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Best-Selling Author Joan Grant and "Far-Memory"

Here’s an interesting take on past life exploration by author Joan Grant: The technique of this type of far–memory, as opposed to the isolated incident which is a spontaneous recall or recovered with the aid of Hypnosis, entails learning how to shift the level of the majority of one’s attention from the current personality to the earlier one, while still retaining sufficient normal – waking – consciousness to dictate a running commentary of the earlier personality’s thoughts, emotions, and sensations.  Joan Grant, who was the author of “Winged Pharaoh” and seven other historical novels, used the term “far-memory” to describe her ability to remember her previous lives. I particularly like how she makes a distinction between her own “far-memory”  and hypnosis or spontaneous recall.  I’m reading “Many Lifetimes,” a book co-written by Grant and her husband, psychiatrist Denys Kelsey, who was one of the early adopters of hypnosis in psychiatric treatment. It’s an interesting read; in
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From Science Fiction Ideas to Science Facts

I’ve begun working on a presentation which has been inspired by the information that my clients are reporting in sessions. The subtitle of this work-in-progress is “The Intersection of Science Fiction and Spirituality.” This is because multiple past life journeyers are describing past lives in civilizations that existed prior to the academically accepted historical and archeological record. And then I saw this post by Red Pill Junkie at DailyGrail.com about a TEDx talk that was “flagged*” for falling outside of TED content guidelines. This lead me to another flagged TEDx talk, this one by Roger Gilbertson that covers similar ground to what I’m hearing in past life sessions. From the description of this talk: "A newly recognized type of Earth orbit can travel directly above a great circle formed by some of the oldest and most distinctive ancient human constructions on the surface of the Earth: the Giza pyramids, Machu Picchu, Easter Island, Angkor Wat, Mohenjo-Daro, and many ot

Why the Church Would Have banned me for this Post 1500 Years Ago

"Whosoever teaches the doctrine of a supposed pre-birth existence of the soul, and speaks of a monstrous restoration of this, is cursed. " A new book in German,  Jenseits von Einstein by author Peter Andreas, claims that in 553 AD, the Emperor Justinius had teachings on reincarnation banned. (And looking into the politics it took to accomplish this, I may have found a past life for Senator Mitch McConnell.) According to this new book: In the year 553, quite independently of the Pope, Justinius had the teachings of the church father Origen (185-253) banned by a synod. Origen had spoken out in unmistakable terms on the question of the repeated incarnations of the soul: ‘Each soul enters the world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defects of its past lives. Its place in this world is determined by past virtues and shortcomings.’     De Principalis. (In an interesting sync, I started this blog with a different version of this quote from Origen.)

Folie a Deux and the Hypnotic Process

I’ll admit to being (intellectually) triggered by the Hellier Season 2 episode where the team decided to use hypnosis to “induce” an abduction experience. Seeing filmed evidence of how easily a willing hypnotic subject can move into an emotionally upsetting experience opened my eyes to the possibility of how this could have happened in many of the cases that form the backbone of UFO and abduction research. In researching the use of hypnosis in the earliest case to reach a mass audience, that of Betty and Barney Hill, I came across the term that had caught my attention - Folie a Deux. The idea of a “shared madness” or the psychological concept that describes: “ the transference of delusional ideas from one 'primary' individual to one or more 'secondary' individuals (Lasègue & Falret, 1877.)” I am on the record as a skeptic of using hypnosis to retrieve memories because of my work as a past lives practitioner and researcher, so watching this be accomplished in H

The Intersection of Science Fiction and Spirituality

I recently experienced an eye opening, paradigm shifting realization. I had seen Graham Hancock’s fascinating lecture at Contact in the Desert in May and was impressed with both his research and his presentation of the concept that there have been multiple civilizations that have risen and fallen on this planet before our current era. This is something I had felt to be true, and that the powers that be were actively ignoring and even suppressing this information made it seem even more likely. But I never made the leap to my own personal past lives work. That is one side of the equation. The other is the experiences that my clients were reporting. Now the path to the most effective research is to f ollow the data . When Brian Weiss’ client was taken back to the source of her issues and went all the way back to ancient Egypt, he was probably stunned, confused, and had his belief systems shaken. The same with other researchers when first encountering the past lives connection. But foll

Hypnosis, Hellier, and Here We Go Again...

In my ongoing research and practice of past life explorations, I keep coming back to the subject of hypnosis, and the question of whether it is a benevolent or manipulative process. My EFT teacher, the late Ted Robinson, was one of the most respected hypnosis teachers and practitioners in the country, so I have been reluctant to be critical of hypnosis in the big picture while having serious doubts about its effectiveness as a tool for accessing past lives. I am reading Michael Newton’s handbook for what he calls “Hypnotherapy of Spiritual Regression” and have been extremely distressed by his references to an “authoritarian” approach in conducting between lives sessions. (More on that in an upcoming extended rant, I mean post.) And along comes the 2nd season of “Hellier” from the ghost hunting group headed by Greg and Dana Newkirk. In the show, which is available on Amazon Prime, the team takes a left turn from investigating the goblins that started their adventure, and veer in to a m

The Intersection of Science Fiction and Spirituality

I recently experienced an eye opening, paradigm shifting realization. I had seen Graham Hancock’s fascinating lecture at Contact in the Desert in May and was impressed with both his research and his presentation of the concept that there have been multiple civilizations that have risen and fallen on this planet before our current era. This is something I had felt to be true, and that the powers that be were actively ignoring and even suppressing this information made it seem even more likely. But I never made the leap to my own personal past lives work. That is one side of the equation. The other is the experiences that my clients were reporting. Now the path to the most effective research is to f ollow the data . When Brian Weiss’ client was taken back to the source of her issues and went all the way back to ancient Egypt, he was probably stunned, confused, and had his belief systems shaken. The same with other researchers when first encountering the past lives connection. But foll