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Hello, this is Dr. Brian Weiss, and we're continuing our series on questions and answers
about past lives, and out-of-body states, and parapsychology, and the spiritual realm.
I want to thank everybody for sending in so many questions, and for the response. It's
been fabulous. I cannot get to all of the questions, of course. Some of your questions,
probably, I'll be answering in later sessions, but always picking a few. There's so many
good ones. I'm a little bit tired; I've been traveling. I'm just back from Chicago and
recently from Australia, going all over the world. The reception has been marvelous wherever
I've been, and I want to thank all of you for that too, because many of you have come
to the workshops. So, let's get to the questions.
The first one is from Princygirl18, and the question is: Hi Dr. Weiss. I have a question
regarding adoption. If we choose our parents before we reincarnate, how does adoption work?
Which set of parents did I choose? I'm thirty and my parents just told me they adopted me
when I was a day old. I'm just trying to make some sense out of this. Thank you. What I
can say about adoptions, what I've found, and again I'm just talking about my own research,
not what others have written about or done, just my own research. It's that there are
no coincidences, no accidents here. You really did mean to come to your adopting parents.
But the parents who bore you biologically also are an important part. They are the means
by which you were conveyed to your parents. I know many astrologers who have been friends
of mine who have told me that they find the same things when they are doing astrological
charts, for example. I'm not an astrologer, but this is what they tell me. They find the
charts of the adopting parents and the child have a lot in common. That's what I find in
doing regressions. Frequently, I'll do a regression and find the adopting parents in the past
lives of the children. The souls were together before. It's not a matter of biology. That's
not the important thing. It's no accident. It's no coincidence. There is a very strong
connection between the adopting parents and the child or children being adopted. Very
real. Don't be worried about these things. There is no accident or coincidence. This
is too important.
Another question is from Amarisa. Actually, Amarisa has two questions, and I'll go over
both of them, because they're both good. Her first question is: Can every person have an
ability to experience a past life by hypnotic regression? Are there people who cannot recall
anything in their past lives? Most people do remember their past lives when we do regressions.
I was just talking about this with a big group of people in Chicago the other day. I think,
in terms of statistics, when I do large groups, and there were more than 900 people in that
group in Chicago, about sixty percent to seventy percent will have a past life regression.
When I'm doing regressions individually, when I was doing them in my office, that number
goes up to about eighty percent. Clearly, since I use memory techniques, concentration,
for example, hypnosis, you need the ability to remember. So people with dementia, with
Alzheimer's, and serious mental impairments of that nature, these are very difficult to
regress. Also, if a person does not want to have a regression, they can block it. It's
like a memory, and if you don't want to remember it, you won't. About two-thirds of people
will have a past-life memory, even the first time, and even in a group. That number will
go up to eighty or eighty-five percent with practice. I want to emphasize that practice
is important. Many people have been using my CDs over time, and know that the more you
do this process, because past life regression is a process, very similar to meditation.
You don't master meditation in one time or two times. The more that you practice doing
past life regressions, the more likely you are to have an experience. It's a cumulative
process, and with experience you can go even more deeply and even more quickly into that
state. And I think the percentage goes up to eighty or eighty-five percent. Amarisa's
other question is, and this comes up from time to time, and it's coming up in Italy.
For example, I'll be doing what I hope is a wonderful large workshop in Italy in June,
and I'm really looking forward to that. But there is a person there who's concerned about
what happens in the regression. Is it safe? Is it not safe? Amarisa's question is: Is
a past life regression harmless? Do you suggest that we should do it with a professional?
I've heard that in some cases we could become crazy or forgetful, or lose your mind after
a past life regression. Thank you very much. Best wishes, Amarisa. I don't find the latter
to be true. I find it very safe. It's like any sort of memory. Clearly, if you have significant
psychological issues, you may want to see a therapist who does past life regression
techniques, because they can talk to you one-to-one, and direct the session, and then integrate
the material into your therapy. But for people having it in a group, or listening to a regression
on a CD, it's also very, very safe. I've been doing large group regressions since 1988,
the year that Many Lives, Many Masters was first published in English. And quickly then
in Spanish in 1989, and many other languages since then. I've been using my CDs since that
time, too. At first audiotapes, and then CDs. It's very very rare, very very rare, for someone
to have an adverse experience. Usually, contrary to is past life regression harmless, as Amarisa
asked, usually it's very beneficial, because it helps to remove blocks and obstacles to
your inner peace and happiness and joy. It helps to remove symptoms, whether physical
symptoms or emotional symptoms. So you feel better, you feel freer, lighter. It removes
constrictions. I find it's the opposite of harmful; it's actually beneficial. And very,
very safe. So, thank you for Amarisa, for asking those questions.