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Regression ... written by an elderly friend

Regression: past lives.


During my working life I found a good friend in Mel, a Chartered Psychologist. We commuted together from near Oxford to London, a long enough journey to allow quite long conversations.
I was an Accountant but we hit it off together as we were both inquisitive, investigative and inclined to be analytical and pragmatic. He is also a hypnotherapist and when he found that I was interested in the possibility of a past life, he said he knew me too well to attempt regression himself but introduced me to a medically qualified person and hypnotist, Mrs M Robinson (SRN, SCM, DHP, MNAHP, Member Corporation of Advanced Hypnotherapy), living in the Aylesbury, who specialised in regression.
I made an appointment and was seen together with two other independent researchers, both females aged about 30 who I had never met before and did not know each other. One was a school teacher, the other a hairdresser. It was a three-day session with one of us undergoing hypnosis each day, the other two acting at witnesses and keeping independent notes. The cost was £75 per person.
I thought, as do so many, that I could not be hypnotised but was wrong. When my turn came I was 'put under' whilst the other two people observed and made notes. There was also a tape recorder.
Briefly, I was regressed to 1340 when my mind apparently occupied the body of a 20-year-old monk, journeying on foot from a monastery near Kiev University, where I had been since aged 8, placed there by my parents who were too poor to support their ever-growing number of children, to Milan in Italy. Italy was a number of provinces in the 14th century. Milan province and city were to the North, bordering what is now Switzerland
I do not know how I knew the year as I possessed no diary or daily newspaper. The purpose of the journey was to study medicine (a subject that then appealed to me), and one day return to Kiev to apply and pass on my skills En route I made a living by distilling salicylic acid (pain-killer - later known as aspirin) from willow bark. My baggage train was a mule.
Generally, my attire and ability to treat minor ills made me acceptable in most communities and, being young and reasonably personable, I managed to get along with most folk, a knowledge of German and Latin making communication possible. Indeed, not being too “holy” there was a certain amount of fraternisation with my own age-group in the villages and often the nights were not that lonely, the morals standards of that age being somewhat different from those during ensuing centuries. I apparently achieved my objective as the hypnotist fast-forwarded me to my last day of that life and I was back in Kiev, a frail old man of 60 in a monastic cell.
I was surprised afterwards by my apparent knowledge of 14th century Russian and world politics. I had never studied the subject and had never realised that what we know as Russia was then about 15 independent republics. There was a war going on in Europe which made my journey rather difficult though warfare then was totally different from today’s variety.
However, I'm aware that the conscious mind can forget a lot but the unconscious retains all at a very deep level and it is possible, though unlikely, that I had read all this at some time. There could be an alternative explanation for my experience. The same thing may be said of the other two people, both “30-something” females who were also regressed at the same time as me.
Interestingly, the hairdresser was regressed to a South American people, the Olmecs, in about 800AD. She knew nothing whatsoever of this race, not even the name ( nor did I at the time ) and found the session meaningless and believed she must have dreamed up her experience - until I researched for her (and for my own need to know) the dress, culture, symbolism, religious ceremonies etc that she had described under hypnosis, and duly impressed her. There again, she may have read it up some time in her past and forgotten it but with the information retained deep in her subconscious. She was not the sort, though, to read anything deeper than weekly girlie magazines - although I may be wrong about that as she was interested enough to seek out Mrs Robinson.
The other lady had a more simple pre-history. In her past life she described being a stable-lad, in France, who met his end being trampled by a horse. She ascribed her present-day fear of horses to this sub-conscious memory. Interesting about the sex-change.
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Very interesting Rachel but like ghosts and aliens, impossible to substantiate..........What goes on in the head, stays in the head....
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Very interesting Rachel but like ghosts and aliens, impossible to substantiate..........What goes on in the head, stays in the head....
Yes.
He writes on a number of differing subjects, some of which are far too scientific for the likes of me.

This is a fairly superficial one and not too taxing
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One more of his musings

The 'collective unconscious' referred to by Carl C Jung in his book of the same title is the psychic realm shared by everyone where all the elements of human experience are stored. It is the realm of the collective unconscious, a sort of group mind, that operates under the level of our own individual consciousness. It does not detract from our own individual identity. Perhaps it is that which allows us to interact or empathise with one another. Maybe it is that of which prophets of ancient times had an inkling when they devised their stories of life after death ?
Jung, who formulated the idea , said the 'collective unconscious' contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution, born anew in the brain structure of each individual. He felt that the collective unconscious was the only way to explain why different symbols of our existence, archetypes (prototypes, typical specimens), would appear in times of psychological crisis. The spontaneous welling-up of archetypes would provide answers to some of life's deepest questions, and give a way to deal with things all people must face - such as bereavement, the desire to find a soul-mate, the longing for a child, the search for a meaning.
Dreams, crises, fevers, psychoses and synchronicity (the phenomenon of coincidences) are all gateways to the collective unconscious, which is ready to restore the individual psyche to normal with its insights.
The term syncronicity (from the Greek sun together + kronus time) was coined by Jung who felt that these simultaneous linked event which had no discernable connection to each other happened for a reason. The philosopher Arthur Koestler observed, in his book "The Roots of Coincidence", that coincidences happen far too often for them to be coincidences.
Jung was fascinated as to why syncronicity occurs, and spent much of the latter part of his life examining concepts of quantum physics to explain unusual coincidences. Eventually he came to accept that the mysterious connection with two seemingly unrelated aspects of mind and the material world was that ultimately they were two different forms of the same thing - vibrational energy.
The greatest field of exploration remaining to science is that of the mind. Many scientist still claim that the mind to be a brain function and purely physical but emerging scientific evidence shows that it is clearly non-physical. It is not so fanciful, therefore, to suppose that once the enormous power of the mind is understood and how its product, thought, may be harnessed we shall be on the threshold of a development far more revolutionary for humanity than the industrial revolution
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30-06-2017, 08:55 AM
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Hi Rachel , interesting posts . I've always believed in reincarnation. Many years ago Professor Bloxham appeared on TV , I think it was in the black and white tv days , I watched him hypnotise a lady who relived a life called Rebecca who was a jewess and lived in York during the uprising against the Jews .This was during the 11th century . She was hiding with her baby in a crypt beside the castle gate , she was reliving the fear as she new she was about to be discovered and killed with her child , Bloxham had to gently bring her back and erase the memory and fear . Many years later a crypt was indeed found beside the castle gate similar to the one she was describing , although disbelievers had said there was no such place . Bloxham also regressed a man who was on one of Henry V111 ships and had a leg blown off by a cannon ball . He did name the ship , although historians have been unable to prove this ship existed . There is a lot more to read in his book .

The Bloxham tapes is an interesting book to read and can be ordered in the library

When I was young I would have a vision in my head of a young girl standing alongside pillars of white stone , she was like me yet not me if you get my meaning . I knew she was Roman yet didn't understand . In later life I went to Pompeii and just new that this was once a place I lived , I felt very emotional as I walked around yet the city was unknown to me . It's hard to explain , but I knew I'd had a life there as a female .

I've studied regression now for many years and do believe we all have other life experiences
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Originally Posted by susan m ->
Hi Rachel , interesting posts . I've always believed in reincarnation. Many years ago Professor Bloxham appeared on TV , I think it was in the black and white tv days , I watched him hypnotise a lady who relived a life called Rebecca who was a jewess and lived in York during the uprising against the Jews .This was during the 11th century . She was hiding with her baby in a crypt beside the castle gate , she was reliving the fear as she new she was about to be discovered and killed with her child , Bloxham had to gently bring her back and erase the memory and fear . Many years later a crypt was indeed found beside the castle gate similar to the one she was describing , although disbelievers had said there was no such place . Bloxham also regressed a man who was on one of Henry V111 ships and had a leg blown off by a cannon ball . He did name the ship , although historians have been unable to prove this ship existed . There is a lot more to read in his book .

The Bloxham tapes is an interesting book to read and can be ordered in the library

When I was young I would have a vision in my head of a young girl standing alongside pillars of white stone , she was like me yet not me if you get my meaning . I knew she was Roman yet didn't understand . In later life I went to Pompeii and just new that this was once a place I lived , I felt very emotional as I walked around yet the city was unknown to me . It's hard to explain , but I knew I'd had a life there as a female .

I've studied regression now for many years and do believe we all have other life experiences
Goodness Susan, that's amazing

The name Bloxham rings a vague bell in my head, so maybe I heard something on the radio ... it would probably have been in the 1970s or 80s when regression was becoming quite popular. I remember that one of the radio presenters tried it and the recording (or part of it) was played. All very interesting, but in that particular case, nothing was provable.
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I do not believe in reincarnation, however, the human brain is not fully understood and I don't believe we use it to it's full capability. The world is full of people who can do remarkable things that most of us wouldn't believe were possible. During the second world war a team of people were selected for their ability to project themselves to faraway places to discover the layout of enemy installations. Some of their drawings turned out to be unnaturally accurate.

No, I don't believe that reincarnation is possible, but the power of the mind is as yet, uncharted.....

PS:- I also believe that snatches of history can remain in a place and be picked up by certain people. Like video clips...This would explain the sightings of ghosts by more than one person visiting the same place...
 

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