Dr. Weiss is a well known name among the medical profession regarding the exploration of having past lives. Weiss' name commonly comes up whenever the topic of reincarnation or past life regression is reported on in the media. I read Dr. Brian Weiss' book about past lives titled Many Lives, Many Masters in the late 80s.
Fast forward from the 80s, 90s.... Today more and more people are wondering if reincarnation is plausible. This week a new article was published in the The New York Times on the subject of past lives. Check out Lisa Miller's article Remembrances of Lives Past to learn more about the use of regression therapy in treating people with emotional issues.
In the early 90s I attended a group hypnosis session to discover three of my own past lives. The past life hypnotherapist led the group into a light trance and through guided meditation "willed" me and all the other participants to look into the source of knowing and recall three different lifetimes from our past. The experience felt kind of like reaching into a hat with your hand and pulling out names scribbled on scraps of paper, except no names, only scenarios. I didn't feel connected to these people who I apparently was previously. As I recall the memories that surfaced were that of a sailor boy on a boat situated near the coast of Norway, an aging nomad Native American woman who was migrating to Montana with her clan, the third "me" was a Romanian woman who lived in a woodsy area who knew about medicinal herbs, trees, etc. Somewhere among all my journals I have more details written down. No names, but year dates, types of clothing I was wearing, etc.
Do I believe that these scenes that surfaced in my mind on that evening were really my past lives? Yes, but it is not a clear-cut YES. I don't believe in past lives as a sure thing as much as I speculate (emphasis on speculate) about having parallel experiences or simultaneous lives. Our past lives and future lives are pieces of a cosmic puzzle. I imagine that Phylameana, the part of me that is typing this blog is only a fragment of the whole of my experiences. This personality is a bit fuzzy about what the truth really is since her knowledge is so limited. I think the "unknowing" or the "forgetting" is a major part of the experience of being who we are. How else would we be able to carry on in our relationships and further our spiritual education if we were completely awake?
As exciting as it was to learn about these other "me's" I was actually more interested in meeting the people I met at the workshop. I think I may have known a couple of them in a former lifetime.
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I tend to believe in past lives becasue there is no other explanation for certain memories which surface unexpectedly.
When you mention the cosmic puzzle i feel like the viel is there for a reason it is overwhelming to be all know all which in a sense we are all part of one. Like drops of water make up an ocean, leaves and bark make up the tree, molecules atoms and quarks form the being we relate to as ourself, and when our consciousness departs this body the physical form is reabsorbed into the ongoing cycle of life. when the consciousness evolves to become self realized it to is reabsorbed into the ultimate supreme consciousness from whence it comes (or something like that
While I personally don’t believe in re-incarnation, I certainly don’t think that people who do have vivid imaginations – I completely respect that belief.
Based on my experience of regressing 1000s into their past lives, I’ve found that everyone has had past lives, even if their current personality doesn’t believe in the concept, and that most situations in our lives, both “good” and “bad,” are karmic. Not as a punishment, but for learning here on school house earth.
Our current lives are mirrors for our past lives much more than most realize.
Past lives don’t matter until you realize just how much the past is affecting your present.
If we taught children about the law of karma- everything you put out, even when no one is looking, will come back to you- the crime rates would drastically decline.
In Light,
Stephen Petullo
Hi Phylameana,
I did not believe or disbelieve until I had a past life regression hypnotherapy session. After reliving some critical moments from past lives and healing through those experiences – I have no doubt about reincarnation. I dug into Dr. Weiss, Dr. Newton and Edgar Cayce’s work and haven’t looked back. I even wrote a 3 part series on my blog about how learning about Past Lives, Life After Death and Life Between Lives can be very healing. I read and clear Akashic records and have seen first hand the advancement of spiritual growth when the blocks and restrictions from past lives are cleared.
I love that this information is making it to mainstream. Thank you so much about writing about this very important topic.
Love,
Jenny
As a child I was always interested in Native Americans and always played like I was one. As I grew older & married when asked where I wanted to go on vacation…I always wanted to go to Wyoming, Montana etc..every year. I always went to the Indian Reservations. I started having personal problems along the years and went for hypnotherapy. During the sessions I discovered my three children and I had been taken by Indians. After this discovery and learning I was going to these places looking for my children, my desire to go there ceased. I was at peace.
This is just one past life I discovered there were others and they were some way connected to my life now.
Yep. When you die i dont you just see black. I was told physic (sigh-kick) I was a twin in my previous life.
I believe when i die i’ll get reincarnated again, and think ” hmm i wonder what my previous life was.. I MOST CERTAINLY DO BELIVE IN IT
I’m rather puzzled why we are signed in for this newsletter and getting very old posts, it’s very annoying…must’ve been a ‘fussbudget’ in one of my past lives. From some ‘experiences’ in this life, I think there is something to it–yet it’s being WAY overdone. I remember Cher so sure she was Cleopatra “in another life” and built a huge ‘Egyptian-like” house after divorcing Sonny. Please. Sylvia Browne insists evildoers die (or are executed) and return right back to Earth through “the left door” which is ridiculously idiotic. If THAT were the case, Earth would be teeming w/ only past murderers, serial killers, etc., w/ no room left for anyone else. It seems many people do ‘come back’ for specific reasons…but I also feel many do not return. I don’t believe EVERYONE reincarnates relentlessly. From reading these old posts–if these people learned how to spell & type correctly before posting, they would have a bit more credibility.