Regression - the existence of life before life
Raymond Moody began seriously researching regression while teaching psychology at West Georgia State College in Caroltown.
This institute, in contrast to many other educational institutions in America, paid great attention to the study of parapsychological phenomena. This enabled Moody to organize a group of 50 volunteers. It is worth recalling that while studying the problem of "Life After Life" in the 1970s, Moody used materials from 200 patients who returned to life after clinical death.
However, these were naturally isolated cases. During regression, the researcher conducted experiments with simultaneous hypnotic influence on the collective. In this case of group hypnosis, the pictures seen by the volunteers were not as vivid as they were blurred. There were also unexpected results, sometimes two subjects saw the same pictures. Sometimes, after awakening, someone asked to return him to the past world, so he was interested in it.
Moody managed to stop another curious feature. As it turned out, a hypnosis session can be replaced with an ancient and already forgotten method of self-hypnosis: continuous peering into a crystal ball.
Leaving the ball on black velvet, in the dark, only by the light of one candle at a distance of 60 cm, you need to completely relax. Looking closely into the depth of the ball, a person will gradually fall into a state of a kind of self-hypnosis. Pictures that come from the subconscious will begin to float before his eyes.
Moody says this method is also acceptable for experiments with collectives. In extreme cases, a crystal ball replaces a round carafe of water and even a mirror.
“After conducting my own experiments,” the researcher says, “I was able to establish that the visions in the crystal ball are not fiction, but fact … They were clearly projected in the crystal ball, while they were color and volumetric, like the image of halographic television.”
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Whatever method is used to induce regression: hypnosis, peering into a ball, or simply self-hypnosis (and this happens), under all conditions, Moody identified a number of features in regression that are all related to their generality:
- The visibility of past life events - all volunteers visually see the regression patterns, hear or smell less often. Pictures are brighter than ordinary dreams.
- Events during the regression occur according to their own laws, the subjects could not influence them - as a rule, they are contemplators, and not active participants in the events.
- The pictures during the regression are somewhat familiar. The subjects undergo a kind of recognition process - they have the feeling that what they see, they do, they have already seen and done sometime.
- The subjects get used to someone's image, despite the fact that all circumstances do not coincide: neither gender, nor time, nor environment.
- Having settled in a personality, the subjects experience the feelings of the person in whom they are embodied. Feelings can be very strong, so the hypnotist sometimes has to reassure patients, convincing them that all this is happening in the distant past.
- Observed events can be perceived in two ways: from the point of view of an outsider observation or a direct participant in the event.
- The events seen by the subjects often reflect the problems of their real life. Of course, they are refracted historically in time and depend on the occurring environment.
- The process of regression can often serve to improve the state of mind of the subjects. As a result, people feel relief and purification find a way out of the emotions accumulated in the past.
- In rare cases, the subject feels a noticeable improvement in physical condition after regression. This is proof of the inextricable link between body and spirit.
- Each time the next introduction of patients into a state of regression is easier and easier.
- Most of the past lives are the lives of ordinary people, and not of outstanding historical figures.
All these points, common to many regression processes, indicate the stability of the phenomenon itself.
Naturally, a basic question arises: is regression really a past life memory?
Given the current level of research, it is impossible to give one hundred percent and categorical answer to this question - yes, it is so - it is impossible.
But the same Moody gave several convincing examples when an equal sign can be put between regression and reincarnation. These are examples.
• Dr. Paul Hansen from Colorado saw himself during the regression as a French nobleman called Antoine de Poirot, who lived on his estate near Vichy with his wife and two children. It was, as memory suggested, in 1600.
“In a more memorable scene, my wife and I rode on horseback to our castle,” Hansen recalled. - I remember well: my wife was dressed in a bright red velvet dress and sat in a lady's saddle.
Hansen later traveled to France. According to the known date, name and place of action, he, according to documents that have survived from past centuries, and then from the records of the parish priest, he learned about the birth of Antoine de Poirot. This is exactly the same as the American regression.
• In another case, it tells about a famous tragedy that took place in 1846 in the Rocky Mountains. Snow drifts overtook a large group of settlers in late autumn. The height of the snow reached 4 meters. Women, children, dying of hunger, were forced to resort to cannibalism … Out of 77 people in Donner's detachment, only 47 survived, mostly women and children.
A German woman came to Dr. Dick Sutfeng in our time, who was being treated for overeating. During the regression, under hypnosis, she saw in all details the terrible pictures of cannibalism on the snow-covered pass.
- I was a 10-year-old girl in those days, and I remember how we ate grandfather. It was awful, but my mother told me: "It is necessary, so wanted grandfather …".
As it turned out, a German woman came to America in 1953, knew nothing, and could not know about the tragedy that took place over a century ago in the Rocky Mountains. But what was striking: the description of the tragedy from the patient's recollections absolutely coincided with the historical facts. Involuntarily, the question arises: and her illness - chronic overeating - is it not a "memory" of the terrible days of hunger in a past life?
• A very famous artist from America came to a psychotherapist and underwent regression. But, returning under hypnosis to a past life, he suddenly began to speak French. The doctor asked him to translate what he said into English. An American with a pronounced French accent did it.
As it turned out, in a past life he lived in old Paris, where there was a mediocre musician who wrote popular songs. The most surprising thing was that the psychotherapist found in the music library the name of the French composer with a description of his life, which coincided with the story of the American artist. Is this not a confirmation of reincarnation?
• Even more puzzling is Moody's message about one of his test subjects. In a state of regression, he began to call himself Mark Twain.
“I have not read either his works or his biography before,” the subject said after the session. But in his practical life, in every detail he was permeated with the features of a great writer. He loved humor like Twain. He liked to sit on the veranda in a rocking chair and talk to neighbors like Twain. He decided to buy a farm in Virginia and build an octahedral workshop on the hill - the same one Twain once worked in his estate in Connecticut. He tried to write humorous stories, in one of which he described Siamese twins.
It is amazing that Mark Twain has such a story. From childhood, the subject showed a keen interest in astronomy, in particular, he was interested in Halley's comet. Twain, who also studied this particular comet, is also known for his passion for this science.
To this day, this amazing case remains a mystery. Reincarnation? Coincidence?
Do all these short stories serve as proof of transmigration? What else?.. But these are isolated cases that have received verification and then only because we met with people who are quite famous. One has to think that there are few examples to draw final conclusions.
There remains one thing - to continue the study of the mysterious phenomenon of reincarnation.
But it is possible to say with confidence: regression heals the sick! Once in medicine, the state of mind of a patient was not associated with a disease of the body. Now this kind of thinking is a thing of the past.
It has been proven that regression, which certainly has an impact on the spiritual state of a person, successfully heals him. First of all, various phobias - disorders of the nervous system, obsessions, depression. In many cases asthma, arthritis are also cured …
To date, many American psychotherapists, as they say, have already adopted a new direction in medicine - regression. The renowned psychotherapist Helen Vambech provides interesting data from this area. 26 specialists reported data on the results of work with 18 463 patients. Of this number, 24 psychotherapists treated physical illnesses. In 63% of patients, after treatment, elimination of at least one symptom of the disease was observed. Interestingly, out of this number of cured 60% improved their health, because they had experienced their own death in the past, 40% improved due to other experiences. What's the matter here?
Raymond Moody tries to answer this question. He said: “I cannot know exactly why past life regression only affects certain diseases, but it reminds me of Einstein’s words, which were said many years ago:“Perhaps there are radiations about which we are still nothing do not know. Remember how you laughed at the electric current and invisible waves? The science of man is still in diapers."
But what then can we say about reincarnation - a phenomenon even deeper?
Here Moody's position seems to be more flexible. Reincarnation, he says at the conclusion of his book, “is so attractive that it can cause unhealthy mental experiences. We must not forget that reincarnation, if it exists, may be absolutely different from what we imagine it to be, and even completely incomprehensible to our consciousness.
I was asked recently: "If there was a court hearing at which it was necessary to decide whether reincarnation exists or not, what would the jury decide?" I believe he would have ruled in favor of reincarnation. Most people are too overwhelmed by their past lives to be able to explain them differently.
For me, my past life experiences changed the structure of my belief. I no longer consider these experiences "strange". I consider them a normal phenomenon that can happen to anyone who gives permission to enter himself into a state of hypnosis.
The least that can be said about them is that these discoveries come from the depths of the subconscious.
The most important thing is that they prove the existence of life before life."
Raymond Moody