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Id really like to try this, obviously with someone experienced. I do believe we have many lives and sometimes, well ofter to tell the truth I get the feeling ive said what ive said before and in the same place too.

Has anyone on here had past life regression? And do you think it would be good for me?
I guess in a way im trying to find out who I am, and why im like this.

Think you've answered your own question there really.

I have done many, many past life regressions through hypnosis. I used to do them in Ireland all the time and got massive newspaper publicity from it. Two page centre newspaper spreads no less on a fairly regular basis.

For some odd reason I haven't done a single one in Canada in all the years I have been there.

I did find it quite a fascinating activity.

I guess im very curious. And if im honest, im scared too. Not of what comes of it but if something goes wrong, i have a fit or something, or are these things rare and im worrying over nothing?

You won't have a fit. The hypnotist might though if it doesn't work.

Most of us are trying to find out who we are. I don't see what you'd gain from discovering who you were in a past life.

And where does it stop? You were this person, but who were you before that? And that? If it is real, where did you start? At the beginning? And if you started there, then where did i start?

If you're having trouble with the way you are or the way your life is going, you could probably look to your more immediate surroundings for clues as to why that is.

Mark since you've done past life regression, is it true that most people claim they were someone of great importance in their past life? They're never just a man on a street minding his own business. The same way ghosts are always Victorian. I want to see a hippie ghost, or a ghost from the dark ages.

A 1976 study found that 40% of hypnotizable subjects described new identities and used different names when given a suggestion to regress past their birth.

In the 1990s a series of experiments undertaken by Nicholas Spanos examined the nature of past life memories. Descriptions of alleged past lives were found to be extremely elaborate, with vivid, detailed descriptions. Subjects who reported memories of past lives exhibited high hypnotizability, and patients demonstrated that it was the expectations conveyed by the experimenter that were that was most important in determining the characteristics reported by the patients during their 'memories'.

The degree to which the memories were considered credible by the experimental subjects was correlated most significantly to the subjects' beliefs about reincarnation and their expectation to remember a past life rather than hypnotizability.

To create these memories, Spanos' subjects drew upon the expectations established by authority figures and information outside of the experiment such as television, novels, life experiences and their own desires.

Spanos' research leads him to the conclusion that past lives are not memories, but actually social constructions based on patients acting "as if" they were someone else, but with significant flaws that would not be expected of actual memories.

I do "past life regressions" as part of my Jack the Ripper Seance. I put the subject into trance and send them back to Victorian London to witness one of the murders. Some of the details that subjects report (I get them to talk us through their journey around Victorian London) are quite amazing and very eerie - particularly when the whole thing is being done by the light of a couple of candles.

However all I'm really doing is firing up their imagination and giving them permission to go on a flight of fancy. Basically they're making it up as they go along.

mark lewis wrote:You won't have a fit. The hypnotist might though if it doesn't work.

Brilliant.

I'm a hypnotherapist and have done lots of PLRs. Although a few clients have reported nothing at all most of them have had vivid experiences. However, I don't commit myself to explanations; they may be genuine past lives but there are several other possibilities. From my point of view the experience is a way of exploring the contents of the unconscious mind, and it doesn't matter how the information got in there.

If you want to try it, you'll find qualified practitioners here:

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

Barry

Wow, it only costs £300 to become fully 'accredited'.

Think I might set me up a new little website, could be quite a moneyspinner.

SpareJoker wrote:Wow, it only costs £300 to become fully 'accredited'.

And the training. And the experience. You wouldn't want to mess around with people's minds without those, would you?

SpareJoker wrote:Think I might set me up a new little website, could be quite a moneyspinner.

Didn't you do that in a past life ?

magicofthemind wrote:

SpareJoker wrote:Wow, it only costs £300 to become fully 'accredited'.

And the training. And the experience. You wouldn't want to mess around with people's minds without those, would you?

With all due respect, their minds are already being messed with, if people are being encouraged to believe in the veracity of PLR.

There is no significant body of evidence that supports any of the theories or explanations of PLR. How does one accredit a process which is demonstrably false?

If, however, the whole endevour is 'For Entertainment Purposes Only', then fair enough. But I did not see that phrase used anywhere on the site.

'Scuse my lack of knowledge here, but is there any actual evidence of a subject genuinely regressing to their past life or is something which just has to be taken on trust?