Most people have heard of past life regression,
where a hypnotist asks a patient to go back to the source
of a problem and the patient
begins to describe a past life.
But not so many people are aware that some hypnotists claim
to have been able to take people back to the time between
lives - "the interlife period". Therapists seem
to agree that regressing subjects into the time between
lives requires the deeper levels of the theta state.
The interesting thing is that all of the patients, working
with different therapists who had no contact with each other
came up with a consistent description what happened to them
in the afterlife - or as they called it "the between
lives period".
Dr Brian Weiss was a traditional
psychotherapist and at the age of 35 was a professor at
the University of Miami's medical school. He was publishing
papers and becoming a nationally recognised expert on psychopharmacology.
He wsa not interested in anything mystical, philosophical
or spiritual.
One patient changed all that. Weiss calls
her Catherine in his first best-selling book, Many
Lives, Many Masters (1988), eight years after he began
treating the young woman.
He had been using routine psychotherapy
to treat her and after 18 months with little improvement,
Weiss finally put it very simply to her one day while she
was under hypnosis: "Go back to the time from which
your symptoms arise." She did. Back to the year 1863
BC when she was a 25-year-old named Aronda.
But Catherine also went to the space between
lives and was able to give Dr Weiss detailed information
about his own family and his dead son - information that
she could not have know by any normal means.
Dr Michael Newton When Dr. Michael Newton, began regressing his clients
back in time to access their memories of former lives, he
became interested in seeing into the spirit world through
the eyes of clients who are in a hypnotized or superconscious
state; these clients in this altered state claimed to be
able to tell him what their soul was doing between lives
on Earth.
His book, Journey of Souls, presents ten
years of his research and insights to help people understand
the purpose behind their life choices. His follow-up book,
Destiny of Souls, continues this work.
Ian Lawton's The
Big Book of the Soul contains in chapters 5 and 6 an
excellent summary of the findings of twelve different regressionists:
Michael
Newton, Joel Whitton, Dolores
Cannon, Peter Ramster, Modi, Brian Weis, Helen Wambach,
Ruth Montgomery, Huffman, Riger Woolger and Dr Hans Holzer
about such topics as the death experience, being welcomed,
healing/rest/integration, the life review, learning with
a group, life planning, life previews.In
this video Ian Lawton reads from an early version of the
chapters.
Example of a Life Between Life session
Paul Aurand conducts an emotional Life Between Lives regression
with profound soul lessons. Excerpts of this LBL will be
used in the upcoming documentary film "THE END?"
on consciousness and the after life by director Mike Anthony.
Ann Clark on Life Between Lives
Peter Smith on 'Stories
of the Afterlife'
Peter Smith - Life Between Lives
- Stories of the Afterlife - Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science
