..續本文上一頁boy was born with many auspicious signs, including having a red ink mark between his eyebrows and a pearl in his little mouth.

　　This extraordinary phenomenon caught public attention and the news soon reached the king. The king called for the Lokayata and then ordered the sealed bronze casket to be opened in their presence. They found that the pearl was gone from the master”s mouth and the red ink mark had all disappeared. Now the Lokayata could feel nothing but utterly convinced, and together with his disciples they all took refuge in Buddhism.

　　People may find this incidence unbelievable: “How could it be possible! How did the pearl end up in the mother”s womb

　　” But in the Buddhist text The Four Hundred Verses, there are detailed explanations of the intricate workings of this phenomenon.

　　A few years ago in Thailand, a woman was reported to have taken rebirth with a lucky charm. When her previous incarnation was dying, she clenched a lucky charm tightly in her right fist and told her relatives that she would carry the charm to her next life. Six months later, her sister was pregnant and upon delivery, the baby”s tiny fist was holding something tightly. Opening it, they found the very same lucky charm.

　　Such phenomena, according to the Buddhist perspectives, are the displays of the inconceivable interdependence of cause and effect. That is, so long as the necessary cause and condition come together, there is nothing that cannot take place. And with this reasoning the existence of past and future life can readily be corroborated.

　　4. Evidence of Multiple Lives by Hypnosis

　　In addition, hypnotic regression is another way to help people to recall past lives.

　　Brian L.Weiss, M.D. is a respected, Yale University–trained psychiatrist and the author of the international best seller Many Lives, Many Masters, which has more than two million copies in print and which has been published in 20 languages. At first Dr. Weiss was an atheist who knew nothing about rebirth and never believed in past lives. One of his patients, Catherine, changed all that and his life took a sharp turn henceforth.

　　When Catherine went to see Dr. Brian Weiss, she was 27 years old and suffered from recurring nightmares and chronic anxiety attacks. Dr. Weiss used routine psychotherapy to treat her, but after 18 months saw little improvement. Believing that her phobias could be explained by experiences lost in the subconscious, Dr. Weiss thought hypnosis would enable his patient to recall childhood traumas that may clue him in to the reasons for, and therefore the cure to, Catherine”s turmoil. Once the patient agreed to hypnosis, however, Dr. Weiss found himself in a very different place.

　　In the process of hypnosis regression, Dr. Weiss asked Catherine to “go back to the time from which your symptoms arise.” She did—back to the year 1863 B.C. when she was a person with a different body and a different name; she remembered she lost her child she was holding in a flood and she herself also drowned in the flood. After this hypnosis session, her fear of drowning and suffocation disappeared.

　　In following therapy sessions, Catherine regressed into many more lifetimes vividly and re-experienced the ancient causes related to her many phobias of this life. With more and more of her past lives remembered, her symptoms were cured one after the other without resorting to medications.

　　After treating Catherine, Dr. Weiss felt a seismic shift in his perception of reincarnation. Four years later, fully aware of the real professional risks involved and the ridicule from his peers he might have to endure, he finally mustered enough courage to write about Catherine”s story in Many Lives, Many Masters, in order to reveal the continuation of life and its meaning. The first of its kind,…

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