Some patients even describe experiencing what they believe to be their life in the womb and subsequent birth. Still others describe some sort of disembodied state and then what they identify as past lives and former identities. How much of this is created by heightened suggestibility, unrestrained imagination, trance hallucination, or demonic intervention cannot be determined. Hypnosis is not even reliable with recent recall. Research indicates that after hypnosis, a person is unable to distinguish between a true recollection and what he imagined or created under the heightened suggestibility.
Hypnosis is just as likely to bring forth false impressions as true accounts of past events.
Hypnosis is thus more likely to contaminate the memory than to help a person remember what really happened. Besides past life hypnotic therapy, some practitioners are doing future life hypnotic therapy. The hypnotized person supposedly sees future events, solves murders, reveals the future fates of well-known personalities, etc. But compounding the word hypnosis with the word therapy does not lift the practice from the occult to the scientific. The white coat may be a more respectable garb than feathers and face paint, but the basics are the same.