>>In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" jflanegi@
>>wrote:
>>It has been brought up before that all too often people >>attempting
to view their past lives will conclude that they were >>someone famous.
Emptybill:
This generalization is an old but undeserved criticism because it is
nothing but pure, unfounded speculation. Actual testimony from subjects
participating in both individual and group sessions of past life recall
is just the opposite of this statement and its claims. Helen Wambach
did research on about 1000 individuals and around 10,000 people in
various group settings. The vast majority of these participants reported
past lives as simple peasants or farmers, living in small villages or in
the countryside with no formal education and little social influence
within the cultural milieu of the given lifetime.
Dr. Helen Wambach (Ph.D.) was one of the earliest scientific
researchers into past lives and reincaration. She was the author of
Reliving Past Lives and Life Before Life (both published in 1978 by
Bantam paperback books). The updated Reliving Past Lives: The Evidence
Under Hypnosis was published in 1984.
Initially motivated by a desire to debunk reincarnation, beginning in
the mid-1960s, Helen Wambach conducted a 10-year survey of past-life
recalls under hypnosis among 1,088 subjects. She asked very specific
questions about the time periods in which people lived and the clothing,
footwear, utensils, money, housing, etc. which they used or came in
contact with. Wambach concluded found peoples' recollections to be
amazingly accurate and wrote that ''fantasy and genetic memory could not
account for the patterns that emerged in the results. With the exception
of 11 subjects, all descriptions of clothing, footwear and utensils were
consistent with historical records.''
<http://www.victorzammit.com/book/chapter24.html>
By doing a scientific analysis on the past lives reported by her 10,000
plus volunteers she came up with some startling evidence in favor of
reincarnation:
50.6 % of the past lives reported were male and 49.4 % were female
this is exactly in accordance with biological fact.
The number of people reporting upper class or comfortable lives
was in exactly the same proportion to the estimates of historians of the
class distribution of the period.
The recall by subjects of clothing, footwear, type of food and
utensils used was better than that in popular history books. She found
over and over again that her subjects knew better than most historians
when she went to obscure experts her subjects were invariably
correct.
While the evidence from these "viewing" does not constitute any final
proof of reincarnation, it does belie your "true 'cuz it must be"
assertion.
