It was getting late and time to get her dinner together. As she entered the kitchen, she remembered her mother's cooking and the making of mouth-watering dishes. Since her father was a vegetarian, her mother had stopped eating meat and had become a vegetarian too. Tania had become a vegetarian too as meat was never cooked at home.
She made some mixed vegetables and had her dinner of mixed vegetables, salads with bread as she did not feel like making the chappatis. After finishing the dinner and washing up the utensils, she checked all the locks of the house and went to her bedroom to read a little and then sleep. Hopefully, she would be able to sleep as she had submitting her thesis.
Tania's paternal grandparents would commence their onward journey on 19th May from their home town for Moscow and were likely to arrive on 21 st May. She had decided that she would be going to receive them.
They were to undertake the first leg of the journey by Taxi to a place called Pathankot in the state of Punjab. This route was downhill and would take them about 2 hours or so, and they would be leaving in the afternoon. At Pathankot, they would board the Rajdhani train for Delhi. It would be an overnight journey. At Delhi, they would spend the day visiting old family friends and at night they would take the flight for Moscow. Aeroflot operates direct flights from Delhi to Moscow covering a distance of 4,344 km in just 05.30 hrs. Hence, they would be reaching Moscow early morning and by the time they cleared immigration/customs, it would be 7 am.
Similarly, she had tied up with her maternal grandmother to come on the same day i.e. 21 st May. Her maternal grandmother would be leaving her village with her maternal Uncle to reach Kyiv. Upon reaching Kyiv they would head for the airport and take the flight to Moscow. The time taken to reach Moscow was 01.20 hrs and the distance to be covered was about 740 km. Tania would be receiving them also at the airport. They would be arriving at approximately the same time as relatives from India.
There was ample time for Tania to prepare the house to receive guests. So, she got down to a thorough cleaning of the rooms at the rate of one room a day. In this way, she got rid of all the junk accumulated in the house over the years.
The thorough cleaning made her tired every day and due to the tiredness, she was asleep as soon as her head touched the pillow. She was then visiting dreamland. This cleaning business literally helped her to sleep.
Since the demise of her parents, Tania had been having problems sleeping in this huge house. Her imagination had run amok. She would imagine thieves or ghosts entering the house.Any noise at night would make her jump. In this connection, she had visited a number of doctors and had even visited a psychiatrist to help sort out the issues. All of them told her that there was nothing wrong with her and that she was a highly imaginative person. If she argued with them in order to try to put across her problems, they would get annoyed with her and tell her that they were the doctors and not her. This sort of replies by such doctors were extremely infuriating.
Tania thought to herself that she should take the bull by its horns and sort out this problem herself. The best way was to read about recurring dreams and what they meant. So, she went to the market and hunted in the bookstores. She got herself a book on how to interpret dreams.
The next few days she was literary devouring this book and managed to figure out that most dreams were our imagination and were linked to things that happened during the day as well as to some past event. As regards dreams that were the same day after day, they definitely had some meaning.
The temples and forts that she was seeing in her dreams were perhaps known to her from some previous life.
Tania was a bit suspicious about this past life stuff. It was something that Indians believed in and some other religions in the world believed in this past life and Karma. In simple words, it meant that each one of us is born again and again to pay back debts or to receive payments, to avenge a wrong done to him/her in the previous life, i.e. bring to justice someone who has perhaps murdered you or badly harm you. You may forget but the soul does not forget. Many believed that your bad deeds get back to you threefold and that too within this life. Karma does not wait for the next life.
"Tania, girl, what are you getting into?" she spoke loudly to herself.
A search on the internet revealed that there was something called 'Past Life Regression' which came into prominence all over the world due to the works of Dr Brian L. Weiss.
Dr. Brian Leslie Weiss was born on November 6, 1944. He is an American psychiatrist, hypnotherapist, and author who specializes in past life regression therapy. He has done research on reincarnation/ rebirth, past life regression, future life progression, and survival of the human soul after death.
He had earlier studied at Columbia University and later graduated from the Yale University School of Medicine in 1970. He completed his internship in internal medicine at the New York University Medical Center. Thereafter, he returned to Yale University to do a two-year residency in Psychiatry. Thereafter, he became the Head of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami.
One of his patients named 'Catherine', began discussing past-life experiences when she was under hypnosis. This happened in the year 1980. Dr Weiss did not believe in reincarnation at that time but, after confirming elements of Catherine's stories through public records, he became convinced of the survival of some element of the human personality after death. This is what we call the soul.
Since then, Dr Weiss claims has regressed more than 4,000 patients. He has been holding workshops and seminars across the United States to explain and teach self-regression mediation techniques.
He advocates hypnotic regression as a therapy. He further claims that many phobia and ailments are rooted in past-life experiences, and when these are acknowledged by the patient, it can have a curative effect. He even wrote about the messages he received from the 'Masters', or 'super-evolved, nonphysical souls'. These 'Masters' had communicated with him through his patients.
"Wow ! What a revelation," Tania thought. "I must find out more about this doctor and read what he says. This way I can decode the recurring dreams by reading his books."
She surfed the internet looking for more information about this Psychiatrist Doctor and found that he had written the following seven books:-
1. Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives (1988).
2. Through Time into Healing: Discovering the Power of Regression Therapy to Erase Trauma and Transform Mind, Body and Relationships (1993).
3. Only Love Is Real: A Story of Soulmates Reunited (1997)
4. Messages From the Masters: Tapping into the Power of Love (2001).
5. Mirrors of Time: Using Regression for Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Healing (2002).
6. Same Soul, Many Bodies: Discover the Healing Power of Future Lives through Progression Therapy (2005).
7. Miracles Happen: The Transformational Healing Power of Past-Life Memories (2012)