An Experimental Investigation Of Pastlife Experiences Paul Cunningham by Paul Cunningham instant download after payment.

Hypnosis has been used to investigate purported past and future lives ever since Colonel Albert de Rochas (1837-1914) published a detailed account of his mesmeric experiments in Les Vies Successives in 1911. One of the best-know contemporary past-life experience accounts has come to light under hypnosis (Bernstein, 1956). Skeptics have pointed to the historical inaccuracies, imaginative role-playing, confabulation, cryptomnesia, unreliability and poor efficacy of hypnotic regression techniques in the elicitation of past-life memories to mean that the data it yields are of no evidential value to the reincarnation hypothesis (Baker, 1982; Kampman, 1976; Spanos, 1988, Spanos et al., 1991; Venn, 1986; Wilson, 1981). Hypnosis may enhance recall of personally meaningful and emotionally-laden memories for therapeutic benefit in the clinical setting, but does not guarantee or assure that the recovered memory accurately reflects an actual event (Frankel, 1988; Kolb, 1988). In the laboratory setting, hypnosis does not enhance recall or recognition of nonsense syllables (Erdelyi, 1988, Council of Scientific Affairs, American Medical Association, 1985), but does enhance recollection of meaningful material while also bringing with it increased errors in recall and a heightened sense of confidence associated with the falsely recalled items (Dywan & Bowers, 1983). Hypnosis, in other words, does not always lead to truth. It is subject to all of the "sins of memory" that plague nonhypnotic waking recall, including susceptibility to leading questions, false memory syndrome, personal motivation, and the demand characteristics of the situation (Orne, Whitehouse, Dinges, Orne, 1988; Perry, Laurence, D'eon, & Tallant, 1988; Myersburg, Bogdan, Gallo, McNally, 2009; Schacter, 2001), but it does not necessarily make a person more susceptible to these distorting influences (Sheehan, 1988) If the accuracy of memories for present life events in the waking state is questionable, …