In March 2014, my back declared war on me.
Not the occasional ache after a long day.
A deep, recurring pain that would disappear for a while, only to return with renewed enthusiasm.
I did what most people do.
Consulted some of the best orthopaedic specialists at Leelavati. Took the medicines. Followed instructions. Went for reviews.
One doctor even ruled out my recent elephant ride in Kerala as the culprit.
The pain remained.
That was when I stumbled upon the work of Dr. Brian Weiss.
His advice was refreshingly sensible: explore regression therapy only after conventional medicine has exhausted its answers.
My symptoms seemed uncannily similar to some of the cases he described.
Curiosity won.
Soon I discovered that one of his students was practising right here in Mumbai. I booked a session.
Before the session even began, she said a few things that left me staring at her in disbelief.
Then came the regression itself.
A dimly lit room.
A recliner.
A calm voice guiding me deeper and deeper.
For nearly ninety minutes, I travelled through three different lifetimes.
Different places.
Different identities.
Yet all connected by one common thread.
The same stubborn back pain.
What startled me most was something else.
In two of those lives, my profession closely resembled what I do today.
And in the earliest one, the person who appeared as my spouse seemed remarkably familiar.
The session ended with the option of future visits.
Instead, I learned the process well enough to repeat parts of it on my own a couple of times.
Then something unexpected happened.
During one such attempt came a very clear inner instruction:
Do not make a hobby of excavating the past. You are here to live this life, not endlessly revisit previous ones.
I listened.
And stopped.
Nevertheless, the experience left a lasting impression.
The older I grow, the less certain I become that reality ends where our current understanding begins.
As Hamlet put it:
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Sometimes medicine heals.
Sometimes time heals.
And sometimes we encounter experiences that refuse to fit neatly into either box.
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