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Date: November 19, 2015 08:42PM
Although I have posted about these before here on RfM, perhaps this is the time to post them again...
Several people very close to me, plus me, were regressed by Kathleen Jenks (who, some years ago, moved a couple of thousand miles away from the condo where she used to live, on the Pacific Ocean in Ventura County, California).
When she regressed me and the people whose regressions I witnessed, she had regressed---if I am remembering correctly---more than a thousand people over the prior years (facilitating regressions was how she was paying her way through graduate school at the University of California Santa Barbara, where she received her PhD).
As I have posted before, my sister is among the LEAST historically-oriented people I have ever known. (She is plenty intelligent...Master of Science degree from the University of California San Francisco, and a long and successful career as a medical professional...but she is just NOT very much interested in history unless it is of personal interest to her, like the history of some relatives in our family.)
So, my kind of historically "challenged" sister gave several HOURS of accounts of two different lifetimes:
The most unusual was a lifetime in a place and a time that she had no knowledge of, because---as it turns out---she thought (and really believed) that she was THE last human being on Earth. In that life, she had been living in a "village" culture in some VERY prehistoric time, and one day she went up on a mountainside to gather food, and while she was up there, a flash flood came through and wiped out her entire village and everyone who had lived there. She had no knowledge of any other living human being who existed (she thought she and her village were the "only" people who existed), and she eventually died from loneliness because she thought she was the last person there was. (She said that she did have adequate shelter and enough food...she just couldn't take the loneliness anymore and she kind of just laid down and decided to die---which she did.)
But that was just a warm-up, because the INCREDIBLE (at least to Kathleen and me) lifetime was the next one (and remember: my sister is NO history buff!!!)...
My sister was male. She was a soldier. She lived in a barracks. She dressed a certain way. She had a wife and family, who lived some "distance" away, but still close enough where s/he could sneak out of the barracks at night and get her wife pregnant. There were a few other details she was effortlessly relating, but by about this time, Kathleen and I BOTH knew (we were signaling each other silently, with our eyes, as this was going on) that my sister was in ancient Sparta, and she was a Spartan soldier. It was "You Are There...In Ancient Sparta" for us, and Kathleen asked her question after question, and my sister's answers were immediate and spot on to what both Kathleen and I knew to be true of Spartan history and culture. Kathleen and I both learned a LOT that afternoon.
One of the things that bewildered us, though, was that my sister kept repeating, at every possible opportunity, that the (horse"brush" helmet ornament) on HER helmet did NOT go [from top of nose vertically to the back of her head), but from here-to-here [as she gestured from the top of one ear, up across her head to the other ear]. Obviously, this was VERY important to her, but the repetition was getting to us---we were interested in lots of things OTHER than the helmet decoration she wore!!!
That night, I spent hours going through every book on ancient history I had, but ALL of the helmet "decorations" went from top-of-nose to back-of-head...except that finally, after many hours, I came across a photograph of an ancient Greek statue---a Spartan warrior...and HIS helmet decoration went from ear-across the top of his head-to ear. It was an officer's insignia---and three thousand years later, more or less, my sister was STILL incredibly proud that she was a Spartan OFFICER. :)
When my husband was regressed, he related a time in early English history after the Roman occupation, where he was living with his mother (his father had died), as a very poor farmer...so poor, they were literally dying of starvation. In desperation, he signed up as a mercenary for the Roman army (because those who signed up received an immediate payment for signing up of a small bag of coins, so he and his mother could buy food), but then learned what it was like to have to slash people to death (especially his fellow countrymen), and he deserted during his first battle...running away to a distant hill, and then, sometime after that, he died when he was starving again, and a giant wooden wheel rolled over him because he was too weak to get out of its way, so he received injuries that he fairly quickly died from.
Back to Kathleen: She said that, of all the people she had regressed, only a handful ever related lives where they were any kind of famous people at all (and, of these, some of them were minor characters: relatives of someone famous, etc.)...but in one of them, the person was indeed a famous person in history, and because of the nature of the details this person related in their regression (including things not well known to the general public, but historically verifiable), Kathleen did believe that this particular person actually HAD been the famous historical individual whose life she was relating.
When you are regressed, you DO feel that you are "there," but you are simultaneously aware of "here" and "now"---when I was regressed the first time, there were kids on the other side of Kathleen's common wall with their condo who were bouncing a ball against the wall as I was being regressed, and I could also hear both the waves coming in on the beach outside of Kathleen's back door, and the cars passing on the street where her front door was. I was simultaneously "there" and "here" at exactly the same time, and BOTH were "real."
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/19/2015 08:51PM by Tevai.