I became aware of QHHT practitioner Marjie Terluin when she partnered with Mike Dooley from theuniverse@tut.com for an October 2023 4-week online program including Past Life regression and also a Future life progression. Marjie (she pronounces her name like “Mariah” for English speakers) had some interesting thoughts on Past lives and the way that regression have changed since the innovator of QHHT Dolores Cannon passed away in 2014.
Some highlights from this interview with Marjie Terluin, a QHHT Level 3 practitioner in Berlin:
“When people back in the day—20 years ago—would do a regression, usually they come out not remembering a thing. They have to listen to a recording to really understand what has happened. That is…no longer the case. Now people go into a regression—whether it be in a group or one-on-one—they have this level of awareness that also allows them…to remember, to integrate, and to work with it when they come out.”
Since I use a non-hypnotic method to access Other lives, it’s intriguing to hear about practitioners utilizing the hypnotic method. Marjie referenced Dolores Cannon’s method which requires the deepest level of hypnosis, the somnambulist state, where the conscious mind is de-activated so the client doesn’t remember anything that happened during the session.
“When Dolores described her regressions, people do go out stone cold. But that has completely changed, and that has changed worldwide. Everywhere in the world, all regressionists know this, and it’s actually a very beautiful development, because … the frequency of Earth has been rising, and with it, also the frequency of us humans have been rising. Our consciousness is getting more and more expanded. Wherever you are in the world, you can probably recognize that more and more people around you are tuning into spirituality. Or more and more people are into personal development, or whatever it is, because it’s all because of these frequencies that are rising. So in a regression, that means that nowadays, when the person goes into a regression, their consciousness is big enough to be in two places at the same time. So they’re still aware of where they are, they can, even if they want to filter what they’re saying, they can go to the toilet and come back and just pick up where they left off. Yet also experience this Past life, yet also experience the voice of their Higher Self coming through.”
One area of agreement that I have with Marjie is that this information from Past lives is much easier to access now in 2023, but she sees it moving into even more interesting territory:
“And I think it’s actually very exciting because, imagine…maybe ten years from now, maybe 5 years from now, we don’t need regressionists anymore! You know, maybe there’s just this level of awareness of our past lives. And of our life purpose, and what we’re here to do. I think it’s super exciting. What happens when this frequency is rising is that the access to these Past lives are (sic) really just around the corner. It doesn’t take much. You don’t have to go very deep for you to be able to reach this. And therefore, I also say, everybody can do this, because honestly, it’s right there. It’s not very far.”
I close my sessions by telling the client “You have only just begun to integrate the information from this Past Life Journey. More information will be coming in the following days and weeks through sources both internal—like dreams and insights, and external —books, movies, conversations, even bumper stickers and billboards. This integration process will continue until it is complete.”
Marjie Terluin: And the beauty of it is, what I also really like about this development, is that it’s also easier for people to integrate these teachings. It’s not so separate from them. Of course I make a recording, people listen to the recording, but still, if you were somewhat there, it’s a little bit easier to process what has happened, and hopefully also to acknowledge and act on the lessons and the learnings from the experiences.”
“All you really need is simply a healthy dose of curiosity, and an open mind. Even if you say, “I don’t really know if I believe in reincarnation. I’m not too sure about these things.” It doesn’t matter. We all have access to it. With curiosity and an open mind, you’re gonna get the whole experience, so that’s really what I want to share with people who might think, “Yeah, but can I?” If you have curiosity it’s probably your higher self that’s giving you that spark, that curiosity.
Mike Dooley asked the question that I wanted to hear answered, what about people who can’t be hypnotized?
“That’s a good question. This question comes up a lot actually. So yeah, what if I can’t be hypnotized? So the interesting thing with this kind of regression is that I am not necessarily hypnotizing you. You’re going into a natural hypnotic trance yourself. And the beauty of this trance is, it will feel completely familiar to you, because you’re actually in this natural hypnotic trance every day of your life. In and out of every day, so you’re in it right before you’re falling asleep. You’re in it right before you’re waking up. But you’re also actually in it when you’re maybe watching your screen for longer than 2 or 3 minutes, or when you’re reading a book, or when you’re driving and kind of a little bit zoned out from where you were. All that is hypnotic trance. All that it really means is that, instead of having your awareness all around you, noticing different things happening around you, you have your focus and attention on one point. Really, hypnotism means…focused concentration. So when you close your eyes, when you get the right guidance, you can all of a sudden go into depth and open doors that you didn't even know existed with really great ease. So if you sleep at night, you go through a hypnotic state, so everybody can do this.
Mike Dooley asked a question from a listener about whether past lives are “specific? Are humans always humans, and dogs always dogs?” Marjie’s answer once again pointed to the strong possibility that Dolores Cannon encountered the Awareness Techniques and William & Diane Swygard’s books:
“That’s also interesting, because there’s different levels of species that you’re going through in your path of evolution. To give you an example, Dolores describes that you start as an elemental. Maybe as a mineral. I’ve had people that have had past lives as trees, as mountains. As areas in a field. All these are different ways to incarnate for us. You might think, ‘Oh, but a mountain never dies.’ But it doesn’t, it just switches souls for the soul to have a different experience. But you go through these different elemental experiences, where you’re a gas bubble somewhere in the sky. Then you’re coming to plant life, then you’re going to small animal life, and then you keep on growing.”
Marjie’s reference to Dolores’ idea that “you start as an elemental” is what piqued my curiosity. In the 1970 edition of Awareness Techniques Book 1, William Swygard describes how an individual Spirits are “sent down the energy lines to the core of the planet” where they are: “designated as Elemental Spirits and being their task of handling energy, transmuting energy into material (atoms.) Their first duty is in the mineral kingdom. As each Elemental becomes more proficient, He is given more duties, starting with the simplest mineral, to the more complex.”
This is either a coincidence of cosmic proportions, OR Dolores Cannon, working as a new Past Life practitioner in the time frame of the 1960s and ‘70s, came across one of the first publications on the subject, Awareness Techniques Book 1. Either way, it’s a fascinating “granular” look at the process of progressing in consciousness.
Back to the idea of having a Past Life experience as another species, Marjie says:
“I’ve had a client ask, ‘Yes, but can my next lifetime be that of a dog, for instance?’ And the Higher Self said, ‘For sure, you can choose whatever you want. You have free will, but it’s quite unlikely that you will make that choice because, essentially, you want to have of bigger and bigger consciousness, not smaller and smaller consciousness.’ So, yeah definitely, it can be that people have experiences of different species. This also happens.
And it’s fascinating that people would see the life of an eagle and they say, ‘Oh yeah, but my vision was completely different. Like I could all of a sudden see the colors were different. I could see much more specific details very far away, different kind (sic) of feelings, how it feels to be in a body like that.’ So yeah, definitely, anything can happen. Anything that your Higher Self deems to have a message for you.”
Marjie and I are in agreement on this: The information you get, and the experience you will have in a session, is based on “anything that your Higher Self deems to have a message for you.”
I didn't take the course but I appreciate the work that Marjie Terluin is doing in Berlin. More on her work at: https://marije.co