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Hello. With me is reincarnation pioneer Andy Tomlinson
psychologist, psychotherapist and author of three books on the soul
and we will be showing you a past life death.
Welcome Andy. Can you tell me is there is any evidence that souls exist?
Yes there are three.
The first are near-death experiences
were the person is able to see and experience the events around them
even when there heart has stopped and there is no brain activity.
The second is in the past lives of children
These are spontaneous past lives
And third is the past lives that adults can experience.
You mentioned near death experiences can you tell me more?
Yes let me give you an example
There was a patient who came into hospital in Holland
and he had experienced a heart attack
and while the team were resuscitating him his heart had stopped
and there was no brain activity
and eventually after his heart was resuscitated he was sent to intensive care.
and a few days later he stopped a nurse and said
Nurse can I have my dentures back
and she was quite surprised because
she had been the person that taken the dentures
out of his mouth and thrown them into a trash cart
and he was able to describe the conversation that occurred
and actually witness this event from above his body
and this was just one
of a number that occurred
during a piece of research in a hospital led by a medical team
and this evidence seems to suggest
that even after clinical death
some aspect of consciousness survives death
and this is something we call the soul.
How do children's past life experiences fit into this?
Well let me explain with an example.
There was a three year old girl living in a small remote village in India
and she had this spontaneous story emerging of being
another girl living in a village over a hundred miles away
and she was able to describe the house and various other events
and her parents eventually got tired to this story so they took her to this village
somewhere were they had never been to before
and when they came to the house that she had described they found
a house that was exactly the same
and the man who came to the door turned out to have had a child
that had died nine years before
that fitted the story that this young girl had been given
and this was something that was investigated by a professor of
parapsychology from the University of Virginia called Dr. Ian Stevenson
and he found forty nine separate pieces of evidence
that was verified by at least two independent witnesses
and there was only reincarnation that could explain this evidence
And this was one of two thousand six hundred
cases that he investigated
and the weight of all this seems to suggest
that at least some children have reincarnation
and have past lives
because any other explanation
for children who are just beginning to talk
and just beginning to read
this is the only explanation and of course if they have it
then it is quite reasonable to assume past lives is something we all can have.
You use hypnosis to take people into past lives. Can you tell me more about that?
Well hypnosis takes people into deep relaxation.
It is easier to tune into these memories
from another part of our consciousness.
It is a little bit like the old fashioned radios
that you are able to tune in
and initially hear hiss
but as you start to tune and get to a station
then you are able to hear the radio quite clearly.
So let us go and see a video of a past life regression
Just check that your heart has stopped beating now
Just tell me what you experience now?
I was stabbed with this spear
right through here
then it was like I was being strangled
something was round my neck I think it was a hand or a foot
Something just strangling me
and then I died
Ok lets move on
And tell me what happens next?
I just look down and see my body
It is such a massacre it is like a field with people dead and dying and being killed
Just tell me what emotions you are taking away from that life?
It is sadness, what is the point!
This death was for nothing
Any other emotions you are taken from that life?
Anger
Well that was the death of a medieval warrior
Let us find out what the experience was like for that person
It might seem dramatic
but it is quite an amazing experience to go through that
and to really feel the strength to that character
It is almost like I can still feel that strength with me
such a strong man
and it is this determination, this single mindedness
I can really feel the essence of that person
and it's quite empowering actually
to go through that again to heal because
I felt this part of my body where that spear was
and its really nice to experience what that is
and put some healing to that
So there are many aspects to it
But it is the experience of dying and then moving on
and life continuing. First in the body and then out the body
and then going to that healing and shedding
this denseness. This heaviness of the battle
and then just being in the presence of this love
Just phenomenal
Beautiful
Can tell me more about what we have just seen there?
Yes. What you are actually seeing there
was a person that was remembering quite vividly
the particular part when they were going through the death experience
and one of things that always happens is that
the memories are about leaving the physical body
were pain is left behind
but the emotions from that life that are unresolved are taken with it
and in this particular case
there were the emotions of sadness
and anger
that left the body with that death
and of course was similarities between this sort of account
and the near death experiences I was talking about before.
Can you explain more about the soul?
Well there is consciousness that exists throughout the whole of the universe
that brings life to it all
and a part of that is split of and this is what is called the soul
and this part that has split off
is given the opportunity to experience and grow
in what we call human life
and the way that it does this is to experience difficult situations
And to master aspects of emotions
the important thing is what we from a human perspective would see
as quite difficult or challenging situations from the soul perspective
are opportunities to grow and develop
It is almost as if the whole of the earth was a schoolroom
and that we go through our own individual lessons one by one
until they are mastered
and then we go onto the next lesson
We have heard from Andy Tomlinson explain about the areas
providing strong evidence for the existence of the soul