Raymond Moody claims: each of us has already lived several lives. American psychotherapist Raymond Moody became famous for his book Life After Life. In it, he talks about the impressions of a person who has gone through a state of clinical death.
It is striking that these impressions were common to all dying people. The new book of the famous doctor "Life before Life" tells that our life is just a link in a chain of several lives that we have lived earlier. Moody's book caused a real scandal abroad. She made many people interested in their distant past. She sparked a new direction in the treatment of a number of serious diseases. She posed a number of unsolvable questions to science.
1. LIFE BEFORE LIFE
For centuries, people have been trying to solve the question: did we live before? Perhaps our life today is just a link in an endless chain of previous lives? Does our spiritual energy completely disappear after our death, and we ourselves, our intellectual content, start again from scratch every time?
Religion has always been interested in these issues. There are entire nations who believe in the transmigration of souls. Millions of Hindus believe that when we die, we are reborn somewhere in an endless cycle of death and birth. They are even sure that human life can migrate into the life of an animal and even an insect. Moreover, if you led an unworthy life, the more unpleasant the being will be, in the form of which you will again appear before people.
This transmigration of souls has received the scientific name "reincarnation" and is being investigated today in all areas of medicine - from psychology to conventional therapy. And it seems that the great Vernadsky himself, building his "noosphere", somewhere came close to this problem, because the energy sphere around the planet is a kind of accumulation of the former spiritual energies of the myriads of people who inhabited the Earth.
However, back to our problem …
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Are there pieces of memory preserved somewhere in the recesses of our consciousness that somehow confirm the existence of a chain of previous lives?
Yes, science answers. The mysterious archive of the subconscious is filled to the limit with such "memories" that have accumulated over the millennia of the existence of changing spiritual energies.
Here is what the famous researcher Joseph Campbell says about this: “Reincarnation shows that you are something more than you used to think, and there are unknown depths in your being that have yet to be cognized and thereby expand the possibilities of consciousness, embrace what is not part of your idea of yourself. Your life is much broader and deeper than you think. Your life is only a small part of what you carry within you, what gives life - width and depth. And when you one day manage to comprehend it, you will unexpectedly understand the essence of all religious teachings."
How can one touch this deep archive of memory accumulated in the subconscious?
It turns out that you can get to the subconscious with the help of hypnosis. By introducing a person into a hypnotic state, it is possible to induce a process of regression - the return of memory to a past life.
Hypnotic sleep differs from ordinary dreaming - it is an intermediate state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep. In this state of half-sleep-half-wakefulness, the human consciousness works most sharply, providing him with new mental solutions.
It is said that the famous inventor Thomas Edison used self-hypnosis when faced with a problem that he could not solve at the moment. He retired in his office, sat down in an easy chair and began to doze. It was in a state of half asleep that the necessary decision came to him.
And in order not to plunge into a normal sleep, the inventor even came up with a clever trick. He took a glass ball in each hand and placed two metal plates below. Falling asleep, he dropped a ball from his hand, which fell with a clang on a metal plate and woke Edison. As a rule, the inventor woke up with a ready-made solution. Mental pictures, hallucinations, which appear during hypnotic sleep, differ from ordinary dreams. Sleepers tend to participate in the events of their dreams. In regression, a person distantly looks at what his subconscious shows him. This state in normal people (the appearance of pictures of the past) occurs at the time of falling asleep or under hypnosis.
Usually, hypnotic phenomena are perceived by people as rapidly changing pictures when viewing color slides on an overhead projector.
The famous Raymond Moody, being a psychotherapist and at the same time a hypnotist, conducting experiments on 200 patients, claims that only 10% of the subjects did not see any pictures in a state of regression. The rest, as a rule, saw pictures of the past in the subconscious.
The hypnotist only very tactfully, like a psychotherapist, helped them with their questions to expand and deepen the general picture of regression. He seemed to lead the subject in the image, and did not tell him the plot of the observed picture.
Moody himself for a long time considered these paintings to be an ordinary dream, not paying special attention to them.
But while working on the problem that brought him fame, on the topic "Life After Life", he encountered among the many hundreds of letters he received describing in a number of cases regression. And this made Raymond Moody take a new approach to the phenomenon, which seemed logical to him.
However, the problem finally attracted the attention of a world famous psychotherapist after his meeting with Diana Denhol, a professional hypnologist. She put Moody into a state of regression, as a result of which he recalled nine episodes of a past life from his memory. Let's give the floor to the researcher himself.
2. NINE PREVIOUS LIVES
My lectures on “near death” experiences have always raised questions about other paranormal activities. When it came time for the listeners to ask questions, they were mainly interested in UFOs, physical manifestations of the power of thought (for example, bending an iron bar with mental effort), regression into past lives.
All these questions not only did not concern the area of my research, but simply baffled me. After all, none of them has anything to do with "experiences on the brink of death." Let me remind you that "near-death experiences" are deep spiritual experiences that spontaneously arise in some people at the time of death. They are usually accompanied by the following phenomena: leaving the body, a feeling of rapid movement through the tunnel to a bright light, meeting with long-dead relatives at the opposite end of the tunnel and looking back at his past life (most often with the help of a luminous creature), which appears to him as would be filmed on film. Experiences "on the brink of death" have nothing to do with the paranormal, which the audience asked me about after the lectures. At that time, these areas of knowledge interested me little.
Among the phenomena of interest to the audience was the regression in past lives. I have always assumed that this journey into the past is nothing more than a fantasy of the subject, a figment of his imagination. I believed that we are talking about a dream, or an unusual way of fulfilling desires. I was sure that most of the people who successfully went through the process of regression saw themselves in the role of an outstanding or extraordinary person, for example, the Egyptian pharaoh. When asked about past lives, it was difficult for me to hide my disbelief.
So I thought until I met Diana Denhol, an attractive personality and a psychiatrist who can easily convince people. She used hypnosis in her practice, first to help people quit smoking, lose weight, and even find lost objects. “But sometimes something unusual happened,” she told me. From time to time, some patients talked about their past life experiences. This was most often when she was leading people back through their lives so that they could relive some traumatic events they had already forgotten, a process known as early life regression therapy.
This method helped to find the source of fears or neuroses that worried patients in the present. The task was to lead a person back through life, "peeling" it layer by layer to reveal the cause of mental trauma, just as an archaeologist peels off one layer after another, each of which was put off during a certain historical period to dig out the ruins at an archaeological site.
But sometimes patients somehow miraculously went much further into the past than was possible. Suddenly they began to talk about another life, place, time, and as if they were seeing everything that was happening with their own eyes.
Such cases were repeatedly encountered in the practice of Diana Denhol during hypnotic regression. At first, these experiences of patients frightened her, she looked for her mistakes in hypnotherapy or thought that she was dealing with a patient suffering from a split personality. But, when such cases were repeated over and over, she realized that these experiences could be used to treat the patient. While researching the phenomenon, she eventually learned to evoke memories of past lives in people who agreed to it. She now regularly uses regression in her practice, which takes the patient straight to the heart of the problem, often significantly shortening the duration of treatment.
I have always believed that each of us is the subject of an experiment for ourselves, and therefore I wanted to experience regression in past lives myself. I shared my desire with Diana, and she generously invited me to start the experiment on the same day after lunch. She sat me down in an easy chair and gradually, with great skill, brought me into a deep trance. Then she said that I was in a trance state for about an hour. I always remembered that I was Raymond Moody and was under the supervision of a skilled psychotherapist. In this trance, I visited nine stages of the development of civilization and saw myself and the world around me in different incarnations. And to this day I do not know what they meant and whether they meant anything at all.
I know for sure only one thing - it was an amazing sensation, more like reality than a dream. The colors were the same as they are in reality, the actions developed in accordance with the internal logic of events, and not the way I "wanted". I didn’t think, "This is going to happen now." Or: "The plot should develop this way." These real lives developed on their own, like the plot of a film on the screen.
I will now describe, in chronological order, the lives I went through with the help of Diana Denhol.
LIFE ONE
IN THE JUNGLE
In the first version, I was a primitive man - some kind of prehistoric species of man. An absolutely confident creature that lived in the trees. So, I lived comfortably among the branches and leaves and looked much more human than you might expect. By no means was I a great ape.
I did not live alone, but in a group of beings like me. We lived together in nest-like structures. During the construction of these "houses" we helped each other and tried in every possible way to make sure that we could walk to each other, for which we built reliable flooring. We did this not only for safety, we realized that it was better and more convenient for us to live in a group. We've probably already climbed the evolutionary ladder.
We communicated with each other, directly expressing our emotions. Instead of speaking, we were forced to use gestures with the help of which we showed what we feel and what we need.
I remember we ate fruit. I clearly see myself eating some kind of fruit I don't know now. It is juicy and contains a lot of small red seeds. Everything was so real that it seemed to me that I was eating this fruit right in the hypnosis session. I even felt the juice dripping down my chin as I chewed.
SECOND LIFE
PRIME AFRICA
In this life I saw myself as a boy of twelve years old, living in a community in a tropical prehistoric forest - a place of unusual, alien beauty. Judging by the fact that we were all blacks, I assumed it was in Africa.
At the beginning of this hypnotic adventure, I saw myself in the forest, on the shore of a calm lake. I was looking at something in the white clean sand. Around the village a sparse tropical forest rose, thickening on the surrounding hills. The huts we lived in stood on thick stilts with the floor raised about sixty centimeters above the ground. The walls of the houses were woven of straw, and inside there was only one, but a large, rectangular room.
I knew that my father was fishing with everyone in one of the fishing boats, and my mother was busy with something nearby on the shore. I didn’t see them, I just knew they were close and I felt safe.
LIFE THREE
MASTER SHIPBUILDER TURNS IN A BOAT
In the next episode, I saw myself as a muscular old man. I had blue eyes and a long, silvery beard. Despite my old age, I still worked in the workshop where boats were built.
The workshop was a long structure overlooking a large river, and from the side of the river it was completely open. There were stacks of planks and thick, heavy logs in the room. Primitive tools hung on the walls and scattered about on the floor in disarray. Apparently, I was living out my last days. My three-year-old shy granddaughter was with me. I told her what each tool was for and showed her how to work with the newly finished boat, while she peered fearfully from behind the side of the boat.
That day I took my granddaughter and went out with her for a boat ride. We were enjoying the calm flow of the river, when suddenly high waves rose and capsized our boat. My granddaughter and I were blown away by water in different directions. I fought with the current, trying my best to grab my granddaughter, but the elements were faster and stronger than me. In powerless despair, I watched the baby drown, and I stopped fighting for my own life. I remember drowning in guilt. After all, it was I who started the walk in which my beloved granddaughter found her death.
LIFE FOUR
THE DREAMING MAMMON HUNTER
In my next life, I was with people who, with desperate passion, hunted a shaggy mammoth. I usually did not notice that I was particularly gluttonous, but at that moment no smaller game would satisfy my appetite. In a state of hypnosis, I nevertheless noticed that all of us were by no means well-fed and we really needed food.
Animal skins were thrown over us, and so that they covered only the shoulders and chest. They did little to protect us from the cold and barely covered our genitals at all. But this did not bother us at all - when we fought the mammoth, we forgot about the cold and decency. There were six of us in a small gorge, we threw stones and sticks at the powerful animal.
The mammoth managed to grab one of my fellow tribesmen with its trunk and crush his skull with one precise and strong movement. The rest were horrified.
LIFE FIVE
GREAT CONSTRUCTION OF THE PAST
Fortunately, I moved on. This time I found myself among a huge construction site, which was occupied by masses of people, in the historical setting of the beginning of civilization. In this dream, I was not a king, or even a monk, but just one of the workers. I think we were building an aqueduct or a network of roads, but I'm not sure about this, because from where I was, you couldn't see the whole panorama of the construction.
We workers lived in rows of white stone houses with grass growing between them. I lived with my wife, it seemed to me that I have lived here for many years, because the place was well known. In our room there was a dais on which we lay. I was very hungry, and my wife was literally dying of malnutrition. She lay quietly, emaciated, emaciated, and waited for her life to fade away. She had coal-black hair and prominent cheekbones. I felt like we had a good life together, but malnutrition dulled our senses.
LIFE SIX
Thrown to the Lions
Finally, I found myself in a civilization that I could recognize - in Ancient Rome. Unfortunately, I was neither an emperor nor an aristocrat. I sat in the lion's pit and waited for the lion to bite off my hand for fun.
I watched myself from the side.
I had long fiery red hair and a mustache. I was very thin and only wore short leather pants. I knew my origin - I came from the area that is now called Germany, where I was captured by the Roman legionaries in one of their military campaigns. The Romans used me as a bearer of plundered wealth. Having delivered their cargo to Rome, I had to die for their entertainment. I saw myself looking up at the people who surrounded the pit. Probably, I asked them for mercy, because a hungry lion was waiting outside the door next to me. I felt his strength and heard the roar he gave out in anticipation of the meal.
I knew it was impossible to escape, but when the door to the lion was opened, the instinct of self-preservation made me look for a way out. The point of view at that moment changed, I got into this body of mine. I heard the bars raised and I saw the lion heading towards me. I tried to defend myself by raising my hands, but the lion rushed at me without even noticing them. To the delight of the audience, who screamed with delight, the animal knocked me down and pinned me to the ground.
The last thing I remember is how I lie between the paws of the lion, and the lion is going to crush my skull with its mighty jaws.
LIFE SEVEN
Sophistication to the end
My next life was the life of an aristocrat, and, moreover, again in Ancient Rome. I lived in beautiful, spacious rooms, flooded with a pleasant twilight light, spreading a yellowish glow around me. I was reclining in a white toga on a couch shaped like a modern chaise longue. I was about forty years old, I had a tummy and smooth skin of a person who had never done hard physical labor. I remember the feeling of satisfaction with which I lay and looked at my son. He was fifteen years old, wavy, dark, cropped hair beautifully framed his frightened face.
"Father, why are these people coming to us?" he asked me.
"My son," I replied. "We have soldiers for that."
“But, Dad, there are many of them,” he objected.
He was so terrified that I decided to get up, rather out of curiosity, to see what he was talking about. I went out onto the balcony and saw a handful of Roman soldiers trying to stop a huge, excited crowd. I immediately realized that my son's fear was not unreasonable. Looking at my son, I realized that a sudden fright can be read on my face.
These were the last scenes from that life. From what I felt when I saw the crowd, that was the end of it.
LIFE EIGHT
DEATH IN THE DESERT
My next life took me to a mountainous area somewhere in the deserts of the Middle East. I was a merchant. I had a house on a hill, and at the foot of that hill was my shop. In it I bought and sold jewelry. I sat there all day and appraised gold, silver and gems.
But my home was my pride. It was a beautiful red-brick building with a covered gallery for cool evening hours. The back wall of the house rested on a rock - it had no backyard. The windows of all the rooms overlooked the façade, from them a view of the distant mountains and river valleys opened up, which seemed to be something especially amazing among the desert landscape.
Once, returning home, I noticed that the house was unusually quiet. I entered the house and began to move from one empty room to another. I was getting scared. Finally I entered our bedroom and found my wife and three of our children killed there. I don't know exactly how they were killed, but judging by the amount of blood, they were stabbed with knives.
LIFE NINE
CHINESE ARTIST
In my last life I was an artist, and a woman at that. The first thing I remember is myself at the age of six and my little brother. Our parents took us for a walk to the majestic waterfall. The path led us to granite rocks, from the cracks in which water was breaking through, feeding the falls. We froze in place and watched as the water flowed in cascades and then crashed into a deep crevice.
It was a short snippet. The next one related to the moment of my death.
I became impoverished and lived in a small house built on the backs of wealthy houses. It was a very comfortable accommodation. On that last day of my life, I was lying in bed and sleeping, when a young man entered the house and strangled me. Just. He took nothing from my things. He wanted something that was of no value to him - my life.
This is how it was. Nine lives, and in one hour my opinion about past life regression completely changed. Diana Denhol gently pulled me out of my hypnotic trance. I realized that regression is not a dream or a dream. I learned a lot in these visions. When I saw them, I remembered rather than invented.
But there was something in them that is not in ordinary memories. Namely: in a state of regression, I could see myself from different points of view. Several terrible moments in the lion's mouth I spent outside myself, observing events from the side. But at the same time I remained there, in the pit. The same thing happened when I was a shipbuilder. For some time I watched myself, how I make a boat, from the sidelines, the next moment for no reason, without controlling the situation, I again found myself in the body of an old man and saw the world through the eyes of an old master.
Moving the point of view was something mysterious. But everything else was just as mysterious. Where did the “visions” come from? When all this happened, I was not in the least interested in history. Why did I go through different historical periods, and some recognized, and others not? Were they genuine, or have I somehow caused them to appear in my own mind?
My own regressions also haunted me. I never expected to see myself in a past life, entering a state of hypnosis. Even assuming that I would see something, I did not expect that I would not be able to explain it.
But those nine lives that surfaced in my memory under the influence of hypnosis surprised me greatly. Most of them took place in times that I have never read or watched a movie about. And in each of them I was an ordinary person, not distinguished by anything. This completely shattered my theory that in a past life everyone sees himself as Cleopatra or another brilliant historical figure. A few days after the regression, I admitted that this phenomenon was a mystery to me. The only way to solve this riddle (or at least try to solve it) I saw in the organization of scientific research, in which regressions would be dissected into separate elements and each of them was carefully analyzed.
I jotted down a few questions, hoping that my regression research will help me find the answers. They are: Can past life regression therapy affect painful states of mind or body? Today, the connection between body and soul is of great interest, but a negligible number of scientists are studying the effect of regression on the course of disease. I was especially interested in its effect on various phobias - fears that cannot be explained by anything. I knew firsthand that regression can help identify the cause of these fears and help a person overcome them. Now I wanted to investigate this question myself.
How can these unusual travels be explained? How to interpret them if a person does not believe in the existence of reincarnation? Then I did not know how to answer these questions. I began to write down options for possible explanations.
How to explain the mysterious visions that visit a person in regression? I didn’t think they were a rigorous proof of the existence of reincarnation (and many people who came into contact with the phenomenon of past life regression considered them proof), but I had to admit that some of the cases I know were not easy to explain otherwise.
Can people on their own, without the help of a hypnotist, open channels leading to past lives? I wanted to know: can self-hypnosis induce past life regression in the same way as hypnotherapy can?
The regression caused a host of new questions to be answered. My curiosity kicked up. I was ready to dive into the exploration of past lives.
Raymond MODDY
3. IS REINCARNATION PROVED?
Raymond Moody began his serious research on regression while teaching psychology at West Georgia State College in Carol Town. This educational institution, in contrast to many other American institutions, paid great attention to the study of parapsychological phenomena. This situation allowed Moody to create a group of experimental students in the amount of 50 people. It is worth recalling that, while studying the problem of "Life After Life" in the seventies, the researcher used the materials of two hundred patients who emerged from death.
But these were, naturally, isolated cases. During regression, Moody conducted experiments with a simultaneous hypnotic influence on the collective. In this case of group hypnosis, the pictures seen by the subjects were less bright, as if blurred. There were also unexpected results, sometimes two patients saw the same picture. Sometimes someone asked after waking up to return him to the past world, so he was interested in it.
Moody installed another interesting feature. It turns out that a hypnotic session can be replaced with an ancient and already forgotten method of self-hypnosis: continuous peering into a crystal ball.
Putting the ball on black velvet, in the dark, only with the light of one candle at a distance of 60 cm, you need to completely relax. Persistently peering into the depth of the ball, a person gradually falls into a state of a kind of self-hypnosis. Pictures from the subconscious begin to float before his eyes.
Moody states that this method is also acceptable for experiments with collectives. As a last resort, the crystal ball can be replaced with a round decanter of water and even a mirror.
“Having conducted my own experiments,” Moody believes, “I have established that the visions in the crystal ball are not fiction, but fact … They were clearly projected in the crystal ball, moreover, they were colored and three-dimensional, like images in halographic television.”
Whatever method the regression is called by: hypnosis, peering into a ball, or simply self-hypnosis (and this happens), under all conditions, the researcher was able to identify a number of features in regression, related to all by their commonality:
The visibility of events from a past life - all subjects visually see the regression patterns, they hear or smell less often. Pictures are brighter than ordinary dreams.
Regression events occur according to their own laws, which the subject cannot influence - he is basically a contemplator, and not an active participant in the events.
The regression patterns are already somewhat familiar. A kind of recognition process takes place with the subject - he has the feeling that what he sees, he does, he has already seen and did once.
The subject gets used to someone's image, despite the fact that all the circumstances do not coincide: neither gender, nor time, nor environment.
Having settled in a personality, the subject experiences the feelings of the person in whom he has embodied. Feelings can be very strong, so that the hypnotist sometimes has to reassure the patient, convincing him that all this is happening in the distant past.
Observed events can be perceived in two ways: from the point of view of an outside observation or a direct participant in the events.
The events that the subject sees often reflect the problems of his life today. Naturally, they are refracted historically in time and depend on the environment where they occur.
The regression process can often serve to improve the state of mind of the subject. As a result, a person feels relief and purification - emotions accumulated in the past find a way out.
In rare cases, subjects feel marked improvements in physical condition after regression. This proves the inextricable link between body and spirit.
Each time subsequent introduction of the patient into a state of regression is easier and easier.
Most of the past lives are the lives of ordinary people, not prominent figures in history.
All these points, common to many processes of regression, speak of the stability of the phenomenon itself. Naturally, the main question arises: is regression really a memory of a past life? At the current level of research, it is impossible to answer this question one hundred percent and categorically - yes, it is so - it is impossible.
However, the same Moody gives several convincing examples when an equal sign can be put between regression and reincarnation. These are examples.
Dr. Paul Hansen of Colorado saw himself in regression as a French nobleman named Antoine de Poirot, who lived on his estate outside Vichy with his wife and two children. It was, as memory suggests, in 1600.
"In the most memorable scene, my wife and I rode on horseback to our castle," Hansen recalls. "I remember it well: my wife was in a bright red velvet dress and sat in a lady's saddle."
Hansen later visited France. According to the known date, name and place of action, according to the documents preserved from the 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 the famous tragedy that took place in 1846 in the Rocky Mountains. A large group of settlers was caught in late autumn by snow drifts. The snow reached four meters. Women, children, dying of hunger, were forced to resort to cannibalism … Of the 77 people in Donner's squad, only 47 survived, mostly women and children.
A German woman has already come to see Dr. Dick Sutfeng, who was being treated for overeating. During the act of regression, she saw in all details, under hypnosis, terrible pictures of cannibalism on a snow-covered pass.
- I was a ten-year-old girl at the time, and I remember how we ate grandfather. It was scary, but my mother told me: “It is necessary, so wanted my grandfather …” It turned out that the German woman arrived in the United States in 1953, knew nothing, and could not even know about the tragedy that took place a hundred years ago in the Rocky Mountains. But what is amazing: the description of the tragedy from the patient's story completely coincided with the historical fact. The question involuntarily arises: and her illness - chronic overeating - is it not a "memory" of the monstrous days of hunger in a past life?
It is said that a rather famous American artist came to a psychotherapist and underwent regression. However, having returned under hypnosis to a past life, he suddenly spoke in French. The doctor asked him to translate the speech into English. An American with a clear French accent did it. It turned out that in the past he lived in old Paris, where he was a mediocre musician who wrote popular songs. The most mysterious thing was that the psychotherapist found in the music library the name of the French composer and the description of his life, which coincided with the story of the American artist. Does this not confirm reincarnation?
Even stranger is Moody's story about one of his test subjects. In a state of regression, he called himself Mark Twain.
“I have never read either his works or his biography,” the subject said after the session.
But in his practical life, in every detail, he was imbued with the features of a great writer. He loved humor like Twain. He loved to sit on the porch in a rocking chair, chatting with 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, one of which described Siamese twins. It is amazing that Mark Twain has such a story.
From childhood, the patient was keenly interested in astronomy, in particular Halley's comet.
Twain is also known for his passion for this science, who also studied this particular comet.
Until now, this amazing case remains a mystery. Reincarnation? Coincidence?
Do all these short stories serve as proof of transmigration? What else?..
But after all, 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.
One thing remains - to continue to study the mysterious phenomena of reincarnation.
However, one can firmly say: regression heals the sick! Once in medicine, the state of mind of a patient was not associated with a disease of the body. Now such views are a thing of the past.
It has been proven that regression, which undoubtedly affects the spiritual state of a person, successfully heals him. First of all, various phobias - a violation of the nervous system, obsessions, depression. In many cases asthma, arthritis are also cured …
Today many psychotherapists in America, as they say, have already adopted a new direction of medicine - regression. The renowned psychotherapist Helen Wambech provides interesting data from this area. 26 specialists reported data on the results of work with 18 463 patients. Of this number, 24 psychotherapists were involved in the treatment of 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 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 says: “I don’t know exactly why past life regression only affects certain diseases, but it reminds me of Einstein’s words, said many years ago:“There may be radiations that we do not know anything about yet. Remember how you laughed at the electric current and invisible waves? The science of man is still in diapers."
And what, in this case, can be said about reincarnation - an even deeper phenomenon?
Here Moody's position seems to be more flexible. Reincarnation, he says at the end of his book, “is so attractive that it can cause unhealthy mental experiences. We must not forget that reincarnation, if it exists, may be completely different from what we imagine it, 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 think 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 have changed the structure of my faith. I no longer consider these experiences "strange". I consider them a normal phenomenon that can happen to anyone who allows himself to be put 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."
Moody Raymond. Life before life. Each of us has already lived several lives.