Bridey Murphy

The case of Bridey Murphy has attracted world wide attention in the 1950s. The U.S. businessman Morey Bernstein, who privately dealt with hypnosis, ushered in Pueblo (Colorado) eight hypnosis sessions by using the ( derived by Indians ) housewife Virginia Tighe.

In the third to eighth session ( 29 November 1952 to October 1, 1953) described a past life as Bridey Tighe (actually Bridget Kathleen ) Murphy, daughter of Duncan and Kathleen Murphy, who on 20 December 1798 in Cork ( Ireland) was born. 1818 she married Sean Brian Joseph McCarthy ( * 1796) and had it pulled with him to Belfast, where she died in 1864 from a stair fall. The hypnotic regressions could be a large number of details refer to ( as later investigations William J. Barker in Ireland revealed ) could often be confirmed. In contrast, Bridey Murphy himself and most of the persons referred to by it did not explicitly prove.

In addition, Tighe recalled even a brief incarnation in Nieuw Amsterdam (the name of New York until 1664). However, they made ​​no independent information that could have been checked.

Virginia Tighe (* April 27, 1923 in Madison, Wisconsin, † July 12, 1995 near Denver, Colorado ) acquired their surnames by her second marriage with Hugh Bryan Tighe. Her birth name was Burns until they got the name by adoption fermentation at the age of three years. Bernstein used in his book the pseudonym Ruth Simmons (born Mills ).

Criticism

The first printed report on the case of Bridey Murphy was released on September 12, 19 and 26, 1954 in Empire Magazine. The publication of the book The Search for Bridey Murphy by Bernstein in 1956 sparked the first time in global discussions on the question of reincarnation. A journalistic campaign against the tabloid Chicago American ( in other leaves much publicized ) story meant that the case was soon generally cleared within the meaning of cryptomnesia hypothesis. As a source of pretensions awareness of a past life in Ireland is an Irish former neighbor of Virginia Tighe, Mrs. Corkell called, whose birth name was said to be Bridie Murphy. Your information about contacts with Mrs. Tighe in their childhood were denied by Mrs. Tighe. Mrs. William J. Barker Corkell refused an interview and was identified from this, finally, as the mother of an editor of the " Chicago 's American.

The book

Bernstein's book underwent numerous editions. Since the edition of 1965 is subtitled With new material by William J. Barker. The first German translation appeared in 1957 under the title The case of Bridey Murphy. Document a rebirth ( a later translation title is a protocol rebirth). There are also translations into Danish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish and Spanish.

Filming

1956 The Search for Bridey Murphy was filmed in the United States, directed by Noel Langley. Amber is played therein by Louis Hayward, Virginia Tighe (as Ruth Simmons ) by Teresa Wright. The cast also William J. Barker heard.

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