Hypnosis and Past Life Regression

[Gray Dragaen]

Hey there! Has anyone ever experienced a past life regression through hypnosis?

If so, how did it feel? What did you see?

I didn't think I was truly being hypnotized until after I was instructed to wake up. I felt extremely groggy, like I just been woken up out of a dream. I also felt light headed and it took awhile for me to feel normal again.

PS-If this is not the correct forum in which to post this, please feel free to move it! :uhhuhuh:

[samanthagrayson]

I have had hynosis for something else and didn't like it. Then was warned away from having hynosis by someone.

But I have had past life regression via other means and saw plenty. It was a bit like watching TV

[MonSno_LeeDra]

Personaly I don't accept any of it. None of the techniques or safe guards have changed in how it is done (hypnosis) now compared to how it was done in the late 80's when all the false memory implant charges were being investigated. Charges of false sexual abuse by parents or siblings, created fantasies of past lives, etc. Most of it was implanted memories that never happened and were created by a combination of the hypnotist and the fantasis of the person being hypnotised.

While I do not rule out reincarnation memories or possible reincarnation of spirit I just don't buy into most of the supposed methods of determining if it has happened.

[Gray Dragaen]

See I'm not familiar with scandals in the late 80's (that's when I was born har har), but I do see that it could be very easy to ask leading questions or to persuade someone to believe something in some sort of altered state.

But basically, do you believe that it's possible to hypnotize someone? I was pretty much a skeptic until a few nights ago. And, interestingly enough, I didn't feel like she asked anything that could be leading. She simply counted down backwards, helped us with some deep breathing exercises/relaxation techniques, asked us questions that we didn't answer out loud (I.e-"Where are you?" "Are you male or female in this life?" etc). It was in a group, so no one got one-on-one attention.

If you don't believe that techniques are safe, what could be changed?

[MonSno_LeeDra]

It's not hypnosis itself that was the problem. Didn't really matter if it was self-hypnosis or done by a hypnotist in that regard. So yes I know hypnosis does work.

The ethics and techniques came into play once a person was hypnotised. It's sort of like making someone stop smoking by planting suggestions or behavior modification responses in them. You can't truly make a person do something under hypnosis that they wouldn't do normally but you can instill the though or suggestion. A number of court cases at the time revolved around the inplanting of false memories or suggestions that caused some major issues and raised some ethical concerns.

At the time I recall discussions about the whole notion of hypnosis and conditioned response or suggested response being something easily abused. Many of the pagans and occultist I knew would not touch it as to them it was not much "Hidden" knowledge as a means of controlling anothers thoughs and actions. Not in a fluffy sense of "And it harm none" type thing for we didn't adhear to that notion. I suppose a lot of it derived from the sense if we were going to do something to beat or defeat an opponet that would not be a means of doing so nor honorable.

Man been to long ago since I really considered all that and though it all out. Almost like a faint memory to me know as to the why's and why not's we discussed back then.

[Twinkle]

It's not hypnosis itself that was the problem. Didn't really matter if it was self-hypnosis or done by a hypnotist in that regard. So yes I know hypnosis does work.

The ethics and techniques came into play once a person was hypnotised. It's sort of like making someone stop smoking by planting suggestions or behavior modification responses in them. You can't truly make a person do something under hypnosis that they wouldn't do normally but you can instill the though or suggestion. A number of court cases at the time revolved around the inplanting of false memories or suggestions that caused some major issues and raised some ethical concerns.


This.

I put absolutely no stock in it, and I would warn others against it, as well.