Stokes Adam Syndrome (SAS) is a peculiar condition where any external or painful stimulus can stop the heart briefly, but not for more than 30 seconds. Fortunately, the heartbeat resumes spontaneously and no damage is done to the person who experiences it. A 67-year-old lady-doctor came to me with these symptoms:
Medical Symptoms and Diagnosis
- The first symptoms began when she was five years old, but she did not bother much. Her bouts of falling unconscious were treated merely as syncopal episodes.
- The most severe attack happened when she was on the operation table for angioplasty. The doctors were introducing the wire with a needle into her artery, and the moment the wire touched her heart, it stopped beating. The doctors panicked and they rushed to give her CPR. But within 30 seconds when the heartbeat came back naturally, they were able to diagnose that she possibly has SAS.
- The lady was quite perturbed by this episode in the operation theater. Being a doctor herself, she had to travel a lot, and it wouldn’t do to suddenly collapse somewhere randomly like when she was driving and so on. That’s when she decides to try regression as an alternative therapy.
Findings through Regression Therapy
During the regression session, the woman sees herself as a young man who is stabbed by a masked stranger while he is standing under a tree. He doesn’t know who killed him, but he experiences a deep shock and pain and he dies watching the dagger in his heart, bleeding. So the memory from that past life, of the dagger piercing the heart through and through, is deeply impressed upon the soul at the time of death.
After witnessing this significant past life I suggest her to explore what triggered this memory in her present life. Surprisingly she never told me about this incident when I was taking her history, because she herself had no clue about the connection. But the mind has all the clues, and it automatically takes her back to a memory from her current life that triggers the memory of being stabbed in her past life.
The woman goes back in time when she was five years old in the current life. Her mother is cutting vegetables with a knife on the cutting board, and the little girl is so fascinated by what her mother is doing that she wants to do the same. But the mother refuses saying that it was too dangerous for her to use the knife as it is very sharp. The girl obeys, but the moment her mother goes out, she tries to cut the vegetable and cuts her finger instead with the knife. As she sees blood oozing out, she collapses.
So that was the memory: something piercing through the body and bleeding. Subsequently she started having regular bouts of fainting and collapsing, which were usually triggered by some painful stimulus.
Metaphor of the Memory in the Present Life
Doctors were not able to diagnose her fainting sprees until the time when she was undergoing angioplasty. So what happened at that time?
During angioplasty, through an artery either in the leg or the hand, a needle is introduced with a wire that goes all the way from the artery to the heart. Look at the beauty of the memory of the heart: the moment the wire touches the heart, it stops beating, reminding her of the dagger in the heart from her past life.
Condition Post Regression:
I approached this case without any prejudice, but being a doctor herself, my client was completely surprised with what was revealed during her regression sessions. She was very curious about the result so, after the session, she asks me to take a syringe loaded with saline and inject her with it. She says, “I want to see if it works.” I tell her, “Are you kidding? I don’t want your heart to stop now, in my clinic! Wait, let the memory heal.” Because, you know, the body should be given time to heal.
I followed up for a year and half after this session: she has not had any recurring episodes even upon exposure to any painful stimulus.