![]() "I had a deep-rooted insecurity since my childhood of losing my loved ones. Savita Mahajan, assistant dean of the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, was on the verge of a nervous breakdown when someone pointed her to Many Lives, Many Masters. As the great Swiss psychotherapist Carl Jung explained, we are all inheritors of a collective mythology. We are all souls and we are all connected." That is why, says Weiss in his best-selling book Many Lives, Many Masters, in a journey into past lives one changes race, religion, colour and gender. The water melts and now there's no individuality anymore. This intermingling of her life and his is the basis for the analogy that he uses most often to explain the mystery of multiple lives and crossover memory: "We are like ice cubes, which are made from water. In case his condition is past life related, he automatically gets led to that past life which has a significant connection with his problem." The modern sage of past-life therapy, Dr Brian Weiss, was a robust sceptic himself until a patient stunned him with details of his family life which she could not have possibly known. "Once the client is guided into a state of trance, his mind is pointed towards the source of his problem. ![]() "It is a bit like the searching for filenames options in a computer," explains Chibber. She was unable to help him mainly because his faith in Islam - which does not sanction belief in past lives - came in the way. One therapist remembers a client from Abu Dhabi who had OCD or obsessive compulsive disorder. A dogmatic mind is an impediment, as is a befuddled one. This is where PLR requires its patients to take a leap of faith by using hypnosis as a time capsule to travel through the pages of one's personal history. But while the belief in the good-and-evil karmic cycle is implicit, the received wisdom also is that one cannot re-enter a life that is over, or have any access to a memorial inheritance that belonged to a different life-body in a different time frame. In a predominantly Hindu country like India, the concept of a past life and karma is as ancient and accepted as time itself, and finds mention in the Upanishads and Patanjali's Yogasutra. ![]() Practitioners say that memory a powerful touchstone of understanding but sceptics are inclined to dismiss these vivid flashbacks as "false" and imply that they are cleverly prompted. It is a journey usually undertaken when one is in search of a spiritual experience or when one wishes to cure an illness - physical or emotional. Leap of faith Simply put, past life regression is a journey a person takes to his or her past life while he or she is hypnotised. "Now even people from small towns like Budaun in UP are visiting us." "Earlier, we had patients from the metros and abroad," says clinical hypnotherapist and past-life therapist Jyotika Chhibber of the Light of Life institute in Mumbai. All over India, people with phobias, anxieties and physical ailments ranging from diabetes to depression are considering going in for this drugless therapy where the only invasion is that of memory. The woman who facilitated this jigsaw perfect catharsis was none other than Dr Trupti Jayin, whose television show Raaz Pichle Janam Ka has sent interest in past life therapy soaring. By reliving that terrible experience, she rid herself of the watery corpse, and for the first time in years took a shower with her eyes closed. This dramatic epiphany was revealed to her when she consulted a past-life therapist who hypnotised her in order to help her find an answer for the bad dreams. When she saw her sister's body crash to the ground, she had leaped out of hiding only to be swept away by the thundering torrent. In a tragic life that she had lived before her present humdrum one in Noida, she had watched mutely as her sister was raped and pushed to her death under a waterfall. And then suddenly, the curtains parted, and all was staggeringly clear. Water and sleep are both natural agencies of healing, but for this 22-year-old, they were contaminated by a dread so deep that its origins twisted beyond her frightened reach. Night after night, she dreamed that she was being raped. In the bedroom, the phobia took a more vicious turn. She learnt to shower with her eyes wide open, but even then, the sound of running water filled her with unease. The moment her eyelids flickered shut under the warm jet of water, the horror would begin. She would step into the shower and turn it on. As patients with everything from diabetes to depression line up for flashbacks, TOI-Crest finds out whether it's hokum or healing. Interest in past-life regression therapy has been soaring across the country.
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