Die Reinkarnationserfahrungen

Aus den Untersuchungen von einem Kanadischen Arzt und Psychiater Dr. Joel L. Whitton PhD (Life between Life – Scientific exploration into the void separating one incarnation from the next), der in Toronto praktizierte Arzt, sagt, dass wir selbst Herausforderungen in unserem Leben suchten, um sie zu überwinden. Aus der Überwindung der Herausforderungen entwickeln sich neue Qualitäten. D.h., wir haben den Skript unseres Leben selbst geschrieben und natürlich auch mit Helfer. Und das Resultat hängt von unserer Arbeit ab, ob wir die Herausforderungen gewachsen sind oder nicht.

In Jenem größeren, aber unbewussten Teil unseres Ichs (subconscious mind/Unterbewusstsein) wissen wir nämlich ganz genau, weshalb wir heute eine bestimmte Erfahrungen machen müssen, um auf der Ebene der Seele daraus zu lernen. Es ist nur das im Vergleich kleinere bewusste Ich (conscious mind), das es nicht weiß. In unseren Seele erkennen wir jedoch den Zusammenhang und lernen aus dieser Lektion, obwohl unser Verstand keine Ahnung davon hat.

Die Reinkarnationserfahrungen in der Rückführung lässt uns nicht nur verstehen, warum wir mit bestimmten Problemen oder wiederkehrenden Situationen konfrontiert sind, sie hilft auch aus der Welt zu schaffen. Werden nämlich negative Gefühle, die aus der Vergangenheit stammen, noch einmal in der Uhrsituation nacherlebt, so können sie aufgelöst und für immer verabschiedet werden. Ein Indiz dafür, dass Reinkarnation kein theoretisches Konstrukt ist, sondern tatsächlich erlebt werden kann, ist die heilsame Wirkung, die Rückführungserlebnis oft haben. Das Rückführungserlebnis kann uns auch schon für das heutige Leben besser darauf vorbereiten, da uns echte Werte und wichtige Zusammenhänge bewusster werden. Diese Erfahrung sind nicht nur lehrreich, sondern befreien uns weitgehend von der Angst vor dem Sterben, die vielen von uns im Laufe der Zeit mehr oder weniger anerzogen wurde.

Selbst wer es im Leben leicht hat, kann von der Rückführung (Reinkarnationserfahrung) profitieren. Denn er erkennt, weshalb ihm heute bestimmte Dinge geschenkt werden, und auch worauf es ankommt, um diese Umstände nicht zu vertun oder missbrauchen.

Es wird berichtet, dass beim Sterben eine Art “Lebensfilme“ ablaufe, in dem man sein ganzes Leben rasch vorüberziehen sehe. Darüber wird fast nie in Rückführungen berichtet. Was offensichtlich geschehen ist, dass das im Gehirn (also im Körper), gespeicherten Gedächtnis übertragen wird. In einem modernen Gleichnis zu sprechen: Wenn wir den Computer herunterfahren, wird der Inhalt des RAM-Speichers (das Gehirn) auf die Festplatte (Seelengedächtnis) übertragen. Sonst gehen die Daten verloren. So wie ein Computer ein RAM von vielleicht 512 MB hat, aber eine Festplatte von 100GB Kapazität – also 200 Mal so viel – hat offensichtlich das immaterielle Seelengedächtnis (subconscious mind / Unterbewusstsein) eine enorm viel größere Kapazität als das Gehirn, denn es muss ja die Erfahrung vieler Leben speichern. Wenn nun der Körper “heruntergefahren“ wird, muss also auf das Seelengedächtnis übertragen werden, damit es nicht verloren geht. Ein kurzer, aber sehr schneller Datenstrom fließt da hinüber. Es läuft eine Art “Lebensfilme“ ab.

Wenn die Seele den Körper verlassen hat und lichtwärts strebt, kommt es offensichtlich zu einer Form von Bewusstseinerweiterung. Das im verkörperten Zustand bewusste Ich (conscious mind) wird eins mit dem unbewussten Ich (subconscious mind/Unterbewusstsein) und beide werden zu einem großen bewussten Ich. Es gab also kein unbewusstes Ich mehr, sondern alles ist bewusst geworden. Aus diesem weiten bewussten Ich heraus urteile ich selbst über das körperlich Dasein, das ich verlassen habe. Ich erkenne, sicher nicht ohne Schmerz, das ich aus dem Ego und dem besserwisserischen, aber stark eingeschränkten bewussten Ich heraus manches falsch gemacht habe. Oft habe ich eigene Vorteile auf Kosten anderer gesucht oder gar Menschen bewusst Leid zugefügt – aus Rache, Hass oder einfach aus Ignoranz. Ich hatte meinen Spaß, meinen Gewinn, meine Schadenfreude, alles andere war mir egal. Ich wollte nichts davon wissen, das ich dafür später einmal eine Rechnung zu begleichen hätte.

Wenn ein Täter etwas Übles tut, erlebt er die Gefühle auf der Täterseite. Das ist jedoch nur die halbe Erfahrung. Die andere Hälfte fehlt noch: was das Opfer fühlte. Etwas in unserem Unbewussten will das wissen, wenngleich das bewusste Ich gern diese Erfahrung verzichten würde. Also suchen wir später sozusagen eine “Erfahrungsergänzung“ und erleben in einer ähnlichen Situationen auch die Opfergefühle. So wird die Erfahrung komplett. Man könnte hier einwenden, dass dann das Opfer auch die Gefühle des Täters erfahren müsse. Diese kennt aber die Seele des Opfers schon. Sie hat die entsprechende Erfahrung schon hinter sich, denn sie hat bereits vorher das Tätersein erlebt. Opfersein ist immer die karmische Folge des Täterseins. Die Seele, die ein Opfererlebnis hat, befindet sich in diesem Sinne schon einen Schritt weiter als der Täter. Demnach gibt es kein Leid ohne Grund, und den Grund haben wir in der Vergangenheit selbst gelegt. Karma daher bedeutet, dass das Gleichgewicht (Balance) und das Verstehen (Lernen) angestrebt wird. Es geht um Harmonie und das Lernen (Reifungsprozess).

Keine Seele ist für ewig verloren, jede bekommt immer wieder eine neue Chance, bis sie es endlich schafft, aus dem Kreislauf der Wiedergeburten herauszukommen und in die göttliche Lichtwelt zurückzukehren.

Auf diese Erde sind voll von jungen und unreifen Seele, deshalb haben wir so viele Probleme. Es sieht so aus wie Pyramide, je weiter nach oben, desto weniger sind die Anzahl der reifen Seele. Das ist ja klar: Die wirklich reifen Seele brauchen ja nicht mehr auf die Erde-Schule zu kommen.

Die jungen Seele freuen sich auf die erste Inkarnation, so ähnlich wie die Kinder auf den ersten Schultag sich freuen. Aber nach mehreren Inkarnationen haben die meisten keine Lust mehr wieder auf die Erde zu kommen: Es ist ja so hart!

Wir können nicht alle Aspekte des Lebens auf Einmal alles erleben, deshalb kommen wir immer wieder – bis alle Aspekte des Lebens erlebt und gelernt wurden. Das würde bedeuten mehrere Hundert-Inkarnationen.
Meiner Meinung nach, wir sollen auf unseres Leben schauen und das Beste daraus machen, so ähnlich wie die Austern, aus dem Schmutz wurden die Perle gemacht.

Rückführungs/Reinkarnationstherapie in Deutschland

In der Reinkarnationstherapie werden durch Rückführungen verdrängte Erinnerungen erfahrbar gemacht. Zu starke, unverarbeitete Erfahrungen in früheren Leben führen zu Problemen im jetzigen Leben. In den Problemen, mit denen wir heute konfrontiert werden, treten verdrängte Erinnerungen zunächst auf unbewusster Ebene in Erscheinung. Ungelöste Konflikte aus früheren Leben melden sich über unser Unterbewusstsein als irritierende Erlebnisse und durch psycho-somatische Symptome.
Rückführungen in frühere Leben erlauben dem Menschen, seine natürliche Identität in Freiheit und Verantwortung zu entfalten, indem er sich von alten Identitäten trennt. Er wird spontan, lebt in der Gegenwart, sieht das Leben realistischer und nutzt mehr von seinem kreativen Potential. Da ich mich selbst als die Ursache meines Schicksals erkenne, kann ich es konstruktiv in die Hand nehmen und notwendige Veränderungen aktiv herbeiführen. (Ingrid Vallieres)

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The Method Used in Past Life Regression

By Dr. Edith Fiore

Here I show you my method of regressing a person into a past life and describe clients’ reactions to exploring their previous lifetimes. What is like to experience a past life regression? I invite you to follow the steps.

First, I asked you what you would like to find out about yourself. Since you have come for a past life regression, not as a patient for therapy, your reasons may be fairly vague. Usually the answer is, “Oh, I’d just like to know who I was before.” At this point I offer the “menu” – various topics from which you can select. Sample items are:
- Exploring a past life relationship with a partner or family member.
- Finding a lifetime in which a talent or skill was highly developed.
- The first incarnation on earth.
- The last previous incarnation.
- A life as the opposite sex.
- If you have a special interest or hobby, such as a fascination with Victorian houses, the Civil War, racing cars, sailing, etc., then you might choose to investigate its origins.

The regression is an exciting adventure. You will not lose consciousness. Your conscious mind is always aware of what is going on, both within and without. In the beginning of the trance, and sometimes well into it, you may notice noises in the hall or outside of the room, but gradually you will focus more and more on the unfolding inner scene. Your conscious mind may doubt, question or revel on the scenes that develop. Of course, you are always aware of me, to some degree. Sometimes after coming out of the trance, people have reported wondering whom that voice belonged to. Some are aware that it is I and even address me during the regression. Other response to the voice, but pay no particular attention to it. It is there, accepted.

I point out to you that you are always in control of the situation. One client regressed to a lifetime as an American Indian girl, studying herbal medicine, became very evasive and finally announced determinedly, “I do not want to talk to you anymore!” Back in the present but still in altered state, she explained that, as Indian girl, she felt I was a “test.” Since the herbal cures were secret, she became really frightened of me. Also, she could not understand who was asking those threatening questions. When I tried to explain, we got lost in a hopeless tangle. Then and there, she refused to speak another word, even folding her arms across her chest to accentuate her decision.

I begin the hypnotic induction by asking you to lie on the couch. Then I suggest that you close your eyes and focus your attention on your breathing. When you show signs of beginning to relax, I ask you to use your imagination and “feel the relaxation from your closed eyelids flow out onto your temples like a warm, relaxing liquid.” I direct your attention to its spreading over, and relaxing, one by one, the muscles of your face, and then progressively those of your whole body. This takes about ten minutes. I ask you to imagine yourself lying down in your favorite place in nature and, using the various senses one at a time to experience the scenes and yourself in it. This is an easy way for you to prepare to experience the scenes that will develop during the regression.

By now, you are in a deep enough trance for a past life regression, but there are still two important steps:
· I set up finger signals by asking you to think the word “Yes” over and over and to notice that “a finger lifts all by itself – lifted by the subconscious mind.”
· A “No” finger and an “I don’t want to answer” finger come next.
· Then I asked the inner mind, or subconscious mind, if it is willing for you to go back to a former lifetime. If we get a “yes” response, we proceed directly.

Sometimes there is a great, almost insurmountable resistance from the subconscious mind to regress – and often for very valid reason. For an example, after many months of resisting anything more than a light trance, a patient finally found herself on an operating table in a hospital. The surgeons were performing a pre-frontal lobotomy on her. She bled to death as they walked out, having given up. After surfacing the origin of her fear of “going under and allowing someone to work on her brain,” she has regressed to many past lives with ease – and is solving her problems and eliminating her many symptoms.

If your subconscious indicates that there is some resistance to regressing, I then bargain with it. I offer a way of viewing the material that puts distance between you and the experience. I suggest that you will see it portrayed on a “movie screen” in your mind. If need be, I suggest a posthypnotic amnesia if you cannot handle certain aspects of what will emerge.

This arrangement agreed upon, I regress you to a former life by counting to ten very slowly, suggesting that you go back in time and space through a time tunnel – and at “the count of ten you will find yourself in another time and another place in another body, but it will be you.” I suggest that the images and impressions will be very clear and vivid. By then you usually start to move your closed eyes, grimace, look puzzled or in some individual way convey to me that you are experiencing something. I start questioning you and you are able to answer. Sometimes it takes a bit of prodding on my part for the images to emerge and for you to find yourself “there.”

People experience regressions in many different ways. I have found that if they experience one past life regression vividly with all five senses, they will usually experience all past lives very similarly. Some just describe seeing themselves, as though viewing a movie. Others fully relive every second. Some remain calm and unemotional, even while describing being raped, scalped, or burned at the stake. Others shout, cry, or scream.

I find it fascinating to see how one person reacts as different personalities in different lifetimes. Most of my clients are consummate “actors” as they portray their various roles. During the regression, many people get so much into the character that they do not understand words I use, such as “years,” “customer” and “country.” In these cases, I suspect that their conscious minds are really “not in the act” at all. Some people are very definite about names, dates, and places, while other are confused or get lifetimes mixed.

After progressing through the significant events in the former life, I take you through your death and into the state immediately following the dying experience. Like all other painful or traumatic experiences, people experience it differently – apparently according to their capacity to tolerate stress. I may need to help you by giving you calming suggestions through your death or any other unpleasant events.

After we have gone though the life we wanted to look at or have dealt with the material responsible for a problem, I give you suggestion to return, still remaining deeply relaxed, to the present and to yourself, mentioning your name. I count backward from ten to zero. Once back, we discuss what you have just experienced. You may add interesting details.
I asked you if any of the people you interacted are people you know in this lifetime. Sometimes you may feel uncertain. If so, I give you suggestion that help you to make it very clear.

At this point, I asked your inner mind (subconscious mind) to reveal to you all the ways in which the lifetime you have just explored has affected you in your present life. Often interests, fears, and other facets of one’s personality are due to unsuspected causes that can very easily be overlooked.

Just before I bring you out of the trance, I give you suggestions that you will feel “really good and remember everything and with the next few days receive more and more insights about that lifetimes.”

I then slowly count to ten and ask you to open your eyes. Often people open their eyes, frown in disbelief and say, “But I didn’t go anywhere! I was here all the time.” We then talk over what you have experienced and what it means to you.

Introduction to Past life Regression

By Dr. Edith Fiore

The confidence that I could help a person to help himself or herself, the confidence, that using regression therapy/past life regression, the problem could be solved and the symptoms removed motivated me to train myself to become a professional.

Using regression therapy/past life regression I asked my clients to comb back through the years, revealing events in their growing up that caused present symptoms – resulting in the removal of the symptoms. Startlingly, a problem – for example, one of forty years’ duration – could sometimes be traced back to the first months, event to the birth experience itself, which in many instances was found to be the trigger – often leaving the person feeling guilty, unwanted, and sometimes with such lifelong physical symptoms as recurring headaches. Gradually, I went back even further, discovering emotional problems arising from those supposedly cloistered months in the womb.

Many problems have their roots earlier – in former lives. My clients and I have found that previous lifetimes can have a profound impact on current lives in terms of an individual’s abilities, symptoms, relationships, character traits, and indeed, in a myriad other ways.

I want to share with you some human dramas of those people whose current lives were crippled because of tragic events that happened in their former lives. The growth they have made and the freedom they have found grew out of their indomitable courage in facing, once gain, those traumas of previous lives.

I have seen time and time again how a person’s present problems stem from subconscious factors - hidden in the recesses of their minds – many times from events that are totally forgotten. Often the causative factor is deeply buried in their mind.

I have found that past life regression consistently helpful, often resulting in immediate remission of chronic symptoms that do not return, even after months and years.

Symptoms and problems whose roots were traced to past lives cover a broad spectrum. Almost all clients with chronic weight excess of ten pounds or more have had a lifetime in which they either starved to death or suffered food deprivation for long periods. Starvation in past lives continues to affect the person in the present one, resulting in a compulsion to overeat.

One woman who had a persistent fluid retention problem – one that had defied medical treatment – found himself, several lifetimes ago, dying from dehydration and starvation, as well as smallpox.

Craving for particular foods have also been traced back to past lives. One client had severe hypertension and was approximately a hundred pounds overweight. Time after time she - against her will – devoured bags of potato chips and other salty junk foods. This compulsion played havoc with her futile attempts to lose weight and to lower her dangerous high blood pressure. During one regression she went back to a lifetime as a young American Indian boy who was desperately hungry because his tribe no longer had the salt to cure their dwindling game supply. Since that regression, she has not had the slightest compulsion to eat salty foods and is losing weight at a healthy rate.

Many clients have discovered that the causes of their phobias, fears, and aversions were rooted in some traumatic event of previous lifetimes. They have found that their irrational fears of snake, of fire, of being alone, of flying, of crowds, of natural cataclysms, such as earthquakes and storms, derive from some misfortune in a past life.

One client asked me to help her to overcome her phobia of snakes. After regressing back through her lifetime and finding nothing to explain her fears, I tried a hunch, I asked her, while she was in an altered (Alpha) state, if she had had an encounter with snakes before she was born. She saw herself as a fifteen-years-old Aztec girl in front of a pyramid, watching priests dancing with poisonous snakes in their mouths. She trembled with emotion and reported the bizarre rites in vivid detail. Returned to the present, but still deeply in Alpha state, she puzzled about what she had just experienced. She was quite distressed and stated vehemently, “I don’t believe all that stuff!” Here was a person who definitely rejected reincarnation, but who had just relived a lifetime that took place six hundred years ago.

Insomnia and other sleep disorder also stemmed, in many cases, from horrifying things that happened during sleep in past lives. For example, clients had relived being sexually molested or murdered while sleeping. One teenage boy who could only sleep if alone and in total silence traced his problem back to being bayoneted to death by a Japanese soldier while asleep on the sand on a Pacific island during World War II.

Headaches, pains, disorder or weaknesses of certain areas of the body were often related to events in former lifetimes, too. We have found chronic headaches, including migraines, to be the result of the clients’ having been guillotined, clubbed, stoned, shot, hanged, scalped, or in one way or the other, severely injured on the head or neck. Several people with chronic, intractable abdominal pains relived having their bellies run through with swords, bayonets or knives. Even the origin of menstrual problems has been traced to trauma, usually sexual, in a previous life.

While doing hypnotic regression with a male client who suffered a crippling sexual problem inhibitions, we found the origin of his problems when I asked him, while under hypnosis to go back to the origin of his problems, he said, “I was a Chatolic priest.” We traced through this seventeenth century lifetime, looking at his sexual attitudes as an Italian priest, and found the source of his sexual difficulties. The next time I saw him, he told me he was not only free of his sexual problems, but also felt better about himself in general.

Several months later I met a client who worked as a social director on a cruise liner. She was very eager to solve two problems she had for years. The first was the dangerously strong impulse she would experience to jump over board, and the other, paradoxically, was an irrational fear of getting lost at sea. I regressed her to the root cause of her problems. She found herself as a small Norwegian boy, Sven, on his father’s boat, being urged to jump as the boat crashed onto rocks. He disobeyed his father and drowned. During the same session she found herself in two other lifetimes, one as a fisherman, the other as a sailor – both lost at sea, both eventually drowning. When she came out of regression, she exclaimed that she understood both her fascination with the sea and the origin of her symptoms. Six weeks later, back from a trip across the Pacific, she was exuberant when she told me she no longer had either of the two problems. She had felt comfortable and free of anxiety during the entire trip.

Some clients have been amazed to find that some recurring nightmares are actually flashbacks to experiences lived in previous lives.

Actually, whether the former lifetimes that are relived are fantasies or actual experiences lived in a bygone era does not matter to me – getting results is important.

I have been fascinated by the revelation in past life regressions that the people we are relating to in our present lifetime we have been with before – often many times and in different roles. Instant attractions, dislikes, feelings of familiarity or distrust have been explained by events in former lives.

I found that there is no one aspect of character or human behavior that cannot be better understood through an examination of past life events. My clients have gone into previous existences to find the source of their talents, skills, interests, strengths, and weaknesses, as well as of specific symptoms and problems.

I have listened to and watched hundreds of people in past life regressions. I am convinced there is no deliberate, nor conscious attempt to deceive. The tears, shaking, flinching, smiling, gasping for breath, groaning, sweating and other physical manifestations are all too real. I feel that the end result, in term of remission of symptoms, is almost conclusive proof.

Clients most often experience very prosaic, humdrum, dreary past lives, totally lacking in glamour. Prior to industrial revolution and the birth of capitalism, poverty was the natural condition of almost the entire human race. It was not perceived as an aberration but as the norm. Ninety-eight percent of the world’s population lived in conditions unimaginable to a twentieth-century citizen. That was poverty of a kind that makes what we call poverty today look like luxury.

One question that arises if we do live again and again, what is the purpose of reincarnation? A woman who came for a past life regression is the source for an answer. She recounted a peak experience she had:

“At the moment of my son’s birth, a natural child bird, a voice spoke to me. It explains why we’re here – the reason why we’re here, what life is all about, the truth. The truth is that we’re all on a path back to God and we live may lifetimes. We live by the Law of Karma that dictates, in effect, that we have to pay off the debts from our past lives. Once we die, we look back on how we lived that life. We are the judges of how we lived that life. We look to see where we failed. It’s like a stylus constantly recording. Our soul is constantly having the stylus going, recording our deeds, our thoughts, our actions, whether or not we’re hurting anybody – and that’s what is all about. Love is how we treat others by words and by deeds. After we cross over, we examine how we lived our last lives. We see where we failed and where we maybe made some gains. Then our souls chose our next life. Our souls choose our next life, how we are going to make up for where we didn’t quite make it in our last lives.”

The purpose of reincarnation is therefore the perfecting of one’s soul. My clients’ descriptions of the knowledge and training they experience during the interim between lifetimes confirm the explanation that was given to the woman above at her son’s birth. Interestingly, she had not read or heard anything about Karma. It was totally new to her then.

The next question that might occur is, “Why do we keep coming back with the same people?” Eastern philosophers and metaphysicians would suggest – and I, too, find it true in my work with clients – that sometimes we have problems from past lifetimes to workout with those people.

One woman wanted to explore a previous lifetime with her daughter with whom she has had a fine, close relationship. In a recent past life they were loving sisters. Looking back over the regressions I have witnessed, the general rule seems to be when there is a good relationship now, there usually has been a positive relationship in previous lives. This is particularly true for fairly recent past lifetimes because problems from earlier lives together have been worked out. There is an obverse side to this coin. If there is disharmony now, a poor relationship is generally discovered in the past.

The ultimate question is, who we are? We are the sum total of all that we have been before.

I’m Floating - Flying Upward … to the Light

By Dr. Edith Fiore

Sometimes during a fifty minutes session a client dies three or even four times – all as different individuals. The individuals were the patients as he or she existed in previous lifetimes.

In most cases, the death experience is the event that is responsible for the person’s symptoms and problems. Previous deaths have affected us in many ways – some obvious, some subtle. A fall from a cliff results in a phobia of heights. A drowning, fear of water. Crashing a plane during a war engenders a fear of flying. Death from “consumption” during fire results in chronic lung problems. Being bayoneted during sleep, insomnia.

A few of my clients have shown a great fright at the prospect of going through their deaths under hypnosis. As one person asked, with genuine concern, “Do you think I might really die again?” We have to deal with the person’s fears about death – as with fears about any traumatic event – before we can proceed. The trust and confidence my clients feel in me are the most essential and valuable aspect of our work together. It’s an articles of faith with me never to push them into something they cannot handle emotionally. I use various techniques to minimize the discomfort of relived physical and emotional pain. Besides these techniques, I must sometimes introduce people to their first death little by little. It has never been necessary to do this more than once. At times I have them watch their death on the movie screen of their mind, as though watching someone else experience it. Then, gradually, they allow themselves more participation as we go through it again. Finally, they experience it fully and completely.

All that I shall show you corroborates the findings of Raymond A. Moody M.D. His book Life After Life is based on interviews with over a hundred people who “died” during operations, illness or accidents. Their descriptions of their experiences before resuscitation are virtually identical to those of my clients under hypnosis – except that many of my clients recall events in the interim between lifetimes whereas Moody’s do not. And for obvious reasons. His patients never made the transition complete. His patients chose not to die or were forced to return. Interestingly, the ancient “Tibetan Book of the Death” also portray many of the same events my clients have described.

One of the outstanding features in account of the death experience is that consciousness continues without a break. Also every client has described a release from physical and/or emotional pain at the moment of death – sometimes just before. If a person is dying of starvation, for example, there is no hunger. If the problem is lung congestion, often the first utterance is “I can breathe!”

This article describes the experience of dying and also includes numerous brief excerpts from transcripts that illustrate both the individuality and similarity of various death experiences.

A man in his thirties regressed to a life in which he murdered his adulterous wife. He was killed in the gas chamber for his crime.
Client A: “I can’t let them see that I care.” (His face breaks out in beads of sweat.)
Doctor: “Tell me how you feel. I won’t tell them.”
Client A: “They’re trappin’ me in.” (His body and voice trembling.)
Doctor: “Go on to the moment of your death at the count of three. One … two ... three.”
Client A: “It’s all over with … peaceful.”
The same client in another lifetime found himself in a foxhole during World War II.
Client A: “… I died again … shot in the neck.” (His body literally jerks. He grabs his neck.)
Doctor: “How did it feel to die?”
Client A: “I just jerked.”
Doctor: “Did you feel anything?”
Client A: “No pain.”
Doctor: “Are you in the spirit body?”
Client A: “Hm-hmm.”
Doctor: “How does that feel?”
Client A: “Oh, better.”


In a past life, a young woman found her wagon train attacked by Indians who eventually scalped and raped her, leaving her to die. After a long silence she said:
Client B: “I can see myself lying there.”
Doctor: “How do you feel?”
Client B: “It’s over.” (Her voice and face experience relief.)
Doctor: “Do you still feel the pain?”
Client B: “No.”
Doctor: “How do you feel?”
Client B: “Fine … and that’s it.” (Smiling.)


A woman describes the moment of her death. She has just been run over by a team of horses and a carriage.
Doctor: “Now I’m going to ask you to go right to the moment of your death at the count of three. One … two … three. Tell me what you’re experiencing.”
Client C: “Just letting go.”
Doctor: “Tell me how that feels.”
Client C: “Ahh … it feels good.”
Doctor: “Tell me more.”
Client C: “I feel lighter … I don’t feel heavy anymore.”
Doctor: “What else are you aware of?”
Client C: “I feel free.”
Doctor: “Where is your body?”
Client C: “On the ground.”
Doctor: “Where are you?”
Client C: “Just looking at it.”
Doctor: “From what viewpoint?”
Client C: “Just above it.”
Doctor: “How does your body look to you?”
Client C: “looks rumpled.”
Doctor: “What emotions are you aware of?”
Client C: “Feel relief.”


A woman in her twenties, with a weight problem, died of starvation in a previous life at the age of fifty-seven after being sick and very poor.
Doctor: “How long have you had this problem of not eating because of no money?”
Client D: “Oh … a few years. I don’t know how long …. I don’t feel well.” (Tears flowing down her face.)
Doctor: “Now I’d like you to move ahead a day. I’m going to count to five. One … two … three … four … five. Tell me what you are experiencing.”
Client D: “I’m dying.” (Whispering.)
Doctor: “Go to the moment of your death. One … two … three … four … five.”
Client D: (Silence.)
Doctor: “Margaret, what’s happening to you now?”
Client D: “I’m dead … and I’m not hungry anymore.” (Her voice stronger.)
Doctor: “How do you feel now that you’re dead?”
Client D: “I feel good.”


One of the most moving death experiences I have ever witnessed evolved from a distressing series of events. A woman in her early thirties was exploring under hypnosis the origin of her panic on numerous occasions when she smelled a certain odor, especially if she was in a small room or enclosure at the time. She began our session by describing such an intense degree of panic that she was nearly fainting, very nauseous and was sick for several days afterward. She had innocently stepped into an elevator that had just been cleaned. The smell of disinfectant was still heavy in the air.

Her search for the cause of the reaction led us to Nazi Germany in the early nineteen forties. After describing a life filled with terrifying events, she found herself herded into a cattle car where she was almost crushed in the darkness by many other terrified Jews. The odor of excrement was stifling. There were no windows for air or light. After what seemed an eternity, but actually was three days, the train stopped. She stepped out into the blinding daylight and was led by guards to a place where she and the others were told to strip in preparation for bathing. There were rumors! There was fear! She was extremely frightened as she undressed, putting her shoes in one big pile of shoes of all kinds, her wedding ring in another pile, her dress in still another. Trembling, she followed the others into a large room.

Doctor: “What is happening now?”
Client E: “They close the door.”
Doctor: “You ‘re all in one room?”
Client E: “Yes.” (Whispering.)
Doctor: “Who close the door?”
Client E: “The guards. I think.”
Doctor: “You say you’re too tight to take baths. What do you mean?”
Client E: “Close together.”
Doctor: “Are you touching anyone? Are you that close, or could you spread your arms out”
Client E: “I can move about. But it’s crowded!”
Doctor: “Tell me what you see in this room.”
Client E: “No windows … the floor is cement. I feel it on my feet … it’s cold ….”
Doctor: “Is there any light?”
Client E: “No it’s very dark.”
Doctor: “So you’re in total darkness?”
Client E: “Yes.”
Doctor: “And now what are you thinking and feeling? Remaining really relax, deeper and deeper with each breathe ….”
Client E: (Breathing hard. The pulse in her neck racing.)
Doctor: “What are people doing?”
Client E: “I don’t know. It doesn’t seem very clear anymore.”
Doctor: “Now I’m going to ask you to just relax, breathe in golden light for the next minute or so, concentrate on breathing in golden light. I’m going to count again to ten. As I do, your inner mind will double the relaxation. Just concentrate on breathing in golden light, beautiful, relaxing golden light and by the time we reach ten you will be profoundly relaxed. You will be able to remember, experiencing freely. Meanwhile just relaxing deeper and deeper … one … two … three … four … five … six … seven … eight … nine … ten. And now, Leah, tell me more about this room that you’re in. What are the people doing?”
Client E: “I smell something again.”
Doctor: “what is it like?”
Client E: “Disinfectant. There’s vents and it’s coming from that”
Doctor: “What did you say?”
Client E: “Vents (Her body trembles.). People are starting to move away from them … crowding and … and getting away.”
Doctor: “How far are you from the vents?”
Client E: “Quite away, but they’re shoving back against me.”
Doctor: “What are they doing besides moving ? Are they saying anything?”
Client E: “People are yelling and shouting and screaming.”
Doctor: “What are they saying as they yell and shout and scream?”
Client E: “I don’t know.”
Doctor: “Listen and hear. I’m going to count to three, and hear what they say. One … two … three.”
Client E: (Silence.)
Doctor: “What comes to mind?”
Client E: “Oh, no! People say. And … and. My God!” Some people say.”
Doctor: “What do you do? What are you doing?”
Client E: “I don’t – I don’t know. I don’t have any sense of it.”
Doctor: “Now what are you aware of? What’s happening now with people?”
Client E: “I slipped and fell.”
Doctor: “How did that happen?”
Client E: “I just feel strange.”
Doctor: “Tell me about that. Tell me how you feel just before you slip and fall. What are you feeling and what are you thinking?”
Client E: “I’m engulfed in terror.”
Doctor: “Now what’s happening?”
Client E: “Tangled mass of bodies … and excrement.”
Doctor: “Where are you?”
Client E: “I don’t know.”
Doctor: “Just become aware of what you feel, what you’re experiencing. Where do you feel you are in this tangles mass of bodies?”
Client E: “I feel I’m looking down on it. Now I just feel confused.”
Doctor: “Can you see?”
Client E: “Yes.”


Occasionally client weep after their death as they look down and see relatives grieving. The sadness is always for others, not for the person they were – no matter how traumatic their deaths are. Rarely, they may be momentarily upset when they look down and see their body; however, within seconds they express relief. It’s as though the release from the agony, and the newly experienced joy and ecstasy overcome the past suffering. For many, death is a rather slipping into a different – better – state.

Almost all people experiencing dying under hypnosis use the word “floating” to describe the immediate bodily sensations after death. They feel themselves rising into the air and viewing the scene below. They report hearing loud noises – ringing, buzzing, celestial music. A few have experienced going through a tunnel with a light at the other end.

Almost universally, clients report being alone in the spirit state immediately after death. After the sensation of floating, often within a few seconds, the presence of spiritual guides or a “guardian angel” is felt. Many experience them as a bright light – but a light with a benign, loving essence – there to help. Sometimes, the transition is aided by more definitive entities. The person is often greeted by deceased relatives or friends and, in one case, by a faithful dog the person had owned years before. Many times this evokes an emotional reaction of weeping with joy.


Roger, died during the jousting match.
Client F: “Well, it’s like a … a warmth went through my circulatory system … through my whole body … and I saw a white light and floated away.”
Doctor: “Tell me more about that. Where are you?”
Client F: “I was lying face down and then I floated down … floated up and … at first, for about three feet … and then I floated upright … just floated away.”
Doctor: “What does that mean to you?”
Client F: “Well, it means I died.” (Short laugh.)
Doctor: “What’s happening now?”
Client F: “Just relief. A feeling of warmth through my whole body and release in my body.”
Doctor: “What do you see?”
Client F: “Well, I see the whole area. I can see everything.” (Smiling.)

Roger described another death in another lifetime, this one from a stabbing during an argument at the gambling table.
Client F: “I’m really dead. I just … focused into a beam of light … and immediately was far happier, strangely enough … expansion and release … flying upward … to the light.”
Doctor: “Tell me more about it. Were you aware of your body as you were doing that?”
Client F: “I floated out of my body almost instantly.”
Doctor: “Did you feel any pain as you were being stabbed?”
Client F: “I felt sharp pain in the back … ripping.”
Doctor: “And what came next?”
Client F: “The light.”
Doctor: “Tell me about the light. What was it like?”
Client F: “It was a burst of light that – that just hits on my – like I couldn’t – couldn’t see anything anymore, just the light, and it was small and then it expanded very quickly. I just floated up and expanded into the light.”
Doctor: “Did you have any feeling about the light another than it being a light?”
Client F: “Warm.”
Doctor: “It’s warm in what sense?”
Client F: “It’s warm. It’s just physically warm.”
Doctor: “Do you have any other feeling about it?”
Client F: “It is friendly … and good.”
Doctor: “Is there anyone or anything there with you?”
Client F: “Friends of the family … waiting for me.”


A young woman was in treatments for severe headaches. During the course of a past-life regression she went through the major events in life as an aristocrat during the French Revolution. At the age of sixteen, she was captured by soldiers as she was escaping with her nanny at night. Her parents had already been arrested the day before. She describes the scene at the guillotine:
Client G: “I’m kneeling down.”
Doctor: “Is anyone there with you?”
Client G: “The soldiers.”
Doctor: “Tell me what happening now?”
Client G: (Sounds of labored breathing.)
Doctor: “What are your last thoughts?”
Client G: “Thinking how happy I was … how I wish I could live … marry and have children.” (Suddenly she jerks her head violently.)
Doctor: “Where is your head now? And your body now?”
Client G: “… They are separated.” (Sounding surprised.)
Doctor: “What did it feel like when the blade struck your neck?”
Client G: “It’s horrible painful.”
Doctor: “And now what are you experiencing?”
Client G: (Long silence) “I’m not … sad anymore … feel happy.”
Doctor: “Are you still in your body?”
Client G: “No.”
Doctor: “Are you there by yourself in spirit form?”
Client G: “No, my guides have come.” (Her face softens.)
Doctor: “What do they say to you? What do they communicate to you?”
Client G: “They have come to take me home.”
Doctor: “How many are there?”
Client G: “Five.”
Doctor: “Do they look familiar to you?”
Client G: “Yes, of course.”
Doctor: “Why is that?”
Client G: “Because they’re my guides. They’re always there when I come.”
Doctor: “They are the same one who are always there?”
Client G: “Yes.”
Doctor: “Is anybody else there? Are other spirits whom you recognize other than your guides?”
Client G: “Yes, my parents.”
Doctor: “Do they communicate with you?”
Client G: “Yes, they help me know that they don’t have any more pain.”


Margaret, a woman in her mid-fifties, had suffered for years from a phobia of heights. Even as a child she had recurrent nightmares of falling, always awakening before she reached the bottom. Her husband had recently suggested a trip to Europe. Her reaction was panic and despair. How she would love to go. But flying was out of question! We were hoping to solve the problem in time for her husband’s vacation, a few months in the future.

This was a particularly intriguing problem because we had quiet inadvertently discovered while working on another symptom that in a former lifetime she had also a phobia of heights. (It is not uncommon to see a symptom carried through several prior existences.)

After quite a lot of resistance to regressing, she found herself in a dirigible in the early nineteen hundreds. She was young Dutchman, Hans, who was the navigator of an experimental military airship. A great deal of turbulence forced the dirigible off its course and out over the ocean. Lightening struck it. It burst into flames and broke in two. Horrified, Hans watched the captain and the other crew member tumble out as the craft started to fall. Clinging to a metal rigging, he said:
Client H: “I’m hanging on to flame ….”
Doctor: “How do you feel?”
Client H: “Terrified.” (Her face is contorted.)
Doctor: “Tell me what’s happening now?”
Client H: “Losing my grip … and I let go.”
Doctor: “How do you feel as you let go?”
Client H: “Falling ….”
Doctor: “How does that feel?”
Client H: “It seems as though I’m falling very, very rapidly … and the water is coming closer and closer and I’m screaming ….”
Doctor: “Do you have any thoughts as you scream?”
Client H: “I know I’m going to die … and I’m frightened. I don’t like … I don’t like it and the water is coming up very, very fast … and when I hit it my neck breaks.”
Doctor: “You feel that happening? How are you falling? What is your position?”
Client H: “Just short of tumbling.”
Doctor: “What hits first?”
Client H: “My head.”
Doctor: “what are you aware of?”
Client H: “I think I was … I think it’s over very fast.”
Doctor: “And now what are you aware of?”
Client H: (Deep sigh.)
Doctor: “What are you aware of now, Hans?”
Client H: “Oh, my body is sinking down into the water ….”
Doctor: “Where are you? What are you aware of and where are you?”
Client H: “I’m just watching.”
Doctor: “Where are you watching from?”
Client H: “From under the water, beneath the water.”
Doctor: “What are you watching?”
Client H: “I’m just watching it float down, down … like a – like a rag doll.”
Doctor: “And now what are you aware of?”
Client H: “That I don’t want to be there anymore.”
Doctor: “And what do you do?”
Client H: “I just leave … I just shoot up to the surface.”
Doctor: “And then?”
Client H: “And then I keep right on going.”
Doctor: “How does that feel?”
Client H: “Fine. I can see … (Clear throat.) … I can see pieces of the wreckage floating on the water.”
Doctor: “And how do you feel about that?”
Client H: “Well, I’m … annoyed. It’s a waste.”
Doctor: “Tell me more?”
Client H: “Oh, I don’t know ….”
Doctor: “Are you alone?”
Client H: “Yes, I … I … there are others but … umm … we’re not talking.”
Doctor: “Who are the others?”
Client H: “They are the – they’re the crew.”
Doctor: “And they were where you are?”
Client H: “They’re … not there physically, but they’re … I know they’re there.”
Doctor: “Can you see them?”
Client H: “No, but we can communicate.”
Doctor: “Is there anyone, anything else there?”
Client H: “No, we just … we’re going somewhere else now.”
Doctor: “Where is that?”
Client H: “I don’t know … but we’re … we’re all going.”


Another woman client died as an abbot in a contemplative monastery in Italy in the fifteen hundreds. At the moment of his death he said:
Client I: “It’s peace.”
Doctor: “And what are you aware of?”
Client I: “Floating.”
Doctor: “Do you see anything?”
Client I: “It’s like I am in … the universe.” (Her voice is full of awe.)
Doctor: “Can you see your body?”
Client I: “It’s just like it’s floating … and there’s no pain, just floating
Doctor: “Are you alone
Doctor: “It’s like I’m going to meet someone. I’m alone but I don’t feel … alone.”


A few minutes after being clubbed to death, Becky, experienced:
Client J: “It’s my family”
Doctor: “Tell me what you see?”
Client J: “(Crying.) They’re waiting for me.”
Doctor: “Why are you crying?”
Client J: “I’m happy.”
Doctor: “Tell me what you see – whom you see.”
Client J: “My sisters and my parents.” (Whispering.) “They must have been killed.”
Doctor: “How do they look?”
Client J: (No answer.)
Doctor: “Do they look as they did when they were alive?”
Client J: “Yeah.”
Doctor: “Do they look exactly like that?”
Client J: “More vaporous.”
Doctor: “What is their expression?”
Client J: “They are welcoming me.” (Smiling.)
Doctor: “Now is there anything or anyone else there, too? Look around and see.”
Client J: “There‘s a very bright light.”
Doctor: “Where is it?”
Client J: “Off in the distance.”
Doctor: “Tell me about it. Do you have any feeling about it?”
Client J: “It’s warm. It’s welcoming.” (With a blissful expression on her face.)
Doctor: “All right. Let’s see if you go to it.”
Client J: “I’m still with my family.”
Doctor: “What are they doing?”
Client J: “Hugging me.”
Doctor: “Is there anyone else around?”
Client J: “No.”
Doctor: “And now what? What are you experiencing now?”
Client J: “Happiness.”


A woman suffering from depression died of starvation in her last incarnation.
Doctor: “Are you alone?”
Client K: (Whispering.) “No, there seems to be some people coming.”
Doctor: “Who are they?”
Client K: “Friends … and my mom.”
Doctor: “How do you feel when you see them?”
Client K: “Happy.”
Doctor: “Tell me about them?”
Client K: “They are hugging me.”
Doctor: “How do they look?”
Client K: “Well, my mother looks very old. I haven’t seen her in a long time. But she doesn’t wear glasses”
Doctor: “Did she used to wear glasses?”
Client K: “Yes, and she … she says that she doesn’t look the way I’m seeing her, but I have to get used to her.”
Doctor: “Is there anybody there whom you don’t know?”
Client K: “There a few that are there that I don’t really know. But everything’s fine.”
Doctor: “How are they dressed?”
Client K: “They have robes on. My mother’s the only one with a dress on and an apron.”
Doctor: “What about your body? What is your body like?”
Client K: “It’s not shriveled up like it was.”
Doctor: “Is it like a solid human body?”
Client K: “No, it’s like I can see lights on my body. I don’t really see anything other than a form – but I feel good.”

Several clients have reported their spirits’ mocking of the assailants or murderers. The following brief excerpts shows an instance of this kind of behavior. A woman client traced her allergy that affected her lungs and sinuses back to a death in a jungle.
Client L: “I’m in a jungle and it’s very hot.”
Doctor: “What are you doing in the jungle?”
Client L: “I’m pursued by some cannibals … they want to eat me.”
Doctor: “Tell me about yourself?”
Client L: “I’m a tall, strong warrior, very black.”
Doctor: “Did you say you were a warrior?”
Client L: “A warrior.”
Doctor: “And you’re very black?”
Client L: “Very black and I’m very strong.” (With pride in her voice.)
Doctor: “What is your name?”
Client L: “Wanna.”
Doctor: “Wanna, you said you were being pursued? Tell me about that.”
Client L: “There’s other warriors chasing me through … through the jungle and it’s very hot, humid … water’s running down my body. (Breathing fast.).”
Doctor: “Do you know who the people are who are pursuing you? Have you seen them?”
Client L: “They’re other black … warriors … from another tribe. I want to say Utse tribe.”
Doctor: “Utse?”
Client L: “I … (Gasping.) … I’m just running and I can’t catch my breath.”
Doctor: “Why is that?”
Client L: “The air seems too oppressive like there’s gas or … very dank … and I trip and fall into some quicksand and … and I’m being swallowed up.” (Panicky.)
Doctor: “Now where are the others who were pursuing you?”
Client L: “I can hear them yelling, shouting, and I’m struggling in this quicksand … and I can’t get out and I keep struggling and struggling.”
Doctor: “What are you aware of now?”
Client L: “It’s in my throat.” (Voice straining.) “It’s just coming up to my nose, I just can’t … I’m just going.” (Sweat breaking on her face.)
Doctor: “What are your thoughts?”
Client L: “What a way – what to go. No … honor.” (gasping for breath.)
Doctor: “And now where is the quicksand?”
Client L: “It’s going into my nose. It’s horrid … smell and putrid … I keep struggling and the weight is so heavy on me … (Struggling.) I can’t move (Grimacing.).”
Doctor: “Can you breath at this point?”
Client L: “No, I’m … I finally give up … and just sink.”
Doctor: “What are you experiencing as you sink?”
Client L: “Peace (Her whole body relaxes.). I can hear my heart pound in my ears and I just feel that my nostrils and mouth … and it’s just got this gritty, gritty sand … it kind of burns and … it’s fading away and I’m overcome with peace and I finally just give up.” (Her voice is peaceful.)
Doctor: “And then what happens?”
Client L: “And then I die.”
Doctor: “And now what are you aware of?”
Client L: “Relaxation. It seems like I’m momentarily watching myself sink and then I see warriors come and I … it looks like my spirit is laughing, like I finally beat them out.” (Smiling broadly.)
Doctor: “Are you aware of your spirit?”
Client L: “No, and my spirit doesn’t stay long. It just stays there for a moment and watches the warriors and feel amused that they didn’t catch him, catch me … and then I float away.”

Margaret, whom you met earlier, found that several lifetimes were contributing to her phobias of flying and of heights. Under hypnosis, she regressed into a lifetime as young male Oriental, Wong Tu. She described an extremely primitive existence. Wong Tu lived in a thatched hut with an aged, wizened and deeply beloved grandmother. One day there was simply nothing left to eat. Others in the village could not share their dwindling reserves. Wong Tu crossed a footbridge strung between two mountains and crept down the mountainside into another village. He quickly grabbed a prize - a chicken – and dashed up the mountain again, with outraged villagers in hot pursuit. He began running across the swaying footbridge, a chicken in one hand, the other gliding along the rope. The small pieces of bamboo that comprised the flooring were dangerously slippery because of a heavy fog. Much to Wong’s horror the men stopped their pursuit and started shaking the bridge with all their might. Formerly he had no fear when he crossed the bridge on numerous occasions. I asked him how he feels now.

Client H: “I’m frightened … I … I let go of the chicken, so that I can hold on with both hands … but I … I’m … my foot slips from under me … and I’m hanging there from the … from the rope on one side, on the left side of the bridge and I ….”
Doctor: “What are your feelings as this is happening, Wong?”
Client H: “I’m beginning to scream for help and they just keeping shaking … the ropes on the bridge … and I can see way, way down. It’s all rocks, way down, so far down rocks and water ….”
Doctor: “What are you thinking now, Wong?”
Client H: (Shaking violently.) “I’m falling.”
Doctor: “How do you feel as you’re falling?”
Client H: “I’m just falling.” … (Deep sigh.) … seems like I’m falling forever.
Doctor: “What thought go thorough your mind as you’re falling?”
Client H: “I’m … I don’t know ….”
Doctor: “Now, what is happening, Wong?”
Client H: “I can see my body falling but I’m … I’m not afraid anymore. It’s as though I were floating.”
Doctor: “Just watch your body and tell me what you see happening to it.”
Client H: “It falls onto rocks ….”
Doctor: “How do you feel as you see that happening? What are you aware of?”
Client H: “I … my face is down on the rocks but I don’t – I don’t feel anything. I was very … I was very afraid, but not … I’m … I’m just surprised.”
Doctor: “Where do you feel like you are?”
Client H: “I don’t know where I am. (Puzzled.) I’m just floating around. The body was falling but I stopped falling. I feel like …(Long pause.).”
Doctor: “And now I’d like you to move forward in time to the next significant event. Staying in the spirit state … one … two … three … four … five. What are you aware of?”
Client H: “I’m looking at my grandmother and she’s there, waiting for me to come … and there’s no food … and .. she sort of sits in a squatting position and puts her hands around her knees. She’s very old and she’s hungry and now she won’t … won’t live much longer because she doesn’t have food. She doesn’t have me to help her … and that makes me feel sad … but I don’t think I’ll … I don’t think, she really minds … because she’ll be (Deep sigh.) … she’s ready to leave that world anyway.”
Doctor: “Are you with anyone in the spiritual state?”
Client H: “No.”
Doctor: “Any friends?”
Client H: “No.”
Doctor: “I’d like you to move forward to the next significant event, just staying in your spiritual state. One … two … three … four … five. Where are you now and what are you experiencing?”
Client H: “Nothing.”
Doctor: “Does anything come to mind?”
Client H: “No.”
Doctor: “Speak out your thoughts. What are you experiencing?”
Doctor: “I don’t know … regret?”
Doctor: “Tell me what you mean by that.”
Client H: “I don’t know.”
Doctor: “I’d like you to move forward to the time when you are with your grandmother again. One … two … three … four … five. What are you experiencing now.”
Client H: “Well, she’s … I’m waiting for her and she’s … she is dying of starvation but she is … I can communicate with her.”
Doctor: “What have you communicated so far with her?”
Client H: “I tell her not to be afraid and not to worry and that we’ll be together soon, and she says she will be happy to be with me … that’s all.”
Doctor: “Go to the moment of her death at the count of five. One … two … three … four … five. Tell me what you’re seeing now.”
Client H: “She … I see her standing beside her own body looking down at it … and I call to her and she turns away from it and she moves in my direction very rapidly as though she were on a … oh … some … just moves very rapidly right through, through space .”
Doctor: “How does she look?”
Client H: “She looks much better than … she looks the same as she did before … she looks the same as she did … before I stole the chicken … before she died of starvation. She’s still old, but she … she looks happy and she’s smiling and she has her hands out to me … and sort of … can’t really touch her but I can see her.”
Doctor: “Do you communicate with her?”
Client H: “Yes.”
Doctor: “Tell me about that. How do you communicate and what do you communicate?”
Client H: “Oh, we communicate our thoughts.”
Doctor: “What are you saying or what are you communicating to her?”
Client H: “Just that I’m glad that she’s with me. Then I told her about the chicken because she never did know what happened to me … why I didn’t come back.”
Doctor: “What is she communicating to you?”
Client H: “She says that we’ll be together now, always. She’s smiling.”
Doctor: “Are you alone, the two of you?”
Client H: “Yes.”
Doctor: “And now what’s happening?”
Client H: “We’re just sort of moving along together now.”
Doctor: “How are you moving?”
Client H: “Just moving.”
Doctor: “Slowly or rapidly?”
Client H: “Slowly now that she’s here.”

Many of my clients have told me that going through the death experience has a profound and awakening effect on them. It was a peak experience, a highlight in this life. For those who believe in life after death, it was reassuring, almost constituting proof, it was often awe-inspiring.

For those who didn’t believe, it often triggered a chain reaction, with a shaking of old convictions and ending with dramatic changes in basic philosophical beliefs. People were moved to read everything they could find to try to substantiate their own personal experience. For some it created conflicts with their religious convictions. These people resolved these conflicts by growing – thinking for themselves. They felt comfortable and relax, as they realized they wouldn’t be damned as sinners if they began to question.

For most, it dispelled the fear of death, a fear that seems really to be the fear of the pain of dying, the fear of leaving loved ones behind and, ultimately, the fear of the unknown. After experiencing their own deaths, their fears dissipated. In fact, many reported preferring the afterlife to their present lives.

The feature that emerged most consistently was the inner, personal feeling of survival after death. As one client put it, “It’s wonderful to know that when we die, it’s just another beginning.”