No one is as firmly entrenched in the philosophy of reincarnation as the Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama. For fourteen generations Tibetans have succeeded in tracing the lineage of one reincarnated soul (the first Dalai Lama) down to the 14th and current.
After each Dalai Lama passes on, the belief is that he will reincarnate again within 49 days. The quest for this reincarnated soul is combined with the new child’s coming to terms with an understanding of a past-life that is still typically hidden from his conscious mind.
Upon the child’s arrival to the Tibetan temple, a series of identification tests are set up to confirm that the Dalai Lama has again been found and will therefore continue along the path of enlightenment and leadership.
The longevity of the Dalai Lama’s lineage is testimony to the span of time that we have had believers and practitioners of reincarnation and past-life recall.
Sigmund Freud made the unconscious conscious in an effort to restore healing via hypnosis and later, free association. His student, Carl Jung, added the spiritual aspect, the collective unconscious theory. “If we understand and feel that here in this life we already have a link with the infinite, desires and attitudes change.” He further stated, “I could very well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries…my life, as I lived it, had often seemed to me like a story that has no beginning and no end.”
Edgar Cayce, popularly known as “the sleeping prophet”, fine-tuned his abilities at channeling information and guidance about one’s past-lives, in the 1920’s and 30’s.
American businessman Henry Ford said (in the Hearst Papers in 1938), “I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26…Religion offered nothing to the point…Even work could not give me complete satisfaction. Work is futile if we cannot utilize the experience we collect in one life to the next. When I discovered reincarnation, it was as if I had found a universal plan. I realized that there was a chance to work out my ideas. Time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock.”
Even Albert Einstein believed: “People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
By the 1950’s, Dianetics came out. It was a direct approach to accessing ones past-lives, later emerging as Scientology.
The case of Bridey Murphy came to the forefront at this time, and stands out as one of the earliest and most exploited by the media. Bridey Murphy was the name of an Irish girl recalled by Ruth Simmons by hypnotist Morey Bernstein.
In the 60’s and ‘70’s, more and more professional and nonprofessional books were published to substantiate the belief in past-life recall. British author Joan Grant recalled more than 30 previous incarnations, and her “far memory” assisted her in writing many historical novels. Grant’s husband, psychiatrist Denys Kelsy, used reincarnation and hypnosis as psychotherapeutic tools in his private practice.
There were countless others - Jess Stearn, Ian Stevenson, Edith Fiore…each taking a rightful place as bearers of past-life regression therapy to the masses.
In 1980, an association of professional practitioners and researchers began in California by Hazel Denning and 50 past-life practitioners. Currently it exceeds 2000 members worldwide (and I’ve been a proud member for almost 20 years).
Through the centuries, many have written their views on reincarnation, from renaissance poet William Blake, to playwright William Shakespeare. It seems we know something deep within – we feel it, and we acknowledge it.
We have been influenced by modern physics and psychobiology which supports that all energy fields, such as behaviour and patterns, cannot end. They can only be transmitted.
The evidence for reincarnation therefore is in us. The proof is not from without, but from within, and that’s not new.
After each Dalai Lama passes on, the belief is that he will reincarnate again within 49 days. The quest for this reincarnated soul is combined with the new child’s coming to terms with an understanding of a past-life that is still typically hidden from his conscious mind.
Upon the child’s arrival to the Tibetan temple, a series of identification tests are set up to confirm that the Dalai Lama has again been found and will therefore continue along the path of enlightenment and leadership.
The longevity of the Dalai Lama’s lineage is testimony to the span of time that we have had believers and practitioners of reincarnation and past-life recall.
Sigmund Freud made the unconscious conscious in an effort to restore healing via hypnosis and later, free association. His student, Carl Jung, added the spiritual aspect, the collective unconscious theory. “If we understand and feel that here in this life we already have a link with the infinite, desires and attitudes change.” He further stated, “I could very well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries…my life, as I lived it, had often seemed to me like a story that has no beginning and no end.”
Edgar Cayce, popularly known as “the sleeping prophet”, fine-tuned his abilities at channeling information and guidance about one’s past-lives, in the 1920’s and 30’s.
American businessman Henry Ford said (in the Hearst Papers in 1938), “I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26…Religion offered nothing to the point…Even work could not give me complete satisfaction. Work is futile if we cannot utilize the experience we collect in one life to the next. When I discovered reincarnation, it was as if I had found a universal plan. I realized that there was a chance to work out my ideas. Time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock.”
Even Albert Einstein believed: “People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
By the 1950’s, Dianetics came out. It was a direct approach to accessing ones past-lives, later emerging as Scientology.
The case of Bridey Murphy came to the forefront at this time, and stands out as one of the earliest and most exploited by the media. Bridey Murphy was the name of an Irish girl recalled by Ruth Simmons by hypnotist Morey Bernstein.
In the 60’s and ‘70’s, more and more professional and nonprofessional books were published to substantiate the belief in past-life recall. British author Joan Grant recalled more than 30 previous incarnations, and her “far memory” assisted her in writing many historical novels. Grant’s husband, psychiatrist Denys Kelsy, used reincarnation and hypnosis as psychotherapeutic tools in his private practice.
There were countless others - Jess Stearn, Ian Stevenson, Edith Fiore…each taking a rightful place as bearers of past-life regression therapy to the masses.
In 1980, an association of professional practitioners and researchers began in California by Hazel Denning and 50 past-life practitioners. Currently it exceeds 2000 members worldwide (and I’ve been a proud member for almost 20 years).
Through the centuries, many have written their views on reincarnation, from renaissance poet William Blake, to playwright William Shakespeare. It seems we know something deep within – we feel it, and we acknowledge it.
We have been influenced by modern physics and psychobiology which supports that all energy fields, such as behaviour and patterns, cannot end. They can only be transmitted.
The evidence for reincarnation therefore is in us. The proof is not from without, but from within, and that’s not new.
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