renee’s Probable First-Century Past Life Many past-life therapists will tell you that having a client iden- tify a specific date from a previous incarnation is not important, and to some extent that is true. Certainly, pinpointing the date and location of a past life is often the most difficult aspect of the regression session. The therapist can encourage the client to identify architecture, clothing, landscape, and other key elements in the description process of the regres- sion that can point to a particular date and location. Clients can sometimes “sense” a time period or a place and offer a date that is a reasonable proximity. Even those who are ada- mant about a particular date are dismayed when they learn the previous life overlaps the current one, or their account of events in that time period conflicts with historical records, i.e., a woman claiming to be married to Thomas Jefferson in 1876, fifty years after he died. One explanation for this is that if a subject goes deep enough in the altered state, they can see what Michael Newton, Ph.D., describes in his book, Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives, as “alternate realities of timelessness” in which they see the past, present, and future as “one homogeneous unit.” Newton writes: “All aspects of time are presented to them as reoccurring realities ebbing and flowing together. Because parallel realities are superimposed upon one another, they too can be seen as possibilities for physical lives, especially by the more experienced souls.” Despite the difficulty in ascertaining dates and locations of their past-life experience, eventually forty-nine out of fifty people
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