The Cohesive Consciousness: Past-Life Regression Meets Multiverse Theory

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.

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@bhoomikacakravarthi

Very interesting concept and it’s been circulating around for the quite sometime now but the multiverse remains a theoretical and partially philosophical concept. Research continues, especially in cosmology, string theory, and quantum mechanics, but no direct experimental evidence exists yet. But I would like to see a better version of myself in a parallel universe :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: doing all the things I regret not doing sooner :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Thank you for sharing your perspective Harmeet! Much appreciated :blush:

Yes, the multiverse is still theoretical, but that’s exactly what makes it so useful in regression work right? By not claiming scientific proof but by just exploring how these frameworks help us understand the symbolic and emotional material that surfaces in sessions.

The thought of a “better version” of ourself in a parallel universe is something most of us have though of, even if it was while watching a movie! I think these versions often act as mirrors in highlighting our potentials, unmet desires, or paths we’re ready to step into.

I feel even without direct evidence, the multiverse offers a powerful metaphor for self-reflection: maybe those alternate selves are parts of us we’re learning to reclaim.

Appreciate you adding depth to the discussion! :blush:

P.S I was reading an easy, over-tea kind of fiction called , ‘The Midnight Library’ by Matt Haig that talks about living different versions of ourselves in parallel universe. It was a fun and a light- hearted read. Maybe give it a read if it interests you? :white_heart:

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@bhoomikacakravarthi Could you please post it on the book club in the forum dear bhoomika​:hibiscus::hibiscus:

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@bhoomikacakravarthi Regression may show not just past lives but also experiences from parallel realities. This explains why some memories don’t match history. What matters is the healing clients receive, no matter where the memories come from. Expanding our view helps us support them better.

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Bhoomika ,As i was reading through your post, this thought crossed my mind in regard to discrepancy in time period during sessions and then i see that my thought is already mentioned.This could be one of the points that directs towards considering the concept of multiverse during interpretation.

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@bhoomikacakravarthi bhoomikacakravarthi Thank you for this amazing post with a different perspective.It actually opens up a new avenue for interpretation. This thought had never crossed my mind.

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Well quoted Bhoomika. For us as healers,the significance is in the healing and if the end purpose is served,the intricacies can be ignored

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This sounds,both interesting and exciting

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Absolutely! The more open we are to interpretations, the more accepting we become, isn’t it?! A humbling journey :white_heart:

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Thank you Bhoomika :face_blowing_a_kiss: Beautifully said :folded_hands:t2: May be the idea of alternate selves isn’t about multiverse at all, but about meeting the parts of us that time, fear, or conditioning set aside, and consciously inviting them back into wholeness!

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Exactly! Well said Harmeet :white_heart:

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Dear Bhoomika

Loved the concept. Even though science is not yet fully ready to embrace ideas like string theory, energy transfer, or the concept of pranahuti, I truly wish these principles to be true. As Harmeet mentioned, multidimensional concepts give us so much hope and expand our understanding beyond the visible.

Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful and thought-provoking article. :cherry_blossom::sparkles:

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Interesting topic dear Bhoomika, this dimension and then other dimensions to work on.

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Perfectly said​:ok_hand::ok_hand: @Gunjan,

" Sometimes the session answers before the theory catches up ":slightly_smiling_face:

We have all had those moments where the narrative does not sit neatly inside documented history, yet the emotional release is unmistakably real. The tears, the relief, the body softening..… none of this behaves like imagination. It behaves like completion.

I have started feeling that the mind is less concerned about historical accuracy and more about psychological accuracy.

It presents whatever landscape allows the client to finally process what is stuck, whether this comes dressed as a past life, a parallel reality or a symbolic story.

And honestly, when the phobia reduces, the relationship shifts or the lifelong guilt dissolves, the client rarely asks

“which universe was that from?”

They just experience freedom.

Also your point about expanding our view is important not to dilute the work, but to hold it with humility.

Sometimes healing arrives first, explanation comes later :blush::heart:

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Yes Shaloo sometimes curiosity itself becomes part of the healing space.

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I too relate to this quiet hope you mentioned not necessarily needing science to confirm it immediately, but sensing that human experience is a little larger than what our current language can fully describe.

Many times in sessions the shifts clients feel are so deep and gentle that they naturally make us wonder whether consciousness operates beyond the visible layers we usually work with.

And yes, these multidimensional ideas don’t just add mystery, they add compassion. They allow us to hold the client’s experience without rushing to label it right or wrong… just meaningful.

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@Harmeet…beautiful way to land the idea :heart:

Sometimes it does feel less cosmic and more intimate, not another universe somewhere far away, but rooms within us we never entered because life moved too fast or we had to become a certain version to survive.
In my sessions when a client meets a confident self, a peaceful self or even a grieving self they had buried, the shift feels like reunion rather than discovery.

So maybe these alternate selves are not elsewhere..… they’re paused chapters waiting to be read again.
And the healing is simply giving them space in the present personality.

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This reminds me that sometimes over-interpretation is actually our therapist mind trying to feel secure, while the client’s system is already done processing.

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So very true @Dr. Sarandha…
this quote really brings us back to the heart of our work.

I have often felt our role is less of an investigator and more of a witness to completion.
The psyche seems to choose whatever story allows closure and once closure happens, the debate becomes secondary.

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