course of his career, Stevenson published over
200 articles and several books for the scientific community. His field
research took him all over the world, studying over 3,000 cases and
providing evidence to support the possibility of reincarnation.
Many
psychologists
and psychiatrists have found themselves unwittingly the witness of regressive
memories or entity interference spontaneously surfacing in work with
their clients.
Psychiatrist Stanislav Grof, M.D., creator of Holotropic Breathwork,
witnessed the phenomenon of reincarnation repeatedly in his client regressions.
He also found that current difficulty in a person’s life could
be traced back to a particular kind of perinatal (womb or birth) experience
in this lifetime. He found a direct correlation between these particular
perinatal experiences and specific karmic remnants. The patterns he
found were so distinct he categorized them into four stages he calls
the Basic Perinatal Matrices.
Jungian analyst Roger Woolger, Ph.D., building on Grof’s work,
says the state of one’s death creates “the seed kernel of
complexes in other lives.” Woolger charted the connections between
death, after death, before the next birth, birth, and the subsequent
life. “Regardless of individual experiences the very process of
psychic transition from death to states beyond seems to be full of mirror
images of the transition from the beyond into the body at birth.”
Edith
Fiore, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist found through her work in hypnosis,
that by making the connections to past lives, her clients released pain,
and overcame fears of death. Areas of emotional comfort could also be
traced back to previous lives where the client had successfully integrated
that aspect. Fiore works with release of attached earthbound entities
and extraterrestrials. [Reportedly Fiore referred attachment by dark
force entities to William Baldwin, now deceased.]
Samuel
Sagan, MD, psychiatrist, created a school in Australia to teach people
how to do clearings and spirit release. His focus is primarily on what
can be called congested astral matter, and how it interferes in the
cycle of lifetimes. (See Types of Entities)
Michael
Newton, Ph.D. psychologist and hypnotherapist focuses strongly on the
bardo in his client regressions. Bardo is a Tibetan word for “the
in-between”, meaning the world between death and rebirth. The
experiences of his clients have shown consistently that the universe
which contains earth is only one of many universes. The wisdom gained
by completing the cycles in this system enables the soul to advance,
trying it’s hand at mastering the next universe, and the next.
Shakuntala
Modi, M.D., psychiatrist, practiced hypnotherapy for 14 years before
her patients began reporting past lives and spirit interference. Her
patients reported in hypnotic trance that because humanity has successfully
raised the vibration of the planet over the past few decades, part of
the veil has been removed, allowing us freedom to tap into our past
lives and other higher knowledge.
William
Baldwin, PhD, DDS, psychologist and dentist, first encountered past
life influences while using hypnotic regression for a dental patient.
Intrigued, he continued to study the phenomenon, discovering that hypnosis
was not necessary to uncover past lives or entity interference. He created
a manual for Spirit Releasement with DSM style diagnostic criteria for
differentiation of entity types, as well as the categoric strategies
needed for each type of release. The manual is a foundational contribution
to this field, but there is still more information being uncovered as
we continue to discover the elements of our existence.
Clearly we are multidimensional beings. Dreams, imagination, intuition,
thought, feelings, synchronicities are all manifestations of our far-reaching
perceptual abilities; manifestations of a reality and a self which we
are only beginning to understand.
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