Can Past Life Regression Therapy Work on Serial Killers?..
Reflections from My Time at Tihar Jail…
A very fascinating and thought-provoking question put up on the forum by Harmeet Kaur, an Amarantos-trained therapist
“If PLRT can be done on anyone, can it also be done on serial killers? And if yes, would their experience be the same as everyone else’s or more like an extreme karma boot camp?”
Such a powerful question… and honestly, it livened my memories from past.
I’ve never conducted PLR on a serial killer myself, but in my mid-40s, I had the rare experience of working as a psychotherapist inside Tihar Jail, Delhi, interacting closely with men and women who had committed crimes of every degree. Those conversations didn’t just inform me professionally, they shook me, softened me, and expanded the way I look at human pain and karma.
I remember one prisoner convicted of multiple violent assaults. On the surface, he seemed almost casual, smiling too easily as though wearing a mask, but when I gently asked about his childhood, his entire façade cracked. He spoke of being locked in a dark storeroom for nights, beaten endlessly and constantly told he was “a mistake.”
In that moment, I didn’t see a dangerous criminal sitting in front of me. I saw a frightened little boy, still trapped in that dark room, still desperate for love.
If PLR had been done on him, I believe he would have not only met that neglected inner child but also glimpsed lifetimes where he had been caged, humiliated, and rendered powerless. His violence in this lifetime wasn’t born in adulthood. It may have been an echo…a karmic wound bleeding through time.
Another memory still pierces me. A woman, imprisoned for murdering her husband. On paper, she was a killer. In person, she was a woman most humble, who had carried years of abuse, humiliation and silence inside her chest.
At one point, she looked at me, her voice breaking, and whispered
“मैडम, उसे मारने से भी पहले मैं अंदर से ही मर चुकी थी।”
(Madam, I was already dead long before I killed him.)
Her words cut through every label society had put on her. Her act was not just a crime of rage. It was the eruption of centuries of suppression.
If she had undergone regression, I can imagine now that she might have witnessed lifetimes where she was silenced, abused, and stripped of her power until this lifetime became her breaking point.
And then there was a boy, barely 19, jailed for armed robbery. Unlike the others, he still had softness in his eyes. His crime wasn’t born from cruelty, it was born from loneliness.
He told me he had joined a gang because for the first time in his life, someone made him feel he belonged.
If PLR were to be done on him, I believe he may uncover lifetimes marked by abandonment, rejection, and wandering alone. His crime was not a thirst for violence… it was his soul’s desperate hunger for belonging.
My time at Tihar taught me something profound… that a crime is often the final chapter of a very long story of wounds. And behind every violent act, there is a wounded child, a silenced voice or a soul repeating its karmic script.
So, can PLR be done on serial killers?
Yes, it can. The process works the same, but their journeys may look very different. It may not feel like walking through a karmic garden but rather stumbling through a karmic battlefield.
Because karma is not punishment. It is balance. Some souls may choose extreme lessons through extreme roles. For them, PLRT may indeed feel like an
“extreme karma boot camp.”
Walking out of Tihar after those sessions, I didn’t carry fear with me. What I carried was a deeper truth that -
Even behind the darkest eyes lies a human story…
Even within the most violent soul, there is still a silent child…
And even inside the deepest prison walls, the possibility of healing still breathes…
So yes, PLR can be done on serial killers. And what it reveals may not just be about crime, punishment, or justice . it may reveal that no matter how extreme the life, the soul is always, always searching for balance, healing, and light.
N that’s the truth I carry born not out of theory, but out of lived moments in Tihar, face-to-face with human pain wearing the mask of crime.
