Memories, Imagination and Trust
"How do I know it's real?" — the question every honest client asks.
The concern that past life memories might be imagination is not a sign of skepticism — it is a sign of intellectual honesty. Dr. Siebert welcomes it. Understanding the difference between soul memory and creative imagination is one of the most important things a new client can explore before their first session.
The Central Question
Memory, Imagination, and the Language of the Soul
The conscious mind thinks in words and logic. The unconscious mind — the part of you that stores every experience you have ever had, in this life and in previous ones — communicates in a richer, more symbolic language: imagery, sensation, emotion, and direct knowing.
When a past life memory surfaces during a regression session, it arrives in this language. To the conscious mind, which is accustomed to the sharp edges of ordinary thought, this can feel unfamiliar — and the question arises: is this a real memory, or am I imagining it?
The answer Dr. Siebert offers is both practical and profound: the distinction matters less than you think, and the evidence for the reality of what surfaces is more compelling than most clients expect. What follows is an honest examination of the question — and why most clients, by the end of their first session, find that it has answered itself.
Honest Answers
The Questions Every New Client Asks
These are the concerns Dr. Siebert hears most often — and the straightforward answers he gives to each of them.
"What if I'm just making it up?"
This is the most common concern new clients bring to a session — and it is a completely understandable one. The short answer is: the unconscious mind does not fabricate past life memories. What it does do is present genuine soul experience in the language it has available — which may include imagery, sensation, emotion, or a simple sense of knowing. The content that surfaces is always meaningful, always connected to your current life, and always more specific and emotionally resonant than anything the conscious imagination would construct.
"How do I know it's a real memory and not imagination?"
The distinction between memory and imagination feels important to the conscious mind — but from the perspective of the soul, it is less significant than it appears. What matters is whether the experience carries emotional truth and produces genuine insight and resolution. Clients consistently report that past life memories feel qualitatively different from imagination: more vivid, more emotionally charged, and accompanied by a sense of recognition rather than invention. Many also report details — historical settings, names, occupations, geographic locations — that they could not have known consciously.
"What if I can't be hypnotized?"
Hypnosis is not something that is done to you — it is a natural state of focused relaxation that every person enters multiple times each day (just before sleep, during absorbing activity, in daydream). Dr. Siebert's approach is gentle and conversational. The depth of trance required for PLR is accessible to virtually everyone. Clients who describe themselves as "analytical" or "hard to hypnotize" are often surprised by how easily they access the relaxed, receptive state that makes PLR possible.
"What if nothing comes through?"
In Dr. Siebert's experience, something always comes through — though it may not arrive in the form the client expects. Some people experience vivid cinematic scenes; others receive impressions, feelings, or a quiet sense of knowing. All of these are valid forms of soul memory. The session is guided and supportive, and Dr. Siebert works with whatever form of experience presents itself. There is no "right" way for a past life memory to arrive.
Why Trust the Process
Four Reasons the Experience Validates Itself
The Unconscious Mind Does Not Lie
The unconscious mind's primary function is not storytelling — it is survival, integration, and healing. When it surfaces a past life memory, it does so because that memory is relevant to your current life and your current healing. It has no motive to deceive you and no interest in entertainment. What it presents is what is needed.
Emotional Truth Is Its Own Validation
The most reliable indicator that a past life memory is genuine is its emotional resonance. Clients describe a quality of feeling — grief, relief, recognition, love, fear — that is unmistakably real and unmistakably connected to patterns in their current life. This emotional truth does not require external historical verification to be therapeutically valid.
The Healing Speaks for Itself
Ultimately, the most compelling evidence for the reality of past life memories is what happens after the session. Fears dissolve. Relationship patterns shift. Physical symptoms improve. Long-standing emotional burdens lift. These outcomes are not consistent with the idea that clients simply imagined an entertaining story. They are consistent with genuine soul-level healing.
You Are Always in Control
Throughout a PLR session, you remain aware, able to speak, and fully in control of the experience. You can open your eyes, end the session, or redirect the focus at any time. The process is collaborative, not passive. This means that whatever you experience, you experience as a conscious, empowered witness — not as someone to whom things are happening.
I have never had a client leave a session saying, "I think I made that up." What they say — consistently — is: "I don't know how I knew that. I don't know where that came from. But it was real." The experience itself is the most persuasive argument I have.
— Dr. Larry Siebert
A Note on Verification
Some clients, after their session, choose to research the historical details that emerged — names, places, occupations, time periods. In many cases, they find that details they could not have known consciously are historically accurate. This is not a requirement for healing, but it is a meaningful form of external validation when it occurs.
Dr. Stevenson's research at the University of Virginia documented over 3,000 such cases — children who reported verifiable past life memories with details confirmed by independent investigation. The evidence is substantial and peer-reviewed.
Still Have Questions?
Dr. Siebert is happy to speak with you before your first session. Email [email protected] or call his office directly.
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