In my previous life I was...

It would explain why I would like to read a lot, referring to my last post...

Weeeeh!

Anyway, I've heard that you can try hypnotic regression (an advanced form of hypnosis) to try and learn about your past life(or lives). This is obviously with some sort of psychologist/hypnotist certified to do this. The results are understandably mixed, but there's enough evidence of possible success that I've always been curious. It's probably something I'll try someday.

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So who was I? I dunno. Are we limited to Earth? I'd say something flippant like Spider-Man in a parellel dimension, but it appears this thread is being taken quasi-seriously. And I'm too tired to come up with a whole ficticious backstory for my past life (Frodo!). So night all...and cool thread lil.

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Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Don't take this thread too serioiusly, please...

What do you think you were in your past life?

Based on your likes in this life, fears, phobia's, deja vu's, attractions to certain places or things for no apperant reason, can you construct what you think you were in your previous life.

If we have any Hindu's around, this would be even more fun.

Ok, go!

Well I was really phsyced because I thought I could be a dog but according to Shaky I can't 🙁

Um..maybe a monkey...and I evolved into a human in this life.....

hysterical

Originally posted by DigiMark007
...I've heard that you can try hypnotic regression (an advanced form of hypnosis) to try and learn about your past life(or lives). This is obviously with some sort of psychologist/hypnotist certified to do this. The results are understandably mixed, but there's enough evidence of possible success that I've always been curious. It's probably something I'll try someday.

Mixed results exist because one can still reasonably conclude that the hypnotized person believes they had the past life, and that this is what they are conveying. This is a simpler conclusion than jumping to the next level and saying that regression actually reveals a past life. Even, for example, if a person is speaking in a language they claim they never heard before (and assuming they are telling the truth, and that their memory is perfect), it is something the person still could have picked up subconsciously ("incidental learning"😉, which, of course, highlights the lesser but still spectacular powers of the mind.

As you rightly intimated, hypnotic regression suggests past lives, but again we are, so to speak, making conclusions about a phenomenon just from seeing a "shadow."

Originally posted by Punker69
Well I was really phsyced because I thought I could be a dog but according to Shaky I can't 🙁

Um..maybe a monkey...and I evolved into a human in this life.....

hysterical

[edit] Can anybody explain the thing abut circles???

Originally posted by debbiejo
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[edit] Can anybody explain the thing abut circles???

Circles are so ubiquitous and figure so prominently in so many things, from everyday life to profound esoteric significance, that it is difficult to even know where to begin. Does it even have to do with a past life? What about when you were a toddler? Maybe you got stuck on a merry-go-round, who knows.

I would suggest, find what other things you are particularly attracted to and see if there is any kind of fit between those things and circles. Ie, look for larger patterns, or better, be receptive to the emergence of larger patterns. Try free-associating, writing down or drawing whatever comes to mind. Basically, get your conscious mind out of the way and see what bubbles up from your preconscious/subconscious.

Several trials may be necessary to even get the proper hang of free-associating. Maybe try it during meditation. Hell, get drunk and see what happens.

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What about future lives?

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
What about future lives?

Not to be confused with days of future passed. 😉

Originally posted by Mindship
Not to be confused with days of future passed. 😉

You old hippie.

Originally posted by Mindship
Several trials may be necessary to even get the proper hang of free-associating. Maybe try it during meditation. Hell, get drunk and see what happens.

🤣

Originally posted by debbiejo
Yeah did that!!.........it just made me want to make more circles.....even dance in circles...........But I understand now, everything is cyclical in life......I think god speaks through me........

in my past life i was a bacteria part of this... bigger picture

Originally posted by Mindship
Mixed results exist because one can still reasonably conclude that the hypnotized person believes they had the past life, and that this is what they are conveying. This is a simpler conclusion than jumping to the next level and saying that regression actually reveals a past life. Even, for example, if a person is speaking in a language they claim they never heard before (and assuming they are telling the truth, and that their memory is perfect), it is something the person still could have picked up subconsciously ("incidental learning"😉, which, of course, highlights the lesser but still spectacular powers of the mind.

As you rightly intimated, hypnotic regression suggests past lives, but again we are, so to speak, making conclusions about a phenomenon just from seeing a "shadow."

True. It becomes harder when a past life is remembered and it's relatively recent. Select cases exist where they've been able to confirm details recalled in hypnotic regression. Again, a possible "incidental learning" but this becomes harder to explain away when there is little or no contact between the parties in question.

Still, I'm a rather firm believer in reincarnation (the works of Ian Stephenson are wonderful examples of scientific evidence of this possible phenomenon) but I certainly won't discount the possibility of other explanations for it.

So like I said, it makes me curious enough to try hypnotic regression myself...just to make sure I wasn't Spider-Man in an alternate dimension.

🙂

Originally posted by DigiMark007
True. It becomes harder when a past life is remembered and it's relatively recent. Select cases exist where they've been able to confirm details recalled in hypnotic regression. Again, a possible "incidental learning" but this becomes harder to explain away when there is little or no contact between the parties in question.

Still, I'm a rather firm believer in reincarnation (the works of Ian Stephenson are wonderful examples of scientific evidence of this possible phenomenon) but I certainly won't discount the possibility of other explanations for it.

So like I said, it makes me curious enough to try hypnotic regression myself...just to make sure I wasn't Spider-Man in an alternate dimension.

🙂

I know one way that works for me. Try to remember what it was like in your mothers womb. Try to recall your oldest memories. If you can, you then can jump to other lives because the vial is not closed at that point.

I hear meditation helps in finding past life memories.

Originally posted by Blue nocturne
I hear meditation helps in finding past life memories.

Uh huh I call them daydreams.

Originally posted by Soleran
Uh huh I call them daydreams.

Meditation takes a lot more effort then day dreaming.

Meditation and daydreaming are almost polar opposites of each other. Daydreaming is relaxed and undisciplined, a free-form rambling of the "inner cinema." Meditation is relaxed but focused. One might even describe meditation as actively not daydreaming, the whole point being to pay attention to paying attention (not to the daydreams), so that the inner cinema winds down...and then, what's behind it, begins to unfold.

Neither are meditation and hypnosis the same.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
Meditation takes a lot more effort then day dreaming.

Yet its purposes are very similar, so anyway.

Originally posted by Soleran
Yet its purposes are very similar, so anyway.

Incorrect. A better parallel to Meditation would be prayer.