La regresión en parapsicología engloba a un conjunto de técnicas que se apoyan en la hipnosis u otros métodos de alteración de estados de conciencia, para hacer que una persona recuerde acontecimientos de su supuesto pasado, tal como las escenas y emociones de un paseo, las voces de una discusión, el sabor de una comida o el aroma del campo en un amanecer campesino. Se trata de una técnica esotérica y pseudopsicoterapéutica que también se utiliza en la denominada «terapia de reencarnación». Cuando las vivencias son de supuestas vidas pasadas, es común que la persona sienta la certeza de estar aquí, en el presente, mientras al mismo tiempo tiene la sensación de estar en el pasado, con otra personalidad, lo cual le permitiría comparar y entender el posible origen de sus traumas o afecciones psicosomáticas.

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Past life regression is a technique that uses hypnosis to recover what practitioners believe are memories of past lives or incarnations, though others regard them as fantasies or delusions or a type of confabulation. Past-life regression is typically undertaken either in pursuit of a spiritual experience, or in a psychotherapeutic setting. Most advocates loosely adhere to beliefs about reincarnation, though religious traditions that incorporate reincarnation generally do not include the idea of repressed memories of past lives. The technique used during past-life regression involves the subject answering a series of questions while hypnotized to reveal identity and events of alleged past lives, a method similar to that used in recovered memory therapy and one that similarly misrepresents memory as a faithful recording of previous events rather than a constructed set of recollections. The use of hypnosis and suggestive questions can tend to leave the subject particularly likely to hold distorted or false memories. The source of the memories is more likely cryptomnesia and confabulations that combine experiences, knowledge, imagination and suggestion or guidance from the hypnotist than recall of a previous existence. Once created, the memories are indistinguishable from memories based on events that occurred during the subject's life. Memories reported during past-life regression have been investigated, and revealed historical inaccuracies that are easily explained through a basic knowledge of history, elements of popular culture or books that discuss historical events. Experiments with subjects undergoing past-life regression indicate that a belief in reincarnation and suggestions by the hypnotist are the two most important factors regarding the contents of memories reported.

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