Raaz Pichhle Janm Ka (Hindi: ???? ???????? , "The Past Life Secrets ") is an Indian reality television series based on past life regression techniques. The Imagine NDTV event was hosted by actor Ravi Kishan, while a past life regression session was conducted by Mumbai-based Trupti Jayin psychologist. The first season starts on December 7, 2009, planned for 20 episodes run from Monday to Friday, 9.30 pm, by Ideas Box Entertainment and Urban Brew Studios, gets an extension of 20 episodes, and ends on January 15, 2010, while the Second season starts at 23 October 2010, with actor, Chunky Pandey as a guest.
Participants include a mix of invited celebrities and ordinary people chosen through the in-phone process. Participants included Shekhar Suman, Monica Bedi, Celina Jaitley, Payal Rohatgi, and Manvendra Singh Gohil.
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Drafts
The event opens with guests explaining certain issues, usually the fear he faces and hopes to find a solution or insight. After that they were taken through long life regression sessions of the past, edited for television.
The procedure as described by the show therapist, Dr. Tripti Jayin, the patient was first brought into a state of progressive relaxation, followed by alpha-theta meditation through visualization of light and then should be 'taken back' into the past to find out the reasons for the things that bothered them in this birth. Some events are dramatized when participants tell certain events, and eventually talk about the experience.
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About past life regression
It uses conscious meditation techniques to restore the memories of our past lives. It helps overcome fear, phobias and even physical ailments in our lives today by finding their roots in our previous lives.
Called information
Many participants should remember information from the past. The best example is that Swati Singh (Episode-1 participants) is correct in light of information about the 1967 Air India 1966 (24 January 1966) aviation accidents accident, where it claims that he was an Indian sailor named Singh , and in this flight the leading Indian physicist Dr Homi J. Bhabha has also died.
Medical community view
A number of clinical psychiatrists say that the 'memories' of past lives are merely the projected imagination of an individual. However, others believe that the concept requires further research. "I do not practice it but I do not agree that the regression of the past lives should be dismissed altogether.I believe that this concept needs to be thoroughly researched," said Dr. Divay Mangla, a psychiatrist who trained at Yamuna Nagar, India.
Controversy
Some people and organizations have cast doubt on the credibility and reality of the show. Most of the past life regression processes are also not displayed on television, so it can not be ascertained whether the process is real or not. There is no explanation given by NDTV Imagine in this regard.
Legal notice
Bharat Jan Vigyan Jathan, an independent Indian organization, has issued legal notices by the High Court of Punjab and Haryana to the NDTV Imagine TV Channel (a copy also issued to the Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting) for allegedly spreading superstitions through Raaz Pichhle Janam Ka. It also calls for channels for public debate in the presence of experts and scientists and proves its beliefs scientifically.
Season 1
Episode
The first series of Raaz Pichhle Janam Ka starts on December 7, 2009 and ends on January 15, 2010. Episodes aired on NDTV Imagine every night from Monday to Friday at 9:30 pm. Originally planned to have 20 episodes but this was extended to 40 episodes. The end of the season re-visited the participants posting their experiences on the show and exploring the impact the event has on their lives.
Eventmakers, The Ideas Box Entertainment Pvt. Ltd is said to plan a second season of the planned show again having 20 episodes.
Celebrity Participants
- Mishal Raheja, sees himself as king during the Moghul era stabbed by his people and driven from the cliff. Before the procedure, he said he was afraid of heights.
- Shekhar Suman, met his youngest son
- Celina Jaitley, saw himself as a German soldier fighting and dying in action in World War 2 in his first old-age regression and as a happy woman to marry from the US in his second old-life regression.
- Paypal Rohatgi, sees himself as a Boy in his previous birth betrayed by his lover.
- Monica Bedi, sees herself as a Portuguese woman, a mother who sacrificed herself from three children who saw powerlessly when her ex-husband died in a car accident.
- Manvendra Singh Gohil (Prince Rajpipla and gay rights activist), saw himself as a poor farmer, and in a tragic accident while crossing the river, he lost his son. Manvendra's wife became very disturbed by their son's loss and this greatly influenced their marriage life.
- Sambhavna Seth, sees himself as a Muslim woman, whose uncle has killed her after persecuting her.
- Ravi Kishan (the host), saw himself as 'Sadhu Dragon' in Manali, Himachal Pradesh during the 1890s and tried to get moksha but failed; as a certain condition that made him do nothing, but three murders in his past life that changed his life forever.
- Eva Grover (Famous TV Stars and former actor Haider actors who coincidentally are Aamir Khan's half-brother).