THE MYTH OF SELF REGRESSIONS

Bernardo Tahan Gómez

There is a myth about self-regressions. Rather, there is a myth about reincarnation. Just the word is scary. And it is logical, it must be so because reincarnation implies pain. There is suffering coming from previous lives, it is hidden, engraved in our souls. People who have not been able to see their past lives, have an impressive accumulation of pain. They are diverse lives that generate fear, pain and anger. They are not good memories, or at least the good ones are not so perceptible. The pain we all have from our past lives generates this rejection of the subject. It's like removing one of those self-adhesive bands from the skin, and we see a small scar. I know people who give me hundreds of arguments and ideological positions for not lying down on a couch or a bed, putting on a headset and doing a regression in the quiet of their home. There is a lot at stake. There are a hundred alerts coming from every pore of your skin not to do it. The reason is that you know. You, deep in your soul, KNOW what you have suffered in those lifetimes, even if you are not conscious, even if you cannot see any images of those memories. It is like watching, in your imagination, a horror movie where you are the only protagonist, the only one who suffers, or the only one who causes harm to other people.

All this would be fine, if the pain, the anguish, the fear, the rage for the memories of past lives, would disappear during the day by not seeing them. By not watching the movie. By not seeing yourself in the deep mirror of your soul. That is the problem. That you do not see the images, but the sensations remain the same throughout the day and night. Multiple, uncontrolled and unconscious. Sigmund Freud was right when he said that the unconscious was like a huge iceberg, where the conscious part looks small on the surface and most of it is underneath, at the bottom of the sea. What perhaps psychoanalysis cannot understand is that this iceberg is bigger than the memories of these lives. It is the memories of multiple lives that weigh you down. If you don't do something about them, they will continue to haunt you, to nag you, until the day you die. That's just the way it is. Even if you don't want to believe it, even if you think reincarnation doesn't exist, even if you are an atheist. The pain produced by reincarnation is the most democratic thing that exists. It affects everyone: rich, poor, good, bad, religious, non-believers. Everyone. The memories of your past lives are the fundamental cause of that permanent discomfort you feel all day long, of those anxiety attacks, of that dissatisfaction with everyone and for anything, of that insecurity in front of life, in front of existence. I, thank God, managed to see my past lives from 1996 to 1997, after doing a daily self-regression during all that year. Nothing happened to me. I did not suffer. I had no insomnia problems, no panic attacks, absolutely nothing. I did it with the method of Dr. Brian Weiss. In my book I tell you how I perfected that method for myself, to get the most out of it, to be able to get information from my past lives even while I was awake, walking, in my day to day life. It is a fantastic experience. Sometimes I despair when I see so many people suffering inside, with so much anger, in the subway, in the streets, at work. They are not bad people. They are just suffering from that painful and traumatic cocktail of deep, unconscious memories of past lives.

The greatness of Dr. Brian Weiss is that, being a physician, a psychiatrist with an important position in a prestigious hospital in the United States, he had the courage to tell what he saw in his office when doing hypnotic regressions to his patients. He took a big risk, because he was the first. We are talking about 30 years ago. Surely it was hard for him to make the decision, but he changed the lives of many people, including mine. He is a great man, as they say in Italy. 

The truth of the matter, the pure and absolute truth, is that remembering my previous lives, at least from the point of view of my experience, of my self-regressions, did not cause me any pain. It generated in me a curiosity the size of the world. I could do nothing else, before going to bed, but try to see more and more of my lives. That's all. I had no trauma, no psychological block, problem or anxiety attack. Absolutely nothing happened to me. I know this bothers a lot of people, because they want to give it a touch of sacred, mysterious (although it is) and worthy only of a privileged and exclusive few who can talk about it. I have news for you: you are an expert in reincarnation, because you have reincarnated dozens of times. You just haven't seen the movie of your life, but you FEEL it, it hurts you, it bothers you and it hurts you. But you carry the movie with you every day, even if you don't want to see it. Forgive my sincerity, but I don't know how to explain it any other way. Best regards. BT