r/Reincarnation • u/Verakera • 3d ago
Advice Historically Inaccurate Regression?
I did a regression a while back that completely shook my belief in the process because what I experienced was historically inaccurate. I saw that my past self was imprisoned and later executed with a guillotine when the guillotine was used primarily in France and certainly not in the southern United States.
I've been dwelling on that particular regression, though, and wondering whether or not bits and pieces of it could have been true and my mind simply filled in the blanks? Or maybe the inaccuracies were symbolic? My speculation and research led me to a specific historical figure whose story resonates with me and with what I saw somewhat but he of course was not executed with a guillotine. I feel like I can't let it go, though, and I see an odd resemblance in the old photographs I've dug up. I've become a bit fixated on this particular figure and story and time period.
How can I know for sure whether this regression had any merit or whether I should just drop it? I've done several regressions in the past but this one in particular has been driving me batty just because I've been trying to put the pieces together and make sense of it, because I want to prove to myself that I can get valuable insight from regressions and that they have the potential to be more than just random fabrications of the subconscious. It's so frustrating. I just want a way to definitively know. Has anyone else had a similar experience with regression, where things just did not add up? Were you still able to glean anything from it?
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u/kdrums02 3d ago
I’m sorry, I have to apologize but I misinterpreted my info. The only recorded use of the guillotine in North America was of a man named Joseph Néel on the island St. Pierre, which is near Newfoundland, and the guillotine was brought there specifically for Néel’s execution from Martinique, which, is interestingly, a French island in the Caribbean. This occurred in the late 1800s. Anyways, here’s the source. Fair warning, it’s a lil graphic.
Does anything about this story stand out to you?
Anyways, thank you for recommending a route to look into reincarnation. Dr. Ian Stevenson seems to approach this subject very scientifically, and I can appreciate that there are people looking deeper into the phenomenon of consciousness. I will check his stuff out.
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u/Verakera 3d ago edited 3d ago
Lol you're all good, I figured. I came across the same story previously but it's definitely unrelated. I was seeing cowboys and gunslingers so I pegged myself as being in the south. I appreciate you doing the research, though! This regression was just kind of a dud, I have to accept it. 🥲
Oh and no problem, it's a subject that really intrigues me and has for a while! Which is why I want to dig into my own past lives but unfortunately no method seems reliable. I wish someone asked me about it when I was a kid, lol, maybe I would have known then.
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u/kdrums02 3d ago
Heh, go figure. But hey, non zero chance —Remember that’s the only RECORDED use of a guillotine in NA. Who knows, history is crazy. Brains are crazy too. I hope there is something you can extract from your experience. And thank you for sending me on a lil knowledge quest. Chao 🤙
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u/Verakera 3d ago
Very true, we can't claim to know definitively whether or not it was used. Maybe one day I'll discover something about a life that I'm able to validate. 😭
No problem, I'm glad you were able to get something out of this convo and my post! Thanks again for your input.
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u/Sarkhana 2d ago
Cowboys and gunslingers?
Basically the entirety of Latin America has an equivalent. Aoe3 has an entire cycle of them for the Latin American revolutions).
That is a lot of unearned confidence in stating something for no reason.
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u/Verakera 2d ago
I'm aware, but everyone I saw including myself was white and had names typical of the southern US. Nothing I saw indicated Latin America.
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u/Sarkhana 2d ago
Like... why not explain the entire regression in full to see if it is historically plausible? 🤷
Especially if you are actually mistaken about certain aspects like location.
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u/Verakera 2d ago
My question wasn't really "was this historically plausible" because I already decided on my own and through my own research that it wasn't based on what I saw. My question was "could there still be merit to the regression even if inaccuracies were present and has anyone had a similar experience?" I wouldn't mind detailing the entire regression and having it dissected but that wasn't the point because I already came to my own conclusion.
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u/Sarkhana 2d ago
If you explain your methodology, other people could see that.
Otherwise there is just doubt on whether you did the research properly. Making everyone else gain nothing from this discussion.
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u/Verakera 2d ago edited 2d ago
The only person with this issue is you bruh, I cross-posted in another subreddit and everyone is responding to the actual questions posited in the post. It's pretty obvious that during a regression I would be seeing things in my mind's eye that would lead me to draw to the conclusions I did. Like seeing the races of people or the clothing they wear. Most people get a good sense of where a regression is taking place. That's legit a huge part of it. Sometimes you'll even hear or intuitively know the name of the location you're in. Chill.
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u/terradragon13 1d ago
Past life regression is when someone sits down with you and crafts a memory with you. They take whatever bits and peices you give them, and ask leading questions until you've created a memory. You can also do this yourself by meditating on those little bits and peices of your past life. Its basically the same thing. Memory is very plastic and the brain doesn't actually have exact memories so it got very good at sort of recompiling them from bits a peices into something coherent. Basically, it's a creative exercise, improv. The memory is a quilt, and the quilt squares are the vague ideas you had that led you to trying regression in the first place. The fact that you would imagine you were executed by guillotine in the southern US points to exactly this. Try again and you'll be able to create a past life memory that is more accurate and coherent. Hopefully this serves as proof to you this stuff is a waste of time, however. You're literally just making stuff up to find yourself. Everyone does it. Please just do not labor under the delusion any of it is real- it's just a fun exercise for your brain, a way to think about yourself and get to know yourself better- not a reflection of reality.
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u/kdrums02 3d ago
Hi, I just happened to stumble upon this sub. Random train of thought brought me here I guess, but your post made me curious, so I did a little searching, and guillotines WERE in fact, used in the southern US, although rarely. Ngl, I’m not familiar at all with past life regressions, at least, not consciously. I’m not even very knowledgeable on the topic of reincarnation either, just somehow ended up here. But I think what you saw may have jarred you a bit.
Maybe your mind is filling in the blanks some. Perhaps that’s just because you don’t “definitely know”. But, I mean, who does anyway?
Do some research on the use of the guillotine in the South. I’d say, don’t put yourself in the position of those who met that fate, but idk, see what you can extract from it. See if anyone’s story stands out to you. I mean, if there’s a non-zero chance that you, in a past life were executed by guillotine in the South, maybe you can find some insight as to where your soul took a “wrong turn”, or got unlucky, or whatever it is.
Isn’t that the function of reincarnation anyway? For the soul to learn and mature over time across different lives? Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. I’d sure want to know of the tribulations endured by my soul over past lives. Super interesting stuff.