Past life regression
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Summary
Overview of past-life regression as a hypnotic technique, including claims made by practitioners and the standard concerns about suggestion, confabulation, false memory, and cryptomnesia.
Why it matters here
Direct reference for regression-derived claims and cryptomnesia explanations. It should be clearly distinguished from spontaneous child past-life memory cases, which have a different evidence profile.
Linked claims
Cryptomnesia — recovering forgotten material as if new — is a real, well-replicated phenomenon. It explains many past-life cases.
A specific version of reincarnation in which detailed lives are drafted before birth. No evidence beyond suggestible regression.
Drawn from regression-based literature. Comforting frame, not an evidence-based claim.
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