The Search for Bridey Murphy Author:Morey Bernstein This book is based on recorded transcripts done by Morey Bernstein on a patient, Ruth Simmons back in 1952. Dr Bernstein hypnotised Ms Simmons to talk about her early childhood events. During the course of these hypnotist sessions, she started talking about earlier lives. According to her account, she had several lives. — In one life she came as ... more »a baby who lived only briefly. She talks about her life with this family and her brothers and sisters playing with her and being ill.
The biggest past life she talks about is Bridey Murphy, a woman who lived in Ireland in the 1800s. She talks about her childhood and family and her husband and how she died. Bridey was named after her grandmother Bridgette. She died in her late sixties after a bad fall. After Bridey died, she was worried about her husband and apparently decided to stay in the house with him until he died. She says he was totally unaware of her presence even though she tried to communicate with him.
The whole book is a very interesting series of transcripts taken from the tapes of the conversations with Dr Bernstein.
I first read this book when I was in high school some 50 years ago and it sparked an interest in reincarnation. This is the original experiment from the early 1950s in a woman's past life regression to early 1800s Ireland. The book is very scholarly with the experiment's details, but the transcripts of the hypnotic sessions are fascinating.