Understanding Past Lives & The Soul’s Journey Compiled by Dr Kunda Silimkhan e-book: © Dr Kunda Silimkhan, M.D. Version 2013 Contact: Email:[email protected]. Past Lives Page - 2 - Prologue Why is a physician writing about past lives? This question will naturally arise in the reader’s mind. Although I was born and brought up in India, the concept of rebirth was alien to me. With an atmosphere of socialism, rationalism and a strong scientific temper in the family, discussing such topics was taboo. My regular dose of Science Today and the occasional booster of Scientific American, kept me always orbiting in outer space. By the time I reached the end of my school career, I carried the tag of MS (mad scientist) on my lapel. A die-hard fan of Albert Einstein and Marie Curie, I aspired to be a nuclear scientist or at least a theoretical physicist but providence willed otherwise and I landed myself at the Government Medical College. All was well till the mothers in the paediatric ward questioned me on the ward rounds, “Why me, what has my child done to deserve this?” I had no answer. The scientific outlook failed to explain childhood illnesses on the basis of the cause- effect paradigm. Obviously, there was some missing factor, the X –factor which the scientist in me wished to seek. My teachers could not help much. They had settled for GOK (God only knows). But a rationalist is used to asking, ‘Who is God?’ Now, attributing every mysterious and unknown phenomenon to Him would mean a death knell on scientific enquiry. As I continued to read the voluminous research material on diseases, I kept my eyes and ears open for spontaneous healings or the so called ‘miracles. And there was plenty. Past Lives Page - 3 - Having followed Galileo’s work in cosmology, I was convinced that, even though everything was a miracle, there was a scientific and rational explanation for every natural or supernatural phenomenon. In short, every miracle was reproducible, if you knew how it happened in the first case or in the first place. As in the visible physical universe outside, there were atoms in the human body and these atoms were bound to follow the laws of physics. Unexpectedly and not too willingly at first, I was led to concepts like ‘soul ‘or ‘spirit’ which eventually directed me to karma, past life regression and healing. I was amazed to discover that NDE research was well known in the US when my family doctor had rebuffed my Near Death Experience. Finally, I felt that there was one hypothesis which could perhaps explain miracles and which was not in conflict with science, the kind of science which is looking for the Higg’s boson or God particle, the ‘Theory of Karma’. Since ‘time’ is not an absolute reality and reverse time travel is theoretically a distinct possibility, I hold past life phenomenon as a plausible yet relative reality. We do not have all the answers to root causes as yet but neither did Einstein when he started searching for the fundamental principles. We have to begin somewhere to get to the roots. This book is not about proving anything to those who choose to disbelieve in past lives. They can start with the ‘null hypotheses’ and find their own answers as to why things are the way they are. As a scientist, I would be happy to have different yet valid explanations. This exposition of ideas is especially collected for the questioner, who is bogged down by problems, doubts and Past Lives Page - 4 - confusion. Perhaps in these few pages, he or she will find some answers or at least get help to find their own. Author Acknowledgement I thank all the authors on this esoteric subject and all the people who shared their stories. Past Lives Page - 5 - Contents PART1 ................................................................................................................ - 9 - Introduction ........................................................................................................ - 9 - Chapter 1 ..........................................................................................................- 11 - The Curious Mind ............................................................................................- 11 - The Belief about Past Lives: ............................................................................- 12 - Chapter 2 ..........................................................................................................- 25 - Scientific Studies in Regression .......................................................................- 25 - OBE Research: .................................................................................................- 27 - Chapter 3 ..........................................................................................................- 28 - Regression and Reincarnation ..........................................................................- 28 - The Story of Catherine .....................................................................................- 28 - Regression and scepticism ...............................................................................- 29 - Nature of Regression ........................................................................................- 31 - Chapter 4 ..........................................................................................................- 41 - The Structure of the Mind ................................................................................- 41 - Levels of Trance and EEG tracings: .................................................................- 42 - Ȃkāshic Records ...............................................................................................- 44 - Chapter 5 ..........................................................................................................- 46 - Past Lives Page - 6 - Going Backwards .............................................................................................- 46 - Improving the chances of regression: ...............................................................- 48 - Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP): .............................................................- 48 - Creative Visualization: .....................................................................................- 49 - Chapter 6 ..........................................................................................................- 53 - Beyond the Body ..............................................................................................- 53 - Near Death Experience (NDE) .........................................................................- 53 - After Death Communication: ...........................................................................- 59 - Induced After Death Communication (IADC): ................................................- 59 - Out of Body Experience (OBE) .......................................................................- 59 - Chapter 7 ..........................................................................................................- 63 - The Law of Karma ...........................................................................................- 63 - Evolution of Soul .............................................................................................- 69 - Chapter 8 ..........................................................................................................- 74 - Purpose .............................................................................................................- 74 - Why Do Souls Reincarnate? ............................................................................- 74 - Our Contracts: ..................................................................................................- 75 - The Council of Elders: .....................................................................................- 76 - PART 2 .............................................................................................................- 83 - Chapter 9 ..........................................................................................................- 83 - Past Life Regression Therapy (PLRT) .............................................................- 83 - Back to Childhood ............................................................................................- 97 - Womb Meditation ............................................................................................- 98 - Regressing to Death .......................................................................................- 100 - The Art of Dying ............................................................................................- 100 - Life between Lives (LBL) ..............................................................................- 101 - In between life states/ contacting the masters and angels: .................................- 101 - Ascension of Souls: ........................................................................................- 101 - Past Lives Page - 7 - Going Forward - Future Progression ..............................................................- 102 - They were here before! ..................................................................................- 103 - Chapter 11 ......................................................................................................- 105 - The Wonderful Solutions! ..............................................................................- 105 - Eliminating Fears: .........................................................................................-