I have read the findings of other scientists who are independently
practicing past-life regression therapy and who are reporting results extremely
similar to mine.
As described in detail in my second book, Through Time into Healing, this
therapy can benefit many types of patients, especially those with emotional and
psychosomatic disorders.
Regression therapy is also extremely useful in recognizing and stopping
recurrent destructive patterns, such as drug or alcohol abuse and problems in
relationships.
Many of my patients recall habits, traumas, and abusive relationships that
not only occurred in their past lifetimes but are again occurring in the current
life. For example, one patient remembered a violently abusive husband in a past
life who has resurfaced in the present as her violent father. One warring couple
discovered they had been killing each other in four previous lifetimes together.
The stories and the patterns go on and on.
When the recurring pattern has been recognized, when its causes have been
understood, it can be broken. There is no sense in continuing the pain.
Neither the therapist nor the patient has to believe in past lives for the
technique and process of regression therapy to work. But if they try it, clinical
improvement often results.
Spiritual growth almost always results.
I once regressed a man from South America who remembered a guiltridden
lifetime as part of the team that helped to develop and ultimately drop the
atomic bomb on Hiroshima in order to end World War II. Now a radiologist in a
major hospital, this man uses radiation and modern technology to save lives
rather than to erase them. He is a gentle, beautiful, caring man in this life.
This is an example of how a soul can evolve and be transformed even
through the most ignoble of lifetimes. It is the learning that is important, not the
judgment. He learned from his World War II lifetime, and he has applied the
skills and knowledge to help other souls in the current lifetime. The guilt from
the first lifetime is not important. It is only important to learn from the past, not
to ruminate and to feel guilty about it.
According to a USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll conducted on December 18,
1994, belief in reincarnation is increasing in the United States, a country that
lags behind most of the rest of the world in this belief. Twenty-seven percent of
adults in the United States believe in reincarnation, up from 21 percent in 1990.
There is more. The number who believe that there can be contact with the
dead has risen from 18 percent in 1990 to 28 percent in December 1994. Ninety
percent believe in heaven, and 79 percent believe in miracles. I can almost hear
the spirits clapping.