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Sujith / Sammy
Born in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon), Sujith was barely old enough to speak
when he began to tell his family of a previous life as a man named Sammy. Sammy,
he said, had lived eight miles to the south in the village of Gorakana. Sujith
told of Sammy's life as a railroad worker and as a dealer of a bootleg whiskey
called arrack. After an argument with his wife, Maggie, Sammy stormed out of his
house and got
drunk, and while walking along a busy highway was struck by a truck and killed.
Young Sujith often demanded to be taken to Gorakana and had an abnormal taste
for cigarettes and arrack. Sjuth's family had never been to Gorakana and hadn't
known anyone that fit Sammy's description, yet, being Buddhists, were believers
in reincarnation and therefore not completely surprised by the boy's story.
Investigations, including one conducted by a professor of psychiatry from the University
of Virginia, confirmed as many as 60 of the details of the life of
Sammy Fernando who indeed had lived and died (six months before Sujith's birth) just as
Sujith had said. When Sujith was introduced to Sammy's family, he
surprised them with his familiarity with them and his knowledge of their pet
names. This is one of the strongest cases of reincarnation on record.
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Dream Recall
Hypnosis isn't the only method by which past lives are recalled. A Britsh
woman was distressed by a recurring dream in which she, as a child, and another
child with whom she was playing, fell from a high gallery in their home to their
deaths. She vividly remembered the black and white checked marble floor on which
they died. She repeated the dream to several of her friends. Sometime later, the woman
was visiting an old house that had a reputation for being haunted. With its
black and white marble floor, the house immediately was recognized by the woman
as the scene of the deaths in her dreams. She subsequently learned that a small
brother and sister really had fallen to their deaths in the house. Was she
recalling a past life, or had she somehow psychically tuned in to this dramatic
history?
Graham Huxtable / Arnall
Bloxham
Another fascinating case of past life regression took place in Wales where
Graham Huxtable, a mild-mannered swimming instructor, was placed under hypnosis
by hypnotist Arnall Bloxham. In a trance, Huxtable not just recalled a past
life, he seemed to actually become a man named Ben, a boisterous gunner on an 18th
century British frigate called Aggie. While inhabited by the personality
of Ben, Huxtable would call out
orders to the men on the ship in a heavy accent and use obscure nautical
terminology. He even relived every moment of a battle in which he eventually
suffered an injury to his leg. Bloxham had difficulty bringing Huxtable out of
trance, but when he did, the man complained of a pain in his leg. And when
Bloxham replayed a recording of the session, Huxtable was astonished at what he
heard, recalling nothing of his experience under the trance. Although experts
could verify the terms and language that "Ben" used, they could not
find records of a ship named Aggie nor of the ship's captain he had
named. Past life recall... or a case of multiple personality?
T.E. / Jensen Jacoby
In 1958, a woman who in this case was identified only as T.E.,
underwent hypnosis
by her husband, a medical doctor and experimenter with past life regression.
Once in a trance state, T.E.'s voice deepened to one that was distinctly male
and she declared in broken English that she was a farmer named Jensen Jacoby who
lived in the 17th century. T.E.'s speech was peppered with Swedish words, a
language that she and her husband swore she did not know. After six hypnotic
sessions, T.E. was talking exclusively in Swedish, even conversing fluently with
several Swedish persons that her husband had brought in to witness the
phenomenon. These native Swedes confirmed that she was speaking a somewhat
archaic form of Swedish that would have been spoken at the time Jensen said he
had lived.
These are just a few of the more well-known examples of past life recall. Those who practice past life regression therapy today claim that it has certain benefits. They say it can shed light on present life personal issues and relationships and can even help to heal the wounds suffered in a past life.
Reincarnation has also been one of the central tenets of many Eastern
religions, and one can return to this existence in a new physical form, whether
it is human, animal or even vegetable. The form one takes, it is believed, is
determined by the law of karma - that the higher or lower form one takes is
due to one's behavior in the previous life. The concept of past lives is also one of the beliefs of L.
Ron Hubbard's Scientology, which states that "past lives are suppressed by the
painfulness of the memory of those former existences. To restore the memory of
one's whole existence, it is necessary to bring one up to being able to confront
such experiences." 
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