Past-life therapy is fundamental to the Unarius Academy of Science: they believe that by reliving your previous lives you can resolve issues in your current life and improve your future. Which seems perfectly reasonable when you think about it. Apart from the 'past lives' (i.e. multiple) part, isn't this just what counselling / psychoanalysis / psychotherapy is about? We all have traumas, and they all need sorting, so why not have fun with it by dressing up for a camera and acting out scenes from your previously unremembered incarnations?
The string of films Unarius made in the 1970s and 80s can be seen on various platforms, usually slightly degraded and noisy as the copies are taken from the original VHS tapes. They are repetitive, and some are wilder (and more accomplished and expensive looking) than others, but they never less than fascinating. Most importantly, the participants always seem to be genuinely enjoying themselves, which is what differentiates them from other nastier and more oppressive 'unlock your repressed past' cults.
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