Hypersentience: Exploring your past lifetimes as a guide to your character and destiny

by Marcia Moore

Book Overview

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553103091
• ISBN13: 9780553103090
• Release Date: August 1977
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A book that greatly influenced me

I read "Hypersentience" in 1978, and it's stayed with me all these years. It's probably the best and most *down-to-earth* book on the subject I've read (still to this day), and I highly recommend it to anyone who's interested in the subject.

We miss you, Marcia.

I read HYPERSENTIENCE shortly after its publication in 1976. It is a fascinating book, full of interesting case histories based on Marcia Moore's work with past-life regression, and full of information on techniques which she used in the course of her work. Interest in the therapeutic value of past-life regression has spread widely through the psychological and psychiatric community and resulted in the invaluable research of Raymond Moody, Roger Woolger, Brian Weiss and others. All of them - not to mention their clients - owe a powerful debt to Marcia Moore.The book, frankly, is a how-to guide for past-life regression, and debunks many of the myths surrounding that particular discipline. First of all, it emphasizes that, contrary to the work of sensationalistic authors like Frank de Felitta (author of AUDREY ROSE), one cannot be seriously harmed by it. If Marcia's techniques are used, the client (whom she calls the sensor) remains totally in control at all times, and if the memories that come up are so painful they can't face them, the subject can come out of his or her trance at will. (I had this happen more than once with my clients.) The second myth she debunks is that the facilitator (the regression therapist) simply plants suggestions into the mind of the sensor. In Marcia's technique, the facilitator bends over backwards to avoid planting suggestions. There are ways to "prime the pump" and bring up memories without planting suggestions. The third myth that Marcia dashes is that the memories that come up are always to be accepted as gospel truth. No facilitator worth their salt believes that. It's not that the technique is faulty. Memory is faulty. How well can you remember everything that happened to you last week? But Marcia did believe that even if regression material was mistaken, or off track, or even faked (and yes, people do fake it - but a good regression therapist can spot a faker easily) it still told the therapist something valuable about the sensor. So even if one doesn't totally accept reincarnation, studying HYPERSENTIENCE can shed light on new ways to learn more about the human psyche. Marcia Moore died long before enlightened and open-minded scientists, primarily students of modern quantum physics, took a second look at the questions of immortality and reincarnation - and began to wonder if there wasn't something to it. Some have even formulated theories that Marcia knew about way back in the early days of the New Age. Wherever she is, I'm sure she is gratified that the latest discoveries about the nature of the Universe are beginning to coincide with the theories surrounding immortality.I worked with Marcia Moore from 1976 through late 1978, shortly before she died - and with her encouragement wrote books of my own about reincarnation and its implication for society. Yet whenever I give a workshop in past-life regression, I still use HYPERSENTIENCE as a text - even though it's been out of print for a long time. Would that so