Reincarnation, Part Three: Identifying Past Lives, with Walter Semkiw

Walter Semkiw, MD, is founder and president of the Institute for the Integration of Science, Intuition, and Spirit. He is author of Born Again, Return of the Revolutionaries: The Case for Reincarnation and Soul Groups Reunited, and Origin of the Soul and the Purpose of Reincarnation.

Here he describes his own journey from a skeptical medical student to a student and scholar of reincarnation cases. He came to accept that he had a past lifetime during the American Revolutionary War period. He also describes the development of an intuitive methodology employing the guidance of trance channel, Kevin Ryerson, and his spirit entity known as “Ahtun Re”. Using this approach, he believes he has been able to identify the past lives of hundreds of contemporary individuals. He describes some remarkable “hits” that strengthened his confidence in this non-scientific approach. He also maintains that people tend to reincarnate in “soul groups” that connect over multiple lifetimes. In this context, he describes how he came to believe that the interviewer, Jeffrey Mishlove, was the psychologist and philosopher, William James, in a previous lifetime.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He serves as dean of transformational psychology at the University of Philosophical Research. He teaches parapsychology for ministers in training with the Centers for Spiritual Living through the Holmes Institute. He has served as vice-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, and is the recipient of its Pathfinder Award for outstanding contributions to the field of human consciousness. He is also past-president of the non-profit Intuition Network, an organization dedicated to creating a world in which all people are encouraged to cultivate and apply their inner, intuitive abilities.

(Recorded on November 22, 2015)