I wish I could give an explanation of what past life regression is but, truthfully I have no idea whether this is genuinely from a past life or whether it comes from somewhere else entirely. What I do know, however, is that it is always relevant to problems and situations the subject is facing in ‘this’ life and also it is completely fascinating. If I am asked whether it is actually useful I would say that it can be very useful in certain circumstances and with certain people, but it should certainly not routinely be used as a therapeutic tool.

Sometimes a regression can be quite dramatic and exciting and sometimes it is very boring. Occasionally nothing happens at all but usually this is because the subject is blocking the process for some reason – usually they are afraid of the process or of what might be uncovered in their subconscious!

I have done quite a lot of past life regression mainly because clients have specifically asked for this as they were interested in the subject. Below is an interesting case who has kindly agreed to have his experience described:

Client A is a 52 year old scientist who doesn’t believe in anything he can’t see. He did, however, have a fear, (which he described as a phobia), of dying which he thought would be just blackness and nothingness.

Client A had two past life sessions. In the first session he was a station worker in Germany. He was wearing a navy uniform and he had an injured leg which caused him to limp. He worked with a man called Karl. The station, (which he read to me off the sign), was called Uberstrasse. He spelt it out to me letter by letter as he does not speak German. He said his name was Myerhoff and there was an air of excitement. He was waiting for something. He described the area as being mountainous and the trains as being diesel and electric. The year was 1941.

After the session Client A went straight on the Internet and checked out Uberstrasse, (yes it does exist), and also whether trains in Germany were diesel and electric in 1941, (yes they were). He had been sure that trains would be steam in this era. This freaked out our scientist who booked another session. Myerhoff, he thought, sounded like a Jewish name.

Client A went straight back to 1941, but this time he was with a group of friends and they were running away. He said he was exhausted and they were hiding in some woods. He wanted to sleep but knew he couldn’t. They were being chased by soldiers. He was afraid and his injured leg hurt.

Then he was out in the open and running down a hill.

He said: “They’re all shouting ‘der zugge, der zugge’ what’s der zugge”.

Remember that Client A does not speak German.

He said “We’re all running down the hill towards a train and they are shooting us, my brother is shot, they’re all dying…”

Then he sort of arched his back like people do on TV when they have been shot and ‘died’ in front of me.

I brought him out of the trance. He was quite OK and anxious to check what Der Zugge means in German. Of course it means ‘the train’.

We talked a while about his fear of dying and the effect that dying suddenly and having no proper burial might have on a soul’s ‘next life’. Always assuming we believed in all that stuff.