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Past life regression and pseudoscience
by: Jessica Helpard

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This is a You-tube video of three individuals undergoing past life regression hypnosis techniques. Lisa Machener is the Hypnotherapist who claims she has successfully completed past life regression therapy for over 700 years. Lisa focuses on an issue that each individual wants to overcome in their current life and suggests that she takes them back to their previous life through her hypnosis techniques. This allows the person to see who they were, where they lived, and each learned vital information such as previous names; it is also said to help the individual overcome the issues that have been passed down to this life from their previous life.

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The video shows many pseudoscience red flags, such as proof by verbosity, others will see the video, and those in the video claim they have heard of past life regression through others, mystical energy, and ancient wisdom is shown. The hypnotherapist claims she has been completing past life regression therapy for over 700 years leading ancient wisdom and spiritual hypnosis is a form of mystical energy. Some people may think past life regression therapy is silly, and others may have these reasons for belief include emotional connection and perception/ observation. The individuals in this video wanted so badly to know why they felt specific ways regarding water or why they had headaches. It was so important to them that they had such a deep emotional connection to the situation as it was about them.

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People Discover Who They Were In A Past Life

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In this video, Shirley MacLaine, a famous actress, claims she has had past life experiences, that many people have them, and may not realizes that the Deja Vu they are feeling is indeed from a past life. She says that personal beliefs in reincarnation are widely accepted worldwide and says that people should not judge others' beliefs because they disagree with their ideas. Shirly is a firm believer in many pseudoscience's such as UFOs.
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In this video, many pseudoscience red flags and reasons for belief are seen and talked about; Shirley, herself, mentions that many individuals believe in past life and reincarnation because of religious beliefs, cultural beliefs, and emotional connections. Shirly being a famous actress herself and completing these interviews, is in its self ideological support and proof by verbosity. The critical thinking aspect of this video is there such a thing as past life regression; with no concrete evidence and scientific evidence besides word of mouth, celebrity endorsement, and outdated religious and cultural beliefs, past life regression is a pseudoscience.

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In this video, you hear two stories of young children who remembered things from their past life. The first stories are of twins whose older sisters had passed away; they remember things that they could not have possibly known or recalled as they were not their memories. The second story is of two boys who would call themselves by other names; those names the parents recognized as a couple who had recently passed away.

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The stories being prevailed are hear-say, and as enjoyable as they are, there is no scientific evidence in the video to prove that these things happened.  Confusion of correlation with causation is shown in the first example and an emotional connection due to the father and mother wanting to believe so badly that their daughters were, in fact, that of their late daughters that passed away. In the second story, cultural beliefs arise due to where the story has taken place.

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Did a Doctor Discover Proof of Past Lives

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This website has a free 25 question test that is said to help you find out if information from your past lives is calling you in the life you live today.  The test is a simple 25 question that you complete and then list in order from what is most important to least important; on the website, you will also find additional ways to go deeper into the past lives you have lived. The website mentions many pseudoscience's such as Karmic astrology, past life regression therapy, dream analyst, Akashic records, and physic intuition to understand your past lives better.
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The website is loaded with red flags, such as ancient wisdom, mystical powers, and the drive for money and emotional connections. Through critical thinking, the issue at hand is, can this website help with past life regression? Through scientific research, one can easily see no factual evidence to support the claim that past life regression is indeed real. By completing a simple test that is a red herring, it does not prove or show anything. The website is intended to draw individuals in to eventually spend money on the website for other services offered and on the website's store.

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I created this past life test to help you decide if your soul is nudging you to explore your past lives. The test is a series of questions to help you identify past life information... from the clues in your everyday life.

I'm writing about past lives because exploring my own karma was a profound part of my own spiritual awakening. Early on, I began to wonder why life felt so hard. Out loud, I'd joke about what I must have done in a past life to deserve this!

I was joking but really, I wasn't. It was the only way I could bring up past lives and feel safe, for not one person around me believed in or talked about such things. For a while, I felt alone and a bit crazy, judging myself all over the place.

But the more I dug into the information (supported by my heart) the more that reincarnation, karma and past lives were the only thing that made sense to me.

This past life test is a light-hearted approach to what I actually believe is a serious topic. But it's a good way to start.

Since my early days of self-doubt, past lives have become self-evident and even obvious to me. In fact, I'll go further. I believe that our lack of understanding of the reality of reincarnation is an enormous gap in collective, mainstream belief. And a hidden truth that holds the human race back from growing spiritually the way we were meant to. Nuff said.

Wherever you are in your journey...open your heart and ponder curious things. Have fun taking the past life test and the past live quiz linked below too... and see where your heart lands.

Be sure to explore the other easy to read articles on this site (each has a slightly different slant), and sign up for my free newsletter Moondancing if you resonate.

Where does past life information come from?

Does it surprise you to learn that piecing together your karma and past lives is a gradual process rather than one big information dump? Well, this has been my experience, anyway.

While sometimes I wished that my past lives would come to me like a movie in technicolour, with a tidy convenient list of the actors involved and our karmic ties, most often it came in bits and pieces. That's why the first step of receiving your past life information is opening to the messages as they come into your life: which is what the past life test will help you do.

Here's my past life test: enjoy!

Is your soul talking to you about your past lives? More importantly, are you listening? These 25 questions help you find out...
Answer YES or NO.

1. Have you ever had a dream where you woke up, and it felt so real that it took you a while to 'come back' to reality?

2. Do you have an interest or talent, that is very different from your family of origin?

3. Have you attracted the same painful, repetitive experiences again and again?

4. Are you a collector? Why do you think you were you drawn to your particular passion?

5. Have you ever felt 'dread' when you met someone, yet were compelled to get closer to them?

6. Have you ever been irrationally scared to lose someone in an accident (for example), even when you don't have a logical reason to be scared?

7. Have you ever done something completely out of character because of meeting someone (like having an affair, or taking risks that aren't like you)?

8. Have you ever watched a movie or TV show, and began to cry at a particular story line? What character did you relate to most? There's your clue...

9. Have you ever been strongly drawn to a particular place, or a time in history?

10. Have you ever had a strong connection with (or fear of) a particular animal?

11. Did you have any unusual childhood experiences?

12. Do you have irrational fears or phobias about something or someone, that has no logical connection to this life?

13. Have you ever had obsessive feelings about someone or something, especially if you're generally a logical person?

14. Have you ever taken a wrong turn, which lead to an unexpected, beneficial or fateful event?

15. Have you ever had deep emotions about something or someone, without a reason?

16. Have you ever had an experience that was so 'strange' that you couldn't explain it?

17. Have you ever met someone, and been irresistibly drawn to them, a if there was something pulling you together?

18. Have you ever been relaxed, when an image popped into your mind: a face you 'knew' but didn't recognize?

19. Have you ever been strongly attracted or repulsed by someone you just met for no logical reason?

20. Have you ever overheard a conversation that came at exactly the right time for you?

21. Have you ever heard a 'voice' in your head say something that you had never considered before?

22. Have you ever encountered the same story-theme again and again (say in movies or books), by coincidence?

23. Have you ever experienced déjà vu?

24. Have you ever had a natural talent for something that you had no training in?

25. Have you ever had someone say particular words, that stood out? Then did you hear these words again (maybe from someone else)?

Now tally up your YES answers. Now prioritize them in order of importance to you right now. This is where to explore more deeply... and begin piecing together the past life experiences that have made you the soul you are today.

Ways to go deeper into your past lives

A warning! If you work with others to uncover your past lives, beware of anyone who encourages your dependency on them, instills fear or guilt, judges you, or tells you what to do.

Though self-honesty can sometimes be uncomfortable, overall, any experience working with someone should empowering for you. If it isn't, then run.

Karmic astrology

The first thing I did after my big (first) spiritual awakening was learn more about karmic astrology. Fifteen years later, it's still something I turn to to get a unique perspective - and keep me growing on my soul path.

Karmic astrology, or past life astrology, is a lesser-known astrology that doesn't predict. Through your birth chart, you can get a very good idea of past lifetimes, and your soul's purpose in this life.

Why does understanding your life purpose matter? Because serendipity ramps up when you're living purposefully. And if you're single, you'll tend to meet your soulmate when doing your soul mission.

I've studied karmic astrology for a number of years, and have found it both empowering and enlightening.

(if you want to go deeper than the article below, book a private karmic astrology session with me)

Something else that works well with the astrology...is past life regression!

Past life regression

Esteemed psychiatrist Dr. Brian Weiss popularized past life regression in the mainstream with Oprah in the past few years, but it's been around for a while and working with a skilled past life therapist is a great way to get at your past lives.

This article has an 11 point checklist on how to choose one, how to keep yourself safe, my personal experience and more...

Upon inquiring about past lives under hypnosis, you might get a vivid 'movie-recall' of being a person, with all of the facts complete. You may realize your previous name, dates, the town you lived in and the years you were alive.

Or you might only get glimmmers. Clothing. A scene. The flash of a face. An emotional resonance. Even if you work with a skilled past life therapist, you still need to pass it through your own emotional filter. If you sincerely reflect on the past life test, it's kind of like a self-directed past life regression. Free of charge!

In his books Only Love is Real: A Story of Soulmates Reunited, and Many Lives, Many Masters, Dr. Weiss condenses his patients' experiences. Often it takes months of work for the critical lifetimes to surface. In my case, I had some major insights in anticipation of the regression itself. So if you use this method, stay open. It'll be unique to you.

Dream analysis

Someone with talent in dream analysis can unveil some interesting past life insights.

Dreams can also foreshadow a soulmate connection. I remember an Edgar Cayce record about a client who was appearing to their soulmate in a dream, before they connected at a deeper level.

Only Love is Real also talks about a dream one of Dr. Weiss' clients had that instructed him to 'hold her hand'. When he finally met his soulmate, they sat together on a plane. When turbulence came, he remembered and held her hand. Through this action, the connection was made.

For more on the power of dreams, check out my article Why do people dream? - An interview with Toronto, Ontario
Dream Therapist Ursula Carsen.

Psychic intuition

Good psychics energetically sense spectrums of possibilities. I've gleaned fascinating past life relationship insights from intuitive readers. I've also met some real duds! So sure, use them, when it feels right...but with discretion.

Do not discount what you learn about yourself in the past life test, as your insights are just as valuable. A good psychic won't have ego and will encourage you to do what's best for you.

Spend some time reading about America's most documented psychic, and his take on past lives, Akashic Records, soulmates and reincarnation. Reading about how karma works in the Cayce material was an important part of my own awakening. It's much more subtle and symbolic than one might think.

If you're hiring a psychic, I'd recommend getting a good reference first. Also, careful not to become a psychic junkie! Use the information to take back your power - not give it away.

Akashic records

Have you heard of Akashic Records? Akashic records are like an otherworldly computer recording collective human experiences, plus the karmic imprints of individual souls.

They also go by other names, too, like the Book of Life. With a good, reputable facilitator, we can access the Akashic Records to get information on our past lives.

Your own intuition...and your heart

Finally! Here we are, at the core of what the past life test is all about.

Even if you work with others, it's still up to you to integrate the information. By far, the biggest 'ah-ha' rock me to the core insights have come from my own life.

The answers you seek require the ability to 'connect the dots' of your life in new ways. The more you read about karma and past lives, the more you'll be able to make these past life connections.

You might want to check out these soulmate books and past life love stories:

Many Mansions by Gina Cerminara, a very dense read, but with a fantastic range of topics like the types of karma adn much more.

Only Love is Real, about soulmates reunited, by Dr. Brian Weiss

Moondance - a modern take on past life love and awakening. If you like intelligent page turners, check out my first book.

For me, I know my past life insights are right, when tears come. It's as if a truth deeper than me is welling up, whispering to me from previous times.

So open your heart, open your eyes, notice, trust. Ask for the right information, at the right time, to support the life you desire.

I hope you've found this past life test helpful

Take me to:

Past life quiz - Do you need to know the secrets of your past lives? Find out for sure.

Past life love - Are you involved with a past life love? Here are the deeper reasons you found one another...

Past life regression therapists - An 11 point checklist on how to choose one, how to keep yourself safe, my personal experience and more...

Learn about my private karmic astrology session.

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I created this past life test to help you decide if your soul is nudging you to explore your past lives. The test is a series of questions to help you identify past life information... from the clues in your everyday life.

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This website is seven stories of individuals who have had past life experiences; the website tells you the information and does not push the views that past life regression is factual and real. It also talks about how stories of past life regression and reincarnation were a massive phenomenon in the past, leading one to believe that the wars. The stories are interesting to read but again do not come with the factual evidence behind them, making them simply hearsay.
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The article is written from a skeptical viewpoint and intended to relay the stories without pushing the idea that past life regression is indeed real. The website itself offers the red flags of ancient wisdom and religious beliefs and states that it is indeed a pseudoscience. It also displays the reason for beliefs will vary from person to person; in the 19th and 20th-century, stories of reincarnation and past life regression were a big fad; with today's scientific evidence, we know that past life regression is simply a pseudoscience.

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The idea of reincarnation has been around virtually forever; it's a part of a number of religions and belief systems dating back to ancient times - and it can be pretty wild to read about some of the most infamous stories of alleged past life experiences from history. Clearly there's something about these stories that draws us in; indeed, although both past life regression and reincarnation are frequently regarded as pseudoscience, almost a quarter of Americans - 24 percent, according to the Pew Research Center - believe in reincarnation. That's not an insignificant number; it demonstrates that the idea resonates strongly for many, although I'd imagine the reasons why can vary greatly from person to person.

Despite the history of the concept of reincarnation, though, interestingly, it's only really in the late 19th and early 20th century that actual research into past life experiences kicked up - and what's more, it only really started to hit its stride starting in the '60s. We've got Ian Stevenson to thank for the push to more seriously study the phenomenon; these days, folks like Jim Tucker are continuing to further what we do - and don't- know about alleged past lives.

However, in the English-speaking world at least, interest in alleged past life experiences kicked up a little less than a decade before Ian Stevenson's first published work on the subject arrived. Beginning with two notable cases in the 1950s - which we'll look at a little more in depth below - reincarnation and past life regression became all the rage; perhaps, though, given that the world was still recovering from the devastation of World War II at the time, it's understandable.

These seven cases date back a bit further than the ones we looked at in our last examination of alleged past life experiences. Do you believe?

1. The Bridey Murphy Case

Between November of 1952 and August of 1953, Morey Bernstein, at the time an amateur hypnotist who would later become known as a successful businessman, used hypnotic regression six different times on a Colorado woman named Virginia Burns Tighe - and what emerged during these sessions became a straight-up fad after the publication of Bernstein's book, The Search for Bridey Murphy. Tighe - who was referred to by the pseudonym "Ruth Simmons" in the book - had, it seemed, allegedly lived a past life as a woman named Bridey Murphy in 19th century Ireland.

While Tighe was under hypnosis, she spoke with a thick Irish accent - despite the fact that Tighe did not have such an accent, and, indeed, had never even been to Ireland. The tale she told detailed Bridey's life from the age of eight, when Bridey lived in Cork, up through the fall she later suffered that resulted in her death as an adult. When The Search for Bridey Murphy was published in 1956, it kicked up quite the pop culture fervor for reincarnation - "come as you were" parties were de rigueur, bars served "reincarnation cocktails," and folks just otherwise couldn't get enough of the whole thing.

However, the Bridey Murphy case did eventually collapse under scrutiny: Journalists failed to be able to verify key elements of "Bridey's" life (for example, there's no record of anyone resembling Bridey being born on Dec. 20, 1798 - which Tighe under hypnosis had said was Bridey's birthday - or dying in 1864) ... and eventually, it came out that Tighe had grown up across the street in Wisconsin from a neighbor who was an immigrant from Ireland named Bridie Murphey Corkell. We don't think Tighe made up the story on purpose; as LiveScience notes, it's generally believed that Tighe may have unconsciously built Bridey Murphy out of her childhood memories of Bridie Murphey Corkell.

2. The Bloxham Tapes

British hypnotherapist Arnall Bloxham was born in 1881. In the 1950s - possibly inspired by the Bridey Murphy case - he began researching past life regression. Over the course of about 20 years, he recorded a whopping 400 hypnotic regression therapies on tape - and in the 1970s, these tapes were transcribed and published in the Sunday Times as a series. BBC producer Jeffrey Iverson headed the charge on the published series; in 1976, he both produced a documentary for the BBC about the Bloxham tapes and published a book about them, More Lives Than One? Evidence of the Remarkable Bloxham Tapes.

Of particular note was the case of a 30-year-old Welsh housewife referred to by the pseudonym Jane Evans. According to Evans' regression tapes, she had allegedly lived not one, not two, but six different past lives: That of Livonia, a tutor of the sons of the Roman governor Constantius in York in the third century A.D.; that of Rebecca, who was married to a Jewish moneylender in York in 1189; that of Alison, an Egyptian woman who, in 1450, was a servant in the household of a French merchant; that of Anna, who in the 16th century was a lady in waiting to Catherine of Aragon; that of Ann Tasker, a seamstress in London in 1702; and that of Sister Grace, who was a Catholic nun in Iowa at the beginning of the 20th century.

According to the Skeptic's Dictionary, though, Jane Evans' alleged past lives have been found not in the historical record, but in the fictional one. Livonia, for example, seems to be based on The Living Wood, a novel by Louis de Wohl published in 1947. Alison's "life" also seems to come from a novel - The Moneyman, by Thomas Costain - while Rebecca may have emerged from a radio play. It's believed that Evans' "past lives" may actually be the result of cryptomnesia and confabulation.

3. The Reincarnation Of Om Seti

Dorothy Eady, also known as Om Seti and Omm Sety, was born in Blackheath area of London on Jan. 6, 1904. When she was three years old, she fell down the stairs at home; the family doctor determined her to be dead, but an hour later, she was fine. After that, she began to have dreams of living in a large building adorned with columns; she said frequently that she "wanted to go home." And when she was four, during a trip to the British Museum, she declared that "home" was Egypt.

She moved to Egypt in 1933 to be with her husband, who was Egyptian; and although the marriage ended two years later, she stayed put. She became a folklorist, a keeper of the Abydos Temple of Seti I, and a draughtswoman for the Department of Egyptian Antiquities - and she believed that she had, in a past life, been a young woman named Bentreshyt, an orphan who had been adopted by the temple of Kom el Sultan near Abydos. "I can't remember any ordinary life, so I think I must have been stuck in the temple," she told the New York Times in 1979. "I have a vague memory of the processions. I can remember an awful old killjoy of a high priest."

And in 1987 - several years after she died in 1981 - it emerged that she also believed that, in her past life, she had been a lover of King Seti who became pregnant. She said Bentreshyt had died by suicide rather than reveal that the king had fathered a child with her.

It's anyone's guess whether the story is true or not. She certainly believed it was.

4. The Past Life Of Laure Raynaud

In European Cases of the Reincarnation Type, Ian Stevenson - one of the foremost researchers into reincarnation and past lives - details the case of Laure Raynaud, who was born in Aumont, France in 1868. She rejected the Catholic teachings she was raised with, insisting that hell, heaven, and purgatory didn't exist; rather, she believed in the idea that, each time people die, they return to Earth in different bodies.

Raynaud moved to Paris at the age of 17, studied medicine, and became a healer; she married in 1904. During this time, she also learned what was called "magnetism," a type of hypnosis. And it was while working with Gaston Durville, who ran a clinic in Paris, that she finally began speaking of what she believed were memories of a past life. She remembered living somewhere with lots of sun, in a very large, two-story house with lots of arched windows. There was a park nearby with lots of old trees in it; additionally, a number of small houses belonging to workers were located near the house. She believed the memories were from when her past personage was about 25 years old, and from roughly 100 years ago. She said she had a "chest disease"; she was plagued with coughing.

Later on in life, Raynaud went to Genoa, Italy - and felt an immediate familiarity with the place, even though she had never been there before. She tracked down a house in the countryside that locals said matched the one she described from her "memories" - and it was here that she came to believe that in a past life, she had been Giovanna Spontini, who had lived in the house Raynaud had located and died in 1809 of chronic illness and catching a "severe chill."

Stevenson notes that the fact that Raynaud couldn't specify any names of people in her "memories" until after she had done some research weakens the possibility of her actually having experienced a past life; the same went for the fact that, although she accurately described many details of the house, those details were very common in Italian Renaissance mansions. The chronic illness, however, he considered intriguing.

5. Arthur Flowerdew's Ancient Journey

When he was a kid, Arthur Flowerdew, who was born in 1906, had dreams of a large city surrounded by desert. It had a temple, and a canyon, and streets, and buildings - all laid in out in very particular ways. Later, he had visions of the city when he was awake as well, often brought on by trips he took to the seashore during which he played with pink and orange rocks.

He grew up. He got old. And one day, while watching a documentary on the BBC about the ancient Jordanian city of Petra, he felt he immediately recognized the place: It was seemingly the city he had been seeing in his dreams since he was a child.

Flowerdew reached out to the BBC, who were intrigued by his story and shot another documentary about and what he believed was a past life he had lived in Petra. The Jordanian government later saw this documentary and reached out to Flowerdew. Would he like to fly to Petra to see it in person?

Why, yes, he would. What's more, before he left, an archaeologist who was well versed in Petra's history gave Flowerdew a test about the city - and he nailed it. He described major landmarks, identified them on sight when he arrived, and revealed information about the ancient place it seemed like he could not have known. His story is often pointed to by those who believe in reincarnation - particularly those for whom it's a part of a religion or belief system - as proof that past lives do exist.

6. The Case Of Shanti Devi

Born in 1926 in Delhi, India, Shanti Devi was four years old when she began telling her parents that her home wasn't in Delhi; it was 90 miles away in Mathura, where she said her husband lived. She recounted memories of having been married, and later of dying from complications from childbirth. She described what her husband looked like (light-skinned, a wart on his cheek, reading glasses) and where his shop was located (by the Dwarkadhish temple). Eventually she revealed her past persona's husband's name: Pandit Kedarnath Chaube.

And, it turned out, the man existed. He had lost his wife, Lugdi Bai, from complications with the C-section she had undergone while giving birth to their son, Navneet Lal. What's more, Shanti recognized both Pandit Kedarnath Chaube and Navneet Lal on sight.

Shanti's story was investigated by a number of notable people: Ian Stevenson; another reincarnation researcher, Dr. K.S. Rawat; and Mahatma Gandhi. All three were struck by the fact that so many details of her story were verifiable.

7. The Second Life Of The Pollack Girls

On May 5, 1957, Joanna and Jacqueline Pollock, aged 11 and 6 respectively, were killed in a car crash in Hexham, Northumberland in the UK. They had been on the way to church with a friend; everyone in the car had died instantly. The girls' parents, John and Florence Pollack, were devastated; John kept praying that his daughters would come back.

Florence became pregnant in 1958 - and here's where it starts to get weird: Although her doctors had not believed she was having twins, on Oct. 4, 1958, she gave birth to identical twin girls. Florence and John named them Gillian and Jennifer - and immediately noticed some strange similarities between Jennifer and Jacqueline: Jacqueline had had a scar on her forehead; Jennifer also had a mark there. Jacqueline had a birthmark on her leg; so did Jennifer. Gillian did not share any of these marks with her sister.

The Pollack family moved from Hexham to Whitley Bay when the twins were just a few months old, but when they were four, they returned to Hexham. The girls were eerily familiar with Hexham, despite the fact that they wouldn't have been old enough to make memories of it before they had moved away. For example, they said they remembered playing on the playground of a specific school. They had never attended this school - but their older sisters, about whom they had no knowledge, had. The girls also recognized and correctly named toys that had been Joanna and Jacqueline's - and, most frightening of all, became enormously afraid of cars for fear one would crash into them.

Ian Stevenson believed the case was strong for Gillian and Jennifer being Joanna and Jacqueline reincarnated - but when the twins were five, the "memories" of their past life vanished, leaving the mystery unresolved.

Personally, I'm not sure I believe in reincarnation - but some of these stories are really eerie. Could they just be coincidences? Or is something... else at work? You be the judge.
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7 Stories Of Alleged Past Life Experiences From History That Will Truly Chill You

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The final website is a physic that offers past life readings that help one overcome fears and traumas caused by one's past lives.  The physic even states that one's past lives can cause spiritual scars and impact many aspects of your life today. Although the website says it is a little different than past life regression therapy, I feel it is still relevant to the topic of past life regression, this method of finding out your past life is completed via a physic reading, and no hypnosis is involved.
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The website plays on emotional connection and has many red flags; it is money-driven and suggests mystical energy such as healing to one's spiritual scars from past lives.  With this method, it is also all hearsay; no evidence of what the medium or spiritual physic says to you has anything to prove its worth; it is all simply a way to charge a client money for a bogus reading.

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Have you ever wondered how your past lives affect you? Our advisors can help you understand how experiences in your past lives can impact your future.

What is a past life reading

If you've ever had an eerie feeling that you know something or someone you've never met in this life before - sometimes called a "déjà vu" -- it may be based on a past life experience or memory. The basis for past life readings is the belief in reincarnation, or the idea that your soul is reborn in different bodies over a long period of time.

How do past life readings work?

Past life readings look back into the lives you led in previous incarnations to help you understand where your soul has been and how past life experiences may impact your life today.

Trauma or difficult experience in a past life can leave spiritual "scars" and affect the way you feel and behave in this life. A past life reading can explain certain fears or phobias you might have and help you overcome them, based on an understanding of their origins in a past life.

Past life readings are different from past life regression. In a past life regression, you are hypnotized and guided to go back in your memory to past lives. In a past life reading, a psychic medium or spiritual psychic takes the journey into your past and conveys to you what he or she discovers.

Past life love

For example, a strong loving relationship you may have had with someone in a previous life may carry through to your present day incarnation. This can be revealed in a psychic love reading. A past life reading can help clarify why you feel so strongly about certain people with whom you have unusually close ties or stormy relationships. Past life readings can also illuminate complicated connections between you and loved ones that are based on many shared lifetimes.

Past life connection with present life

Accessing your past lives can have a profound impact on your present experiences. This is not because you discover that you were once Napoleon or Cleopatra. Much more importantly, past life readings show patterns that evolve in your relationships and motivations through various lifetimes, allowing you to make the most of who you are today.
If you are interested in a deeper exploration of the forces that have shaped your spirit through many incarnations, a past life reading - like angel readings and spiritual readings - can be a very powerful and transformative experience.

Gain an understanding of who you were in a past life and how it affects your current life.

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Past life experiences have a profound impact on your present and future. A past life psychic reading will guide you to make the best choices for yourself. No other psychic service has as rigorous a screening and ongoing quality assurance process as Psychic Source, ensuring authentic readers you can trust, or your money back.

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The object added is a photo that one company uses as an ad for past life regression therapy. The ad shows a promise to unlock the mysteries of your past life that, in turn, will bring you both peace and clarity. The ad also suggests you will reach your higher self.

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Even though this is just an image of an ad, it shows both reasons for belief as well as red flags. The ad tries to play to emotional connection, and the photos depicted are a red herring as the image has little to nothing to do with past life regression. The ad is entirely money-driven, as most ads are, and it talks about a higher self that plays into ancient wisdom and mystical energy.

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The image attached is the statistic associated with reincarnation and past life regression; I have attached this image because knowing the facts behind it is both essential and exciting. They also bring many questions, such as why most young children from ages 2-6 have memories of past lives? Why are they mostly males, and lastly, out of those that do remember past lives, what is the connection, if any, that they died horrifically?
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I thought the information on child occurrences involving past life experiences was vital as they bring to mind many questions. The fact that past life regression is a pseudoscience, how are children that young being affected by it? The problem at hand is past life regression real? After extensive research, the conclusion that there is no factual evidence to support the claims of past life regression, and the fact past life regression therapy is money-driven and based on ancient wisdom and mystical energy brings me to the conclusion it is, in fact, nothing more than pseudoscience and nothing more.

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The final artifact is a photo that details what past life regression therapy is and what those who conduct past life regression therapy claim it can do for the mind, body, and soul. This image also suggests that karma from previous lives plays a direct role in the current life you live.
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The image shows red flags such as being for the intent of money; it suggests there is a higher power through ancient wisdom and mystical energy. The post also talks about spirit guides, that is another red flag; it tries to pull at an emotional connection and the unknown.

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1. What most surprised me about the topic was the number of people who claim to have had past life experiences and the number of individuals willing to spend an obscene amount of money to attempt to learn information about past lives with no factual evidence that they indeed are possible.

2. I think the topic of past life regression is fascinating, even though most of the stories pervade are he said she said they are still fun to read or listen to, though they should be taken with a grain of salt.

3. The research on the topic that I found the most interesting was the videos of people undergoing past life regression therapy; seeing how it is done, even if the videos might be staged, are still impressive to watch; I would not pay to have past life regression therapy done on me or even attempt the self-guided ones but hearing what individuals who had it done had to say was fun research.

4. In all honesty, I am most likely to remember that things like past life regression therapy and physics are usually only money-driven, that they play on the unknown that fascinates us as humans, and playing on personal emotions for monetary gain.

5. I think that in regards to the most harmful, all-natural is the most dangerous; with the anti-vaccination movement as well as ancient Chinese medicine marketing as all-natural, many people are getting not old sick but also dying due to this pseudoscience. I also think that the least harmful pseudoscience is the belief in UFOs; that personal belief does not harm people. It's not done for monetary gain. It's just a silly pseudoscience some people choose to believe in for unknown reasons.

6. The most important information to pass on to family and friends is the dangers of anti-vaccines and alternative medicine dangers. The more people aware of this, the fewer people will be injured or even killed by this harmful pseudoscience.