The premise is interesting enough - in the 1960s a woman from Bath England sees a psychiatrist about vivid nightmares she's had since childhood. The details she gives leads the psychiatrist to believe that she is remembering a past life, where she was a Cathar (a religious group that was massacred by the Inquisition).
The problem with the story is that it is quite clear from the start that it is very likely completely fake. There isn't really anything to suggest it could be true. It's not as though the woman revealed things that she or the psychiatrist couldn't have known about. True, the dreams were detailed and named characters from history - but the same way the psychiatrist checked up these facts, either of them could have found them out beforehand. Most likely, the psychiatrist cooked up the whole thing.
The worst part is the two women from present day Dublin who claim to have a "sense" that they too were Cathars in a previous life. Their belief is based on the fact that they felt "something" when they heard the word "Cathar"! There is really nothing more to it than that! The whole ordeal where they visit the site of their death in a previous life is just ridiculous. They just claim to feel things.
Stories about past lives are interesting, but there has to be something that makes it believable. Nothing in this show was.
The problem with the story is that it is quite clear from the start that it is very likely completely fake. There isn't really anything to suggest it could be true. It's not as though the woman revealed things that she or the psychiatrist couldn't have known about. True, the dreams were detailed and named characters from history - but the same way the psychiatrist checked up these facts, either of them could have found them out beforehand. Most likely, the psychiatrist cooked up the whole thing.
The worst part is the two women from present day Dublin who claim to have a "sense" that they too were Cathars in a previous life. Their belief is based on the fact that they felt "something" when they heard the word "Cathar"! There is really nothing more to it than that! The whole ordeal where they visit the site of their death in a previous life is just ridiculous. They just claim to feel things.
Stories about past lives are interesting, but there has to be something that makes it believable. Nothing in this show was.
