The ABC’s of REINCARNATION & PAST LIFE
REGRESSION
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"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting, The Soul that rises
with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting and
cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness and not in utter
nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come..."
- William Wordsworth (English poet, 1770-1850)
In order to have a common ground on which to further explore this
intriguing topic, let’s begin with some very basic concepts and
definitions. And I do mean basic.
Reincarnation is a doctrine or belief, which holds that our
souls are reborn many times in different bodies. The word itself
comes from the Latin words “re”, meaning to repeat, and “carn” or
“carnis” meaning flesh - in other words, to enter the flesh again.
While there are many and varied beliefs regarding the concept of
reincarnation, the one fundamental principle underlying all of them
is the belief that we all possess an immaterial and incorporeal
“something” (called the soul, spirit, essence, inner self, inner being,
and a whole host of other names) which survives our death and
persists as a definable entity. After a period of rest, this
“something” is reborn into a new, infant body.
Regression is the experience of going back to an earlier time
in this life.
Past-life Regression is the act of experiencing a purported
previous lifetime usually through the mechanism of an Altered