Past-life memory

Well, the first book I wrote as an academic was Lifecycles: Reincarnation and the Web of Life. I was interested in reincarnation early in my career. I encountered Ian Stevenson's research at the University of Virginia. Around the same time, I encountered Stan Grof's research in his book, Realms of the Human Unconscious. I...

This understanding is the reality with which I've lived, informing my view of history today and the COVID-19 crisis, which I see as an overture to forthcoming historical crises in the 21st century. There’s a correlation between the outer world seeking planetary integration and the inner world’s quest for oneness, merging all our past-life...

I'm happy to let the psychologists and philosophers tear their hair out on that one. I'm willing to go with whatever definition they come up with, as long as it's broad enough to incorporate the total phenomenology of consciousness. Simply, consciousness comes from 'com' to 'know.' Consciousness is that with which we know. It...

There was this one particular day where the teacher seemed interested in showing me where reincarnation was taking us. I experienced all of my former lives beginning to come back into me, fast and furious. I had done past life therapy, had a sense of my history, but this was larger. They were all...

We're living in a time of ascending spiritual energy pressing in on us. The pain of our history and our ego-driven lives keep us insensitive to this light. Before past mystics break into non-dual consciousness, they experience a dark night of the soul, letting go of obstacles. This is happening collectively—intense psychedelic sessions, past...

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Well, I started my psychedelic work after my first year of being an academic. I worked for four years, then I stopped for six years. During that interval, I did three years of past life therapy, uncovering and working with my own former lives, and I wrote "Lifecycles." By that time, my psychedelic work...

About halfway through my journey, in the 38th session, during a year of great blessings, I was taken on an experience that was preceded by very intense purification processes, very intense death-rebirth processes. At one phase in this journey, I experienced all my former lives coming into me. I had done past life therapy...

In the birth of the diamond soul, it was like all my former lives wrapped around me like string on a kite spool, returning very quickly. I had done three years of past-life hypnotherapy and had a sense of my former lives, but they came back quickly, reached a critical mass, and fused. When...

Yeah, Michael Newton's work is so beautiful and so important. Started as a past life therapist, then accidentally gave an ambiguous instruction to a client, through which he learned that we could regress people, not only to their former lives, but we could regress people to the time in between their death and their...

About halfway through my journey, in the 38th session, in a year of great blessings, I was taken on an experience preceded by intense purification processes and a very intense death-rebirth process. At one phase in this journey, I experienced all my former lives coming into me. I was familiar with about a dozen...

I wrote my first book on reincarnation because it's an essential principle that divides philosophical understanding. Believing we're on Earth once versus multiple times leads to different visions of reality. I think we have overwhelming empirical evidence that reincarnation is simply a fact of life. Ian Stevenson at the University of Virginia studied children...

It is challenging. There are mitigating processes too. The deeper your experience of the intelligence and joy of the creative intelligence manifesting existence, the more you see the universe as it is. The universe is the body of the Divine, the body of God. It's a manifestation of profound intelligence, and once you touch...

It is challenging. Yet, there are mitigating processes. The deeper your experience of life's intelligence, the joy of creative intelligence manifesting existence, the more you see the universe as the body of the Divine, the body of God. The universe is a manifestation of intelligence, a profound intelligence. Once you touch that intelligence, it...

Stevenson showed memories and even birthmarks correspond to past life events. His monumental work on reincarnation demonstrates biological and memory continuity. Reading hundreds of cases of past-life therapies, it became clear reincarnation is part of our life rhythm. The nature of reincarnation and its broader implications also emerged in my sessions, expanding my understanding...

Well, as a philosopher, I think reincarnation is a fundamental and important concept to examine, because philosophical traditions diverge. If you believe that there is no reincarnation, and if you believe there is reincarnation, you end up with two different understandings of reality. So one of the early things I did in my academic...

My visions did not give me any details about how or when this would take place, except that we were entering a profound global systems crisis that was being triggered by a series of ecological crises around the planet, and this was of a scale and magnitude that was historically unprecedented. I was also...

I wrote my first book on reincarnation because I thought it was an essential principle. Our philosophical roads diverge if we think we're only on Earth one time versus multiple times. Those lead to different visions of reality. Today, I think we have overwhelming empirical evidence that reincarnation is simply true. It's a fact...

Before addressing the specific, I'll talk about the general. I believe we all know what we're getting into before incarnating. We choose our reincarnation, much like selecting a curriculum. This applies to me; I've always seen myself in service to the mother. That intent showed in my earlier ambition to be a priest, and...

You know, it may sound exotic describing it after the fact, but when you're in it, it feels like the most natural thing in the world. And again, I don't think you have to be a saint to do these things. Any mother or father worth the salt, when they see not only their...

Ian Stevenson and many researchers in past life therapy have produced data that, if unbiased, overwhelmingly supports reincarnation. Our consciousness is older than our body. We are beginners and don't know the physics of reincarnation: what the soul is, how consciousness encodes into a new brain or stays coherent after death. Our early understandings...

We broke up the questions; there were so many good ones, and we could spend hours just on those that have already been sent in. We broke them up into clusters. We thought that we'd go through some of the first cluster just to read some of the questions, so participants can get a...

Isn't that curious? I understand why my colleagues at the University, who tend to be materialist and reductionist, why they don't talk about it. But why wouldn't spiritual teachers use it to frame a larger and expanded horizon? Sometimes people say it can dilute your intensity of commitments for realization in the present. But...

Yes, but the notion that locks eternity as a metaphysical principle comes from the mistaken view that we live only once and there's no chance to correct our path. Fortunately, when deeply explored, neither past-life therapists nor Buddhists find eternal damnation. We're accountable for our actions but learn from them, enabling us to come...

Lifecycles is about reincarnation. When I was on my first sabbatical, I had been researching reincarnation. When I met Stan Grof's work, I also encountered the work of Ian Stevenson, a professor at the University of Virginia. His work convinced me that he had collected empirical evidence that reincarnation was a simple fact of...

Thank you. I completely agree. As we go deeper into this historical crisis, I think we're entering a collective dark night of the soul, a profound detoxification where history's poisons emerge from our collective experience. We're seeing this in our societal structures. If you’re interested in purifying or transformational work, with a powerful enough...

Rationally, Stevenson's tradition continues even though he's passed on. He's now looking from the bleacher seats, watching us from there. This book by Tom Schroeder, "Old Souls." Tom Schroeder wins the award for having the worst cover of any book in reincarnation research. But Tom Schroeder is an interesting guy. He's a reporter, he's...

Almeder says, if you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, then not to accept the argument is to act irrationally. Stevenson's tradition continues, even though he's passed on. He's now looking from the bleacher seats, watching us from there. This book by Tom Schroeder, "Old Souls." Tom Schroeder wins for having...

So many things are changing the world around us, so many exciting developments, so many powerful transformative processes taking place in our life, and for me as an academic, one of the great transformative changes taking place in universities is around this topic of death and around the research which is changing our relationship...

This work began with a book published in 1988 by Joel Witten and Joe Fisher. Joel Witten is a Canadian psychiatrist who was doing past life therapy on behalf of the Canadian government. He was interested in foreign news and accidentally gave an ambiguous direction to one of his clients. Suddenly, his client wasn't...

Ian Stevenson, who recently passed, was revolutionary in reincarnation theory, similar to Darwin with evolution. His work involved meticulous research on small children with spontaneous past-life memories. Ian specialized in verifying these memories, providing empirical data that moves reincarnation discourse onto a larger landscape.

Wow, I think we all chose this. We knew what we were getting into before we were born; we chose to enter into this time in history, even though we may have forgotten that choice temporarily while we're here. There are no victims here, and there are no innocents, in a way. We all...