It was, because now we can laugh at it openly.
The impressive thing about this thread was that someone was able to go from not even knowing how to meditate to successfully remembering a past life in approximately 10 seconds, without even bringing a hypnotist into it. The people who preach this sort of thing indicate that it usually takes more work than this.
For example the Aetherius Society (which cooperates with the gods from space) says "If you practice selfless service to others and mystical practices such as yoga breathing, mantra, dynamic prayer, etc, you will develop psychic abilities and your intuition. One of these abilities will be past life recognition in yourself and others."
http://www.aetherius.org/karma-and-rein ... ast-lives/The Esoteric Metaphysical Spiritual Database says you need repeated self-hypnosis sessions. They also say "Accept what you see. It will seem like you are inventing these images. Sometimes you are, and you must accept that as part of the process of trying to remember a past life. But these visions almost always have a shred of truth at their core. You will only know for certain when you’ve done a significant number of past-life meditations, and you begin to see patterns and details repeated over and over again. In the meantime, you must choose to believe that what you see is genuine; if you don’t, you will never get anywhere. Your analytical mind will simply shoot down every image as a product of your overeager imagination."
http://in5d.com/how-to-remember-your-past-lives/In other words, in addition to working to remember this stuff, you also have to work at convincing yourself that it's real and not just your imagination running wild. Apparently some people are so eager to believe that they don't have this problem.