Reincarnation is an obvious fact to some people and a preposterous delusional fantasy to others. Despite America’s Christian heritage over a quarter of Americans believe in reincarnation. In India that number is around 40% despite the fact that reincarnation is a key belief in Hinduism, Buddhism and the Sikh religion. I have been doing past life regression for over 12 years and have come up with some conclusions about this topic. These conclusions may seem counterintuitive for someone in this field but, I can only respond to my actual experiences with this topic.

Reincarnation is Unbelievable

On some level the ego cannot believe in reincarnation. To me, this explains the relatively low level of belief in reincarnation in a country that practically invented the concept and spread it worldwide.

Your ego is only concerned with this lifetime, this body, this “incarnational personality”. To the degree that it is interested in reincarnation, it can only use that concept to further its own goals. Otherwise, when past life memories go against the self image, these memories will be doubted.

This even happens in the other direction. The ego oftentimes rejects past lives that seem beyond it, such as lifetimes of wealth, fame or power.

Past life memories help us heal

If you go to a therapist to deal with your emotional issues you will inevitably go through past experiences to get at the root of the issues. Analyzing and understanding the past are essential to unravelling our negative patterns.

But what if you have past lives? Wouldn’t it be necessary to go through the origins of your issues even if these origins are in past lives?

Yes!

Emotional Catharsis

I have seen clients go through dramatic emotional clearings that have been life changing by revisiting a past life. It is interesting to note that these cathartic moments do not require the client to even believe that the events are true.

Identity Upgrade

Some of your issues are held in place by an inauthentic identity. You may overestimate your negative attributes and underestimate your abilities and talents.

When you relive past lives you experience abilities and mindests that you had in past lives that would benefit you now. Past life regression can be an amazing way to rediscover attributes that lie dormant within you that you can activate.

For example, if you have a fear of public speaking you may experience a past life as an orator. During the regression you will experience viscerally what it is like to speak in public without fear, even with supreme confidence. Sometimes this will lead a client to quickly drop their fears, other times they will benefit from a kind of roadmap they have now internalized.

Believing in reincarnation isn’t the point

In my opinion we will never truly know what happens after we die until we die. That’s why I don’t think it’s important what you believe. The truth is the truth. Obviously I tend to believe in reincarnation. I just think that it’s probably more amazing than we can imagine. It’s even more amazing than we can experience, even in past life regression, while in a physical body.

I have done around 2000 past life regression sessions on clients since 2010. I have also experienced many of my own sessions, exploring my own past lives. After all of this it is tempting to feel like I know “what’s up”. I try not to get stuck in that feeling.

On the other hand, when 2000 people tell you essentially the same thing, you tend to believe them. Like I always say, “They didn’t all have a meeting beforehand and conspire to bullshit me.”

So, what happens after death if reincarnation is true?

From what I have experienced in the past life regression sessions I’ve facilitated, life really is like a dream.

What I mean by that is that after death we look back on our lives the way you look back on a dream. You are quite disconnected to it amazingly quickly.

So, after you die you float out of your body. You can look at it and most people do. No matter how you died you already feel like that body is almost another person. Clients will say some version of “I feel sorry for him/her.” The identity has shifted, sometimes dramatically and sometimes the shift is slower.

Most of my clients do not report being met by loved ones. Usually they are alone, even if they died with others. They may stick around for the funeral but their sense of time is different. They can see the future of people in their lives instantly and see how everything turns out. They can also see the purpose for the life and determine how well they fulfilled it.

Then they either go to a kind of “resting place” where no more communication is possible or they go to a place of learning where they can review the life in light of their soul purpose and make plans for the next life. Rinse and repeat…

Row,row,row your boat

Basically, it seems like the song was right the whole time. Life is like a dream.

When people ask the standard questions about human suffering I bring in the dream/nightmare analogy.

               “If you could make a deal where you would get a million dollars for having a horrible nightmare, would you? In the morning you would barely remember the dream and the memories that did remain would gradually fade. During the dream it would seem absolutely real. There would be terror and agony. But in the morning it would be laughed off as a dream and you would have the million. Would you take the deal?”

My contention is that you already have. You took the deal and this is the dream, or maybe the nightmare.

Wake up!

The cool thing about reincarnation, past life regression and all of this, is that it presents an amazing opportunity to awaken from the dream or nightmare that we are in. This waking up can lead to a life that is more like lucid dreaming. When we crack the code we wake up in the dream. When this happens we reach a new level in the game. And that’s amazing, fun and hilarious.