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memories of their previous lives. In the sphere of parapsychology. there is an experiment called Age-Regression. By this method, the psychologist asked her, “Where are you?” She said, "I am in the astral world. In this world, I do not feel hungry. I do not get sleep and I do not experience tiresomeness". The doctor asked her, "How do you spend your time in that world?” She replied, "Here, we always spend time seeing things. I feel greatly delighted. Here, there is no time as such. There are neither days nor nights”..
The third question put to her was this, "In this world, what is happening in the house of Brian (a friend of Ruth Symmons)?” She replied, “I can know it, if I turn my attention towards it".
"Can you also see ?" “Yes, if I desire to see”. "Can you see by merely desiring to see?" “Yes, I can see and know by thinking". "Can you read the minds of others?” "Yes, I can also know the desires and thoughts of others". “In that astral world, do old age, disease and death prevail?”
"No. In this world, there is no old age. There is no disease or death. After departing from this world, we become transformed into other jivas."
"When you were in this world, could you see the future of the people of this world ?"
“Yes. I could see. Not only that; I could also know from there to which place they would go after their death”.
The account given by this American woman of her previous life and the astral world is an exact description of the heavenly world. The same description is found of the heavenly world in our granthas also. From this, it becomes evident that heaven exists. The heavenly world does exist.
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