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Listeners' questions and comments.
2. A listener mentions the concept of “all-that-is”, which by all accounts comes from the books of Seth. He is not understood very well and Wambach tells an anecdote about what Seth used to say who he was in reality, a bottle coming from our future lives with a message that gets materialized through Jane Roberts. Personally, I am not interested.
3. A listener brings up the topic of multidimensionality, that is, the possibility that in reality we are living all our lives at the same time. There is another hypnotist who got a lot of cases giving this suggestion to his subjects, and therefore she wonders about the nature of the mind, which apparently is willing to play any game you suggest to it. She questions if we will be ever certain that all this is real and not just a consequence of that suggestion. Wambach explains that the idea of multiple personalities introduced by Seth Two has not yet been dictated completely through Jane, or some aspects of it have not yet been developed. In my opinion, this is because Roberts herself doesn’t make sense of it and the concept of simultaneous lives is not real (if the reader wants to know why I think this way, they can consult my other blog). However, Wambach states that it is quite obvious to her that our past lives don’t go one after the other like beads on a string, but it is more similar to the segments of an orange. We would be in the center of the orange, in an equidistant position to each of those segments. I don’t agree with this idea, but I do agree with her following comment: we can share our consciousness with other people and it is possible that many of what we interpret as our own past life memories, supposedly simultaneous, are indeed fragments of other souls’ lives that for some reason we can access. In other words, somehow we all are interconnected.
5. A listener asks something interesting: whether when you hypnotize the same subject again and take them to the same year, she obtains the same past life, and if that would prove anything. Wambach replies she does, she has verified it in many subjects, Bob Logg among them, and what she finds is that it is always consistent with the past life they had been reporting previously. However, she thinks this doesn't prove anything, except the subconscious remembers what it previously said. Here I differ slightly with Wambach: I think that, in effect, it doesn’t prove anything, but it does give more strength to the memories. In fact, to me that is a sign that what we are seeing is really a memory — which, in addition, generally gets wider with time— and not a mere fantasy. Anyway, it is a curious question to me, in the sense that it only applies when you only regress the same subject a few times, which is common in past life therapy. Those of us who practice self-hypnosis in a regular basis, know that consistence is there from the beginning. Otherwise, would we really be so convinced that these are indeed past lives?
He also asks if she has found which the purpose of reincarnation is. Wambach first mentions that when she asks her subjects, they normally answer they chose the second half of 20th century because there was going to be a scientific and technological revolution and they were going to be able to achieve many things in a single life, though others said it was only because other members of the committee had organized it this way. In regards to biological sex —and this seems to me quite interesting, as many people keep wondering about the soul’s gender— says that the spirit is both male and female, and you choose your sex in the next life depending on what you need. If you are a woman, you will find giving love is easier, so you will choose to be a woman if you need that aspect of development. If you need more sense of power and control, you will rather be a man. When she has to specify about the ultimate purpose of reincarnating, she says all the subjects here start giving a general answer: to learn to love.
6. Someone asks if she has hypnotized someone whose culture is other than Western civilization. Wambach replies the majority of her subjects are white and Western, and even so she has obtained a race distribution that corresponds with the historical reality in the world population. Two-thirds of her subjects were Asian or African. Besides, she relates that her plans for the future include hypnotizing specific groups of subjects, such as physically handicapped people, to see whether they chose that condition; American Indians, to see whether their beliefs interfere with the results; gays, to see whether their sexual orientation has something to do with past life experiences; and prisoners in jail. It is interesting to mention that the members of other races she could hypnotize had belonged to other race in past lives. She had a case of a very militant American Indian who had been a shepherd in Lebanon, and he got quite ticked off by it, as he would have never imagined he had been Jewish in a past life.
7. A woman asks a very interesting question about suicide, what the experience of someone who has committed suicide is like. Unfortunately, Wambach doesn’t have many of these cases, but she does tell the case of a woman who shot herself in the head because she wanted to avoid a scandal. As soon as she fired, she could see lights around her and thought: “My God, I haven't changed a bit, I'm dead but nothing's changed, I am still faced with the same problems, feelings, thoughts, everything else. I don't have a body to do anything about it with”. Her impression was she had to go through the same again to solve a problem that perhaps could have been solved in that life. I think here we have to be very cautious with the way we express ourselves. In my experience, it is true suicide doesn’t solve anything, especially because your emotions will still be the same after you are dead, but I disagree with the fact you have to come back to face the same problem. I think that circumstances in each life are always completely different and two issues we have to face are never going to be the same. Indeed, your emotional issues are the ones that persist, and those are the ones that can originate problems or similar situations to what you already lived. But it is not a karmic matter or because you are obliged to “solve problems”. It is because there are emotions that need to be processed properly.
8. Another woman describes her extraterrestrial past life.
9. A listener suggests that a way to verify whether or not this is fantasy, would be to send the subjects to a particular date where it is known there was an eclipse or a comet passed, to see if they describe it as it was. Wambach says it is not a bad idea, but she doesn’t see how she could to it in practice. The majority of subjects don’t even care who was king or pope in a given time period.
Then he asks if she has encountered people who described the same past life and possibly were together in it. Wambach replies she has, it happens frequently in her workshops, and she always makes them fill their data sheets before they talk to each other, so, unless we are talking of telepathy, it seems that shared memories exist. To me this piece of information is very curious, as it is also a quite frequent fact in forums. Personally, it used to cause me a lot of incredulity... until it happened to me.
10. Someone brings up the topic of famous past lives, in particular he asks if she has ever found two people claiming to be, for example, Julius Caesar, something that, I have to say, is also relatively frequent in forums. I think Wambach explains it very well, saying that normally someone who claims to have been someone famous is because they had an impression they lived in that time period, and their ego or rational mind quickly makes them think: “Well, if I lived in that time, I must have been Beethoven”. And they convince themselves they were. Here several things can be added: the concept of arquetypical affinity, which I think it is what Wambach is referring to, and also, the narcissistic personality disorder. Both are concepts I develop in my books and in the forums I frequent, so I will say no more. I also have to add that if reincarnation is true, someone has to have been that famous personage. And I have known several people that claim to have been someone famous in a past life, of whom I have no doubt they speak the truth. Here it is essential to know how to discern and analyze the level of credibility of each person.
Hypnosis.
1. WHAT HAPPENS IN A HYPNOTIC STATE.
Wambach compares it to the hypnagogic state, that is to say, that moment in which we are between vigil and sleep, when we go to bed at night. Usually, when we go to bed, we all begin to think about the daily events, and gradually that logical thought begins to turn into another more characteristic of the brain’s right hemisphere: you start thinking about the bow tie that individual was wearing, or faces you have seen, or a song... and before you notice, you are asleep. Then the REM sleep stage comes. Under hypnosis it happens that eyes also begin to move as in this stage, not in vain the Greek word “hypno” means sleep too, and that is why Wambach uses it. This can be verified by anyone who practices self-hypnosis, it is something I have experienced myself in numerous occasions. When you start getting alleged past life memories, you live it all as if in a dream, the difference is you are more awake than in a dream, and everything is extremely real.
According to Wambach, memory is not stored in form of words, rather it is evoked by a smell or a taste, and this kind of sensorial memory is stored in the right brain. This is why the first hypnotic instructions are simple patter to take you to that altered state of consciousness in which you use the right brain, as happens in sleep. This is the reason many times the answers to our problems turn up as symbols in our dreams. Here we are the ones who direct our dream, using the right brain. The hypnotist, in this sense, would do the same that the dream’s director, only in hypnosis, instead of using the right brain, other person’s left brain is used. So, the hypnotist’s questions have to be carefully designed to be as neutral as possible.
This explanation gives the answer to one of the greatest critics I have found from certain researchers that consider hypnosis is not reliable to verify past lives. With this kind of opinions, the only thing they proved to me is they know nothing about hypnosis. Each technique we use to get past life memories has its advantages and disadvantages. In this case, hypnosis helps you visualize and relive the memory, but it is harder to get specific data, such as dates or names, because in order to do that we have to use the left brain, and this causes us to leave the trance slightly and then go back. Understanding this mechanism, it is better understood that people with spontaneous memories might be more accurate when giving specific data, but this doesn’t invalidate the memory itself. Even so, I have been able to verify two of my past lives, using only self-hypnosis. And once more I must agree with her when she says that in order to find out how the subject was named in a past life, she had to make someone call them by their name or make them see it written on a letter or something like that. That is how I learned my name in at least one of my verified lives: hearing how people addressed me, the same way I once heard they called me “Captain” aboard a ship.
2. THE HYPNOTIC TRANCE IS MORE COMMON THAN IT SEEMS.
Many people still don’t understand this. They think that entering a hypnotic trance means someone has to hypnotize you and take you to some strange place in your mind, you are going to lose your consciousness and when you wake up you won’t be able to remember anything. No, not at all. We get into a hypnotic state when we watch TV and start thinking about something else, when we do a routine task like preparing dinner or ironing and our mind begins to wander, or when you drive a car and when you arrive to your destiny you think, “Wow, I wasn’t aware of the road”. I have been saying this since I started to remember, but for some reason the majority of people still doesn’t believe that remembering is easier than it seems. I am not saying that every time you get into a hypnotic state you are going to go to a past life, but it does gets you in that special mental state in which apparently you connect with something else. And that is why the hypnagogic state usually is also propitious for alleged past life flashes to come to you. As Wambach says, in this society we have been taught since we were children to express ourselves with words, too much importance is given to speech, and we have gotten used to our left brain constantly giving orders to the right brain. Every time this happens, we are our own hypnotist. And this is self-hypnosis: one of the more useful techniques, in my experience, to remember past lives.
3. DOES AN INDIVIDUAL LOSE CONTROL UNDER HYPNOSIS?
According to Wambach, no. The same way you can wake up from a dream when unpleasant things turn up, you can do the same in a regression if there is something you don’t want to see. No one can be hypnotized against their will.
4. DIFFERENT LEVELS IN THE DEPTH OF HYPNOSIS.
Wambach describes there are several levels of depth in hypnosis, something I have also observed. She says a phrase I like a lot: it is not the same to remember past lives than reliving past lives. This latter occurs when you reach a certain level of depth and it is your body the one that starts to react to what you see, it is something more physical than mental. In my experience, in these occasions it is when you get the more vivid memories, and emotions are especially intense. It is really like being inside a movie, like reliving it, indeed. Beyond that, it seems one gets into a mediumistic trance, which is possibly what originates experiences like Jane Robert’s, or, I add, the apparition of “messages of the masters” as we see in some reincarnation books. If they are truly real entities, or the person’s subconscious manifesting itself as another personality, I think it should be researched in each particular case.
5. RELATIONSHIP OF HYPNOSIS WITH RELIGION.
The essence of true religion is connecting us with our spiritual side, and so rituals exist. These are like the hypnotist’s patter in the sense they are designed to bring you to a hypnotic state. The Latin mass, the prayers, the repetitive chants... and sometimes, if the adequate level is reached, there are people in all cultures that will begin to shake, to speak in strange tongues, etc. These people will be considered the saint man, or the one that receives messages from the gods, and are in the roots of every religion. Then cults surge because many people feel the need to be hypnotized by other person, they feel the need to submit themselves to the authority of a paternal figure.
With this latter paragraph I can’t agree more.