The main intention of the interview was telling what led me to remember past lives and how I eventually ended up writing a couple of books about reincarnation. It is a summary of the first chapters of Pandora’s Box, though we didn’t get too deep on how the memories of my first past life (that of Cardiff) started to come out, nor how was all the process that entailed, which I personally consider the most interesting.
I have told it many times before. I wasn’t seeking to remember when those images started to appear in my head. I wasn’t doing anything special. I wasn’t seated on a past life therapist’s divan, nor had I taken psychodelic drugs, nor had I done a week fasting to reach illumination. It all was much more mundane, much simpler. The first time I was meditating on my home’s couch, trying to calm down my anxiety. I don’t even know how it happened, in fact during that summer of 2011 I was unable to repeat the experience. And when I made up my mind to try my first self-hypnosis recording, I was sitting on an old chair, with the laptop by my side, near a corner in my living room, wondering what the hell I was doing and what would my relatives think if they saw me doing something as stupid as listening to a recording that would take me to my past lives, if I had some and I wasn’t absolutely crazy…