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References to PLR in Buddhism death, and attract the newly departed soul to take rebirth According to Dr Newton, past-life regression also has _ and fulfil these last thoughts. mention in other religions prevailing in ancient and Sogyal Rinpoche wrote in The Tibetan Book of Living and mediaeval India because there was a greater Dying‘ that consciousness vibrates hundreds of times understanding then about the law of cause and effect (of faster when it is free of the body (such as after death), actions), also known as the law of karma. "Buddha's meaning that thoughts arising in the conscious mind Jataka tales and [the founder of Jainism] Mahavir's Jati after death manifest as though instantaneously. This Smaran were not just teachings, they were practical tools — suggests that we create our reality in the afterlife, just as to relive the past causes and thereby relieve the present _—_ we do in life but only far more forcefully. effects," he notes.’ After all, reincarnation is an integral part of Buddhism, _ Psychiatric Practices akin to PLR Healing which is why Buddhist priests The Hindu and Buddhis say that one of the main belief that consciousness objectives of life is to be able to survives death, and carries die well—that is, as consciously . imprints from its pas and as easily as is possible—to This suggests that incarnations, forms the basis for achieve eternal freedom from we create our reality past life regression Wee e material world or cycle o . f 9 is prac . rebirth. They tell of how the in the afterlife, Just as Tapping into these memories intensity of unfulfilled desires we do in life but only elps one understand and and emotions can retard the surmount deep-rooted soul's afterlife passage to a far more forcefully. problematic emotions. For al igher plane, like carrying too hat it may sound unscientific, much baggage with you when he practice of past-life you're journeying solo. For regression finds resonance in hese reasons, they advise he psychological healing meditating on the divine at the moment of death, andto —_ approach known as psychoanalysis, pioneered by Josef make this easier they have a tradition that involves a Breuer and Sigmund Freud in Vienna, Austria, in the ama or priest reading aloud from the Tibetan Book of the 1890s. According to interdisciplinary cosmologist Paul Dead (Bardo Thodol), telling an individual who is on his or | Von Ward, Breuer and Freud: er deathbed not to fear death. The book describes how "learned that [emotional] symptoms could be a soul just released from a body hungers for the reduced by exposing unrecognized emotional links experiences of its last mortal life. This desire, as it were, | between a repressed memory of an actual past event and eads the soul to return to the material world to __ its current psychological and physical effects. experience life once again. This also means that a dying "Freud developed the concept of free association as a hought, such as "I can't leave so and so person", may __ technique to recover long-lost feelings associated with a play over and over again in the mind of the soul, after traumatic incident. He used hypnosis to get past the patient's resistance to recalling what had been such a shock in the first place. He would then take people back to earlier events, particularly things that happened in childhood." These techniques are still being used by psychiatrists and psychologists, albei in modified versions, to help clients relive memories of traumatic events— memories which adversely affect their physical and mental health—and thereby release the blocked energies through conscious resolution. The success of these methods raises a pertinent question: if the recovery of suppressed childhood memories helps people solve some psychological issues, should not recovery of memories from an earlier lifetime have a similar, if not deeper, effect? eS mY NEw BUSINESS CARD death, and attract the newly departed soul to take rebirth and fulfil these last thoughts. Sogyal Rinpoche wrote in The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying’ that consciousness vibrates hundreds of times faster when it is free of the body (such as after death), meaning that thoughts arising in the conscious mind after death manifest as though instantaneously. This suggests that we create our reality in the afterlife, just as we do in life but only far more forcefully. This suggests that we create our reality in the afterlife, just as we do in life but only far more forcefully. ey Haw BUSINESS CARD f 42 * NEXUS JUNE - JULY 2011 www.nexusmagazine.com