Past Lives

[Ratanya]

I used to work as a past life therapist and have often regressed people with meditation and hypnotherapy into their past lives. I worked for a local spiritual healing centre.

Over a period of about 4 years, I worked with approximately 25 - 30 clients. (On a rough guess) I thought I would share a few things I discovered during this time.

The basic procedure to be regressed went as follows..

Clients would get comfortable, either sitting on laying down.. They would then by guided by my voice into a very relaxed state. (This could take 5 - 15 minutes) They would then be guided again into a story sequence where they would discover a personal guide that would travel with them during the remaining of their experience.

The clients would by guided again and enter into the experience. They usually maintained verbal contact with me and would continue to be guided into the series of important events during the lifetime, which they would work through. At the end, they would exit the experience with my guidance, and usually would of enjoyed the experience on some level.

What I found was..
Some people went into a full hyponetic state (which they were not meant to) and with these people, the information they were able to obtain about their past life would be very much clearer. These people would often have no trouble with the dates/timeframe and location. Their experiences appeared more interactive. Their experiences were amazingly accurate to world history as we known it. One particular client even spoke with a different accent and afterward the experience refused to believe they had even been regressed unto I proved it to them. (all sessions were taped)

Clients who had a tendancy towards melodrama (in their regular lifes) often had very weird experiences.. their past life experiences were the sort that didn't settle into any known history or were just plain unlikely. (eg. Abandoned as babies they would have animal friends that helped raise them or something) Almost always.. these clients would have some sort of problem/connection after the session and would return for several more equally weird experiences that they would like to discuss for hours with me afterwards.

Laying down produced far better results.

Some people just fell asleep during the relaxation (before the actual experience) and I would have to just leave them to sleep for a while as I couldn't wake them easily.

One particular women found a curious connection with her sister in a past life. Some year or two later, when I later regressed her sister, this connection was confirmed with her regression as well.

People who attended a session out of simple curiousity about their past life, often had experiences that were less intense than people who felt strongly that their was a hidden issue with their history. (No surprise there)

No-one was ever an animal in my regressions.

Most people were very surprised..
Most past lives were very ordinary in the general sense.

[Sacredstar]

Dear All

I teach a Past Life Healing therapy called Past Life Energetics© I have only scanned through the above so apologies if I miss anything out!

I agree Brian you can access group consciousness.

With dreams they can be any of the following:

A result of sub-conscious fears etc
Past Life memories
or warnings/guidance from the higher self or spirit energies
the secret is learning how to differientate between them.

Past Life Healing work is facinating. One of our therapists helped a man to break a five year cycle of sexual abuse through him accessing and healing the two pasts lives of being a rapist. So with this particular therapy one can request the past life that is most effecting the person right now. With past regression it can be any life and not necessarily one relating to now.

Disease travels energetically, transgenerationally and shapeshifts just like miasms that Homeopaths work with.

For instance an inferiority complex from a past life has manifested as a workaholic in this liftime. So past lives have a huge impact on our lives now. For instance, without realising it the countries that most appeal to you now, will be the ones that you have enjoyed the most in past lives.

Many spiritual people who feel blocked often have a past life issue with persecution, burnt, drowned, hung etc for their spiritual/religious beliefs in a past life.

What I have discovered is that when we heal our past lives then we are also healing group consciousness.

Love beyond measure

Sacredstar

[Dereku]

I don't have much useful information to add, but I find this kind of stuff very interesting. I've had dreams that might suggest I have lived in other places in different times. I've never really thought much into it because they were simply that: dreams.
Freud said that dreams are almost always a desire of the conscious or subconscious mind. That is why I never really thought much into it.

The only thing I can really think of is the fact that my entire life I've had this obsession with Japan. I'm not talking about the animation or whatever, I mean...I'm really interested in their language, their culture, etc etc. I've always had an extreme fascination. I also find that their language is, unlike what many people say, extremely easy to learn.
Then again, I find many foreign languages are easy to learn if you can make your tongue work for you. ^_^

[alexa]

Kon-nichiwa, Dereku-san. O-ai dekite ureshii desu.

Welcome to CR ! You don't have to add information on this forum, but feel free to let us know your opinions in the threads you are interested in.

One of our moderators has been studying Japonese. If you can take a few minutes from your time to introduce yourself in the Introduction board, she'll be there to give her welcome.

[Sacredstar]

Dear Dereku

Might be one the reasons that Carl Jung and Freud fell out!

being love

Sacredstar

[I, Brian]

Originally Posted by Dereku

The only thing I can really think of is the fact that my entire life I've had this obsession with Japan. I'm not talking about the animation or whatever, I mean...I'm really interested in their language, their culture, etc etc. I've always had an extreme fascination. I also find that their language is, unlike what many people say, extremely easy to learn.
Then again, I find many foreign languages are easy to learn if you can make your tongue work for you. ^_^

Welcome to CR, Dereku.

Interesting as well, becausew would that mean it may be possible you lived a past life in Japan - - - or else that in a past life you had a desire to visit Japan but were never able to? The possibilities are part of the fun in the exploration.

[truthseeker]

Past lives is a fascinating concept to me as well. Of course, Eastern thought very much so believe in past lives - I don't see why anyone shouldn't. I can't imagine mankind being this advanced without us acquiring knowledge through past lives. You ever heard of anyone as appearing as if they 'have been here before'? Yeah. Strange thing about me is I didn't really pick up Spanish or French when I studied it but I picked up Latin as if it is a very natural tongue for me. When I dig into ancient history it is familiar to me like my childhood of this life is. I seldom have dreams with me as a subject but when I do, they are all B.C. I don't know anything about dreams, I just have them. But I'll bet that if I ever get to go to some particular place in Europe that I haven't quite figured out yet, I'd be right at home.

[Winged Wolf]

I have some very vivid past-life memories of being a wolf. As for the past-life regression therapy not turning up animal past-lives, I can answer that as well. A person in a state of hypnosis is generally very eager to please. If you tell them to regress back to a certain time, they try their best to do it....if they can't really remember something, well, they'll just have to make something up, because you gave them the expectation that something was there. If you ask them to speak to you, then you automatically preclude an animal past-life....you can't talk if you're in the mindset of a non-human animal. So, have to move on to a different past-life, in order to speak.
I think there may be genuine memories there, but also a lot of embellishment created by certain expectations. A person can't speak from the perspective of an ancient European, if they are speaking modern English! They could try to translate it, sure, but that leaves a lot of leeway. The strongest memories we have tend to be sensory impressions...things we have seen, smelled, tasted. Not words. We learn language later in life. When asked to use language to describe what's happening from, say, the perspective of an infant, things are going to get messed up.
At least what a human is thinking in another language can be roughly translated into words in this language....not so for a non-human. Most species are not self-aware, and we know this, but I don't think most folks really understand what that means, in terms of communication.

When you remember the past, and consider the future, but don't consider your own actions until after you've acted, how can you possibly explain yourself to someone in a human language? That kind of communication requires more than physical expressions of emotion, it requires you to consider what you want to convey in advance, and that type of thought just isn't in there for more than a handful of species.

The eager-to-please mind under the influence of hypnosis could hardly hope to tackle such a problem, and the most convenient thing is to skip it altogether.

[jemyylol3]

dear lovely members here
i was so happy to join all of you here
i injoyed so much to read some of what you wrote
but plz permiss me to add some notes , i think they will be important in your disicussion
first :its true that a human may be was in another life before and with different shap ,manner and six ... thats not imagination but its documented
second : to understand that fact we have to know what a human consist of
and here i say >> a human basicly is a self < and that self can live in any body >>> if her body was from the earth substances >> he will be that human we know about our self < .. if the body was from fire he will be another creation like devil >>>> and that self cannt controle the body and live and deal with it on the earth if that body not a life >>> as we see when the body damaged by any way >>>>
and we can feel that only when we leave our bodies for sleeping or death and some people feel and know that in comma during sudden shocks or some thing like that ...
so our selfes get free only when go out of body and so become more able to see and treat with many other worlds that we cannt deal with it with our body .... so our bodies are not more than like a car we ride it for a while every day , and we must leave it to be repaired and finly we will leave it at all when it cannt be able to be used by us .. or when our time off on the earth as we see the death of others every day
third : we were exist before enter these bodies and we will be also exist after we leave the bodie , but then we will be not able to deal with others who still have a time in their bodies .
so ..all what we see in dreams and some times in a strane cases are not more than a visions or important notes about the reality of the human life and creation .
fourth : all what u see in dreams is a shadow of true and some times under some conditions is the pure true ... as example ... you may see a dream some day ... even you forget it ... sudden u find it happen as u saw and you cannt change any thing of it even what u do ar say ...
or you see some one for the 1st time and feel that you know him from a long time ago ...
fifth : try to fell what happen when you start to sleep .. you will loose you feeling with your legs .. then your middle of body ... then step by step till you become not feel all your body but only you backhead ... and if you cross that stage you will sleep easy ... but if you cannt cross that easy you will wake up and cannt sleep easy after that ...
dear lovely members :
its a wide world of sceince and we can talk for the end of the world and will not even can know every thing
so ... see you next time as my time permiss or mail me with you questions if you care
happy lovely and peacefull life for all humen and all of you
good bye

[Chalice]

I think we all have past lives. I am a Christian, the religion that wouldn't advocate such a thing, yet the christian scriptures sort of support it. God says to one of the prophets that "before you were in the womb I knew you". Christ is the "first born of all creation", yet he was not born of Mary til the 1st century, and he, along with all of us were foreordained from the foundation of the world; this means that Christ was here as the first being, and we also somehow existed, at least in the spirit world. The Bible also says that we go from "glory to glory", which appears to mean that we evolve from one level to the next, one life to the next and one understanding to the next. We are also eternal spirits, and eternity goes in both directions of time. Even though we were created "after" God existed, we still have had quite a bit of time in the universe, not just on earth. Maybe our past life was with God in a heavenly abode. Maybe we had chances, here, to come to know about God, and each life we got closer to knowing, until finally we accepted him or something. From then on we were given permission to bring his message to others, or something like that. That would give a reason for having past and future lives, which I personally need. The pagan idea that we just keep having lives for no aparent reason kind of baffles me - to just correct a mistake from a past life seems a sort of torment. So for me, IF I had a past life, then it was a progressive situation where I was allowed to keep living until I came to truely understand and recognize God and accept him. That is why Christian scriptures say that God is "long suffering so that none will be lost" - he waits and waits for us to believe in him so that none of us will be lost - who is to say that his long suffering, his waiting, does not span several of our lives? Perhaps it does. Once we make the decision, our lives either continue or they don't. A believer is allowed to choose whether to continue in God's presence or come back to the world to share God with others, repeatedly until the world comes to a conclusion and God begins a new era. To me this makes the most sense for a past life. The other thing that impresses me about past lives is that maybe my "past" life is tied up somehow in my own genetic and family background. Why am I attracted to thoughts about the ancient Teutons and Celts? That is my heritage, for sure. But if past lives were random, I would maybe have ideas about being Chinese, or Greek or something. But I never have. I did used to have mental pictures of American Indians, and just recently found out that I have 1/64th Cherokee heritage. Maybe our "lives" are really our experiences as we reside inside our ancestors, waiting to be born. Because technically we are there, inside their eggs and sperm, living with them as they live their lives out. Inside them is an entire universe of life, and only a few are chosen to carry on, until we are finally born. Maybe that is all a past life is - the memory of who we were when we resided inside someone else long ago. I know we can not prove anything scientifically, but we do "feel" eternal in spirit, most of us. I think that is because we truely are.

[Morrigan]

I've had lucid dreams, but most of these have just been when I've liked a dream enough that I've gone back and... dreamt it some more, heh.

On the other hand, I do have this 'experience' that happens every so often. You know when you're in a car, usually the passenger, and you go past a line of houses or trees when the sun is right behind them and it seems to flash? Well, when I close my eyes during that, I tend to see really vivid and powerful images of places and people I've never been to or met. They tend to be strong enough that when I open my eyes again, it's much like when you have a 'falling' dream and you jerk when you wake up. I don't remember many of the details when I think back on it, but that might be because they're so short that I never have enough time to remember a great deal. Does anyone else get this? More to the point, does anyone know what this is? I would suggest that it has something to do with my mother's epilepsy, as when I pass out for some reason or another (like when I had anaemia last year, or when I got really nervous at the hospital the year before) I have been known to twitch mildly- a small kick of the leg maybe, but I don't actually have enough symptoms to be classed as epileptic, so it might not be that. I'm not sure Anyone willing to help?

[MattWolf]

My wife and I have had at least two occasions where we were simultaneously dreaming the same scene. We even had conversation and interactions that we began to act out in a semi-wakened state, until we both woke up completely and wondered how incredible it seemed. One time we were definitely asian. Sometimes my wife said she really felt like we were asian in our relationship, not american. Years later my wife went to a psychic who said we had been together for at least 6 lives as a couple. The most powerful and influential was the life we spent in China, because that life (the psychic said) started a lot of the difficulty that we have been working out over the other lifetimes.

It's quite amazing to consider this. In another life I was supposedly a church pastor in Ireland (same wife). In this current life I have always felt a very strong draw to the ministerial routine, but I don't feel it's meant to be so in this life. Hearing the psychic's thoughts put this provided a comfortable resolution to that inner conflict.

[cjane]

I too have had strange dreams very vivid that I think have something to with past lives, when I was very young starting from about 8 or 9 years old until I was about 14 I had one recurring dream (the exact same series of events would replay in the exact same order!) of my house being invaded by soldiers (an unbelievable fear would set in, literally expecting death) and not knowing where any of my family members were hiding in my desperation I would hide in the kitchen in the oven!! the dreams were so frightening I would wake up in a sweat and my heart beating a million miles an hour. at the time they started I was too young to know anything about war etc but in my early teens my grandfather opened up about his experiences in the war and I learned more through school

well im not sure if in my past life I was involved in war but there is an eirey familiarness to some footage (film and pics) ive seen of ww2
in all honesty I believe it was the russian red army I was hiding from.

[cjane]

yes morrigan ive had the same thing happen. or similar (not health related)

where a familiar feeling takes over and I lapse into this state of half wake half off with the faeries and it can stay for many minutes depending on disruptions
I do believe I have amazing thoughts during this but do not remember once I am awakend.
alas!, my eyes are open when I have my 'experience'