Jobless Dutch Forced Into Past-Life Therapy
Yeah….
The long-term Dutch unemployed are being forced into “regression therapy” in the hope that coming to terms with past lives will help them find a job.
Use of the New Age technique has sparked controversy after an unemployed woman in Maastricht was sent on a 10-week course at a cost of £720.
Practitioners often use hypnosis to induce a trance during which a person is allegedly taken back to their past lives.
Klaas Boffcher, at the Dutch Ruach Boraka Centre for Complementary Therapy, uses the technique to help “people find experiences from past identities that could be negatively affecting them today”.
“It is very useful. When someone has a problem finding work it is often more about the need to find out about themselves. Reincarnation therapy can help,” he said.
“Reincarnation therapy is regression to a previous life. People’s complaints and problems have causes not just in the present but also in previous lives.”
Marcus Huibers, a senior lecturer in clinical psychology at Maastricht University, is unimpressed.
“We are speaking here of an entirely obscure therapy that does not even merit the term therapy,” he said.
Piet Hein Donner, the Dutch social affairs minister, is facing growing calls from MPs for an explanation as to why therapies including reincarnation, tarot card readings and astrology are getting government funding as part of efforts to get people back into work.
Dutch unemployed and people on incapacity benefit can get state hand-outs of up to £4000 to pay for courses to help them find work.
Last year up to 42,500 people signed up to spiritually-based “personal development programmes”.
Story from the Telegraph UK
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False prophets.
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:57 amMore like therapist profits.
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:57 pm“Look, Hans, we’re trying to figure out what happened in a past life that made you such a lazy, worthless, commie-pinko leech.”
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:44 pmOh, the fun I could have if they sent me to one of these things. (Inspired by Ace and Entropy):
“What do you see?”
“I’m in the cupola of a Mark IV panzer. I’m wearing a black uniform with twin lighting rune insignia.”
“What are you doing?”
“I’m heading east to put the untermensch Slavs in their place and secure lebensraum for the Volk.”
“Uh, let’s go to a previous life. What do you see this time?”
“I’m in a longboat. There’s an ax in one hand and a round shield in the other. We’re just coming up onshore.”
“What are you doing?”
“We’re here to pillage the monasteries in Odin’s name, slaughter the cowardly peasants, and drag off any decent looking wenches we can find. Maybe burn down a few villages.”
“Okay, let’s try this again. Go back to an even earlier life. What do you see.”
“I’m in a column of Legionnaires outside a city in rebellion. The Emperor has ordered us to make an example of them. As soon as the engineers have created a breach, we’ll charge in and kill the defenders, put anyone who isn’t fit to be a slave to the sword, have our way with the women, loot the place, burn everything down, and salt the earth. In that order.”
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:25 pmCrimeny! No wonder they go on the dole, beats working! You get $8000 to go take courses on how to find a job? Meanwhile I am looking at three to four times that for a masters degree from some pretty no-name schools? Personally, I think it is the state’s fault that people are like that over there. There is a safety net for everything so there are no consequences so there is no need to apply yourself. Why bust your ass if everything will be taken care of by someone else? I realize it wouldn’t be the best life to be unemployed there, but without some incentive to get out and find a job, I am willing to bet that there are a whole bunch of folks, and not just the blood sucking muzzies, who feel no need to get a job but simply bleed their country dry.
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:30 pmI bet the 4000 £ can help anyone to invent anything ; I know plenty of people who would
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:00 pmEvery individual person is identified by their astrology birth chart and their astrological sign of the zodiac constellations. These can vary according to chinese astrology as compared to vedic astrology and western astrology, numerology and tarot astrology. Love horoscopes and astrology birth charts are used by many people to determine if somebody they know is an astrology match.
April 24th, 2008 at 8:34 pm