Is Past Life Hypnosis Real?

Personally, I don't believe in past life hypnosis, or to be clearer whatever people are talking about, I don't believe it comes from their own previous existences.

That is not to say that there isn't something else going on; I am sure that many people who have been hypnotized to remember their past lives believe exactly what they reported under hypnosis - they are not at fault.

So who is?

Let me give an example - I once watched a therapist working with a young child who was believed to have been abused. The therapist held out a doll and, pointing to various points on the dolls anatomy, asked 'were you touched here, or here?'

Children have a more primitive (if that's the right word) way of handling questions than adults, and this question (a presupposition incidentally), gives no way out without agreeing that they were touched.

Generally, young children will have to choose one of the provided answers, as will some adults, and most people under hypnosis. Presuppositions are a very powerful language pattern, especially if they are stacked deeply, and using them in this way is wrong.

Hypnotists need to act in a responsible way, especially when they're dealing with emotive issues. I'm not suggesting that hypnotists are purposefully misleading their clients with past life hypnosis, but that they may be bringing their own beliefs, and agendas to the party. I mean it is no good doing a past life regression if you can't find one.

Straying a little from the original subject, I read an interesting article once that collated data from hypnotists in the USA who had 'uncovered' memories of alien abduction, and hypnotists who had 'uncovered' memories of ritual satanic abuse.

The most revealing statistic was the fact that while some hypnotists had uncovered cases in the double figures, not one of the hypnotists questioned had uncovered both types of memory.

Hopefully, it should be clear what this imply's - each hypnotist is either a 'alien abduction' hypnotist or a 'satanic abuse' hypnotist.

There is even a book on using hypnosis to uncover satanic abuse memories - I believe it should be on the shelf next to the book by the physic who talks to dead pets.