Joy Behar Voices Disbelief in Life After Death, Hypnotism

Although I didn’t get to see the episode of The View when Joy Behar went through hypnosis and past-life regression, I’ve read that she’s been very vocal about what she thought of the experience.

After her sit-down with Dr. Brian Weiss, she told ABCNews.com: “The guy claims that he hypnotized me, but I don’t believe it.  He can say whatever he wants, but I was just really relaxed. I felt like I was getting psychoanalyzed. He told me to go back to some period in history in put myself someplace, so I went back to Louis XIV’s court.  But I was a cub reporter. I was just somebody watching. I wasn’t getting my head cut off, I wasn’t one of the peasants."

Despite the fact that she was able to go back to that period in time during her “dream-like” experience, she calls reincarnation “a bunch of crap” which, obviously, is very telling of what she thinks of past-life regression.  I haven’t gone through anything like that before but I have been hypnotized and I think that too many people think they are going to be unconscious or something but, really, hypnosis is just a deep form of relaxation – which is basically what she described.  I also think that if you go into something believing that it’s just a “bunch of crap” it will affect how your feel about the experience.

When asked what does believe in, the comedienne replied:  "Nothing.  I believe in comedy. I believe in laughing, in having fun, and in being good to people. I don’t believe in after death, before death — nothing. When you’re here you’re here, when you’re gone, you’re gone."

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