Conference hydra::dejavu

    m...
    
    I do past life regressions...you go back to a time where the events
    happened that are affecting your life now. You go back to important
    events. It helps to clear or release past events. 

    Note however that there is a distinction between what hypnotherapists
    call 'age regression, and what is commonly called 'past life
    regression.'  
    
    'Age regression' as a therapy (rather than a forensic technique for
    simply trying to clarify or recover vague memories) is a 
    method related to the Freudian concept of relieving neurosis by
    re-experiencing previously repressed childhood trauma.  It is a method
    held in common by Scientologists (who call it by different terms such
    as 'reverie' and 'return,') and some hypnotherapists.  
    
    'Past-life regression' is however usually meant to indicate a technique 
    for deliberately encouraging experiences presumed outside of the 
    individual's own lifetime, and has more outright religious overtones not 
    generally found in 'current-life' age regression, and therefore is 
    generally considered (I believe) more directive on the part of the 
    hypnotist (that is, they take an even more active role in helping to 
    create the experience than usually found in competently performed hypnotic 
    'age regression').  They are looking for experiences of past lives,
    whereas apparent past-life experiences sometimes occur _spontaneously_ in 
    normal 'current-life' age regression, and these should not be confused,
    imo.
    
    It's an interesting and often emotionally moving process in both cases, 
    especially if someone has never personally seen the kinds of vivid
    experiences that often come out under hypnosis.  
    
    							kind regards,
    
    							todd

    
    See my note on 1233.
    
    
    Marilyn

    Thank you both for your replies.  I've been having a recurring image
    during meditation and while I dream of myself running in a green field
    somewhere in Scotland or Ireland.  I'm just wondering if it might be a
    past life.
    
    Do any of you know anyone who can help someone through past life
    regression?

    re: .4,
    
    I'm sorry I don't know anyone personally in New England who does this,
    but I'm sure many others here do.
    
    It's a tricky thing, because you now have a persistent fragment of an
    experience that has some significance to you for some yet unknown
    reason.  It could be a memory, or it could be a wish.  Or it could
    well be a fragment of an 'alter' personality of some sort, such as
    sometimes seen in far more dramatic form in dissociative states.
    
    A 'memory recovery' specialist could certainly enhance and build on it
    by various techniques; including body manipulation, guided imagery, and
    hypnosis, but they would usually also be _leading_ the process,
    especially if they *expect* to find a past-life in your experience
    fragment.  
    
    Personally, I would be more inclined to work with the image
    further in meditation or self-hypnosis and let it develop on its own
    rather than to impose the complexity of a second person on the
    proceedings.  Unless the images became very disturbing.  If there is
    a cohesive memory of something there, chances are fairly
    good that they will begin to emerge further on their own, in your
    dreams and meditations, just as they have already begun to do.
    
    I guess I'm a little cynical about attempts to force this process
    or unduly accelerate it unless there is a serious problem arising
    that needs more intervention.  
    
    							kind regards,
    
    							todd

    You're right....I have never been very patient with myself but in this 
    case I'm going to be...thanks for your help.
    
    Mindy

    Mindy, I have experienced past life regression led by Richard Greene in
    Nashua (phone 883-4903).  It was very helpful to me.

	I just picked up a book the other day that might help.

	Mother Wit A Guide to Healing & Psychic Development
	by Diane Mariechild

	I just started reading it and so far I find the exercises
	very helpful. There is also a chapter on Past Life Regression.

	Mindy, if you find someone to do the regression, let us know
	how it went.
					Terry


			

    Is Richard Greene still doing this?? I thought he had closed up shop so
    to speak.
    
    Serenity

    There are a large number of recent books on the subject, but
    I'm going to mention Michael Talbot's book "Your Past Lives, A
    Reincarnation handbook," from Fawcett Crest, New York, since
    it has the rather unique distinction of having a fairly positive
    review from English teacher Peter Huston in the debunking magazine 
    _Skeptical_Inquirer_.   He found it well written, and "an 
    interesting insight into a cultural phenomenon," though
    pseudoscientific in parts.
    
    Talbot reviews many of the commonly used techniques for exploring
    "past lives," and claims to have revealed 20 previous lives of his
    own, and lists various organizations and sources of information.
    
    He alo includes warnings about potential hazards, reminiscent
    of those given in more conventional kinds of psychological self-help
    literature, about what point to seek professional help if things
    turn ugly in these explorations.
    
    						kind regards,
    
    						todd

    re .9 Serenity
    
    As far as I know, Richard continues to share his energies with those
    who request it.
    
    *Stella*

    Who is Richard?
    
    Mindy

    I also have a friend that does past life regressions. Her name is
    Debbie. I mentioned it to her this weekend and she said she would do it
    if you're interested. She's a certified hypnotist...I do work with her
    from time to time...She lives west of Worcester.

    THANKS FOR THE INFO!!!1
    
    MINDY

    re .12 (Mindy)
    
    Richard is Richad Greene (see .7 in this string)

    .9 Serenity
    
    I just heard from Richard Greene.  His telephone number has been
    changed (there was a recording when I dialled) to 603-891-2053, he is
    still doing his "bioenergy" work, and will be moving to Florida when
    the weather gets cooler again (he said in about 5 months).