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Past Life Regression Therapist Progress Report Part 3

In this third part of my report, I would like to point out the value that a Dolores Cannon trained PLRT (Past Life Regression Therapist) offers that many other regressionists might not offer. If you are interested in having a regression yourself someday consider these points before making an appointment.

What sort of training has the regressionist had and who was their teacher?

Think more training, and more degrees are better and will mean a more satisfying experience? Not necessarily. Traditionally or classically trained hypnotists from the medical field spend the majority of their training avoiding the very brain state that Dolores seeks and that which to her and her student's minds, provides the most interesting information. A PLRT trained in the Cannon method is more likely described as a metaphysician and most if not all have been spiritually drawn to this work to help the planet evolve. Some are indeed formerly traditionally trained hypnotists, but they certainly do not have to be and Dolores has commented many of her best students have not been trained formally by the medical profession. Ask your PLRT how they came to practice and trust your first impression with their answer.

How much time will the therapist spend with you for their fee?

I tell my clients to count on at least three hours and make sure their schedule allows for more than that. It takes time to get to know someone before conducting a worthwhile regression. If a regressionist books you for an hour start to finish for an initial session-beware. Please know that subsequent sessions if they are desired for whatever reason need not be so time consuming, but should still take at least two hours.

Will your regressionist digitally record the session for you to keep and refer to at a later time?

Going into a hypnotic trance is often like going into the dream state. You might think you remember all of what happened while you were "under" but it is highly likely you will tend to forget much about the session after time passes. Some clients have trouble remembering some or even most of their sessions. WIthout a recording, a past life regression would likely become as fleeting as many of our dreams.

Will your regressionist take you to speak with your higher self or to a place of healing after viewing a past life?

A regressionist using the Cannon Method knows that this is the most important part of a regression. The life viewed during a regression may or may not hold the majority of answers the client has questions about, but the higher self always has all the answers. If your regressionist simply takes you to view a past life without reviewing that life with your higher aspect, you may be left with more questions than when you first started!

Past Life Regression Therapist Progress Report Part 2

In this post I would like to discuss the concept of Past Life Regression and a bit of its history.

First, lets start out with the label "Past Life Regression". Not every life explored by a regressionist is one of a past life! What, you might ask? Isn't that the whole point? No, not necessarily. Let me explain.

When the good Dolores Cannon, my teacher and mentor, (and to be sure, others like Brian Weiss or Michael Newton), began exploration with hypnosis, they did in fact explore past lives almost exclusively. It was a strange, fascinating and amazing thing to go back into time and re-live lives and days that had gone by. It was then, and remains even now in 2009, a difficult thing for many people to comprehend: Hypnotize someone in the right way and you can shift them into focusing and talking about another life in another time and place!

But after a time, exploration of history and the past became easier to accept and was not so shocking. Years went by in this way, and then something new started to happen. Dolores says for her, it began to happen when her mind began to open to other possibilities and she was able to accept and comprehend other worlds and other kinds of realities other than just past lives.

Dolores began to have clients that described life on other planets. Then, life as other types of beings which were not human! Things got even stranger over the thousands of regressions she has performed in the last few decades. People began to describe lives where they were plants, or animals or even rocks or water or AIR! People described higher level existences where they were not in a physical body at all, but in an energy or light body. Then, people began to describe lives that were existing simultaneously with this one, and even harder for some to comprehend, lives that exist in our future.

Dolores would say that these revelations came to her in bits and pieces and only as her mind was able to accept them. She says she would NOT have been able to accept these possibilities at the beginning and believes that because her mind was smaller then, those lives were not chosen to be presented to her until she was "ready"

So we still call our sessions "Past Life Regressions" because that's the way they started and that's the way they are best known, but going to a past life is only one possible place you might visit in a regression.

I have been regressed four times and three of those times I did indeed visit past lives. The first time I was a woman in the Mideast, perhaps 300 years ago. The second time I was a young Polish girl who lived early in the last century. The third regression, performed by Dolores Cannon herself, I lived the life of a Caveman. (And yes, I was a MAN). The fourth and last regression I had was this past March. In this life I went to a parallel existence where I was living in an energy body studying sacred geometry.

Dolores says she has fewer and fewer past lives in her sessions as time goes on. Only about half of my own client's regressions involve past lives. The other half are simultaneous or future lives!

Dolores has shared her knowledge with the world through her 14 books. She publishes her own and other texts here. I highly recommend her Convoluted Universe series, and book four in the set will be coming out soon.

Past Life Regression Therapist Progress Report Part 1

I have been performing as many PLRs as possible since last July, and I also had the opportunity to have another regression myself in March. I never cease to be amazed at the information available and at the process itself.

I feel so blessed to be on the frontier of knew ways of acquiring knowledge!

In Part one of my report I thought I would share a wonderful and yet, not so surprising if you think about it, personal side effect I have been experiencing. This affect has been happening in most, but not all of my sessions.

I am actually "seeing" in my own mind some images that my clients are seeing themselves and describing during their trance. And I am "seeing them" before they are described to me.

 For instance, with one man I asked him if he could look down and see his feet. He said, "Yes." As he said yes, I saw adult male feet in simple leather sandals, dusty feet standing atop light colored sand. "Please describe what you see," I said, and sure enough, he said male, adult, and sandals. This session continued this way with much of what he described were images already somehow beamed to my head before I could ask the questions. This phenomenon makes asking questions a lot easier, let me tell you! I don't always experience this transmission of images, but its amazing and fascinating when it does happen. I don't hear sounds or feel sensations, or haven't yet anyway, but I do see images and I also can feel some emotions.

The same man in his session was telling me about joining a crowd to listen to someone speak. I already knew who he was going to listen to before the scene was described. I asked him what the man was saying and he told me. I asked him to tell me if he knew the man's name, but he remained very protective, and would not share that information, only telling me the man was a "great teacher". I didn't need to hear him say what his name was as I immediately felt "protective" myself! I saw the teacher's face too. I was standing right where my man in sandals was standing; at the rear of the crowd, near the left edge of a small rise of land. Let me tell you I was most affected by this whole session. I even dreamed about it that night. I became the man in the sandals and I followed the teacher as he walked the desert so long ago. What an amazing blessing that session was for us both.

Another recent session started out fairly tenuous. I asked the woman what she saw. At first, she said she saw "Nothing!" All was black and she could sense nothing either. I asked a few more questions and then, she saw a red glow. Soon, the red glow became more clear and she could see what it was that was glowing red. As soon as she got close enough to describe the red color I could see it too. It was a tower. "Its a tower!" She said. In my head was a tall monolithic tower, glowing red. It was made of light and had lines somehow incised on the sides. I could not tell what substance provided the light, it was just "light". I asked her to "Please describe the tower," and I made certain not to reveal the details I already saw. She described how tall the glowing structure was, and how it had lines on the visible planes.

The more I come to understand reality, the more I find it is all about energy, vibration and information. We as contemporary humans have come to believe we can only acquire relevant information through the five basic senses. But I promise you, that belief is very limited.

There are other ways to learn and access all of the wonderful information available to us and a hypnotic regression is one very fine and fascinating way!

7 FAQ's about Past Life Regression

I am thoroughly enjoying my new skill as a PLR Hypnotist, and in fact had another regression this morning.  I have thought it would be a good idea to put together some information for clients and prospective clients and decided to share my first FAQ page with my In Repose readers.

Please do feel free to post or email any question you might have to help me flesh out my list.

1. What is Past Life Regression?
A Past Life Regression (PLR) is a way of accessing information that seem to come from other lifetimes. The information can come in several ways, such as vivid imagery, strong emotions and viceral "knowing".

2. Why have a regression?
These sessions afford my clients unique opportunities for greater understanding of patterns of behavior, relationships, health issues, life purpose, talents and interests and recurring challenges. Exploring other existances can expand your perspective, of you, your soul, your family and the world at large.

3.  Are you a psychic who can tell me about my past lives?
No, that is not how a regression works. I facilitate you going into the trance state to help you to move through time by asking questions. Whatever information you get will come directly from you, not from me.

4. Is it safe? Do I "lose control" of myself?
Hypnosis is perfectly safe. You are normally in a light hypnotic state at various times during every day. When you daydream or even sometimes while you drive your car your brainwaves move into the same pattern as being under hypnosis. Hypnosis is not like it is typically portrayed on tv or in the movies. You cannot be made to think or do anything you do not want to think or do in your normal mind state. You might even remember most or all of the entire session. You will not lose yourself at all. You can think of our session as an elaborate guided daydream where we have a conversation about what is happening and what you see going on around you while you are in an exceptionally relaxed state.

5. What if I don't believe in Reincarnation?
Belief is not required. As long as you have an open mind and a willingness to explore you will benefit from the session.

6. Is it possible that my imagination will just "make up" a story?

Many people feel during or even after the session that they might have "made it all up". This is fairly common and exactly how I felt the first few times I had my own past life regressions. The human ego is very strong and will insist upon asserting itself and suggesting other realities, other than its own, are bogus. Just open your mind and "go with it" during the session. At the end of the day, the goal of a regression is to self-explore and gather information, not to "prove" one way or another that reincarnation is a reality for you or for anyone else.

7. What can I expect if I book a session?
First, we will sit down together and I will ask you a few questions to get to know you a bit better. I will find out what your goals for the session are, what you are interested in, what questions you might have. This part can take 45 minutes to an hour. Then, I will have you lie down and get comfortable and we will begin the hypnotic regression.

We will do a short progressive relaxation and then we will explore whatever life or lives your subconscious deems to be the most important for you to learn from that day. The regression typically lasts one hour, but can be slightly shorter or somewhat longer.

I will digitally record the entire regression session, and you will get a cd of the session mailed to you later, or if you'd rather, an MP3 to download. You may or may not remember the details of your regression on your own, and listening to the recording days, or even months afterward can be very revealing.

Reincarnation Station

A lovely new friend of mine just sent me a link to the Reincarnation Station.

Its a fun, answer about a dozen multiple choice questions interface that rewards you with a photo of what sort of life form you might end up in your next incarnation.

Happily I will be an owl in my next life.

That's great because I love the wind in my face and to feel lighter than air.

What sort of creature will YOU be?

(Thanks for the link Joy!)

My Life as a Caveman

(Continued from July 22)

I stood looking at the cave remembering. First the memories came as waves of feeling, then they were interspersed with details in the life. The angels still stood on both sides of me. Dolores asked if I wanted to go into the cave.

Nope. No, I really didn't want to go into the cave. The pit of my stomach turned cold. This cave was not a fun or lovely place. I was not sure I wanted to feel or remember anything about it. Dolores reminded me I was safe, Dolores persuaded me to go ahead and go inside. Ok, ok Dolores!

(The skill of the hypnotist really became apparent to me here. I would not have gone into the cave on my own at ALL. I would have just stood there or walked away.)

The angels walked with me to the opening but left after I went inside. It was a small cave, I had to duck to go in. It was pretty shallow inside as well, it certainly did not go far into the mountain. As I stood inside, looking around in the darkness I had bits of memory flit by like insects.

I remembered how I found the cave and how it became my home. It afforded me some measure of safety from the very largest of the animals that might want to make me their dinner, but only if I was on my guard. I would have to position myself just so, as to not be trapped and drug out as an easy dinner by a big cat or a bear. I had memories of snarls and paws reaching for my flesh while I cowered in terror.

And the thing about caves, well, every creature seems to want a cave. Every snake, wild dog and even other humans. It was only really my cave if I was standing in it. Leaving for any length of time was like setting out an invitation or a "for rent" sign.

Dolores asked me to look at my feet. Was I wearing shoes or clothes? What did I see? I answered HAIR. I was very hairy. I had big flat hairy red feet and lots of hair on my legs. I think I wore a modest animal skin covering around my waist, certainly nothing fancy. I was male. I have no idea how old I was, but I was not a child. I was not elderly. It seemed like I was a young man.

Dolores took me through a typical day and we found out about how hard it was to feed myself. We talked about how I found food, what I ate and what my daily life was like.

We discovered I was an outcast of sorts. I did not fit in with the other humans that lived nearby. For one thing I was "red". Most other humans were darker brown to black in coloring. This made me suspect from the start.

The other big reason I was shunned was because I annoyed the others by wanting to try things to help us survive that were "new". Anything "new", or any ideas offered that were unfamiliar created fear and mistrust amongst my kind. There was little cooperation or friendliness, I felt. Leadership was won by brute strength alone. I have no memory of anything one could term "love" from this lifetime.

Dolores soon took me to the day of my death.  I was still quite young, I was still alone, and in the end I was ambushed and killed for being different.

How strange, you know? To have a memory like this. I have a clear vision of the minutes that led up to MY death. I had a few moments to comprehend what was about to occur. I was going to die. There was no question about it. There was no way out.

I was not so much afraid as I was sad. (Which is interesting, because, the only time in my current life I thought I was going to die was when I was pregnant and "coding" in the hospital. I was not afraid then either. I was just deeply sad.) I was not even angry with my killers. I can still see the leader's snarling face and the mob mentality of the group as they came at me with sharpened sticks and spears.

It was over pretty fast. I felt no pain. I left that body shortly before I died.

The interesting thing about the Cannon method, and what distinguishes it from other Past Life Regression methods is that after the death of the person, Dolores takes you to what she refers to as "the subconscious". I prefer the term collective unconscious (first coined by Jung) or even better, the Super Conscious.

Dolores asks then, the Super Conscious to assess this life and to answer questions, and to also assist in healing. Many, if not most, regressionists only perform half of their job, by Cannon's standards, by only asking these questions of the personality itself.

I will save sharing the second part of my regression for another time and perhaps another place. I will say the information gleaned from my Super Conscious was fascinating and life affirming and in the end, absolutely healing and life changing. I recommend the experience most highly!

(Now, who wants to be MY first client?)

What is it like to have a Past Life Regression?

Interesting. To say the very least.

I had been waiting on the recorded session to arrive in the mail before writing about it.  I wanted to be accurate in my reporting, and with the cd, it will be easy to do so.

I eagerly tore open the envelope yesterday to find: a cassette tape. Seriously. I have nothing that even PLAYS a cassette tape. Not even my truck! I have been assured that I will get a cd (as will each of the other students in the class) but that will be a longer wait!

So what I will do is recap the highlights of my caveman life on another post, the ones I remember without the recording. This article will describe the session itself and what its like to be hypnotized.

Dolores Cannon has hypnotized more than a thousand people. She started way back in the 1960's and has perfected (and copyrighted!) a special technique to access the deep recesses of the human mind and, literally, beyond the human mind. She is the author of many books and is also considered the world's foremost authority on Nostradamus, having written three large volumes gleaned from the past life recollections of a man currently incarnated.

I have only read a couple of Dolores' books, Keepers of the Garden, and The Convoluted Universe, Book one. One glance at the matronly Mrs. Cannon and one might not imagine that it is likely your brain and entire sense of reality will be challenged if you attempt reading any of her books!

So back to the regression. After an interview session where she gets to know you and a bit about your life and your concerns, and what you might like to learn or heal in your life, she writes down the questions you have. Anyone I know would have a hundred questions but I basically had to keep the list very short, two to three inquiries at the most. She has you visit the restroom and prepare to visit, albeit briefly, another time and another place of the existance of your soul.

This was no small adventure I was about to embark on. I had awoken early and basically prayed to the angels for 4 hours about what was about to happen. I talked about and asked for many things. I asked to be able to heal from my constant chronic pain. I asked to have a clear notion about the purpose of my life. I asked the angels to stay with me while I explored, and I asked them to consider the others in the room who also might need healing.

Soon it was 9am, and class began with much anticipation. Dolores had a bed rolled into the conference room. She wanted her subject to be comfy, and to follow her regular MO in a regression session. Well that bed was the single most horrible, used up, beaten up jangle of springs and batting I have ever laid on in my life. I shudder to think about its history! The floor would easily have been more comfortable than this thing that could have doubled as a torture device to my chronic pain challenged body! But I valiantly attempted to make do. I shoved a couple of pillows under my back and rear end and tried to get comfortable.

Actually at this very moment, a student in the class came up to me and whispered something to me, so amazing and life changing I started to weep. That small moment, and that story is so big, I cannot begin to tell it right now, but by the end of this post I can tell you a tiny bit more about what she said.

So I closed my eyes and in a very very short amount of time, I was taken to "my beautiful place." I was aware of what was happening, but I was relaxing more and more and in her sing-song quiet and soothing voice, Dolores asked me questions. And I answered them. At first my nose itched, and my shoulders ached, but I didn't move at all. Except for crying and a couple of muscle spasms I did not move at all for 90 minutes.

My "beautiful place" is a place I go when I meditate, a place of healing. Its an open pavillion, with running water and flowers and all kinds of animals and angels. This is the place I started out in my mind. Dolores asked if anyone was with me and I said yes, Archangel Raphael was behind me, by my left shoulder. He was going to go with me on my regression.

Dolores suggested we sit on a cloud and head to a "relevant" life. I felt my elbows being supported by angels on either side and we floated down through the clouds and my feet touched the ground. I was standing maybe 20 yards from a large rock face of a hill. I described it as a rock "wall" to Dolores, but I did not mean anything built by humans. I was asked to look around and it took a while to see anything else, but I finally did. Towards the left was a small opening in the wall. Dolores asked if I wanted to explore inside. "I don't like caves" I think I said this more than once. Dolores persisted, and assured me I was safe, and I walked closer. I walked slowly and with every step closer to that dark small opening, I began to remember just exactly who I was, and what my life here was all about.

(To be continued tomorrow.)

(Oh, and what about what the lovely student whispered to me? She told me she saw angels, more angels than she had ever seen in any one place, and at any one time, and they were surrounding me, and reaching high into the heavens. How cool is that?)

Question for my Loyal Readers

July 13, 2008, I had a past life regression with the famous writer and regressionist, Dolores Cannon.

I was regressed in a classroom of 20 people who were there to learn the method to use in their own practice and explorations. I was also a student and I will also receive certification and 24 continuing education credit hours for completing the course. I hope to begin helping others in their quest for healing using this skill myself very soon.

I learned late yesterday that the cd recording of the session is "in the mail" and I should be receiving it any day.

My question for my regular readers is this: Would you all like a play-by-play of the event or a simple overview? The former would be very interesting for me to tackle as I would be examining the experience in depth piece by piece. Of course, this could take many posts and end up being quite the drawn-out experience. Perhaps such detail would bore you?

The latter idea, a simple overview, would likely be the best answer for "the masses" and their very short attention span, but I am not leaning toward that concept at the moment.

I'd love to know your thoughts, please comment, or those of you who shy from public voice, please email me. Inrepose@gmail.com

Quantum Thinking

Metaphysics and Physics are closer than you think. Quantum mechanics is a physical science dealing with the behavior of matter and energy on the scale of atoms and subatomic particles and waves.

"Let me repeat: Observe a particle as a wave, and it is a wave. Observe it as matter, and it is matter. … Thus it is our point of view, the way we look at reality that makes reality the way it is."—Joachim-Ernst Berendt, Nada Brahma: The World is Sound

The past week has been a series of revelations to me and the underpinning lesson for me so far is best described not religiously or even metaphysically, but scientifically as Berendt does in the quote above. This way of thinking, for me, has moved from an interesting sounding theory to something useful and tangible in my present life.

So many friends and family are curious about what happened in my session with Dolores Cannon on Sunday when we did a past life regression. The event was wonderful, to be sure, but it was only a small part of the gifts and insights that have been bestowed upon me recently.

Dolores provides her clients and she will provide me too, an audio recording of the session, but I don't have that available yet. When I get my recording I plan on transcribing it so that I will better be able to share my adventure with my readers. I spent hours talking to my family about it last night, and I was only able to hit the highlights of all that has happened.

I will say that I was successfully regressed to some ancient past when I was occupying an early human form that we might describe as a caveman. I was a man, and there actually was a cave involved, too.

It was a short and most brutal existence.

You Only have one Life...Right?

Well, maybe not.

Before I begin to tell you a story today, let me back up a little bit and start by telling you a couple of things. First, my life has been filled with experiences that defy logic and are not easily explained.

Second, I am a skeptic at heart. Truly, I am. I turn to logic first to answer any question or solve any problem. I give my left brain and and traditional ways of thinking about things first dibs when faced with a conundrum.

Then... when logic fails me, (as it has so many times)  I am willing to open my mind and my heart up to other possibilities according to the truth in my heart. Below is a story to illustrate this statement. It literally took me years to stop being a skeptic and fully accept the truth of this event I am about to describe to you.

It was about 1992. My children were babies I was living in New
Jersey. My friend Patty told me about a presentation about Past Lives
that would end in a group regression. We got our husbands to watch the
babies and off we went. I wasn't sure about the whole reincarnation concept,
but the idea of an afternoon free from diapers and dishes was most appealing.

Frankly, I don't remember a lot about the presentation, but I remember every
detail about the regression.

The leader had the small group  of people attending, lie on the floor and performed group hypnosis. Our visualization was that of descending down a staircase and seeing a series of doors that represented other lifetimes we have experienced. We were to pick a relevant door to examine a relevent life.

I walked down the stairs. I still remember picking the second door on my left. I opened the door and walked into this scene:

I was at the ceiling viewing remotely the scene where I was the woman
in the room but not in her body. It was a dark room but it was
daylight outside. The building was made of stone or carved out of
stone. The windows were few and covered against the heat of the
scorching sun. Outside people (mostly men) were walking with long
coverings over their bodies to protect them from the heat and sun. The
walls were blinding white and mostly rounded in form.

Inside the room there was more color. There was weavings on the wall,
rugs on the floor and many places to sit or lay. The woman was seated
on the floor, on pillows near a low table. To her left was a toddler
boy, her son. To her right was her father, a man with a beard and
covered head. On the table was food that she had prepared for their
midday meal. It was good food and there was plenty of it.

I knew her internal thoughts. She was thinking that she was so
grateful for the food, that she and her family did not need to worry
very much about being hungry, and that was not the case with many of
the people that were walking just outside her door. There were many
hungry people in their "villiage"?

The father and the son were eating happily and heartily but the woman
was merely picking at her food. She was feeling envious and guilty.
She was envious of her father, who could come and go as he pleased and
could participate in nearly any activity or travel he might wish. She
felt he had a good, full and interesting life. She was burning with
envy over this. She loved her father dearly, he treated her as well or
better than any man in their culture, but in their culture women were
not to create or achieve or experience much of anything but childbirth
and cooking and homekeeping. She was not even often allowed to spend
much time with other women. She felt like a prisoner.

Looking at her son she felt envious of his future life. HE would have
opportunities she could not even fathom. And all because he was male.
She felt like such a bad mother for envying her very own child but she
could not help her strong feelings.

She wanted to experience the world and felt that it was hidden from
her, kept from her. She was young and healthy and thought all she had
to look forward to was a repetition of this same mundane day and
gnawing envy and anger in her belly.

That was pretty much the regression.

I don't know time in history or the culture, but I figure middle
eastern and at least two or more hundred years ago. I did not know my
name or if I was married or how I died.

Now when I left that room that day I had this thought:

"Wow. Wasn't that great that even though I did not *really* get
hypnotized or regressed, that my imagination at least played along and
I was entertained for a part of this afternoon?"

I dismissed the whole thing as a product of my very
active imagination, and a wonderful parlor trick.

But something happened. Over the years I thought about that woman a
lot. I never forgot any of the small details of the experience. The event
became seared in my memory and remains now, as vivid of a personal
memory for my soul as any pivotal or important memory of my current life.

I also could and can EASILY see where some of my own attitudes about women
and their roles  in culture were and ARE affected by this woman's existence.

It took a while but I totally changed my mind and feel I had a genuine experience
and if for only a minute or two, I was transported back into time where my
soul occupied another body in another time.