![]() ![]() The tale she told detailed Bridey’s life from the age of eight, when Bridey lived in Cork, up through the fall she later suffered that resulted in her death as an adult. While Tighe was under hypnosis, she spoke with a thick Irish accent - despite the fact that Tighe did not have such an accent, and, indeed, had never even been to Ireland. Tighe - who was referred to by the pseudonym “Ruth Simmons” in the book - had, it seemed, allegedly lived a past life as a woman named Bridey Murphy in 19th century Ireland. The Bridey Murphy Caseīetween November of 1952 and August of 1953, Morey Bernstein, at the time an amateur hypnotist who would later become known as a successful businessman, used hypnotic regression six different times on a Colorado woman named Virginia Burns Tighe - and what emerged during these sessions became a straight-up fad after the publication of Bernstein’s book, The Search for Bridey Murphy. ![]() These seven cases date back a bit further than the ones we looked at in our last examination of alleged past life experiences. Beginning with two notable cases in the 1950s - which we’ll look at a little more in depth below - reincarnation and past life regression became all the rage perhaps, though, given that the world was still recovering from the devastation of World War II at the time, it’s understandable. However, in the English-speaking world at least, interest in alleged past life experiences kicked up a little less than a decade before Ian Stevenson’s first published work on the subject arrived. We’ve got Ian Stevenson to thank for the push to more seriously study the phenomenon these days, folks like Jim Tucker are continuing to further what we do - and don’t- know about alleged past lives. That’s not an insignificant number it demonstrates that the idea resonates strongly for many, although I’d imagine the reasons why can vary greatly from person to person.ĭespite the history of the concept of reincarnation, though, interestingly, it’s only really in the late 19th and early 20th century that actual research into past life experiences kicked up - and what’s more, it only really started to hit its stride starting in the ’60s. Clearly there’s something about these stories that draws us in indeed, although both past life regression and reincarnation are frequently regarded as pseudoscience, almost a quarter of Americans - 24 percent, according to the Pew Research Center - believe in reincarnation. ![]() The idea of reincarnation has been around virtually forever it’s a part of a number of religions and belief systems dating back to ancient times - and it can be pretty wild to read about some of the most infamous stories of alleged past life experiences from history. ![]()
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