After her sit-down with Dr. Brian Weiss, she told ABCNews.com: “The guy claims that he hypnotized me, but I don’t believe it.  He can say whatever he wants, but I was just really relaxed. I felt like I was getting psychoanalyzed. He told me to go back to some period in history in put myself someplace, so I went back to Louis XIV’s court.  But I was a cub reporter. I was just somebody watching. I wasn’t getting my head cut off, I wasn’t one of the peasants."

Despite the fact that she was able to go back to that period in time during her “dream-like” experience, she calls reincarnation “a bunch of crap” which, obviously, is very telling of what she thinks of past-life regression.  I haven’t gone through anything like that before but I have been hypnotized and I think that too many people think they are going to be unconscious or something but, really, hypnosis is just a deep form of relaxation – which is basically what she described.  I also think that if you go into something believing that it’s just a “bunch of crap” it will affect how your feel about the experience.

When asked what does believe in, the comedienne replied:  "Nothing.  I believe in comedy. I believe in laughing, in having fun, and in being good to people. I don’t believe in after death, before death — nothing. When you’re here you’re here, when you’re gone, you’re gone."

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It’s interesting because Joy really doesn’t believe in reincarnation so I think that, if she does experience something, I would be more likely to believe that it truly did happen.  It’s a phenomenon that I’ve always been interested in so I plan to give the episode my undivided attention.

Joy’s past life exploration is just one part of an entire supernatural day on The View since audience members will also be getting readings from John Edward, Whoopi will learn more about Tarot cards, Sherri will have a psychic reading and Elisabeth will hear what’s “in the stars” for the Hasselbeck family.

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