In the song of Vysotsky it is sung: "The Hindus invented a good religion that we, having given up our ends, do not die for good." And the truth: in the Vedic religions it is considered that way. And the memory of the past incarnation can be used for the benefit of health.
From factory owners to poor people
The theme of reincarnation (reincarnation) of the human soul in one way or another sounds in the legends of most of the peoples of the world.
And the inhabitants of India, professing Hinduism, even have methods that allow not only to remember previous lives, but also to shorten the period between death and subsequent incarnation. Many children, especially before puberty, somehow remember the brightest moments of their past lives. Over time, this ability gradually fades away.
The most striking example is Gopal Gupta, born in 1956. At the age of two, he suddenly spoke clearly and distinctly, constructing complex sentences, although before that he had not tried to communicate even with the help of simple words and sounds. He announced to his parents that he came from a wealthy family and did not want to put up with his modest current position.
… His name was once Shaktipal Sharma, and he lived in the city of Mathura, 160 kilometers from Delhi. When the surprised parents took him to Mathura, Gopal immediately showed him the Sharma family's house and their factory, where he was shot. The boy answered all the questions about his previous life, easily determining who is his relative and who is not. He even recalled Shaktipal's personal secret: when and from whom, shortly before his death, he was going to borrow a large sum of money. The failed lender Subhadra Devi confirmed this arrangement.
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The matrix will find a way out
But there are also individuals who retain the ability to remember their past reincarnation throughout their lives. This often happens before an untimely death. It is possible that strong near-death emotions trigger the mechanism of preserving the memory of the previous life stage for embodiment in a new physical body.
An important sign is the presence of birthmarks, moles and tissue scars in a person in those parts of the body where in a previous life any damage was inflicted that led to death.
So, all in the same India, a certain M., a very respected businessman, more than once told his family that the scar on his left temple is a trace from the shot that killed him in a past life. He gave those of his former name, surname and place of residence, located in a neighboring province.
After making an official request to the police prefecture, the relatives were surprised at the answer. Indeed, thirty-seven years ago there lived such a man who was shot in the head while trying to repulse the robbers. Moreover, less than two months passed between the murder of one and the birth of another.
The phenomenon is explained by a powerful emotional outburst at the moment of death, the disagreement of the human "I" with the premature interruption of the life program. The personality matrix, called the soul in some religions, rushes about in search of the fastest re-incarnation in time and, as a rule, finds it.
Lebanon to Alaska
For more than thirty years, Ian Stevenson, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, has been studying the phenomenon. At first he was interested in India and Southeast Asia, and then Lebanon, Europe, North America, including Alaska. It turned out that the phenomenon in no way depends on the worldview of the respondents and their religious beliefs (some of them were atheists).
The most striking example of reincarnation with identical marks on the body in a new life was Corles Chatkin, an Alaskan. He claimed to be formerly Victor Vincent, who died in 1945. Corles himself was born about two years later.
Corles' mother, in an interview with Professor Stevenson, confirmed that shortly before her death she communicated with old man Vincent, and he predicted that he would soon be embodied in her son. The old man showed her the scars on the spine and the bridge of the nose from surgical interventions. The boy also had similar ones, although he did not undergo any operations. Among other things, Corles immediately recognized the place where he lived, his former relatives, including his daughter Vincent, whom he called by an old Indian name, known only to the two of them.
Where psychiatrists are powerless
Can the memory of a past life help a person in his new incarnation?
The first thorough investigator of this issue was the American psychologist and psychiatrist of Czech origin Stanislav Grof, the author of the methods of regressive hypnosis and holotropic breathing.
With the help of the first, human consciousness goes to the level of experiences of birth in this life, and then death in the previous one. By evoking in patients the conscious emotions associated with birth and death (they are usually negative), Grof sought to get rid of many fears. So, according to Grof, claustrophobia (fear of confined space) is associated with difficult protracted childbirth. Anginophobia (fear of suffocation) - with intrauterine oxygen starvation due to cord grafting. Stenophobia (fear of getting stuck in a tight space) - with a prolonged release of the fetus from the womb and its critical squeezing, especially the head. Nymphobia (fear of the dark) - with overmaturity of the fetus in the womb. Acrophobia (fear of heights) - with a fatal fall from a height in a previous incarnation.
Grof proved that conscious re-experiencing of negative emotions has a beneficial effect on the psyche - they are almost completely erased. Patients who have undergone sessions of regressive hypnosis (as this technique was called with a light hand by Alexander Gorbovsky in the USSR), forever got rid of exhausting fears.
Holotropic breathing technique is one of the types of lung hyperventilation. Due to the patient's rapid breathing, carbon dioxide is intensively washed out of his blood, his consciousness goes into an altered state, when, along with the primary bright hallucinations, memories of personal little-known facts related to other personalities emerge. This technique also helped Grof and his wife Christine heal patients who were completely abandoned by psychologists and psychiatrists.
Victor Tishakov