Past Life Regression

Past life regression is a technique that uses hypnosis to recover what practitioners believe are memories of past lives or incarnations, though others regard them as fantasies or delusions. Past life regression is typically undertaken either in pursuit of a spiritual experience, or in a psychotherapeutic setting. Most advocates loosely adhere to beliefs about reincarnation,^[1] though religious traditions that incorporate reincarnation generally do not include the idea of repressed memories of past lives.^[2]

The technique used during past life regression involves the subject answering a series of questions while hypnotized to reveal identity and events of alleged past lives, a method similar to that used in recovered memory therapy and one that similarly misrepresents memory as a faithful recording of previous events rather than a constructed set of recollections. The use of hypnosis and suggestive questions makes the subject particularly likely to hold distorted or false memories.^[3] The source of the memories is more likely cryptomnesia and confabulationsthat combine past experiences, knowledge, imagination and suggestion or guidance from the hypnotist than recall of a previous existence. Once created, the memories are indistinguishable from memories based on events that occurred during the subject's life.^[1][2] Memories reported during past life regression have been investigated, and revealed historical inaccuracies that are easily explained through a basic knowledge of history, elements of popular culture or books that discuss historical events. Experiments with subjects undergoing past life regression indicate that a belief in reincarnation and suggestions by the hypnotist are the two most important factors regarding the contents of memories reported.

Though I tend to believe some of what is written here, I do find that this is pretty short sighted and does NOT address a lot of the aspects associated with past life memories. I, as well as others I know, have "past life memories" that are NOT attributed to past life regression performed in accordance with any methods described here. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_life_regression

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"Namaste",

Bobby Sharpe

Past Life Regression

Past life regression is a technique that uses hypnosis to recover what practitioners believe are memories of past lives or incarnations, though others regard them as fantasies or delusions. Past life regression is typically undertaken either in pursuit of a spiritual experience, or in a psychotherapeutic setting. Most advocates loosely adhere to beliefs about reincarnation,^[1] though religious traditions that incorporate reincarnation generally do not include the idea of repressed memories of past lives.^[2]

The technique used during past life regression involves the subject answering a series of questions while hypnotized to reveal identity and events of alleged past lives, a method similar to that used in recovered memory therapy and one that similarly misrepresents memory as a faithful recording of previous events rather than a constructed set of recollections. The use of hypnosis and suggestive questions makes the subject particularly likely to hold distorted or false memories.^[3] The source of the memories is more likely cryptomnesia and confabulationsthat combine past experiences, knowledge, imagination and suggestion or guidance from the hypnotist than recall of a previous existence. Once created, the memories are indistinguishable from memories based on events that occurred during the subject's life.^[1][2] Memories reported during past life regression have been investigated, and revealed historical inaccuracies that are easily explained through a basic knowledge of history, elements of popular culture or books that discuss historical events. Experiments with subjects undergoing past life regression indicate that a belief in reincarnation and suggestions by the hypnotist are the two most important factors regarding the contents of memories reported.

Though I tend to believe some of what is written here, I do find that this is pretty short sighted and does NOT address a lot of the aspects associated with past life memories. I, as well as others I know, have "past life memories" that are NOT attributed to past life regression performed in accordance with any methods described here. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_life_regression

Click the link for the rest of the wikipedia article....

"Namaste",

Bobby Sharpe

Past Life Wisdom

A lifelong friend and life saver, posted a question today on an update I posted to FaceBook. It really caught me off guard and was quite profound. I actually had to gather my thoughts and think on this for a bit. However, I did come up with my answer...

"Can anyone who has become so wise they know there is no GOD explain the source of their wisdom"?



Hey Truman, "god" is perceptual. Some thing or event was responsible for all or most of this. Why people refer to this event as god, is beyond me. My wisdom and knowledge come from me and my experiences from the many past lives I have lived. You know how sometime you just know stuff? Don't know why, but you do. It's called remembering...:-)
 
If You have an answer to this question, feel free to post it as a comment.
 
"Namaste",
 

Bobby Sharpe reggae8@aol.com