3D ANIMATION MOVIES

First, however, I'd like to address the question of whether or not "past lives" are real.
In my years of both academic research and experiments with PLR, I have found huge
volumes of data that would prove to any legitimate scientist that many "past life"
memories are based on real historic people and events. I refer the reader to Helen
Wambach's seminal research work Reliving Past Lives, Marge Rieder's extraordinary
and well-researched Mission to Marlboro, and Ian Stevenson's exhaustively scientific
30 Cases Suggestive of Re-incarnation written by a skeptical scientist. It seems to
me that there are a sufficient number of books to prove that past life memories have
been documented as accurate for a statistically significant number of test subjects.
Those who continue to deny this may present themselves as scientific. Possibly they
are trapped in an irrational dogma comparable to the beliefs of those church
"scholars" in the 16th Century who maintained their belief in an earth centered solar
system in the face of Galileo's telescopes. In the past, tragically, these hardened
dogmatists were in charge of much of the research funding and training of
therapists, just as the Church had a stranglehold on science in the 16th Century.

In any event, I have no particular desire to "prove" the existence of past life recall to
the fanatical skeptic, since I feel the literature on the subject is replete with such
proof. More practical is my concern that many people today are interested in
experiencing past life memories for themselves. And they want to know if their past
life memories are real. One must admit that many past life memories recalled by
clients are not easily provable. They may even be products of the client's
subconscious imagination. As an example, the client sees himself as Sir Lancelot
approaching the great castle of Camelot in shining armor and mounted upon a
white charger. While the client may or may not have been Sir Lancelot, historically,
King Arthur's knights, if they existed at all, wore leather armor and lived in primitive
wooden forts circa 600 AD.

There are a number of indications according to researchers that a past life memory,
whether spontaneously recalled or found under hypnosis, is an accurate
recollection. First, are the emotions evoked by the experience more powerful than
those evoked by a movie or novel? Some clients even experience PLR emotions as
more powerful than any evoked by present life experience. These powerful feelings
can be an indication that a past life memory is accurate. One client weeps
prolifically over the fallen bodies of his family, victims of a massacre. Later he
describes the emotions evoked as far more powerful than anything he has ever
experienced in present life. While hardly scientific, this evidence is often used as a
measure of the validity of the memory.

Sometimes a creative ability emerges from a past life memory for which the client
can find no other easy explanation. Musical or artistic abilities, for example, can be
brought forward from past lives that might be otherwise hard to explain. For
example, one client with no artistic gifts or experience emerges from trance and
starts to draw animal figures beautifully.

One of the paramount proofs is when historic details of an experience can be
validated by research. A therapist I know asked his subconscious mind for a past
life that could be historically validated. He was given precise biographical details of
a life as an architect in Venice in the 15th Century. In a later visit to Venice he was
able to view some of the buildings he had designed hundreds of years before, as
well as confirm the precise biographical details he had received in trance. While such
historical proof may be beyond the reach of many subjects, it is not difficult to
examine such things as clothing, architecture, diet, and technology to find historical
parallels.

Another validation of past life memories occurs when we meet people who have
shared our past life experiences and remembers them the way we do. I had the
disturbing experience of taking a client into trance and helping him recall a duel in
Paris with an arrogant musketeer. I knew who he was fighting...me in a past life!
Together we both described every detail of the scene, including our clothes, our
weapons, and the reason for the duel, and its outcome. He killed me. This is one of
many such experiences I have had which has confirmed my belief in the reality of
my own past lives.

The most important question in my view however is not whether PLR is "real" but
whether it works in solving the client's problems. This question continues to be very
difficult to answer. My concern is that most PLR therapists have received very little
formal training in the field. Hypnotherapy as a field has made great strides in the
last 50 years. But, PLR as a specialty is a valuable new technology that is still in its
infancy. Therefore, I find most hypnosis trainings offer only a few hours of brief
instruction, without adequate supervised practice, and with little emphasis on the
specific therapeutic issues that respond best to PLR. Many other trainings in
hypnotherapy and psychotherapy simply dismiss the whole concept of PLR as
"unproved" and therefore beneath their need to teach or explain. We may compare
the relative success or failure of many modern PLR therapists to the clumsy
chopping of "surgeons" in the 15th century. Surely, if we judged "surgery" by the
success rate of these practitioners, it would be found to be mere quackery by any
modern analysis.

Copyright © September, 2005 By David Quigley CHT