Do you think historians go to hypnotists to try to induce past life regressions?

[WoodwindWhistler]

Some scientists experiment with psychedelic drugs and get massive breakthroughs in the process. One of the most notable is Francis Crick, who discovered the double helix to begin with and worked with the code.

No. Stuff you read in Reddit is quite a bit less than reliable.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/5876304/10-scientific-and-technological-visionaries-who-experimented-with-drugs

http://www.famousscientists.org/14-famous-scientists-inventors-who-experimented-with-drugs/

"Mullis mused aloud: "What if I had not taken LSD ever; would I have still invented PCR?" To which he replied, "I don't know. I doubt it. I seriously doubt it."

Are you going to attempt to contradict the scientists' words themselves, or are you going to continue to jump to conclusions just based on your opinion?

I was so intrigued by your question that I went for a past life regression and it turns out I was a historian (or AN historian, if you want) in the previous life and that historian did often go to hypnotists to try to induce a past life regression. I don't know if that answers your question.

Inception, huh?

At least your condescension was amusing and not blunt like everyone else's. I commend you.

[fuzzipueo]

Mice have epigenetic changes that get passed down through generations.

Yes, and 'instinct' is said to be a psychological phenomenon of genes. What this shows us is that supposedly, instinct can be programmed within one generation of a very specific event. Doesn't that make you wonder? If you compare the evidence of human past lives against this, it seems it may have a metaphysical component as well as a genetic one. Even if it's completely physical it is still mind boggling to think that genes can be so precise as to 'remember' one particular smell and pass down the bad experience with it.

And there are studies proving that this is a real phenomenon. A recent, fascinating, article from The Guardian explains how epigenetic inheritance could affect children of people who've undergone traumatic events, or participate in a bad habit (smoking/drinking), or what-have-you.

The idea is controversial, as scientific convention states that genes contained in DNA are the only way to transmit biological information between generations. However, our genes are modified by the environment all the time, through chemical tags that attach themselves to our DNA, switching genes on and off. Recent studies suggest that some of these tags might somehow be passed through generations, meaning our environment could have and[sic] impact on our children’s health.

Other studies have proposed a more tentative connection between one generation’s experience and the next. For example, girls born to Dutch women who were pregnant during a severe famine at the end of the second world war had an above-average risk of developing schizophrenia. Likewise, another study has showed that men who smoked before puberty fathered heavier sons than those who smoked after.

[ChillaKilla]

Just being pedantic, Francis Crick didn't use LSD and come up with the double helix. A different researcher, Rosalind Franklin, did. Watson and Crick took credit for her and she never received acknowledgment. The fact that Crick liked tripping balls had nothing to do with it, just male entitlement.

[Anthracite_Impreza]

Just being pedantic, Francis Crick didn't use LSD and come up with the double helix. A different researcher, Rosalind Franklin, did. Watson and Crick took credit for her and she never received acknowledgment. The fact that Crick liked tripping balls had nothing to do with it, just male entitlement.

I was going to mention this but I forgot her name >.<

[Guest]

Eh, it's not necessary as I don'\t believe in past life regression because it's a result of false memory and all those 'past life memories' use to look like similar, someone was a noble, king/queen, prince, lived in middle ages etc. I think those are pictures and metaphors of our desires. From the spiritual point of view past life memories are memories of our spiritual guides who are said to be people who lived on Earth in the past. It was said by Emmanuel Swedenborg, priest Francois Brune and more.

I think there is no use in such things, we would better study someone's personal letters/diaries to find out how the person was , of course we can do spiritual séances but nobody won't believe us till the life after death is scientifically proven.