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Marilyn Monroe returns to the stage?
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 UNITED STATES. It took over six years of meticulous research before past-life
researcher and regressionist Adrian Finkelstein was ready to confirm
that one of his subjects is, indeed, the reincarnation of Marilyn
Monroe. 
She turned for help to Finkelstein, who has been a professor of
psychiatry at both the Chicago Medical School and Rush University,
after having disturbing and intrusive flashbacks to her previous life
as Marilyn. Finkelstein has been using past-life regression to help his
patients for 30 years.
Claims to be the reincarnation of someone famous are, naturally,
treated with scepticism, even among therapists and researchers in this
field. And to be Marilyn Monroe reborn must be the dream of many
women. So Finkelstein will have approached his sessions with Miss Laird
with the utmost caution. What helped, apparently, is that Sherrie Laird was not happy being Monroe. She felt as if she was being taken over by the film star, who was trying to shape her into former self. It made her suicidal.
She turned out to be a good hypnotic subject and Finkelstein says he was able to
guide her into a “somnambulistic hypnotic state” which is said to
produce certain tell-tale characteristics, such as a “waxy face”
because the facial musculature is deeply relaxed. Information given by
a subject while in this state, which it is claimed cannot be faked, is
accepted by practitioners as truthful.
But the evidence in this case goes beyond past-life memories – which is
just as well since so much has been written about Monroe and is in the
public domain. Finkelstein’s research includes comparisons between Miss
Laird’s and Marilyn Monroe’s facial bone structure, hands, handwriting,
voice pattern, linguistics and personality traits.
This may seem an implausible approach for a psychiatrist to take, since
there is no genetic connection between Miss Laird’s natural parents and
Marilyn Monroe. So why would she look and sound similar from one life
to the next?
There is a growing belief among reincarnation researchers that a soul can
“carry” physical features and other characteristics into a new body. In
fact, Walter Semkiw – a physician and assistant chief of occupational
medicine at a major San Francisco medical centre – has pioneered
research into this aspect of reincarnation.
Laird and Finkelstein were featured on CNN on 10 August when reference was made to Marilyn's love affairs with John F Kennedy and his brother Robert, the Attorney General. Viewers were let to judge for themselves from videotapes of the hypnotised singer recalling her past life as Marilyn Monroe.
We will be reviewing Finkelstein's book and carrying more information on this intriguing case in the future. Meanwhile, an excellent interview with Sherrie Laird, published in the UK's Daily Telegraph on 1 October, is well worth reading (at www.telegraph.co.uk)
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Posted on Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Category: Reincarnation
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