Ancient Beliefs and Magnetic Sleep

Reincarnation beliefs and the first hypnotic regressions. From the Egyptians, Plato and the Gauls to Hugo and Tolstoy; then de Rochas's stages of magnetic sleep, Laurent's diary of 1893 and the 1904 sessions with Joséphine, led back past her birth into the life of one Jean-Claude Bourdon.

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About this book

This is the first of five notebooks that give his whole book in English. It opens with what the ancient world believed about the soul returning — Egyptians, Chaldeans, Indians, Gauls, Plato, Pythagoras, the Hebrews and the Gospels — and with the reasonings of nineteenth-century thinkers from Victor Hugo and Tolstoy to Sir Oliver Lodge. Then de Rochas describes the stages of "magnetic sleep" as he observed them, the diary in which his student subject Laurent recorded his own sensations in 1893, and the sessions with Joséphine, an eighteen-year-old servant who, led back step by step, passed her birth and began to speak as a man who had lived before.

What is inside

de Rochas's complete text for this part, translated from the French edition of 1911, with all his footnotes
every chapter in four parts: In de Rochas's words · In plain words · Terms · What modern science says — hypnosis, false memory, cryptomnesia and what is still unexplained
5 illustrations in the style of old photographs
2 printable pages: the staircase of hypnotic states and the path of the soul in ancient teachings
foreword, closing words and a 33-term glossary

Who it is for

Readers interested in reincarnation, past-life regression, the history of hypnosis and psychical research, and anyone who wants the original evidence told in full — and honestly explained.

About the series

1 Ancient Beliefs and Magnetic Sleep · 2 Back Through the Lives · 3 Eleven Lives · 4 The Astral Body and Premonitions · 5 The Evolution of the Soul. Each notebook sold separately.

Past Lives & Reincarnation

A historical text, not a manual. The hypnosis experiments are historical evidence; do not attempt them yourself.