| In this article we are going to examine a VERY | | | | medical journals like the New England Journal of |
| popular topic on today's new age talk circuit, and see if | | | | Medicine) primarily from the memories of children in |
| we can't get an answer to the question - "are past | | | | these cultures. |
| lives real? Or are they simply another new age | | | | Regression Therapy |
| imagination?" Let's take a quick look at some | | | | Many people have had amazing experiences of past |
| definitions, and then see if we can't shed a little extra | | | | live recollections while in a deep hypnotic trance. |
| light on this eternal question. (No pun intended..:-) | | | | Regression therapy has become popular over the last |
| A World centric Perspective | | | | decade, with many doctors using guided meditation to |
| First of all, those of us who live in Western cultures | | | | lead patients beyond the veil of simply present life |
| should understand that MANY of the world's great | | | | memories...all the way back to OTHER lives, and other |
| wisdom traditions ALREADY believe that reincarnation, | | | | ineffable spaces where memory may live, but our |
| or transmigration of the soul is real. Hindu, Buddhist, and | | | | present day science can't explain! |
| even mystical variations of Islam (Sufism) teach some | | | | Some scientists and doctors have dismissed much of |
| form of Reincarnation as a central component of their | | | | this out of hand....but NOT those who have seen their |
| faith. It's interesting to note, that much of our present | | | | lives completely transformed by the healing and |
| day scientific study into the empirical evidence of | | | | therapeutic effects of tapping into sources of "soul |
| reincarnation ALSO comes from these cultures. | | | | blockages", things that MAY be holding you back in this |
| Famed doctor and scientist Ian Stevenson wrote his | | | | life, but really happened in another. Be it Karma or |
| landmark magnum Opus, "20 cases suggestive of | | | | confusion....the benefits to these patients have been |
| reincarnation" (which was a peer reviewed, and | | | | REVOLUTIONARY, and no serious scientist would |
| subsequently had portions republished in MAJOR | | | | argue with that! |