| "The Reincarnation Experiments, a stunning television | | | | awareness. The wonderful part is that we almost |
| documentary in which four housewives from Sydney, | | | | always remember the whole session and can take |
| Australia, gave details of past lives under hypnosis and | | | | from it whatever we need in the years to come. All |
| then verified the evidence - in front of TV cameras | | | | the sessions that I have ever done personally stay in |
| and independent witnesses - by travelling thousands of | | | | my mind and help me to understand difficult situations |
| miles to the scenes of these bygone lives, was | | | | in all aspects of my life. |
| screened before the Australian public in March, 1983. | | | | The sessions start with a peaceful relaxation induction |
| Even atheistic viewers were compelled to admit that | | | | which allows each person to slowly go into a hypnotic |
| reincarnation appeared to be the only logical | | | | trance. Once the subconscious mind has opened up in |
| explanation for these remarkable journeys through | | | | the Alpha state, it is able to provide valuable |
| time which followed hypnotic regression conducted by | | | | information that allows the recall of past live memories. |
| Hypnotherapist Peter Ramster." Fisher (1984:978). | | | | In a past life regression, the state of awareness is not |
| After reading Fisher's quote, we might wonder how | | | | the same as in a normal hypnosis session. Winafred |
| we get to experience a past life regression session. | | | | Lucas states that "people's brain waves change when |
| In hypnosis, we bypass the critical conscious mind and | | | | they are in a past life regression, and they are different |
| enter the subconscious to open the door to old | | | | from the brain waves of any other mental state we |
| memories. The trance is an altered state of mind | | | | know of (normal wakefulness, sleep, dreaming, |
| which we automatically enter many times each day. | | | | hypnosis alone)", Lucas (1996, internet article). |
| Watching TV or driving a car is very much like a | | | | The recall begins by seeing, sensing or feeling yourself |
| hypnotic trance because we focus our attention and | | | | standing somewhere unfamiliar in a different |
| allow the subconscious mind to open up. How many | | | | environment, time and place. Some memories are |
| times have we driven from A to B to arrive at B | | | | clear, vivid and detailed, some are vague and more like |
| without really knowing how we got there? We put | | | | imaginations. It does not really matter how one |
| ourselves in a trance to shut the outside world and all | | | | perceives the information. It is important to allow the |
| its noise out. Athletes call it being in the "zone". | | | | subconscious to convey the wisdom and knowledge |
| What happens in the brain to allow the conscious, | | | | that is needed at the time of the session. |
| analytical part of our mind to drift apart and allow the | | | | After experiencing a few events in that life and getting |
| past live memories of our subconscious to surface? | | | | details, such as names, addresses and dates, the |
| Our mind operates on different brain wave | | | | session leads to the end of that life and the death |
| frequencies all day long moving between the | | | | experience. In my opinion, the death experience is the |
| conscious and subconscious state. The conscious | | | | most wonderful part of the session because it feels |
| state, called the Beta state, functions with a brain | | | | liberating, exhilarating and absolutely peaceful. No |
| wave frequency of fourteen cycles per second and | | | | matter what the circumstances of the death |
| higher with an average of about 22 cycles per second | | | | experience are, the moment the soul leaves the body |
| for most activities. When we allow our brain waves to | | | | is incredible. One feels like expanding into the Universe, |
| slow down by going to sleep, by focusing our attention | | | | becoming free and limitless again. All worries, pain and |
| or by daydreaming, we enter the Alpha state, also | | | | egocentric feelings are gone, and one reunites with the |
| called the hypnotic state. | | | | Universal Consciousness. It feels like floating, drifting, |
| All humans enter a hypnotic trance at least 10 times a | | | | flying high like an eagle. |
| day by drifting into the Alpha state, which operates | | | | The essence of the session begins in that state of |
| with a brain wave frequency of 7 to 14 cycles per | | | | floating, feeling weightless and being connected with |
| second. Rapid Eye Movement (REM) starts at 10 | | | | Oneself. Even though the client is in a deep state of |
| cycles per second and allows us to dream at night. | | | | hypnosis, he or she is able to communicate and talk. It |
| The subconscious mind surfaces and communicates | | | | feels like being in two different worlds at once. The |
| with our conscious mind by using its own language, the | | | | conscious awareness is sitting in the chair in the room |
| dreams, to analyze daily events. Slowing down further, | | | | where the session is taking place while the |
| the mind enters the Theta state. "The Theta range of | | | | subconscious mind focuses on the impressions of the |
| brain activity is approximately four to seven cycles per | | | | past life. |
| second. This is considered to be the psychic range of | | | | I start asking the following questions and record the |
| the mind and the area where psychic experiences | | | | answers:what is the most important lesson learned in |
| occur. Delta has a frequency range of zero to four | | | | that life?what caused the most sadness?what caused |
| approximately cycles per second. This is the range of | | | | the most happiness?what could you have done |
| total unconsciousness." (William W. Hewitt 1996). | | | | better?what will help you in this current life?what is the |
| It is in this state of deep hypnosis that we are able to | | | | message your past life self would like to relay to your |
| open doors that have been closed. If we do not carry | | | | present life self? |
| any blocks or fears, we can tap into subconscious | | | | Some answers are short, some are detailed and clear, |
| memories of other times and other places. | | | | but all responses are always profound and life |
| Over the years, I have conducted many past live | | | | changing for the person who experiences them. |
| regression sessions. Even though my role as a | | | | After recording the answers, the past life is closed off |
| facilitator is to guide through the sessions, I never | | | | with blessings, healing and protection to make sure that |
| provide any direction or advice, and my clients follow | | | | all pain and discomfort stay behind. Once we have |
| their own natural path. Their past life journey is their | | | | created awareness around an issue that we might |
| own experience and my responsibility is to make sure | | | | have been carrying around with us from one life to |
| that they feel safe and protected at all times. | | | | another, it might dissolve. |
| Some clients slip into past lives without consciously | | | | Henry Bolduc (1994) says in LIFE PATTERNS that |
| choosing to. They come to see me for various | | | | "regression work is the process not the product. How |
| reasons, not believing in reincarnation and "accidentally" | | | | you learn and how you use that learning is far more |
| take the journey to past lives to subconsciously solve | | | | important than who you were and how you lived. The |
| or deal with issues that have been established prior to | | | | soul's memory is your true wisdom." Bolduc (1994:9). |
| this live, but transported into it. Once they find the | | | | Sources: |
| cause of their issue, they are most often able to | | | | Bolduc, Henry Leo 1994 |
| resolve it rather quickly. | | | | LIFE PATTERNS: SOUL LESSON |
| We are believed to have between 200 and 600 past | | | | &FORGIVENESS |
| lives. Our subconscious allows us to remember those | | | | Independence, VA: Adventures Into Time Publishers |
| lives that provide us with the wisdom and knowledge | | | | Fisher, Joe 1984 |
| that we are ready for at the time of the session. The | | | | THE CASE FOR REINCARNATION |
| experience itself feels like a day dream that we | | | | Toronto, Canada: Somerville House Publishing |
| consciously see, feel and hear in a state of total | | | | Hewitt, William W. |