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iii. Set up a monologue in your mind.
Refer to self as He/she/I and see the difference.
First person: Watch your own movie
Third person or name: refer to yourself as third person.
iv. Meditation: experience a headless you-- expand your head,

reach 4th dimensional awareness.
Awareness is meditation -mind racing around room and you

continue to watch the mind.
v. Imagine yourself at the circus, playing different roles.
Memory Retrieval:
As I said earlier, chronologically near memories are easy to

retrieve. Distant memories are difficult but still accessible in an
altered state. PLRT uses the tools of NLP to get maximum
outputs. Often, under proper instruction the memories which are
relevant to your present condition will surface.
Right and Left Brain:
The right and left brains have different functions. The right brain
is intuitive and the left brain is logical. As explained later, the
right brain holds the key to surreal experiences. The left brain is
logical and can actually block recall.
Exercises for increasing the power of the Right Brain:
Try the following exercises to enhance the power of your intuition
Choosing the Right Path:
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Close your eyes. Visualize a single path forking into two paths.
One path is the ‘yes’ path and the other is the ‘no’ path. Let’s say
the yes path is pleasant, cool and green while the no path is
scorching hot. Now, think of a question which needs an answer
and close your eyes and seek the answer. Which path comes to
your mind at first shot as the answer?
Psychometry:
Psychometry was first popularized by Henry Buchanan. The

reader takes an object which has an intimate connection with the
subject being read, let’s say, his watch. He then closes his eyes
and makes a reading from the watch. He may ask the watch a
question like “What is the message for the owner of this watch?”
We are all psychics if given a chance. At a workshop, one ‘cool

dude’ could go to the European Villa of the lady he was reading
for and saw her whole villa with its white-washed walls and
unlocked doors. The lady later confirmed that she never locks her
doors.
Face Reading:
This exercise is given in ‘Messages from the Master’ by Dr Brian

Weiss. Two people sit facing each other and try reading each
other’s faces. At one session, my reader, an ENT surgeon saw two
of my lives, one of a dancer and second of a Red Indian healer. I
haven’t personally confirmed these two yet. But both professions
invoke strong emotions in me.
Mind Reading:
Write down a number. Ask your partner to guess. (I have given

more exercises are given in my book on dowsing).

Chapter 6
Beyond the Body
9ear Death Experience (9DE)
The term NDE was coined by Dr Raymond Moody to describe

phenomena that occur at the time of a near death experience. For
example when a person is going through a cardiac arrest and this
experience is narrated by the patient after his revival. As a
physician who has been witness to many deaths, I have seen the
subtlety with which the soul leaves the body. It is now here and
then not here in a matter of seconds. Fortunately for me, after my
own NDE at the age of 13 years, I had overcome the fear of death
and could observe the changes in others in a detached way.
The question which is often raised is whether the NDE

phenomenon reiterates the existence of soul apart from the body.
For one who has had a NDE or OBE there is no doubt about the
existence of a soul but for sceptics, the debate continues. The
argument from doctors is that NDE experiences are a result of
activation of certain areas in the temporal lobe that release stored
memories of stories which one has heard or read before.
In near death experience, whatever the mind conceives, it sees.

This is quite a tenable argument. Stimulation of the temporal lobe
electrically during brain surgery does show similar features. But
there are other features of NDE that cannot be explained by stored
memory refuting the stored memory or cryptamnesia hypothesis
For example, the case of a person who met the soul of a friend
returning back from death. .She later learnt that at the time of her

NDE, her friend also had an arrest in another hospital but was
revived.
Other queries are that even if it’s a hallucination then, why are
only certain issues brought up?
e.g.
Why did his father come to meet him and not his mother?
If it a problem of the brain, which part of brain is involved and

what sort of structural damage is responsible for it?
Why does the brain damage not persist after resuscitation?
In fact, most are blessed with superior qualities after revival

(Anita Moorjani said that she overcame fear, Jason Padgett learnt
about fractals)
Cardiologist Michael Sabom and his team described veridical

(verifiable) Out of Body Experiences during NDEs.
Most importantly, the sequence of event in unconscious patients

was well registered and they all had flat EEGs.
Sneaker on the Ledge Story
One famous anecdote is called the ‘the sneaker on the ledge’. An

ICU patient reported having seen a sneaker on the ledge during a
NDE, which was unexplained by memory because the patient was
brought into the ICU in an unconscious state. Moreover, none of
the ICU staff was aware of the sneaker .So, thought transmission
was ruled out.
9DEs in blind:

Dr Ross studied NDEs even in blind people. There are other
intriguing examples which blast our rationale. The
neurophysiologic and biochemical changes have been studied in
NDE subjects but give no valid explanation.
Weighted Core Experience Index:
Ring gave a scientific outlook to the study of NDEs by

developing the “weighted core experience index”. People who
reported greater detail were scored higher and called ‘core
experiencers’.
Cross Cultural Common Features:
In 1977, Dr Raymond Moody published ‘Life after Life’

summarising his interviews of hundreds of men and women who
had just ‘missed’ death. Other authors before and after him have
concurred. The following series may be called a road map to a
NDE. All the patients do not have the same experience.
• The person first hears the news of his death. In cases of

accidents, this may be absent. The person is confused at
first.
• In spite of the physical pain which the person experienced
prior to his NDE, he now feels peace and calm. Pain
vanishes. This could be attributed to coma.
• Hearing of noises and voices.
• Seeing your body apart from yourself or floating out of the
body.
Two possibilities exist

Autoscopic NDErs-people get a bird eye’s view which
also called field memory
Or Observed memory from within.
• Passing through a dark tunnel

• Meeting people, friends, relatives who have passed on
before
• Many of them reported to have travelled through a dark
tunnel to a very peaceful place and encountered divine
beings of light that brought on love and comfort.
• Seeing a bright white light that is interpreted as God which
is culturally conditioned.
• One of my patients a devout Church goer said she met
Christ and Ganesha.
• Going through a review of the present life. All the
emotionally charged moments are brought to the fore.
• Two questions which are usually asked are,
“Did you accomplish what you came to accomplish?”
“What lessons did you learn?”
• The barrier – which one cannot cross. One is sent back.
• The return journey.
• Loss of memory- All things cannot be recollected. Some
things are forgotten. Patients find it difficult to explain it to
others. Others rebuff them so the episode is suppressed.
After the doctor invalidated my experience I had
suppressed my NDE for so long that even now I feel I
might have hallucinating it.
• A person may acquire a skill like Mr Jason Padgett a
college drop-out who learnt about fractals.

• Dramatic recovery from physical illness – Anita Moorjani’s
recovery from cancer and my own recovery from viral
hepatitis.
• Change in attitude/world view-The fear of death is lost.
Other fears are also overcome. People tend to be peaceful
and lead more self-actualized lives.
Culture Specificity of 9DEs:
Depending on cultural backgrounds, people have different

experiences as they pass out of the body. However, there are
some features which are common that transcend culture.viz.
People who have undergone a NDE have no fear of death; they
are more compassionate towards fellow beings and have a sense
of purpose in life. Many claim to have met their ancestors or
astral beings though this may be against their traditional belief
systems. For many, a NDE could be transformational and set
them on a spiritual quest.
Some people may not agree with these reports but others will get
reassured knowing that they are not the only ones to have faced
such a situation.
Belief or non belief in God had no influence on the occurrence of

an NDE or its character a fact not taken well by the religious
people.
Why do 9DE people get only pleasant visions?
In Kenneth Ring’s report(1980) no person including the suicides

had reported a journey to hell. This made religious people a little
uncomfortable. In Sabom’s study hell was quite frequent.

The western reports of NDE are more often pleasant than
unpleasant. We know that NDE brings out our archetypes. After
so many NDEs of bright light being aired on television it is but
natural that the positive experiences will be etched in people’s
psyche. In any case, they are more welcome than the fire, devil
and brimstone archetypes. Secondly, it is not always true that only
pleasant experiences are witnessed. Some eastern accounts and a
few western accounts have reported nightmarish experiences.
However, most negative accounts are short lasting and restricted
to confusion, fear or regret.
Psychologist Charles Garfield’s report(1979) had eight of

thirty-six patient reporting terrifying accounts and four had both
types. In Maurice Rawling’s accounts, hellish experiences were
reported.
Many of my cardiac arrest patients who did not have any clear-cut
NDE have called the DC shock the worst experience of their life.
Being on a ventilator in an ICU setting is a very unnerving thing
and patients take days to recover from the psychological pain of
it.
This discrepancy in positive and negative accounts almost led to

war of words (King and Sabom). In the bargain, we forgot the
patient. The NDE experience was created by the patient for some
lesson. If it were his lesson from his higher self, intuition or
whatever, he would like to forget the pain and carry on in life
with the new lesson. Therefore, it is most likely that unpleasant
accounts are forgotten.

After Death Communication:
There are reports of dead people communicating to their family
either directly or through friends or psychics. Often, the
communication happens in a dream.
Induced After Death Communication (IADC):

Most after death communications are spontaneous. In induced
ADC, a person in deep grief is taken to the higher realm to
establish contact with the dead person’s soul. Seeing their
relatives comfortable can be soothing (Dr Botkin)
Out of Body Experience (OBE)

In 1971, Robert Monroe described the OBEs he had over thirty
years. My first OBE occurred in 2001 and surprisingly in the
oddest of settings. We had just ended a ten day yoga therapy
camp for 53 cardiac patients. Since the yoga teachers were
leaving after two days, we decided to learn a few advanced
techniques from them.
We were five of us besides our two guides nestled in the cosy

warmth of the conference room in the Government guest house.
Sitting in a circle, around the soothing flame of a ghee lamp, we
were receiving instructions for jyoti trātaka or flame gazing.
Midway into the practice, I stopped hearing the instructions but
could see everyone, including myself moving their eyes in
synchrony, the flame, the wooden stool and everything. I had a
deep sense of peace within. Then, suddenly I noticed that the
curtains had a print of creepers on them and felt that the colours
of the curtains didn’t match the walls.

I didn’t remember them, I actually saw them. Few minutes later, I
was back to body consciousness. When I looked around, I
realized that my back was against the curtains and I could not
have noticed them without really turning around. Moreover, it
would be impossible to notice the eyes of my colleague adjacent
to me if I was in my body. The high point was of course the sense
of peace. After that I have been through many OBEs and each
experience has always been welcome.
Brain and its relationship to extra sensory or spiritual

perceptions, the God Spot:
The closest a person can get to surreal experiences (spiritual

experiences) is during a seizure involving the temporal lobe, also
called as temporal lobe epilepsy. In 1990, Canadian
neuroscientist, Dr Michael Persinger designed the God Helmet to
induce short lasting, micro- magnetic field currents in the right
temporal lobe. When the right brain was stimulated, the left
temporal lobe interpreted that there was another entity in the
room. This ‘sensed presence’, was interpreted as a ghost or
divinity. He also observed that intensive meditation, chanting and
other spiritual practices also activated this very spot.
Newberg, a scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, conducted

SPECT scans on meditating Buddhist monks and Franciscan
nuns. These scans showed activity in the posterior, superior
parietal lobe and prefrontal lobes. Meditation lights up the frontal
lobes and darkens the parietal lobes.
Brain may not be the cause of all NDEs or OBEs but it reflects
the experience and this can be documented.

Difference between drug -induced OB experience and
spiritual ecstasy:
Dr Grof conducted a lot of OBE experiments using the

psychodelic drug LSD and later without it. In drug induced
ecstasy, we have the same feeling as that of spiritual ecstasy but it
is dependent on the drug. No drug , no experience.
Conversely, even in spiritual ecstasy, there is a chance of an

addictive dependence on the spiritual experience but if proper
guidance is available, we can transcend this stage to reach ground
‘zero’.
Astral travel, different experiences reported:
After NDE and OBE we come to Astral Travel which is actually a

form of OBE. According to various psychic reports, when people
travel out of their body, they visit different places. A few places
and people that the OBErs visit are listed below.
1. The temple of wisdom
2. The hall of healing which is lighted by gems
3. The General Council--- a group advanced souls who guide

people.
4. The tapestry room ---shows the pattern of our lives on

tapestry, tending to infinity.
5. Library- where books are stocked for the lower souls to read.
6. Computer room –where our plan for the next life is revealed on
consoles.

At a workshop my colleague and I attended together, during a
meditation, my colleague had a remarkable journey through the
precincts of exotic temples.
Most of my own astral experiences are during the pre- sleep phase
when I have travelled to beautiful places. I have seen the greatest
of temple architecture and landscapes which would leave me
nostalgic for days. In the astral worlds, there are gardens full of
giant plants with oversize flowers of mesmerizing colours.
Later, when I saw the movie ‘AVATAR’, I had no doubt that the
director or writer must have visited the places I had seen. Another
astral experience etched in my memory was the ‘tapestry room’.
Though my own experience is different from what others have
described, I have seen the most intricate and enticing of
embroideries on giant murals.
All these could well be just dreams or fantasies but one thing is
certain that they didn’t come from my memory. I have a good
memory and remember quite a lot of things which I have read or
seen from up to the age of 3 years.
Another medically related issue related to astral travel is Sudden

Infant Death Syndrome, SIDS which is suspected to be due to
mishaps during astral travel but there is no evidence to that effect
as yet.

Chapter 7
The Law of Karma

There are many misrepresentations of karma. To clear these are
will first state what karma is not
What karma is not
Karma is not fatalistic:
Fatalism teaches that everything in the world is predestined and

we have no control on our lives. In other words, we are ‘puppets’
in the hands of some unknown power or a whimsical controller.
In fact, the theory of karma is exactly the opposite of fatalism.

Karma teaches us to take 100% responsibility for all the situations
in our lives, whether good or bad, desirable or undesirable. It
teaches us to see ourselves as creators and shows us our role in
the situation and the appropriateness of the situation, in the
greater scheme of the universe.
There is no ground for regret or despair but there is great scope

for constant and continuous self- improvement and growth. When
we blame someone or entertain a negative thought about another,
it may not harm the other person but it almost certainly harms us.
Self- blame or resentment is a psychological disease which can
lead to dreaded diseases like cancer.
Sometimes, I feel that karma is like a movie script or a script of a

serial which can be altered while the ‘lights are on’.
So Much Freedom!

I have heard somewhere put don’t know the original source,
“Karma should not be used as a crutch for non-doing. Karma
should be fluid and evolving. ” We have to be in acceptance of
the present moment, whatever it is, in order to grow. A man may
have opted to be born with a handicap but it is our duty to help
him in every way. In India, people often take recourse to karma
to absolve themselves from taking social responsibility thereby
incurring more karma. The less privileged dispose of their but we
add to our load by judging.
Karma is not Retributive Justice
Karma is not retributive as inferred by most people. It is not a

punishment for our sins. The concept of Karma represents a
learning process. Karma is not an eye for an eye issue.
Retribution is used as a last resort...only when the soul refuses to
learn any other way.
E.g .
A suicide in past life recurs in this life. It is because of the

residual feelings of sorrows at the time of birth carried over from
the immediate past life that leads to a repeat suicide in this life or
perhaps it is a residual karma of a still earlier life.
A handicapped person may have his problem due to a past life

error, sickness or accident or might have chosen to suffer in order
to grow.
Karma says ‘As you sow, so shall you reap’
The seeds you sow today are not only your deeds but also the
thoughts which feed the soil of your fertile mind and later cause

you to harvest the bounty of a fruit, desired or undesired, the
ultimate outcome.
What Karma is…..
Karma in simple words means ‘action’ but Karma also means the
‘fruit of the action’ rightly called karmaphal.
There is no language in the world, so pregnant with meaning as

Sanskrit. Here the fruit means outcome. It is suggested that the
outcome is inherent in the action itself. The fruit cannot be
separated from the action, the action and its fruit are essentially
one. If there has been an action, there has to be a fruit or reaction.
If the karma was positively intended, the fruit is positive. If the
intention was negative or selfish the fruit has to be negative.
The intention is more important than the actual act.
Law of Karma (Karma Siddhānt):
I found the best exposition on karma in a small book,” The

Theory of Karma” by Shri Hirabhai Thakker, an English
translation of the original book in Gujarati. Karma is the scientific
law of cause and effect.
The corollaries of the law of karma are
Law of Intention-it is not enough to do good acts, the motive

behind the action is very important. One is given marks for the
motive.
Law of Attention-where you fix your mind will determine what

you will obtain in this birth and next birth, the path of Sreyas and
Preyas.

Law of Attraction-You attract your destiny with your thoughts.
Different Types of Karma
Let us understand karma with the analogy of bank accounts.
Prārabddha karma-
Prārabdha karma is the karma effect which has fructified.

Prārabddha is fixed deposits which have matured or loan
instalments which are due
Sanchit karma is the fixed deposit account we hold, which has

not yet reached maturity or the principle amount of the loan.
Sanchit is karma in suspension like seeds which may break

through in some other life.
Kriyamān karma or Karma in tracking. Kriyamān is a current

account.
Kriyamān is our day to day thoughts and behaviour which is

under our voluntary control and eligible to choice or change. In
the previous eras, it took a long time for sanchit to fructify but
today the term is greatly reduced and in the coming years there
will be seeing almost immediate effects of our actions. For
example, in previous years, politicians were not caught after
crimes. Today, they are caught and released. In future, they will
be punished.
Reincarnation and Karma:
If we believe that every effect has to have a cause, when the cause
cannot be explained in terms of present life situations, we move
into the realm of past lives. Our actions and thoughts determine
what birth we will get or whether we will be born at all. We are

given a choice and we choose our parents, residence, relationships
and purpose. Earlier, access to past life was restricted to a few
exalted souls but now anyone can tap past and future lives in a
clinical or laboratory setting.
(For more on karma, see Bhagwad Geeta-musings of a scientific

mind)
We always have a choice:
We may not have a choice in our predicament but we definitely

have a choice in our reaction to suffering. Take the case of dancer
Sudha Chandran who rose to fame in spite of her handicap or
Stephen Hawking, the physicist who lectures on a wheel chair.
Only a little at a time:
Only part of the karma burden can be worked out in one life time.
We never get more than what we can handle. If we grow
spiritually, we have more hurdles. King Dhristhrāshtra, the
Kaurava king of Mahabharata was shown that he had killed a
hundred birds in a past life. He had to undergo several births and
accumulate merits to bear a hundred sons before he could atone
for his sins by losing all of them.
Why do saints suffer? Why do good people suffer?
Saints may take over the karma of others. When a saint knows he
is dying he takes karmas of his disciples and works them out in
his body. In the Bible, it is suggested that Jesus took over the sins
of others. Jesus never blamed others.
Why do bad people not suffer?

At a soul level, good and bad is defined in a different way. The
ākāsic records hold all transactions and we are accountable. We
may have to pay with interest for misusing our free will. It is not
our act but our intention for doing it that counts.
Group Karma:
We come to this 3 dimensional world as a soul group. Some souls

may leave and others may join as we move on. So, we have
collective karma related to the group. Say, people caught together
in an earthquake or the Bhopal gas tragedy or a tsunami. All of
them decided to be there at that time.
Karmic Levels-Graded Lessons:
1. Personal level- recognize a recurring the pattern in our

personal life ---‘here we go again’.
2. Group level - soul group, family, race, country—they stay

together for 7 generations.
Soul healing is a lineage breaker. You heal yourself and at the

same time change the group karma for seven generations of your
ancestors and seven generations of your descendents.
Shamans can do soul retrieval or release part of your soul stuck in

some other dimension.
Siddhas can help souls ascend to higher dimensions.
3.The Collective Consciousness level -it is like a internet

….www.
4.Cosmic consciousness level - reconnecting with the highest

spirit or God.

Chapter 8
Evolution of Soul
According to most researchers on OBEs, the souls go through
various stages after inception before reaching enlightenment.
Each birth helps the person to grow to the person to the next
stage.*
Age of the soul:
Souls originate from the unmanifest form of divinity. As the soul

goes through many life experiences, it learns lessons and evolves.
The different stages through which the soul travels are labelled as
infant soul, baby soul, young soul, mature soul, old soul,
transcendental soul and infinite soul. At birth, our mind is not a
tabula rasa but has impressions of many lives inscribed on it. A
mature soul will face many relationship and life conflicts in order
to mature
Infant soul:
Infant soul is a soul who is just starting its human journey has to
deal with survival issues. He is gripped with fears of survival and
security. He has just evolved from the animal kingdom .He is by

nature aggressive and wants to get his desires by hook or crook.
Infant/baby soul is tāmasic and sleeps for more than 8 hours.
Baby soul:
Is at the second stage there is more discipline and binding by the

norms of family and society. There is much rigidity about dos and
don’ts, kind of a military rule. He is internally waging a war.
Young soul:
The soul is now obsessed with the material world. He is after

money, name, success and glamour. He is luminous and shines
through his achievements.
Mature soul:
Having satiated his appetites for material things, he now seeks

connection. At this birth, he has to deal with relationships and the
conflicts that arise from them. He now seeks his Quest: Who am
I?
Old soul:
The old soul is full of wisdom, holistic, nature seeking.
Chooses self knowledge- has all answers, has knowledge of self.
Transcendental soul:
The old soul having done meritorious work in earlier births, has
come back due to compassion–bodhisattwa. He is full of
unconditional love.
Infinite soul (avatar):

This soul has a connection with the highest even when he is in his
human form.
From the above description, it is clear how the chakras will

function in the different souls.
E.g a boddhisattwa will have his heart chakra wide open.
9urture:
A person has an expanded consciousness at birth till the fontanel

is open. There is no separation between self and non-self. A three
year old may remember past lives, his purpose or may be
clairvoyant. Most young children are able to see auras. The indigo
and crystal children of today are blessed with ESPs. When the
child is born and till the fontanel is open, the child has not
developed an identity which is separate from the environment
which is considered as part of as self. The child is connected to
universal consciousness. It is only after the second year that
children develop a separate identity of their own. At this time the
navel chakra starts to take over and the crown starts to close.
Soul evolution and Chakras (ESPs):
As the soul evolves the higher chakras are opened up and

Extrasensory perceptions related to those chakras manifest.
For example, a person with an open third eye will be clairvoyant.

Kingdom and Chakras:
Chakra Evolutionary kingdom Realms

Mooladhar Mineral world Physical
Swadhisthan Plant Etheric
Manipur Animal world Etheric +astral
Anahat Human Etheric + astral + ego
Vishuddhi Saints/ Angels +Causal
Ajna Siddhas/archangels
Sahasrar Highest Supracausal
development/Cosmic
But why did the One become many?
Reincarnation is fine but why did the soul form in the first place.
If it has to separate from the unmanifest, go through struggles and
has to join the unmanifest again, why disjoin at all?
I struggled with this question for a long time. The answer came to
me during an afternoon meditation in the form of a visual, ‘the
ocean and wave ’.The wave is not separate from the ocean. There
was no time that the wave first formed. It is always there. The
ocean and the wave are essentially one.
Without the ocean there would be no wave. And we cannot

imagine an ocean which forms no wave. The wave comes and
goes and then comes again. Is it the same wave as the last one?
May be or maybe not.
So, each time we come, we probably take on part of another’s

karma. There could be well a mixing of soul matter and Karma.
Perhaps, that is the reason great souls struggle to liberate others
and even take on the karma of others. There is no individuality.

At some level, we are indivisible. We are in essence one and
same.
Are the number of souls increasing? How do we explain the

population growth?
If the same souls kept coming again and again, the number of
people would be constant and not increasing.
Chances are plants and animal souls could be ascending.
Or souls could be splitting to discover more of life.
Some authors report that there is no ceiling on soul

creation(Monroe).

Chapter 8
Purpose
Why Do Souls Reincarnate?
No one really knows the truth but there are different schools of
thought. According to Ramkrishna Paramhansa, one can tell
about higher realms as long as he is sitting on the fence but once a
person has gone beyond, he cannot come back to tell us. So, what
we have are extrapolations and approximations but not the entire
story. So, here are the guesses.
Why are we here? What is the purpose of our lives?
According to New Age Masters, our life has a double purpose, an

inner purpose and an outer purpose. The outer purpose relates to
our behaviour, education, job, relationships etc. The inner purpose
is the same for all, to know or attain to our true nature.
I may be here
1. To finish unfinished business.
2. To help others.
But I must remember that if I want to help others, I shouldn’t

jump into the pit myself. Martyrdom is not a prime goal for
reincarnation.

When do we know that our purpose is being fulfilled?
If we are doing that which we came here to do, our mind will be
in a state of bliss and contentment. Things will work for us with
synchronicity, with the least struggle from our side. We will find
ourselves at the right place at the right time. Even if faced with
difficulties, there will be no regrets but acceptance. Remember,
higher souls have more difficulties than younger souls but they
shoulder them with serenity.
Our Contracts:
Who decides what we are going to be in this life?
A blue print of our life is set before we are born. According to

Dolores Cannon’s book, we sit in consultation with the council of
Masters during our ‘life between life’ states. We agree to play a
role and are thus given a body to suit the script. We can change
the script anytime during the journey provided the lesson is learnt
or the purpose is served. Or we can continue the same role till the
end of this birth. The choice is entirely ours. According to some
transcripts of regresees advanced souls have 10 more lives and
others may have as many 170 lives. Parents of mentally retarded
children are considered to be advanced souls.
Sacred Contracts:
Caroline Myss studied the language of symbols, myths and

archetypes in many people to formulate the ‘Sacred contract’, an
individual’s profile. In all, there are 12 archetypal patterns that

reflect in mythical symbols, the agreements made by the soul
before birth.
The Council of Elders:

These are evolved souls who help the souls coming down to Earth
to write their script and choose fellow travellers. On death, the
souls return to the Council for a review of their performance
while on Earth and again for guidance before the next birth.
In summary, we reincarnate
1. To Fulfil Desires
We take birth to celebrate, to experience this phenomenal world.

There are so many things to do, see and feel.
2.To Learn and Grow
Perhaps, this world is like a school and we come back again to

learn lessons, to make spiritual progress.
The ego self has a separate purpose too but is constrained by

desires. Soul finds it hard to manifest its true purpose.
Moreover, eternity is boring. Since 3rd grade over, you want a

challenge. So, you come back for a more challenging role.
Have you ever considered staying in the present body forever?
Or watching a film star playing the same role movie after movie?
3. By the Act of Grace
Another possibility is that this birth is not an automatic

phenomenon but an act of grace

i) As a reward:
You are given this birth because you have earned it in your
previous life. Higher self makes us an offer difficult to refuse. If
you are advanced enough, you will be operating from your
freewill. An advanced soul is not afraid to risk making mistakes.
You then start living life more fully. By the same Grace, you
recognise your karma and lead a life of sacrifice.
ii) For healing from past wounds
iii) For learning to take responsibility
iv) Advanced souls come as handicapped children or their

parents.
Born as a mentally retarded person, you get a chance to change

bad karma into good karma. It makes you look into yourself as
you know you are not what people think you are. It is said that, if
you attain perfection, you may have 10 more lives, others have
120 lives. However, this could be contestable issue.
vi) To become teachers. The Siddhas are beyond karma but they
keep coming back.
4. Other reasons for rebirth:
Atonement:
Karma of mockery: if we have derided someone’ s suffering,

laughed at someone’s affliction, enjoyed seeing someone being
the butt of cruel humour, despised others, ridiculed others, it
invites a karmic link.
You were a very spiritual person in your last life, but were selfish
and escaped from family responsibility.

Repercussions: A person promises to do something.
e.g. A person takes a vow to be there forever for someone, comes

to pay out /release the karma.
Vocational Karma: child prodigies. E.g. Yehudi Menuhin or

Ramanujan.
Karma of Work: excel at what you had learnt in last life, like
needle work or carpentry.
To Finish Unfinished Business:
Say, to finish a book started in the last life. It is important to

always complete what one has started. It is better not to start
anything unless you have completed the last task. You may
delegate the work to others before you leave. That is the reason
all spiritual teachers have disciples.
Technological Karma:
This karma relates to scientists, technocrats etc.
e.g. Hyder Ali coming back as Vikram Sarabhai.
In Dr Brian’s book, there is story of a nuclear scientist who

developed OCD of washing his hands due to a nuclear accident in
his past life.
Every time we buy a hi-tech product, we share the karma of the

technology team.
Ideological/coercion Karma:
When a person tries to enforce his beliefs on others, he interferes

with their free-will. Conversion or Witch-ducking has created
liabilities for those souls. We can never say we know what is
good for others. Our job is to accept others. Even when we pray
we should ask that others be given what is best for their soul’s
growth. We should not feel sorry for other. Compassion is another
issue, it comes from the soul.
In the Piscean Age, people were fixated on suffering as a virtue.

So, these people will be reborn to recreate suffering in their lives.
People get cancer because at some level they believe they
deserved it.
Communication Karma: withheld truth last life, you come again

to tell it now.
Publishing Karma: published scandals, false reports come back

to atone.
Guilt: They have hurt someone, feel guilty and have come back
for reparation of damage.
Symbolic Karma:
They were timid, kept ears closed, did not listen to pleas. Now
they may be deaf.
Karma of Place:
On being in a particular place, you feel constant unease. There is

a possibility of your death on a battlefield. Colin Wilson
illustrates this beautifully. A positive correlation is also possible.
To learn to love ourselves:

We ignored ourselves or hurt ourselves come back to love
ourselves.
To discover Hidden Talents:
Something started but not perfected in past.
Understanding Relationships:
Reincarnation and Marital or Relationship Problems
Reparation for betrayal may manifest as co-dependence/ clinging

in relationships. Extra marital relationships are likely.
Solve Power Issues:
Deal with power struggles and other compulsive love sagas. We

may endlessly recreate issues of abuse, abandonment, rejection,
manipulation in successive lives. We do not let go, so they recur
time and again. We get entrenched in them. So, if your ex -
husband or lover has caused you pain, it makes situations to let
you re-write a new script. Even, remembering the hurt sets the
wheel of karma in motion. Reading other people’s regressions
scripts often touch a sensitive nerve when you resonate with their
life. We have all experienced the same trauma in some life.
e.g
• Dominance/ submissiveness scene

• Betrayal / betrayed theme
• Enabler/enabled theme.
• Freedom/ commitment dilemma

• Issues around rejection, abandonment
• Idolator /idol, ideal myth:
In relationships, we put our partner on a pedestal and despair

when we find them fall off.
Soul Groups:
Souls coming together generation after generation are called a

soul group. They are generally linked for seven generations.
Soul Mates:
There is nothing physical/sexual about soul mates. A soul mate

can be of the same or opposite sex, can be your spouse, guide,
partner or even an adversary. It is the one which makes us whole
within ourselves. It signifies the inner marriage of ying and yang
and how another soul helps us achieve this balance. Great
personalities like Sri Sri Ravishanker, Sri Parikari devi and Dadiji
of Brahmakumaris are few examples of people who reflect this
wholeness.
In fact, when we long for an imagined soul mate, someone to

complete ourselves, we demonstrate a lack, a deficiency within
ourselves. That is not the purpose of reincarnation.
If you have only a physical connection with your partner then it is

a holdup from intimacy, you are getting hooked to an old pattern.
People seek love from outside when the real challenge is to love
ourselves. People fall in lust rather than love. One can only rise in
love.
Is life a matter of Fate or Freewill?

There is a part of both. What you do of fate is more important
than what fate does to you. When, you are more alert to effects of
your own action upon yourselves and others, you will act
prudently.
Just for an insight, the lines on your left palm represent your fate
at birth. The ones on you right represent your freewill, what
destiny you have created with your fate (this is now your destiny).

PART 2
Chapter 9
Past Life Regression Therapy (PLRT)
Past life regression is a technique to recover memories of past life

incarnations either to progress spiritually or solve a present life
problem which has no other obvious solution. The regressionist
and regressee usually have some positive belief about incarnation.
There are various ways of regressing and one may even regress
spontaneously e.g. déjà vu.
PLRT is a technique which takes a subject backwards time, first

to childhood, then to the time he/she was in the womb and then to
one of his previous lives. A person may be guided to the time of
his death in his previous lifetime or even to a state where he lived
between lives without a body. Since the person gets a glimpse of
his soul state and many intricate issues in regard to health,
relationships, finance etc., he gathers a fresh perspective on life.
Different ways to perceive past life experiences in PLRT
Techniques for PLRT:

1.Hypnosis
2.Self hypnosis, Dream meditation, breath work
3. Bridge technique-using associations
Affect, somatic, linguistic, visual
4.Face reading
Sit opposite your partner and go their past life. A mirror can be
used to read your own face.
5. Astrology
6. Pendulum
Colin Wilson, quoting from the studies of Lethbridge, has given

accounts of how the pendulum was used in retracing history.
7. Psychometry
After a brief relaxation- take an object belonging to another

person in your hand. Be aware of thoughts, feeling, impressions
or sensations.
Understanding Past Lives from Impressions:
• Psychological –feelings moods emotions.

• Physical –bodily sensations
• Psychic- visions messages thoughts childhood past life
scenes.
• Energy of object relaxed focussing of mind,
• Some people are especially gifted.

Do we really need to know our past lives?
If we can live with the situation without a grudge we need not

explore the past.
Advantages or benefits of PLRT:
1. Relief from phobia, panic attacks.
2. Discover talent
3. Understand relationship dynamics
4. Foster global peace and better social order.
An Israeli in this life may have been a Muslim in his past life. A
Chinese in this life might have been a Tibetan in his past life, a
woman could have been a man. Buddha’s past lives suggests
births in the animal and plant kingdom. Some people have
regressed to life in the inanimate world. This proves that life is
common to all. So much, for world peace, communal harmony,
caste and gender equality and environmental protection!
5. Deal with anxieties
e.g. Fear of death The fear of death is one of the greatest fears
mankind faces. In fact, our ultimately, all fears boil down to fear
of our own death. We fear the unknown. We fear death because
we do not know what lies ahead. Once we have traversed the
mystery of death, there is no reason to fear.
Even if we have not seen it ourselves and but trust someone close
to us who has experienced near death, we will be inclined to take
death positively. If someone lives beyond death like our
ancestors, then we too will. If they are not suffering their death,
then we need not. If we have lived before, then we in all

likelihood will live hereafter. We are not the body but eternal
beings.
We get solace that relatives are living on. We may be visited by

dead parents at NDE.
6. Deal with Obsessions
7. Finding the root cause of a problem:
If the root cause of the problem is revealed, the problem solved.
(i)Interpersonal Problems:
Marital Discord
Feeling of Loneliness
Lack of trust
Low self-esteem, Insecurity
Envy
(ii)Health:
Nightmares
Substance Abuse
Obesity
Allergic Reactions, Asthma
Chronic Pain, Chronic Headache
Repeated Failures Feeling unlucky in the world

Mild Depression
8. Spiritual Growth
Lastly, recall is essential for spiritual growth. By integrating the

lessons learnt into our self, we can decrease the number of births.
Are there any disadvantages of PLRT?
Most saints do not want the person to know the past but they still
erase the samskārs and the problem is solved. We need not worry
because we will not be shown if we are not ready.
Side Effects of PLRT:
• Irritability
• Anxiety
• Guilt feelings
• Detachment
• Preoccupation
• Pain
• Memory lapses
When does a man seek answers?
A man seeks answers when he has a haunting feeling that he had

an experience of past life or déjà vu or is in deep pain or distress.
How do we know that is regression and not imagination?
In PLR, the scene is not altered by suggestions and a lot of

emotions are present. Recollecting a story read somewhere lacks

the authentic feel. Here the story is mine, instead of similar to
mine. Physical changes may be present… the subject may attempt
to run. Eyes are considered to remain the same and can be
validated with photographs. Moreover, the scene echoes present
life problems and symptoms. Lastly, symptoms disappear after
integration
Paramnesia:
Seeing something never been part of your life before. Scientists

will not agree on this one but it is enough to convince the
regressee.
Cryptamnesia:
Hidden memory , false memory e.g. childhood sexual abuse.
Pre-programmed:
Go to some pre- programmed scene.
Suggestion:
As against this, suggestion or wishful thinking combines hidden

knowledge with fantasy.
Fraud:
They have a reason to reveal that data. They want to protect

against unregulated memory e.g. In one PLRT group session I
attended, one of the participants regressed to a life where he
found himself to be a beggar in tattered clothes on the streets of
Mumbai.
After the session he wondered aloud, ’Is it really an experience or

a figment of my imagination?’

Now, if one has to dream, they would rather fantasize themselves
as a rich person rather than as a beggar. He may have not been a
beggar but he tapped into a beggar’s records because there must
be some lesson in there for him. Generally, people tend to
imagine big things and not inferior things.
Another lady, an artist went to a memory of being Amarapalli ,

the great danceuse. She then recollected reading something about
her in Amar Chitra Katha. Later, when we were asked to do
mirror dancing, she could not shake a leg. Although possible, it is
difficult to imagine Amarapalli to be born again minus her
dancing talents
Myths and Facts about PLRT
Myth 1:
It a suggestion by the hypnotist or is a figment of the client’s

imagination.
This possibility exists...but experienced regressionists do not give

suggestion. In group sessions it is impossible to give different
suggestions to each subject.
The instruction should be. “Go to the root of the problem. Do you
see anything?”
Besides, methods other than the hypnotic trance exist. People who
are not hypnotisable can still regress spontaneously. Moreover,
we have the power of dream recall where hypnosis is ruled out.

Myth 2:
A therapist or client does not have to believe in past life to be

helped.
Technical speaking, this is true but belief is helpful. The energy

of faith can take the person on the right track. A therapist who is a
bigot may take the client to the space of his own beliefs. Both the
client and the regression therapist must be open-minded.
Suppose a conservative person from a religion which does not

believe in rebirth should regress into a life time of another
religious order. The conflict his mind would go through is
tremendous since the disbelief is central to his present religion.
He will need counselling after the session; hence the facilitator
should be well versed in metaphysical truths with a sound reading
of all scriptures of the world and a fair knowledge of physics.
He should be able to take the client to the true message of his

Prophet’s teaching and explain to him the concocted view of the
later teachers. Of course, all this is valid if the client is seeking
the journey of self growth. A regression therapist should never try
to push his own beliefs down the clients throat – whether for or
against reincarnation.
If the client has a closed mind yet wants to regress to solve his
clinical problem. He can still be helped. We don’t have to know
nuclear physics to get either the benefit of nuclear electricity or
suffer the devastations of a nuclear war. We usually leave these
things to the experts. Same principle holds good here.

Myth 3:
Anyone can do past life regression
Or a five day session is enough to become a regression therapist.

This is far from the truth. Check the training of the regression
therapist before you trust yourself in the hands of unscrupulous
regression therapists. Nowadays, it is become a big business. Ask
for references and qualifications. Follow-up sessions are
important.
E.g. There has been a case when a person landed in paralysis of

the body after a session of self- regression. She was alone in her
house with no one to help her and remained there till a friend
dropped by. Things like PLRT are not a kid’s play.
Myth 4:
Only the present life matters
Yes, as long as we haven’t seen anything more. We are all

products of our past. Even if we do not believe in rebirth, age
regression should help us release childhood traumas. We can then
decide whether we want to go further in the past. We are like the
ostrich. We suffer from dread and denial. Like the ostrich, we
would rather nose-dive into the sand not to see the sand storm.
Myth 5:
We cannot change the present by going into the past, so why

bother?
If one person has changed his life may be we too can. Today, we
have thousands of people who have done so. We may have no
problems but we could tap some useful talent. If we accept the

fact that time is cyclical, future becomes the past. In my opinion,
the only drawback in PLRT is that this technique is not offered at
the University or at the Public Health Services. If it was available
freely, we would have hard core scientists researching and
documenting data over ten years. Then, there would be no ground
for scepticism.
Retroactive Psychokinetic Effect:
Most people believe we cannot change our past but experiments

in retroactive psycho kinesis proves otherwise. We can even
change the recordings of our own voice.
The thought that we can psychokinetically change events which

have already occurred sounds eerie to most people. Even the
physicists who are studying time don’t seem to be interested in
them.
We are deeply programmed to believe that the past is frozen or

unchangeable as if it were a fossil. But we know that in a
holographic universe, time is non-linear, dynamic and self
created. So, we can alter our past and by changing our past we
change our present and future.
Myth 6:
We don’t remember our past lives, so either there are no past

lives or we are not supposed to know, so why regress?
The second point is valid. If all is fine in our lives and we can live
a life of acceptance during our trials and tribulations, we need not
regress ourselves. But if the ‘why of things’ is nagging us, we
might as well check it out. Coming to the first point, we cannot

use forgetting as an excuse. How many of us remember our first
birthday celebration? Does it mean we didn’t celebrate it?
Some Conflicting Data in PLRT:
Reason for multiple people picking the same past life during
regression:
Chances are that a very spiritual person may split his soul on
death and offer parts of it to many incoming souls. Or many
people enter the same soul’s ākāsic records.
Common past lives?
There are many people who regress to the lifetime of some

famous personality. We can have multiple Mumtaz Mahals or
many people belonging to the Holy Family.
How is this possible?
Soul Fragmentation:
1. Soul Splitting: A soul may split, divide its energy and pass it
to many other souls who are close to it–merged to be one soul?
2. AkasicRecords:
Many soul may access the same ākāsic records because they have
a lesson in it. Past life - reliving is more symbolic than actual
because the issue or character that comes forward in a thought
form is constructed by the subconscious mind—out of karmic
knots.
3. Fixation:
Identify with past or an ideal figure in past life –e.g. Jesus’s

followers.
In an earlier birth, one might have been a great devotee or fan of
the famous soul.
4. Merger: many souls may merge to become one soul.
5. Over-soul: Presence of an over-soul and puppet souls.
6. Collective Unconscious:
There exists a layer or dimension of collective memories of the

universe - Carl Jung.
In 1959, Carl Jung based on psychological and archetypal aspects

of UFOs, proposed that “flying saucers” were a product of
collective human unconscious. Rather like belief becomes matter
[“Passport to Magonia”].
Metaphorical Aspects:
The benefit of PLR lies not in literal understanding of images but

more by symbolic representation of inner issues. Regression will
take the soul to an image or experience which is needed by it at
that time, though this may not actually belong to it. It may be
tapped from the collective unconscious. In fact, a past live
regression is more fantastic then reality since there may be joining
of many karmic issues which need to be resolved. It may be that
your soul is making a story using many life-times, some yours,
some of other people.
e.g.
a. An experience of a lifetime as a monk expresses ambivalence

about sexuality and intimacy. The inner conflict may show
physical symptoms as a twitching of arm during regression.

b. Experience as a celebrity seductress may a repressed need to
control others and have nothing to do with sexual matters.
Memories in Stone:
A person may detect memories from the place or from the PLRT
session which was done last week. Places hold memories. Colin
Wilson talks in length about memories stored in stone.
Genetic Memory:
Parents could pass information through genes, using psychogene

memory. We will have to wait for new research along these lines.
Paramnesia: false memory.
Childhood abuse when it has actually not happened.
Cryptamnesia: hidden memory, they might have read a lot about

that particular soul.
Prompting by a Disincarnate Spirit:
Connecting to spirits should never to be encouraged. The non

embodied spirit can take you on ego-trips. In case this happens
without your inviting, the spirit should be given ‘ascension’ with
the help of a Siddha. In Tibet, thought forms called tulkus are
created by people. On constant contemplation, they get an
individual existence. These forms are then telepathically picked
up by a medium or a spirit who is amusing itself. Other people
play with the Planchet calling spirits to answer their questions.

Suggestion by the therapist:
A therapist keen on getting a regression, tries to give inputs to the

mind under hypnosis.
Fraud:
A person fabricates for personal gain. This is usually done when

others are there. He wants to get a favour from significant others
in his life.
Fantasy:
Person uses imagination to avoid some unpleasant situation.
Soul Fragmentation:
Sufi saints while leaving earth hand-over memories by splitting

their soul and entering into many others.
Imprinting: The mind is no tabula rasa. Even if it were a tabula

rasa, you can take can imprint of others’ lives.
Walk in: A soul gives body to another soul because it cannot

cope with the stress of karma.
Same person can regress to different lives:
1.Multiple personality disorder:
Different personalities (souls according to siddhas) in the

person accessing different lives.
2. Accessing different lifetimes
3. Accessing parallel universes

Back to Childhood
Age Regression:
There are two ways an age regression is carried out. One may
proceed in a step wise manner from the present time to the womb
or instruct the mind to take you straight back to the time where
the cause of the problem lies. In step-wise regression, one is taken
back every decade and healing is done at every stage. When you
reach the age of 5 years, you proceed one year at a time and from
the age of one year, you proceed a month at a time till you reach
your birth. Deep- seated impressions in childhood are released in
age regression. Age regression is an important component of
‘Healing the inner child’.
Our self- esteem as adults is a direct reflection of how you were

treated as a child, whether one felt wanted, loved and appreciated.
E.g.
Eating disorders may be due childhood sex abuse as in the case

women who are grappling with obesity problem.
Other issues like financial insecurity may stem from insecurity

transferred by parents by injunctions like,‘there is not enough to
go around’.

Exercises for Age Regression:
1. Draw yourself as a child.
2. Write your story from childhood to now.
3. List your fears in childhood
4. List your dreams in childhood
5. Do you recollect any abuse?
6. List your childhood illnesses
Womb Meditation
After reaching the birth stage, one may proceed to reach the
womb and recollect all the events which you would have
experienced when you were in your mother’s womb or simply
heal that stage. Events like rejection and fear experienced by the
foetus, as well as proxy emotions of the mother, often come up.
The foetus is capable of recording whatever happens in the

environment and in the mother’s mind. It can also register the
effects of birth trauma as in vacuum delivery. The sharp thump of
the doctor’s hand, the coldness of place, the rejection /welcoming
are all felt. Hence, painless water- birthing is chosen by many
mothers nowadays.
Foetus responds to mother’s thoughts and mother to the thoughts

of the foetus. A child registers the feelings of rejection in the
womb which in later life may invite rejection from others. A plan
of abortion may result in the child wanting to die when grown up.

It is found that positive things are also recorded and imbibed.
Chanting of Bhagwad Geeta during pregnancy made children
calmer. A friend of mine had a Vipassana retreat during her
second pregnancy. She had a pain-free delivery. Children respond
to music in-utero and you can also communicate feelings to them.
Dr Deepak Chopra mentions a traditional community, where the
mother sings a signature song for the baby.
One regressee could see her mother doing all the domestic chores
just before delivery because she did not have any domestic help
and then drive to the maternity home for delivery. Another
remembered that her mother did not want a girl child and she was
not welcomed at birth.
When does the soul enter the womb?
According to most authors and scriptures, the soul enters the body
before, at or soon after birth. According to the Garbha Upanishad,
the soul enters after the seventh month of pregnancy. Higher souls
enter later, usually after birth. The booking of the womb is done
in advance.
Re-birthing:
Re-birthing is a technique where a subject is taken to the womb,

allowed to face the trauma of birth, heal and then enter the world
without pain. The feeling that the soul gets as he gets trapped in a
body is not always pleasurable, so whether there was physical
trauma at birth or not, the emotional pain is always there. After
feeling the emotions and releasing them, the subject is re -birthed
in a painless way, to a welcoming world.

Regressing to Death
We can regress a person to a life before he was born till he goes

to his last birth, then across one lifetime and finally to the time of
his death. The circumstances of his death, especially his feelings
at the time of his last death, determine his present circumstances.
If he had committed suicide, the soul may go through a painful
state after life and has to be rested for some years before it is
ready to take on new karma responsibilities. The person is asked
to go to the moment of death if he is willing. If the death was
painful and the pain is felt, he is asked to float above the body and
observe the happenings.
Once a person has faced death he understands that there is no pain

after death, and that there is no heaven or hell.
The Art of Dying
The only certainty in life is death. Mortality rate is 100%. When

the time comes, we must vacate the body, whether we are ready
or not. The silver cord is severed by a field of white light energy
field, so there is no return. (White light is protective energy field).
Nobody gets out of here, alive. i.e If you are a ‘ some’-body. The
soul is continuous in time and space. In death, we move into the
4th dimension or even beyond that.
Contingency Death Plan
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iii. Set up a monologue in your mind.

Refer to self as He/she/I and see the difference.

First person: Watch your own movie

Third person or name: refer to yourself as third person.

iv. Meditation: experience a headless you-- expand your head,

Awareness is meditation -mind racing around room and you

v. Imagine yourself at the circus, playing different roles.

As I said earlier, chronologically near memories are easy to

Right and Left Brain:

Exercises for increasing the power of the Right Brain:

Try the following exercises to enhance the power of your intuition

Choosing the Right Path:

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Psychometry was first popularized by Henry Buchanan. The

We are all psychics if given a chance. At a workshop, one ‘cool

This exercise is given in ‘Messages from the Master’ by Dr Brian

Write down a number. Ask your partner to guess. (I have given

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Beyond the Body

9ear Death Experience (9DE)

The term NDE was coined by Dr Raymond Moody to describe

The question which is often raised is whether the NDE

In near death experience, whatever the mind conceives, it sees.

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If it a problem of the brain, which part of brain is involved and

Why does the brain damage not persist after resuscitation?

In fact, most are blessed with superior qualities after revival

Cardiologist Michael Sabom and his team described veridical

Most importantly, the sequence of event in unconscious patients

Sneaker on the Ledge Story

One famous anecdote is called the ‘the sneaker on the ledge’. An

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Weighted Core Experience Index:

Ring gave a scientific outlook to the study of NDEs by

Cross Cultural Common Features:

In 1977, Dr Raymond Moody published ‘Life after Life’

• The person first hears the news of his death. In cases of

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Or Observed memory from within.

• Passing through a dark tunnel

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Culture Specificity of 9DEs:

Depending on cultural backgrounds, people have different

Belief or non belief in God had no influence on the occurrence of

Why do 9DE people get only pleasant visions?

In Kenneth Ring’s report(1980) no person including the suicides

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Psychologist Charles Garfield’s report(1979) had eight of

This discrepancy in positive and negative accounts almost led to

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Induced After Death Communication (IADC):

Out of Body Experience (OBE)

We were five of us besides our two guides nestled in the cosy

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Brain and its relationship to extra sensory or spiritual

The closest a person can get to surreal experiences (spiritual

Newberg, a scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, conducted

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Dr Grof conducted a lot of OBE experiments using the

Conversely, even in spiritual ecstasy, there is a chance of an

Astral travel, different experiences reported:

After NDE and OBE we come to Astral Travel which is actually a

1. The temple of wisdom