Moody Raymond A - Coming back : a psychiatrist explores past life journeys
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Introduction
Have we lived before? Do we live again?
Many people, religious and nonreligious alike, believe that we do. Hindus think that we die and return in a sort of endless cycle of death and renewal. Some Orientals, for instance, believe that if you are laden with sin ^yhen you die, you will return again as a human in order to be given the chance to purify yourself. Hindus believe that you shall reap as you sow: a bad person in this life comes back as something unappealing, such as an insect, in the next.
Some people believe that they can return to those past lives almost at will. TTiey believe that hypnosis can tap an area of the brain that stores all or part of the lives they have lived like a file cabinet stores old tax records.
TTiis process of hypnotically getting at these past lives is called past-Ufe regression,
I think it is safe to say that most people consider regression bogus. TTiey link it with such beliefs as harmonic convergences (where the planets line up to form power zones on the earth), or the healing of diseases through the use of crystals.
There are significant differences between these things
(which I too consider bogus) and past-life regression. The main difference is this: using the vehicle of past-life regression, something happens. Normal, psychologically healthy people actually see themselves in ancient cultures, living lives in long-ago eras. They find themselves wearing the dress of the period and often find themselves surrounded by conversation of the time.
Not everyone who regresses finds himself living the life of Christopher Columbus, Henry VIII, or some other famous historical figure. Most aren't royalty or members of the elite. For the most part, they are slaves or gladiators, soldiers or stable boys. In short, they are ordinary folk living lives as ordinary as the ones they lead now. Few are special people and even fewer exj)erience lives of opulence and grandeur.
I know this is true because I have seen it in my own psychiatric practice.
From time to time, while working as a psychotherapist with psychologically healthy human beings, I have been surprised to hear patients describe puzzling episodes during which they seemed to be transported back through time and space to a realm where they experienced a sense of identity with an individual who lived in an earlier historical period.
Usually the experience takes the form of a sensory image. Most often it is visual. But sometimes the person being hypnotized describes only sounds and smells and can see nothing. They feel that these images relate to events that happened before they were bom. Yet these images seem so real that the individuals are convinced they were actually "back in time."
For a long time I assumed that the handful of cases I had treated or heard of were.aberrations, just brief vivid daydreams not worthy of serious investigation.
And that's where I would have left it, had it not been for the publication of Life After Ufe^ my first book on near-death experiences. After the pniblication of that book, I received hundreds of letters from readers. Most of them described near-death experiences, vivid spiritual experiences of people who had almost died.
But among those letters were reports of other types of fascinating psychological and spiritual phenomena, including numerous accounts of past-life recollections similar to the ones I had heard described by patients in psychotherapy. Some of them, like the following, were amazing:
When 1 was regressed I found myself as a little girl of about twelve in the forest standing by a body of water. I looked down at my feet and noticed that they were dark. Next to me on a sort of cot was a woman I knew to be my grandmother. She was dying and I was feeling very alone.
I was able to regress further, back to about five years old. I had no sense of a father being present in the family, but I was there with my mother. All around us the men of the village were building these log houses. I spent my days with the women of the tribe, weaving baskets and gathering food.
I didn't know where this place was, but I knew that the white man was there because conversations told of being chased to this new place by white outsiders.
When my grandmother died I became a loner and lived by myself in the forest until my early twenties. Then I was able to go to my death scene and could see that I broke my leg and had no one to take care of me. I could see my leg become discolored and finally I realized that this was how I died.
TTiis woman told me that her exp)eriences were very vivid, just like recent memory. She said smells of her surroundings were even present.
Another woman found herself in a crowded marketplace with her father:
We had on rough robes and there were carts and horses all around. We stopped at a slave market where my father bought several slaves.
I was able to return to my home where I lived with my father. We had an elegant house with thick walls and beautiful furniture. I had the sense that we were very rich.
I went ahead in my life to the age of sixteen and found myself very upset at my father. He was trying to get me to marry an older man and I didn't want to do it. I was full of fury and fear.
I decided to go away to the New World. The woman who was my governess sneaked me some money and I bought passage on a boat that was crossing the ocean to America. But the boat sank. I could see all the people around me in panic and could see us all swimming desperately around looking for something to hang onto. Then I saw myself drowning.
As you can tell, these cases are similar in many ways. In the typical case, the person becomes flooded with images that he or she thinks pertain to his or her own life in an earlier time.
Although these images often occur in the context of a psychological conflict or life crisis, they sometimes seem to emerge for no reason.
Some of the letters Tve received and the patients Tve treated report these images after visiting a new geographic location. They say that the familiarity of the surroundings left them with nagging feelings that, as one letterwriter put it, "there are memories in those walls."
This spontaneous familiarity breeds a sense of nostalgia in many of these people. They often long for the surroundings seen in their regression. Did they live well in their earlier lives? Were they happy? Were they rich or poor? Were they well-respected pillars of the community? Or were they merely salt of the earth? Questions like these often come to mind when this window on the past is opened. For many, such an experience has heralded the beginning of a deep spiritual and psychological search, one which has ultimately resulted in a new sense of peace and self-understanding.
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