Past-Life Recall

A belief in reincarnation implies that we have had previous lives and many people seek to know more about who they may have been, and what they may have done before.

Some even believe that the wrongs they committed follow them and are responsible for the problems they experience in this life. While some belief systems think that Karma is ongoing, this is not the belief of most Witches. It may be convenient to think our troubles are caused by previous, separate, selves, but the Craft belief of personal responsibility means that we should accept that our problems are our own. However, past-life recall can be interesting and sometimes useful as it may reveal traits, or reasons for them, that we are unaware of.

There are many ways of attempting such recall: meditation, path-working and hypnosis. One of the most effective is known as the Christos method. This requires at least 2 people in addition to the subject. The subject lies on the floor with their head on the lap of the narrator and their feet in the lap of another. The narrator leads the subject through a series of visualizations while continuously drawing a circle on the subject's forehead over the third eye (a space in between the eyes on the forehead). At the same time the person supporting the feet massages them gently. While the subject is fully relaxes the narrator guides them in exploring the time before their current life. The narrator can break off any if any distress is sensed.

"Look after your friends; you never know when you'll need them."

~from the Real Witches Year by Kate West

Am wondering if hypnosis by a proffessional will bring out information of a past life.I have been obsessed with a certain time in history and can never get enough information about it. Am wondering if I was a part of that era and what it will do to me if I find out I was a part of that era and what part I may have played in it. Maybe it is nothing  more than just  a morbid fascination with that period in history.

I always believe that any fascination we have with any time in history has some kind of significance.  If it isn't a past life, then, I think, perhaps there is some kind of lesson we must learn from certain elements of that time.

Years ago I read a book that suggested that both our likes and dislikes can point towards the revelation of past lives. Fondness for skills/activities, times, places, foods, etc. I've found meditation to be more of a helpful guide, but do find that sometimes there is some crossover between the two.

When I first began this process, things would pass to me through the dreamstate. After many years, a couple of friends helped me work through a series of online guided meditations. After I lost contact with them, I began to do it again in the dreamstate. Very rarely do they come to me through meditation. Since I keep a dream journal, I was able to compare and contrast the dreams which are full of nonsense, versus the dreams that contained past life information. The past life dreams were longer, and full with specific details, whereas other dreams read more like summaries of events from everyday life spliced with very psychedelic happenings. Sometimes however, the dreams are 1 part past life, 3 parts nonsense. Its taken many years to tell the difference.