In recent years Dr Brian Weiss has become so famous, you can find pirated copies of his books in street corners. 10 years back I only knew about him and his extensive research on Past Life Regression..Through the years I have found so many who have dedicated their lives to this subject and even done better work. I am constantly learning from their work and want to mention a few :
1.Past Life Therapy-Dr.Morris Netherton
2.Journey of the souls and Destiny of the souls-Dr.Michael Newton
3.Life Patterns, Soul Lessons, and Forgiveness-Henry Leo Bolduc (1994)
4.Dolores Cannon
5.Dr Raymond Moody
6 Dr Ian Stevenson- his research on spontaneous memories in children
There has been so much extensive work on the subject in the West and we are kind of ignorant or want to avoid the possibility as a whole. How many times have we lost our traditions to learn it back from the westerner in a better packaged form.
Past life regression was practised in India almost 5000 years back by the yogis. Patanjali refers to it in his yoga sutras. I was introduced to Yoga Nidra a wonderful guided meditation in Hatha Yoga which is uncannily similiar to what we call PLR at the same time when I started reading Dr Brian Weiss' s books. In Yoga Nidra the steps are identical..and we access the subconscious to plant a positive thought called Sankalp. Why is it that our Yogis never imparted this knowledge to the masses ?
This is a part of the shamanic traditions too where they call it Journeying..or soul retrieval.These traditions come from a people we would refer to as uncivilized or who have tribal roots. Yet our anthropologists and psychiatrists are still wrapping their brains around how the human mind works. Many of them adopted techniques from these so called uncivilized people and we call ourselves civilized.In our smugness we have created a limited world with limited perception
For me Past Life Regression is spiritual more than a clinical therapy and more to do with the soul than the psyche. It involves love, emotion, healing and karma. Its more like a meditation than a therapy, an altered state of consciousness where we can access our multidimensional soul the pivot on which our many lives are playing out. We are all splintered and till we regain all parts of our being we will keep searching for that missing part. The void is us..look within..
