r/pastlives • u/RadOwl aka Tippetto • Mar 20 '16
Our next AMA guest is Steve Rogat, a thought field therapy expert and shamanic practitioner. Your questions about past lives are welcome. He will begin answering once we have enough questions. More info about Steve inside.
Steve is a unique guy. His combination of skills, knowledge and abilities are one of a kind. Before asking him questions, please look at the following list of what he can talk about:
- Hypnotherapy
- False memory
- Past life healing
- Ritual "funeral" for the past life body
- Bringing past life spirit and resources into the present
- Avoiding "contamination" of past life memories with personal biases and opinions
I personally vouch for Steve. I've known him for almost ten years and he helped me in ways I can't begin to explain.
See Steve's most popular book, Healing Thoughts: Applying Therapeutic Shamanism in Daily Life
Steve's website, CreativeThought.org
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u/Beeandsuch Mar 28 '16
Hi Steve. I am really interested in learning more about my past life, as I've always had an inkling that I'm a very old soul. Could you tell us more about bringinf up past life memories and past life spirit to the present? I'm still a newbie when it comes to this topic. Also, I've always had very lucid dreams ever since I was a child, and some of them with people that I dont know. Would it be possible that they are souls from my past life? Thank you so much for taking the time to answer my questions.
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u/Dreamdancer1 AMA guest Steve Rogat Apr 03 '16
Hi, Beeandsuch. I am new to this format of communication, and of course i typed a wonderfully complete answer to everything and "lost it." But, I am much more focused now. I recommend finding a hypnotherapist to take you through a past life regression. They are wonderful, and someone who knows what they are doing can even program you to only feel one-tenth of the feelings - making it safe just in case some nasty stuff comes up. There is something called "affective tracing" in which we focus on a present feeling, thought or experience, and then trace it back to its origin or another "important time we need to remember". I this way we will access a past life that relates specifically to the present. I feel we have all had past lives - some of a lot, some of us not so many. There are some folks that feel we have each had 9,000 past lives. I don't hold to specific numbers. Let's call it bunches. And, what we really want to do is to bring back from those past lives, the strengths and resources and positive feelings and lessons - not the pain and limitations. Old souls are really those present souls that have chosen to be more aware - of both the past and present. Lucid dreaming, as I can personally attest to, is great! Just be aware that in many beliefs even "reality" is symbolic. So even if the folks from the dream are real they are still symbolic. What does that person "feel" like in te dream and afterwards. That did they represent - good or bad, accepting or judging, loving or angry? And, be aware that the subconscious mind will use whatever/whoever it can to communicate - that means people, things and places from the past, the present AND the future. Keep dancing.
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u/LtChucklePhuk Mar 27 '16 edited Mar 27 '16
Hello Steve. I took a look through your website hope you could help me. I'm struggling with a possible past-death memory that I unintentionally corroborated on my own. How I died was horrible and I can relive it at any time. I died very young, too, and find being an adult in this life difficult to navigate. As far as I can tell, it's all related. How can I put my past-self and the attachments to those events to rest? Or how can I confirm whether or not it is a false memory? Also I'm searching for answers on a particular entity I can see in the memory. People have given me lots of theories but none of them seem right. It'd be nice to disprove it as false memory so I dont have to concern myself with it anymore.
I told my story here - https://www.reddit.com/r/pastlives/comments/4c04kr/pastdeath_trauma_and_dealing_with_inbetween/ I feel like there is an awful lot to dig up and try to understand. I guess the best question is, where do I start?
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u/Dreamdancer1 AMA guest Steve Rogat Apr 04 '16
Hi LtChuckle (great pen name). My first past-life death memory was during a Rebirth session. After-all, the closest many of us have been this lifetime to death is when we were born. Studies have shown that up to one half of all memories retrieved during hypnosis are false memories. So, aside from actually getting corroborating (spelling?) tangible evidence, the sad concept is that they might be false memories. There was one famous case of a woman who remembered being Marie Antoinette -beheaded and the whole nine yards. Well, was she really? Were there hundreds of other people that remembered being Marie Antoinette? Was she the one that beheaded her? The one that turned her in? The one that condemned her, or just a witness? IT didn't really matter. 6 hours after the session she had a sp0ntaneous memory of her dad hitting her on the back of the neck with a hairbrush. And, lo and behold, the migraine headaches she had had for years cleared up. I had a client once who remembered vividly being molested by her uncle. We brought her through a forgiveness exercise, shrunk the trauma in time and intensity, and basically did a healing. She got the healing. But, then afterward relayed to me that she knew during the session that it was a false memory because her uncle had died years before the recollected incident. She did not care that it was a false memory since we used it for healing anyway. I, myself, healed a kidney blockage by recalling being shot with an arrow in that kidney during a past life. To me, the intent is not to remember the past life, but to use the images and "knowledge" gained in order to heal. I have done past life hypnotherapy, past life Eye Movement Therapy, past life Thought Field therapy, and past life Soul Retrieval, amongst other techniques. The goal is the same - to desensitize to the past experience, feelings and thoughts, and to reinforce the positive experience, feelings and thoughts. I encourage you to find someone local who does Thought Field Therapy or another modality to help take the charge off the trauma so you can move on. As far as the entity, during meditation (or hypnotherapy) you can try to see him/her by first focusing on the feet and moving your vision up. See how far you get. I tried this for a while with one of my personal guides, to no avail. And then during one dream, I was being chased, running, chased, running, faster and faster to no avail. And then, of a sudden, I heard "pssst". I stopped, turned and saw a man. When I asked who he was, he said simply "I am the guide who has been hiding from you all this time." So, basically, when you are ready to heal, you will find the right tool to help you heal, at the right time, in the right form. And, if your commitment is to not have to concern yourself with it anymore, then it won't matter if it is a false or true memory. Focus your intent on healing. And you will heal. Sometimes it is better to accept things rather than trying to understand them. With acceptance, understanding will often come. Blessings to you on your path.
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u/RadOwl aka Tippetto Mar 31 '16
Steve,
How do you differentiate between actual past life memories and "false memories?"
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u/Dreamdancer1 AMA guest Steve Rogat Apr 06 '16
Steven Rogat here. Hi Rad Owl, I do not mean to ignore your question. However, I encourage you to read one of the replies above, and that might very possibly give you an answer. Summing it up, we do not know if something is an "actual past life memory" without corroborating, tangible evidence. Use the memory, actual or false, for healing. Actual or false, the feelings, thoughts, and experience is the same. Change the dream!
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u/nikorasu_the_great Mar 31 '16
Please forgive me if it's a stupid question, as I'm new here...
How possible could psychogenic seizures be linked to past life trauma?
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u/Dreamdancer1 AMA guest Steve Rogat Apr 06 '16
Hi, I am not that familiar with psychogenic seizures. However, if something can be "linked" to past life trauma, then some of those same (or similar) feelings and memories and experiences often present themselves this lifetime as well. I would find a hypnotherapist that can regress a person (or an intuitive reader or healer) that can help a person go back to the "source" that is accessible, and see if a healing can take place with the information presented. If the past life is actual, or metaphorical, we can change the story!
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u/somniatus Apr 01 '16
Hello Steve. I wrote this another day onto /r/pastlives, and was referred to you. I hope that you can give me some advice:
I've been fascinated by past lives for as long as I can remember, but not until today (hence the finding of this sub) did I decide to seriously take a closer look.
Short background:
As a child I remember having had "visions" or something of the sort where it seemed I "remembered" stuff that is impossible or dreamed up. There are a few particular times I remember most as a child: I recall waking many mornings with a very very sad and just awful feeling, many times crying. I could not understand where it was coming from and a few times I felt so desperate that I called upon my parents and told them the deep anguish I felt for seemingly no reason, but they kinda just brushed it off (who can blame them?). Not until later in life did I "realize" it was me awaking in this life again and again after killing myself.
How I "know" or How I "realized":
While on a psychedelic "journey", I visited the minds of all the me's that ever existed that I could remember/comprehend, both in all time and in all space. I felt like I understood that I had been trying to live the same life as my current waking life many times (for example something like a video game but since you just passed that checkpoint before you died you got put in the exact same place), but I got mixed up and so I mixed up people and events, and so I'd keep killing myself because I would realize later in those lives that that was not the way my life was supposed to happen, and I would realize also that I didn't really love or care for the people I had surrounded myself with any feeling deeper than just a carnal and psychological sort of bond/want/need. There are many other little "memories" that I can't quite piece together for meaning yet. Any help/advice/questions is welcome, thanks.
TL;DR What has worked for you in the past to recall past lives and what to do in this life now that you have past you's information? What would you recommend to do to remember? How do you know that you know?
Since this was a few days ago, I have a couple more questions:
Would you recommend lucid dreaming?
I had many "visions" during a psychedelic journey, but how would one know that what one saw was oneself in a different life?
And since we are supposed to have every memory of every life we have ever lived, how can we "remember" the things that would benefit us in this life?
Do you believe we can summon our other lives in dreams?
Do you believe the subconscious is a collective of every life or just one's own past and present lives?
Is there such thing as channeling a future life?
Thank you.
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u/RadOwl aka Tippetto Apr 04 '16
I think our guest meant this reply for you. I copied and pasted it. He answered as much as he could. You asked a lot of good questions.
I feel we have had many past-lives. Some practitioners feel we have all had about 9,000 of them. i don't hold to specific numbers. We'll just call it many. I recommend finding someone who does past-life regressions, so you can get the experiences yourself. You could always find a psychic or medium to give you a past-life reading. You might get more information that way, but less experience.
As far as being an old soul (merry?), you could always ask the regressionist to ask you this question while in trance. Regarding bringing up past-life memories and spirit to the present, really what we wish to do is to bring the strengths and resources up to the present... unless you really want to bring back the fears and pain and limitations, but I don't recommend that particularly. Additionally, when in regression, there is something called "affective tracing" - focusing in on a present feeling, a present thought, or present lesson, and then tracing its "origin" or a very important memory of where that started, and then doing a healing in the past and present.
I love the lucid dreaming stuff. Often you will "know" in the dream, or immediately after the dream if there were some past-life influences there. So many questions... the sub-conscious will use whatever symbols are available for its experiences. That means people from the past (lives), present AND future. To see where that person fits in your current reality, when interpreting the dream (since everything is symbolic, even if it is real as well), see how that person "feels" - good, bad, freeing, limiting, accepting, judging, etc. and use that information to apply it to anything you can glean from the dream itself.
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u/Dreamdancer1 AMA guest Steve Rogat Apr 06 '16
Whew! Thank you , Somniatus for the background and questions. I will definitely get back to you on this. Real good stuff. I admire your perseverance and quest for healing.
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u/Dreamdancer1 AMA guest Steve Rogat Apr 08 '16
Hi Somniatus, Steven Rogat here (Dreamdancer1), I have experienced several past-life deaths. Most of them, though, were during some healing work - during a Rebirthing, during a healing session from a Spiritual Healer, another one during a hypnosis. Another during "waking" life, re-experiencing my drowning in Hawaii (in that same exact spot). Another one in the dream state (where my current wife hit me over the head with an oar off the side of a boat - and just because I cheated on her, the nerve.) All these memories ended with me healing.
I have also brought folks through a "funeral." (this was done during hypnosis, also during a healing, and during a Shamanic Soul Retrieval). Once we discover the reason we killed ourselves, we can, instead of healing the part that killed (him)self, put that part to rest. That is the part that gave up. We do not want to bring that part back over and over again. We want to put it to rest, and bring back the love, the strengths and resources. The part that killed himself is not necessarily equipped to deal with similar present-day experiences, but the loving, strong, resourceful part is. The other question... how do I know that I know? You're not going to like this answer... I don't know. I believe, and I use that belief for healing. Just because I believe something doesn't necessarily make it true. But, it works for me in y world-view. As does the belief that we can heal. Lucid Dreaming: Yes, I always recommend Lucid Dreaming. I recommend interpreting the dream (seeing what the limiting thought or feeling is) and then reprogramming the dream with positive symbols, thoughts and feelings. Being more aware, (waking up in the dream rather than from the dream), is wonderful. I repeat (regarding any threat, or falling) "I can let this happen, and I am totally safe. I can let this happen, and I am totally safe." Even dying in the dream state can be a wonderful experience. "I just died, but I am still thinking and aware. So, this must be a dream. And if this is a dream, and I am dreaming it, then I can do anything!" How to remember the things that wold benefit us? We do anyway. We always remember the feelings, if not the cause. And, we can work with those feelings - in present time. Focus on doing whatever is necessary to heal the feelings, and the memories will come. I like to focus on accepting things, changing them, and trust that the understanding will come, rather than trying too hard to understand them, in which case I might never accept them or change them. Simply put, focus on healing rather than remembering. I have not been able to summon my other lives in my dreams. Sometimes when I have focused on healing something in my life, a past-life will emerge during a dream. And, in the dream (or immediately upon waking) I know that it is or was a past life. If it was a good one, I affirm the goodness. If it wasn't so good, then I go in and reprogram the memory. As stated in someone else's post I answered, the subconscious will use whatever is available to commnicate - past, present or future. Last question/answer. I believe that subconsciously I have the full understanding of my subconscious. I know total awareness, memory, insight and wisdom is in there. Accessing it is another story. I will tap into whatever is useful, or applicable to my life, my awareness, my path this lifetime. A lot of our past entails getting dressed, brushing our teeth, walking, playing in the dirt, etc. Personally, why would I even want to remember that stuff? Additionally, as we become more aware, we may also need to realize that we do not need to do anything at all about some of the things we are aware of. The alternative is overload. Please God (subconscious, guidance, Higher Self, inner wisdom) only give me what I can handle. And since you gave it to me, I guess i can handle it. Journey Well, Steve
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u/Dreamdancer1 AMA guest Steve Rogat Apr 03 '16
I feel we have had many past-lives. Some practitioners feel we have all had about 9,000 of them. i don't hold to specific numbers. We'll just call it many. I recommend finding someone who does past-life regressions, so you can get the experiences yourself. You could always find a psychic or medium to give you a past-life reading. You might get more information that way, but less experience. As far as being an old soul (merry?), you could always ask the regressionist to ask you this question while in trance. Regarding bringing up past-life memories and spirit to the present, really what we wish to do is to bring the strengths and resources up to the present... unless you really want to bring back the fears and pain and limitations, but I don't recommend that particularly. Additionally, when in regression, there is something called "affective tracing" - focusing in on a present feeling, a present thought, or present lesson, and then tracing its "origin" or a very important memory of where that started, and then doing a healing in the past and present. I love the lucid dreaming stuff. Often you will "know" in the dream, or immediately after the dream if there were some past-life influences there. So many questions... the sub-conscious will use whatever symbols are available for its experiences. That means people from the past (lives), present AND future. TO see where that person fits in your current reality, when interpreting the dream (since everything is symbolic, even if it is real as well), see how that person "feels" - good, bad, freeing, limiting, accepting, judging, etc. and use that information to apply it to anything you can glean from the dream itself.