Sadhguru: Most human minds right now, the way they are,
they cannot even handle one lifetime's memory.
If you remember ten lifetimes, your mind will crack up.
There are other more responsible ways of doing this.
Layers of unconscious mind can be brought to a conscious level and worked out
but not on the memory level, on the energy level.
At least they're getting little more sincere – Regression Hypnotherapy.
All these days they were saying Past-Life Regression.
This is a better terminology, at least they're little more straight-forward about it now.
Hypnosis essentially means that you're not really trying to access reality through hypnosis.
You're trying to establish whatever you wish, isn't it? Isn't that the basis of hypnosis?
If you hypnotize a person, you're not hypnotizing him because you want to take him into reality.
You want to invent reality, isn't it?
If you want to take somebody into reality, you need awareness, which is just the reverse of hypnosis.
Now that they're saying it's hypno-therapy, so they're going to invent another reality,
which they believe is going to correct you.
So you're in one kind of a problem, you're trying to balance it off with something else.
It may work, in short. If somebody is very sick, anything is okay.
If it's going to help them a bit, it's okay.
But if you're asking me as a spiritual process, definitely no.
Regression – it's all just psychological nonsense generally,
but suppose you can do it, let's say, you could go into past-life regression –
what I would say is most human minds right now, the way they are,
they cannot even handle one lifetime's memory.
Just one lifetime's memory is freaking the hell out of them, isn't it?
If you remember ten lifetimes, your mind will crack up, don't you think so? Hmm?
One lifetime's memory people have become miserable.
Just remembering the last 25-30 years, people have become utterly miserable.
If you remember ten lifetimes, I can imagine your state. (Few laugh)
So, nature has put a certain barrier, and it's good.
There are other more responsible ways of doing this, where we remind you not in terms of memory
but it works itself out in the form of energy. People been to Samyama meditations? Are there?
Okay. Samyama is essentially this,
that layers of unconscious mind can be brought to a conscious level and worked out
but not on the memory level, on the energy level, because if memory comes, people will just crack up.
They cannot handle the load of two or five or ten lifetimes – your mind is not capable of handling that.
It will definitely crack you up and confuse your life completely.
If you remember things from past life and they are all over people…
Let us say, in your neighborhood,
your neighbor's whatever, your neighbor's husband or let's say your neighbor's dog
happened to be your child in past life, I can imagine you! (Laughter)
With the kind of emotions you have right now, you will not be able to manage this. It would drive you crazy.
So, it would be utterly irresponsible. If somebody is capable of opening up past lives,
it would be utterly irresponsible to open it.
We do such things in a very controlled condition for specific purposes for certain people,
but that's very rare, it's not necessary on a daily basis.
Samyama is a good way to go through it because it works out on an energy level,
you never come to the mental level of remembering the actual detail of it,
but you've seen something is working itself out, which is very obvious to you.
That is good for you because it cleans up But remembering is not good.
But if it's hypnotherapy, it is definitely not a regression. It's just a…
It's an attractive name. Probably it's intriguing for people to call it regression.
The moment you say it's hypnosis, I don't think it can be regression.
Most of the regression processes that are happening are purely psychological manipulations,
they don't touch anything within.