Chapter 74 Section 21: Do People Really Have Past Lives?

Do people really have past lives? Ancient Eastern religions, especially Indian religions, emphasize reincarnation, while Western Christianity opposes reincarnation, because in Christian thought, people will be judged by God once they die.But when Christianity talks about God's benevolence and love, it can't explain a most basic phenomenon, why some people are born with good luck, while others are born with misfortune.It is easy to explain this problem in terms of reincarnation, because everyone did different things in the previous life.If you did good deeds in your previous life, you will be blessed in this life; otherwise, you will suffer, which is called self-inflicted suffering.

When I was at East China Normal University in 1992, I translated the book "Life After Life" by Raymond Mudi, which was a book about past life hypnosis.But such a book is suspected of promoting "feudal superstition".In fact, at that time, no publishing house dared to publish such a book. I took the translation home and showed it to my father. When he saw that I was translating such a book, my father was shocked, as if I was doing something. dangerous thing. My father is a complete materialist, and he firmly does not believe in such things as reincarnation.My father and I debated that materialism emphasizes dialectics, and the core of dialectics is to emphasize the dialectics of the existence of things, and the so-called dialectics is the negation of extremes, that is to say, everything is possible. The role of exhorting people to do good.My father resolutely refused to listen to my nonsense, and urged me not to talk or do anything.I left the manuscript at my parents' house in Wuxi and went back to Shanghai.

Unexpectedly, a few months later, my father suddenly developed severe emphysema, and I rushed back to Wuxi immediately.In the hospital, when my father saw me, he smiled mysteriously and said to me: "I saw that tunnel." "You mean the tunnel that appeared in the book when you were dying?" I was surprised that Dad said that. "When I was very ill, I felt as if I was floating in a tunnel, and I saw a bright light at the far end of the tunnel. I suddenly remembered the situation you described in your book, and immediately realized I am heading towards death. Of course I don’t want to die, so I struggled hard to go back, but fortunately, I don’t think the time has come.” The old man laughed.

I know that this kind of physical experience may be experienced by everyone, and it has nothing to do with what philosophy you believe in.For example, if you listen to ghost stories in a very dark place, you know that it is a story and you don’t need to worry at all, but in fact, when you listen to ghost stories, you will feel chills on your back and your hairs will stand on end.When I talk about hypnosis, I like to mention the weakness of human nature. One of the weaknesses of human nature is to be afraid when hearing ghost stories. Recently, when former US President Bill Clinton was undergoing heart surgery, according to his own statement, he saw the shadow of death looming over him.Then he saw the light in the clouds, saw his wife and daughter, and the shadows dispersed.After the operation, Clinton, who had brushed shoulders with death, cried bitterly in front of his wife, and his perception of life changed greatly, becoming the "good baby" in Hillary's eyes.This shows how great the educational power of death is.

Going back to the previous story, Carlo and I agreed to do past life hypnosis.Carlo read a lot of books about past life hypnosis before he came here. Before the hypnosis, he asked me a question: "Do you really believe in past lives?" I laughed and said, "This past life is still a quasi-scientific issue. That is to say, modern science is still unable to prove the existence of past lives. If modern science can prove the existence of past lives, then the world will be turned upside down." "Actually, I'm half-believing in my past life, so it's fun to do this past life hypnosis."

"Relax, it's an experience of your own inner world anyway." So I started hypnotizing him.Because he had entered the hypnotic state before, it was easy to push him away.The technique of so-called past life hypnosis is actually very simple, that is, to use hypnotic hints to step back the age of the person being hypnotized step by step.If the hypnotized person maintains a deep hypnotic state during the retrospective process of this life, then when the age is traced back to birth, he can quickly give a hint: "Okay, you are now back to the time when you were born." What were you doing the year before?"

"I don't know, I feel very confused???? I'm tired????" He spoke intermittently. "Are you sick?" "Yes, I'm very ill, I'm in pain all over my body." "What disease is it?" "I don't know, I was beaten." "Who beat you?" "my husband." "Then you are a woman?" "Of course I'm a woman." His tone of speech suddenly softened. "Why did your husband beat you?" "He's a drunkard." "Did you ask for help?" "In a village like ours, who can a woman turn to when she is beaten?"

"Where is your village?" "In Tennessee." This may seem like a bizarre story, but it is clearly a story of psychological projection in my eyes.Carlo's father is an alcoholic and Carlo's mother is a docile housewife.When Carlo was young, his father was very cruel to him, but his mother did not provide him with strong help.In his past life hypnosis, he revealed the triangular relationship between himself and his parents through such a story.After I woke up Carlo, I made such a psychological analysis on Carlo.Carlo thought it was reasonable, but he also felt regretful, because this kind of analysis proved the fiction of the stories he told in his previous life hypnosis.

In past life hypnosis, the hypnotized person will often tell a lot of weird things, especially changing his personality into various people.But these are actually very similar to the symptoms shown in dissociative personality disorder, so there is a theory that the strange stories inspired by past life hypnosis can actually be called hypnotic-induced dissociative personality disorder. In my clinical practice, I tend to use past life hypnosis as a therapeutic method, rather than really believing that through past life hypnosis, we can really understand the past that no one knows.But I don't 100% deny the possibility of that magical existence. Although there is only a gap left, it leaves a great hope.

We still know very little about the mysteries of human beings!