In regression work, we see client’s access memories, emotions, and narratives that feel like experiences from previous lives. Currently and traditionally even, we understand these experiences as past incarnations and that remains the baseline for past life regression.
However, as conversations around consciousness and quantum theory evolves—and its bite-sized, movie-friendly interpretations—capture people’s interest, a new integrated perspective is emerging, one that links regression states with the concept of the multiverse and parallel lives.
And who doesn’t love ‘Spiderman’ and ‘Doctor Strange’!
The multiverse theory proposes that versions of reality or multiple timelines exist simultaneously while regression works on the past – present and future life approach.
The Multiverse theory suggests a multidimensional landscape where multiple expression of the self may exist at once. Interestingly, this approach seems like an answer to what many practitioners witness during their sessions.
When the client enters a deep trance, the conscious mind is not bound by linear time and accesses information beyond the present lifetime. Therefore, what surfaces can be interpreted as not only past incarnations but also experiences from the parallel versions of ourselves in alternate timelines. With this view, the client is travelling to places where their consciousness hold presence; we are not only travelling backwards but tuning into different layers of realities as well.
This perspective offers an explanation to the questions that usually rises when we discuss client sessions; how a client’s narrative sometimes does not match historical periods or chronological details. If we view these inaccuracies from the multiverse lens, we can say that they may belong to parallel or adjacent timelines with their own history.
As the saying goes, every decision changes the future consequence.
From a therapeutic standpoint, we can say that the value of it remains the same because the themes and the emotional pattern recalled are real, the insight is meaningful and healing is tangible.
As Dr. Brian Weiss said, “It doesn’t matter whether these memories are real past lives or symbolic stories. What matters is the healing that follows.”
As practitioners in a field where lived experiences often precedes explanation, the multiverse perspective is just another approach to knowing that the soul and consciousness is far more expansive than linear time allows.
It becomes vital to broaden our views and connect traditional models of regression to the ever- evolving journey of knowledge through integration so we can offer the best possible support for those who seek.
