Do We Have Past Lives? Examining the Evidence

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Do we have past lives? Karen explores objective evidence for the existence of past lives from a range of experts.

by Karen Joy

June 11, 2025

Do We Have Past Lives? Examining the Evidence

Do we have past lives? No one can decide this question for you. You need to do the research and undertake certain experiences like past life regressions. Then, that will help you decide whether or not you have had past lives.

When you regress into a past life, you usually feel deeply connected to the character you were. They say it “feels like it’s me.” Even so, some people still wonder if they are just using their imagination and making it all up. For most, it takes time and a number of profound experiences for people to know they have experiences other lives.

There is objective evidence for past lives.

Do we have past lives: Professor Stevenson’s evidence

The late Professor Ian Stevenson of the University of Virginia focused on past lives. Over forty years, he systematically researched children who remember past lives. Professor Stevenson interviewed children who remembered their previous homes, their names and the names of their families. Often the past life families were found. Many children easily identified who each member of the previous family was, and could give the family members’ correct names.

By the end of his career, Professor Stevenson had documented over 2,500 cases. Before he retired, he gave a lecture summarizing his work.

On the following you tube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbWMEWubrk0&rco=1) also below, he explains his research:

Evidence for past lives from The Monroe Institute

The Monroe Institute was set up by Robert Monroe after he spontaneously started going out of body in the 1950s. Back then, he was disturbed because he couldn’t stop it happening. First, he subjectively researched his personal experiences. Second, he set up the Newton Institute, Then, he researched the experiences of people in other states of consciousness.

During all this research, Bob discovered humans experience many lives on planet Earth before moving on.  Since then, Bob and others have written a number of books about their out of body experiences.

Below, Bob is interviewed about his out of body experiences. Over nearly forty years, Bob wrote three books before he passed over in 1995

  • Journeys Out of the Body 
  • Far Journeys 
  • Ultimate Journey

 Dr Campbell on do we have past lives

Dr Thomas Campbell is a physicist, now retired, who worked for NASA and the USA Defence Department. He helped Bob Monroe with his research at the Monroe Institute.

I was fortunate to meet Dr Campbell and do one of his workshops in 2017. One of the exercises he conducted turned out to be a profound experience for me.

First, Dr Campbell also wanted to learn to control the process of going out of body. Consequently, he was determined to learn as much as he could about the nature of reality.  

Second, Dr Campbell discovered that the universe is much larger, diverse and complex than most scientists had ever imagined. Later, He developed his theory of everything and wrote his book, My Big Toe (Theory of Everything). His book is about the nature of our cosmic system. 

Now, Dr Campbell has a number of lectures on YouTube including one explaining reincarnation. However, you might find his ideas more easy to understand if you watch one of his entire lectures. Fortunately, He explains his ideas clearly and carefully so that the ordinary public can understand the nature of our universe. 

Importantly, the talk he gave in 2010 at The Monroe Institute is particularly informative. Here, he gives the best explanation of the Double Slit Experiment of Quantum Physics for a layperson.

 Past life research by Dr Micheal Newton

Dr Michael Newton, a clinical psychologist wrote two books on past lives:

  • Journey of Souls  
  • Destiny of Souls.

As, founder of The Michael Newton Institute, Michael stumbled on past lives when regressing a client to the origin of her problem. He was amazed how effective accessing a past life was in resolving her psychological problems. Intrigued, he continued to research past lives and life between lives in great detail.  He has written two best sellers about what he discovered, 

Dr Newton explains below how he first came to research past lives and life in between lives:

 Psychaitrist Dr Brian Weiss on past lives

Dr Brian Weiss, a psychiatrist, used age-regression and hypnotherapy techniques in his practice with clients. Also, he also accidentally stumbled on past lives with a client. He saw how effective this process was and continued working with her exploring many of her past lives. Dr Weiss wrote a book that became a best seller:

  • Many Lives, Many Masters.

Watch Dr Weiss answer questions about reincarnation and past lives below:

Have you lived lives before?

To come to your own view about the existence of past lives, do research, both objective and subjective. Below, I have given you a number of links and references that could help your objective research.

Your subjective research may include:

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4 Comments

    • Karen

      Glad you like it.

      Reply
  1. Debora

    How do you find someone (near you) that is legit and good in doing past life regression on people.

    Reply
    • Karen

      Debora, I suggest checking out The Michael Institute which has listed practitioners who do Zoom and in person. They come from different places from around the world. The other option is to participate in a Monroe Institute program which will teach you how to explore the past and present transcendental.

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