How could the following case possibly be explained away? It’s a fascinating story in favour of rebirth, related by professional hypnotherapist, Elizabeth Bowen, BA, Dip Ed, CC, CHP (College of Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy):
This case came to Elizabeth Bowen’s attention in the early 1980s and it concerns a young healthy man in his 20s who was totally blind and had been so since birth. As a newborn baby he’d been placed in an oxygen tent and too much gas had been delivered, which caused the malady.
He approached Mrs Bowen because of ‘unsettling dreams’ he’d been experiencing, which seemed to ‘centre around the brilliance of the sun’.
When she regressed him, much to her amazement he exclaimed, ‘I can see!’ and he went on to describe vividly scenes of trees and fields; and a job as a carpenter he had held in a previous lifetime.
He described colours and shapes that he had never seen before; and then told her about an ancient tribe of which he was a member. They were ‘worshipping the sun’ and had been instructed by the elders ‘not to look upon the disc’ as it rose. He further related how, being ‘curious’ in that lifetime, he had disobeyed the law and was seized and sacrificed on a stone altar’.
At the end of these incredibly vivid experiences, on returning to normality the young man was once again completely blind.
‘It’s one of the most interesting and baffling cases I’ve ever come across,’ said Mrs Bowen.
She ended by challenging all sceptics: ‘How can this be explained, except that my client must have had some kind of previous existence in which his eyes had functioned correctly?’