Doors to Past Lives & Future Lives: Practical Applications of Self-Hypnosis

By Joe H. Slate and Carl Llewellyn Weschcke

You have the ability to access the collective wisdom of all your past life experiences. By tapping into this immense storehouse of knowledge through self-hypnosis, you will gain direction, mastery over your fears, a greater sense of self-worth—and the power to take charge of your life.

Dr. Joe H. Slate and Carl Llewellyn Weschcke put a unique do-it-yourself spin on hypnosis, teaching you step by step how to conduct your own past-life regression using powerful, scientifically tested methods, such as astral projection and spirit interactions. Fascinating true accounts from Dr. Slate and his subjects highlight the effectiveness of these empowering techniques.

• Explore your past and future lives
• Delve into life between lifetimes
• See how many past lives you have lived
• Communicate with departed loved ones
• Meet your spirit guides
• Discover new spiritual dimensions

Once you begin to retrieve your past life experiences, you can apply the lessons learned toward present-day healing, spiritual growth, and enlightenment for the continued evolution of your soul.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
• Release date: Dec 8, 2011
• ISBN: 9780738730936

Joe H. Slate

Joe H. Slate was a Licensed Psychologist in private practice with a PhD from the University of Alabama and postdoctoral studies in hypnosis and psychosomatic medicine at the University of California. He was Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Athens State University and Honorary Professor at the University of Montevallo. His research interests included health and fitness, rejuvenation, pain management, reincarnation, astral projection, and the human aura. His research was been funded by the US Army, the Parapsychology Foundation of New York, and numerous private sources. He was a member of the American Psychological Association and a Platinum Registrant in the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology. He was founder of the Parapsychology Research Institute and Foundation (PRIF) and author of several books, including Beyond Reincarnation; Psychic Vampires; Aura Energy for Health, Healing & Balance; and Rejuvenation. He appeared on numerous talk shows and TV programs, including Sightings and Strange Universe.

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Carl Llewellyn Weschcke is Chairman of Llewellyn Worldwide, one of the oldest and largest publishers of practical metaphysical and spiritual books. He has a degree in Business Administration (Babson), studied Law (LaSalle), Philosophy (University of Minnesota) and Clinical Hypnosis, and has honorary recognitions in Divinity and Magical Philosophy.

A lifelong student of metaphysical, psychological and spiritual subjects, he also variously studied with the Theosophical Society, Rosicrucian Order, Society of Inner Light, and the Arcane School.

He was a leader in the rise of Wicca during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1973 he helped organize and then chaired the Council of American Witches, drafting the widely recognized Thirteen Principles of Wiccan Belief, later incorporated into the US Army chaplains’ handbook.

While no longer active in the Craft, he retains ties to the Wiccan, Neo-Pagan, and Magickal communities. He is a Past Grandmaster of Aurum Solis and actively supports the current leadership. Author Donald Michael Kraig calls him the Father of the New Age because of his early sponsorship of new understanding of old occult subjects.

Still actively associated with Llewellyn, he is devoting more time to studies and practical research in parapsychology, quantum theory, Kabbalah, Tantra, Taoism, Tarot, Astrology, Shamanism, and Magick. He is also actively writing, coauthoring books with Dr. Joe Slate, and working on various projects.

©Warren H. McLemore

Joe H. Slate, PhD (Alabama), is a licensed psychologist and Emer­itus Professor of Psychology at Athens State University. He introduced experimental parapsychology, biofeedback, hypnosis and self-hypnosis into the instructional and research programs at Athens State University. The US Army and the Parapsychology Foundation of New York have funded his lab projects in parapsychology. His research led to the establishment of the International Parapsychology Research Institute and Foundation. His official research topics have included: rejuvenation, health and fitness, the human aura, psychotherapy, reincarnation, precognition, retrocognition, telepathy, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, objectology, numerology, astral projection, sand reading, crystal gazing, dowsing, dreams, the wrinkled sheet, table tipping, discarnate interactions, psychic vampires, hypnosis, self-hypnosis, age regression, past-life regression, the afterlife, preexistence, the peak experience, natural resources, learning, problem solving, and the subconscious, to list but a few.

He has founded several scholarships:

Dr. Joe H. Slate Scholarship for the Arts, Athens State University.

Dr. Joe H. and Rachel Slate Scholarship, University of Alabama.

International Parapsychology Research Foundation Scholarship, Athens State University.

Note: Each scholarship exists in perpetuity and is awarded annually to students who need financial assistance.

Dr. Slate has appeared on several radio and television venues, including the Strange Universe series, the History Channel, and Sightings.

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This book is your passport to the exciting world of reincarnation and your own past lives. You’re about to embark on a journey of a lifetime. There’s no need to grab your suitcase—you’ll be traveling light. All you need is a willingness to explore. You can now be whisked away into your past lifetimes and your life between them, even your earliest preexistence. So climb on board, and read on!

contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Foreword

Introduction

One: The Mind-Body-Spirit Connection

Two: Self-Hypnosis and Past-Life Regression

Three: Preexistence and Life-Between-Lifetimes

Four: The Spirit Realm: A Present Reality

Five: Astral Projection and the Afterlife

Technical Reports

Suggested Reading

Glossary

acknowledgments

We together are deeply grateful to each individual whose support and encouragement made this book possible.

To the many research subjects who enthusiastically gave of their time and energies, we here express our sincerest appreciation. Also, to the students who served as laboratory assistants and technicians, we are especially grateful. They were always there when needed. Although they do not appear visibly in this book, the results of their efforts are found throughout its pages.

We would like to thank our learned colleagues whose suggestions, criticisms, and encouragement helped bring this book to completion. They have our highest respect and admiration. Among them are Dr. Franklin Turney and Dr. Gene Chamberlain, whose imaginative and insightful contributions greatly enhanced this effort. To Warren McLemore who assisted with the photography and to Ricky Pruitt who provided invaluable technical assistance, we express our sincerest thanks. To Isaac Dean and Marc Slate, Jr. for their contributions to every phase of this effort, we will always be grateful.

We wish to express our special thanks to the International Parapsychology Research Institute Foundation for its unwavering support and encouragement over the years. Now under the direction of Honorable Judge Sam Masdon, the Foundation’s long-term commitment to the search for new knowledge remains an invaluable source of inspiration.

Finally, we together owe an enormous debt of gratitude to the men and women of Llewellyn Worldwide for their ongoing guidance and encouragement. It’s our hope this book will reflect their highest hopes for bright new worlds of mind, body, and spirit.

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preface

Here for the first time is a do-it-yourself guide for exploring the full scope of your past lives. You can at last rediscover your past lifetimes, your life between them, and your preexistence. You can even get a glimpse into your future.

How is this possible? You have at your command all the required resources—master hypnotist, teacher, healer, and guide. Better than that, they exist within yourself—they are an integral part of you. All you need are the programs required to access them and unleash their powers.

Possibly nothing is more important to our development as evolving souls than self-discovery, self-reliance, and self-empowerment. Promoting autonomy in exploring your past life through workable, do-it-yourself programs is consequently the centerpiece of this book. With the exception of the Eye Blink Procedure, the programs are based on studies conducted under the auspices of Athens State College (now University) or the International Parapsychology Research Institute and Foundation. The studies exist at present as noncirculated technical reports in the archival collection at the Athens State University Library.

With the concepts and related programs presented in the following pages, you can discover for yourself the spiritual essence of your being. You can finally experience the full magnitude of your existence. You can retrieve the past-life experiences that hold relevance for you in the here and now. You can uncover the unlimited resources available to you from the spirit realm, including your personal guides who are constantly poised to facilitate your growth.

Beginning now, you can embark on a new and exciting journey into your past life. The result is a newly empowered life of enlightenment, fulfillment, and joy. With these rich opportunities before us, who could ask for more?

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foreword

Carl Llewellyn Weschcke

understanding the spirit world &

the importance of self-involvement, NOW!

What does anyone actually know of the Spirit World? What do we really mean when we speak of spirituality? Do we really have immortal souls and what does that mean? Who can give you answers to the questions that you have about what happens after death? What’s the truth about reincarnation?

It would be easy to say that no one knows the reality of life after death, but that isn’t true. And it’s not true that you will only find the answers in ancient scriptures or from psychics and spiritual mediums. It would be easy to be blasé and say that no one has ever come back to answer these questions, or to talk only about those who may have had near death experiences (NDEs).

Well, the fact is there are ordinary people who do regularly experience previous lives through the technique of regression, and they do come back to talk about what they’ve learned about life after death, and even about life before birth. What’s more, not only can you read their reports (in this book and others), but you can easily discover these things for yourself through do-it-yourself past-life regression implemented by self-hypnosis!

Why turn to others for such information when it may well be that they have no personal knowledge about the subject, and—worse— may be speaking from a private agenda developed to rob you of your personal power, placing yourself in a position of dependence upon others to think for you?

do-it-yourself and self-empowerment

When I bought my first house back many decades ago, there were laws against doing most simple repair work related to plumbing, heating, and electric. And when it wasn’t directly illegal, the building codes specified materials and methods beyond the resources of an amateur. Back then you had to use only copper pipe and no plastic; back then putting up a wall was a complex process involving lathes, wire mesh, and hand-applied wet plaster; back then there were no windows and doors complete with their own framing ready to be installed, and many things you can now readily buy at your local Home Depot had to be hand-fabricated and custom-fitted on the job.

The desire to do-it-yourself spawned entire industries and made remodeling and repairs something almost anyone could do and afford. As a result, years later, in another house it was possible for me to construct a custom-designed and shaped sand box in an odd space right outside my window so I could work while watching my young son at play. I was able to build wood seating (using treated lumber) into a hillside, making a nice entertainment space suited to a large family reunion. I wasn’t a carpenter or even mechanically inclined, but I built and custom-fitted pocket doors, various items of furniture specific to space and needs, and undertook repair projects that would have been otherwise unaffordable for me at the time.

When I was younger, the only do-it-yourself medical information involved nearly incomprehensible textbooks, and you were not encouraged to look into your health problems because doctor knows best and you were just to follow doctor’s orders. There was no readily available information about investments and instead you were dependent on a broker (not a financial consultant) whose source of income was derived from your buying and selling activity. And to answer simple legal questions you had to hire a lawyer. Essentially we were conditioned to depend on other people, the trained professionals, for all our needs, and to accept their wisdom without question.

I remember one time years ago when I was involved in a copyright matter and was not satisfied with the answers I was being given. After days of research I came up with new answers and my high-priced attorney complimented me by saying I was a better lawyer than he was and cutting his fee to represent only the filing of paperwork, etc. I wouldn’t pretend that expertise anymore but the point remains: you are the one who best understands your situation—do the diligence to become a partner with your professional advisor.

The period was the forties, fifties, and sixties. There was no Internet; the only viable (profitable) book publishers did textbooks. The primary retail outlets were a very few Catholic religious stores selling books along with paraphernalia, and department stores selling mostly children’s books along with a few bestsellers identified by book clubs, plus books from the Modern Library. As I remember the figures, there were 50,000 titles in 1960 vs. the multiple millions published annually today. The only self-help books related to Sex for Young Men, Sex for Young Women, Norman Vincent Peale’s books, etc. The earlier books on Spiritualism and Theosophy from the 1800s were mostly out of print and what little was available came directly from the Theosophical Society.

So, there really were no self-help books as we know them today. Actual bookstores were almost exclusively selling used books, old magazines and comic books, and old family Bibles.

information and self-knowledge

When information is accessible, and understandable, knowledge is possible and can be applied to your own (sometimes unique) needs and circumstance. You are the one with the unexplained pain that really isn’t all in your head. With the information resources available today via self-help books and Internet search engines you can narrow down the possible causes and better explain the problem in terms specific enough for your doctor to work with you in its resolution. Being able to read about paranormal phenomena you are better able to trace the source of those bumps in the night to the strange energies of an angry teenager and help her through a difficult time. Being able to resource information pertinent to a leaky roof you may be able to cheaply and safely repair it yourself or direct a roofer to the exact problem rather than being sold an unneeded new roof.

With access to information you can know exactly what you need or want to work effectively with professionals—if necessary—and make responsible decisions. With access to information, you can become a responsible and involved citizen able to confront embedded bureaucracy and self-serving politicians, and work for what is best for your community.

An informed patient, client, citizen, householder, owner, student, and so forth brings out the best in any professional, and empowers you with the right service for your needs.

knowledge is empowering

Today we have access to technology, and to self-help methodology allowing you to get answers for yourself. You have the means to direct experience and personal discovery that enables you to develop and form your own belief systems rather than accepting their imposition by other people.

What’s more, by being in control of the process—whatever it may be—you do get what you need or desire on your own terms when and where you want it. In some situations personal control makes a substantial difference in the effectiveness of the process. Self-knowledge and do-it-yourself understanding is empowering and puts you in control. In the application I am about to describe, that personal control bypasses resistance that otherwise diminishes the effectiveness of the procedure.

It is common in many interpersonal activities to encounter resistance that inhibits the value and effect of the activity. One of the most common inhibiting encounters occurs during hypnosis, where one person submits to the will of another. Of course, that is not the reality of hypnosis but it is part of the folklore and is often deeply embedded within the person seeking the benefits to be gained through the hypnotic experience.

All hypnosis is a voluntary focus of attention and concentration upon particular suggestions and goals. A hypnotist is only a facilitator to the process, but stories and movies have imbued the hypnotist (portrayed with scary eyes) with seemingly supernatural powers to force the subject to unwanted action. No wonder people resist such a hypnotist!

Self-hypnosis avoids resistance. Self-hypnosis puts you in control, able to ask your own questions, directly observe what is important to you, follow leads that seem important to you, and avoid experiences that may be uncomfortable.

As Dr. Slate has many times observed and stated, you are your own best hypnotist.

past lives? life before birth?

reincarnation?

This is a book about reincarnation and do-it-yourself past-life regression implemented by self-hypnosis. The techniques that use self-hypnosis involve Self (your full consciousness) in practices promoting personal growth and self-empowerment.

Yes, it is interesting to read about the worldwide belief in reincarnation, about the cultures, religions, and societies who shape their daily lives and esoteric practices around that belief, and it’s even more interesting to read about the spontaneous memories of past lives in sufficient detail so they can actually be verified as demonstrated in the ground-breaking researches of the late Ian Stevenson, MD, founder of the Division of Perceptual Studies

Reviews for Doors to Past Lives & Future Lives

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