What happens when a former private investigator dives deep into four past life regressions in a single week? In this revealing episode, Bob Olson shares a personal journey unlike any he’s ever taken—one that challenges his understanding of identity, purpose, and the hidden threads that shape our present lives.
These past life stories aren’t just tales from long ago—they’re filled with emotion, mystery, and meaning that strike directly at the heart of the human experience. Whether you’re a believer in reincarnation or simply open to exploring the healing power of metaphor, this episode offers a rare glimpse into the soul’s journey across time.
Tune in as Bob opens up about the surprising lifetimes he encountered, how they shed light on his current struggles, and the unexpected clarity they gave him about his work, his purpose, and the deeper meaning of community.
Watch now to uncover what your past might reveal about your present—and how even brief glimpses into other lives can change everything.
Bob Olson is the founder of Best Psychic Directory, featuring hundreds of psychics, mediums, animal communicators, and energy healers. https://www.bestpsychicdirectory.com
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Afterlife TV is presented by Afterlife Investigator & Psychic Medium Researcher Bob Olson, who is the author of Answers about the Afterlife: A Private Investigator's 15-Year Research Unlocks the Mysteries of Life after Death.
Check out Bob Olson's other sites: BestPsychicDirectory.com (a directory of hundreds of psychics & mediums by location with reviews & Instant Readings) & BestPsychicMediums.com (his personal recommended list of tested psychics and mediums) or visit Bob's Facebook Page. Bob also has a popular workshop for psychics and mediums at PsychicMediumWorkshop.com.
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Why get a past life regression
Hey, everybody, Bob Olson here with the Afterlife TV. You can find us at AfterlifeTV.com. It’s where we talk about life after death and the meaningful questions you have about that subject. We’re going to be talking about four past lives that I experienced recently within one week and how this changed my life. If you don’t know me, I am a private investigator who has been investigating life after death, evidence of the afterlife for 28 years. All started after my father died. I wanted to know where he went, if anywhere. And so I use my skills as a private eye to search for evidence of life after death. Here we are 28 years later. I’m going through something kind of personally, privately that I decide perhaps I can get some insight from, maybe a little healing by having a past life regression.
One of the things that I just want to say about this, these stories that I’m about to tell you, you know, they’re not really about the past, as weird as that may sound. What we learn from our past lives is really more about our current life, about now. And in fact, any and I’ve had many past life regressions, any past life that I’ve visited always had something to teach me about what I was going through at that moment in time.
And what’s interesting about it, it’s not always just the past life. It’s also the scenes that you visit. When we say we have a past life regression, we don’t necessarily experience, we don’t experience the whole life. We experience maybe a few days and we know what was going on at that time in that person’s lifetime by visiting those few days. But we don’t know everything about their life. So in essence, you know, we could keep revisiting one person’s lifetime and we could revisit their lifetime as a boy. You can’t say it’s a guy. As a boy, as a young man, as a middle-aged man, as an older man. And these would all be different experiences that we could learn and grow from.
The four that I had were, you know, I would say each one I experienced maybe three scenes, three different days of each of these people’s lives. And they all had something to teach me. And so because I’ve been getting a lot of past life regressions over the years, I think it’s just helpful to recognize that. While you can have these experiences out of curiosity, to me, it’s really more about insight and healing. They really help us with the things that we’re going through. And I think that’s a great reason to do this work.
My first past life
So the four experiences that I had, none of them were that detailed, but the messages that they were there to show me were very clear. The first one was surprising to me. I recognized that I was in the lifetime of a Nazi officer. He was in like this gray Nazi uniform. He was very, it was very clean, very pristine. And yet there was a contrast because there was just the city was in rubble. It was a German city. I didn’t see any bodies. I didn’t see any of that kind of carnage. But what I had a knowing, and this is one of the interesting things about having these experiences, I had a knowing that this was the last day of World War II. The war had ended and the U.S. soldiers had taken over the city that this Nazi officer was in. And he knew it was over.
And what was really fascinating to me, having experienced this, was that he was just at peace. He was just so happy it was over. What I didn’t see, but I knew happened again. It was another knowing was that that he was going to take his life, that he took his life rather than being captured by the U.S. soldiers. One of the things that you do when you have a past life regression and you experience different scenes from that person’s life is on the day of their death, you usually rise up and you learn a lesson, usually a couple lessons, the lesson that that person learned from their own lifetime, and there’s usually more than one, but you usually learn the key lesson. And then the reason that I, Bob Olson, was experiencing that lifetime on that particular day.
One of the things that I could feel was that he had a deep regret. I mean, just profoundly deep regret of being a follower, that he didn’t live up to his own principles and morals, which probably would have resulted in imprisonment or death for him anyway. But he would have probably felt better about himself if he had. And instead, because of fear, it was clear to me that this was all due to fear. It might have been fear of him being harmed. It might have been fear of family members being harmed. But it certainly was due to fear that he followed what was expected of him all the way up into being a Nazi officer. And I could sense the regret he had for doing that after his passing. And what the reason I recognized this was shown to me was because my lifetime in this life has been completely the opposite.
And it explained to me how I’ve always had a lifelong resistance to this sort of groupthink or cliques or joining. And it’s just not something that I’ve ever done. And it helped me to understand why that sort of came naturally to me. So that was the Nazi officer experience.
My second past life
That was the first one. The second past life experience that I had was as a woman in her 30s. I think it was early 1800s. She was joyful. She was peaceful. She couldn’t have been happier. And I remember that I saw her house and it was a very humble residence. She was dressed where at first I thought she was a servant. But then I realized this was just her home dress. But the joy and the sense of peace that I felt for her was immense. And she was making some sandwiches. And she took the sandwiches across this meadow outside her house, across this meadow and into this field where her husband was working and I assume he was on a horse. All I knew was he was up high and she was handing him the sandwiches. And the love and joy that I even felt from her husband was incredible.
There wasn’t a lot to that lifetime. It was a very simple experience that I had. But when we went to the last day of her life and we rose above after her passing, the lesson for me was to remind me that we don’t always have to have a big purpose to have love and joy and meaning in our lifetime. And this is important because I was going through this period where I was just really trying to decide what is it that I’m supposed to be doing in terms of the work that I do, because there’s only so much time to do everything. And when you realize that it doesn’t have to be this grand thing that a simple life like this, this woman farmer was enough, it was great reflection for me while I was going through this. So that was the great insight that I gained from her lifetime.
My third past life
And so then the third experience that I had now, I had two past lives experiences in one day, which was same regressionist. And the first one was as a Native American boy. I knew I was 17 years old. I knew that I had just come back from hunting. I had a bow and arrow with me. And when I came back to my tribe, everybody had disappeared.
Now, I, as Bob Olson, had a knowing that. That white soldiers had come and just taken everybody away, women, men. Children had just taken everyone away, but because the 17 year old boy wasn’t there, he was out hunting. He wasn’t part of it. I also had a knowing that the 17 year old boy’s parents had died. Earlier in life and because of that, he had somehow got separated from the tribe that he did grow up in as even as a young man. And so this tribe that just disappeared on the day that I was saying had taken him in, that sort of adopted him. And he didn’t feel a real close connection because he didn’t grow up with them. He was sort of an outsider coming into the tribe. But, you know, it was he recognized the kindness and his gratefulness for them taking care of him. But now they, too, were gone.
And so we move forward into his lifetime. We didn’t know, but it turned out to be the last day of his life. He was fishing. He heard a noise. He turned around. There was two white cowboys who were accusing him of trespassing. The boy was trying to explain that he would leave and they just shot him and left him for dead. And he died. And what I learned from that was that he was showing me the pain of living without a strong sense of belonging and community. And it helped for me. The message for me was to help me understand why I crave community in my life and why it’s so important. And I have recognized in one of the reasons that I was having all these experiences, I recognized that it was missing from my life.
Now, I couldn’t have articulated it before these regressions. And so this is what it was helping me to recognize was that, you know, I do a lot of work here on the Internet, and so I’m not in contact with people more directly. And as a result, that leaves a certain distance between you and I. And even though you leave, you know, these wonderful comments that I so appreciate, it’s really not the same as really being able to see how my work impacts you in your day to day lives. And so this is one of the things that these lifetimes was showing me through all these experiences.
So that was the third one. And my fourth and final experience that I had the same day as the young Native American boy was the opposite of that. And now I was going to see what it felt like to have a strong sense of community.
My fourth past life
And so I came into the lifetime as an English minister and he was a young in his 30s. I knew that he had a wife and he had two children, a boy and a girl. This was on the day that he was actually becoming the minister for his church. He had been an assistant minister and the elderly minister who had been the head minister was stepping down. And this young minister was now going to be the head minister. And it was interesting.
He gave a sermon. We went to another scene where he was giving a sermon. He was giving a sermon about things like love and kindness and service. And he knew that some of the people in his congregation weren’t sure how they felt about him talking about these more general messages rather than talking about sin and hell and damnation and all the things that the previous minister, the elderly minister, you know, always talked about. And I remember feeling that this young minister was like, well, he’ll get used to it. He had complete confidence that everybody was going to be just fine with his more general messages that didn’t necessarily include the dogma that most people were used to, but they were still important messages about love and kindness and service.
So one of the things that happened, we moved forward. The minister and his wife lost their son, who’s the youngest child. He passed from some sickness. And I got to see how the community came together to support him and his wife. This lifetime was showing me the value of face-to-face teaching, teaching me that it would probably be good for me to get out and speak more in public and where, you know, in forums where I could actually see and touch—maybe some hugs—of the people and get a sense, like I said, of how my work positively affects people, comforting their grief, giving them a sense of peace, maybe bringing them from fear to inner peace during difficult times in their life based on me teaching not just what I’ve learned about the afterlife, but what I’ve learned about life while investigating the afterlife.
Summary: What I learned
All of these experiences really helped me to understand, especially those last two that, you know, I learned to see the ripple effects of my work and to think about how I might go about doing that. One of the things that I knew that I wanted to do was get back to Afterlife TV. The last thing I’ll end with is simply that I think of past life experiences and including the different scenes that you might see, you know, sometimes you see two or three or maybe even four scenes within one lifetime.
I think of them as puzzle pieces and we take these puzzle pieces and we put them together. And for this example of this video, these four lifetimes and the different scenes that I saw in them, but certainly the main lessons that I gained from each one were like puzzle pieces that created a puzzle that was showing me a different way. One, you know, to help me understand why I chose this, why I, one might say, even had the courage to teach about the afterlife when I was a private investigator.
Everybody was fascinated and it was just a cool, cool profession. When I started investigating the afterlife, some people became afraid of me. They didn’t want to be around me anymore. And I’m not saying like close friends, but relatives suddenly thought that I was a little weird and because they were highly religious, for some reason, thought that I was doing something that, you know, was the devil’s work, something like that. But it wasn’t as popular as being a private eye, you know, being an afterlife investigator. And so that first lifetime showed me why I might have made those choices and had the courage to go from this very popular career into this, this one that you just never really knew how people were going to respond.
And then the woman farmer, you know, really teaching me, hey, it doesn’t have to be this big, grand, you know, thing, grand purpose that you can feel a sense of peace and joy and meaning from some of the simplest parts of life and just doing what you do. She certainly showed me that. And then the Native American boy showing me, you know, an extreme example of what I experience, you know, of him not feeling any sense of belonging or community.
And then the minister having the complete opposite of that, really encouraging me to find a way to bring community into my life. None of this is really about trying to convince anybody…
How to gain if you don’t believe
…about reincarnation or any of that, it’s just, you know, the thing is, there’s a lot of people who don’t even really believe in past lives. They see it more as a metaphor. And that’s fine, too. The whole purpose of it is even if you have these experiences and you don’t believe, you know, they’re really past lives, you can still gain from them in the way that I just showed you and and and look at as like a therapeutic exercise that maybe it’s just psychology speaking in metaphors. But yet look what healing and insight that can be gained from them.
For those of you who have had past life regressions and had experiences, I would love to hear about it in the comments. Certainly share with me and other people because people who are watching this would love to hear more, I’m sure. And if you have any questions, then certainly ask in the comments or just let me know if my work has been helpful to you over the years.
And I’m sorry that I just disappeared for a while. I’ve been doing a lot of things and I kind of got away from the videos, but now I’m back and I’m happy to be back. And thank you for joining me. And I hope you’ll like this video and so that YouTube will show you my videos, any new videos that come up in the future. I look forward to seeing you again soon.
All right. Thank you.
Afterlife TV is presented by Afterlife Investigator & Psychic Medium Researcher Bob Olson, who is the author of Answers about the Afterlife: A Private Investigator's 15-Year Research Unlocks the Mysteries of Life after Death.
Check out Bob Olson's other sites: BestPsychicDirectory.com (a directory of hundreds of psychics & mediums by location with reviews & Instant Readings) & BestPsychicMediums.com (his personal recommended list of tested psychics and mediums) or visit Bob's Facebook Page. Bob also has a popular workshop for psychics and mediums at PsychicMediumWorkshop.com.
JOIN BOB'S NEWSLETTER: Join Bob Olson's "Afterlife Academy" newsletter (free): AfterlifeAcademy.com -- Follow Bob as he investigates the afterlife.
