A Simple Explanation of Past Life Hypnotherapy

My brother, Dr. Bill Puett, has developed a thriving hypnotherapy practice in San Diego, California, since retiring as a Professor of Philosophy.

Bill and I have philosophized together all of our lives, since we were small children.
Bill's wife, Kathy, Bill Puett, and sister Cyd Ropp



Bill has been employing the Simple Explanation as part of his therapeutic technique for a few years now. We thought you would like to see how. Here is one of his case studies utilizing past life regression.

CASE STUDY: Jane -- burned as a witch

Jane was a 22 year old client who saw me because of a bothersome issue she'd had for as long as she could remember.  No one was allowed to touch her neck.   She was engaged to be married; and even her fiancé, John, was not allowed to touch her neck.  Jane also made it clear to John that she did not want to have a child, especially not a daughter.  Because he wanted to have children, a major problem in their relationship arose.

 

In my hypnotherapy practice, I do not lead or make suggestions based on what I think is the cause of my client's issues. I listen to what their subconscious reveals and facilitate with that information my client's recovery. I use past life and parallel life therapy to facilitate transformation. In Jane's case, I did not anticipate what her subconscious was to reveal when she was in deep hypnosis.

In a past life, she recalled being burned at the stake as an alleged witch.  Her first recollection was being in the fire.  I asked her to move out from the fire and to see herself at a distance.  She saw that she had a brace of some kind around her neck that kept her in place.  She asked to go back into the fire whereby I took her quickly through her death and into the “interim” between lives.  She was immediately relieved. 

 

While she was in the interim, I asked her if there was anyone she wanted to see again from that past life.  She said “yes,” and I asked her to call that person into the interim.  A little girl came to her who had been her daughter in that past life and had died before her mother had been killed.  They had a deeply moving reunion.  (I regularly do grief work for past life persons who have lost loved ones.) 

 

I then asked Jane to go back into that past life in order to create a “new” past life.  In the new past life she was not brought before the inquisition and her daughter did not die as a child.  I then brought Jane back to the present with full recall of the old and new past life experiences.  The original past life was now presented as merely a story with no future implications while the new past life was carried forward for positive future implications.

The results were wonderful and transformative.  The day of the past life regression was the last day of Jane’s neck issue.  She had removed the meme of being held on the stake with a neck brace.  She had also removed the meme of not wanting a child.  Within a year, she and her husband had a baby daughter.  Both Jane and John were thrilled with the pregnancy and the birth of a child.

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Here is what Bill and I think is going on with this sort of therapy--

The Simple Explanation suggests that each living person is comprised of their Unit of Consciousness (aka "soul") enshrouded by a bundle of memes considered important to that person, glued there, in a manner of speaking, by their personal karma. (you can read all about this Simple Explanation of souls and karma in Chapters 2 and 3 of the Simple Explanation book or in this little article, "Who Am I?".)

When a client is hypnotically regressed out of this life and experiences a past life, the memes important to that life are once again attracted to their UC. This is why clients under hypnosis may look and speak differently than they normally do, because the old meme bundle is again active.

In Jane's case, the experience of being locked in stocks and burned to death as a witch made such a karmic impression upon her UC that it clung to her new life, causing a neurotic fear of being touched on her neck. She also carried a meme of disappointment and longing over the early death of her daughter in that life that created such fear in this life that she was unwilling to risk having another.

In the safety and comfort of the therapeutic session, Jane was able to move beyond her traumatic death and discover the peace of the interim period following death.

In Simple Explanation terms, we would say this peace comes as the soul's meme bundle is cut loose at death. In the period between lives we are freed from earthly memes, cares, and concerns. The meme bundle later reattaches, according to one's karma, after a newly formed life enters the world.

In Jane's case, it was the newly imagined "alternate ending" of the past life that finally released all of her fears. Jane found actual peace and satisfaction with the rewritten history, and she carried that peace forward into this life. It was as though Jane's karma had been rewritten, and the memes associated with her previously unhappy life and death no longer clung to her current meme bundle. She was now able to view those memes from a distance, as if they were attached to someone else.

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Immediate resolution of clients' presenting problems is really unheard of in therapy. Usually, clients wrestle with their meme bundles for years, in and out of therapy. With Dr. Puett's past-life hypnotherapy, clients are released that very day. We believe the therapy is so effective because not only are the original incidents identified (whether in this life or a past life), but a new history is written that gives resolution retroactively to the time of the inciting incident. Rather than carrying the mourning for her lost daughter forward from one lifetime into the next, Jane's joyous reunion with her daughter plucked the loss meme right out of her bundle. When she awoke from hypnosis she felt joy rather than fear, and the fear never returned. The fear meme was replaced by a joyous meme, allowing her present life to go forward.

As for her gruesome death, under hypnosis Jane discovered she felt no pain or fear on "the other side" of death, once she had been taken consciously through. Therefore that meme was no longer a source of pain and fear. Once again, it was as if the karma associated with dying at the stake was rewritten as it was reimagined. Bill and I propose that immediate resolution of a client's problems and the transformation of a client's life is accomplished through karmic cleansing as old memes are dropped and not reattached to the present life.

Bill's therapeutic technique is a novel approach that utilizes concepts of personhood out of the Simple Explanation. Hypnotic regression, coupled with rewriting history, is an extremely effective way to drop burdensome memes.

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You need not believe in reincarnation to benefit from this technique. I personally held the position for several years that these past life sessions of Bill's were "merely" therapeutic metaphors. Useful stories expressing fears and mysteries in a neat, narrative package. Not unlike dream imagery. Since writing the Simple Explanation I have come to take these stories as something different.

Does this mean that everyone who holds that burned-at-the-stake meme was actually burned at the stake themselves, personally? Not necessarily. In the Simple Explanation, the memes in our bundles are not only held by you, they are held in common by everyone who resonates with that meme. You can come to hold onto a meme because of past life issues, but you could also be holding a meme because you picked it up in this life. It may be that you are a midwife who is currently under some sort of prosecution or review board over your midwifery practices. Considering that tens of thousands of midwives were burned at the stake during the witch trials of the Early Modern Period, it's little wonder your current situation would attract that particular meme to your personal bundle. The meme actually "lives" in the transpersonal field we all share--it's been out there all along, you just didn't resonate to it before it applied to you.

Lessons From Trees: Roots of a Fallen Tree

I took this 90 second video yesterday in the woods where I walk the dogs.

A giant tree fell over in the night, exposing the root ball. After the fall, it was easy to see that only a few roots had held the giant tree upright.

I am sure this is a wonderful metaphor for something--probably for many things. Any suggestions?

 

Roots of a Fallen Tree; Only a few held the giant upright.

Radio Appearance on Progressive Parenting, 4/16/13

Greetings, Friends.

I was the guest on a call-in internet radio program called Progressive Parenting on Tuesday, April 16. Please listen in on this very interesting discussion regarding midwifery, homebirth, and the broader meaning of "pro-choice".

Here is the link to the radio program, "Progressive Parenting"

Please listen in and pass this article around to your friends. Let's start a discussion!

Thanks!

cyd



Here I am, second from the left, sitting with a panel of attorneys all representing midwives on trial for the oxymoronic charge of practicing medicine without a license, and criminal charges ranging from homicide to quackery.

We were convened by Human Rights in Childbirth to discuss "The Persecution of Midwives as a Human Rights Issue". I presented my research and rhetorical defense strategies.

photo by Patti Ramos Photography

A Simple Explanation of Star-Shaped Gravity Waves

WATCH GRAVITY WAVE VIDEO

French physicists have captured images of gravity waves in the shape of toruses, stars, and pentagons, formed by vibrating shallow tanks of silicon oil up and down.

Researcher Jean Rajchjenbach, in an interview with LiveScience, expressed puzzlement over the findings:

"It is generally accepted that the shape of the waves depends on the container shape. The fact that the pattern shape is here recovered independently of the container shape is surprising, mysterious and stimulating. We have no clear explanation. . . . This finding just emphasizes that the domain of highly nonlinear waves is still 'terra incognita,' or unknown territory."

The Simple Explanation of these unexpected shapes in gravity waves is that they are associated with toroidal forces acting upon the 3-D space represented by the silicon oil. In other words, the shape is independent of the container because the container holding the silicon oil is not the container generating the gravity wave--the torus associated with the space is. The Simple Explanation proposes that gravity waves are generated on the outer and inner membrane of toruses. 

At the micro scale, aggregates pull objects toward the outside of their toroidal membranes to make larger aggregates. At the macro scale, space is pushed outward by dark energy emitters at the zero point of each toroidal vortex. Matter drifts outward to reunite with the gravitational pull generated by  the inside of the fractal surface of the universal toroidal membrane.

What I find interesting is that the experimental set-up  itself seems to have created an occasion for viewing toroidal forces moving into and out of our 3-D space. When you watch the video you can see a number of transitory tori dancing in complex patterns within a larger torus, and changing into the various stars and pentagons.

Ancient cosmologies speak of elemental harmonics of resonance culminating in five basic motions. "These five patterns of vibration are at the core of the sciences of the ancients," (Burger, Esoteric Anatomy). "They are the fundamental resonances that are the inner vibrational basis of all phenomena." Burger writes that "all vibration is entrained, through sympathetic vibration, with the resonance of these universal fields of force."

Hmmm. I would be surprised if the gravity waves weren't toroidal! So for the scientists among you who would like proof of these outrageous claims, the Simple Explanation cosmology predicts there is an extremely large dark energy emitter at the center of our physical universe. Astronomers are close to proving that already. The Simple Explanation predicts we will also discover an enveloping gravitational curve at the farthest reaches of our universe, a kind of reciprocal force to the central energy emitter. The Simple Explanation cosmology also implies minute localizations of dark energy emitters balanced by gravitational membranes in the shape of tori associated with all material accretions, similar to the electromagnetic tori already observed surrounding planets, stars, and galaxies.

Rajchenbach and his colleagues Didier Clamond and Alphonse Leroux of the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis in France, detailed their findings in a paper accepted by the journal Physical Review Letters on Feb. 1. Reported by: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor, Published: 02/22/2013 11:11 AM EST on LiveScience

More Esoteric Anatomy

Toroidal Energies and the Human Body
Dr. Randolph Stone

A couple of years ago I posted an article about Bruce Burger's book, Esoteric Anatomy: The Body As Consciousness. At that time I had just begun reading the book, and I promised a more complete review at a later date.

This is a great book. If you are investigating toroidal energy and the conscious universe, you really should read Esoteric Anatomy. The term "Esoteric Anatomy" refers to the body's toroidal energy lines (pictured above) and their effect on the body. The book is divided into two parts--philosophy and application. In the first section, "Loving Hands Are Healing Hands," Burger presents a hands-on therapy approach called Polarity Therapy that describes in detail how to locate and complete toroidal circuits throughout the body for both physical and mental health. In the second half of the book, "Essays on Esoteric Anatomy," Burger gives a thorough explanation of the ancient Sanatana Dharma, which forms the primary philosophy underlying Polarity Therapy. You really can't find a better grounding in primary yogic philosophy than these essays. 

Polarity Therapy was originally developed by Dr. Randolph Stone in a series of books published in the 1950's. Dr. Stone's understanding of Ayurveda, Naturopathy, Osteopathy, Craniosacral Therapy, Hermetic philosphy, and physics, blended with fifty years of experience as a Doctor of Chiropractic and Osteopathy, informed his understanding of the human body and its place in the cosmos. He is considered "the father of energetic studies."

Here's a link to Esoteric Anatomy on Amazon.

 

 

Personal Process Note: Cataract Surgeries

I have just completed surgeries on both of my eyes for congenital cataracts. Now that the new lenses are in, I can see better than I ever have in my life. This video is of the first surgery on my left eye. They inserted a toric lens to correct for nearsightedness and astigmatism.

I resisted the surgeon's offer of IV Valium because I wanted to be fully present during the surgeries. As an experienced meditator, I felt confident I could keep myself and Whoville calm throughout the procedure. This proved to be a challenge because I could see everything going on through the eye as it was being operated on, and I had to continually reassure Whoville that everything was fine and going as expected. I found the electronic warning beepers to be the most  alarming aspect of surgery, as they kicked in often to alert the surgeon to back off of whatever he was doing. I would recommend earphones and soft classical music as a soothing remedy to the patient hearing alarms.

I had put off cataract surgery for a couple of years as I could not decide which focal lengths to choose. These plastic intraocular lenses cannot change focus the way a natural lens can, so the patient must choose whether they want an eye to see only close, mid-range, or far. My surgeon prefers his patients to exit with no need of glasses at all, so he likes to use mid-range and far lenses, one for each eye. Then the brain is supposed to coordinate this monovision into a working facsimile of two-eyed vision. I did not like that option at all, because I am accustomed to being able to see up close for fine work and I never expected to be able to see far away without glasses, as I have worn glasses all of my life. I finally opted for my left eye to be set at mid-range, and my right eye to be close-up for fine work.

This is working out well because the close vision and mid-range vision overlap around 20", so I can use two coordinated eyes for most computer work and countertop work. Yet, if I need to see something close-up, I can focus on it clearly with the close-up lens in the right eye. The left eye's midrange vision extends from about 20" outward. Since I was born with cataracts and extreme astigmatism and near-sightedness, I have never seen across the room without glasses. Now, the left eye sees easily across the room and beyond. In fact, I can drive without glasses now. My distance vision is not 20-20, but it's tremendously better than ever, so I have no complaints. For someone who treasures distance sight, setting one eye to distance makes good sense. 

My color vision has also improved, since there were crystal deposits inside my original lenses that altered my color vision. I can now see subtle gradations of color that were previously undiscernable.

I also viewed a number of "entoptic" visual phenomena during the surgeries. Entoptic phenomena are visual images that occur within the eye or the brain, independent of normal visual channels. The most interesting thing I saw was during the period of time after the cataract was fully removed and before the new lens was inserted. The surgical light was still brightly lighting the eye. What I saw was a domed surface completely covered with tiny, tiny, iridescent spheres, all packed tightly close together. It looked like there were thousands of them, coating the inside of a dome. This was a single surface of bubbles, not like looking into a sphere of bubbles, but at a membrane of bubbles. Any thoughts as to what that may have been? Here's my attempt to render that entoptic image, but it was much more beautiful than this.

Slinky Torus Black Hole

Here's some more slinky torus fun. Weeeee! Down the black hole.

Slinky Torus Photos

Slinkys make great torus models. Here are some photos I took yesterday using my iphone.



Danielle's Virtual Toroidal Universe--Video

A student named Danielle Battaglia has completed a senior thesis project at the University of Michigan's School of Design. Using the MIDEN at the university's 3-D Lab, Danielle mapped the known universe onto a torus, thereby modelling our toroidal-shaped universe for us. Way to go, Danielle!

Here's the link to the video walk-through of the toroidal universe.



Integrative Project: Danielle Battaglia from UM Stamps School of Art & Design on Vimeo.

(Thanks to Simple Explanation blog follower and artiste extraordinare, Jesus Olmo, for forwarding this link to me.)

Feathers like a torus

My cat brought me this present today. He knows how much I like tori!
I wonder what part of the bird this came from? Isn't it beautiful?