Past Life Regression Therapy
Stone Heart from Forever Ago by DASG
A traditional analyst might wonder whether a past life memory might be psychological fantasy. Is the past life memory a projection and embellishment of a childhood issue or trauma?
My experience and that of other therapists who have written to me about their cases tells me that it is actually the other way around. Memories, impulses, and energies from past lives seem to form or create the childhood pattern in this lifetime. It is simply another repetition or coming together of long, preexisting patterns.
Actually, this phenomenon of prior inputs from past lives surfacing in childhood and repeating once again is very similar to the concept of neurosis and repetition compulsion that Freud hypothesized (i.e., “hidden traumas in the past that result in present symptoms, and which must be uncovered to relieve those symptoms”. My other disagreement with traditional analysis on this particular point is that Freud’s temporal stage was too small and limited, that it needs to be extended backwards beyond this lifetime to reach the root of some problems. Once that stage is enlarged, coherent, effective and rapid therapeutic results usually occur.
As a therapist or a patient, you don’t have to believe in past lives or reincarnation for past life therapy to work. The proof is in the pudding. As more than one fellow psychotherapist has said to me, “I still don’t believe in this past life stuff, but I use it, and it sure does work!” (Brian Weiss, M.D., Through Time Into Healing, 1992, pg. 55)
