2 - Wednesday, December 29, 1982 - North Shore News experience because the whole thing could easily have been the work of my imagination. The clinical psychologist who guided me through this fascinating and unsettling . trip was Dr. Lee Pulos, an old friend. He warned me beforehand that the ex-. perience wouldn't prove Effects FROM PAGE 1 Councils in North Van- couver are also worried about the proliferation of the machines, while being uncertain as to whether they are socially undesirable. Neither is there general agreement over what to do about them - only that something should be done about them. Video arcade owners in North Vancouver City are currently enjoying a four- week reprieve from the new licensing regulations which would quadruple the licence fees for the machines, while council decides whether it has had second thoughts. Meanwhile, in North Van District, council is likely to end up ignoring the advice of its own planning department and creating a specific video amusement arcade zone in the municipality. Both West Van and North Van City councils have heard empassioned pleas from commercial video entertainment machine owners on the lines that the OF VEAL with ‘bring in JAGERHOF RESTAURANT NEW. YEAR’S PARTY SPECIAL MENU. Shrimp Bisque or Chet Salad ROAST SADDLE Chestout Stutting Buttered Carrots | Pan Foed Potatoes — or tromba Malakon or strictly personal by Bob Hunter Reliving past lives Recently, through hypnosis, I re-lived portions of two previous lifetimes. Or at least I seemed to. I must admit that the issue of reincarnation hasn't been settled in my mind by the anything because we are incapable of travelling back through time to check out the reality. But he himself believes in reincarnation, has under- gone “past-life regression”, as the technique is known, and has hypnotized many people himself, guiding them _ back to previous existences. Or, at least, what seem to be previous existences. Lee says that in one of his own past lives, he was an executioner, chopping off people’s heads. In this life- time, as a psychologist, he devotes his efforts to putting people’s heads back together. One thing that is beyond dispute is the therapeutic value of past-life regression. It is a technique used by quite a few psychologists nowadays to help people shed themselves of mental and emotional hangups that resist other forms of therapy. And Ill testify to that. When my friend hyp- notized me, I didn't lose consciousness. I remained aware throughout. My task, he said, was simply to report what I saw, leaving the rest to the subconscious mind. After imagining that 1 was rising higher and higher into - the sky above my house and letting myself be gripped a a “time stream”, I was told to land back on earth, then describe what I saw around me and what I was wearing. Slowly the fog roiled away and I could see a medieval European town. I was wearing heavy, leathery clothes, pointed boots, a leather hat with a large white feather in it. My experience, I should say, was disappointing in the sense that I couldn't figure out what language people were using, couldn't make out the writing on the signs, and therefore understood almost nothing of what was going on around me. However, there were high- lights to the almost two-hour experience that were emotionally loaded. Listening to my voice on the tape later, I hear it crack several times. Once was when my son, who looked to be maybe seven years old, drowned in a canal and I ran through the streets in a panic, looking for him. -Angother was on my death- bed. 1 was dying of some debilitating disease which had reduced me almost to a skeleton. It was an old soldier's ward in a grimy attic. I was completely alone except for a priest and a nun. Lee told me to move to my last lifetime. And that was a shocker. I seemed to be a young woman, in love with an aviator, just after the First World War. The aviator died. I was forced, with my child, to take up work as a servant for a large well-to-do family. While still young, I was run over by a tram. As my body was lying there on the tracks, I flew high up above it, then was whooshed upwards in a huge shaft filled with golden light. And — poof! I was back in the present. The experience was over. Was it anything more than a hallucination? Like everybody else, I've seen television shows and movies with backgrounds depicting almost every era in human history. My sub- conscious mind would have no trouble, just from those memories, cooking up any number of convincing “past- life settings”. Yet, at an emotional level, it seemed to make sense. More in the next column. of alien machines feared, unknown intended curbs would severly threaten their businesses. One such plea from Brunswick Lanes Manager Don~ MacBrayne that he would not be able to compete with other bowling alleys if he has to put up his bowling prices because of lost revenue from the video machines fell on deaf ears when West Van decided to the licensing changes. In North Van City, Pat Riccardi told council the very existence of his Right- On Submarines arcade is at stake in council's con- sideration of the bylaw changes. City council voted to table reconsideration and final adoption of the licensing bylaw amendment until the second week in January. In most cases recon- sideration and final adoption of a bylaw is a formality, because the bylaw has to go through so many = other stages first. But Mayor Jack Loucks said he anucipated a great deal of debate this lime. and he didn't want a ROAST or DUCKLING ala Orange Brussel Sprouts | Dunplngs Branded Peaches hasty decision. Riccardi owns machines, and under the new fare structure, would pay the maximum possible fee of $2,000, a 113 per cent increase from the $936 he pays at present. Alderman Frank Marcino denied Riccardi’s contention that he is being descrifinated against. Any descrimination is in Ric- cardi’s favor, Marcino said, because under new zoning amendments (not yet passed by council) he would be allowed to keep his 28 machines, but no new ar- cades as large would be allowed in the City. The zoning amendments, which have gone to council's advisory committees for comment, would allow a maximum of eight machines in any business, except in those arcades, such as Right- On Submarine, that already have more than eight. Riccardi could even sell Right-On with all = 28 machines in place, Marcino said. Riccard) disputed City Administrator Ed 28 Celebrate The. BUBBLY oe ANGE JUICE BRUNCH “1tam-3pm Raymond's claim that higher fees are necessary to pay for the increased police costs that arise from arcades. The police have never had any complaints about Right- On Submarine, he said. Any people causing a disturbance are kicked out, and no one under 16 is allowed in the arcade after 7 p.m. without a parent or guardian, he said. Riccardi presented council with a petition that he said was signed by more than 500 people, prominent in the community, who support his stand against the fee increase. In North Van District, the question of whether or not video arcades promote youth problems was hotly debated recently. Ald. John Lakes main- tained the concerns of other council members were not based on any evidence. “Its based on presump- tions that somehow or other these computerized machines will cause something wicked to hap- pen.” But Alderman Erie Crist disagreed with Lakes and said if video machines are allowed to remain in or near residential areas then the worst can be expected to happen in the community. “I can envision nothing but trouble.” predicted Crist, “I believe it is totally legitimate to have arcade zones provided they are appropriate zones so problems will not occur.” However, according to a report from the planning department, arcade zones would very likely create just as many problems as Crist fears would develop in a residential neighborhood if video machines were governed by the business licence bylaw for com- mercial stores. “The social planner and police advise that con- centrating a large number of amusement machines in one location creates problems, especially in controlling the conduct of patrons and preventing conflict with (other area businesses). 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