Dr. Michael Newton developed and pioneered the most advanced form of hypnotherapy techniques in spiritual regression. Dr Michael Newton has been a hypnotherapist for over 50 years and a Life Between Lives therapist for over 40 years. He is considered a pioneer in uncovering the mysteries about life after death through the use of Spiritual Regression. He spiritually regressed over 7000 individuals. The most important findings were highlighted in his two best-selling books, Journey of Souls with spiritual regressions of 29 subjects, and Destiny of Souls with spiritual regressions of 67 subjects. In his third book "Life-Between-Lives," Dr. Michael Newton published a deep clinical hypnotic process, developed over many years, designed to reconnect you with your soul self, and your spiritual guiding beings and thereby awakening an understanding of your immortal identity. All of his subjects recalled their stunning past-life experiences and life between lives and articulately revealed the graphic and groundbreaking details. Amazingly all his subjects witnessed and revealed very similar or the exact same spiritual experiences and even used the same words to describe the spiritual events. This webpage not only sums up the Dr. Michael Newton's startling discoveries, but also answers clearly the following questions:
   
         Who Am I?

        What Was the Purpose of My Existence on the Planet Earth?
        Where Do I Come From?, Why Am I Here? & Where Am I Going to?
        How It Feels to Die?
        What is the Journey and Destiny of Soul Right After Death?
        How Your Life Will Be Reviewed by a Tribunal (Council of Wise Beings & Elders)?
        Who are Soul Mates, Spiritual Guides, Council of Elders?
        How Souls Live in Small Groups/Clusters in the Spirit World?
        How Souls in the Spirit World Connect with and Comfort the Living?
        What Do We Do During Life-Between-Lives in the Spirit World?
        How Many Levels of Souls (Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced)?
        What is The Higher Power (Divine Purple Light), Oneness or Creator?
        How Disturbed Souls Become Ghosts & Demons and Attack Innocent Humans?
        How & Why You Choose Certain Body to Reincarnate on the Planet Earth?
        And Many Other Graphic and Groundbreaking Details

In coming decades, if not in years from now, this kind of clinical research should be built and expanded until we have a detailed understanding of life on the higher dimensions. With Dr. Michael Newton's work and those of similar investigators, we are finally gaining an understanding of life in higher dimensions based on research and first-hand reports, rather than speculation and blind belief.


Biography of Dr. Michael Newton
Michael Duff Newton, PhD (75 years old in 2007, exact date of birth is unknown), holds a doctorate in Counseling Psychology, and is a California State-certified Master Hypnotherapist, a member of the American Counseling Association and founder of The Newton Institute (TNI). He has been on the faculty of higher educational institutions as a teacher while active in private practice in Los Angeles. In addition, Dr. Newton has been a corporate consultant and worked as a behavioral counselor and group therapy director for community mental health centers and spiritual renewal organizations in cooperation with hospital and social service agencies. He has been a hypnotherapist for over 45 years and a LBL therapist for over 30 years. He is considered a pioneer in uncovering the mysteries about life after death through the use of Spiritual Regression. He devoted his private hypnotherapy practice to behavior modification and helping people access their higher spiritual selves. Through the development of his own age-regression technique, Dr. Newton discovered that it is possible to take his clients beyond their past-life experiences to uncover a more meaningful life—that is the soul existence in the spirit world between lives. He has taught and certified over 100 practicing Hypnotherapists the Life-Between-Lives training course around the world. Three of his best selling books “Journey of Souls, Destiny of Souls and Life between Lives” have been translated into over 25 languages:

Dr. Newton has appeared on numerous radio and television shows and is an active speaker on the lecture circuit explaining his discoveries and beliefs about our immortal life in the spirit world. You can see him speaking on YouTube. Click on the link below:

As of November 2003, Dr. Newton has officially retired from active clinical practice of seeing clients. He no longer teaches the entire coursework personally. However he still works part time, lecturing and training. Dr. Michael Newton is an author, a historian, amateur astronomer and world traveler. Dr. Newton and his wife, Peggy, now reside in the Sierra Nevada Mountains Range (In Spanish, it means Snowy Range) of northern California—the highest mountain peak in the United States outside Alaska.

Awards
    In 1998 Dr. Newton received the National Association of Transpersonal Hypnotherapists (NATH) annual award of "Most Unique Contribution by a Hypnotherapist in Bridging Mind, Body and Spirit."  He was also honored for his years of clinical soul memory research and discoveries into the cosmology of the afterlife.

    In 2001 he was a winner of the annual Independent Publishers Association Book Award, at the Annual Book Exposition for his 2^nd book “Destiny of Souls.”


Dr. Michael Newton’s Best-Selling Books
1. Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives (1994),
    [Examined 29 subjects under special clinical hypnosis techniques]
2. Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Lives (2000) and
    [Examined 67 subjects under special clinical hypnosis techniques]
3. Life Between Lives, published by Llewellyn (2004).
    [A Step-by-Step Guide Written for Practitioners]

All these three books have been translated into over 25 languages thus far.

 

1. Journey Of Souls: Case Studies of
Life Between Lives (Oh, My god I am not Really Dead, Am I?) 
Author: Michael Newton, PhD
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2. Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of
Life Between Lives (Paperback) 
Author: Michael Newton, PhD
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3. Life Between Lives: Hypnotherapy for Spiritual Regression (Paperback)
Author: Michael Newton, PhD
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4. Memories of the Afterlife: Life Between Lives Stories of Personal Transformation  Editor: Michael Newton (Published in Oct 2009)    List Price: $17.95  Price: $11.52
 

Spiritual Regression

Dr. Brian Weiss' Research
Past Life Regressions & Space Between Lives or Life Between Lives
 

Biography of Dr. Brian Weiss: Brian L. Weiss, MD (born in Brooklyn in 1944) is one of the world's foremost experts in the hypnotic past-life-regression therapy, and one of the first medical doctors to explore the past lives of his patients as a means of therapy. Dr. Weiss owns a private practice in Miami, Florida, USA, staffed with highly experienced hypnotherapists, regression therapists, psychologists and social workers who conduct past life regression sessions and spiritual psychotherapy sessions to those in need. In addition, Dr. Weiss conducts national and international seminars and hands-on training workshops on past-life-regression therapy. His wife Carole K. Weiss, MSW, has worked with him since 1981 and has been co-training on past-life-regression therapy with him since 1995. Please visit his website https://www.brianweiss.com/.

Dr. Brian L. Weiss is a psychiatrist by profession and best selling author who currently lives in Miami, Florida, USA. He holds a BA in Chemistry from Columbia University in 1966, a Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, graduate and received his medical degree (MD) at Yale Medical School in 1970. At the age of 35, he became the first Chief of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami, Florida, and a professor at the University of Miami's medical school. He is currently the Chairman Emeritus of psychiatry at the Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Miami, Florida.

Dr. Weiss Met Catherine in 1980 Who Changed His Life
As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Weiss spent years in the disciplined study of the human psychology, training his mind to think as a scientist and a physician. In his earlier life, Dr. Weiss considered himself as a materialistic person who rarely gave much thought to anything mystical, philosophical or spiritual. He held steadfastly to conservatism in his profession, and used to argue against any spiritual thing that could not be proved by traditional scientific methods. But this all changed in 1980 when he met his 27-year-old patient named “Catherine” who came to his office desperately seeking help for her anxiety, panic attacks, and phobias.

For 18 months, Dr. Weiss used conventional methods of treatment to help Catherine overcome her traumas. When nothing seemed to work, he tried traditional hypnosis, which, he explains, is an excellent tool to help a patient remember long-forgotten incidents. There is nothing mysterious about it. It is just a state of focused concentration. Under the instruction of a trained hypnotist, the patient’s body relaxes, causing the memory to sharpen, eliciting memories of long-forgotten traumas that were disrupting their lives. After inducing a trance, Dr. Weiss asked Catherine to go back to the origin of the time from which her symptoms arose. Much to his astonishment, that hypnotic suggestion regressed her back to a time approximately 4000 years ago in a place like Babylon where she died in a flood, and had originally suffered the traumatic experiences that were the root causes of her present-day problems. 

At first Dr. Weiss, influenced by his own skepticism, thought Catherine was experiencing a fantasy of some false memories, or maybe remembering a movie. In any case, her fear of drowning disappeared. Over the next few months, in a series of trance-like states, Dr. Weiss regressed Catherine to many more past lives and with each regression, another fear disappeared. Painful acts of past life memories were proved to be the causative factors of her recurring nightmares, anxiety attack and panic attack symptoms. She remembered altogether 86 past lives in physical state, and discovered that she lived in different places on the planet Earth both as female and male. She recalled vividly the details of each birth, her name, her family members, her physical appearance, the landscape, and how she was killed by stabbing in one life, by drowning or by illness in another. And in each lifetime she experienced myriad events making progress to fulfill all of the agreements and all of the Karmic debts that were accumulated by her actions.

Catherine Revealed Startling Details to Dr. Weiss
During a past-life-regression session, Catherine found herself unexpectedly regressed to a spiritual state of space-between-lives or life-between-lives where she met with many Masters, highly evolved and enlightened higher beings. From this spiritual state, Catherine delivered the following two stunning messages:

  1. Catherine delivered a message to Dr. Weiss from his father, who died long ago, by revealing his father’s name (Avrom) correctly in Hebrew language—a name she could not have known.

  2. Catherine delivered another stunning message to Dr. Weiss from his first-born son (Adam) who died when he was just 23 days old from a very rare heart condition.

Dr. Weiss’s skepticism was totally eroded as a result of these astonishing messages from Catherine. He was fully convinced that the past life memories, reincarnation and the spiritual state of life-between-life are indeed true. And his life would never be the same. He has done detailed past-life-regressions of multiple lives in dozens of more patients. None of these patients was psychotic, hallucinating, or experiencing multiple personality disorders.

After twenty years of diligent research through conducting hypnotic sessions, he produced five remarkable Brian Weis books, as listed below, publishing his groundbreaking discoveries of past-life-memories and life-between-life revelations.

      1. Many Lives, Many Masters
      2. Through Time Into Healing
      3. Only Love Is Real
      4. Messages from the Masters
      5. Same Soul, Many Bodies

Dr. Weiss's 1^st Book “Many Lives, Many Masters"
In his 1^st book, “Many Lives, Many Masters,” Dr. Weiss reported the true story of a prominent psychiatrist, Himself, his young patient Catherine, the results of Past-Life-Regression therapy, and Messages (Remarkable Revelations) from the Masters that changed both their lives.

Messages From the Masters
Catherine during her regressions floated out of her body after her death of past lives. Dr. Weiss knew that she never read the studies of Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross or Dr. Raymond Moody, who have both written books about Near Death Experiences. Yet she revealed similar or even more experiences to those described in those publications. As she floated out of her body after each death, she repeatedly said: “I am Aware of a Bright Light; It’s the Wonderful Light; You Get Energy from this Light.” Then, while waiting to be reborn in the in-between-lives state, she met with the Masters and learned from them the great wisdom and became a conduit for transcendental knowledge. From what Catherine said she learned from the Masters, Dr. Weiss summarized her sacred revelations as follows:

Teachings From the Voices of the Master Spirits:
  1. Our task is to learn on this planet, to become God-like through knowledge. By knowledge we approach God, and then we can rest. Then we come back to teach and help others.
  2. There are many gods, for God is in each of us.
  3. We have to be on different planes at different times. Each one is a level of higher consciousness. What plane we go to depends upon how far we’ve progressed.
  4. We must share our knowledge with other people. We all have abilities far beyond what we use. You should check your voices, if you do not, you carry them over with you to another life, when you decide you are strong enough to master the external problems, then you will no longer have them in your next life.
  5. Everybody’s path is basically the same. We all must learn certain attitudes while we’re in physical state. Charity, Hope, Faith, and Love are the topics that we must master in order to know them full well.
  6. Everything is energy. Humans can only see the outside, but you can go much deeper. Being in a physical state is not normal. Being in spiritual state is natural. When we are sent back to this physical life, it’s to learn new things in life. In the spirit world you have to wait, and then your going back to physical life is renewed.
  7. The fear of death, that no amount of money or power can neutralize, remains within us. But if people knew that life is endless so we never die; we were never really born, this fear would dissolve. We have lived countless times before and would live countless times again, and spirits are around us to help while in physical state and after death, in spiritual state. We and our deceased loved ones would join these guardian angels.
  8. Acts of violence and injustices against people do not go unnoticed or unnoted, but those evil people will pay their accumulated Karma in the future lifetime or lifetimes to come.
  9. Everything comes when it must come. A life cannot be rushed. We must accept what comes to us at a given time, life is endless, we just pass through different phases. There is no end. Time is not as we see time, but rather in lessons that are learned.
  10. After death, we get to the spiritual plane, we keep growing there too. When we arrive, we’re burned out. We have to go through a renewal stage, a learning stage, and a stage of decision. We decide when and where we want to return to physical body, and for what reasons. Our body is just a vehicle for us in that life while we’re here on Earth. It is our soul and our spirit that last forever.


How Did Catherine Reach the Masters?
To reach or attract ”Messages From the Masters,” the subject should travel much deeper levels beyond past-life-regressions and reincarnation. Dr. Weiss called this field “psychospiritual psychotherapy” which includes all elements: regression therapy, understanding at a deeper level, spiritual roots and understanding a lot about love. Love is the basic energy, binding force and it is the love that can help to dissolve fear and anxiety disorders. Catherine successfully traveled through those levels when she revealed Messages from the Masters. As a result, her anxiety disorders were wiped out by the divine love.

Dr. Weiss believes that, under hypnosis, Catherine was able to focus in on the part of her subconscious mind that stored actual past-life memories, or perhaps she had tapped into what the psychoanalyst Carl Jung termed the Collective Unconscious, the energy source that surrounds us containing the memories of the entire human race.

Hinduism Versus Dr. Weiss’s Research Findings
Reincarnation and past-life–experiences maybe new to Dr. Weiss and his client Catherine in 1981, but they were not new to human race on the planet Earth. In the primitive religion such as Hinduism, “the reincarnation, cycle of life and death (countless times), the concept of Karma (the universal principle of cause and effect), purpose of life, divine knowledge, how evil deeds are punished and good deeds are rewarded” are very commonly known to and highly believed by Hindu people. In the Holy Bhagavat Gita (which was written 5000 years ago in Sanskrit by Sage Vyasa Maharshi) and Vedic Scriptures (which were written 5000 years ago in Sanskrit by Vedic Rishis), the concept of reincarnation and cycle of birth and death were very well described in detail.  That is to say Dr. Weiss’s discoveries merely coincided with the revelations already illustrated in detail in the Holy Bagavat Gita and Vedic Scriptures of Hinduism 5000 years ago. The same is true with Buddhism.

In 1881, Swami Vivekananda was brought to the trance state by Sri Ramakrishna, and Swami Vivekananda revealed to Sri Ramakrishna the purpose of his life on the planet Earth and the nature of his future. And these revelations were later found to be true. The life of Swami Vivekananda is described in the previous webpage.
 

Dr. Weiss’s 2nd Book: “Through Time Into Healing”
This book contains numerous case histories which illustrate the healing potential of past life regression therapy, and it provides several techniques for eliciting past life recall. This book shows readers how to help themselves lead healthy and productive lives, secure in the knowledge that death is not the final word and that the doorways to healing and wholeness are inside us.

In this book, "Through Time Into Healing," Dr. Weiss demonstrated how to utilize safe and rapid techniques to heal clinical symptoms. Now, drawing on the wisdom of the Masters, the spirit guides who shape our destinies, bestselling author Dr. Brian Weiss gives us his most outstanding achievement to date.   He reveals the essential life force in the universe and the ultimate healing energy. Its name is love. And he shows us how to harness its awesome power.

Dr. Weiss’s Mind Blowing 3rd Book: “Only Love is Real”
Anybody will be blown away by reading through the breathetaking contents of this book. In “Only Love is Real,” Dr. Weiss identified two Soulmates “Elizabeth & Pedro” who have been lovers over many lifetimes prior to 2000 years ago, but never had been re-united in the current lifetime or in the lifetimes of preceding 2000 years. Prior to 2000 years ago: both of them had been lovers in many previous lives, they had been husband and wife, childhood lovers, father and daughter in another life. Now they had traveled nearly 2000 years to be together again and re-united in the same therapist’s clinic in the same city at the same time but scheduled apart from each other, each unaware of the other's existence but both in their separate therapy sessions. Both Elizabeth & Pedro were suffering from grief, anxiety attacks, depression, dejection and unable to pursue a loving and meaningful relationship in the current life. When Dr. Weiss regressed them to their past lives, both Elizabeth and Pedro revealed the exact same breathetaking information regarding their past lives.

Only Dr. Weiss knew this information and both of them had never met in their current lives and neither had a hint about how their destiny would unfold. It was a difficult decision for Dr. Brian Weiss whether he should cross the boundary of psychiatric ethics and nudge the destiny to help them meet or let them go separated and be unhappy forever in this lifetime.

However, the astounding truth is that Soulmates will re-unite as the fate brings them together whether it takes 50, 100, 500, 1000 or 2000 years. Your spirit will recognize just by looking into the eyes. You will be one again, because Only Love is Real.

Dr. Weiss’s 4th Book: “Messages from the Masters”
In his 4th book, Dr. Weiss reveals many messages from the Masters received through his own meditations and through the past-life regressions and life-between-lives regressions of his own clients. Each chapter opens with a quote from the Masters.

The messages from the Masters can be summed up as follows: We should allow our minds to return to what is important—love, peace, eternal life, spiritual thoughts and practices; We should put aside what is unimportant such as material things, money, pride and ego, violence, jealousy, fear, worry, anxiety and hatred.

Dr. Weiss’s 5th Book: “Same Soul, Many Bodies”
In this miraculous book “Same Soul, Many Bodies,” Dr. Weiss reveals his research findings on how past and present lives can affect our future lives, and how our future lives can transform us in the here and now. We have all lived past lives. All of us will live future ones. What we do in this life will influence our lives to come as we evolve toward immortality. Dr. Weiss knows this is true because recently he has not only regressed his patients into the past, but has progressed them into the future. And what they have discovered is that our futures are variable, so the choices we make now will determine the quality of life when we return next time into this human body.

By regressing his patients to their past lives. Dr. Weiss healed their sicknesses and improved their current lives to much healthier levels. As a result, Dr Weiss believed that, their future lives would automatically be refined. Using dozens of case histories of his patients, Dr. Weiss demonstrated the therapeutic benefits of future-life-progression, just as he has proved that journeys into our past lives can alleviate or cure our physical and emotional wounds in the present.

 

1. Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist & His Young Patient  Author: Brian L. Weiss
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2. Through Time Into Healing (Paperback)
Author: Brian L. Weiss
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3. Only Love Is Real: A Story of Soulmates Reunited (Paperback) Author: Brian Weiss
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4. Messages from the Masters: Tapping into the Power of Love (Paperback)
Author: Brian Weiss
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5. Same Soul, Many Bodies: Discover the Healing Power of Future Lives through Progression Therapy  Author: Brian L. Weiss
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6. Meditation: Achieving Inner Peace and Tranquility In Your Life (Little Book and CD)
Author: Brian Weiss
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7. Eliminating Stress, Finding Inner Peace (Hardcover)   Author: Brian Weiss
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8. Mirrors of Time: Using Regression for Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Healing.    Author: Brian L. Weiss
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9. Regression Through The Mirrors of Time (Meditation Regression) [Audio CD] 
Author: Brian Weiss
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Biography of Dr. Joel Whitton:
Dr. Joel Whitton, MD, PhD, F.R.C.P. (62 years old in 2008) used to be a professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto Medical School, Toronto, Ontario, Canada and was considered an expert in clinical hypnosis especially in past life regressions and life-between-life regressions. In addition to a medical degree MD, he earned a degree in neurobiology and also a PhD.

Since the age of 14, Dr. Whitton has displayed prescient skills as a hypnotist. In his early twenties, he developed a fascination with the idea of reincarnation, and had read a lot of literature on ancient scriptures. Dr. Whitton gained a more intimate understanding of subconscious or unconscious mind. Dr. Whitton stumbled upon the state of bardo back in 1974 at the age of 28. Right from the beginning of his career as psychiatrist, he began regressing his patients to their past lives and instructed them to regress to the source of the traumatic pain where it began. This technique resulted in rapid and dramatic healing of both mental and physical disorders and terminal diseases as well where conventional medicine had failed to address these issues.

Dr. Joel Whitton's Interests: His professional interests include the Awakening the Miraculous Healing Power Using Past Life Therapy or Deep Hypnosis, Neurophysiology of Brain Function, Theology of Human Experience, and Anomalous Perception. He has published extensively in neurophysiology.

His book Life Between Life appeared in 1986. This is one of the first books in the western world that dealt extensively with life on the other side between reincarnations in the state of Bardo. The author's writing skills and the sensitive contents this book are very touching and mind-blowing. After this book, Dr. Whitton almost disappeared from this very interesting field. It is unclear why Dr. Whitton did not write more books on this topic and why was he not more famous around the world. His book sounded that, with more determination and hard work, Dr. Whitton could have uncovered the evidence and truth about the Other Side and the spiritual activities there!

Dr. Whitton's Research: Dr. Whitton gathered a group of about 30 ordinary people agreed to participate in his extraordinary research, from truck drivers to computer scientists, some believed in reincarnation and some others did not. He spent thousands of hours in a span of nearly 20 years in hypnotizing them individually while recording everything they said about their alleged previous existences, their past-life memories and also the revelations from spiritual state of Bordo (a state between incarnations). Every person in the group reported numerous past lives, some as many as 20 to 25, and all reported that gender is not specific to the soul, and many had lived at least one life as the opposite sex.

Purpose of Life: Under deep hypnosis sessions, all subjects of Dr. Whitton reported that the purpose of life is to learn and evolve, and that multiple existences (birth, death and rebirth) would facilitate this process. Dr. Whitton’s subjects, whose religious backgrounds are as varied as their initial prejudices for or against reincarnation, have testified consistently that the cycle of birth and rebirth is fundamental to the evolutionary process in which we are enveloped. Most advanced souls are non-selfish, highly experienced, filled with increased philosophical backgrounds, purity and compassion, and are less influenced by their human personalities or characteristics and devote much of their time to help evolve other souls, allowing the true nature of the soul to manifest.


THE STATE OF BARDO
What Happens to Us Between Earthly Incarnations?
  Tibetan Book of the Dead (around 800 AD): The Book provides an appropriate description of the human entity in disembodied dwelling between incarnations. You have no physical body of flesh and blood, so whatever sounds, colors, and rays of light and heat occur, they cannot hurt you and you cannot die. Know This to be the Bardo State.

  Katha Upanishad of India (some time during 1400 BC – 800 BC): The Upnishad declared that “the self does not die when the body dies. Concealed in the heart of all beings lies the Atma, the Spirit, the Self—smaller than the smallest atom, greater than the greatest spaces.”

  Plutarch, The Greek Philosopher (46 – 119 AD): Plutarch said that “Every soul is ordained to wander between incarnations in the region between the Moon and the Earth.”

The aforementioned information regarding the State of Bardo gave implicit support of the idea of life-between-lives—the possession of uninterrupted awareness from one life to the next.

Through many hours of painstaking and laborious hypnotic examinations, Dr. Whitton mastered the techniques on how to compile personal inventories of past lives stretching across thousands of years. Dr. Whitton discovered that, according to karmic necessity, his subjects jumped in and out of incarnation to interact with the same entities in ever-changing relationships. He saw how the trials, the successes, and failures of each life contributed to the formation of the present-day individual. Moreover, no matter how disparate the various lives in each person’s reincarnational history might be, they always unfolded according to the universal law of cause and effect (law of Karma). In other words, the actions and attributes in one life would determine the setting and challenges of a life or lives to come.

That is to Say: The actions of all past lives together would determine how the present life should be; And the actions of all past lives and present life together would determine the future life. The cycle of birth and death continues until the soul advances to its final destiny of utmost purity.

Interlife Between Incarnations: According to Dr. Whitton, the duration of the interlife in the state of Bardo varies from a few months to several centuries but averages 40 years. Which means after every 40 years of rest, a soul incarnates. However, recent scientific progress and cultural changes allow souls to incarnate sooner than 40 years. And the soaring human population provides more host bodies for souls, allowing more frequent incarnations, and therefore much faster evolution or advancement of the soul.

Dr. Whitton focused on bringing his subjects to a deep trance state, called the State of Bardo—the mysterious state between incarnations. Whitton termed this state of mind between incarnations is the State of Metaconsciousness. He also called it the Between-Life State or the Between-Life Realm or the Interstate or the Next World. From deep trance state, his subjects revealed that after the death, the soul returns to the same timeless, spaceless condition/ream that it left to be born—a state/real in which it remains until called upon to fulfill its spiritual evolution process, or karma, by returning to the planet earth.

All subjects described this interim as a dazzling, light-filled realm in which there was no time or space that can be defined or described. According to his subjects, part of the purpose of this realm was to allow them to plan their next life. Dr. Whitton found that when the subjects were in the between-life realm, they entered an unusual state of consciousness in which they had a heightened moral and ethical sense. Dr. Whitton termed this state of mind the Metaconsciousness. Some other researchers termed this superconsciousness or higher-self to denote this particular state of mind.

Major Benefit of Regressing to Bardo
Dr. Whitton emphasized from his extensive research findings that regressing to and reliving in traumatic past life memories, through a deep trance or Bordo state, could provide outstanding results in healing both physical and psychological problems of the current life. All his subjects experienced profound healing. He also taught to his subjects the self-exploration of the visualization techniques, intended to evoke memories of earlier or past lives. Most of his subjects benefited from these techniques that were not possible through conventional medicine.

Dr. Whitton has shown that understanding the Interlife (Life on the Other Side) is not only educational, but also therapeutically valuable and a potential source of enlightenment. Dr. Whitton, after spending thousands of hours (nearly 20 years) of hypnotic sessions with his dedicated time and effort in studying past-life regression and between-life regression with more than 30 subjects, has obliged to conclude that subconscious mind is yielding stored-up knowledge of former incarnations and activities in the Interlife (Other World). All his subjects traveled beyond space and time, as Dr. Whitton escorted them, into the state of mataconsciousness or state of bardo, from where they revealed the insights and the valuable information that matched well with the knowledge of ancient scriptures and many other present-day investigators of similar interests.

What Happens After Death?
Dr. Whitton's Steps Are Similar to Those of Dr. Raymond Moody and Others:
           a. Floating Over the Body,
           b. Crossing Over (Passing Through the Tunnel),
          c. Seeing The Light/Spirit Guide,
           d. Meeting Deceased Loved Ones,
           e. Life Review by the Board of Judgment,
           f. Planning for the Next Life According to Karmic Script.

Floating, Crossing, Seeing Light, Meeting Deceased
Time and time again, Dr. Whitton’s subjects have spoken under deep trance of floating and seeing their bodies lying beneath them before being pulled rapidly through a high, cylindrical passway. All subjects felt the onset of strange and wonderful experiences filled with peace and joy. This is the same experience reported by many as the tube or tunnel that appears as the channel of conveyance to the afterworld (the other side). Some subjects noted that they were met by spirit guides while still in transit in the tunnel and escorted into the Interlife, while most subjects revealed that they traveled alone through the tunnel and merged with a multitude of strangers at the end of the tunnel. Most subjects reported that at the end of the tunnel, they met with a deceased relative or friend, a conductor, or a guide who has been watching over and the in-charge during the past incarnation, often carrying a torch of some sort to light the way into the Other Side (afterworld).

 
Life Review by the Board of Judgment
According to the testimonies of Dr. Whitton’s subjects who ventured into the state of metaconsciousness, the existence of a board of judgment is real. All subjects found themselves appearing before a group of wise elderly beings usually three in number, occasionally four, and in rare instances as many as seven wise beings—perceived in a variety of guises.
      

The members of this board of judgment are highly advanced souls and most certainly have completed their cycle of earthly incarnations. Their role is to assist an individual who has just completed his/her life on Earth and to make further recommendations concerning the next incarnation. In case of serious evil deeds identified, the board of judgment exercises the appropriate actions of punishment.
           

The Akashic Records
The past-life review is presumably extracted from the Akashic Records. Edgar Cayce, the great American clairvoyant, said “the Akashic Records were to the mental world where as the cinema is to the physical world.” Clairvoyants could tap into this cosmic memory, and it appears the hypnotic subjects are granted access to the same vast nonmolecular library of Akashic Records that contain the complete history of the life events. Whenever a hypnotic regression focuses on a scene, a snapshot from a previous existence, the person under deep trance is aware intuitively of relevant details beyond the confines of the snapshot. This picture in depth is recounted in a manner that suggests the information is being drawn from the videotape of total recall.

By reviewing the Akashic Records right in front of an individual, and by replaying, the Panel of Judgment takes decisions telepathicly on whether or not a particular individual be punished by penalizing the individual to pay off the karmic debt in the next lifetime or be rewarded by allowing the individual to grow to a much higher level of soul evolution.
          

HELL IS THERE! If there is a private hell in the life-between-life, it is at this moment the individual soul presents itself for a review of evil deeds and faces the punishment of hell. Any emotional suffering that was inflicted on others is felt as keenly as if it were inflicted on oneself.

Dr. Whitting’s subjects revealed under deep trance that they often perceive themselves as handicapped by their own wrongdoing. A man who had murdered his lover in his past life appeared before the judgment board with his own throat slashed. A mother who had inadvertently killed her own child saw herself in chains. A woman who could not forgive herself for an act of betrayal in her previous life expressed her burden of guilt with classical Christian symbolism, and appeared by holding the cross over her shoulders.

The judges are highly capable to radiate a restorative healing energy that abolishes any assuages of guilt. The man with injured throat was made whole again. The woman with chains was freed. The cross on the woman’s shoulders was lifted and thrown away.


Planning for the Next Incarnation
Many people plan their future incarnations while discarnate. However the decision making regarding what to be accomplished in the next life is heavily influenced by the board of judgment.

The judges' recommendations are made according to what the soul needs, not what the soul wants for selfish reasons. The judges' recommendations include obstacles and difficulties in the planning of next life in order to become stronger, more aware, more evolved and more responsible. Only in this way can the soul advance to the next higher level in the evolution process. Some very advanced souls even choose deliberately very difficult life/lives of hardship or handicap in order to evolve more quickly or even to help others evolve more quickly.
   
 

The Spirit World Is Equipped to Prepare Us
Acquisition of knowledge in the Interlife, the life-between-lives, prepares the soul for its next incarnation and the opportunity to put into practice what has been learned. Only through practical application can mastery be attained. Most of Dr. Whitton’s subjects have found themselves working very hard in vast halls of learning equipped with libraries and seminar rooms. Doctors and lawyers, for example, have spoken of studying their respective disciplines during the Interlife, life-between-life, while others remember applying themselves to such subject as “the laws of the universe” and other metaphysical topics.
      

Life on Earth Has Already Been Rehearsed on the Other Side
The planning process tells us that much of what takes place on Earth has already been rehearsed,
to a greater or lesser degree, in the between-life state.

Ralph Waldo Trine in his book "In Tune with the Infinite," said as much back in 1897.
 

Everything is first worked out in the unseen before it is manifested in the seen, in the ideal before it is realized in the real, in the spiritual before it shows forth in the material. The realm of the unseen is the realm of cause. The realm of the seen is the realm of effect. The nature of effect is always determined and conditioned by the nature of its cause.

It is almost as if we are artists who make a rough sketch of fresco in the between-life state. Once incarnate, we set to work on the intended masterpiece, working close up day by day to execute, in minute detail, a general idea. Eventually, at death or in a hypnosis session through metaconsciousness, we are able to step back and view the work of art. Only on returning to the life between life can we know just how faithful we have been to our objectives.


When Does the Soul Enter the Fetus (Human Body)?
Edgar Cayce’s data suggest that the soul can enter the body shortly before the birth, shortly after the birth, or at the moment of birth. In general, Dr. Whitton’s subjects support Cayce’s clairvoyant assertions in reporting birth experiences.
      

Free Will: Remember! We all have the right to execute our own Free Will. After incarnating, the human personality can either be deformed or reformed depending how controlled we are in the current life. So making of the rough sketch cannot ensure the real thing will follow exactly as planned in the spirit realm. It is because of this Free Will, there are so many evil-minded people of all sorts out there, inflicting emotional suffering on others.


Buddha Said It & Buddha Did It
Enlightenment: After thousands of hours of hypnotic sessions, Dr. Whitton fully agreed with the ancient scriptures which decreed that Enlightenment is a prize to be won only after a painfully slow journey of purification from body to body in an infinite cycle of birth and death. Buddha was "enlightened" after completing an infinite number of incarnations! The only solution and salvation to your suffering is the ENLIGHTENMENT.

                                            

Biography of Dr. Ian Stevenson: Dr. Ian Pretyman Stevenson, M.D. was born on October 31, 1918, in Montreal, Canada, and died on February 8, 2007, in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. He was a Canadian-American psychiatrist. He was the son of a Scottish lawyer, John Stevenson, a writer at heart who became chief correspondent in Ottawa, Canada for Times of London. Dr. Stevenson studied medicine at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and then transferred to McGill University, Montreal, Canada after the outbreak of World War II. His studies in internal medicine led to an interest in psychosomatic illness and then in psychiatry.

In 1957, Dr. Ian Stevenson, M.D. became the Director, Division of Personality Studies and Carlson Professor of Psychiatry, both a part of the Department of Psychiatric Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. Dr. Stevenson's research into the possibility of reincarnation began in 1960 when he heard of a case in Sri Lanka where a child claimed to remember a past life. He thoroughly questioned the child and the child's parents, as well as the people whom the child claimed were his parents from his past life. This led to Dr. Stevenson's conviction that reincarnation was possibly a reality.

His Research Interests Included: Children Who Claim to Remember Previous Lives, Near-Death Experiences, Apparitions (death-bed visions), Telepathy, The Mind-Brain Problem, and Survival of the Human Personality After Death.

Dr. Ian Stevenson's Research:
Dr. Ian Stevenson, the world's best known investigator of reincarnation, conducted field research and studied over 3000 real cases in a span of 40 years about reincarnation, and meticulously documented the scientific proof along with testimonies for each case in India, Burma, Africa, Alaska, British Columbia, South America, Lebanon, Turkey, and many other places. The children studied usually started recalling their past life memories between the ages of two and four, yet seem to have forgotten it by seven or eight. There were frequent mentions of having died a violent death, and apparently clear past life memories of the mode of death. The description of the children’s memories has been matched with the data of their former identity, family, residence and manner of death. Birthmarks and scars on the children have been found to match the experiences from the past life. Stevenson also gathered testimonials as well as medical records of information on birthmarks, birth defects, and other physical evidence that supports reincarnation.

Dr. Ian Stevenson’s has devoted some 40 years of his career and his collection of scientific data that appears to provide scientific proof that reincarnation is real. Dr. Stevenson published over 200 articles and about 10 or more books, densely packed with scientific protocols of each occurrence accompanied with witnesses and testimonials surrounding each case. Instead of relying on hypnosis to verify that an individual has had a previous life, he instead chose to collect thousands of cases of children who spontaneously (without hypnosis) remembered a past life. Dr. Ian Stevenson used this approach because spontaneous past life memories in a child can be investigated using strict scientific protocols. Some skeptics say that Hypnosis, while useful in researching into past lives, is less reliable from a purely scientific perspective. Therefore, in order to collect his data, Dr. Stevenson methodically documented the child's own statements of a previous life. Then he identified the deceased person the child remembers being with, and verified the facts of the deceased person's life that match the child's past life memory. He even matched birthmarks and birth defects to wounds and scars on the deceased, verified by medical records.

Reincarnation: How Does a Case Unfold?
Typically a case begins when a child around the age of 3 without any kind of prompting begins to speak of a former life. The child will mention people and places that nobody in his/her family has heard about before and will, in certain cases, describe details of his/her former death. The child will be quite insistent in claiming to have a different name, and he/she will tell his astounded parents that he/she is, in fact, somebody else. He/she may also say that he/she has other parents or a wife/husband or children that live in a different city or even a different country. The child continues talking about it for several years, generally to the great annoyance of the parents. Finally the parents will be amazed to discover that it was all indeed a true case of reincarnation, and start treating the child as God-like.

Reincarnation: A Few Fascinating Stories
1. This is the best-documented and subsequently authenticated case of reincarnation. Lugdi Devi was born on January 18, 1902 in a town called Madhura, located 15 miles south of Delhi, India. On September 25, 1925, she gave birth to a child (a son) in a hospital in Agra, and died on October 4, 1925 due to birth complications. After 14 months on December 11, 1926, she reincarnated in Delhi into another family and was given the name Shanti Devi. At the age of four she started talking about her past life experiences, about her husband and asked how her son was doing. At six years old, while being dressed by her mother, she gave a detailed account of what kind of clothes she used to wear and what kind of food she used to eat in her previous life, and further provided a very detailed description of her former husband and the location of his clothes shop. Both families joined together and were able to verify the facts of this remarkable story of Shanti Devi. Her real-life story was published in a book:
“I Have Lived Before: The True Story of Reincarnation of Shanti Devi.”

2. One 2-year-old boy in India was insistent that he didn't belong in the home of his parents, wanting instead to return to his own home, to his wife and brothers. He said he had a bread store. He even described the house and store. The parents put him in the car and followed his directions. Soon they arrived at a bread store the boy could not have known about. He ran to a woman he said she was his wife and greeted three grown men whom he said were his brothers. The parents discovered that the woman's husband – the men's brothers had been hit in the head and murdered two years earlier, shortly before the toddler was born. The boy also had a birthmark on the back of his head, which matched, with the deathblow of the baker.

3. From Stevenson's book "Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation" the case of Swarnlata can be the most breathetaking. Swarnlata was born in 1949 in Pradesh in India into a middle class family. She started to talk about a former life at the age of three when one day her father was taking her for a ride and they passed the town of Katni, which was more than 100 miles from their home. Swarnlata suddenly pointed out the window and asked the chauffeur to turn down a street to "my house", where she said they could get a better cup of tea than on the highway. She told her father more than 50 facts about her life in Katni and the father made a note of these. She said that her name in the former life was Biya Pathak and that she had two sons. She described every detail of her home and how there was a railway behind her house. She said that she had died from a throat disease and was treated by a Dr. S.C. Bhabrat in Jabalpur. In 1959, when Swarnlata was 10 years old, news about the case reached Dr. Ian Stevenson and he initiated an investigation. He found the house where the Biya Pathak's family lived using only Swarnlata's description and he found everything just as Swarnlata had described it. He interviewed the Pathak's family and they informed him that Biya Pathak had died in 1939 and had left two sons and a husband. A few months later Biya's husband, her brother and one of her sons traveled to the town where Swarnlata lived in order to see her and test her memories. Swarnlata knew nothing about their arrival and they arrived at her house in the company of nine other persons and hid their identity. Swarnlata immediately recognized her (Biya's) brother and called him by his pet name. Afterwards she recognized her husband and behaved in a subservient manner as befitted a Hindu wife. She also recognized her son who had been 13 years old when she died. She reminded her husband that he had hidden money (1200 rupees) from Biya before she died and that the money had been in a particular box when he took it, which he confirmed to be true. A few weeks later Swarnlata visited her "former home" in Katni for the first time and she immediately commented on changes in the house and she identified the room where Biya had died. She revealed intimate details from the life of the family, she recognized old servants and commented in a good-humored way on how things had changed during the last 20 years. She had no knowledge of events after 1939.

Swarnlata's story is so well documented that it clearly points to her being the reincarnation of Biya Pathak. Dr. Ian Stevenson investigated the case and came to a conclusion that Swarnlata had no way of knowing the intimate details she revealed about Biya. She had never been to Katni in her life.  Dr. Iam Stevenson verified with certainty that Swarnlata had no knowledge about the Pathak family. Yet she knew their most intimate secrets and a large number of details about their life. This strongly suggests that reincarnation indeed took place.

There were thousands, or even millions, of these cases in India alone and many of them were left unnoticed and undocumented.


Some Miraculous Discoveries of Dr. Ian Stevenson:
State Between Incarnations: Dr. Michael Newton termed it the “Life-Between-Lives” while Dr. Brian Weiss termed it the “Space-Between-Lives” and the Toronto psychiatrist Dr. Joel Whitting termed it the "State of Bardo" or the "Life-Between-Life" or the "Between-Life State" or the "State of Metaconsciousness" or the "Interstate" or the "Next World" or the "State Between Incarnations."  Dr. Ian Stevenson however chose the term carefully and termed it the "State of Intermission.”
 

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4. Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect    Author: Ian Stevenson
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      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We thank Dr. Rao Konduru for contributing his time and effort
in preparing the aforementioned review.
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