Practical Guide to Past-Life Memories: Twelve Proven Methods (Paperback)

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The human soul is eternal, and though physical death marks the end of one life, it heralds a transition to the next. To help us focus on the lessons of our current life, most of us are born without conscious memory of what came before this life.

When the time is right, past-life memories can be beneficial. They can reveal our life's purpose and help heal current wounds. Conscious past-life recall can also help you clear karmic imbalances and discover latent skills and talents carried over from previous lifetimes.

Because one past-life regression method does not always work for everyone, Richard Webster presents twelve different techniques for investigating your past lives, including: dreaming of your past lives, scrying, hypnotic regressions you can do alone or with a partner, and exploring the Akashic records.

Whether you seek to release old traumatic experiences that may be affecting your health and happiness in this lifetime, or you're simply curious about who you have been throughout the ages, this practical guidebook has everything you need to explore your soul's past.

About the Author

Richard Webster was born and raised in New Zealand. He has been interested in the psychic world since he was nine years old.  As a teenager, he became involved in hypnotism and later became a professional stage hypnotist.  After school, he worked in the publishing business and purchased a bookstore.  The concept of reincarnation played a significant role in his decision to become a past-life specialist.  Richard has also taught psychic development classes, which are based on many of his books. Richard's first book was published in 1972, fulfilling a childhood dream of becoming an author.  Richard is now the author of over seventy-five titles on New Age subjects.  His best-selling books include Spirit Guides & Angel Guardians and Creative Visualization for Beginners. Richard has appeared on several radio and TV programs in the United States and abroad including guest spots on Hard Copy, WMAQ-TV (Chicago), KTLA-TV (Los Angeles), KSTW-TV (Seattle) and the Mike and Matty Show (ABC). He currently resides in New Zealand with his wife and three children.  He regularly travels the world to give lectures, workshops and to continue his research.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications (November 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0738700770
• ISBN-13: 978-0738700779
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #166,406 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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80 of 80 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, An Easy Way To Uncover Your Past Lives!, April 11, 2003

By	Blair Robertson (Orleans, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

I've been teaching past life classes for years. Occasionally, you run across a student that has a "block", they just can't get through to their past. I know it's frustrated me as well as others.

Finally, here's a book that gives you not one, but MANY ways to uncover your past lives. My personal favorite is the tick-tock method that is virtually foolproof and something I have never seen in print before.

Richard Webster's experience truly shines through in this book. If you've ever wondered about past lives and wanted to do it on your own, here's the book.

I highly recommend it.

61 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps the best self-help book on regression, October 27, 2004

By	Laura De Giorgio "www.deeptrancenow.com" (Canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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I have read many wonderful books on past-life regression for hypnotherapists, and a few self-help books for past-life regression, but if you choose to experiment on your own, this book is your best shot.

Simply put, this is no different than remembering what you did last year, ten years ago, fifteen years ago, and then going backward in time.

Out of many different methods, my favorite is following your emotions. That being said, you may or may not like what you experience using this method. There is another fun book (perhaps my favorite on past-life regression - Mind-Probe Hypnosis by Irene Hickman - while this other book does not deal with methods you'd do on your own, it may give you a good picture on what you may expect to encounter following this particular method - a bunch of unresolved issues from the past. While it may be useful resolving them - it may not be necessarily pleasant experience.

You may also think of something that you have particular affinity for in this life and trace that emotion - experiencing that pleasant emotion you can trace them back to the original experience that gave rise to such emotions. That may be a more pleasant experience.

While the experiments I did with techniques from this book were instantly successful, I can say that the life I have right now is a much happier experience than anything I managed to dig out from the past.

We may entertain romantic ideas about some better past, and some memories may perhaps enrich your present life, but what you are more likely to discover that life and learning moves forward and that whatever you may be experiencing in your life right now may very well be the most wonderful part of your life.

The fact will also remain that you may not exactly be able to prove what you experience to be real. It will feel just as real as a memory from the past, relived in the present moment, and whatever you experience in your emotions as real is bound to feel very real - but the experiences may still leave questions was that really your life or did you pick someone else's life, or just tuned into a vibration from some other time, or is what you are reliving like dreams that you dream during the night that feel real but are composite of information you have truly experienced and the mixture of information that might have come some other way.

For that reason, the greatest benefit that I see in working with past-lives is not proving the validity of information that cannot be proven for certain, but rather in helping you to remove the obstacles from the present. In that respect, the process may be somewhat even like working with Jungian active imagination process - if it helps you to heal wounds from the past, if it helps you to feel better, it's a valuable tool.

While the remembered information may or may not feel completely accurate - even though it will feel as very real - and you may keep in mind the fact that even when you remember something that happened five years ago may already have been somewhat altered in your mind - what you are really working with is emotions, and one of the purposes of he process is to help you release the emotional baggage from the past. Past life regression is not the only method, but it is one of them.

Other purposes may be getting information for the purpose of creative enrichment. If you're a writer, you could get great stories. If you were an archaeologist, perhaps it could help you to dig some treasures from the past.

You could go exploring any past talents, though I happen to believe that any talents you might have had at any point in the past, you'd still have in the present - perhaps even more developed - but that's for you to discover.

Some of the techniques in this book involve dreaming, hypnotic regression (one could say though that all regression involves hypnosis), scrying, dowsing, feeling (in hypnosis this is called using the "affect brdige"), etc.

In any event, if you want to have fun exploring past-lives on your own - this is the book to get.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars this is the book to help you, May 7, 2007

By	Heather Froeschl (Callaway, Virginia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Many people believe in reincarnation, myself included, but also, many are skeptics. Here is a chance for everyone to understand better those moments of dTja vu. Believers will have an easier time of it, but skeptics may just learn a little something along the way too, if not more so.

Richard Webster is a hypnotherapist and lecturer on many psychic topics. He is the author of over thirty books and is seen in many circles as a guru of the paranormal. In "Past-Life Memories" Richard gives us twelve proven methods of accessing the memories that are hidden in our brains.

By way of explanation of past life memories, the soul is a continuing energy that enters life again and again. We are here to learn lessons and to grow, but are usually without our memories of past lives so that these images do not interfere with what we are here to do. Certainly you may feel compelled to do certain things, such as staying far away from high places; perhaps in a past life you had fallen to your death from a cliff. But you may not understand your current fear of heights. By exploring your past life memories, you may be able to put those fears to rest and live happier in this life.

There are numerous methods of uncovering these memories, from dreaming of your past lives to scrying, hypnotherapy to spirit guide assistance, but since all of us are individuals, one method may work for some while it doesn't for others. Much like finding a comfortable position in which to sleep, you will need to try different things to see what works best for you, hence, Richard's twelve methods.

Mr. Webster has a wonderful voice in his works. He is knowledgeable and respected in his understanding of these topics; authoritative, yet he is gentle and convincing, a true teacher and guiding spirit. If you are interested in learning how to uncover your past life memories, this is the man you will want to learn from. The text is easy to understand and the lessons clearly written. I enjoyed reading the case histories that accompany each method of regression.

For anyone yearning to uncover the meaning behind an irrational fear, looking to see if their soulmate is involved in their current life, or wonders why they are drawn to certain places, this is the book to help you through it.