It is a therapy that involves taking a peep into your previous life to cure chronic illnesses and pains plaguing you now. Pieter Langedijk, a 72-year-old Dutch psychotherapist, flies from Europe to Asia to practise what he calls as reincarnation therapy -- stuff that could well be meant for films and fiction.The former chemist at a Philips laboratory in Eindhoven who attended night school and university to study clinical psychology and the paranormal sciences finds nothing incredulous about it."People often suffer from pains which have no apparent cause," he says. "These are usually problems associated with their past lives. When they are taken back there, the pain dogging them for years is cured in half an hour." Like the 50-year-old woman who he says came to him with the complaint of a terrible pain in her right leg. "Doctor," said the distressed woman, "sometimes I lose use of my leg. I feel I have become a cripple.""Did you ever have any accident?" he asked her. "Never," she replied.So he decided to take her back to her past life.

It's a combination of hypnotism and relaxation. He intones commands and goes on repeating them, inducing drowsiness. The heartbeat slows down, the brain starts producing slow waves and the patient is open to suggestions.He asks the patient to see "pictures" and clicks his fingers. The patient sits up straight."I am lying on the floor of a hovel," she says dreamily. "I feel younger but am unable to move."Then she goes into convulsions. "Someone is trying to strangle me," she cries.And the mystery of the strange pain is solved.

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