Meanings
adjectivepast-life (not comparable)
- not comparableRelated to a past life.
Dreams about past-life experiences have haunted me for most of my life.
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A vivid example is the recently conceived spiritualist technique of past-life therapy. A New Age version of psychoanalysis, past-life therapy involves uncovering traumas from one's previous lives. Past-life therapists argue that, by dredging up […]
2000, James Fieser, Moral Philosophy Through the Ages
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