Memories of a past life could be linked to the collective unconscious for example through hypnotic regression. In an effort to heal from present life symptoms and neurosis, an individual may be regressed to a pre-womb lifetime and re-experience painful or traumatic events that occurred. It is the memory of those experiences that may have become suppressed or trapped deep within the subconscious and cannot be recalled within the conscious mind. Having no knowledge or concept of these suppressed memories the individual has no idea that they may be the underlying cause or source of their symptoms. However, through hypnotic regression, memories may be awakened and brought to light through the subconscious mind, which contains all the memories of
