Life Between Life
by Joel Whitten, Joe Fisher
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Author: Joe Fisher, Joel WhittenEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1988-01-01
ISBN: 0446347620
Number of pages: 219
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Book Review: "Metapsychiatry" for the "New Age"
Summary: 1 Stars
I got this because I was curious what co-author Joe Fisher had to say after I read that he went on to commit suicide by hurling himself from a cliff, and also to see what may happen after death, if there should happen to be some kind of afterlife. However, I was disappointed as this book consists of 100 pages of pro-reincarnation propaganda followed by 6 "Karmic Case Studies" and a guide to visiting the "Akashic Records". With regard to the "between life" state, all that would appear to happen is boring stuff like some nice music and nice lights followed by an interview with a panel of 3 characters who review your life before telling you to go back for another incarnation with fresh Karmic lessons to learn.
Anyway, this book convinced me that the theory of reincarnation is an absolute joke. For starters, all the "past lives" experienced by those mentioned in this book were lived on Earth. A simple glance into the night sky might hint as to the vast number of stars there are. I would expect, just occasionally, that someone would have had a past-life on a different planet, but no. I've now started to read Joe Fisher's Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts and he mentions a past-life regression there in which an English seamstress who gave birth to 13 children before dying in 1796 was reborn in India where he/she died before the age of one in 1802. Now, according to "Dr" Joel Whitton, "PhD", "MD" before someone's reborn they are given some kind of challenge to balance their Karma. If someone dies before the age of 1, what chance have they got of doing that?! After dying as a baby, this person was later reborn in Czechoslovakia before World War 2 and was executed by the Germans as a teenager after serving in a Nazi labor camp. So, if people like "Dr" Whitton are to be believed, then presumably this unfortunate person didn't balance his/her karma before dying as a baby in India?!
"Dr" Whitton's "past-life regression therapy" techniques sound quite traumatic. For example, during one session mentioned the "doctor" became concerned that his patient's contortions during the process might have caused a heart attack. Other symptoms include feelings of nausea and of being "severely shaken". One subject is mentioned as emerging from the trance state overcome with feelings of guilt for having murdered someone in a "previous life". In one case study, "Dr" Whitton dabbles in the controversial area of recovering "memories" of abuse suffered by someone from earlier in their present lifetime.
To back up their claims for the veracity of "past life regression therapy", the authors state that during "regression" the subject started talking in another language and that because they didn't know that particular language then it can't have been their imagination. Maybe not. The possibility exists then that what people like Whitton are doing is a some kind of voodoo work, in which the subject goes into a trance state and becomes possessed by a "hungry ghost". So perhaps a more appropriate term for the kind of activity in which people like Whitton engage would be spirit channeling or demonology.
I think what I found especially odious about this book was the way that it sent the message that if anything bad happens in a person's life then it's because of "karma" and that people should follow the advice of "Jesus" and "love one another". Brief mention is made of a woman who saw a "past-life" "therapist" after being raped and was told that this had happened because of a "karmic decision" made during her "inter-life state". Still, I suppose this is one way of keeping a population docile. If anyone complains about his of her lot in life then the advice is that it was their karmic destiny to be in this situation and that they should be like "Jesus" and "love one another".
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