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His\u00adto\u00adry:<\/em> It all start\u00aded with a sim\u00adple phone call and it end\u00aded with a world-wide phenomenon.<\/p>\n Morey Bern\u00adstein was the third-gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion own\u00ader of a hard\u00adware dis\u00adtri\u00adb\u00adu\u00adtion com\u00adpa\u00adny in Den\u00adver. One evening in 1951, while work\u00ading on a pub\u00adlic\u00adi\u00adty cam\u00adpaign, he received a phone call. The caller intro\u00adduced him\u00adself, said that he was strand\u00aded at the Den\u00adver Air\u00adport and said that his uncle said to call Morey if he need\u00aded any\u00adthing. Morey rec\u00adog\u00adnized the name the caller men\u00adtioned, one of his best cus\u00adtomers: all thoughts of the cam\u00adpaign were put aside as Morey drove out to the air\u00adport to pick up his guest.<\/p>\n At a loss as to what to do with him, Morey remem\u00adbered a par\u00adty that evening and decid\u00aded to escort his guest there. At the par\u00adty, his guest men\u00adtioned that he was a col\u00adlege stu\u00addent study\u00ading psy\u00adchol\u00ado\u00adgy and espe\u00adcial\u00adly hyp\u00adno\u00adsis. He pro\u00adceed\u00aded to demon\u00adstrate to his unbe\u00adliev\u00ading audi\u00adence on a vol\u00adun\u00adteer with excel\u00adlent results: for instance, the woman vol\u00adun\u00adteer, at the end of the demon\u00adstra\u00adtion, was pro\u00adfound\u00adly sur\u00adprised to dis\u00adcov\u00ader her stock\u00ading in her hand and not on her foot. To say that Morey was fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00aded with this demon\u00adstra\u00adtion of hyp\u00adno\u00adsis was putting it mild\u00adly: he quick\u00adly obtained and read every book on the sub\u00adject he could find and prac\u00adticed on his friends and neighbors.<\/p>\n One of the vol\u00adun\u00adteers was a neigh\u00adbor woman named Vir\u00adginia Tighe (in the book, she is named Ruth Sim\u00admons.) Dur\u00ading one of his prac\u00adtice sessions,Virginia spon\u00adta\u00adneous\u00adly began talk\u00ading about a past-life expe\u00adri\u00adence<\/a> as a woman named Bridey Mur\u00adphy<\/a>. Bridey was an Irish woman born around 1796, liv\u00ading in Cork, Ire\u00adland. He would record sev\u00ader\u00adal ses\u00adsions of Vir\u00adginia recount\u00ading her past life and would then col\u00adlate and pub\u00adlish them in a book he named \u201cThe Search for Bridey Mur\u00adphy\u201d<\/em>, as well as lat\u00ader releas\u00ading a record of one of his sessions.<\/p>\n The book was a sen\u00adsa\u00adtion. It was a mas\u00adsive best-sell\u00ader, the pop\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adi\u00adty of which put the sub\u00adjects of hyp\u00adno\u00adsis, past-life regres\u00adsions and rein\u00adcar\u00adna\u00adtion into or back into the pub\u00adlic con\u00adscious\u00adness. As with Cou\u00e9<\/a> in the 1920\u2019s, the Bridey Mur\u00adphy sto\u00adry made the pub\u00adlic aware of hyp\u00adno\u00adsis again. Tele\u00advi\u00adsion hav\u00ading a lim\u00adit\u00aded reach at the time, hyp\u00adno\u00adsis was large\u00adly con\u00adfined to stage shows and movies that at the time were large\u00adly come\u00addies or mys\u00adter\u00adies, noth\u00ading that would con\u00adnect hyp\u00adno\u00adsis to the aver\u00adage Amer\u00adi\u00adcan. In addi\u00adtion, the sub\u00adject of past-life regres\u00adsion was large\u00adly unknown and rein\u00adcar\u00adna\u00adtion was known in some small way to the gen\u00ader\u00adal pub\u00adlic, but it was a for\u00adeign sub\u00adject, some\u00adthing asso\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded with East\u00adern reli\u00adgions and philoso\u00adphies. To have it all hap\u00adpen to a mid\u00addle-class Amer\u00adi\u00adcan woman was some\u00adthing unprece\u00addent\u00aded, and that con\u00adnec\u00adtion to the aver\u00adage Amer\u00adi\u00adcan opened up each con\u00adcept to the pub\u00adlic. As a result, there was a marked\u00adly increased inter\u00adest in both hyp\u00adno\u00adsis and rein\u00adcar\u00adna\u00adtion: rein\u00adcar\u00adna\u00adtion par\u00adties (not only \u201ccome as you were\u201d<\/em> cos\u00adtume par\u00adties but group induc\u00adtions and past life regres\u00adsions) became the lat\u00adest fad, and movies involv\u00ading hyp\u00adno\u00adsis and rein\u00adcar\u00adna\u00adtion like \u201cThe She-Crea\u00adture\u201d<\/em><\/a> (1956) and \u201cThe Undead<\/a>\u201d<\/em> (1957) and books about rein\u00adcar\u00adna\u00adtion such as \u201cThe Search for the Girl With Blue Eyes\u201d<\/em><\/a> (1968) by Jess Stearn<\/a> soon appeared, which also played on that interest.<\/p>\n [http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0049729\/]<\/p>\n [amtap amazon:asin=6302130220]<\/p>\n The book was turned into a movie, star\u00adring Tere\u00adsa Wright<\/a> and Louis Hay\u00adward<\/a>. It was large\u00adly a doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary-style recount\u00ading of the sto\u00adry of how Morey became inter\u00adest\u00aded in hyp\u00adno\u00adsis, jump\u00ading almost imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly then to his ses\u00adsions with Vir\u00adginia com\u00adbined with re-enact\u00adments of her past-life regres\u00adsion sto\u00adry. (What I find amus\u00ading is the stereo\u00adtyp\u00adi\u00adcal \u201cswing\u00ading watch\u201d motif in the poster and cov\u00ader art\u00adwork for the movie.)<\/p>\n But once the book was pub\u00adlished, peo\u00adple start\u00ading check\u00ading into the sto\u00adry of Bridey Mur\u00adphy and find\u00ading some glar\u00ading dis\u00adcrep\u00adan\u00adcies in Vir\u00adgini\u00ada\u2019s recounts of her past-life. There are a num\u00adber of ques\u00adtions about the exis\u00adtence of a per\u00adson named Bridey Mur\u00adphy and of the flaws in what Vir\u00adginia recount\u00aded about Bridey and her life and time period.<\/p>\n As for Morey, he aban\u00addoned hyp\u00adno\u00adsis after this and returned to busi\u00adness, although he con\u00adtin\u00adued to express his belief in Bridey Mur\u00adphy. But there is no doubt\u00ading the impact of that one phone call and what hap\u00adpened there\u00adafter on the pub\u00adlic. Hyp\u00adno\u00adsis came back into the pub\u00adlic eye and nev\u00ader real\u00adly left, even though the prej\u00adu\u00addices and mis\u00adcon\u00adcep\u00adtions remained (and remain in large part even to this day.)<\/p>\n Com\u00admen\u00adtary:<\/em> Unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly, any cur\u00adrent attempt at any kind of objec\u00adtive explo\u00adration of the par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar sub\u00adject has been lost in time. Inves\u00adti\u00adga\u00adtions at the time as to the real\u00adi\u00adty of the Bridey Mur\u00adphy sto\u00adry have uncov\u00adered a num\u00adber of holes and anachro\u00adnisms in the sto\u00adry, and claims and counter-claims and debunk\u00ading and counter-debunk\u00ading has con\u00adtin\u00adued ever since.<\/p>\n As for my opin\u00adion, I take the Occam\u2019s Razor approach and assign it to sto\u00adries Vir\u00adginia heard from her neigh\u00adbor and from her own Irish par\u00adents (with whom she lived for the first three years of her life.)<\/p>\n Rec\u00adom\u00admen\u00adda\u00adtion:<\/em> For its his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal val\u00adue alone, the book is recommended.<\/p>\n Addi\u00adtion\u00adal Material:<\/em><\/p>\n [amtap amazon:asin=B000ELCFXK]<\/p>\n Ref\u00ader\u00adences:<\/em><\/p>\n\n