Introduction
In a previous article, I described the practice of progressing a person to the future - something called Future Life Progression. However, I feel it is necessary to elaborate further on this form of alternative therapy. I have thought of some new ideas regarding Future Life Progression - something which I have personal experience of (I've done it myself) - and have combined these with those from the previous article. Although this article will look at the problems with trying to validate information garnered during the Future Life Progression, it will also explore the practice in depth.
Foretelling the Future
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| Marty McFly's travel-machine he used in Back to the Future |
Yet, the ultimate life-path a person takes - their career, as well as other life-changing opportunities, including meeting the 'special someone' - is not set in stone and is, of course, influenced by the decisions, education and perhaps even by their experiences in life, as well as their interests.
So because the future is not set in stone, even if an individual did truly travel "to the future" - such as through visual impressions with basic information regarding key details - that "future" may only be the "future" in the current situation. Indeed, if a person saw their future partner during future life progression session, that may just be a mere visual, yet mental, image formulated from an accumulation of personal likes or tastes for how they may wish for their future partner to look. Yet, if their tastes for how they would wish for their future partner to look and to be like changed, then it would be logical to assume that not only will they come across a different visual impression of the "future partner", but also, should they come across the seemingly most perfect partner, they will go for a partner who is different from the original impression - different from the image of the future partner that they saw in the first session of future life progression.
Furthermore, the materialisation of the object seen in the future life progression may be subjected to whether the technological knowledge have scope for the development of a technology seen in the session. Indeed, if a the person came across a new, innovative form of technology - which hadn't been developed yet - the person may not only be unable to develop the technology due to a lack of knowledge for how it may be created and therefore made real, but also the equipment or knowledge to create it may simply not exist. So whilst the new innovation may have been seen to have developed in the "five years' time" slot, it may in reality take a great deal longer to be developed than in a matter of five years.
A note on the imagery
The problem of validation
Most commonly, when people undergo Future Life Progression, they receive "images". These "images" are of the same nature as those one may see in visual meditation. Some people may also get feelings or sounds or smells in their sessions.
When the Future Life Progressionist asks questions - such as what the client is wearing "in the future", after they have been progressed 5, 10, 15 years into their future - as well as questions like, "Where are you?" and more probing questions about how they feel regarding their current career (current career they have in the future). Questions asked by Future Life Progressionists include: "Where are you?", "How do you feel?", "What are you doing?", "Why are you feeling ... [happy/etc. depending on their reply to how they feel]?" ,"Who is around you?".
An FLP session is very much like an informal interview; the FLP practitioner guides the client into a meditation, then they ask questions that start off simple and non-probing, to more in-depth questions that probe a little more. The questions start off being classical and general, and these are asked of most clients. The following questions, however, are determined by the client's replies or remarks they make to the intital questions asked. The questions asked need to be relevant. The therapist will not ask "Are you a man or a woman?" because the therapy being done is not past life regression. The client may have travelled to the future, but they have not changed gender as a side-effect.
An example might be as follows:
A Sample Session
An example might be as follows:
(The client has just finished the guided meditation and has now stepped into their future, which is based on what might happen in 10 years' time).
P = FLP Practitioner; C = Client. (As another note, the FLP practitioner will takes notes in response to questions that they ask and will go through all of the notes at the end of the session. They may tape the session too, or may just jot down the answers on a notebook.). Like how Dolores Cannon did, it may be a good idea to jot down behaviour that occurs in response to questions asked. These are written in the brackets [ ]. This reading is fabricated, though it is meant to give an idea of how a Q & A round goes in a typical FLP session.
P: Where are you?
C: I'm near the coast. It's very windy.
P. Okay. Is there anyone with you, or are you alone?
C: I'm alone. [pause] No, wait. There's someone walking towards me!
P: What do they look like?
C: [Uncertain]. They've got a fetlock of brown hair that ... uh... is over part of one eye. The left eye. They are very tall.
P: Do you recognise them?
C: I'm not sure. I think they may be an acquaintance.
P: How long have you known them?
C: Oh, I've known him for a short time - a couple of months perhaps.
P: How old are they?
C: Thirty years old I think... . I think he told me he was thirty years old.
P: What do you see around you? Any buildings or anything?
C: I see a cottage nearby. There is a field with horses not far away.
P: Is the cottage yours?
C: Yes. But I haven't lived in it very long.
P: Would you like to go into it and describe it to me?
C: Okay.
As can be seen, this is very much like a flexible interview. The initial questions - which are of the more closed, 'Yes or No' variety - are asked to give the future life progression therapist a general idea of what the client is seeing or experiencing. The more open questions, such as 'How old are they?' are asked later on, to give a bit more detail in what the client is describing. The initial question are helpful, because they "warm-up" the client. The example above is short; much of the questions will be probed further, although the relevance of the responses will be assessed by the therapist, depending on what the client told them prior to the session. (The client is usually asked what they would like to find out regarding their future before the session.)
An FLP session will normally be around an hour long, and may be longer if the client wishes. However, if the practitioner is very busy, they must be tight when it comes to how long a session will take. They must allow a good break between each session, as asking questions may tax them mentally.
Some people meet their future partners in FLP sessions, whilst others come across the future homes. Still others may see themselves in the future inventing new and exciting technologies ahead of today's contemporary science & technology knowledge. Still others may see themselves in their dream careers - or they may see themselves studying at university.
The problem of validation
A problem not like that of past life regression is that of validation. With past life regression, it is more clear-cut to see whether or not a past life personality actually existed or not, because the researcher can look up the records of people who lived in the past, provided they have enough data collected about and from the past life - such as the name, address and other details - and determine whether or not that person actually existed or not. That, in itself, has its problems, but future life progression presents further issues that are not encountered so much in past life regression.Of course, past life memories may just be constructions of fantasy that may relate to traumatic events that happened earlier in the recipient's life.
Regarding validating information collected in a future life progression session, the client will naturally be on the look-out for information or experiences that confirm the information or events predicted in the future life progression session. For example, if the client discovered that in five years' time they lived in a country cottage near the sea, with no children, but had a rough collie dog called
Peter, they will be looking for information that fits this prediction five years later.
But if, as mentioned earlier, the client's circumstances changed, the predicted future would ultimately also change. So if the client did NOT come across the perfect collage by the sea, they may not end up living in such a place in the predicted time slot.
If this proved to be the case, and the client was a sceptic and so didn't believe that the prediction would come true, then naturally the client would notice that it did not come true.
However, if the client was a believer in future life progression, then they may strive to find proof that the prediction came true in the five years later time slot.
But to illustrate, let's use a more elaborated example. Suppose Client X wanted to live in a cottage by the sea, with a large garden that had fruit trees, as well as windows overlooking the shore. If Client X came across a cottage by the sea, they may interpret it to be more likened to what they saw during the future life progression session (shortened to 'FLP' for convenience) than what it actually was.
Given that what was experienced in the FLP was a mere memory concreted in the past - five years ago - it is subject to the errors of memory, as mentioned in the previous article.
However, a further problem is that if the client looks for things in the five years later, which serve to validate their vision of the future, they may miss out key details that are contrary to what they saw.
Details will, naturally, be forgotten - for example, the fruit trees or the cottage being by the beach. In other words, if Client X discovers key facts about what will to happen 5 years into the future, they may intend to find evidence that what was foretold came to be, 5 years later.
Indeed, it would be extremely difficult to objectively determine how correct theeverything that happens in the 5 years. Even if they tried to write down the events of every day (as, of course, anything predicted in the FLP session may - or may not! - occur on any day in the 5 year duration) during the 5 years, they may still miss certain things that they may consider unimportant yet, on later analysis, would have been hugely important. For example Client X's Aunty Susan may die one day during the 5 years the prediction concerned, leaving Client X with their inheritance which includes Aunty Susan's Tudar-style chocolate-box cottage which has fruit trees and a garden that overlooks the sea. Client X may think, Oh yeah! The Future Life Progression therapist was right! Why would they think that? Well, because in the FLP session, they saw a cottage which later they recognised as Aunty Susan's. However, their memory of the session may have left some pieces out, so they may only recall the details that also are true of Aunty Susan's cottage.
FLP details would be, as Client X would be unable to recall
However, whilst they may be left with Aunty Susan's cottage for a time, it doesn't mean that they will keep it forever and ever. Indeed, what if a worst-case scenario happened? Perhaps Client X decided to live in the cottage with his/her partner, two young children and 18-year-old lad. One day, perhaps 5 months later, the 18-year-old son had a party in the house with his friends and they got drunk and smoked. He was not usually interested in preserving history; nor does he like chocolate-box country cottages. He becomes careless - and the alcohol doesn't help - and, through major misfortune, the cottage burns down. Unfortunately, the parents and younger siblings were out...
Perhaps the FLP gives impressions to clients of a possible future, but the exact specifics are mere fabrications created between the client and the practitioner. Indeed, Client X may see the cottage in his mind, but thought that because he had fantasies of living in such a place, that what he sees is an image of what his future house is. This is, of course, his logical mind at work. It sees an image (the cottage by the see) and browses through Client X's mind or memory store or whatever to find a possible link, which will then provide meaning for why Client X came across it in the FLP session (e.g. anything of 'dream house fantasies' or Aunty Susan's cottage).
Yet, the image of the cottage may have meant something else. Perhaps it meant that Client X would live in it for a time. Perhaps it meant that their Aunty Susan would die. Or maybe... Maybe later on in the 5 years later, Client X actually comes across the house they really saw (all selective memory and reconstructive memory explanations shoved to one side for a moment), yet because they are convinced that they had already come across the cottage they saw in the FLP session (Aunty Susan's cottage), they do not realise.
Indeed, it would be extremely difficult to objectively determine how correct theeverything that happens in the 5 years. Even if they tried to write down the events of every day (as, of course, anything predicted in the FLP session may - or may not! - occur on any day in the 5 year duration) during the 5 years, they may still miss certain things that they may consider unimportant yet, on later analysis, would have been hugely important. For example Client X's Aunty Susan may die one day during the 5 years the prediction concerned, leaving Client X with their inheritance which includes Aunty Susan's Tudar-style chocolate-box cottage which has fruit trees and a garden that overlooks the sea. Client X may think, Oh yeah! The Future Life Progression therapist was right! Why would they think that? Well, because in the FLP session, they saw a cottage which later they recognised as Aunty Susan's. However, their memory of the session may have left some pieces out, so they may only recall the details that also are true of Aunty Susan's cottage.
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| Client X's future home? |
However, whilst they may be left with Aunty Susan's cottage for a time, it doesn't mean that they will keep it forever and ever. Indeed, what if a worst-case scenario happened? Perhaps Client X decided to live in the cottage with his/her partner, two young children and 18-year-old lad. One day, perhaps 5 months later, the 18-year-old son had a party in the house with his friends and they got drunk and smoked. He was not usually interested in preserving history; nor does he like chocolate-box country cottages. He becomes careless - and the alcohol doesn't help - and, through major misfortune, the cottage burns down. Unfortunately, the parents and younger siblings were out...
Perhaps the FLP gives impressions to clients of a possible future, but the exact specifics are mere fabrications created between the client and the practitioner. Indeed, Client X may see the cottage in his mind, but thought that because he had fantasies of living in such a place, that what he sees is an image of what his future house is. This is, of course, his logical mind at work. It sees an image (the cottage by the see) and browses through Client X's mind or memory store or whatever to find a possible link, which will then provide meaning for why Client X came across it in the FLP session (e.g. anything of 'dream house fantasies' or Aunty Susan's cottage).
Yet, the image of the cottage may have meant something else. Perhaps it meant that Client X would live in it for a time. Perhaps it meant that their Aunty Susan would die. Or maybe... Maybe later on in the 5 years later, Client X actually comes across the house they really saw (all selective memory and reconstructive memory explanations shoved to one side for a moment), yet because they are convinced that they had already come across the cottage they saw in the FLP session (Aunty Susan's cottage), they do not realise.
References
The Future Is Yours - by Jirsch, Anne
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