2nd life chance does make sense
Dear editor: Re: Meet challenges now, not next life, Herald, Letters, July3
I read with great interest Patricia Kristie’s letter in Tuesday’s Herald.
Over a number of years I have read numerous books and articles on the subject of past life regression (i.e. by hypnosis). Particularly interesting was a book published in 1986 by psychiatrist Dr. Joel L. Whitton in co-operation with researcher Joe Fisher in which Dr. Whitton detailed research gleaned from sessions conducted over many years in which the patients described what took place during the period between death and re-birth. They all described more or less the same process.
They reported having several sessions with a panel of “Elder Souls” who invited them to analyze their past life in detail. The questions asked revealed that the panel knew more about the subect’s life than the subject could recall him/herself.
Once the panel was satisfied that the subject clearly understood the mistakes and successes of the past life, they set about planning the next life.
Interestingly, most people thought that the process had lasted about six months. But the difference between the documented date of their death in the past life and their birth in the present life was closer to 50 years, although for people who had died young the period was shorter. This suggests to me that time “on the other side” moves at a completely different pace to our concept of time.
It is apparent from Dr. Whitton’s research that Ms. Kristie is correct. We have been given goals to aim for in this life and, if we fail to achieve those goals, we will be told to “try again” in the next.
Also of interest was the response given by all these patients to the question: How did you know you were going to be reborn? The same question was posed in many of the other documented reports I have read and the answer was pretty much the same in every case: “I was taken and shown a woman. I saw that she was pregnant and realized that she was to be my mother.”
This suggests that the soul doesn’t enter the body until the latter stages of pregnancy, which has implications in the ongoing discussions surrounding abortion. Brian Butler
Penticton