Have you ever wonder what happened in your past lives? There are many movies and literatures use reincarnation as a plot. According to “Remembrances of Lives Past” by Lisa Miller in The New York times (2010, August 27), reports that Dr. Paul Debell, a psychiatrist specialize in hypnotizing, believes in reincarnation as his states that “allows you to experience history as yours. It gives you a different sense of what it means to be human.” Another psychiatrist, Dr. Brian Weiss, one of America’s pre-eminent proselytizers on the subject of reincarnation, bring up one case in his book “Many Lives, Many Masters” about his patient “Catherine” that her paralyzing phobias was relieved by hypnosis to recall her part lives. A Past-Lives therapist is a person who uses hypnosis to recall patients’ past-lives as a treatment. According to data released last year by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, a quarter of Americans now believe in reincarnation. However, reincarnation is broadly believed in eastern culture. In Asia, like Buddhism and Hindu believe in reincarnation is common. They believe that we have a one eternal soul that born and die again and again until we reach for the perfection and was released from cycle of reincarnation. It is an old believe without scientific research proof its truth. Nevertheless it shows me that the world consists of physical things and there is something important that called “soul”. In addition, there are interesting films The Thai film about reincarnation, “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives,” won the highest prize in Cannes film festival. Another Movie from Warner bros. picture, The Fountain, is also about death and rebirth. Those films represent view of reincarnation from both sides of the world.
Sunday 29 August 2010
Past lives and therapy
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If you like something like reincarnation and soul mate, I suggest Only Love Is Real, also by Dr. Brian Weiss. For me, it is little too romantic, but I can't say it is not a good book.
ReplyDeleteWhen I saw that front page article in the New York Times this morning, my first reaction was: it's all lies.
ReplyDeleteOn reading it, and noting the perfect absence any solid evidence, I decided it might not be lies, that the good doctors probably do believe what they are saying, but that they are also completely wrong. So, it's not lies, it's just completely wrong.
After thousands of years of such stories, if reincarnation were true, even a little, there should be some reliable evidence by now, but there is none. And everyone seems to have had such amazing lives! Where are all the ordinary past lives? Where are the evil past lives? It seems everyone was a hero, a leader, or something amazing. It's all a bit hard to believe, and I think should not be believed.
But it certainly made for interesting reading, and like ghosts, devils and angels, the ideas can make for great entertainment, which I think is why such stories continue and are sometimes taken too seriously.
In Buddhism, we will belive about past life can have a effect to present life but I doesn't see any benefit from knowing about past life because we can not change our past life and we alredy have a lot lessons from buddhism moral.
ReplyDeleteGolf(s) (August 30, 2010 5:55 PM),
ReplyDeleteIf you read Only Love Is Real and it is real, you would see that pats-life therapy has many benefits; at least, it can help you find a girlfriend.
Golf(s)
ReplyDeleteI can't say that I 100% believe in reincarnation. However, I think recalling past lives(may be it is an imagination from subconscious) can help you to understand your current life.