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...racial inequality that has existed in the U.S. for more than 200 years. Lott will still have a hard time overcoming the damage that was done by the likes of himself and Strom Thurmond, but maybe he will gain a better understanding of the insults he uttered. FRAN NETHERTON Corona, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 20, 2003 | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

Nancy Shiffrin, 33, a California writer, always had trouble finishing books and articles. But unlike most authors bedeviled by blocks, she now knows where her troubles began: in the 17th century. During a session with Morris Netherton, a Los Angeles therapist, she had a vision of herself as a woman on trial in America in 1677 for heresy and trying to hide an incriminating diary from her inquisitors. Three hundred years later she was still "hiding the book." But no more. After Netherton's therapy, she says: "I seem to have very little problem finishing up things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Where Were You in 1643? | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

...least some of the practitioners are psychiatrists or psychologists in good standing. Netherton works at the conservative end of the past-lives spectrum, often laboring for months to deal with emotions behind a patient's visions. In one-on-one talk sessions, he listens for telling phrases suggesting a problem that can be "worked." Netherton then tells the patient that he is back in the womb and asks him to describe what he sees and hears. Most respond with vivid scenarios...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Where Were You in 1643? | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

...patient, a divorced interior decorator named Diane Strom, complained about anxiety from constant financial problems. Netherton saw in her a fear that no one would help her. Sure enough, while reliving her birth, Strom struggled helplessly with the umbilical cord, which was wrapped around her neck. In another situation, living back in 1801 on a farm in the South, she saw her son trampled by a horse, then ran into town looking for aid but could not find any. Past-lives therapists believe that these encounters with old traumas help patients to understand, and thus deal with, their present problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Where Were You in 1643? | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

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