Secrets of reincarnation, or Who were you in past life Lyakhova Kristina Alexandrovna

CHAPTER 4 Hypnosis and Voluntary Memories

Hypnosis and voluntary memories

Cicero once said: “The proof that people knew a lot of things before they were born is the fact that even as small children they grasp any information very quickly. Apparently, this is not the first time they perceive all this, but they remember from their past.

And indeed, probably, almost all people who came to some locality or city for the first time suddenly had the feeling that they had already been here and had seen all this once. Or suddenly fragments of some memories, sensations come up that you can’t put in order and “remember to the end”. For some, the feeling that they lived in a different place and at a different time does not leave them.

When such a “memory” begins to excite a person more and more, it can eventually lead to painful condition. Naturally, he tries to find some explanation for this and, in order to get rid of the obsessive sensation, turns to hypnotists.

The problem of accumulating impressions during life or "remembering" experiences in another existence is not new. It has existed for a long time, and specialists dealing with this problem solve it with the help of hypnotic sleep, during which a person “remembers” a past life (hypnosis is an artificially induced state of sleep in a person, which does not cover the entire brain, but only its parts, which allows contact with the hypnotized).

Therapeutic hypnosis

The method of therapeutic hypnosis makes it possible to very quickly access the subconscious.

After all, hypnosis is a kind of sleep, during which a good hypnotist is able to make the patient remember in detail the events that he does not remember at all.

Many probably imagine how a session of therapeutic hypnosis takes place. The patient sits on a chair, and the hypnotist invites him to relax, calm down, close his eyes and listen only to his voice, after which he introduces the patient into a deep hypnotic sleep. A person who is relaxed and detached from everyday worries, the hypnotist tries to return him to the past, and often to his former life.

What can be seen in a state of hypnosis

Hypnosis is currently one of the few research methods in reincarnation. Scientists trying to find proof of the existence of the transmigration of souls and using this method have achieved the greatest results in this area. Being in a state of hypnosis, a person “moves into himself” through time, begins to speak in an unfamiliar language, gives many signs, details, events that you can know about only by really living at that time and in that place.

The most interesting thing is when people answered the hypnotist in an unfamiliar language, from which they could not remember a word in the waking state. And the experts involved in experimental work, established that this dialect really existed, but several hundred years ago.

The experiments were carried out mainly with adults with fragmentary memories of their previous lives. But the most compelling evidence was obtained during work with children. Especially when children of four or five years old began to talk about a past life, they mentioned their names, by which they were called then, places of residence, under what circumstances they died. They talked about their friends and relatives.

Once, 15-year-old American teenager George Field was brought to the hypnotist Loring Williams. Williams introduced the boy into a state of hypnotic sleep and gradually returned him not only to the moment of birth, but also further, almost a hundred plus years ago. The teenager identified himself as Jonathan Powell and said he was born in 1832. He lives near the town of Jefferson, located in North Carolina. During the Civil War of North and South in 1863, he was shot in the stomach by soldiers.

During the session, George reported the details of events along the way, describing the places he had been to and which could not be invented, but only known. The session was repeated in the presence of a historian studying this area, and the boy, presenting himself as a peasant, accurately named all the fathers of the city by name, described in detail their houses.

But it was not possible to document the words of the teenager about the existence of Jonathan Powell, since the registration of births and deaths in this area began to be carried out only from 1912. But indirect evidence still managed to establish. So, for example, the peasant's grandmother was called Mary Powell, and in one of the documents of 1803 it was confirmed that she bought a plot of land in this area.

Loring Williams published the results of his experiments. After a while, George Field received a letter from a woman. She informed him that her maiden name was Powell and that she is the great-niece of Jonathan Powell. The woman told in great detail about the life of her great-uncle, who was really killed by the Yankees.

Not less than unusual case Described in Jan Courier's book No One Dies Forever. One physician living in Philadelphia used hypnosis quite often as a treatment method. And then one day his wife fell ill, he also prescribed a series of therapeutic hypnotic sessions for her. Noticing how easily she was hypnotized, he decided to return her to the past. And suddenly the woman spoke in a low male voice with a Scandinavian accent. She claimed to be a man and his name was Jensen Jacobi, and continued to answer Courier's follow-up questions in Scandinavian.

For the next session of hypnosis, the doctor invited several specialists in the group of Scandinavian languages, among whom was the famous Swedish scientist Nils Sahlin, the former director of the American-Swedish History Museum in Philadelphia. He concluded that the woman in the image of Jacobi spoke in obsolete Swedish, but fully understood the questions that were asked of her in modern Swedish.

The pioneers in the field of reincarnation are Sorwald Deslefsen and the American psychologist Helen Wombach. They did a lot of similar experiments, collected and processed a huge amount of the results. Ian Stevenson, a professor at the University of Virginia, also did similar work.

The theme of reincarnation gained particular popularity in the late 50s of the last century. Such interest was aroused after the Pueblo businessman published Dr. Moray Bernstein's account of his hypnosis sessions with a housewife, Virginia Teage. The book was called The Quest for Bridley Murphy.

A woman under hypnosis remembered a previous reincarnation and that in former life she was Bridley Murphy's Irish girlfriend.

book in as soon as possible became a national bestseller and held the top spot for several weeks. The Search for Bridley Murphy gained almost the same popularity in England.

The American Society for Psychical Research in their writings called Volume 26 "Twenty Cases of Alleged Reincarnation." All cases were described by Ian Stevenson, MD. All cases included in the book were selected from 200 similar cases and carefully investigated by the Society. Some are similar.

For example, one tells how a child at the age of 2-4 years began to remember events, cases and people from a past life. Parents, interested in his stories, decided to check their veracity and turned to one hypnotist for help. After that it turned out: everything they heard from the child completely coincided with what had happened before.

Another case occurred with Shanti Davy and is described in the article "More Unusual Than Science" by author Frank Edward. The woman was born in 1926 in the city of Delhi. At the age of 7, she told her parents that in her former life she lived in the city of Matra and her name was Lugi. Parents did not believe her stories, but still turned to the hypnotist. Whereupon Shanti described in great detail her former life, her marriage and her two children; told that she died when she gave birth to the third.

This story was soon forgotten, but in 1935 a man accidentally came to their house on business and, seeing the girl, began to claim that he was her husband's cousin and also lives in the city of Matra. When he was still a child, his cousin lost his wife, Lugi. They decided to check this circumstance and brought Ludja's husband to the house, without saying anything about it to Shanti. But the girl instantly recognized her "husband" and threw herself on his neck. She was brought to Matra, and here she correctly guessed the names of the streets along which she was led, recognized people and spoke with the relatives of the deceased Luja in the local dialect. Moreover, the girl even eyes closed could guide the stroller around the city and recognize local sights. She immediately recognized her two older children.

In 1956, professional hypnotist Henry Bliss of Torquay, Texas, conducted a hypnosis session with his housewife, whom he had been trying to stop smoking for a long time. He even recorded some sessions on a long-playing record. When listening to them, it becomes clear that the hypnotist, after Naomi Henry (that was the name of the housewife) fell asleep, tried first to return her to childhood, and then to past lives.

After a series of sessions, it turned out that Naomi was an Irish woman named Marie Cohen in a past life and said something about the year 1790. The hypnotist then tried to bring the woman back to her wedding and it turned out that Marie did not want to get married, but her mother insisted, because she did not want to have an unmarried daughter. The girl died from the fact that her husband severely beat her and even broke her leg. Henry Bliss brought her back several years after her death and Naomi's breathing stopped and her heart stopped beating for five seconds.

The woman then described her reincarnation as Clarissa Helliver, born in 1880. She worked as a nanny and died of an enlarged goiter and put her number on the grave.

Thus, the conclusion is that deep hypnosis is a valuable tool for the study of previous reincarnations.

One day a patient came to Dr. Branen Weiss for a session of therapeutic hypnosis. Being in a state of deep sleep, she told what happened to her about 4000 years ago. For the doctor, this was a real shock. It was after this incident that he, who never believed in the transmigration of souls, began to study in detail this question. As a result of his work, he came to the conclusion that reincarnation does exist.

A native of New England, Katherine was undergoing treatment with Brian, aimed at suppressing the girl's various fears and depression. Traditional Methods did not restore health desired results because there was no noticeable improvement. Then Dr. Weiss decided to use hypnosis. Having immersed the patient in a state of deep sleep, the doctor asked her to mentally return to the times when her phobias appeared.

The doctor's surprise knew no bounds when the young woman began to talk about her life in the past. It turned out that 4000 years ago she was a resident of some Middle Eastern country and died as a result of a severe flood. Thanks to these data, the doctor discovered the alleged reason for the presence of a rabies complex in the girl's psychology.

During the hypnotic dream, Katherine also revealed that several hundred years after her previous incarnation, she ended up in Greece. The patient especially emphasized that at that time she was acquainted with Brian Weiss, who was none other than her teacher!

After the first treatment session, the girl's condition improved significantly: the fear of choking, which haunted her all her life, disappeared, and her general mental state almost returned to normal. The fact that the patient's account of her reincarnation was very complete and had a large number of specific details that are difficult to describe as the fruit of a sick fantasy led the doctor to believe in real existence this phenomenon in real life. It should be noted that all the data received from Catherine was carefully checked and proved to be accurate.

During one of the sessions, the girl began to tell the psychiatrist in detail about his personal life. It turned out that she was aware of not only well-known, but also purely personal facts of the biography of Branen Weiss. For example, Katherine knew about baby doctor who died a few years ago rare disease hearts. The detailed awareness of the girl in this matter was a real shock for Weiss.

He was deeply convinced that the patient could not have access to this kind of information, since she worked in the hospital as an ordinary laboratory assistant, and not as a private detective.

The "memories" of the girl during the treatment with hypnotic sleep radically changed the worldview of not only the doctor himself, but also Katherine.

Ever since such a unusual discovery, more than 20 years have passed. More than 2,000 patients visited Weiss' office. The doctor understood much better the mechanism of the manifestation of human memories related to past incarnations, and what is behind this process.

It should be noted that for an inexplicable reason, only 60-70% of people can remember their past life.

For some, the behavior in these moments is emotionally colored, while others lead the story in more restrained tones.

Sometimes it is very difficult for a specialist to understand at what moment a person's imagination, fantasy plays, and at what moment it is real memory that manifests itself. However, there are cases in history when a doctor could say with firmness that a person actually remembers a past life.

Some patients during hypnotic sleep began to speak in an unfamiliar language. real life foreign language, others - told such details from the history of mankind that they simply could not know.

One of Dr. Weiss's patients easily read the number on the uniform of the prisoner, whom he thought he was in a past life. When the psychiatrist checked the information received, it turned out that such a person really existed.

The doctor, in a state of hypnosis, also recalled some moments from his previous incarnations. He found that around 1000 BC. e. lived in Babylon and was a clergyman. However, the fact that he often used his position for own benefit, upset him uncomfortably. V next life Weiss was also a priest, but preached the faith already in Scotland. Branen died at the hands of the Inquisitors. After analyzing the information, the doctor came to the conclusion that a painful death in one life was nothing more than a retribution for Babylonian sins in another.

There is another way of manifesting certain abilities that a person possessed before reincarnation. For example, some people easily managed to navigate in an unfamiliar city, building, room. There is a case when a man found a secret room in a church, the door of which was walled up 300 years ago.

In this way, the legacy from the former life in the form of skills and talents pass into the present life. Having spent a large research work, Dr. Weiss came to the conclusion that facts and events from previous lives have something to do with connecting to the "collective unconscious." Many well-known creative people have this ability.

Some scientists believe that it was thanks to her that Thomas Edison made most of his discoveries. He introduced himself into a state of trance, sitting in a special chair, under one of the handles of which was a metal bowler hat. During the session, he squeezed several bearings in his hand. When Edison fell into a hypnotic sleep, the hand relaxed, unclenched, and the bearings fell down. As a result, he woke up, finding himself in a state of trance. It was at this moment that he comprehended the highest wisdom.

It was well known to the literary world that Taylor Caldwell was writing global historical works with little to no prior research or research.

The very famous English psychiatrist Arthur Guirdham, long a chief psychiatric consultant at Bath, believes in reincarnation. In one of his works, he talks about a patient with extraordinary knowledge of medieval Europe. Her stories during the hypnotic session were confirmed even by two

professors in this subject. The patient was a member of the Catharist sect and without pre-training demonstrated rituals and ceremonies in some detail. It was completely excluded that she received her knowledge of their books and Catharism at this time.

The woman saw herself as a priest wearing a dark blue cassock. Subsequently, it was established that they really wore clothes of this color. Guardham believes that if all the patient's knowledge of kekatarism could make up a whole book.

Evidence of the existence of reincarnation was also sought by the English hypnotherapist Joe Keaton. After many years of work, he received for himself indisputable facts. In 1879, in the English city of Brighton, he received a copy of the death certificate of a certain Reuben John Stafford. A messenger delivered a copy to him.

At one time, when the doctor was therapeutic hypnosis, during one of the sessions, his patient Ray Bryant told him under hypnosis about some of his past lives.

And so, during one of the sessions, Ray identified himself as Reuben Stafford and that he was wounded during the Crimean War of 1853-1856, the patient began to list all the medicines that the nurse girls treated him with. They worked under the guidance of the English nurse Florence Nightingale and known as the organizer of the front-line first aid medical service.

In the story, John Stafford mentioned his home at Preston in Preston, Lancashire.

Physician Keaton brought the patient in a hypnotic state to the moment of his death, and Stafford imitated it exactly as described on the death certificate. The track record found also confirmed the accuracy of Stafford's stories.

Bryant himself, although he did not believe in his existence in the image of Reuben Stafford, admitted the possibility that there was something of a soldier in him. “Perhaps there are some particles of it in me. Probably, the whole point is that the consciousness of a person does not all die with him. Some part of it remains to live,” he said.

Undoubtedly, a mental journey into a past life can bring massive changes to the present. People are usually afraid of the unknown. But if we understand that the soul exists forever and sooner or later again acquires a bodily shell and even meets again with people dear to the heart in a past life, then the fear of inevitable death will disappear.

Arbitrary memories

History knows many cases when people themselves, without any external help, recalled their past lives. Let's talk about some cases that have become widely known.

The first case occurred in 1951 with the Indian Mishra. One day he took his three-year-old daughter (along with other children) on a long trip. On the way home, Svornlata (that was the name of the girl) asked the bus driver to turn to her house. But since at that moment they were far from their town, the driver did not give this request of great importance. A little later, when the travelers arrived at Canti and stopped there for a little rest and a cup of tea, Svornlata again mentioned some home of hers and added that she would be pleased to visit her home and sit in familiar surroundings. Of course, this time the girl's father and all the other members of the family were very surprised, because none of them had ever lived in Canti. Then Svornlata told them about her "former life" in Kanti in the Pathak family. And although the relatives were surprised by her words, nevertheless they did not attach much importance to them. What won't he say three year old! Soon this incident was almost forgotten, but two years later the girl suddenly began to perform songs and dances unknown in the area where she lived.

In 1959, Professor Banerjee became interested in this story, who went to Kanti and sought out the Pathak family, of whom Svornlata considered herself related. To his great surprise, the professor learned from them a lot of things that the girl had told him before and that she simply could not know, not being really their relative. At Banerjee's suggestion, the Pathaks visited the Svornlata family, who recognized them all and called them by name. Everything she told them about her "past" was very similar to the life of Biya Pathaka, who died eight years before Svornlata was born.

It was then that the assumption was made that Svornlata is the reincarnated Biya, which seemed obvious to everyone and did not require other proof. However, one point remained unsolved: during her lifetime, Biya spoke exclusively Hindi and did not know Bengali, and Svornlata performed Bengali songs and dances.

Another case is an example of xenoglossy - the ability to understand a foreign language without learning it. So, in 1973, Lydia Johnson, as usual, helped her doctor husband in conducting experiments on hypnosis. The hypnotist husband suggested to her during the session that she should return to her previous life. Suddenly, Lydia, who easily fell into a trance, clutched her head and screamed heart-rendingly. Johnson immediately stopped the session, brought his wife out of the trance and asked her to tell him everything that she saw.

In response to this request, Lydia told him that she had seen a river in which elderly people were forcibly drowned. She felt that they also wanted to drown her, and then she felt a blow. What happened next defies any logical explanation: Lydia spoke in a low voice in an unknown language (as it was later established - Swedish), and when asked about the name, she invariably answered: "Jensen Jacobi." During repeated sessions, she spoke in detail about her life and work on the farm.

After that, Lydia's husband invited other specialists, and they decided to complicate the experiment: they put various objects in front of the woman and asked questions about them. Being Jensen, Lydia Johnson easily identified the 17th century ship model and accurately named it in Swedish. In addition, she had no difficulty in identifying two types of wooden utensils used in the same century for volumes of grain, and many other items that were in use three centuries ago. All the experiments carried out showed that Lydia feels great in the role of a Swedish farmer and speaks completely at ease in a language that she has never learned in her real life.

The third case took place in India, in the town of Bareilly. Bisham Chand, at the age of one and a half years (and he was born in 1921), began to ask questions regarding the town of Filbhit (near Bareilly). The Glukhamov family, in which the boy lived, was perplexed about this, since none of them had ever been in that town. Later, Bisham Chand began to tell his parents about how he lived before he was born into their family. According to him, earlier his name was Lakshmi Narain and he was the son of a wealthy landowner (he described the house in which he lived in great detail).

strange behavior and unusual stories the boy was interested in the local prosecutor, who wrote down everything Bisham said and decided to check. They found that much of Narain's life was told by a boy from the Deaf family.

After analyzing these cases, scientists made the assumption that they can be attributed to the phenomenon of clairvoyance. However, clairvoyance is a universal ability, while here we are faced with a different situation: one perceives the life of another specific person as your own, and this is no longer clairvoyance.