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Michael Newton

Hypnotherapist & Author · Newton Institute for Life Between Lives Hypnotherapy

A counseling psychologist who discovered a consistent "spirit world" narrative across 7,000+ deep-hypnosis sessions — describing soul groups, guides, life review councils, and inter-life planning.

reincarnationpast-life regressionconsciousness

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Area of work

A counseling psychologist who discovered a consistent "spirit world" narrative across 7,000+ deep-hypnosis sessions — describing soul groups, guides, life review councils, and inter-life planning.

Methods

Deep hypnotic regression · Systematic inter-session comparison · Practitioner training protocols for standardized LBL induction

Limits and debate

LBL methodology relies on hypnosis, which is known to produce highly suggestible states where subjects readily confabulate and adopt suggestions. The consistency across sessions may reflect shared cultural narratives about the afterlife absorbed through media rather than genuine memory. No specific claim from LBL sessions has been independently verified. The field distinguishes LBL sharply from UVA-style spontaneous child memory research.

This summarizes the researcher's work. It is not a finding that any theory of consciousness or survival has been proven.

Overview

Newton began as a skeptic who resisted doing past-life regression. A breakthrough case — a client in chronic pain who spontaneously described a past-life battlefield death, whose pain then resolved — led him to explore hypnotic regression systematically. Over 7,000 client sessions, he found that subjects regressed to the period between lives described a consistent non-physical realm: soul groups composed of souls at similar developmental levels, spirit guides, councils of elders who review past-life performance, and a deliberate process of selecting future lives based on karmic needs. The cross-client consistency of this "life between lives" (LBL) narrative — reportedly emerging without prompting across subjects of different backgrounds — is the core of Newton's evidential claim. He founded the Newton Institute to train LBL practitioners worldwide.

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1994 · Llewellyn Publications

Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives

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2000 · Llewellyn Publications

Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Lives

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