Could our memories of past-life experiences offer a key to unlocking the mysteries and questions we struggle with today? According to Dr. Roger Woolger, author of Other Lives, Other Selves, and honorary memebere of EARTh, the answer is yes and anyone can learn to explore these extraordinary memories to retrieve valuable healing insights. With Healing Your Past Lives, Woolger gathers together an astonishing two decades of research that he has conducted with hundreds of patients, to offer a clear account of past lives including many specific techniques to begin exploring them.

ISBN: 1591791839

Written for the same market as the multi-million-copy bestselling Life After Life, this book is a provocative look at the revolutionary technique of past life regression, with compelling case histories and personal testimonies of physical, mental and spiritual healing. Woolger is on of the pioneers of regression therapy and you can also find a lot of his articles on our articles section

By Roger Woolger, Ph.D.

ISBN: 0553345958

The Presence of other Worlds in Psychotherapy and Healing

Under it's first impetus philosophical thought is simply metaphysics because it is a going beyond... It has been said that this begins in wonder. An initial amazement marks the opening of a new dimension of transcendence. By a movement of defocusing the world becomes disarticulated and is shown in relief.

The Secret History of Reincarnation

(Extracted from Healing Your Past Lives, Sounds True, Boulder, Colorado, 2004)

Worn-out garments
Are shed by the body:
Worn-out bodies
Are shed by the dweller
Within the body.
New bodies are donned
By the dweller, like garments.

-Bhagavad-Gita II

Not long ago, I saw a slogan on a bumper sticker: Reincarnation is having a comeback. It's a sad fact that the scientific establishment in the United States still marginalizes most work that even hints at realities beyond our own, including regression therapy, parapsychology, and a vast body of research into paranormal phenomena, from out-of-body experiences to children's spontaneous past-life memories.[1]

Deep Memory Process and the Healing of Trauma

What are Deep Memories?

Cheryl was a young professional psychotherapist who attended one of our workshops on Deep Memory Process.  She was a very able therapist but had always suffered from crippling panic attacks when it came to speaking out in groups. By the the third day of the workshop she had successfully avoided such anxiety by carefully burying her nose in her notebook and deliberately saying as little as possible. The topic that morning was fear however, and when the examples turned to terror in group situations, she found herself having an anxiety attack at the very mention of the subject. Quite unbidden a flashback of herself as a little girl of four popped in to her mind and she found herself quietly weeping and trembling. Someone offered her the Kleenex and she shrank in embarassment. The group leader, Roger, unaware that she had been "triggered" invited her to say what was happening. She felt trapped and even more embarassed; the spotlight was truly on her and her worst fear. But bravely, when the leader offered she took the opportunity to work.

He who dies before he dies, does not die when he dies

Abraham of Santa Clara

Zen has no other secrets than seriously thinking about birth and death

Takeda Shingen

We are not dealing here with irreality. The mundus imaginalis is a world
of autonomous forms and images...It is a perfectly real world preserving all
the richness and diversity of the sensible world but in a spiritual state

Henry Corbin

By way of introduction I should say that I am a psychotherapist trained in Jungian psychoanalysis and various other modalities and that my current practice uses what is called "regression" to early childhood, past life, interlife and other transpersonal or "spiritual" experiences. (In other contexts-see below-the word "regression" can equally refer to what shamans call "journeying")  But I also hold degrees in the comparative phenomenology of religion, a subject that greatly illuminates the kind of areas which we are here today calling "beyond death."

How is it possible to remember Past Lives? A Reply to the Sceptics.

There is for every man or woman some one scene,

some one adventure, some one picture, that is

the image of our secret life, for wisdom first speaks

in images and Éthis one image, if we would brood

over it our whole life long, would lead our souls,

distentangled from unmeaning circumstance and the ebb

and flow of the world, into that far household

where the undying gods await all those whose souls

have become simple as flame, whose bodies

have become quiet as an agate lamp.

W.B. Yeats

Introduction

Past life regression therapy, as described here, is a therapeutic technique that uses similar strategies and commands to hypnotic age regression (following a time line backwards, talking to the regressed persona etc) but which also draws strongly from Jung's waking dream technique of active imagination and the embodied re-enactments of past events called by J.L Moreno, psychodrama (Woolger, 1996). As in hypnotic regression and psychodrama, the patient is guided back to and encouraged to relive traumatic scenes or unresolved conflicts from the past that have been previously inaccessible to consciousness, but which are thought to be influencing and distorting current mental and emotional stability. But instead of being regressed solely to the patient's childhood, a strong suggestion is also given to "go to the origin of the problem in a previous lifetime". In other words, the notional time-line is extended backwards to assume the soul's continuity with previous existences via what some have called the soul memory or "far memory". In many respects the rationale of past life therapy is similar to that of post traumatic stress therapies as well as to the cathartic or abreactive approach taken, but later abandoned by early psychoanalysis (Hermann, 1992).