Past Life Regression

Past Life Regression became an active force in America in the 1950 when a book called, The Search for Bridey Murphy by Morey Bernstein, a businessman and amateur hypnotist from Pueblo Colorado, came into the scene. Bernstein took a twenty-nine year old American housewife into a Past Life Regression somewhat accidentally. What emerged from the Past Life Regression was Bridget (Bridey) Murphy, a lady who claimed to have lived in County Cork Ireland from 1798 to 1864. A unique character with an Irish accent and a history that predated the lifetime of the housewife became a reality to many through Past Life Regression.

In the 1970’2, another book that created a case for reincarnation was based on a Past Life Regression orchestrated by British psychiatrist, Arthur Guirdham, who claimed that his subject was a Cathar, a unique Western religious group, which believed in reincarnation but suffered from massive oppression and genocide from the Catholic Church. The Cathars and Reincarnation was rapidly followed by another book, We Are One Another, which made the case for six people near Bath, England, who believed they were also reincarnated Cathars.

Now, Past Life Regression has been institutionalized as a business and a form of therapy called PLT (Past-Life Therapy). Past Life Regression, as therapy, often discovered in a last ditch effort to deal with troubling phobias, sexual dysfunctions, uncontrollable anger, the standard stuff people go to therapists for.

Reincarnation, through Past Life Regression, is adopted as a working hypothesis by the therapist, but not necessarily as the bottom line reality of the process. In other words, even if a patient, through Past Life Regression, encounters certain information that relieves a symptom- say, being afraid of swimming because one has drowned in a former lifetime- neither the patient nor therapist needs to necessarily believe in this fact for the process to work.

Those who do believe in reincarnation would say that the patient cured by Past Life Regression has now been relieved of negative energy trapped in a past experience. The memory of an unpleasant experience, remembered through Past Life Regression, in theory of PLT, reminds one of the Scientological concept of the engram. If you can experience something painful sufficiently, you can relieve its effect on your life.

Although hypnosis was permitted in clinical treatment officially by the British and American in the 1950’s, its roots in therapy go back to Freud and Jung, who were associated together in their early years. The roots of psychoanalysis are clearly in hypnosis, though not in Past Life Regression, per se. The formation of The Association for Past Life Research and Therapy (APRT) created an enduring institution that gave Past Life Regression a working, revenue-producing justification.

A 1982 study by Helen Wambach claimed that 94 per cent of patients experiencing Past Life Regression did go back to an apparent past lifetime. Some of the therapists involved had experimented with death experiences in their Past Life Regression, their patients encountering various Near Death Experiences (NDE) described by Moody and others- like floating above the body, a white light with some also describing the tunnel experience (see our section on the Afterlife).

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