This may sound stupid, but I see lots of things about past life regression, which I understand is done through some form of hypnosis.

When people go back for 2nd, 3rd, 4th sessions etc do they gather more information from the same life or do they experience new lives?

I can see why they would want to experience as many as possible, but do you gain extra validation of the experience by getting more on one life?

Obviously the answer can vary from person to person but I would love to hear peoples impressions on it.

Absolutely, but there have been many recorded regressions that produce amazing historical facts that the person could not of possibly known or learnt such as dates, times geographical information, some even speaking foreign languages that they could not of possibly learnt before the session, so how do you explain that?  Delusions? Imagination?  I highly doubt it

Hi Senote,

One of these days just try it.  I did a while back and found it very comforting.  For $75 I went to a hypnotherapiest who got me in touch with a past life that explained why I worked with my children the way I did and believe in the power of cooperation more than competition.  I was not hypnotized just awake and relaxed as he guided me with very open-ended suggestions.  During it, I felt as if I was making the whole thing up as the story unfolded but now it is just a memory that doesn’t change. It’s similar to the ones I have about many things I’ve experienced in this life and I just added to the batch.

My husband on the other hand got two intertwining stories that answered for him why he throughout his life would catch a glimpse, like looking around the corner, of this plantation house at the top of a grassy hill and his feeling so nostalgia when he caught this glimpse.  He’s not one who prides himself on having any imagination or set belief in reincarnation but he sure remembers the woman he loved so dearly in a part of the second story and finally admitted to me that she was the same woman/girl he met when he was a teen and wanted to start dating her.  But, alas, that was not meant to be, at least in this life so far.  He did a second one with the same therapist but that was more about getting a message from his higher self/guide.  We have the tapes for his two but not mine; I was too shy to ask.  So if you decide to try it, make sure that you have it taped so you can later decide for yourself whether it was real or not.  For me, there was too much they’re for it not to be real and valuable for me even though that individual was not actually the me of now.  And remember that you do not have to believe in reincarnation to gain from this type of guided experience but, of course, there are many other ways to get in touch with former aspects of yourself.  I think it always helpful to get to know and become aware of how much more there is to each of us.

My best books on this topic include the experiences of Joan Grant, Jenny Cockell, and the work of Michael Newton, Monroe, Dave, Alysia, …etc, etc.  But then again, I was raised by a mom who was trying to break away from her Irish Catholic upbringing, and spare my brothers and I from that fate, so read anything on metaphysics that she could get her hands on including Bridie Murphy when the ink was still wet.

Good Luck and Happy mining-Love, Jean    

For all you doubters can I suggest you read Dr Brian Weiss` books, starting with "Messages From The Masters". In it he gives a technique for achieving past life regressions which my lady partner and I have tried with great success.
He was a sceptical psychotherapist whose scepticism was eroded when he regressed a lady who channelled messages which contained remarkable revelations about his own family and dead son.
Don`t just condemn past life regressions as a load of hogwash without finding out a lot more about it first. Dr Brian Weiss is also able to progress people.
All his books give further insight into this very interesting topic.

As a side point, although I was asleep at the time I also believe I "progressed" into the future and witnessed three remarkable scientific achievements.

In answer to the original question, both my partner and I have visited different past lives each time upon regression

roger