But what exactly is death?
The intuition of an 'afterlife' or continuity of consciousness after bodily death is present in all peoples and eras of mankind, including the most isolated communities on the planet.¹ Most religions are unanimous in some form of survival of the soul in the afterlife.
With the emergence of science, many beliefs and superstitions have been demystified and discarded for not offering tangible 'proofs' to justify their existence. Nevertheless, if science has enlighten mankind on many subjects, it also managed to obscure it on others. The fact is that both the experimental method and human reasoning are limited and fallible, especially when it comes to explaining why life or the universe exist.
Death is a subject most people would rather avoid, because they are drenched in doubt and hesitation between religious beliefs and science, claiming that "no one came back to tell", a state of mind responsible for the current wave of carelessness and materialism. In lack of something better, the mass of skeptics clings to earthly and transient possessions and joys, professional ambitions, ultramodern cell phones, social networks, in a depressing existential emptiness. It is not surprising that many fear death, when the purpose of life seems reduced to the mere enjoyment of the present moment. For science, death is the end of both the body and the consciousness that animated it. Period.
Is that so? Fortunately, no. Several psychological studies suggest exactly the opposite, although they are attacked with skepticism and cynicism in the scientific world, as if our overly simplistic and exclusive experimental method was the only reliable source of 'truth'.
Statistically relevant findings in Hypnotic Regression
To understand what death is, we must first understand what birth is, and in this regard, hypnotic regression offers extensive insight and yet the most plausible and rational explanation of consciousness. Practiced for therapeutic purposes since antiquity², hypnotic regression seeks to make the patient re-experience and reinterpret traumatic memories hidden in the unconscious in order to alleviate unexplained phobias or mental illnesses apparently incurable by conventional means. However, this practice is only recommendable to individuals with severe phobias and mental issues, because of its risk factors, especially in the hands of dubious or inexperienced therapists. What interests us here is the statistically relevant information regarding birth and death.
Among other professionals, Dr. Helen Wambach (Ph.D.) performed more than two thousand regressions³ in the United States, seeking to better understand what infants feel in the uterus before birth. She noted that even in the so called 'vegetative' phase, patients have extremely lucid memories going back to their own conception, a claim incompatible with the scientific notion of consciousness being the result of neurological activity.
"I had the understanding of an adult, not that of a child, I just listened and watched, I did not like the idea of being there, squeezed into that little boy."
Even more astounding is the fact that most of her patients had memories before they were even conceived. Based on the massive amount of testimonies, she concludes that;
Being born is more stressful than dying. To die is to 'go home'.
"In fact, 81% of respondents said that they had spontaneously decided, without any pressure, for reincarnation. Only 19% said they did not know about the choice or remembered nothing when asked the question. An unequivocal majority of 90% thought dying was a wonderful and even pleasant experience. It is being born that is the problem."² Not only had they 'chosen' to be born, but remembered dying. All statements were made under hypnosis, where there is often "an irresistible compulsion to tell the truth, whatever it is."²
From these testimonies, a highly inconvenient truth emerges, both for modern science and for many religious creeds: Consciousness preexists birth and survives bodily death.
To the skeptics who wish to bring hypnotic suggestion as an explanation for all phenomena obtained under hypnosis, we kindly ask to explain how an individual under hypnotic regression can fluently talk and interact in a language he or she completely ignores in awaken state, sometimes in tongues, accents and dialects no longer used in present day.
The panic syndrome and the question of the soul
An extensive body of knowledge on the question of the soul has been developed over the years, through scientific observations, statistics and countless reports produced by competent professionals in hypnotic regression worldwide, such as Dr. Edith Fiore and psychiatrist Dr. Jaider Rodrigues de Paulo, whose interview on the panic syndrome is of the highest interest:
"In our opinion, based on the studies we have done, the central nucleus of the panic syndrome is in a previous incarnation, when the individual had a violent and premature death, by self-inflicted accident or suicide. In the memory regressions we performed on some patients with this syndrome, we all find a traumatic death." (Translated from Portuguese)
This statement is coherent with the findings of American psychiatrist and hypnotherapist Brian Weiss, whose book Many Lives, Many Masters describes the surprising results he obtained with a patient called Katherine who suffered from panic attacks.
In a nutshell, the mental and physiological symptoms of a panic attack, which include irrational fear or a sensation of dying, are part of an exteriorization process aiming at 'purging' traumatic experiences hidden in the unconscious. The process of re-experiencing a trauma in order to re-interpret it and foment acceptance and resignation is commonly used as a therapy for PTSD (Post traumatic stress disorder), where a known trauma is responsible for the anxiety.
In the Panic Syndrome however, the initial trauma is rarely known to the patient, because past lives memories are conveniently veiled. In awaken state, only through vague intuition and insight can we experience unconscious content. A panic attack is perhaps one of the most misunderstood and painful intuition one can experience. It is worth mentioning that past lives experiences can often be the cause of mental diseases in the current lifetime, a reality that modern science dogmatically denies, regardless of the ample evidence available to support the existence of metaphysical consciousness.
The genetic predisposition and chemical imbalance in the brain, the alleged cause of the panic syndrome, is in fact the effect of an underlying cause: the human mind. The development of the infant in the uterus is not guided, as many believe, by the DNA of the parents, but by the electromagnetic influx of the incarnating soul's energy body, understood and treated in traditional Chinese medicine for centuries. This apparently surreal statement explains non-hereditary birth malformation and predispositions, genetic differences in the DNA of child and parents, and why intelligence, aptitudes, personal tendencies and tastes are not hereditary. For example, an individual with a very high IQ can be born of very low IQ parents, and vice-versa.
The hypothesis for the preexistence of consciousness found in Trans-personal Psychology, Parapsychology and Spiritualist doctrines brings a completely new approach to mental illnesses. In fact, it goes beyond any other theory because it explains why an individual has a given disorder and most importantly, what the objective of the disorder is. As paradoxical as it may seem, what we call an illness is in fact, a cure.
Simon Baush
References:
¹MURPHY, JOHN. The Origins and History of Religions. 1952.
²MIRANDA, HERMINIO C. A Memória e o Tempo. 1993.
³WAMBACH, HELEN. Reliving Past Lives. 1978
⁴Interview with psychiatrist Dr. Jaider Rodrigues de Paulo on the panic syndrome (Portugues)
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