The Life Between Lives - Dr. Michael Newton

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

Originally Posted by Ariannel

Just because human beings haven't recorded every instant of human history doesn't mean that Catherine's soul doesn't know when on our current historical time line she would have lived.

Agreed, if her soul has access to a master cosmic time calendar with correlations for all cultural calendars.

Did her soul know it was 1800 BC when Catherine was living that life? It would be interesting to know if her soul had precognitive abilities. Apparently so, since some therapists practice future life progression.

Catherine wasn't there to make skeptics happy. She was there to answer questions about her own past life.

And I simply don't have enough faith in this story without any verifiable evidence.

~~ Paul

[Ariannel]

Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos

Did her soul know it was 1800 BC when Catherine was living that life?

No, I imagine not. Why would she? How could Catherine's soul know our current calendar, many hundreds of years in the future?

It would be interesting to know if her soul had precognitive abilities. Apparently so, since some therapists practice future life progression.

I know that some therapists do practice future life progression. You may be surprised by this, but I'm a little skeptical about it. Considering the future has so many possibilities, I don't see how future life progression could at all be accurate or beneficial.

And I simply don't have enough faith in this story without any verifiable evidence.

Fair enough. I do wonder what you thought about Catherine's emotional progression throughout the exercise, though. She did seem to be remarkably well and contented by the end of it.

[majinrevan666]

Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos

Apparently so, since some therapists practice future life progression.

~~ Paul

Unlike past life regression, future life progression is almost entirely unverifiable.
Moreover, the idea that the future is predetermined in such a way is rather
unsettling.

I wouldn't be surprised if the progression part is pure fantasy.

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

Originally Posted by Ariannel

No, I imagine not. Why would she? How could Catherine's soul know our current calendar, many hundreds of years in the future?

I don't know. I thought perhaps souls can see all of time, backward and forward. So if her soul did not know the time then, she would certainly need a calendar later on to place the life accurately. Another possibility, now that I think of it, is that her soul could keep a careful diary of all her lifetimes, with an estimate of the time in between. Then perhaps she could count backward from 0 AD and get an approximate idea of the date of a given lifetime.

Fair enough. I do wonder what you thought about Catherine's emotional progression throughout the exercise, though. She did seem to be remarkably well and contented by the end of it.

Assuming I buy that she was psychologically ill to begin with, she may have gotten better because she believed she was purging bad memories, even if the context was a sham. However, as I've said before, I'd like to see clinical evidence that merely speaking bad memories helps a person feel better.

~~ Paul

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

Originally Posted by majinrevan

Unlike past life regression, future life progression is almost entirely unverifiable.

Unverifiable at the time, yes. But in the long run, it is more verifiable than past life regression, because you can wait and see if the predictions come true. In Catherine's case, there was nothing about her past that could be verified, because nothing interesting happened. Well, except the method of making butter. However, I don't think we need past life regression to admit that she may simply have known how to make butter. Unfortunately, we can't verify her recipe, because Weiss chose not to include it in the book.

~~ Paul

[Ariannel]

Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos

Unfortunately, we can't verify her recipe, because Weiss chose not to include it in the book.

The recipe she used to make butter was not important to Weiss' story. It may be important for skeptics, scientists, and historians who want to validate her information, but it wasn't necessary to include it in the book. That's not what the book was intended for.

You know, that Youtube video that majinrevan666 posted a few pages back actually has cases where women from Australia are regressed and asked specific information about past lives they lived in Europe. Then, after they've given the details, investigation is done to validate what they say. The second and last cases, specifically are quite interesting. If you have the time, you may want to check into it.

I know, I know, it's an 11 part series. You will have to watch more than one video and that may be just too much for you to take. If it helps, here are the links to the specific ones that are interesting to me.

Woman #2
1st Part
2nd Part

Woman #4
1st Part
2nd Part

[sententiousness]

hi, I have not read his books, but I hope to do and make my own opinions about that, thanks for the information.

[Arten60]

No, I imagine not. Why would she? How could Catherine's soul know our current calendar, many hundreds of years in the future?

My take on this is there are probably no past or future lives although I hope there is. Instead I would suggest there is just the One Mind which is everywhere and everywhen and that through trance you are able to experience the past and future.

The Universe is Made of Mind Stuff.
Sir James Jeans

Your body is not separate from the body of the universe, because at quantum
mechanical levels there are no well - defined edges. You are like a wiggle, a wave, a fluctuation, a convolution, a whirlpool, a localised disturbance in the larger quantum field__the universe__is your extended body.
Deepak Chopra

The more knowlegable we become about the universe less and less it looks like a great machine and more and more it looks like a great thought.
Sir James Jeans