I'm thinking about going to see someone to be hypnotised to see if there is anything in this past life regression. Has anyone ever had this done, and if so what did you think?

No, I haven't had it done, but have seen a video presentation of it. I was totally unconvinced and thought it was a waste of money and time. The other thought i had was puzzlement as to how anyone could take it seriously.

Originally posted by slinky
I'm thinking about going to see someone to be hypnotised to see if there is anything in this past life regression. Has anyone ever had this done, and if so what did you think?

I admit that part of me finds this a fascinating idea, but I really don't think I'd risk doing it.

There are some things I believe we're not meant to know.

StarSparkle

where can you go to have this done?

Originally posted by TWIST
where can you go to have this done?

Hi Twist

http://www.pastliferegression.co.uk/database.htm

You just need to scroll down on the left of the page and select Yorkshire (or whatever area you want).

I am terribly cynical about this sort of thing. The people offering it often award themselves long lists of letters after their name, which certainly mean nothing in the world of academe. They are often called things like, Sebastian Raven or Charlotte Rainbow, and wear unfashionable footwear.

Why is it that the people who have 'regressed', nearly always seem to have been some significant figure in world history? I remember a case of a Rotherham woman in the late seventies. She was featured in Sunday tabloids, claiming to be the reincarnation of Tutenkamen's mother. Apparently, she remembers the Egyptian boy-King kneeling at her feet, saying 'Mut, Mut', which she claimed is ancient Egyptian for 'Mother, Mother'.

Why are these people never reincarnated abbatoir hose-cleaners from Goole? Or the latest incarnation of some 13th Century Flemish village-idiot? One tends to wonder...

Why are these people never reincarnated abbatoir hose-cleaners from Goole? Or the latest incarnation of some 13th Century Flemish village-idiot?


I have often wondered the same thing myself. They always seem to 'regress' to some dramatic point in history, such as the Battle of Waterloo. They are never just nipping down to the shops........

But then, I don't believe in anything, including microwaves.

Originally posted by StarSparkle


There are some things I believe we're not meant to know.


Sorry for quoting you again, not following you I promise :(

But I was gonna say similar :)

the main problem with the basic concept of human reincarnation is a purely logical one.

There aren't enough dead people to go around

- i.e, there are more people alive today, than have ever died before today. So there is something of a shortage of historical personages to have as previous incarnations.

Unless duplex reincarnation has been discovered, where Napoleons footman (or whoever) was reincarnated twice.

I tried this on a regressive 'hypnotherapist' - but she didn't appear to understand. Probably something to do with being reincarnated as a dullard.

Of course the neat way around this is to point out that some reincarnatees have been reincarnated from lesser things such as frogs, rocks etc. (Or greater things such as Intelligent Space Aliens) This is a neccessity for reincarnation to work as it is often described.

Has anyone successfully been regressed into their former life as a whelk/earwig/pebble/zeta-reticulan? Was it interesting?

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
the main problem with the basic concept of human reincarnation is a purely logical one.

There aren't enough dead people to go around

I tried this on a regressive 'hypnotherapist' - but she didn't appear to understand. Probably something to do with being reincarnated as a dullard.

Has anyone successfully been regressed into their former life as a whelk/earwig/pebble/zeta-reticulan? Was it interesting?

pmsl, always on form :hihi:

If you ignore all the previously raised issues with the possibility of reincarnation.....

What is it that is the same in you as there was in the person (or animal or whatever) you were before?

Is it phyical? or some other form of energy? Or just some metaphysical thing that is not measurable by any device that we could possibly invent, apart from being hypnotised and it somewhow being extracted from your brain that way.

If there was something in it would it not be being studied by neuroscientists as it could be very useful in treating people who have lost 'real' memories as we understand them.

In short, I have an open mind about investigating things that modern science may not understand, but a lot of stuff like this is just the product of very woolly thinking.

If past life regression had been carried out two hundred years ago it may have had some sort of meaning.
With the modern life style of today with education, TV.films,books radio and history available from these media anyone who is hypnotised for past life regrssioncan come up with any past life of almost anyone.

Phan, I have thought about this myself before.
But have always considered that if reincarnation is real, people from the present and future must be just as likely to be a previous existance of the Client in question.

Maybe there is only one human soul, and the journey of life starts millions of times over and over in parallel, and in the past and future.

Obviously the most important question is why nobody has ever reported any future events which have later come true.

Or going back to a linear time line.
Another theory is the fan theory which I have just thought of. Consider that it may be possible for the previous incarnation of someone to be recalled by somebody. But why cannot the same memory be recalled by more than one person. As there are less anscestors. Or even different parts of the same dead persons experience to be recalled by several different people but not the exact same events.

I prefer the time shifting theory, as it is more exciting, and would be easier and much more dramatic to prove.

Originally posted by prioryx
If past life regression had been carried out two hundred years ago it may have had some sort of meaning.
With the modern life style of today with education, TV.films,books radio and history available from these media anyone who is hypnotised for past life regrssioncan come up with any past life of almost anyone.

Well the only way you could prove it really would be if someone were to say something that was verifiable, but at the time of the hypnosis there is no way anyone could have known the fact without having been that person.

It is pretty difficult to see a circumstance like that occurring.

But, on the other hand, if it makes you feel better to believe it, go right ahead.

I'm quite intrigued by the idea of regression and I'm toying with the idea of going to see a 'therapist'. Not that I consider myself to have any major issues that require therapy, but I'm keen to test this concept for myself. Anybody else considering having a go or anyone that can share a 'genuine' regression experience??

perhaps we are born with an iherited memory gene and hypnosis releases it from our subconciousness......maybe

A group of us tried regressing each other at University. I have to say, I'm very sceptical despite my mates claiming to have seen images from their past lives. I'd put it down to a very fertile imagination in their cases, especially as my boyfriend concluded that the images he'd seen meant that he must have been a Mr Man in his previous life. Never got to find out which one though as the tape stopped and broke the trance.

If it's done properly though, who knows what you could find out. The mind is a funny thing.

Originally posted by depoix
perhaps we are born with an iherited memory gene and hypnosis releases it from our subconciousness......maybe

That's an absolutely fascinating idea, Depoix.

That had never occurred to me before, but it does make a lot of sense. An inherited memory gene? We inherit so much from our parents/ancestors - who knows whether ancestral memories may come down to us through our DNA? So much of our brains are still a mystery to science - am I right in thinking something like 90% of brain capacity is not used by most people?

What do the unexplained parts of our brains do? What are they for? Surely they have some purpose?

Carrying the memories of our ancestors with us is an intriguing idea. It might potentially explain a lot - eg on first visiting a place, a person finding they're familiar with it, when they've actually never been there in their life before.

Brilliant posting, Depoix. :thumbsup:

StarSparkle

just listening to scott mills on radio1, and he us having it done. has anybodey had it done yet? im really intrigued and would love to have it done! not sure if i belive in it all, but i guess the best way is to find out myself!

Originally posted by StarSparkle

- am I right in thinking something like 90% of brain capacity is not used by most people?


Probably 98% in my case, which is why I can't get my head round the idea of DNA carrying unconcious images of one previous existence. If that were possible it should carry the memory of all your direct ancestors - back to when Adam was a lad ?

The DNA memory idea is scientifically unsound / absurd for a million reasons but they're too obvious to need me to explain them to be honest.

You don't use only 10% of your brain either. In that case 90% of strokes would have no effect. This is a popular and continuing myth, but it's a myth.

It is thought that there is some built in redundancy in the brain so that if certain parts get damaged you have a bit of spare tissue to take over their role and keep you going.. this may also allow the brain to adapt to what you do (functional plasticity) - meaning that if you play cricket for a long time, your hand - eye coordination will be increased to let you catch balls better. Similarly if you do a lot of logical puzzles for a long time you may experience an increased logical processing ability (with a physiological basis) compared to someone who hasn't ever come across them.

Forget the 10% thing though, tis crap and misleading.

Originally posted by StarSparkle
Carrying the memories of our ancestors with us is an intriguing idea. It might potentially explain a lot - eg on first visiting a place, a person finding they're familiar with it, when they've actually never been there in their life before.


I read in New Scientist some time ago about De ja vu and finding places never visited "familiar". This is a known effect which happens in the brain, and nothing to do with real past experiences of others.

Originally posted by muddycoffee
I read in New Scientist some time ago about De ja vu and finding places never visited "familiar". This is a known effect which happens in the brain, and nothing to do with real past experiences of others.

Yeah - I've read something similar, about a momentary lapse which means that something we've experienced seconds before seems like we've experienced it much earlier.

Also heard the Scott Mills thing, and the woman who phoned in who was a therapist had been.........a roman soldier in a previous life. Surprise surprise.

As has been said before, hardly anyone is regressed to find they were a non-descript peasant, labourer, serf, etc. etc., who, afterall, were the vast majority of the world's population (and this is going back only a couple of thousand years - isn't it strange that hardly anyone is regressed to further back to a pre-0000 time which contemporary culture means most people have little knowledge about - except for Egyptian pharohs.......).

Saw a similar thing with celebrities a few months ago. Person regressed had been a medieval knight who died in a battle......... can't remember who the celebrity was.

Is it possible for a person to regress to a past life, and then ruddy well stay there?! One particular crashing bore and insufferable pedant of a poster springs to mind. Clue:- he has just upset my pal Starsparkle on the 'Immigration' thread...

I have trained as a hypnotherapist and have done PLRs with a couple of people during training.

People who believe in reincarnation can use it to convince themselves that they have lived previously.

People who don't, can use it as an escape or an amusing diversion.

The benefit to the therapist is that past lives can be analysed like dreams to see if they are a metaphor for current problems.

e.g. anxiety may be represented by a particular type of past life (violent death or whatever)

Personally I don't belive in reincarnation or that PLR is particularly useful for therapy. Just a bit of fun really.

If someone will pay me £60 to have it done though (one hours work) then I would probably do it.

Originally posted by depoix
perhaps we are born with an iherited memory gene and hypnosis releases it from our subconciousness......maybe

If this were true why has it been selected for? what are the advantages for having this gene? :confused:

Perhaps the people who were whelks/sewer cleaners and other unpleasent things in a past life are plentiful but are to embarressed to tell people.

If I had it done and turned out to be Queen of Sheba/Cleopatra/Joan of Arc I would fall over myself telling everyone, but if I was a lowly peasant that died a boring death I would keep quiet.

Very true, Phan. There are more people alive now than have ever lived before so at best we can only be tiny fractions of past souls...unless souls remain whole and select a chosen few of us in the living world with whom to 'bond'.

My next door neighbour is a hypnotherapist and has advised me not to partake in such a venture..even though it is something that I would love to do.

I do know of one person who has been regressed due to recurrent dreams of feeling as though he was being choked. It got so bad he decided to take a holiday with his family and went to rural France. Not only did he NOT escape his dreams but whilst driving his hire car he had to brake at one particular spot due to feeling as though he was being strangled. Many months later he chose to undergo regression. He did not mention any of his experiences to his hypnotherapist (although would you really have to do so if it was all bona fide?) It turns out he was a highwayman in France some centuries ago who was hanged for his crimes. Interesting if nothing else.

Originally posted by ps201acm
If this were true why has it been selected for? what are the advantages for having this gene? :confused:

As I said there are a million reasons. One obvious one is that past life regressions as have been mentioned on here usually involve violent death. Even if memory somehow altered germline DNA structure, how does a dead person pass on their DNA containing these memories?

Originally posted by Crayfish
As I said there are a million reasons. One obvious one is that past life regressions as have been mentioned on here usually involve violent death. Even if memory somehow altered germline DNA structure, how does a dead person pass on their DNA containing these memories?

There are a very great many things we don't yet understand about the human brain. There are so many, many things scientists do not understand about us, about life, about the universe.

Who knows what information gets passed down in our DNA, and for what purpose?

I like to keep an open mind, and in any case I find theorising about such things mentally invigorating and a valuable use of my time. I am endlessly curious about concepts such as the soul, reincarnation and the like.

However, personally, I don't feel past-life regression is a sensible thing to do - I think it could emotionally harm some people, and my thoughts are that if we were meant to remember our past lives, it would be easier to do so. But that does not mean that we haven't lived before. It could be that the information about our past lives is encoded in our DNA somewhere, but we're not really meant to access it at this stage in our evolution.

Who knows? Nobody. In the meantime, it's a fascinating topic to discuss.

StarSparkle

I have had this done and can tell you that it works - fact! You may all be sceptics about this sort of thing, as was I, but I have seen it myself and I know it really works.

In my case I was Napoleon and could prove this by being able to give some details such as the name of the battle where he lost to Wellington, something no-oe else could know. I couldn't speak fluent french but apparently this is because of (insert mumbo jumbo here) and could only ask for un bagette and une grande bier. I have since been regressed several times and I was also a roman soldier, a 16th century pope (with rather rusty latin because it has been so long), King Charles 1st and Bart Simpson.

Originally posted by KenH
I have had this done and can tell you that it works - fact! You may all be sceptics about this sort of thing, as was I, but I have seen it myself and I know it really works.
I was also a roman soldier, a 16th century pope (with rather rusty latin because it has been so long), King Charles 1st and Bart Simpson.


What series of The Simpsons were you in? :)

Originally posted by KenH
I have had this done and can tell you that it works - fact! You may all be sceptics about this sort of thing, as was I, but I have seen it myself and I know it really works.

In my case I was Napoleon and could prove this by being able to give some details such as the name of the battle where he lost to Wellington, something no-oe else could know. I couldn't speak fluent french but apparently this is because of (insert mumbo jumbo here) and could only ask for un bagette and une grande bier. I have since been regressed several times and I was also a roman soldier, a 16th century pope (with rather rusty latin because it has been so long), King Charles 1st and Bart Simpson.

COWABUNGA DUDE! :clap:

Originally posted by KenH
I have since been regressed several times and I was also a roman soldier, a 16th century pope (with rather rusty latin because it has been so long), King Charles 1st and Bart Simpson.

Well, at least Bart Simpson is funny.........................

Originally posted by KenH
I have had this done and can tell you that it works - fact! You may all be sceptics about this sort of thing, as was I, but I have seen it myself and I know it really works.

In my case I was Napoleon and could prove this by being able to give some details such as the name of the battle where he lost to Wellington, something no-oe else could know. I couldn't speak fluent french but apparently this is because of (insert mumbo jumbo here) and could only ask for un bagette and une grande bier. I have since been regressed several times and I was also a roman soldier, a 16th century pope (with rather rusty latin because it has been so long), King Charles 1st and Bart Simpson.


Well done, Ken H!

Just the sort of highbrow, intelligent, thoughtful level of posting I've come to expect from you.

StarSparkle

PS In case anyone is in any doubt, I am being sarcastic.

Originally posted by StarSparkle
Well done, Ken H!

Just the sort of highbrow, intelligent, thoughtful level of posting I've come to expect from you.

StarSparkle

PS In case anyone is in any doubt, I am being sarcastic.

I think we got that StarSparkle :)

i would love to find out about my past life's, How much doe's it cost?

My mate paid about £35. I'm quite interested too but my lifes confusing enough without whittling over any of the other lives i may have had!:confused:

Perhaps we don't recycle lives indefinitely. Maybe there is a total number of incarnations you can have before you finally pop your clogs and stay dead. New ones could be starting their cycle all the time. That could account for the greater population now, as opposed to previously.

Well, its a thought .....