Can Professor Weiss hypnosis really call out "past lives" from the subconscious to solve the pain and real problems?

Recently, I chatted with an older sister at home and talked about the ninety hypnotic experiences she experienced when she was young in Germany, which helped her solve the pain and some difficulties in life. As for the fact that she also urged the so-called "past life", it will be mentioned below.

Later, she became intoxicated with this, and in recent years, she has used hypnosis to help many friends solve problems such as the poor reading of children at home.

According to her, hypnosis is nothing more than helping people enter the subconscious, face their true hearts, and find the heart medicine from the root to solve real problems. After all, many of the daily unhappiness is caused by psychology.

This is the truth, I studied environmental psychology in the United States (highly intersecting with Chinese feng shui, also known as environmental behavior), the purpose is to understand the relationship between the environment and psychology. Because a large number of studies have shown that community safety, nursing home mortality, learning efficiency and other good fortunes, to some extent, are caused by psychology.

01. Going back in time healed Catherine

My interest in hypnosis stems from reading a book a few years ago that claims that hypnosis induces past lives, Many Masters.

The book's author, Brian L. Weiss, was a traditional academic expert. He studied chemistry at Columbia University and later went to Yale University School of Medicine to pursue a M.D. in the study of "the chemistry of the brain and neurotransmitters." After graduating, he worked for several years and became an associate professor at the University of Miami and director of the psychotherapy department at a hospital. He has published a number of professional academic works and is an influential figure in the field of biopsychotherapy.

If there is no accident, he will stay in a scientific research position for a lifetime like many expert professors, plus sitting in the hospital, the seniority will become deeper and deeper, and the peach and plum will be all over the world after retirement.

However, Weiss meets Catherine, and his entire worldview and even the trajectory of his life are turned upside down.

Catherine is a female patient who is extremely afraid of water, afraid of the dark, afraid of flying, afraid of getting stuck in the throat and not even daring to swallow pills. These symptoms were so severe that they interfered with normal life, Catherine could not sleep well, and she was awakened, sleepwalking, and nightmares followed her, and her mood was either depressed or afraid all day. She is still in the third grade, and the married and fertile man has a constantly messy sadomasochism. So Catherine had to turn to a psychiatrist.

Weiss began to plan a textbook treatment plan: talking to patients, prescribing anti-anxiety drugs to patients... After a year and a half, there was no effect, and this aspect was also that Catherine was afraid of getting stuck in her throat and refused to take the medicine. When talking about Catherine's childhood, Weiss found that the girl's memory was not good, and the childhood events could hardly be remembered. This is troublesome, the heart knot may be in childhood, can not remember can not talk about, can not continue to talk about it can not solve the problem.

So Weiss took out the psychiatrist's killer skill: hypnosis. In the hope of helping Catherine to mentally recall forgotten childhood experiences.

Hypnosis is not to hypnotize people, but to put people in a trance state that seems to be asleep, throwing away the mess in the brain, which is a bit similar to the feeling of not being able to hear the people around them when they are in a daze, and completely immersed in their own world.

Weiss said that hypnosis is not mysterious at all, and everyone has experienced it, such as when driving completely obliviously, when concentrating on reading books and watching movies, and when the attention is highly concentrated and not affected by external noises and various stimuli, it is in a slight hypnotic state.

As for deep hypnosis, Weiss said that in fact, we are also experiencing it every day, that is, the "false sleep state" when we first wake up, when it seems to be awake or not, everything in the dream is vividly remembered, and the disturbances in real life have not yet entered the mind. This state is deeper than the hypnosis that the average hypnotist guides into.

It is said that hypnotic people will get creative inspiration, remember the experiences they have forgotten, do actions that cannot be completed in the waking state, and solve some stress, pain, and even some myopia, obesity, high blood pressure and other problems. It feels amazing. (Is this really the case?) Will be written later)

As an influential psychiatrist, Weiss had hypnotized hundreds of patients before.

In 1982, Catherine finally agreed to hypnotherapy, and Weiss succeeded in bringing to life a series of unpleasant experiences such as falling into the water in her childhood. I thought that Catherine would find the shadows of childhood like other patients, and those psychological problems would be cured.

However, after a week, Catherine's symptoms did not alleviate at all, which made Weiss feel that he had to continue to hypnotize, last time only to 3 years old, and the shadow of childhood before the age of 3 was the crux of the problem.

So in another hypnotic state, Weiss took Catherine to the age of 2, and Len couldn't find any other possible crux of the problem. Weiss was gone, so he simply hinted at her: "Go back to the time when your symptoms began." ”

At the beginning of this time, Catherine gave a pole to poke three or four thousand years ago. The hypnotic Catherine said that she was a blonde woman named Aranda at that time, the flood hit the village, she held the child and struggled in the huge waves, she was choked by the water, she could not breathe or swallow, the salty flood swept the child away from her arm...

My sister at the beginning of this article, when she was hypnotized in Germany, also went back to the so-called ancient and unverifiable past life, such as once she felt that she was a male missionary living in Syria two thousand years ago.

Weiss had no idea what kind of ghost this Alonda was, some of Catherine's past lives? Or fantasy? Weiss did not dare to draw conclusions easily.

The good news is that this confused hypnosis completely healed Catherine's fear of drowning, and the fear of swallowing was also reduced a lot, and sleep was no longer interrupted by the nightmare of the collapsed bridge. Catherine's whole person became brisk, more beautiful and radiant.

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Catherine's side was relieved, but Weiss's side was in a state of confusion. Don't understand it, then walk and see, Catherine has other problems not solved, and then urge to see what tricks can be urged, more materials to analyze what is going on?

Catherine is now addicted to hypnosis and is incredibly cooperative. Again and again, she fell into memories of different lives, such as one life when she claimed to have an infectious disease, and was isolated outside the village with all the other sick people, and her life was very difficult. Gradually, as she grew older and weaker, others carried her to a cave and sealed the opening. Like other dying people, she was alone in a dark cave waiting to die, and she ended her miserable life in fear and misery.

There was also a catherine who claimed to be a man named Johan, living in the Netherlands more than five hundred years ago, he was killed by an enemy soldier with a knife in the throat on a warship, and before he died, Catherine saw the other person's face, although the appearance was different, Catherine still recognized this person as the married and fertile lover Stewart in this life.

The reappearance of her lover, Stewart, is as Catherine's father. In retrospect, Catherine feels that she is a bouncing baby of a few years old, at her sister's lively wedding. Stewart was her father at that time, she loved her father very much, and his father was also very kind to her, and he liked to play with their children, of course, he would dislike children asking too much. In short, the parent-child relationship in that life was not bad.

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Just a few months later, Catherine retraced in hypnosis a number of so-called past lives spanning thousands of years, with different identities, including men and women, old and young. Catherine's physical problems, when she repeatedly found the painful memories of the so-called past life, especially the pain before her death, only took a few months to heal. The relationship with her lover Stewart, she can also handle it better from then on.

02. Reincarnation of friends and family?

Catherine not only saw her lover Stewart in this life in the so-called past life, but also saw that the mother of this life was also her own mother in a certain past life, the colleague in this life was a sister of a certain past life, the niece in this life was the daughter of a certain past life, and so on. Even Dr. Weiss himself was Catherine's uncle in that lifetime 3500 years ago, and the pediatrician who recommended Catherine to see Weiss was Catherine's father for several lifetimes.

This makes people feel that friends and relatives like to be reincarnated in a bunch, and turning around and turning fate still brings everyone together.

Weiss later wrote a more typical example in another book, "Return to the Present in Past lives and in this life":

When Weiss was invited to do a news program by the TV station, a reporter named "Andrea" volunteered to be a guinea pig and was hypnotized by Weiss on camera. The first woman returned to her previous life was the daughter of a peasant family, and she recognized that the parents of that life were the parents of this life, and the brother of that life was actually the younger brother john of this life. In that life, my brother was shot by a rifle at a young age, which brought great grief to the family.

In this life, the older brother became Andrea's younger brother John, and his parents remained unchanged from those of the previous life. John was born with jaundice, which is a minor problem that is not mentioned at all. But when the doctor takes the newborn to treatment, the mother, Andrea and John, are strangely worried that the child will die. After John grew up, their mother was still worried that the son would have an accident at any time, afraid of being separated from his son, causing John to remain single.

Originally, Andrea did not understand why her mother was always so cautious about her brother, and now the explanation she received through hypnosis was that in the farmer's life, John, as the mother's son, was shot, causing great psychological trauma to the mother, so that when the two reincarnated as mother and son, the shadows were brought to this life, and the mother was subconsciously afraid of losing the son again.

02. Weiss's explanation

So, what does Weiss think of these hands-on cases?

When Catherine first showed Weiss the so-called past life more than three thousand years ago, Weiss was skeptical until something closely related to Weiss himself happened:

Catherine in a hypnotic state, sometimes suddenly changed the tone of voice, a bit similar to the feeling of our northeast out of the horse fairy upper body possession, in the tone of the so-called higher spirit body to say a big truth. At Catherine's level, it is impossible to say.

At first Weiss was also confused. Later, the so-called higher spirit body borrowed Catherine's mouth to give Weiss a fierce blow, which aroused his deafness and gained Weiss's trust:

In the quiet, dimly lit up room, the hypnotic Catherine suddenly said to Weiss in a hoarse and loud voice, "Your father is here, and your son is here." Your dad said you'd know him because his name was Aphron. Your daughter's name is the same as his. Also, the cause of his death was heart disease. Your son's heart is not good either, it is the opposite of the long, like a chicken heart, he has made great sacrifices for you because he loves you very much, his soul is very evolved... His death paid off his parents' debts. At the same time, he wants you to know that medicine can only do this, and its scope is very limited. ”

Weiss, who was nearly forty years old, was shocked and unable to move, and a layer of goosebumps appeared on his arm.

His first son, Adam, survived only 23 days after birth, dying more than a decade ago in New York City, two thousand kilometers away. It is because of a rare condition that the pulmonary vein enters the heart from the opposite direction, which is like the position of the heart is inverted. Adam's death had a big impact on Weiss, who was interning in internal medicine and had a vacancy of a resident doctor waiting for him. His son's death left him outraged by modern medicine and instead firmly opted for psychotherapy as a lifelong career.

Weiss's father died 9 months before Catherine first stepped into the clinic, indeed because of a heart attack. He died nearly 2,000 kilometers away in New Jersey, and his family did not hear about it. Weiss's father's English name was Evan, and the Jewish Hebrew name was Avron. Four months after his death, Weiss's daughter was born, and in his honor, Weiss named her Evan.

Weiss was convinced that his son's rare illness, his own mental activities due to his son's death, his father's Jewish name and even his death from a heart attack, the reason for his daughter's naming, not to mention Catherine, even his colleagues in the hospital were not clear, and there was no place to look it up in such detail.

In a word, Catherine's imagination could not have been richer.

Weiss was shocked, he combed through the study of spiritual consciousness within his knowledge, he went to the library to look up materials...

He first ruled out that Catherine was a mental abnormality, because after so many years in the field of psychiatric therapy, he knew all the audiovisual hallucinations, schizophrenic delusions, hysteria, multiple personalities, psychedelics, etc., which were not the same thing as Catherine's state of going back to her past life.

Also, Weiss understood that if it was hypnosis to induce fantasies, it was not enough to cure the disease. In fact, not only Catherine, Weiss did past life regression for other patients to achieve a good therapeutic effect. Like what:

A fifty-year-old woman suffers from severe claustrophobia, which has plagued her from early childhood. Later, she approached Weiss for hypnosis, in which she recalled that she had been a slave to a relative of the pharaohs in ancient Egypt, and that after the death of her master, the slaves were forced to take poison and were confined to burial in the burial chamber. After thinking about it, the claustrophobia that had plagued the aunt all her life disappeared and never recurred.

Could it be that Catherine's genetic factor carries these memories? Weiss did not hesitate to deny it. First, this possibility is currently quite low in science. Second, Catherine sometimes died when she was infertile, and sometimes she died with children, which means that Catherine in many lifetimes is the last to pass on genetic factors.

And she has a number of experiences and near-death experiences, and she has her own, and she can't let others know and pass them on through other people's genes.

Could that be the collective subconscious? I wrote in my previous article "Can People Manipulate "Luck"? From Jung's mysterious psychology, looking at the strange counterattack of the god operator emperor, the initial statement of the collective subconscious concept proposed by Jung:

Many of us have heard of the word subconscious, and most of the time our understanding is: If you were bitten by a dog as a baby, but you have forgotten about this experience, but the fear of dogs remains in the depths of your heart. After that, you have grown into a burly man of five big and three thick, and you still tremble when you hear the dog bark. But this is only the "individual subconscious", not the collective subconscious. The personal subconscious refers to repressed and forgotten personal experiences. Generally through hypnosis to help you remember this experience of being bitten by a dog, afraid that the dog's problem will naturally be better.

As for the "collective subconscious", it has a layer of mystery, which is common to all human spirits, buried in the deepest part of the heart. Jung believed that it was an instinctive spirit that we inherited from our grandparents, similar to innate genetic inheritance. It is not the same thing as the psychological preferences and even the personal subconscious that arise after being educated, seduced, and baptized by reality.

For example, "hunger" is something in the instinct of all mammals, people are hungry to eat, giant pandas are hungry to eat bamboo, and babies and giant panda cubs are hungry to drink milk. The collective subconscious's driving power over people is equivalent to the influence of "hunger" on all mammals. It's just that the former is often pressed down to the bottom of the spirit, and we are not aware of it.

According to Jung's theory, the collective subconscious tends to manifest itself in a pattern of abstraction and relative unity in dreams. Weiss believes that in the hypnotic backtracking of past lives, the details of the scene are so detailed and clear that they cannot be explained by Jung's collective subconscious.

And Catherine can tell the weiss family's secret privacy, which in any case has nothing to do with jung's collective subconscious.

Therefore, compared with the operation, Weiss felt that the concepts of "past and present lives" and "other spiritual bodies outside the body" that came from ancient times could be explained more reasonably. And the hypnotized man also told Weiss that those were past lives. For example, catherine, who was hypnotized, once said that the higher spirits told her that she had lived eighty-six lifetimes.

Since then, Weiss has written books and gone on television, conducted training courses, and run studios... The theme is hypnosis around "past and present lives", which is famous for a while. Weiss, now 76 years old, is featured on his official webpage as Chairman Emeritus of Psychiatry, Chairman Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami. The latest announcement on the webpage also says that in 2020, all training and workshop activities will be suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Weiss has published ten books, each of which is interesting, and I will introduce them to you.

03. My opinion

Although I am also in favor of arranging all the possible statements at present, only the theory of past lives and this life can explain those phenomena more clearly. However, it should be noted that this explanation is currently scientifically untenable, and Weiss has received a lot of criticism for it. And some people listen to the audio, claiming to have induced the so-called past life, which is not reliable at all, and it is more likely to enter a collective subconscious or simply a fantasy.

If we insist on giving a scientific explanation for these cases encountered by Weiss, I can only say that our current understanding of human consciousness is still too limited. Even if the concept of the collective subconscious was only a hundred years old, the related phenomena before that were only explained by the supernatural.

Maybe in a few years, there will be a breakthrough in the research of a certain psychology master in the field of human spirit, and can give a rigorous scientific explanation to replace the past life theory?

Moreover, although Weiss denies that the case he encountered is Jung's collective subconscious, what we need to know is that the study of the collective subconscious itself needs to be further deepened, and Jung does not think that he has fully understood the collective subconscious. The more the spiritual kingdom of mankind is known to a rigorous psychologist, the greater the space for the unknown.

Jung even expressed a vague state of cognition about "the rebirth of man or the reincarnation of the soul", believing that there was no solid scientific evidence and daring not to easily deny it. In his original words: "Because this observation is subjective and monolithic, I would like to mention its existence only, without going into depth." But I would like to admit that after this experience, I have looked at the question of reincarnation in a different light, although I cannot yet come up with a definitive view. (Jung's Autobiography: Memories, Dreams, and Reflections, On Life After Death, by Jung)

So Weiss's case, while not within Jung's definition of the collective subconscious, may well be some other dimension of the collective subconscious that we don't yet understand and that future psychologists are waiting to discover.

Next, let's look at what Weiss wrote after he published "Past and Present Lives", which stirred up a thousand waves. What are the so-called past life studies of his predecessors who inspired him? Society has followed his example in past life hypnosis, is there any reliable case verification?

After all, if you want to understand this problem clearly and avoid generalizations, so collecting more materials and screening materials is the first step in research that cannot be avoided. Besides, these materials are still so interesting.