Bridey Murphy is the name of a Irish woman who was reincarnated into Virginia Tighe, who was the subject of a hypnotic regression in 1952 by Morey Bernstein, who also recorded the sessions. In 1956 a book of this name was published and Virginia was called "Ruth Simmons" in the book. Because reincarnation was considered so controversial in her place and time and Virgina wanted her privacy, she was not be named openly, but the book became a best seller and interest in her and the subject of past lives meant that she could never hide from the speculations about her honesty, motivations, or psychology. Virginia passed out of this life into the afterlife in 1995.
She was one of the first, if not the first Westerners to report knowledge of a life lived before this one, as verified by the new science of hypnosis (presently often referred to as hypnotherapy).
These days it is more common for people in the United States - The West- to believe in the idea that we are souls that reincarnate in various human bodies, in different historical times and places, in order to learn from a variety of experiences.
Today one of the uses of genealogical research is to not only locate ancesters and verify a family tree, but to "find" persons one believes he or she lived as in a past life. Depending on the details this is more or less possible...much depends on the time and place where the past life occured and the records which are available.
Would you like to verify a past life with genealogical research?
