Science Discovers Eternal Wisdom

Author(s): Amarendravijay, J D Lodaya, Bhuvanchandra
Publisher: Jain Sahitya Academy

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After the upheaval caused by Edgar Cayce and Bridey Murphy in USA regarding rebirth, many psychotherapists have begun to peep into the past lives of their patients through hypnotic age-regression.
One such psychotherapist Dr. Edith Fiore, discussing how she turned towards past-life therapy, states,
I was brought up attending various denominations of protestant churches ... I do not remember ever being taught or hearing about living more than one lifetime on earth ... not once in the nine years I spent studying psychology - either in colleges (Mount Holyoak college and Goucher college) or graduate schools (university of Maryland and University of Miami) - was the concept, or even the word reincarnation, used ... I cannot recall one lecture or one demonstration on the subject; ... Almost by accident ... it started out as something exciting to share ... when I first began using hypnosis I, like many other hypnotherapists, asked my patients to comb back through the years ... startlingly, a problem - for example, one of forty years' duration - could sometimes be traced back to first months or even to birth experience itself ... gradually, I went back even further, discovering emotional problems arising from those supposedly cloistered months in the womb...
Many of my patients have discovered that the causes of their phobias, fears and even aversions were rooted in some traumatic event of a previous lifetime.15
A girl had abnormal fear of snakes. During ageregression, it came out that in one of her remote past lives, she had witnessed priests dancing in front of the pyramids with poisonous snakes held in their mouths; this had frightened
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