British rock star Phil Collins believes he could be the reincarnation of a 19th Century American town mayor and soldier who played a role in the Battle of the Alamo.
Reincarnation
Western belief in reincarnation on the increase
A recent New York Times article on the growing Western belief in reincarnation is causing a bit of a stir.
The article is called Remembrance of Lives Past and it originally appeared in the NYT on 27 August. It has since ‘reincarnated’ (sorry) in the San Fransisco Chronicle and elsewhere.
The author is Lisa Miller (left), the religion editor for Newsweek and author of the book Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife.
Miller cites several indicators, both statistical and cultural, of a growing interest in reincarnation among Westerners (but primarily Americans):
Update on Raaz Pichhle Janam Ka – India’s past life reality TV show
This is a follow-up to my 22 January post: ‘Groundbreaking reality TV show features past life regression‘.
According to an article in the Hindustan Times of 25 July 2010 (‘Raaz Pichhle Janam Ka is back’), the second season of Raaz Pichhle Janam Ka will start filming on the 1st of August for broadcast in October.
Dr Trupti Jayin, the NDTV Imagine reality show’s regression therapist, says that it will “be a mix of interesting cases from India and abroad.”
A new international organization for reincarnation research: IISIS
A new organization has been founded to support research on reincarnation, past life regression and soul evolution — the Institute for the Integration of Science, Intuition and Spirit (IISIS).
Lovers’ reincarnation story told in new book: ‘Lifetimes Ago’
Lifetimes Ago: A love story inspired from past life memories, by Susie Schecter
(published by iUniverse, March 15, 2010)
Susie Schecter is a writer and teacher based in Orange County, California. In 2001, she and her new boyfriend experienced several “meaningful coincidences” around the start of their relationship. “This feels like it was meant to be,” he said. They decided to turn to hypnotic past life regression to uncover whether they were soul mates or if they had ever met in another life.
At the cliff edge: A past life regression
On 8 March 2010, I underwent a ‘life-between-lives’ (LBL) regression session with a hypnotherapist, Hazel Newton. To begin the session, we began by dropping into a past life, one chosen by the wisdom of my higher guidance. In this post I focus on the past life itself. In the next post I give an account of the LBL phase.
Your Soul’s Plan [book review]
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Your Soul’s Plan
Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born
Robert Schwartz (Frog Ltd, 2009)
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Why is life so hard?
Why do we have to suffer?
Why do very bad things sometimes happen to very good people?
Dark, satanic mills: A past life regression
I have just experienced a past-life regression with a hypnotherapist. It was eye-opening in more ways than one.
Groundbreaking reality TV show features past life regression
Indian TV viewers have been treated to a nightly dose of reality TV featuring past life regression.
Cynthia Lennon – the original “Mrs. Robinson”?
A reincarnational case study featuring a Brontë, a movie, and a Beatles wife.
In the 1967 comedy-drama movie The Graduate, a bright young graduate named Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) is seduced by the older, wiser and saucier Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft). Benjamin finds himself way out of his depth, and his troubles only increase when he falls in love with Mrs. Robinson’s daughter.
The movie was based on a book of the same name. There has been some speculation that the inspiration for the fictional Mrs. Robinson was a certain real-life Mrs. Lydia Robinson in nineteenth-century England, who caused a scandal by her affair with young Branwell Brontë, the wayward brother of the famous English novelists, the Brontë sisters. (Note the initials B.B.: Branwell Brontë, Benjamin Braddock).