Posted by Jim on March 26, 1999 at 17:09:41 in 205.188.200.42:
I came across this...thought you might be interested especially if any of you want to confess to being menebers of the crew...we might we on to something!
Gillete, NJ., MArch 26/PRNewswire/ - For 40 years, William Barnes had been troubled by memories of events that he knew did not belong to his present lifetime. In 1997, these troubling memories led him to seek the help of a psychologist. Through regression hypnosis, Dr. Frank Baranowski discovered that Barnes' memories were those of Thomas Andrews, the designer of the Titanic.
William Barnes was born in the United States on April 14,1953, 41 years to the day after the Titanic hit the iceberg. At the age of four, he drew a picture of a ship with four smokestacks and told his parents, "This is my ship, but she died." he insisted that his mother call him "Tommie" and spoke of brothers and a sister who his parents didn't know.
During Barnes'first regression therapy session, he broke into an Irish accent and began recounting the last two hours of Thomas Andrews' life aboard Titanic. "The way you wanted me to build'er. She could take four compartments opened up completely. But after that, there's too much weight. She's gonna come down at the head. And all the pumps workin', maybe we got an hour, maybe two."
Past-lifr regression therapy is a recognized treatment for various psychological problems. Under hypnosis, a patient undergoing regression is returned to the trauma that brought on the present-day symptoms. There is research to suggest that there can be a connection between a current phobia, ilness, bithmark or birth defect and a past-life trauma.
At the suggestion of his therapist, Barnes wrote a book about his past life, "I Built The Titanic." The audio includes recordings of Barnes actual regression sessions, answers decades-old questions about who was responsible for rejecting the proposed safeguards that could have saved Titanic and all on board, and the role that politics, arrogance and greed played in sending 1500 people on a journey into infamy. In the tapes, Barnes, while under hypnosis, becomes Thomas Andrews and presents a first-person account of Andrews' life, from his first blueprint in the shipyard to his final breath aboard the dying ship.
For those who beleive in this stuff...it is available at Amazon.Com