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RETURN TO LIFE: EXTRAORDINARY CASES OF CHILDREN WHO
REMEMBER PAST LIVES BY JIM B. TUCKER, M.D.
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/RETURN TO LIFE: EXTRAORDINARY CASES OF CHILDREN WHO REMEMBER PAST LIVES BY JIM B. TUCKER,
M.D.
Reviewed by Athanasios N. Komianos, BA, CHT, CRT
Professor Tucker has taken us by surprise. This time he wrote a

book that will be appealing to everybody, from lay persons to academics. Unlike his predecessor,
Ian Stevenson at the University of Virginia, who meticulously wrote his books for the academia
as if he were referring to a judicial body, Dr. Tucker writes with patience and wisdom. Without
denying the importance of details, he goes into the essence of the stories and provides us with
plenty of evidential cases that all make a point. There is much more out there than modern
science can grasp with its materialistic tools. It is by focusing on this exceptional phenomenon of
childrens recollections of past lives that we can see how the limited prism of our reductionist
scientific paradigm is such a distorted view of reality.
It has been a long time since I read his first book Life before Life. It was a great effort to make
deaf ears listen this time. However, his current book is wiser and touches issues that had not been
addressed in the earlier one. Together, they make great reading, but both can stand on their own
as well.
I have to thank Dr. Tucker for the courage to write his second chapter. In it, issues that may be
considered taboo by the majority of Westerners will bend your mind. But, believe me, they are
phenomena that exist and have to be dealt with if we really want to study the cosmos.
Dr. Tucker also presents very strong, solved cases (as they are said to be when childrens
memories are finally verified) and weaker unsolved cases. He also provides us with all the
elements that characteristically constitute a case: the physical, emotional, psychological aspects
of each and every child who has these recollections. In this he does a great job.
Finally, he has no choice but to present some physics in order to show the reader that there is
plenty of room for such phenomena in quantum physics. He shows with clarity that quantum
mechanics applies to the macro-world as well and that if the phenomena he is reporting are seen
from a quantum perspective they can make sense. He extends his argument to the fact that our
four-dimensional world may be a fallacy and that the time continuum as we perceive it may not
be linear as past, present, future.
His final allegory of consciousness being equated to dream life is a remarkable example of how
everything could fit into a picture and makes us realize that we are all a tiny little part of a much
larger picture, that of the Ultimate Source. He clearly shows us how we all create our own
afterlife conditions in the here and now.
An inspired book, a must read, a great present to a friend. It should not only be read by
psychiatrists, psychologists, or psychotherapists (traditional or alternative); it should be read by
all people who want to make sense of the world that surrounds us and find meaning into it.
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Healing Deep Hurt Within: The Transformation of a Young Patient Using Regression Therapy
by Peter Mack, M.D.
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HEALING DEEP HURT WITHIN: THE TRANSFORMATION OF A YOUNG

PATIENT USING REGRESSION THERAPY BY PETER MACK, M.D.
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/HEALING DEEP HURT WITHIN: THE TRANSFORMATION OF A YOUNG PATIENT USING REGRESSION THERAPY
BY PETER MACK, M.D.
Review by Virginia Waldron, CH, CI
This book was written from the perspective of a surgeon in

Singapore. Dr. Peter Mack, a trained surgeon at a large hospital, took on a patient who was so
disturbed by certain aspects of her life, past and current, that she was suffering from severe and
debilitating depression, amnesia, black outs and/or fainting spells, and nightmares. She was
unable to work or function in her daily life.
Dr. Mack is also certified in hypnosis as well as traditional surgical medicine. He took on
this patient with the intention of using non-medical techniques and therapies to help her get
past her inner trauma and conflicts. He choose to use hypnosis and age regression to help
this patient, gently digging through the confusion and pain to find the truths that she was
unable to face on her own. Dr. Mack combined conventional medical and psychological
knowledge and training with hypnosis techniques, in particular using age regression and past life
regression, to get to the source and the origins of her blocks and her suffering, and to help her
see herself in a more positive and loving way. By the end of his work with her, not only was she
able to move past the pain of the past and return to her normal life, but she also saw herself and
her life in a more loving and spiritual way.
She even went so far as forgiving the people who had caused her so much pain and suffering,
those who had let her down or abused her. More importantly, she was able to forgive herself.
From an overwhelming well of pain and despair, she was able to return to health and well-being,
find new work, and establish a more loving relationship with herself.
I think this book is an excellent demonstration of how hypnosis and regression work can be used
as a collaborative methodology: mixing well with conventional treatments, and guiding the
clinician/patient to the origins of the problems and issues much more efficiently and effectively
than just using psychotherapy or medical treatments alone. I have recommended it to
my hypnosis students who use hypnosis and regression therapy in combination with their
medical practices, such as a psychiatric nurse and a psychotherapist, as an example of how to
combine all their tools for the greatest and highest good of their patients. It is easy to read and
hard to put down!
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An Amazing Human Journey, Volume II (2014) Shakuntala Modi
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AN AMAZING HUMAN JOURNEY, VOLUME II (2014) SHAKUNTALA MODI
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/AN AMAZING HUMAN JOURNEY, VOLUME II (2014) SHAKUNTALA MODI

Reviewed by Albert J. Marotta, MA, CHT
When first asked to write a review of Dr. Modis latest work, I

didnt realize the difficulty involved in doing this review. Because of its wide scope and
divergent subject matter, it was truly an amazing and remarkable journey. Many books contain
intelligence and knowledge. Fewer contain true wisdom.
Dr. Modis new book contains extraordinary mind-expanding wisdom, based on hundreds of
hypnotic regression case studies that extend over thousands of years. This study is a multi-
dimensional history involving both human and extraterrestrial interaction. What I find so
refreshing is the agenda free approach by Dr. Modi. Quote from Dr. Modi is: This is what my
hypnotized clients report to me
Volume two is a brilliant continuation challenging multi and inter dimensional concepts, which
should be of interest to scientists, astrologers, astronomers, anthropologists, historians, the
curious and many other fields of human endeavor. Regression therapists and those in the healing
professions, should note Dr. Modi presents effective 22nd century healing modalities in the here
and now.
The on going theme in Dr. Modis books is extraterrestrial involvement in human evolution. This
theme gains strength with each new book she writes. Dr. Modis refreshing approach is
courageous, open-minded and scholarly reflecting an insatiable curiosity, numerous sources and
intuitiveness.
In volume two, Dr. Modi includes numerous fascinating topics, such as: extraterrestrial
involvement in human evolution, and DNA experiments (hybrids, advanced technology, and
parallel dimensions). She reports an assortment and describes life forms on other planets, and in
other universes. Other fascinating areas covered include various types of alien
abductions, energy vortexes, lay lines, etheric energies in architectural structures (e.g. pyramids,
the Great Wall of China and other ancient structures, the space time continuum, linear vs. eternal
time) and so much more.
An Amazing Journey (volume two) is a must read book to be studied. It is a far reaching and
insightful source of wisdom for those seeking an intellectual challenge, to traditionally held
beliefs, particularly in the physical, emotional, cultural, spiritual, and the healing arts.
Dr. Modis writing style is consistent in all of her works, easy to read, and possessing a flowing
provocative narrative. All of her books are a timeless exploration of the past and future through
hypnotic regression. Yet none of the information Dr. Modi states, is a reflection of my own
personal or religious beliefs. Excellent work Dr. Modi.
THE ROADS OF LIVES: ESSAYS ON REGRESSION THERAPY

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BY PAVEL GYNGAZOV
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/THE ROADS OF LIVES: ESSAYS ON REGRESSION THERAPY BY PAVEL GYNGAZOV

Reviewed by David Graham, CRT
In many ways this is an unusual and interesting book that offers

insight into past life exploration. Indeed, Pavel Gyngazov learned about his profession in a very
unusual and individual way, working alone in Siberia. His work as a regression therapist,
researcher and sexologist led him to develop his own approach and techniques through his
practice, and this book represents many of his findings. His approach is designed to help his
clients overcome their internal chatter, thus becoming able to facilitate their journey to find the
source of their issues within their past. While many of his contemporaries help clients to access
their human past lives that refer to their current life issues, his technique appears to open
the persons memory to include other experiences.
Less than half of his clients went to human lives (38%). Another 26% went to animal lives, and
14% to extra-terrestrial lives.
Others visited lives as energy beings, insects, plants, birds, fish, and nonorganic existences. His
clients were able to access the particular characteristics of each existence and relate them to
characteristics of their life today. Their stories are told by transcripts of the actual sessions which
give the reader an insight into the dialogue that arises during a regression session between a
client-who may be focused on events that occurred hundreds or even thousands of years ago
and the therapist, sitting alongside the person in the therapy room. The clients were able to give
very descriptive accounts of how it feels to be a bird, a stone, an alien, etc., and this seems to be
how this book is different from others of the genre. How those experiences are relevant to a
persons current life is explained in the dialogue between client and therapist. In this way the
book broadens research into the field of past life exploration; thus, I consider The Roads
of Lives: Essays on Regression Therapy to be a valuable contribution.
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NEW MEDIA. Despite the Angels
NEW MEDIA. DESPITE THE ANGELS
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by Madeline A. Stringer
Have you ever felt you know someone already, even though you
only just met? Maybe you knew them in another life. Lucy and David, who live in modern
Dublin (Ireland), first knew each other in ancient Crete. They had a baby girl, but disaster struck,
and their guardian angels have been trying to reunite the little family for 4,000 years.
Despite the angels attempts to be understood, humans often do not hear, and can unwittingly
waste whole lifetimes. Now in Dublin things are still not going to plan. Lucy is too young, and
David is marrying someone else. Angels are optimists, so they are re-organising, but humans
must listen to their angels. This is a fun story about how it may be for the spirit guides who have
the job of looking after us all. The guides (angels) are the main characters in the story, and we
follow their frustrations, innocence and fallibility as the humans carry on with their haphazard
decisions. There are three historical pieces where we see the characters in their past lives
together. These have been described as seamless and increasing empathy for the characters.
The book has been well received and reviewed positively online. Comments include:
It is well written and incredibly enjoyable and combines all the elements I look for in a good book romance,
tragedy, humour, suspense and excitement.
I couldnt put it down. A witty and engaging book.
Regression therapists might like to recommend this book to the sceptical, even though real
guides are more effective than these ones; or at least we hope so.
Although some who read it will be encouraged to investigate the idea further, this story can and
has also been enjoyed simply as a piece of fiction.
Despite the Angels can be found on Amazon at http://authl.it/h8 or by looking up its title or the
authors name. It is available for download or as a paperback.
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PRAYERS FOR HEALING AND PROTECTION BY SHAKUNTALA MODI, M.D.
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/PRAYERS FOR HEALING AND PROTECTION BY SHAKUNTALA MODI, M.D.

Reviewed by: Albert Marotta, C.H.T
(as included in the The Journal of Regression Therapy Volume XII, Spring 2012)
WOW! Dr. Modi has done it again. Her new book is dynamic,
inspirational, filled with insight and technique. Dr. Modi effectively accesses the complex multi-
dimensional concepts of spiritual realms and influences both internal and external, positive and
negative. Written in her unique easy to understand signature style, Dr. Modi has codified in one
small comprehensive book everything a practitioner needs to transform, heal, and protect
themselves and their clients. Modis techniques are graciously shared in a thoughtful,
straightforward, all-inclusive and definitive format. She presents an effective template to easily
access in depth, multi-dimensional realities, based on 25 years of patients descriptions. Their
feedback expands traditional mental, emotional realities of thought.
Dr. Modis template gives the required depth demanded by the professional practitioner, yet light
enough for the curious seeker to discover inroads and applications to expand mental, emotional,
and spiritual realms. Other protocols include calling upon the highest powers for guidance and
aid in releasing, healing, and transforming earthbound and other negative spiritual beings.
Invoking protection from dark energies and/or demonic forces is at the heart of this book. Other
subject areas include coma victims, aliens and alien implants, negative energies (surrounding
both man made and natural events) and disasters plus much more.
With 30 years of hypnotherapy experience working in the spiritual realms, I find Dr. Modis
comprehensive guide book a must read for any practitioner seeking in-depth techniques or a key
into healing in spiritual dimensions.
For some, Dr. Modis information may defy the prevailing logic of the day. History continually
dictates how yesterdays logic is todays joke, making todays logic tomorrows humorous
reflection. This book is an excellent, provocative, and timeless exploration of the future we
should have ready access to today.
THE COSMIC INTERNET: EXPLANATIONS FROM THE OTHER

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SIDE BY FRANK DEMARCO
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/THE COSMIC INTERNET: EXPLANATIONS FROM THE OTHER SIDE BY FRANK DEMARCO
Reviewed by: Virginia Waldron
(as included in the The Journal of Regression Therapy Volume XI, Spring 2012)
In this book, Frank DeMarco uses his ability to channel, connect,

and communicate with a body of guides or spiritual teachers in order to tackle questions that
humans have been asking for thousands of years. Some of them were answered long ago, but the
answers no longer fit our current way of thinking, so he asks them again. He does not do so
without respect for the wisdom of the ages nor the experiences of current humanity. He does so
with an honest desire to find a common thread, a truth that, while attached to the wisdom and
experiences of our ancestors, holds a measure of reality for us in current times, looking for
answers and/or definitions that have meaning in our world, today. It reminds me of when our
children were very young Kindergarten age maybe and they asked about Death or where did
they come from what do you tell them? Only as much as they can handle at the time, in words
and phrases that they can comprehend with a young and innocent mind. We, the human race, are
the children. And now we are older, we have matured enough spiritually that when we ask those
same questions, the answers are richer, fuller, more detailed and direct, and more complex.
Franks channeled writing tells us that there is so much more to being human than we could ever
have imagined.
There is a lot of information in Franks book, plenty of food for serious thought; and it is not
always what one might expect, or even accept. But, there is so much here that it is possible to
read some of it, put the rest down for a while and think about it. Or read through the entire book,
put it away for a while, then re-read it, only to find there are things that were missed the first (or
second or third) time. It has layers and depth and is sometimes difficult to get through, but once
through it changes the way one looks at the world outside the mind, or how we experience that
world as humans. This is not just a physical world and we are not just physical beings.
This book is worth reading and re-reading digest and process and go back for more. Within
ourselves we know our own truth. We just need to learn how to listen to it again. Frank DeMarco
shows one way to do that.
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LOVE FROM BOTH SIDES BY STEPHANIE RISELEY
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Reviewed by: Virginia Waldron
(as included in the The Journal of Regression Therapy Volume X, Spring 2011)
This book was an interesting and compelling journey of a woman

who experienced deep and profound grief and loss, and who, as she went through that journey,
experienced her own personal awakening. It is about after death communications, existence after
death, the eternal aspects of love and of our true nature as Soul Beings, and the reality of being
human with all our flaws and imperfections.
Something I tell my clients time and again, We are human, we are meant to be flawed. It is our
flaws that make us loveable. Without our flaws no one could stand to be in the same room with
us! Stephenie writes an excellent and brutally honest account of her journey and her pain and
her truth.
Perhaps it is a bit longer than it truly needed to be and perhaps it could have been a little tighter
in the editing. But, again, if it were perfect it would be hard to finish! It is worth reading and it is
a good book to give someone who has recently suffered a great loss, who is grieving or who
needs to see past the pain and into the hope.
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ANGEL BABIES: MESSAGES FROM MISCARRIED AND OTHER LOST

BABIES BY PATRICIA SEAVER MCGIVERN
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(as included in the The Journal of Regression Therapy Volume IX, Fall 2009)
Angel Babies is a book that would never have been written if not
for the efforts of a particular angel baby soul known as Dillon. It was through his determined
efforts and pushing his mom, the author, that his story, and the stories of other angel baby souls,
is told.
McGivern put it so eloquently in her book, When signs of souls on the other side were close to
me but too big for my mind to absorb or deal with, I questioned their authenticity. I pushed them
away. Although I was being jolted awake, Id been programmed not to believe. I realized that
often the very phenomena I need to explore are the ones that challenge my belief system.
The opening section, three chapters, tells the story of McGiverns transition from one belief
system to another. As I read her story I was reminded of the common path many of us have
traveled; a path that started in ordinary life with our original belief system firmly in place and
then transitioned through outside influence, often through much kicking and screaming on our
part, to an expanded and sometimes totally different belief system.
McGivern relates her emotionally painful story of miscarriage of her son Dillon and his return in
spirit some four years later. Throughout her experience of pregnancy, miscarriage, and then
inspiration to write this book are events and personal experiences that make very real sense to
her and those who have similar belief systems. Skeptics will undoubtedly use the no scientific
basis and proof card in an effort to trump her assertions and new beliefs.
Their assertion evaporates as she presents her story and the many confirmations she receives
along her journey; confirmations from those who hardly or definitely do not know her
personally. In addition, she presents some twenty-nine other stories of angel babies as related by
their mothers. The stories relate the various ways angel babies have let their presence be known:
dreams, visions, psychic experiences, Near-Death Experiences, coincidences, meditation, and
hypnosis.
There is no how-to information specifically, although the stories of how other parents have
dealt with this very personal tragedy are a sort of how-to. This book belongs in every doctors
office that deals with expecting mothers in one way or another; ready to be handed out in time of
need or even just because the messages are so uplifting. The fact that angel babies are still with
us even though their physical body is gone can be very settling to an aching heart. And their
message remains, just as Dillon told his mom so many times, Im right here!
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INVISIBLE ROOTS: HOW HEALING PAST LIFE TRAUMA CAN LIBERATE

YOUR PRESENT BY BARBARA STONE
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At 326 pages, Invisible Roots is loaded with tons of information on
healing our lives both at the soul energy level and the physical. Throughout the book, Dr. Stone
provides valuable and useful information on multiple healing levels and approaches. This book
will appeal to both the lay person, who may be a beginner in learning of the real energetic nature
of the human body, and the clinician looking for more ways to improve and complement their
skill set.
This book is a delightful and interesting read starting with the stories of Dr. Bernie Siegel, whose
foreword piece sets the stage for the rest of the book. His stories involve angels, near death
experiences, spiritual healing, spirit guides, messages from the other side, synchronistic events,
and past-life memory. What a great introduction for Dr. Stones work.
In the introduction to Invisible Roots, Dr. Stone provides her background, how she was led,
kicking and screaming like so many others such as Dr. Brian Weiss and Dr. Michael Newton,
into this new realm of thought, belief, and healing. Dr. Stone coined the phrase Soul Detective,
which is a very apt name to the type of work she does and addresses here in Invisible Roots. Her
protocols remind me of a keen detective at work, asking simple yet highly methodical questions
to zero in on the root cause of her clients issues.
The book is divided into three sections: Earthbound Sprits, Past-life Trauma, and Root Causes.
The first two sections, Earthbound Spirits, and Past-life Trauma consist of ten stories each.
Within each story is a story of healing as well as an inside look into her methodology and
protocol for healing. Root Causes, Section 3, is really the meat and potatoes of the book. Here is
where you will find the many and varied causes of dis-ease and issues of ill health and how to
effectively deal with them. This section is divided into 3 parts detailing Levels of Healing, what
she calls Intuitive Level issues, and working with couples and their past-life issues brought forth
into this lifetime.
Part 1: Levels of Healing identifies and explains the 5 levels in the human energy system, how
they are interrelated, and how issues originating on any one level have a trickle down effect that
eventually manifests in the physical body.
In Part 2 she discusses Intuitive Level Issues, comprised of such things as Curses and Hexes,
Earthbound Spirits, Energetic Cords, and Soul Loss. For each issue she provides case examples
and clearly written protocols for healing. The inclusion of the protocol is clearly preferred to the
approach of some authors who stop short of telling the reader how and instead advertises some
special training the author has to offer.
The 3rd part of Section 3 details working with couples on past-life issues and provides the
protocol for doing so.
Last but not least are 6 appendices containing more valuable information in the way of energy
treatments and balancing and sources to investigate for training for some of the methods she uses
in the cases presented in this book.
All in all Invisible Roots is a valuable addition to any clinician or lay persons library. Thank
you, Dr. Stone, for your contribution towards the healing of humanity, both incarnated and
otherwise.
THE BIG BOOK OF THE SOUL: OUR MANY LIVES AS

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HOLOGRAPHIC ASPECTS OF THE SOURCE BY IAN LAWTON
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/THE BIG BOOK OF THE SOUL: OUR MANY LIVES AS HOLOGRAPHIC ASPECTS OF THE SOURCE BY IAN
LAWTON
Reviewed by Thelma Freedman, Ph.D.
This is a book focused on reincarnation itself rather than past-life

therapy. Let me say at the outset that it is an excellent history of reincarnation beliefs as they
emerge from a wide assortment of channelers, meditators, past-life therapists, and past-life
subjects (Lawtons word); some going back centuries. It should be a required text in any
training program for past life therapists. It contains an excellent bibliography and reference list,
and a thorough index. It also contains the best analysis of the work of Ian Stevenson that I have
ever read, as well as examinations of the work of other pioneers, as Lawton rightly calls our
founders.
But of course I have a complaint. Chapter 4 is titled Past-Life Therapy: Background, research
studies, emotional dynamics. This has a good ring to it but as it turns out, the research studies
are the stories told by various people reporting past lives or the stories told by channelers or
other psychics. There is little real research in this book, unless you accept the past life stories
told by clients or channelers or psychics as research. I find this a serious omission, as there has
been a considerable amount of objective research done. For example: Lucas, who used an early
brain scanner (the Mind Mirror) and found that the person reporting a past life was in an alpha
state (as some of the therapist guides were, too); Cunningham, on people who have experienced
an OBE (out-of-body experience); James, on the link between healthy adults and the ability to
report a past life; Cladder, on incorporating past life reports into a larger and more conventional
treatment for phobias; van der Maesens two studies, one on Tourettes Syndrome and the other
on hallucinated voices (Lawton does mention van der Maesen); or Freedman, on past-life reports
and phobias. These studies were all true research complete with a guiding hypothesis, a way of
measuring results, and standards for selecting the participants (not subjects anymore, thanks to
the APA and the US Government Standards for Research with Human Participants).
Much of this book suffers from an excess of gullibility. An editor I know refers to such books as
Gee Whiz books which probably needs no translation. But despite these caveats, as I said
above, the book gives such a good history of past-life regression that it almost overcomes my
objections. As I said, the focus is not on the therapy, but upon the reality of reincarnation.
Lawton carries it into the field of quantum physics and Karl Pribrams holographic model, which
takes courage as well as brainpower, and he does it well, as far as I can tell (since I have the
courage but not the brainpower to be sure).
Nevertheless, I return to my initial statements anyone in the field of past-life therapy and/or
research should read this book it gives us our history, which turns out to be fascinating.
It also carries an important message: that (like it or not) we are our own gurus.
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EXPLORING THE ETERNAL SOUL BY ANDY TOMLINSON
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Reviewed by Virginia Waldron
(as included in the The Journal of Regression Therapy Volume VIII, Spring 2008)
In this book Andy Tomlinson examines and discusses journeys into
the interim state of existence for 15 clients to further explore our experiences when we are not
incarnated in a physical body. Michael Newtons previous work clearly set the ground stage for
further study in Spiritual Regression, also known as Life Between Lives or as Andy calls it,
interlife regression. In this book Andy builds on the shoulders of other authors and researchers in
the field thus providing a stronger research foundation for the book case studies. Andy also
brings his own style, his own insight and wisdom into this work and it is a very informative,
intelligent, and highly readable piece of research. Exploring the Eternal Soul was written as
Andys report or summary of the combined research project by himself and Ian Lawton. After
the initial research project was completed, both authors wrote a book based on their own primary
field of research and study. Ian Lawtons book is The Wisdom of The Soul.
I think the format of this book is arranged very well. Each of the chapters and the information
presented in each section is clear and concise. In the beginning he moves through the general
information of what the interim life experience is, the healing process that occurs, and the
different areas explored. Then he moves into more detailed material about the souls growth and
how we progress through our own challenges and choices. Throughout he illustrates his ideas
with quotes and commentaries from the subjects with whom he worked. His commentaries are
quite insightful and articulate. I would suggest, however, that perhaps there could have been
more information and material shared in the chapters, especially at the beginning. Maybe more
explanations of the different areas that were explored and how they were encountered by each of
the individual subjects. There were also times when I was a bit confused when he went back and
forth between the different subjects and what they were saying. The flow from one subject to the
next was at times awkward and a bit incomplete. But, these are minor points compared to the
wonderful experience of just what this book teaches us about our souls!
I especially liked how he explained soul groups, soul mates, and soul families. So often the
image of a soul mate is presented as a more romantic experience, the other half to our being. I
have had many clients come to me asking if they can find their soul mate so they can live happily
ever after. In my classes I try to teach that such a popular image is not at all what we experience
in terms of our soul companions. Andy puts it very clearly and succinctly soul mates are
members of our soul family who are very close to us and work closely with us both in the light
realms and in the physical realm here on earth.
One thing I was not familiar with that Andy explores in depth with this book is the role that the
Elders or Council play in the pre-life selection process. He writes about how much the elders are
directly involved with planning and arranging the next lifetime. They actively participate in the
choices and negotiations during the pre-life selection, offering suggestions and alternative plans
from a higher perspective. I was very much reminded of wise grandparents helping with a
college application.
Andy makes another interesting point about emotional lessons and specialist skills. He states that
other facilitators who work with interlife regression and healing present these two types of soul
lessons as more linear the less experienced souls work on emotional lessons and as they move
forward into being more experienced they take on the specialists lessons. Andy has found with
his subjects that it is not always like that. We take on both types of lessons, and often in the same
lifetime. It is an individual choice and one that we can make during our pre-life preparation.
A question I am frequently asked in my classes about Reincarnation and Life Between Lives is
why do we remain stuck lifetime after lifetime in the same negative emotional patterns, going
round and round with the same issues and problems, if we are such wise soul beings? I found an
excellent way to answer it in this book as souls we can choose the energy of past-life lessons,
unresolved emotions, and experiences to help our souls progress and growth, and in what
amount. He (and Ian Lawton) calls it re-layering. It is the opposite of de-layering which is
the healing process of removing the negative or dense emotional layers from the life just left
behind. What appeared to be random past-life baggage is in fact a choice that was made with a
purpose and consciousness.
I would have to say this is an excellent book to read because it is a very interesting topic. It is
also a wonderful source of information for both the past-life journey experience and the interlife
journey. It is going on the suggested reading list for my students and my classes. Interlife I am
beginning to think that the true interlife is when we are born in a human body that we are
living for real when we are not in a body, but home in our true form. Each human lifetime is an
interruption to our souls lifetime. Hmmmm
QUEEN'S GOLD, BY MELISSA BOWERSOCK

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HOME/BOOK REVIEW/QUEENS GOLD, BY MELISSA BOWERSOCK

Reviewed by Thelma Freedman, Ph.D.
Melissa Bowersock, a certified hypnotherapist and Jungian past-life
therapist for 13 years, has gifted all of us with a gripping novel driven by an unexpected past-life
recall. Her widowed reluctant hero, ordinary skeptical guy Hal Thompson, submits to his
daughters request that he experience a past-life recall. Convinced at first that he is just making
it all up, Hal regresses to a lifetime that starts in Spain and moves on to Hispaniola and from
there into Cortezs army and finally the Aztec lands.
It is here that Hal first encounters the Queens Gold with its history of murder and treachery
and its hiding place. Later, when his family is threatened, Hal reluctantly agrees to take the trip
from New Mexico across the border into the old Aztec territory to find the Queens Gold that
disappeared some 500 years ago. This not to prove the past-lifes reality or to enrich himself,
but only to secure the safety of his family.
This is a tale of love, murder, revenge, treachery, and greed across five centuries, and it moves
along at a fast pace that never fails to hold the attention of the reader. Bowersock brings her
characters to life they are very believable, warts and all, and her descriptions of the spectacular
terrain of the Aztecs put the reader right there along with the characters. (In fact, I wondered if
she herself had experienced a past life in this wild and untamed time and territory).
I will also add that although Queens Gold is written for adults, it is also suitable for teenagers,
as it has none of the coarseness so prevalent today, and it does have two teenaged characters who
are sane, sensible, and vital to the plot.
The idea of tracking a past life back and using it as the foundation for a novel is probably not
new, but I think Melissa Bowersock may be the first past-life therapist who has actually done so.
Her presentation of the techniques of permissive past-life regression is excellent but (happily)
restrained, and in the course of the story there is some useful discussion about regression,
including the usual doubts and skepticism (mostly raised by Hal, our hero). But these are all side
issues the focus is on the story and the characters who live it out. Just the same, the novice and
the skeptic both will learn much about the realities (and limitations) of past-life recall when
properly done.
There may be some who believe that past-life regression is a SERIOUS MATTER and should
not be used to build novels. I myself am not such a one. One of the great lessons I hope we have
all learned from our work in our field is that life is meant to be lived and (when possible)
enjoyed and learned from.
I do have a word of warning. I do not recommend that you begin this book at bedtime it will
keep you turning pages till dawn (trust me, I know!)
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THE PAST LIVES EMBRACING THE WISDOM AND HEALING POWER OF

YOUR SOUL BY JEAN RITA LINDER
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/THE PAST LIVES EMBRACING THE WISDOM AND HEALING POWER OF YOUR SOUL BY JEAN RITA LINDER
Reviewed by Dorothy Neddermeyer, Ph.D.
The Past Lives by Jean Rita Linder is a pleasant surprise. The

surprise for me was the authors ability to draw the reader deeper into the message regarding
past-life recall. Having conducted past-life regressions with hundreds of clients for over twelve
years and attending numerous past-life regression workshops and talking with colleagues, I
thought I would be bored after the second paragraph. However, since I had committed to writing
this review, I knew I needed to read the book. After reading the second paragraph, it was obvious
that Jean Linder had something to offer everyone, including an experienced past-life regression
practitioner.
Linder reveals in great detail the miracle of healing throughout the interwoven sands of time.
This book, whose time has come, is without question a must read for anyoneprofessional or
layperson!
Another endearing and pleasant surprise is Linders ability to share her spiritual journey
beginning in her teen years until later adulthood that intrigued and riveted my interest to know
more.
Linder chose the title, The Past Lives, as a symbolic play on words. Linder explained, because of
the quirkiness of the English language, the word lives can be pronounced two ways. It can
rhyme with both hives and gives. Hives is a noun and gives, is a verb. This double usage
subtly changes the meaning, the past lives of Jean Linder, (noun) versus the past lives in the
now moment (verb). Linder embraces both meanings in her book.
The Past Lives is written for those who want to improve their lives on a deeper level and
understand who they are as human and spiritual beings. Using the combination of intuitive
knowing and down-to-Earth writing brings the reader into a practical mysticism that is
intriguing, inspiring, and fun. You will be inspired to examine your personal and spiritual
transformation. The author provides a wealth of powerful toolspast-life therapyto
potentially unlock and heal your life.
Linder focuses on fostering the readers ability to embrace the wisdom and healing power of
ones soul. In doing so, Linder presents experiencing ones past lives as a catalyst for the healing
and transformation of human consciousness.
The depth and breadth of Linders understanding, and the clarity of her writing provides the
reader with a wealth of information on past lives and past-life therapy. Linder answers the basic
questions: How can we access a past life? Why are we shown our past-life experiences? And,
more importantly, how can we maximize the healing potential of experiencing a past life?
Professionals will learn a powerful hypnotherapy technique called healing the memories. Linder
explores the most important and intriguing concepts such as: cellular memory, etheric implants,
karmic agreements, the dark side, expansion of consciousness, and opening the heart.
The Past Lives will help you achieve a deeper understanding of yourself as a human being. It is
full of aha realizations and insights into human nature that will give you a better understanding
of yourself and your relationships. This book will help you clarify and heal the unresolved issues
in your life.
You will undoubtedly gain a deeper appreciation for yourself as a spiritual being. Past lives are
an integral part of your souls experience on Earth. You have no doubt heard the expression,
We are human beings having a spiritual experience and spiritual beings having a human
experience. The Past Lives clearly explains and confirms that truth. You will gain a wealth of
wisdom-born-of-experience that you can share as you open more and more to your soul. The
Past Lives helps you create that opening.
Linders statement, Access to our past lives offers the opportunity to release the aspects that
limit us and embrace the gifts that enrich us, is the impetus and salient reason to embrace and
experience past-life regression work.
The Past Lives will intrigue and motivate you to accelerate your personal journey of healing and
transformation, and The Past Lives gives you tools to guide you along the way.
The Past Lives Embracing the Wisdom and Healing Power of Your Soul Jean Rita Linder is
well worth your time.
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HEALING RESEARCH VOL. II: HOW CAN I HEAL WHAT HURTS? BY

DANIEL J. BENOR, M.D.
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/HEALING RESEARCH VOL. II: HOW CAN I HEAL WHAT HURTS? BY DANIEL J. BENOR, M.D.
Reviewed by the Editor
(as included in the The Journal of Regression Therapy Volume VII, Spring 2007)
Dr. Benor offers a four volume series on Healing Research. While

this particular volume is not focused on regression research or therapies the focus is on our
energetic nature and the many varied approaches to self healing. As such the material contained
in this volume is related to our work as energy therapists of sorts.
This volume is loaded with lots of research information supporting the theory and belief of the
subtle energies of our bodies and the many varied therapies available today to facilitate healing.
Dr. Benor casts a wide net covering healing practices from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to
Astrology and Dowsing.
He discusses the influence environmental energies exert on our personal energy fields and
suggests ways to personally explore, understand, and heal our physical problems that result from
the disturbance of our subtle and spiritual energies.
The book is divided up into 5 chapters: Self-Healing, Wholistic Energy Medicine, The Human
Energy Field, Geobiological Effects, and Self-Healing Approaches and Exercises. Chapter one,
Self-Healing, covers such topics as Personality and Normality, Psychosomatic Disorders,
Psychotherapy and Physical Symptoms, Body-Mind Therapies and Spiritual Healing,
Biofeedback, Hypnosis, Self-Healing Programs and Spontaneous Healing.. He also includes a
preview of an Energy Healing Model.
Chapter two is the meat and potatoes of this volume. Here he covers all of the major
Complimentary/Alternative Medicine (CAM) Therapies. There is a short brief on past life
regression therapy included in this section. Chapter three focuses on the human energy field and
topics such as auras, Kirlian Photography, and measurement of energy fields.
Chapter four concerns Geobiological Effects. What the heck is that? Put simply it is the realm
of subtle energies detectable by Radiesthesia (Dowsing) and Radionics. There is extensive
discussion of these subtle energies that surround us in our environment. Later in the chapter he
addresses the role Astrology and the sometimes subtle energies from our Sun, Moon, Planets,
and other celestial bodies influence us.
Chapter five details numerous self-healing approaches and exercises. If your practice includes
teaching students or clients various methods for self healing, Im sure you will find a wealth of
new methods to add to your curriculum and tool box.
There is an extensive Notes section at the back of the book as well as an extensive References
section. Dr. Benor has gone into great detail documenting the research associated with the
various subjects in this large volume. Personally I was glad to see the extensive research
references, which to me, provide added validity to some of the more non-scientific and, some
would say, highly questionable healing approaches and practices.
This is a must-have book for any therapist, coach, or practitioner whose practice is based and
focuses on our energetic spiritual nature or who wants to broaden their approach to healing.
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THE WISDOM OF THE SOUL BY IAN LAWTON
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/THE WISDOM OF THE SOUL BY IAN LAWTON

Reviewed by the Editor
This is the second book written by the author; his previous work was reviewed
in the last issue of the Journal. This new work is a collaborative one in which he was assisted by
the very able Andy Tomlinson, whose book Healing the Eternal Soul is also reviewed in this
issue.
Ians background in research is paired with Andys skill as a trained and very experienced Past
Life and In Between Life Therapist. Together they submitted questions to a carefully picked
group of subjects who, as Ian states: would be chosen by Andy, and would not claim to have
any special gifts or access to special channels of higher wisdomthey would be ordinary people
with no pretensions, who happened to be best suited to enter the deeper states of trance required
for this kind of work. And also we would be obtaining information from multiple subjects and
comparing them for consistency, not relying on one particular source of channeled material
which cold, even if broadly genuine, be highly subjectively influenced.
What were these questions they posed to these selected subjects? He writes: The interlife
experience tends, broadly speaking, to be a personal oneWhat if we could really push the
boundaries by developing a structured set of questions about everything from trapped spirits to
demonic beings, from the purpose of incarnation to life on other planets, from legends of Atlantis
to the future of humanity, and from multiple realities, to the true nature of time?
These questions, some 75 or so, were directed to the regression subjects wise ones or elders,
those beings often encountered in regressions that offer up wise counsel in the interlife.
This work is a valuable contribution to the research on regression. Each reader will take away
their own insights and understanding of the material addressed here. I think some will find
information that goes against what they have believed to be true.
Is this the final word on the topics discussed in this book? I think not. I am reminded of other
books that have presented evidence of some little understood and greatly misunderstood realm or
time period. One such book by Chet Snow, Mass Dreams of the Future, comes to mind. How is
it that so many ordinary people with no detectable ulterior motive could have such similar
experiences and general agreement about the time around the year 2000 (the book was published
years prior to the millennium change) and be so wrong?
I propose that The Wisdom of the Soul will jump start more discussion on this part of our
research. I invite members to write in and submit their position on this work, whether they agree
with the research or not. It is through this open forum that we progress and expand our
knowledge of our home; that spiritual realm.
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HEALING THE ETERNAL SOUL: INSIGHTS FROM PAST LIFE AND

SPIRITUAL REGRESSION BY ANDY TOMLINSON
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/HEALING THE ETERNAL SOUL: INSIGHTS FROM PAST LIFE AND SPIRITUAL REGRESSION BY ANDY
TOMLINSON
reviewed by the Editor
Whether you are teaching others the skill of PLRT or want to

expand your skill base and knowledge in your own practice, this new book by Andy Tomlinson
is a great teaching and learning tool.
Andy does a great job of covering the whole spectrum of soul healing through both past life
regression and in-between life regression. Unlike some books on the subject that restrict their
approach to healing only the energetic or spiritual bodies, Andy also addresses the physical body
and its role in releasing and healing both current and past lifetime physical trauma.
He builds a case of validity of these healing techniques through a step by step approach. He
begins by presenting the current scientific knowledge concerning evidence of past lives, near
death experiences (NDE), and subtle energy fields. From there he explores the current theory
concerning regression, both past-life and spiritual, how subtle energy fields hold memories of
these past lives, the recurrence of past life patterns and complexes, and of karma and
reincarnation.
Now that we have the theory and building blocks in place to support the work Andy proceeds to
outline in a very clear and understandable way how a typical past life session or in-between life
session would flow, incorporating many of the basic pieces and parts of the process such as how
to guide the client to embody the past life body and character, building the initial scene and all of
its dimensions, how to move successfully through time, catharsis and what/how to do it, the
various types of death and how to deal with it. In an easy progression we go to the spiritual
realms where we meet spiritual guides, work to forgiveness of antagonists from the just lived
lifetime, and how to get past being stuck in the earth plane after death.
He seamlessly guides us on to the spiritual regression work and how to successfully conduct a
spiritual regression using deep hypnosis, meeting the Wise Ones, encountering soul groups, the
delicacy of merging the soul with the physical body when incarnating, and other spiritual work
or activities in that realm.
He returns to the subject of the physical body and its role in releasing trauma and past memories
stored in the musculature, how to position the body to help it more easily release the stored
traumatic energy. Also addressed is the subject of invasive or intrusive energies that have
attached or influenced the client and how to easily and effectively release these energies.
Throughout the book Andy offers segments of actual case dialog between therapist and client;
positioning these many segments to greatly enhance, support, or illustrate the various ideas,
theories, and approaches he offers.
He finishes, as a good teacher often does, with full examples of how to conduct past-life
regression or spiritual regression sessions. He does this through the use of detailed outlines of
each type of session. His coverage is so thorough that one would be tempted to skip any
formalized training and use only his outlines, which would be a foolish approach in any case.
As the testimonials on the book jacket attest, Andy is positioning himself as a leading expert and
authority in the field of regression therapy. Im sure we will see more great work from this
talented teacher and therapist.
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PASSPORT TO PAST LIVES: THE EVIDENCE. ROBERT T. JAMES
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/PASSPORT TO PAST LIVES: THE EVIDENCE. ROBERT T. JAMES

Reviewed by Thelma B. Freedman, Ph.D.
(as included in the The Journal of Regression Therapy Volume VI, Fall 2005)
Robert James has written a fascinating account of his extensive
research projects and the findings from them. He first presented two brief overviews of his work
in the pages of the Journal, V. VII (1993) and V. IX (1995), and spoke about it at the APRT
Spring Conference of 1995 in Washington, DC, which focused on research. This book expands
on his previous work and provides rich detail about his results.
Dr. James first research project was designed to test many of the claims that critics raise about
past life regressions and therapy. Noting that some critics claim that most published regressions
come from people in therapy for emotional problems, he asked whether or not normal, mentally
healthy people would report past lives as well.
He also wondered if age, education, or religious belief would have an effect on the ability to
report a past life, a claim sometimes made by critics. Other frequent assertions of critics is that
only those who have a belief in reincarnation will report past lives, or that a hypnotherapist who
has such a belief will either deliberately or inadvertently structure the session in such a way that
the person will report a past life. Dr. James wanted to test these claims also.
Dr. James second research project was designed to answer questions arising from his first
project, such as how past lives might fit into our evolutionary past. He also tried to get material
that was verifiable from public records. For these reasons he asked the participants to regress to
1) the first lifetime they had lived on Earth and 2) their most recent lifetime.
For his first project, Dr. James worked with 104 people who reached a reasonable depth of
hypnosis (out of 107 original volunteers), 81 of whom reported past lives. These were all well-
functioning people who were not and had never been in treatment for any emotional problems.
They were of all ages and both genders, and had varying religious beliefs and levels of
education. For his second project, he worked with 49 people; 44 regressed to two past lives, one
their most recent and the other their first lifetime on Earth, as Dr. James requested.
The book is divided into three parts. In Part One Dr. James describes his first research project
and his rationale for it; in Part Two he presents transcripts of past lives reported by many of the
participants in the first project; and in Part Three he describes the past lives reported in his
second project. Although all of the transcripts are fascinating, the most unusual are the first
lives on Earth presented in Part Three. These range from animal to primitive human to alien,
and as Dr. James would agree, they raise more questions than they answer.
The book contains four excellent appendices: Appendix A: the Information Survey questions,
Appendices B and C: the Statistics of the first and second research projects, and Appendix D:
Verifiable Past Lives? which presents encapsulated descriptions of 22 of the lives reported in
the second project that may be verifiable. These descriptions include names, dates, and places, all
in the United States in recent time periods, and one of Dr. James hopes is that readers who live
in those places may become interested in tracing the records to see if those people actually
existed, and if so, whether or not the circumstances of their lives are consistent with the past
lives the participants reported.
Dr. James describes himself as a skeptic, and one who is ready to follow the evidence wherever
it leads. He was a lawyer for many years before he retired, and his work reflects the precision
and care one expects from a lawyer. Here you will find no wild claims, no theories presented
without evidence, just the facts, folks, the facts of what his participants reported. And in the
process, he has presented us all with a wealth of evidence to follow.
Passport to Past Lives is an invaluable addition to the literature on past lives. It is that rare bird, a
book that is accessible and interesting to the lay reader as well as informative and useful to the
professional past life therapist. Whats more, his findings do succeed in de-bunking the critics
claims.
Dr. James inscribed my copy of Passport to Past Lives with this quote:
Do not go where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path,
and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dr. James has indeed gone where there was no path, and he has left a trail for all of us.
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THE BOOK OF THE SOUL: RATIONAL SPIRITUALITY FOR THE 21ST

CENTURY BY IAN LAWTON
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/THE BOOK OF THE SOUL: RATIONAL SPIRITUALITY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY BY IAN LAWTON
Reviewed by Louis Siron, C.Ht.
(as included in the The Journal of Regression Therapy Volume VI, Fall 2005)
I had the pleasure recently of reading The Book of the Soul:
Rational Spirituality for the 21st Century by Ian Lawton.
You might wonder at the term rational spirituality. What does this mean? How can spirituality
be rational? I had the impression of a subject that is typically faith based being defined in a
logical factual way. As it turns out, that impression was not far off the mark.
According to Websters Dictionary, 1) rational: able to reason, not foolish or silly, sensible;
synonym reasonable and 2) spirituality: spiritual nature, character, or quality.
Here we have a very unusual book; a book that fills a void in the literature concerning
spirituality. There are so many books written concerning spirituality. Most are based on different
aspects of the subject that we all have a soul, we incarnate to learn lessons, evolve and gain
wisdom, our spiritual baggage can affect our current life both physically and
emotionally/mentally, etc. To support their viewpoints, the various authors use such things as
enlightened teachings/ancient wisdom, sessions/interviews with clients/experiencers,
channeled information, etc.
Ians approach is to gather data gleaned from those he calls the pioneering psychologists. He
addresses in a very methodical way via the various chapters all of the different aspects of the
topic of soul.
The book begins with his experience of a past life regression, his own spiritual journey and
addresses those he calls materialists. This first chapter lays the groundwork for the rest of the
book. In subsequent chapters he addresses particular topics that include near death experiences,
childrens past lives, hypnotic regression/progression, past life reviews, life plans and choices,
Karma and spirit possession.
This is a book you will recommend easily to those who wish to know more about the soul; those
who are more open to information based on fact and reason. I believe this book will appeal to
those who question things of faith because there is not scientific evidence, no way to
methodically prove it is a reality.
I highly recommend that anyone who wishes to educate as well as help heal souls invest in this
book. The book is currently available only through Ians website, www.ianlawton.com .
POWER VS. FORCE: THE HIDDEN DETERMINANTS OF

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HUMAN BEHAVIOR BY DAVID R. HAWKINS
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/POWER VS. FORCE: THE HIDDEN DETERMINANTS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR BY DAVID R. HAWKINS
Reviewed by Sydney S. Heflin, Ed.D.
(as included in the The Journal of Regression Therapy Volume V, 2003/2004)
Imaginewhat if you had access to a simple yes-or-no answer to

any question you wished to ask? A demonstrably true answer. Any questionThink about it.
So begins Dr. David Hawkins book, Power VS Force. Impeccably researched over 20 years, and
with scientifically derived and objectively organized truths, the information in this book is like a
bucket of ice water in the face of the discerning reader.
The author of many scientific papers, Dr. Hawkins co-authored Orthomolecular Psychiatry with
Nobelist Linus Pauling. He also has an extensive background as a therapist and teacher.
Extrapolating from the initial work of Dr. John Diamond in the late seventies, in the field of what
Diamond called Behavioral Kinesiology; Dr. Hawkins brings the illumination of decades of
research and insight to the realm of the layperson. This is the book, endorsed by Mother Teresa
before her death, that Wayne Dyer, Ph.D., calls the most important book he has read in the past
10 years, and for which work Dr. Hawkins was knighted by the Danish Crown, in 1996.
Dr. Hawkins research, which he painstakingly details in this book, demonstrates that science, in
all of its critical analysis, is confirming what saints and mystics have continually affirmed is truth
about the nature of reality, the self, and spirituality. Would you, the reader, like to be able to
confirm, without doubt, the truth of a specific past life of yours? Perhaps you would be interested
in discovering the level of truth (or lies) in your most or least favorite political situation? Do you
have a critical life decision to make, and want to know the better decision for you? Would you
like truly to understand the why of what is now happening on the planet?
This book is not for the faint of heart. However, the incredible rewards of sticking it out and
reading to the very end are undeniable. Make it over to Chapter III, and the Map Of
Consciousness Scale, with its amazingly clear-cut definitions, figure out approximately your own
vibrational energy level and how that compares to folks like Einstein, Hitler, Mother Teresa,
Gandhi, and others, and I strongly suspect you will not only be hooked, but will be intrigued
enough to find a partner with whom to work and begin to answer your questions!
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RETURN OF THE REVOLUTIONARIES: THE CASE FOR REINCARNATION

AND SOUL GROUPS REUNITED BY WALTER SEMKIW
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/RETURN OF THE REVOLUTIONARIES: THE CASE FOR REINCARNATION AND SOUL GROUPS REUNITED BY
WALTER SEMKIW
Reviewed by Sydney S. Heflin, Ed.D.
(as included in the The Journal of Regression Therapy Volume V, 2003/2004)
Dr. Walter Semkiw is currently Chief of Occupational Medicine at

Kaiser, San Francisco. Dr. Walter Semkiws new book, Return of the Revolutionaries, is an
impressively extensive examination of the history and current literature on reincarnation; in just
the first 86 pages. If only these first seven chapters were the entire book, this work would be a
very valuable addition to the literature. However, those chapters are just an introduction to a new
avenue of research, which will surely be met with delight, as well as controversy, in the field of
reincarnation study. Frankly, this researcher/reviewer inclines toward the delighted end of that
spectrum.
Cutting edge research is critically necessary to the healthy development of any field of study and
endeavor, and Dr. Semkiws work is, most emphatically, fresh and cutting edge. This researcher
is reminded of Morrie Bernsteins The Search for Bridey Murphy, in which Mr. Bernstein, a
remarkable pioneer in this field, took great risks to put his research out to the general public. As
often happens to pioneers, he was both acclaimed and reviled for that work.
In Revolutionaries, Dr. Semkiw postulates the notion that we can identify past lives through a
combination of techniques. He combines the analysis of facial architecture, writing styles,
personal interests, and consistent personality traits evolving from lifetime to lifetime in his
identification of past life identities, sometimes guided by intuition to direct his searches. This
heavily researched book has two parts. Part One includes evidence and principles of
reincarnation, as well as a review of a number of independently researched cases. Part Two is a
lengthy identification list of both proposed and confirmed new cases from the time of the
American Revolution, which Dr. Semkiw has compiled and defined in abundant detail.
Dr. Semkiw bases his analysis on this question. What if key figures in the American Revolution
were back with us today, reincarnated in new bodies and personalities, and just as interested in
supporting social change and spiritual awakening? Some of the prominent personalities
identified in this study, and who they were during Revolutionary times may well surprise the
reader. Revolutionaries is a stimulating and fascinating book, and truly a must-read for everyone
interested in past lives.
THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO REINCARNATION BY

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DAVID HAMMERMAN AND LISA LENARD
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/THE COMPLETE IDIOTS GUIDE TO REINCARNATION BY DAVID HAMMERMAN AND LISA LENARD
Reviewed by Janet Cunningham, Ph.D.
(as included in the The Journal of Regression Therapy Volume IV, 2000/2001)
The Complete Idiots Guide to Reincarnation is a book that
should be in the waiting room of every past-life therapistand in the hands of anyone who has
ever wondered if they have lived a previous incarnation.
According to Carol Bowman, who wrote the forward, [this book] is the most comprehensive
practical guide to reincarnation Ive seenIt gives you the tools to distinguish real past-life
memories from fantasy.
Using the Idiots Book format of simple, to-the-point language and eye-catching icons,
Hammerman and Lenard have created an up-to-date informative and extensive volume that
covers the questions most asked by clients (and even practitioners!).
Just a few of the important themes include:
Religious views of reincarnation-including Christianity and Judaism
What You Didnt Learn in Sunday School
Scientific Explorations into Reincarnation
Quantum Physics Meets the Soul
Memory or Fantasy? The Nature of Memory-and Past Life Therapy
The Work of Past Life Researcher Dr. Ian Stevenson
Different Views of Karma
What Happens at Death?
Healing the Soul: Spiritual Lessons and Experience

Current research in the field of regression is covered with topics of pre-birth and birth memories,
the Interlife, soul companions, group hypnosis, and soul loss and spirit attachment. Hammerman,
a licensed psychologist who has used past-life regression therapy in his practice for 20 years,
intersperses his personal and client experiences throughout the text, giving the reader a grounded
and realistic view of the experience of spontaneous and/or hypnotically induced past-life recall.
The Complete Idiots Guide to Reincarnation is published by Alpha Books, a division of

Macmillan USA, Inc.
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SHADOWS ON MY MIND: A PSYCHOLOGIST EXPLORES REINCARNATION

AND PSI BY MARIE GATES
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/SHADOWS ON MY MIND: A PSYCHOLOGIST EXPLORES REINCARNATION AND PSI BY MARIE GATES
Reviewed by Janet Cunningham, Ph.D.
(as included in the The Journal of Regression Therapy Volume IV, 2000/2001)
Marie Gates earliest memory in this life was of her death as an adult
woman in a Catholic hospital. Her book describes her search to understand the memories and to
verify, if possible, some of the details that she learned through past-life regressions. She
describes several paranormal experiences she had such as synchronistic events, vivid dreams,
and precognitive knowing.
There are elements that are confusing in the reading of Gates book. One example is when she
becomes obsessed over a being called Mohari. The experience comes in a dream, which she later
attempts to understand through past-life regression. In sharing the overlapping in her mind
between her lifetime as Anna with Mohari and her early memories as Amanda, who died in the
hospital, the reader may have difficulty. Another point of confusion for the reader is the same
first name of three separate personalities. The names of Gates past-life personality is Amanda,
and her daughters name was Amanda. As a result of Gates search, she meets Amanda Jones,
who she believes could have been Amandas daughter in the past life. Since she indicates in the
Introduction that names have been changed, it would have made easier reading to have changed
two of these three names.
Gates reports her process to the reader as she wonders if Mohari was a part of her or a separate
entity or an angel. She does make several stretches, an example of which is in suspecting Mohari
is an angel because of the name resemblance to the angel Moroni. In doing so, however, she
shows the confusion in a persons mind who is going through such experiences in a society
which does not accept past-life recall. As a psychologist, she recognizes that a therapist might
consider me mentally ill, but I was not, at least in the usual sense.
Gates does a nice job of bringing research from various authors, such as Jung on synchronicity,
Cockells in reincarnation, and metaphysical works, such as Jane Roberts. The supportive
evidence gives her confidence to continue her research.
Shadows on My Mind is a book that suggests the value of past-life therapy over past-life
regression sessions. For a beginning explorer into the realms of past-life material, it can be
interesting reading.
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SOUL SAMPLES: PERSONAL EXPLORATION IN REINCARNATION AND

UFO EXPERIENCE BY R. LEO SPRINKLE
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Reviewed by Barbara Lamb, M.S., M.F.C.C.
(as included in the The Journal of Regression Therapy Volume III, No. 1, Fall 1999)
Leo Sprinkle has written a thoughtful, inspiring book from his long years as a
university professor, a scientific researcher of unusual human experiences, a philosopher, and a
helper/healer of thousands of persons.
The objective of the book, in Leos words, is to offer one persons views of the journey of the
soul, the significance of UFO activity, and the role of the individual person in human
evolutionThus I share with any reader these personal events that have helped me to learn to
love myself, others, and life itself, to become aware, and to acknowledge the interactions of
humans, Extraterrestrial beings and higher beings.
The book shows his own unusual experiences, his spiritual evolution, his development of
interests and abilities in self-hypnosis, psychic awareness, reincarnation and past-life therapy,
spirit releasement, UFO abductions and caring contact with ETs, psychological resonance,
and his unique method of doing life readings.
He interweaves his long-term struggles to have his interests and methods accepted by his
professor colleagues at the University of Wyoming, his failure to become tenured, his resignation
from his professorial post, and his continuing explorations in his private practice as a counseling
psychologist.
Leo includes fascinating perspectives on the effects of ET contact on humans by notable people
such as S. Ann Canary and Ida Kannenberg. He offers his own valuable studies of ET
experiencers and people with possible other lives, as well as other peoples research about
paranormal phenomena.
Leo has been a Godsend for thousands of people who confided in him about their paranormal
and ET experiences. With his special methods of tuning in to each person, he has helped them
find relief, a belief in their own sanity, and profound meaning in their experiences. He inspires us
all to develop our consciousness, as individuals and as humankind, in order to cooperate with our
more highly evolved cosmic family. I recommend this book for everyone interested in these
fields, and especially for everyone working with abductees.
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ROBERT L. SNOW
Reviewed by Linda Adler, L.C.S.W.
Police Detective Robert L. Snow had never given much thought to

reincarnation and past lives; it wasnt within his frame of reference. His life was concrete and
dealt with only what could be proven. However, a friend challenged him to test his beliefs and
recommended a psychologist for regressive hypnosis.
When Snow regressed to his life as the painter, J. Carroll Beckwith, he found the experience so
vivid and realistic he began to question what it was. Convinced it was all his imagination, Snow
was determined to find a logical explanation for what he had experienced. Using police
investigative techniques, he embarked on a quest to disprove the evidence in his regressions.
However, he was unable to ignore the fact that he may have experienced something
tremendously profound and important.
Carroll Beckwith was a moderately known late 19th to early 20th century painter who lived in
New York and Paris. Snows search for Beckwiths paintings and information on his life was
long and tedious as there is no central registry of paintings in the U.S. and Beckwiths work had
not been exhibited since 1911. His step by step investigation took him thousands of miles away
from home and through reams of papers and books, including 15,000 pages of Beckwiths
diaries. Instead of disproving his experience, Snow verified 26 of 28 facts in his regressions.
Snow says: I have recently accomplished something no one has ever accomplished before. I
have uncovered evidence that proves beyond a doubt the existence of a past life. The evidence I
have uncovered in this two year investigation is so overwhelming that if it had been a criminal
case there would be no plea bargaining. A conviction would be assured.
Snows irrefutable credentials and thorough use of police investigative techniques lend
credibility to the validity of soul continuation, our ability to access past-life memories, and the
value of regression therapy. I highly recommend this book to all those interested in past lives. It
is not only a fascinating detective story as Snow goes looking for Carroll Beckwith, it is also
an important contribution to past-life research and therapy.
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LIFE WITHOUT GUILT, BY HAZEL DENNING, PH.D.
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/LIFE WITHOUT GUILT, BY HAZEL DENNING, PH.D.

Most people carry a burden of guilt. If its deep seated enough, it

can be like an insidious virus that infiltrates every aspect of your life, so that all of your
responses to life and others are filtered through the guilty feelings. Many people have been able
to eliminate their guilt through the technique of past-life regression, discovering that there are
spiritual lessons to be learned in all past experiences. You will read their stories here, in Life
Without Guilt.
So begins Dr. Hazel Dennings inspired analysis of pervasive guilt in all its destructive forms: its
sources, its effects on lifetime after lifetime, and how it can be recognized, learned from, and
eliminated. Unacknowledged guilt can be the cause of physical, mental, or spiritual problems,
and if not dealt with it can sometimes be fatal.
Dr. Denning provides many transcripts of client sessions to illustrate the many problems she has
worked with that were caused by past-life guilt. With her interest and expertise in metaphysics,
these transcripts do not remain at superficial levels of past-life exploration; they move into areas
of spiritual overviews of mission, soul lessons, and overall understanding of the continuing
patterns from life to life. In one transcript, the client says, God cares because I care. This
remarkable statement is a good example of the kinds of insight that Dr. Dennings clients
achieve, and the spiritual levels at which they gain understanding. Another client says, I have
some adjusting to do. Hate is just as important as love, and boy that is hard to say. It goes against
my grain. This deep understanding seems important in dealing with the kinds of lifelong,
unrecognized guilt that Dr. Denning describes.
But this book goes far beyond its topic, guilt. Along the way and scattered through it are the
insights Dr. Denning herself has garnered from a long life of learning and helping others. Her
first chapter alone, The Eternal Search: Implanted Guilt, with sub-headings like Does
Mankind Have a Common Goal? and Life as a Spiritual Quest, contains a wealth of original
observations presented in Dr. Dennings down-to-earth, common sense style. She also includes
chapters on the history of reincarnation and a Brief Review of Karma, both of which supply
the reader with a great deal of historical information.
At the end of the book Dr. Denning presents Five Axioms That Can Change Your Life. With
her typically common sense approach, the first axiom is to accept The law of cause and effect.
The others contain the same simple/profound wisdom and all five together can indeed help
people free themselves from guilt. But as she herself would say, and from the evidence of this
book itself, sometimes a little help from regression is needed, too.
Dr. Denning does not pontificate and she does not speculate, either. She draws her conclusions
from what she has found with her clients, and discusses the issues raised in a clear and
reasonable manner. And her comments are so astute that this reader, at least, found herself
pausing on almost every page to consider them before reading on.
In her Introduction, in which Dr. Denning describes the processes of her own growth into the
areas of metaphysics, psychology, and past-life therapy, Dr. Denning comments For almost
twenty years I have wanted to write this book on guilt and I can only say I am glad I did not
write it twenty years ago. The additional years of experience have given me a much deeper
understanding of life and its purpose here on planet Earth, as well as a much greater insight into
the whole spectrum of guilt in the human experience. In this book, Dr. Denning has summed up
her learning from over forty years of past-life therapy. It is a must read for any past-life
therapist or anyone else with an open mind.
OLD SOULS: THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE FOR PAST LIVES, BY

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HOME/BOOK REVIEW/OLD SOULS: THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE FOR PAST LIVES, BY TOM SHRODER
Reviewed by Thomas G. Shafer, M.D.
Old Souls is an interesting volume which details an investigative
reporters first hand experience with the work of Ian Stevenson. I found it to be well written in a
narrative style more like a novel or quality newspaper feature piece than the usual kiss and tell
personal experience book or dry recital of facts and theories. The author paints very vivid word
pictures of Lebanon and especially India and also develops his characters with good
description and a marked sense of their inner motives and conflicts much more typical of quality
fiction. In short, it is a very readable book.
The content, a review of Dr. Ian Stevensons work and methodology, is way overdue. Like most
of us, I have been fascinated by the good doctors work for decades, in my case ever since he
lectured to myself and a group of other medical students at the University of Virginia in 1974.
Like many others though, I have to admit that I find his prose just about impenetrable. Of course,
Stevenson is writing scientific papers and academic material for an academic audience so it is no
surprise that his work reads like a college textbook. But it is hard enough to read a college
textbook when you have to.
I certainly cant fault Mr. Shroders research. He clearly read much of Dr. Stevensons work
along with numerous other papers supporting or controverting it. Also, he accompanied the
research team on trips to Lebanon and India, as well as observing and later conducting interviews
in the United States. He saw all levels of cases from follow-ups many years later to initial
interviews.
I found his approach quite refreshing. He dealt with everything he read and observed as a
newspaperman much more interested in offering observations and facts rather than opinions.
This certainly is an improvement over the usual shrill, polarized arguments between true
believers and true non-believers. And, unusual for his profession these days, Mr. Shroders work
is much more of an exposition than an expose.
This straightforward approach made the content of the book even more disturbing. While it was
clear that the reporter did not have an agenda, I was left with a distinct impression that Dr.
Stevenson and his research colleagues did. There are multiple instances reported with what
appeared to be accurate description of events and carefully recorded quotes that left me with the
overall impression that the Stevenson team was assigning much more priority to proving their
hypothesis than they were to objective uncovering and analysis of the facts. There were many
times where contradictory statements by one of the children or another witness were disregarded,
usually on the basis that we can expect memory to be somewhat fallible, while facts supporting
the reincarnation thesis were relentlessly dredged up and displayed. I was left with a distinct
impression that the research approach was, Ive made up my mind; please dont confuse me
with the facts.
Dr. Stevenson himself is even quoted as saying that researchers must have passion for the thesis
they are trying to prove and people without passion produced poor quality research. I find this
quite disturbing because the best research is done by people who let the facts fall where they may
with the understanding that they will either prove their existing hypothesis or move onto an even
more interesting new one.
Certainly, no one is accusing anyone on the Stevenson team of unethical conduct. Rather, this
book suggests they may be a group of people who have become so dedicated to proving the
existence of reincarnation that they have lost track of some basic principles of research. I dont
see individuals who are trying to con the public in this book; I see well-intentioned persons who
have slipped somewhere along the way into a position where proving their thesis takes first
priority.
In fairness, I should point out that these are my conclusions drawn from the fact based anecdotes
in Mr. Shroders book. I interviewed Mr. Shroder via e-mail and asked him specifically about
this. This with his reply: Dr. Stevenson still maintains staunchly that there is no proof in
science, except in mathematics. I am quite sure he doesnt ignore contrary evidence, though his
long, solitary struggle to win respectability for this line of inquiry may have its cost, and it is
certainly a reason to wish other scientists, unconnected with Stevenson and unburdened by his
history, would emerge to examine these cases from a more detached point of view. Im sure
nothing would make Stevenson happier than that. The Stevenson team werent the only ones
being criticized. Dr. Brian Weiss received a thorough depth charging that would have done credit
to the Royal Navy. Of course, Shroder is not the only person to express concern that the early
conclusions Dr. Weiss published in his books regarding reincarnation went far beyond his
available data.
I questioned Mr. Shroder about this. He says that Dr. Weiss has modified his position
significantly. Mr. Shroder said:
I talked to Brian long after I wrote the article, and he has now distanced himself from the idea
that these regression cases are good evidence for the reality of reincarnation. He says now that
his interest in them is that they are effective therapy, that they appear to alleviate symptoms with
dramatic rapidity, and far more successfully than conventional therapy. Even in this, he
acknowledges that he is going only on his clinical experience, and has done no controlled clinical
trials to confirm his suspicions.
I finished the book without having any clear idea of whether Mr. Shroders beliefs regarding
reincarnation were changed. He made it clear at the outset that he was a skeptic. At the same
time, it was also clear that he had a strong underlying need to believe in some sort of survival
after death, perhaps to help him deal with the loss of his father. Yet, I came away from the book
with the impression that he was a man who was intrigued by everything he saw, perhaps even to
the point of having a sense of awe from being in the presence of a phenomenon connected to a
reality much larger than himself or his limited perspective.
At the same time, I did not feel he found enough solid evidence to reach a final conclusion.
When I asked him about this, Mr. Shroder did not give a definitive statement regarding his
beliefs on reincarnation. He did say, though, that he was especially impressed by the sheer
volume of Dr. Stevensons work. Like many others, he would like see more depth and more
detailed follow-ups. Some suggestions he provided included trying to locate more cases nearby
in the United States, and evaluation of the individuals involved by more sophisticated techniques
including more detailed psychological testing and polygraph examination and making a more
concerted effort to try to locate cases right at the very beginning so that records of the
recollections could be made before there was a chance of contamination.
When asked about what he would consider an ideal case, Mr. Shroder suggested that it would be
quite interesting to place someone with a background in cultural anthropology in an area like the
Druse villages near Beirut. Placing such a person there for a period of several years would give
them a chance to detect, record and analyze several cases from the very outset with frequent
follow-ups.
To sum up, this is a well-written and thought provoking book for anyone in our field, and
especially for those interested in research. I recommend it.
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HOME/BOOK REVIEW/FREEING THE CAPTIVES, BY LOUISE IRELAND-FREY, M.D.

Reviewed by Hazel M. Denning, Ph.D.
Everyone who is interested in hauntings and the spirit world will be
excited about this new book, which has just been authored and published by Dr. Louise Ireland-
Frey. It is a truly comprehensive work, covering the field in a well-defined and detailed manner.
When I get a new book I always start reading with the Foreword and the Introduction. In Dr.
Ireland-Freys book the Foreword is a masterpiece of condensed historical facts in this field.
Great figures such as Zoroaster, King Solomon, and the mother of Gotama Buddha are credited
with practicing exorcism.
The conflicts between demonology and the scientific approach to mental illness are briefly
outlined. Modern spiritualism, in 1837, brought into prominence the tangible evidence of spirit
communication. Dr. James Hyslop, professor of logic at Columbia University, is credited with
being the true pioneer in a systematic investigation of spirit possession. One other name must be
added to this list, Dr. Carl Wickland, and he is given the credit he deserves for his seminal work
with possession and obsession. It should be noted that the leaders of these investigations were all
men of considerable stature, most of them holding medical degrees.
As I was reading the Foreword, my own enthusiasm about the book increased and I eagerly
looked forward to the first chapter. When I turned the last page of the Foreword and discovered
that Dr. William Baldwin had written it, I had a wonderful feeling of kinship. Dr. Baldwin and I
had been working partners when we attended an early workshop with Dr. Edith Fiore.
Now to the fascinating investigation of spirits and their interaction with living individuals. Since
Dr. Ireland-Frey is a physician, her approach to the subject is objective, critical and analytical.
She describes without hesitation her own fears, blunders, and feelings of inadequacy when she
first began working with trapped spirits. For all who believe in destiny and life purpose, it will be
obvious that Dr. Ireland-Frey was led or directed into working in this special and much needed
field, and to her credit she has described the problems as well as the successes of her work.
The first chapter is an excellent introduction to the invisible world and the problems faced by the
person carrying out a releasement. It also clearly defines terms such as spirit, entity,
personality, soul, consciousness, psyche, etc., and from all the evidence we have, she
describes the experience of the soul when it leaves the physical body.
Lost souls or wanderers are graphically described in this first chapter, as are their interaction
with living individuals. They are the energies which affect living people either mildly, called
shadowing, or when there is harassment, called oppression, and then obsession, a stronger
intrusion of the entity in which the victim is confused and bewildered. The most invasive
intrusion by an entity is called possession, in which the entity takes complete control of the
individual. Dr. Ireland-Frey describes these various forms of intrusion in the first chapter, and
deals with them in considerable detail in case histories in later chapters.
There are many different conditions which attract invasion by discarnate spirits. These are well
enumerated in this first chapter. Many souls do not know they are dead and they seek desperately
for help and a safe place to be. Some seek the light and are soon taken care of by the light beings.
Some who have been smokers and drinkers are attracted to individuals who use these substances.
People who have weak auras are easy subjects for invasion. Living people who resemble the
discarnate entity in some say also invite invasion. An angry soul will often attach to an angry
individual.
On the positive side, an entity may be attracted to a living person they admire, or to a soul with
whom they have had a relationship in a former incarnation. People who work in the health
professions are particularly vulnerable, states Dr. Ireland-Frey, because they are caring people
and souls feel safe with them.
Chapter One closes with advice on how to prevent obsession and introduces the topic of how to
get rid of an entity attachment. Meditation and prayer are suggested, but Dr. Ireland-Frey defers
further discussion until Chapter Ten, where the topic is thoroughly covered. Dr. Ireland-Frey
suggests that anyone can do releasements and gives very specific details outlining the
procedures, including the problems one faces in dealing with this phenomenon.
Special attention is given to dealing with resistant entities. The reasons for their resistance are
well-delineated and the painstaking methods of dealing with their resistance provide anyone
interested with the tools to confront a stubborn invading entity.
Dr. Ireland-Frey has included a very interesting aspect of the energy field, one not always or
directly associated with releasement therapy. There has been much speculation about the effects
of organ transplants on the recipients. Many believe that the energy of the donor is somehow
transferred to the recipient when physical organs are transplanted. There seems to be rather
convincing evidence that this theory has validity. Dr. Ireland-Frey addresses this issue and gives
a possible explanation, that rather than just an energy form going with the transplanted organ, the
original owner of the organ stays with it and becomes an obsessing entity to the recipient.
There is an excellent chapter on non-human entities. Such types of entities as thought forms,
curses, spells, elementals, vows, legions, nature spirits and so on are given thorough coverage
with excellent case histories to illustrate the varying powers of these entities. The chapter on dark
demonic entities is illustrated with excellent case histories and includes warnings about the many
devious tricks of dark entities.
There is an interesting chapter on minor dark entities, the variety that haunts houses, and
frequently annoy or frighten individuals. In this chapter Dr. Ireland-Frey introduces remote
releasement. I know from personal experience that this form of releasement is possible. Many
years ago, when I first became interested in the paranormal field, a friend of mine was
superintendent in a Los Angeles elementary school. She called me one day and asked for advice
and help. She had a pupil who was uncontrollable at home and in the classroom; he had been
expelled. I was doing research at the time with a highly accomplished psychic who was also a
doctor. When I asked her in a trance to look into this problem, she at once diagnosed him as
being possessed. To my surprise she said confidently that she could and would take care of it.
Two days later the superintendent called to tell me that the problem was solved.
There are many books currently being published about possession and hauntings. There is a
heightened interest in this field and the friends I know who investigate haunted houses and work
with cases of possession are in constant demand from people who are experiencing these
problems. Dr. Ireland-Freys book is not only timely, but it covers the field of spirit releasement
more extensively than most books on the subject. In addition it is fascinating reading, largely
because of the many case histories she provides. If you have any interest in this field, you will
include this book on your reading list.
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CE-VI: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE POSSESSION KIND: INTERFERENCE

FROM THE EXTRATERRESTRIALS AMONG US. WILLIAM BALDWIN
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AMONG US. WILLIAM BALDWIN
Reviewed by Barbara Lamb, M.S., M.F.C.C., C.Ht.
(as included in the The Journal of Regression Therapy Volume II, No. 1, Fall 1998)
Once again, Dr. William Baldwin has introduced further startling,
groundbreaking concepts and therapeutic modalities for use by therapeutic practitioners. In this
most recent book, he reviews the main concepts of spirit attachments and Dark Force Entity
(DFE) attachments that he first presented in his 1992 book, Spirit Releasement Therapy: A
Technique Manual. But in this new book he goes beyond to focus more closely on attachments
and takeovers by extraterrestrial beings (ETs) and DFEs. Even for therapists who have been
working with various types of spirit attachments, this book adds new perspectives, newly
realized phenomena, and new possibilities for treating people with unwanted influences.
Baldwin acknowledges that much of human experience as recovered through altered states of
consciousness cannot be scientifically tested and/or validated. Yet he tells us of a number of
cases of alleged attachments and the relief and improvement that the human host, the client,
experienced after release of those entities. He draws on the reports of his clients, finding certain
common factors.
Baldwin finds that the variety of ET beings that attach to people is wide. Many ETs claim that
they have never had a former human lifetime, while others claim they have had incarnations on
earth as a human in a human body. Most often their forms seem to be non-physical, and
sometimes they are spirits of deceased ETs. Sometimes they are hidden, lost, or marooned here
on earth (sometimes as punishment by their own kind). Some have no home planets to return to
because of widespread destruction there. Some say they are here to gather information and
scientific data about humans. These seem to he scientists, researchers, and technicians, very
diligently carrying on their work either within human bodies or through implants while operating
on a spaceship at a distance. Often they deliberately manipulate their host humans to experience
strong emotions or desires, while monitoring the results.
But there is a positive side as well. Some ETs say they are here to assist humans to spiritually
evolve, or to help humans through predictable catastrophes and massive earth changes. These
beings do not seem to be hostile, disruptive, belligerent, or destructive, and they are reasonably
cooperative about leaving the host after the invasive nature of their presence and activities is
explained to them. Some beings of this type are more spiritually advanced than we humans are
(and more technologically advanced, too), although some are more self-serving and less
spiritually aware than others.
According to Dr. Baldwin, any attached ETs who are totally sell-serving, harmful, and without
any regard for the human host are influenced, controlled, or possessed by DFEs. In treating such
a situation, the DFE needs to be released and then the ET. This is not always easy. Many of them
are here to conquer humanity and take over the earth for their own purposes, and they affect
people in mans dreadful ways. Dr. Baldwin describes examples of effectively releasing first
these DFEs, then their commanding officers, the legions and minions of DFEs, and finally
the attached ETs.
Dr. Baldwin includes helpful information about other, related, phenomena. He discusses Remote
Spirit Releasement and gives examples of remote communication with ETs to learn the reasons
for their actions. Also discussed are alien-human hybrids and the interbreeding program, alien-
alien hybrids, the missions that ETs have when they attach to human hosts, the Vanishing Twin
phenomenon, retrieving mind-fragments that split off from one person and attach to another,
dark cords attached to various parts of the hosts body that suck out life force energy to be stored
elsewhere to be used for sustenance by other entities, the origins of DFEs, soul thefts, the
contracts made between ET civilizations and DFEs (and with many humans throughout history),
the true origins of mankind (genetically created and manipulated by ETs), self-protection against
approaching entity intruders, and using past-life therapy on attached entities.
This book is a treasure trove of Baldwins findings on these and related subjects, and contains
numerous samples of Baldwins effective dialogues with various kinds of attached ETs and
DFEs. All of the concepts discussed are bolstered by footnotes and a bibliography, allowing the
reader to pursue further research. It is obvious that Baldwin has read copiously and gathered
what support there is for his understandings.
As a regression therapist who has explored ET experiences with more than 200 clients during
several hundred regressions, I, too, have learned significant perspectives from reading Baldwins
book. I recommend CE-VI: Close Encounters of the Possession Kind for anyone conducting
releasement therapy and/or seriously involved in UFO/ET research.
Reviewed by Barbara Lamb, M.S., M.F.C.C., C.Ht.
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ACROSS TIME AND DEATH, BY JENNY COCKELL
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/ACROSS TIME AND DEATH, BY JENNY COCKELL

Reviewed by Robert T. James, J.D.
A fascinating book recounting the authors successful search for her
past-life children. The author today is married, has two children, and lives in Northampton shire,
a County in Central England.
Throughout her childhood, Jenny Cockell had recurring dreams of a woman named Mary, who
died in childbirth with her eighth child. Growing up, she had continuing memories of Marys
life: Her children, a cottage near a small hamlet, roads, woodlands, boggy meadows, a stream,
the local church, a butchers shop, a railway station, and other landmarks where Mary and her
family lived, all of which later proved to be accurate.
She remembered Mary as a church-going Catholic; she also remembered many other day-to-day
events in Marys life. Jennys memories of people, places, and events placed Marys life span as
from 1898 to the 1930s, in Ireland. From examining maps, Jenny was able to determine that
Mary had lived at a place called Malahide, just north of Dublin.
As a child, although she was afraid of her father, Jenny was fortunate in being able to tell her
mother of her dreams and memories without fear of censure. Jenny also had dreams about events
before they happened, and later came to recognize that she has certain psychic abilities.
As Jenny matured, attended school and college, married and had children, her memories of the
life as Mary did not fade, as have many of the numerous childhood memories of past lives
investigated and reported by Dr. Ian Stevenson. Later, Jenny encountered a hypnotist doing
regression research, and by means of a number of hypnotic regressions, she relived many of the
experiences and events of Marys life.
Eventually, Jennys memories of her past life as Mary, accompanied by a sense of guilt and
responsibility as Mary for dying and leaving her children on their own, led her to search for
verification of the existence of her life as Mary. In 1989, Jenny flew to Malahide for a two-day
visit. In her short time there, she was able to locate and confirm the existence of many of her
remembered landmarks.
Later, through correspondence and with the help of acquaintances, Jenny was able to contact an
older resident of Malahide who remembered Mary, whose last name was Sutton, her husband,
the cottage, Marys death, and that her children had been sent to orphanages as their father would
not care for them.
Now, at the age of thirty-five, Jenny felt Marys maternal responsibility to find all of Marys
children, although nearly sixty years had passed since Marys death. Over the next several years,
by searching records, newspaper stories, and correspondence, she located the baptismal records
of six of Marys children. She later learned through contact with a grandchild of Marys that
there had been eight children.
In 1990, Jenny located and visited in person with Marys oldest son, who was then seventy-one
years old. Over time, this meeting led to contact with four of the other children. Eventually all of
these five children accepted Jenny as either the reincarnation of their mother Mary, or that Mary
was speaking through Jenny. The other three children are either deceased or not yet located. The
BBC made a documentary about Jennys experiences.
Jenny Cockell is not a professional writer. She tells her story plainly and simply, which lends it
authenticity. Across Time and Death is described by Brian Weiss as a fantastic book. and it
would be difficult to disagree.
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REMARKABLE HEALINGS: A PSYCHIATRIST DISCOVERS UNSUSPECTED

ROOTS OF MENTAL AND PHYSICAL ILLNESS. SHAKUNTALA MODI
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ILLNESS. SHAKUNTALA MODI
(as included in the The Journal of Regression Therapy Volume I, No. 1, Fall 1997)
Those of us who work with past-life and/or spirit releasement
therapies have long anticipated the day when Shakuntala Modi, M.D., a psychiatrist for over
twenty years, presented her findings to the world, and she does not disappoint us. Indeed, she
gives us more than we had hoped.
Here she sums up her findings from eleven years of working with psychiatric patients with a
wide diversity of symptoms, with different types of therapies. Modi uses an intricate mix of past-
life therapy and the therapies of spirit releasement and soul integration, as called for by the
particular patients needs and insights. Following her patients lead, she found that although
many problems seemed to stem from past lives, others seemed to be caused by attached spirits
and/or soul fragmentation, and these were often intertwined. Examining the past lives, releasing
attached spirits, and integrating the soul fragments resolved the problems. Modi gives good case
studies throughout the book to illustrate the many ways she worked with the various conditions.
Modi differentiates between primary, secondary, and tertiary symptoms; primary symptoms are
the presenting problems, secondary symptoms are other (often chronic) problems that the patient
has, and tertiary symptoms are those that arise during the course of therapy. Modi went to her
files of 100 patients and examined them for their symptoms and their causes, and she gives us the
results of her research. For example, she found that about 80% of the primary symptoms and
about 20% of the secondary symptoms were caused by attached spirits and soul fragmentation;
the other symptoms came from past lives (about 20% of primary symptoms and about 80% of
secondary symptoms). However, physical symptoms, whether primary or secondary, came about
70% of the time from past lives and about 30% from attached entities. Personality Disorders also
usually stemmed from past lives, and only occasionally from entity attachments. In all cases,
once these causes were examined and dealt with, the symptoms were relieved.
Of special importance in Modis work are her findings about schizophrenia and Multiple
Personality Disorder (MPD, now called Dissociative Identity Disorder, DID). By any methods,
even Modis, these disorders take long and careful therapy when it is possible at all, and a great
deal of determination and perseverance on the parts of both therapist and patient are required. As
Modi points out, these patients must first learn to trust the therapist, and this is not easy for them.
Schizophrenics must also learn to relax and concentrate before any therapy can be attempted;
Modi notes that sadly, not all of them can learn to do this. But Modi gives a detailed case study
of her on-going treatment of a paranoid schizophrenic patient with her eclectic mix of methods;
the patient shows steady improvement.
Modi also gives us case studies of several DID patients. There are other case studies of treating a
variety of psychiatric and medical problems, including a case of ulcerative colitis. For all of
these patients, a complicated tangle of current and past-life trauma, attached spirits, and soul
fragmentation was found to be responsible for their plight.
As Modi describes her methods, they are not for the faint-hearted or the novice therapist. A great
deal of careful training would seem necessary before one attempted to use them. But her results
are impressive, especially for people with major psychiatric and medical disorders, and warrant
serious consideration by physicians and psychotherapists of all kinds.
Modi also gives us her conclusions about her findings and what they tell her about the spiritual
basis of human life. Some may find her too speculative here, but she bases her conclusions on
what her patients have told her under hypnosis, not her own pre-conceived ideas, and this has a
certain force. Modi has been listening to her patients and keeping records and drawing
conclusions, and they are well worth everyones attention.
Despite its immediate usefulness to professionals, Remarkable Healings is written in clear

language with a minimum of jargon, is painstakingly thorough, and can be easily understood by
professionals and laypeople alike.
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REGRESSION: PAST-LIFE THERAPY FOR HERE AND NOW FREEDOM,

SAMUEL SAGAN.
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/REGRESSION: PAST-LIFE THERAPY FOR HERE AND NOW FREEDOM, SAMUEL SAGAN.
Reviewed by Russell C. Davis, Ph.D.
Dr. Samuel Sagan lived in France for 27 years before moving to
Australia where he founded the Clairvision School in Sydney to train past-life therapists.
Clairvision is described as a western school of spirituality and the past-life training there is based
upon many of the theories of traditional Hindu thought concerning the nature of the human
being.
This is not light reading, though it is also not an obtuse tome of impossible-to-comprehend
philosophical concepts. It is not a how-to-do-it book, but rather a how-to-understand-it book.
Like the Clairvision School, it is based largely on Hindu concepts and constructs which are
drawn from ancient Hindu texts thousands of years old. Occasionally, he compares these
concepts to those of the so-called modern era, such as the theories of Freud. In fact, if the reader
allows him or herself to look beyond the use of Sanskrit words and focus instead upon the
meanings of these terms and the concepts they encompass, then one often finds striking
similarities between them and the concepts and goals of contemporary therapeutic schools. To be
sure, there are also marked differences.
Central to the thesis of this book is Sagans postulate that blockages and hindrances encountered
in this lifetime are commonly the result of samsaras, which he describes as tracks left in the
mind by previous traumatic experiences. Roughly speaking, samsaras are the scars of the
mind. Thus the major portion of the book is devoted to exploring and explaining the nature of
samsaras as emotional imprints left inside your unconscious mind which in turn tend to
influence your present emotional responses, their effects on the human existence, and how the
use of regression therapy to uncover the root causes of these samsaras is the key to conducting a
successful therapy which leads to the freeing of the individual. Is that really so different from the
contemporary concept of repressed trauma, especially when viewed from the perspective of a
past-life therapist?
Sagan explores many concepts such as the differences between emotions and feelings, and
describes the typical person as being so filled with countless samsaras superimposed upon
countless samsaras that we react to situations and people like Pavlovs response-conditioned
dogs. He postulates that the only way to truly free ourselves is through the exploration of these
samsaras via regression therapy. It is interesting that according to Sagan, this process is more
difficult today than ever before, given the compounding effect of samsaras being superimposed
upon other samsaras with each lifetime.
Sagan often refers to his concept of Inner Space Interactive Sourcing (ISIS) in his discussion of
his techniques of regression therapy, but he does not really explain it. Whereas the effect of
samsaras is conditioning, the aim of ISIS, according to him, is de-conditioning.
How, exactly, ISIS works is not really explained in the book. Presumably, one must attend one of
his courses to learn its full workings, and this is perhaps one of the most disappointing aspects of
this otherwise interesting book.
The book is both theoretical and yet pragmatic in many ways in its explanations and
explorations. Sagan illustrates his theories and concepts with a goodly number of transcript
excerpts from therapy sessions he has conducted. He also draws from a number of traditional
Hindu anecdotes and stories to help make his points. These are quite helpful to the reader.
For the uninitiated, who has little or no understanding of the Hindu concepts of samsaras,
regression, the levels of the human being (physical body, etheric body, astral body, and ego or
higher self), and associated constructs, this is an interesting and excellent guide book.
Periodically, Sagan also draws comparisons to modern psychotherapy as well as to the
theosophical writings of Rudolf Steiner.
For the person who might be interested in tracing the root meanings of words and their
associated concepts, Sagan looks at words and concepts as they appeared in their original
languages: Sanskrit, Greek, and scholastic Latin, among others. In this area, he defines meanings
and brings clarity to concepts while avoiding the distraction of being overly pedantic.
The book deserves a reading, and the concepts it champions are worthy of consideration, if for
no other reason than to help todays past-life therapist better understand that much of what we
hold to be contemporary in actuality shares many commonalties with a school of concepts and
theories which were written down thousands of years ago.
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EDWARDS.
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Reviewed by Robert T. James, J.D.
In his Introduction, Edwards states that The belief in Reincarnation
and Karma has been steadily gaining support in recent decades, and therefore, There is an
urgent need for a comprehensive and systematic evaluation of these doctrines. In spite of his
opinion that the beliefs in these doctrines are one aspect of the tide of irrationalism that has
been flooding the Western World, especially the United States, Edwards assures us that in
making his critical examination of these doctrines, he has attempted to state, fairly and fully, all
the main arguments offered in support of reincarnation and Karma.
One would anticipate that a critical examination of such doctrines would involve seeking out
examples of the best, rather than the dubious. This would seem to include at a minimum, an
examination of recent well-documented cases of xenoglossy (the ability of a person to speak in a
language to which he or she had not previously been exposed in this lifetime), and those cases
where the existence of the past life to which the subject regressed has been well verified.
However, the bulk of this book is devoted to the recitation of anomalies; that is, odd, peculiar, or
strange stories which Edwards offers as stereotypical of those who subscribe to the possibility of
past lives.
Illustrative of the anomalies recounted by Edwards in his critical examination are the claimed
experiences of persons such as Dr. Stanislav Grof, Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Dr. Arthur
Ritchie, and Dr. Sir Alexander Cannon.
Grof administered the hallucinate LSD to subjects, after which he claimed they experienced
instant intuitive information about any aspect of the universe in the present, past, and future.
They also identified with the consciousness of animals, plants, or inorganic objects and
processes.
Kubler-Ross, well respected for her work with the dying, has reported that she has received visits
from dead patients who materialize before her, and that she has become an astral traveler.
According to Edwards, Kubler-Ross has claimed that she travels through space at the speed of
light, has contact with spiritual beings, and has experienced the death of every one of the
thousands of patients that she has seen. Edwards reports that Kubler-Ross claims that she
experienced literally the bleeding and the pain and the agony and the cramps and incredible
pains and tears and loneliness and isolation every negative aspect of every patients death.
Ritchie, after being pronounced dead and before being resuscitated, apparently claimed that he
flew to hell where he witnessed the dreadful tortures suffered by suicides, alcoholics, violently
angry types, and sexual perverts. He also visited heaven where he was shown astro-
laboratories in which scientists were engaged in experiments.
Cannon reportedly claimed that while traveling in Tibet, he, along with his porter and luggage,
were levitated over a chasm.
In his critical examination, Edwards discusses the problem of what vehicle, if any, would
survive physical death and transport memories of past lives to the present. But he concludes that
whatever that vehicle is, it is the same as the astral bodies of those who claim to venture
outside of their bodies while living. Again, facing the choice of whether to search out the best or
the dubious, to illustrate the astral body concept he cites the 19th-century story of Mr. and Mrs.
Wilnot. Mr. Wilnot encountered a great storm while at sea, and while on that trip, he was visited
and embraced by Mrs. Wilnot. Mrs. Wilnot was in the United States at that time, and she claimed
that her astral body had traveled to and visited with Mr. Wilnot.
Paradoxically, in his examination of the doctrine of Karma, which he considers the doctrine that
everything good that happens to a person is a reward for good deeds in a past life, and everything
bad is punishment for evil deeds, Edwards presents reasonable and well-thought out conclusions.
He cites, as examples, that of a plane crash killing all on board, an earthquake killing many, the
holocaust, the recent Bosnian ethnic cleansing, and other tragedies involving large numbers of
people. He asks the old question: Is it reasonable to suppose that all those who perish in such
tragedies deserve exactly the same treatment because of their past-life deeds? He observes that
Karma would indicate that no matter whether we help the suffering or not, the outcome will be
just, in the sense that every human being will be getting exactly no more and no less what he
deserves.
Throughout the book, Edwards refers to the opinions on reincarnation from many philosophers
from the Western World, such as Plato, Goethe, Schopenhauer, Hume, Santayana, Huxley, and
many others, with whom he appears to have a good acquaintance. These opinions, although
interesting, would seem to have little relevance to a critical examination of the past-life
phenomenon, particularly the recently reported, well-documented cases, none of which he
examines or even acknowledges.
In reviewing a few of the cases reported by Dr. Ian Stevenson, who is one of the best-respected
researchers of the past-life phenomenon, Edwards states Stevenson is generally distrustful of
hypnotic regressions and all the cases he has studied are of the spontaneous variety. This, of
course, is simply not true.
Even the most rudimentary research, had it been performed, would have disclosed Stevensons
Jensen case reported in 1974 and the Gretchen case in 1976. The Jensen and Gretchen cases both
involved the use of hypnotic regressions. Both cases were excellent examples of responsive
xenoglossy, that is, the subjects ability to respond intelligently to questions in a language with
which the subjects had had no previous contact in their present lives. Nevertheless, Edwards
dismisses Stevenson as a person who evidently lives in a cloud-cuckoo-land. In addition, more
thorough research would have encountered the Antonia case reported in 1990 by Linda Tarazi,
and the Johnson case reported by Rick Brown in 1991. In both cases, the remembered past lives
were well researched and verified.
Edwards states that the weightiest argument against reincarnation is based on the dependence of
consciousness on the body, and more particularly on the brain. After a discussion of the views of
Wilder Penfield, C.J. Ducasse, Locke, Hume and many others, he strongly defends the
hypothesis that when the brain dies, all consciousness also dies.
Early in the book, Edwards admits that For many years I have been an avid reader of assorted
tabloids The National Enquirer, The Midnight Globe, The Star, The National Examiner, The
Sun, and News of the World. Apparently these scholarly publications are where he obtained a
good deal of his material. Strangely enough, later in the book he states: The new immortality
movement has been hailed with undiluted enthusiasm by the various tabloids The National
Enquirer, The Midnight Globe, The Star, and other newcomers to this genre which seem to be
the favorite literature of millions of semi-literate Americans.
This reviewer would maintain that skepticism of the right kind is a healthy and necessary thing.
Professor John Beloff, a psychologist at the University of Edinburgh, classifies skepticism as
either absolute skepticism or de facto skepticism. For an absolute skeptic, he states, evidence
is simply irrelevant. An absolute skeptic would nullify any evidence by invoking some general
principle, such as consistency with known physical lawsor some other cherished criterion. In
other words, dogmatism.
A de facto skeptic is one with an open mind but who demands stronger evidence than anything
that has so far been produced. In view of the many recent, well-documented cases of xenoglossy
and verified remembered past lives, a critical examination of the doctrines of reincarnation and
Karma by a de facto skeptic would be welcome. Unfortunately, absolute skepticism seems to be
the theme in this book.
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AFFECT YOUR CHILD, CAROL BOWMAN.
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/CHILDRENS PAST LIVES: HOW PAST-LIFE MEMORIES AFFECT YOUR CHILD, CAROL BOWMAN.
Seldom has a book come out in any field with more potential impact
on society than Carol Bowmans Childrens Past Lives. The information regarding the former
experiences which impact childrens behavior today could revolutionize our educational system,
the psychological approach to childrens problems, and parental responses to the aberrant
behavior of their offspring.
There is probably no stronger evidence in our society today of the validity of the reincarnation
hypothesis than the plethora of children who, from the ages of two to eight, spontaneously report
in detail experiences about which they could have no knowledge in their current life.
This book is, indeed, long overdue and sorely needed in a society which is spiritually coming of
age and recognizing that humans are spiritual beings created for all time. Death as we know it
has no meaning because death is just another beginning, and many souls being born at this time
bring that knowledge with them and are able to report physical experiences they have had in
previous incarnations. However, seldom is this knowledge beneficial to the child because of the
criticism directed to him or her by parents and society. It does not take long for children to
realize they cannot reveal their innermost thoughts and feelings without suffering punishment or
ridicule.
Bowmans own two children opened the door for her to a whole new field of inquiry and then a
dedication to researching cases of children who recall previous lives. In Childrens Past
Lives she shares her findings with the world. Her five-year-old son was terrified of loud booming
sounds, her nine-year-old daughter was reduced to hysterics by house fires. In both cases a
hypnotist friend regressed the children and they vividly reported past-life experiences which
explained their fears. The son had been badly injured in the Civil War with cannon booming
around him, and the daughter had died in a house fire in which she was trapped.
The recall completely eliminated the fears her children had suffered so intensely. These exciting
results so impressed Bowman that she determined to find out if other children had such recall
experiences. She discovered that literature in this field was scant, though she did find enough to
convince her that others had found evidence of past-life recall by children. She then advertised in
a national parents magazine for parents to contact her if their children had recalls of past lives,
and was invited to appear on radio and TV. The response from parents was overwhelming.
Thus encouraged with hundreds of cases of children who spontaneously reported past lives,
Bowman wrote Childrens Past Lives with the hope that it would educate the public to this
unlimited resource available to parents, teachers, psychologists, psychiatrists, physicians, and all
who work with children.
Her case histories alone make the book fascinating reading, but there is much more than just case
histories in Bowmans book. She identifies four signs in children that indicate memory rather
than fantasy: 1) a matter-of-fact tone in their description; 2) consistency over time; 3) knowledge
beyond experience; and 4) corresponding behavior and traits.
Her chapter on what parents can do is practical and within the capacity of any parent. She deals
with the religious aspect in a common sense manner, presenting historical facts which support
the reincarnation hypothesis and reconcile it with Christian mysticism.
In her chapter on death she presents powerful evidence for the belief in the continuity of life, and
comforting evidence to all who have lost loved ones, that there is reason and purpose in all of our
experiences.
As the reviewer of this wonderful book, may I suggest that every reader take the time to sit
quietly and meditate on the benefits to children everywhere if their emotional problems were
addressed from the standpoint of their origins in past lives rather than with punitive measures
and/or drugs being applied in hit-or-miss solutions which seldom are successful. Then
recommend the book to all of your friends, especially those who have children or grandchildren,
talk about it to everyone you know and above all, send out your thoughts to everyone who would
be receptive. Use your imagination to realize the power this one concept has to mitigate the
suffering of untold numbers of children and start them on a path of self discovery and spiritual
freedom.
Bowman has given us a superlative book, well written and with a message for everyone of all
ages. It is far more than a book about children. Many adults will find answers for their own
problems in her graphic case histories. Childrens Past Lives deals with the full spectrum of life,
including its origin, meaning, and purpose.
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REINCARNATION AND BIOLOGY: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ETIOLOGY

OF BIRTHMARKS AND BIRTH DEFECTS - IAN STEVENSON
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DEFECTS IAN STEVENSON
Reviewed by Rabia Lynn Clark, Ph.D.
Reincarnation and Biology: A Contribution to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth

Defects. Two volumes, hardcover, 2268 pages, $195.
Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect. Synopsis, one volume, 203 pages, paperback,
$17.95, cloth $59. Ian Stevenson, M.D., 1997, Westport, CT: Praeger.
It is a difficult task to adequately review a 2268-page book! I will

start by saying that in this long-awaited two-volume work, Dr. Ian Stevenson has created a
masterwork. For those of us who wish there were some scientific proof of reincarnation, this
book has hundreds of carefully researched cases, examined with the intent of studying a segment
of the reincarnation phenomenon, birthmarks and birth defects, that gives concrete evidence of
supposed past lives. Stevenson has published many prior works that document the past-life
memories of people, many of whom were children, who remembered a recent past life. When
possible he took them to visit the family they lived in during the past life, and then interviewed
members of the present-day and prior families to validate those memories.
This new book goes even further. For the past 20 years Stevenson and his associates have
collected cases of children who have birthmarks or congenital defects, and traced how they were
connected to the past life the children reported. Frequently the connection was a death in the
prior life by violent murder, which they often remember. The children who remembered these
lives are carefully interviewed, as are their present and past family members. Most of the
children were young when they began to talk of their prior lives, between two and four years old.
They can often remember many details of the other life, as well as information about family
members which proves to be factual.
Many children are confused over their two identities. They may have behaviors in the present
which reflect the prior personality, such as phobias or fears of the weapons used to kill them, or
of police or soldiers involved in the death. Many have nostalgic longings to return to the
previous family, and preferences for the favorite food, clothing, and interests of the prior
personality. They may play games that reflect their prior occupation. They may also reveal the
adult personalitys sexual interest in their prior spouse. (One person married his former spouse
when he became an adult). Stevenson also seeks for medical records and diagnoses of the
previous personality to see if they match the present personalitys memories.
Imagine how rare these cases must be! It is a feat in itself to have had such a creative premise,
and to search in many countries for examples. They come primarily from India, Burma
(Myanmar), Thailand, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Lebanon, and native peoples of Alaska, British
Columbia, and Nigeria. Many of these groups have a strong belief in reincarnation, frequently of
ancestors who choose to be reborn. There are few US cases reported, possibly because
reincarnation is foreign to the prevailing culture and a childs tale would not be taken seriously.
Stevenson is careful to point out the deficiencies in his cases. These include problems with the
validation of the informants memories, the poor systems of medical records in many countries,
the use of interpreters, and the inaccessibility of some of the families.
Volume I has cases showing correspondences between mental images and physical lesions. For
example, he describes interesting cases where a womans impressions during pregnancy seem to
have transferred to her infant. She might see a person with a large birthmark and her child is born
with a similar birthmark in the same place. There are also cases of birthmarks in the present body
that correspond to wounds in the prior life. Some cultures believe an ancestor will tell the mother
of their coming rebirth, either before their death or in a dream during the pregnancy. The
ancestor tells the mother that he or she expects to be born again into her family, and that she will
know which child she or he is by having the same birthmark as in the past life.
Volume II has case reports of people who have birth defects and other disorders similar to those
in a remembered past life. Volume II also has several interesting appendices: lists of all the cases
reporting maternal impressions, or that suggest reincarnation. There are numerous photographs
of both birthmarks and physical defects.
I find Stevensons new work both fascinating and scholarly. It makes a strong contribution to the
search for verification of reincarnation. Case histories are frequently disparaged as not having the
same level of scientific rigor as studies utilizing subject and control groups, but we know that
anecdotal cases point out important patterns and tendencies about a group of subjects. As
descriptive or correlative research, they are becoming more acceptable in the social sciences and
other fields of interest which do not easily lend themselves to laboratory research. In the present
situation we have not only subjective data from interviews, but objective instances of correlating
birthmarks, deformities, and medical records which are more concrete evidence.
In addition to the two-volume work, Stevenson has written a synopsis of it, available in
paperback and cloth. It has enough cases to give the gist of his findings, adequate for anyone
who wants a quick view of the topic. It also has color photographs that are similar to those in the
longer work, which are in black and white.
He hopes his readers will begin with the synopsis and then want more detail, as can be found in
the two-volume work. This work is a treasure trove of research in an area in which many people
have an interest.
Boyce Batey, Executive Director of the Academy of Religion and Psychic Research, sums up the
value of this book when he says Ian Stevenson is respected by his peers as one of the most
meticulous researchers. He considers a range of viable alternative explanations for each case of
claimed past-life memory, and dismisses cases that have other explanations. This work,
his magnum opus, is one of the most important contributions to the field of survival research in
our generation.
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RETURNING FROM THE LIGHT, BY BRAD STEIGER.
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/RETURNING FROM THE LIGHT, BY BRAD STEIGER.

Reviewed by Wade P. Bettis, Jr., J.D.
(as included in the The Journal of Regression Therapy Volume , No. 1, Fall 1996)
In Returning From the Light, Brad Steiger brings us his many years of
writing and research as well as the personal experiences of himself and of those that he
interviewed. Steiger discusses and demonstrates the many benefits of using past lives to
understand and heal our present lifetime challenges of all kinds.
Steiger starts the book by discussing his own thirty-six year phobia for flying, a serious phobia
which had no apparent cause and greatly interfered with his need to fly to promote his books. It
was only after a spontaneous past-life recall one night in 1972, when he experienced himself as a
German pilot in World War I who was killed in aerial combat, that he was able to start to heal his
unexplained and overwhelming fear of flying.
Steiger has never been afraid to deal with the unusual and controversial: In this book he
discusses situations where more than one person claims to be a famous historical person, such as
Mark Twain or Joan of Arc. He also deals with apparent memories from other worlds and
dimensions, including people who claim to have memories of past lives as extraterrestrials,
refugee aliens from other worlds, pure energy essences, or reptilian humanoids.
From this reviewers perspective, the most interesting interviews tell of past-life therapists work
with their clients. Some of the best examples come from various APRT members, including one
of the editors of this journal, Dr. Russell Davis. Dr. Davis cites the story of his patient, Helen.
Helen had two problems she had suffered from most of her life: She was unable to tolerate
anything around her legs and was unable to even sleep with her feet under the covers, and she
also suffered from neck pain. Her regressions uncovered a life in Europe when as a young girl
she had been chased by an older man who had caught her, tied her feet, and then while
attempting to rape her had broken her neck. A second regression found her being gang raped in a
livery stable and then hanged by the neck by a group of young toughs. Dr. Davis concludes his
section of the book as follows: The sessions with Helenwere extremely successful in that she
was able to extinguish a phobic reaction to having anything around or over her legs and achieved
a complete alleviation of a long-term unexplainable (at least from a medical perspective) painful
neck condition.
The information that Brad Steiger brings together in this book is inspiring in that as we learn
more about ourselves we must stand in awe of the magnificence of our divine natures. We are
reminded that we have within ourselves the power and the tools to reach wholeness and
fulfillment.
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Reviewed by Wade P. Bettis, Jr., J.D.
Lane, a clinical hypnotherapist, tells of her experiences in visiting
American Civil War reenactment battlefields and camps. Her interest was stimulated by the deep
commitment of the men and women who reenact these battles: One Confederate
reenactorsaid he was fighting for states rights and that the Supreme Court had never ruled on
the right to secede from the Union. I was impressed by the level of his historical
knowledgeBeyond his words, however, his fervor swept over me like a wave. He was clearly
impassioned about what he was doing.
By their own admission, many of the reenactors are obsessed with their roles as Civil War
soldiers. It was this emotional involvement that piqued Lanes interest as she sought out
volunteers to explore their past lives with the help of hypnosis. The book is about eleven men
and one woman volunteer, all Civil War reenactors, who relive with accurate clarity their past
lives as Civil War soldiers. We visit first hand, through the eyes of these people, their lives and
experiences as they participated in the greatest internal conflict that this nation has ever
experienced.
One reenactor discovered that he was his own great-grandfather who lost an arm in a Civil War
battle. Prior to the regressions, this man had researched his great-grandfathers life. He said that
upon visiting the battlefield on which his great-grandfather had been wounded he had had a
strong gut feeling that the battlefield looked familiar. The same dj vu feeling would sweep
over this man every time he looked at pictures he had taken of the battle site. Episodes of
emotional waves that flooded Dave at various battle sites had opened him up to the possibility of
reincarnation.
It is from individuals like this that Lane gleans astoundingly accurate information about this
historic period, with detailed descriptions of battles, camp life, prisons, politics, emotions and the
soldiers own deaths, and how those past lives are now affecting and interwoven with the
patterns of their present lives.
Lane also sought out the records of the lives that are relived in hypnosis. She visited cemeteries,
battlefields, historians, archives and libraries to link her Civil War soldiers to their present lives.
What she found was that the historical information of the sessions, even some details that
contradicted the reenactors preconceived ideas, turned out to be accurate.
This book tells us a lot about the Civil War period. But more importantly it tells us something
about all of us: That we can choose to live our lives consciously or unconsciously, we can
understand the patterns and forces that shape our present lives, or we can continue to repeat old
lessons until they are made perfect. From Civil War battlefield to Twentieth Century corporate
office the dramas of conflict and interpersonal relationships remain the same. We as the actors
are the same; what is different are the props and the stage setting. We, however, have the
possibility to change the scripts and to make different choices today that will be more
harmonious and loving.
FROM ASHES TO HEALING: MYSTICAL ENCOUNTERS WITH

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HOME/BOOK REVIEW/FROM ASHES TO HEALING: MYSTICAL ENCOUNTERS WITH THE HOLOCAUST, BY RABBI YONASSAN
GERSHOM
Reviewed by Amy Shapiro, M.Ed.
From Ashes to Healing, Rabbi Gershoms sequel to Beyond the

Ashes, follows fifteen individuals whose past-life memories of Holocaust experiences led to
inner peace, strength and healing through their spiritual journeys. The remarkable and multi-
dimensional stories in From Ashes to Healing exude a most satisfying sense of spiritual
intimacy, as if touching the very threads out of which the cloth of soul is woven.
Recounted, among other fascinating cases, are the experiences of a Canadian goat farmer who
located a clock from past-life flashbacks and a Swedish woman whose memories were confirmed
when she visited the site of Buchenwald. Also discussed is the concept of the ethnic soul, the
possible after-life fate of Hitler, and Edgar Cayces prophecies concerning Jews and World War
II, interpreted with great insight.
It is curious that Rabbi Gershoms From Ashes to Healing coincides with the publication of
Hitlers Willing Executioners, by Daniel Goldhagen, which is stirring a controversial pot both
here and in Europe. From Ashes to Healing provides a critical balance to the otherwise traumatic
and ongoing recycling of gloom surrounding the Holocaust. While no sane person could find joy
in the subject, Rabbi Gershom injects a note of hope into a dark chorus of pained voices, in
desperate need of a process of arriving at karmic closure to these traumatic events.
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TRUE HAUNTINGS: SPIRITS WITH A PURPOSE, BY HAZEL M. DENNING,

PH.D.
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/TRUE HAUNTINGS: SPIRITS WITH A PURPOSE, BY HAZEL M. DENNING, PH.D.

Reviewed by Thelma B. Freedman, M.A.
Hazel Denning, for decades a well-known parapsychologist and the

true Founding Mother of APRT, has done something truly original: She has organized haunting
entities into surprisingly common-sense categories. In doing so, she shows us the many different
meanings of the word haunting and makes it clear that these are situations that can be dealt
with humanely. The sub-title indicates her basic finding: These haunting entities have some
purpose, something they hope to accomplish. Denning devotes separate chapters to entities who
are guilt-ridden, malevolent, benevolent, bound by love, or restless; some entities seem to be
here to help, but others need help themselves from the living; still others are here for revenge, or
are just plain stuck. All need to be released, and Dr. Denning describes the gentle techniques that
she has used successfully.
For over thirty years, with the help of a few good psychics, Denning has responded to those who
need her help, and she seems to have learned from every case. Her book is the story of a long and
brave adventure into unexplored realms. It is full of descriptions of her cases, illustrating the
various kinds of entities she has encountered; she also gives us some historical cases that support
her ideas.
She makes the point that too-strong grief or an unforgiving attitude can hold an entity against its
will, and gives advice on how one can free such an earthbound entity or prevent it from
becoming earthbound in the first place. With her strong sense of personal responsibility, Denning
stresses the need for we the living to give permission to our loved ones to leave us on their
separate journeys when the time comes, difficult as that may be.
Oddly, this is a comforting, sensible book. Denning presents haunting entities as human, still on
earth for all-too human reasons. There are no devils or demons in this book. Instead we see
entities still trying, usually vainly, to have an effect on the lives of the people they cared about;
some do not even know that they have died. Her ways of dealing with them are described in
every case, and they are compassionate ways, respectful and understanding of the entities
dilemmas as well as those of the living people they are haunting.
The book is well-organized and reader-friendly, and Denning includes a comprehensive

bibliography for those whose interest in seriously piqued. True Hauntings should be studied like
a textbook by everyone with an interest in paranormal phenomena and/or life after death. And for
anyone who has ever felt that they or their home was haunted, it is, of course, a must, and
makes a very appropriate gift for them.
Also, its a great read!
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Reviewed by Rabia L. Clark, Ph.D.
What a treat it is to find a book that is so fascinating, enlightening, and
educational that it cant be put down until it is all read! The Boy Who Saw True is such a book. It
was first printed in 1953, and is now in its 11th printing. The author preferred to remain
anonymous.
It is the story of a boy who started his diary of psychic experiences as soon as he could write. He
lived in the Victorian era in England, when psychic phenomena were discounted. His parents
thought him odd, and never encouraged him, but he had a tutor who was open-minded. The boy
was visited by various members of his family who had died, and was given messages to
communicate to the family.
Eventually he was able to get many spirits to tell him what Heaven is like, how it feels to not
have a body, about souls who hang around and are confused about dying. He had what could be
called angelic visitors, who explained things to him, and guided him. He also had spontaneous
past-life memories.
One of his visitors was a spirit who called himself E.B., whom the boy thought was Jesus. E.B.
said he was a member of a group of souls called Elder Brothers. E.B. said that the boy had lived
in India in a past life, when E.B. was his spiritual teacher, and that E.B. was still alive but
contacting him in a thought form while he was sleeping. E.B. told him about the evolution of the
coming ages and the war that was coming. He also said that at the end of that period a new
Cosmic Force would enter the planet to raise the vibrations that had become imbalanced. The
boy was also able to perceive gnomes and elves and nature spirits, who guided the evolution of
the plant kingdom. He found it hard to believe that other people didnt see the same things he
did. It was so much a part of his everyday life.
This book, written by a psychic child, will be interesting for anyone looking for an early account
of life after death, communicating with spirits, rescue mediumship (where the boy gave
messages to families about their dead family members), and the influence of spiritual beings on
our lives. Here is a little boy, scoffed at by his companions, who could not help being psychic.
He diligently kept his diary for about 20 years, until manhood. He described his problems in his
diary, especially his familys prudish manner (they wouldnt tell him what words such as
adultery meant, although he thought that was a permissible word, since it was in the Bible.)
Part of the diary is composed of letters he wrote to his first wife, which his second wife added to
the diary, with her comments. Speaking to us from another age, The Boy Who Saw True is a
delightful book.
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Reviewed by Chrisanthe E. Nicholaou, M.B.A., C.M.T., C.C.Ht., Reiki Master.
Loving Mozart is not just another biography of the musical genius,

composer of over 600 of the worlds greatest works. It is the authors very personal past-life
experience as Austrian composer Franz Xavier Sussmayr, the friend of Mozart. Much of what we
think we know as history is challenged by Montanos sensitive narrative of her past-life
memories.
The story spans four centuries and four lives. There is an intricate interweaving of the 18th
century relationship of Mozart and Sussmayr with the 20th century relationship of American
pianist William Kappel and the author. Montano tells the story well, in narrative sequences that
move us deftly from century to century. She balances the stories, giving each of the principles a
chance to be presented and explored, beginning with a glimpse into their early childhoods and a
shared experience with light. The childhood memories are brief and serve to show the bonds that
music has on this one soul who was once Mozart, in two of its incarnations.
The book centers on Mozarts last years, beginning with the meeting in Vienna of a mature
Mozart, then 32, and Sussmayr, a young and impressionable 22. Sussmayr approached Mozart in
hopes of being accepted as a student, but he soon became the friend, supporter, and final
companion to the troubled and frustrated genius, giving up his own work to become Mozarts
copyist. It was a surrender to his inner awareness that his life was bound with Mozarts; he must
be with him, share with him, help him. But Mozart had already begun his descent into ill-health
and poverty.
It is at this point that much of what is accepted as fact today begins to be challenged. It is known
that Mozart died in poverty, but biographers disagree as to the level and cause of it. Although it
is believed that Mozarts father left the bulk of his estate (much of it earned by Mozarts
childhood concerts) to his sister Anna, the Montano memories blame Mozarts financial
problems on the extravagances of his wife. I must acknowledge a temptation to check related
history. No matter; these are Montanos direct memories of the soul shared, the experiences
shared, the music shared, the fears shared, the loneliness shared, the cold and hunger shared, and
the final scenes shared.
There is so much more to these memories than entertainment or information. The trials of the
two musicians are terrible to read of and to visualize. That genius suffered so may be
incomprehensible to us today. Mozart wrote of his fear of being poisoned: that is historical fact.
But was he? Biographers differ: some say maybe, but others blame rheumatic fever, influenza, or
chronic ill-health from the days of his childhood concerts with their constant traveling in bad
conditions. But Montano was there as Sussmayr, a reporter traveled back in time to tell us the
truth of this mystery. I wont spoil it for you.
There is a reason for the music of Mozart, and that is another discovery awaiting the reader.
When the soul of Mozart returns in our century as American pianist William Kappell, the
memories and the relationship begin again, reaching across time. For although Kappell died
when Montano was still a child, by then they had met, known each other, and acknowledged the
bond between them. Kappells short life is full of coincidences and parallels with that of Mozart.
His music, too, has its reasons. And he, too, died in his early thirties.
One might wish that Sussmayr/Montano had met Mozart earlier. There was so much music
already composed by the time they met that could have been explored. Mozart is known to have
had wit and humor but this is not evident during these last hard years. We do not see this side of
him: but perhaps we see the truth, the despairing side shown only to a most trusted friend and
companion. And perhaps, after all, Sussmayr met him when these two souls needed to meet.
This book is not intended as a researched biography of Mozart. Instead, it is Montanos past-life
memories that she shares with us. The path through past-life therapy that she took in order to
explore those memories are part of her story. Some passages could have used the hand of a
professional editor: none is credited. Transitions between story lines are generally clear but
occasionally awkward. But these are very minor distractions to a personal record that gives much
to the reader.
Loving Mozart is a book for everyone. While past-life regression is the medium for exploring the
relationships, it does not overwhelm the story. For the professional therapist, the process itself is
interesting to follow; for music lovers it is of course a must read; and for all of us the story
itself is its own best recommendation.
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LIFE PATTERNS, SOUL LESSONS, AND FORGIVENESS BY HENRY LEO

BOLDUC
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Reviewed by Rabia L. Clark, Ph.D.
Henry Leo Bolduc has been researching hypnosis and regression

therapy for over thirty years. He has been a frequent speaker at APRT conferences, and travels
extensively as a motivational speaker. His earlier books are Self-Hypnosis: Creating Your Own
Destiny and The Journey Within. His new book covers an area which is not covered as
thoroughly in any other book as far as I know. It deals with life patterns, learning their lessons,
and through this insight and forgiveness, going on to a happier future.
There is an interesting chapter on how to make self-hypnosis tapes to help focus on ideals,
objectives, the inner child, and remembering past lives; it includes scripts the reader can tape.
There is a chapter on soul lessons, including an introduction to Edgar Cayce and his important
work in this area. Edgar and Gertrude Cayces strong influence on Bolduc is described.
Three case studies are used to illustrate the connections between past and present lives. The
third, Enrique, is unusual because he kept a diary of thirty years remembrances from sessions.
His diaries are briefly outlined to show the lessons learned in each life, and how they have
reappeared in other lives, including the present one. What was gained by living each life, and
what might have been lost when the life was a tragic one, are also examined. The idea that past
lives influence the present life permeates the whole book, and seems to be a basic premise. This,
of course, presupposes that the past lives that appear in regressions are true, which many past-life
therapists believe, but which has not and may never be proven.
Bolduc goes on to link ones past lives with the need for forgiveness in the present. (Ed. note:
See Bolducs article, Forgiveness as a Therapeutic Tool, in this issue). When a person accepts
responsibility for past patterns and completes a process of forgiveness, then the pattern is
released. The clients higher guidance is contacted to help the client discover the best way to
forgive past-life problems and to release destructive patterns. Self-forgiveness is often the key.
Bolduc suggests specific techniques in detail for clients who are primarily visual, auditory, or
kinesthetic. He finds these forgiveness techniques a very important way to resolve past-life
memories affecting the present.
The book has many examples drawn from the authors experience and from client cases that
make his points clear. He also includes drawings, which give the book a user-friendly
appearance. The last three chapters could usefully have been enlarged, as they clearly deal with
past-life patterns. Also, I found the multitude of topics in the other chapters a bit confusing.
This book will especially appeal to people interested in cycles of past lives as metaphysical.
Most past-life therapists do seem to accept the importance of past-life patterns which appear
again in the present, and many consider past lives to be real. The book will be of most interest to
people with a curiosity and interest in metaphysical topics, who believe that past lives affect the
present life, and that forgiveness can release old past-life patterns and change the present for the
better.
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HOME/BOOK REVIEW/THE SPIRITUAL DANCE OF LIFE: WHERE TWO WORLDS MEET BY TERI DAUNTER
Dr. Daunters sub-title, Where Two World Meet, says it all in one
succinct phrase. This book is an exploration, done with unusual clarity, of the spiritual nature of
human beings and how this spirituality manifests in a physical world.
The central statement of the book is well expressed in the Foreword: The cause of any mental
and physical malfunction is derived from previous lives lived by the individual, and all
disease is a reflection of ones mental attitude, which, as a result, creates the distress that is
experienced in ones present life.
With a major emphasis on love as the greatest power available to us as human beings, Dr.
Daunter addresses the many common everyday issues we all face, including physical and
emotional well-being or illness, difficult relationships, and choices of spiritual philosophies.
Throughout the book, Dr. Daunter examines the question Who am I and why am I here? in
such a definitive way that it is like reading a collection of the wisdom of the great minds
throughout centuries of accumulated knowledge. Yet it is presented with a straightforward clarity
that any serious reader can follow. It is extensive in scope, examining the intricacies of
humankind and our place in the universe.
In the Introduction, Dr. Daunter presents a brief historical background on the status of
reincarnation in the early Christian church, and describes how it was expunged from the tenets of
the church. She also explains her own position on reincarnation and past-life therapy. While her
own experiences of recalling past lives has convinced her of the reality of reincarnation, she
nevertheless acknowledges that others may have a different explanation for these experiences.
She points out, however, that even if one prefers to believe that past-life stories stem from other
sources, such as ancestral memories or the collective unconscious, it is the individuals own
mind that draws these images to the surface, and for a purpose. So it may be the distilled essence
of an experience rather than the exactness of a recall that is therapeutically valid. This objective
approach on her part allows individuals to interpret their experience from whatever philosophical
orientation they prefer.
The book is written in five parts with an excellent bibliography and six appendices. Part One is
subdivided into three sections. The first deals with the principles of past-life recall. Dr. Daunter
holds that the physical self is merely the vehicle for the psychic self, and the psychic self learns
and grows from the difficulties which the physical self experiences. Accepting both the positive
and negative polarities of our being is the process of evolution.
The second section of Part One deals with healing and the physics of energy. She presents a
theory that all life experiences are changed into intelligent information wave forms called sine
waves. A sine wave is an electromagnetic energy field and it is the sum and substance of all
thought.
The third section of Part One states that meditation is a technique that aids in bringing about
harmony between the physical and the psychic body; it promotes integration. Mind is a part of
the infinite microcosm, without any limitations, and we are the finite expressions of the Infinite
Intelligence. Meditation is a method for relaxing into your deepest natural state; it is like a
microscope to assist in your inner exploration. She then outlines ten steps for a successful
meditation.
Section One of Part Two deals with the psychology of consciousness, which she calls the
creative principle of the universe, with thought as the universal energy. Section Two addresses
polarity, the duality principle of life, the positive and negative. The polarity of man and woman
within each of us is the basis of all creativity. She points out that the negative component of the
personality is just as important as the positive; they are complementary components of the
spiritual life. Section Three of Part Two deals with dreams, which she considers tools for
learning about your spiritual purpose and aids in keeping yourself aligned with your higher self.
Part Three introduces death as the end of a cycle and she discusses the metamorphosis of the
soul, pointing out that the soul retains its individualization in the other dimension. Part Three
closes with a lengthy exposition on love as the primary expression of the souls spiritual
evolution. She states emphatically that we must learn to love our True Self, which is Spirit
incarnate.
Part Four presents case histories and provides an excellent comparison of past-life therapy and
psychoanalysis, between which she finds many parallels. She reminds us that at the end of his
life Freud stated that if he had his life to live over he would devote his energies to the study of
the psychic world rather than psychoanalysis. The major difference between past-life therapy and
psychoanalysis, according to Dr. Daunter, is that psychoanalysis stops short of a full explanation
of the mind: It is painfully narrow and limited to postnatal biography. Part Four closes with a
brief but excellent explanation of karma, which she calls the moral law of the universe.
The paranormal nature of consciousness is the single subject of Part Five. Dr. Daunter calls the
paranormal the doorway to a higher dimension which provides important information to enable
us to function more adequately in our daily lives. The paranormal, she says, is the non-sensory,
non-physical way of communicating with our fellow beings.
In addition to an excellent bibliography, Dr. Daunter has provided an Epilogue and six
appendices. In the Epilogue she states: I only wish to make people aware of a wider, more
expansive reality so that their lives are not squandered and dissipated.
The Appendices present much useful information. Appendix 1 presents a diagram of the cycles
of life; most of the other appendices present helpful techniques for individuals. Appendix 2
describes a method to edit ones thoughts; Appendix 3 outlines ten steps to begin a process of
life improvement; Appendix 4 provides a check list to help raise awareness through self analysis.
In Appendix 5 she describes past-life therapy as a new science of life, and in Appendix 6 she
presents some meditation and daily centering exercises. Her focus in meditation is the well-
known poem from St. Francis of Assisi, Lord Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace.
The Spiritual Dance of Life will inspire you to take charge of your life and apply the spiritual
and at the same time practical principles Dr. Daunter has so well described. Although some may
argue with some of her assertions, and although for those well-read in our field there may seem
nothing absolutely new in the book, Dr. Daunter presents her material skillfully and with an
enthusiasm that makes reading her book a transforming experience.
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HOME/BOOK REVIEW/THE SPIRITUAL DANCE OF LIFE: WHERE TWO WORLDS MEET BY TERI DAUNTER
Dr. Daunters sub-title, Where Two World Meet, says it all in one
succinct phrase. This book is an exploration, done with unusual clarity, of the spiritual nature of
human beings and how this spirituality manifests in a physical world.
The central statement of the book is well expressed in the Foreword: The cause of any mental
and physical malfunction is derived from previous lives lived by the individual, and all
disease is a reflection of ones mental attitude, which, as a result, creates the distress that is
experienced in ones present life.
With a major emphasis on love as the greatest power available to us as human beings, Dr.
Daunter addresses the many common everyday issues we all face, including physical and
emotional well-being or illness, difficult relationships, and choices of spiritual philosophies.
Throughout the book, Dr. Daunter examines the question Who am I and why am I here? in
such a definitive way that it is like reading a collection of the wisdom of the great minds
throughout centuries of accumulated knowledge. Yet it is presented with a straightforward clarity
that any serious reader can follow. It is extensive in scope, examining the intricacies of
humankind and our place in the universe.
In the Introduction, Dr. Daunter presents a brief historical background on the status of
reincarnation in the early Christian church, and describes how it was expunged from the tenets of
the church. She also explains her own position on reincarnation and past-life therapy. While her
own experiences of recalling past lives has convinced her of the reality of reincarnation, she
nevertheless acknowledges that others may have a different explanation for these experiences.
She points out, however, that even if one prefers to believe that past-life stories stem from other
sources, such as ancestral memories or the collective unconscious, it is the individuals own
mind that draws these images to the surface, and for a purpose. So it may be the distilled essence
of an experience rather than the exactness of a recall that is therapeutically valid. This objective
approach on her part allows individuals to interpret their experience from whatever philosophical
orientation they prefer.
The book is written in five parts with an excellent bibliography and six appendices. Part One is
subdivided into three sections. The first deals with the principles of past-life recall. Dr. Daunter
holds that the physical self is merely the vehicle for the psychic self, and the psychic self learns
and grows from the difficulties which the physical self experiences. Accepting both the positive
and negative polarities of our being is the process of evolution.
The second section of Part One deals with healing and the physics of energy. She presents a
theory that all life experiences are changed into intelligent information wave forms called sine
waves. A sine wave is an electromagnetic energy field and it is the sum and substance of all
thought.
The third section of Part One states that meditation is a technique that aids in bringing about
harmony between the physical and the psychic body; it promotes integration. Mind is a part of
the infinite microcosm, without any limitations, and we are the finite expressions of the Infinite
Intelligence. Meditation is a method for relaxing into your deepest natural state; it is like a
microscope to assist in your inner exploration. She then outlines ten steps for a successful
meditation.
Section One of Part Two deals with the psychology of consciousness, which she calls the
creative principle of the universe, with thought as the universal energy. Section Two addresses
polarity, the duality principle of life, the positive and negative. The polarity of man and woman
within each of us is the basis of all creativity. She points out that the negative component of the
personality is just as important as the positive; they are complementary components of the
spiritual life. Section Three of Part Two deals with dreams, which she considers tools for
learning about your spiritual purpose and aids in keeping yourself aligned with your higher self.
Part Three introduces death as the end of a cycle and she discusses the metamorphosis of the
soul, pointing out that the soul retains its individualization in the other dimension. Part Three
closes with a lengthy exposition on love as the primary expression of the souls spiritual
evolution. She states emphatically that we must learn to love our True Self, which is Spirit
incarnate.
Part Four presents case histories and provides an excellent comparison of past-life therapy and
psychoanalysis, between which she finds many parallels. She reminds us that at the end of his
life Freud stated that if he had his life to live over he would devote his energies to the study of
the psychic world rather than psychoanalysis. The major difference between past-life therapy and
psychoanalysis, according to Dr. Daunter, is that psychoanalysis stops short of a full explanation
of the mind: It is painfully narrow and limited to postnatal biography. Part Four closes with a
brief but excellent explanation of karma, which she calls the moral law of the universe.
The paranormal nature of consciousness is the single subject of Part Five. Dr. Daunter calls the
paranormal the doorway to a higher dimension which provides important information to enable
us to function more adequately in our daily lives. The paranormal, she says, is the non-sensory,
non-physical way of communicating with our fellow beings.
In addition to an excellent bibliography, Dr. Daunter has provided an Epilogue and six
appendices. In the Epilogue she states: I only wish to make people aware of a wider, more
expansive reality so that their lives are not squandered and dissipated.
The Appendices present much useful information. Appendix 1 presents a diagram of the cycles
of life; most of the other appendices present helpful techniques for individuals. Appendix 2
describes a method to edit ones thoughts; Appendix 3 outlines ten steps to begin a process of
life improvement; Appendix 4 provides a check list to help raise awareness through self analysis.
In Appendix 5 she describes past-life therapy as a new science of life, and in Appendix 6 she
presents some meditation and daily centering exercises. Her focus in meditation is the well-
known poem from St. Francis of Assisi, Lord Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace.
The Spiritual Dance of Life will inspire you to take charge of your life and apply the spiritual
and at the same time practical principles Dr. Daunter has so well described. Although some may
argue with some of her assertions, and although for those well-read in our field there may seem
nothing absolutely new in the book, Dr. Daunter presents her material skillfully and with an
enthusiasm that makes reading her book a transforming experience.
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Reviewed by Russell Davis, Ph.D.
Although the concept of entity attachment/releasement per se is by

no means universally accepted by all past-life therapists, it is becoming a topic of growing
interest. Increasingly, when working with clients, past-life therapists are exploring the possibility
that a person may be a host to one or more entities that have taken up residence in his or her
body. As this concept gathers credibility among therapists, there is a growing desire on the part
of therapists to be trained in the techniques appropriate to discovering the existence of entity
attachments and releasing them.
This book is Dr. Hickmans latest publication, and it is sure to stir up controversy, even among
those past-life therapists who may already be practicing (or considering practicing) entity
releasement. What is so controversial about Dr. Hickmans proposal as outlined in this book is
that releasement, which she terms dispossession, may be accomplished without having to work
directly with the person in whose body the entity(ies) resides. (This is a concept similar to that of
Ireland-Frey (Journal, VIII, 1994) in which Dr. Ireland-Frey describes one case in which she
worked with an absent client through a channeller.)
Certainly no stranger to innovation and controversy, Dr. Hickman presents the reader with a
synopsis of the concepts she feels support her theories about remote entity releasement (Ed. note:
spirit depossession and entity releasement are two terms that refer to the same process.
The Journal prefers the use of the latter although we defer to authors preferences.) She does so
directly, citing examples, and providing clear and detailed information about her techniques and
procedures. Chapters are devoted to defining the concept, identifying the requirements necessary
to perform a remote depossession, the characteristics of a person that might indicate that s/he
might have one or more attachments, a series of case studies, and how Dr. Hickman became
involved with the process. One chapter is devoted entirely to questions and answers. In the
Introduction, she states, The material in this present book comprises a new approach to human
problems that has proved to be effective when other methods of treatment have failed. It
presumes that we each consist of an immortal soul-spirit dwelling in a physical body.
While this book has many quotable passages, near the end she writes, we must continue to
be aware that some problems are precipitated by the presence of attached entities, whether Earth-
bound or dark. We can only be the complete hypnotherapist by also developing knowledge and
skills required to deal with entities, releasing them, and sending them to the proper place. It is
essential also to realize that attached entities may not be the only contributing factor to a persons
illness or problems.
Even if one does not accept some of the premises upon which this book is based as being
unequivocally valid, it is definitely worth reading. To Dr. Hickmans credit, the book is brief and
to the point and covers a great deal of information. At a mere 87 pages, it is not a large book, nor
is it intended as a quick course in remote depossession. But it gives the reader much valuable
information and provides useful examples of how she uses her techniques, which will probably
meet the needs of most readers. It also includes a bibliography of additional sources for the
interested reader. This reviewer was also struck by the appropriateness of a brief essay included
as Appendix B and entitled What is a Human Being?
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PAST-LIFE THERAPY: THE STATE OF THE ART BY RABIA LYNN CLARK,

PH.D.
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/PAST-LIFE THERAPY: THE STATE OF THE ART BY RABIA LYNN CLARK, PH.D.
Reviewed by Chet B. Snow, Ph.D
Dr. Rabia Lynn Clark, a counselor in Texas and a former Board

member and Secretary of APRT, has filled a much-needed gap in the growing body of literature
on reincarnation and regression therapies. And she has done so with an easy-to-read style and a
painstaking attention to detail that should prove highly valuable to researchers and therapists
alike. Past-Life Therapy: The State of the Art belongs in the library of anyone concerned with the
ongoing evolution of the therapeutic arts and sciences as we end this second Western
Millennium.
Originally published as her Ph.D. Dissertation at the Fielding Institute, the book is divided into
three parts. The first section deals with the twin questions What is past-life therapy as it is
practiced today? and Is past-life therapy a new and unique therapy, or merely a re-working of
other, more traditional, psychotherapeutic techniques? Along with a very thorough review of
literature on past-life therapy, she discusses its relationship to other transpersonal fields such as
age-regression, hypnosis, and subpersonalities work.
In the second section, Dr. Clark reviews the results of an extensive (117 questions) research
questionnaire completed by 136 experienced APRT therapists who include past-life techniques
in their practices. That 136 therapists took the time to respond, often with lengthy comments on
their own experiences, which Dr. Clark happily includes, is amazing. It testifies to the
importance these busy professionals attach to the past-life model in their search for effective
healing modalities.
Finally, the last section includes one of the most complete bibliographies of regression therapy-
related materials in English this reviewer has ever seen. We are given statements from APRT, a
reprint of the questionnaire, and all the raw statistical results so that future researchers can
review and replicate the study. This section, surprisingly readable due to Dr. Clarks excellent
summaries of the therapists replies to her series of pertinent questions, makes the book an
invaluable reference work.
Dr. Clarks discussion of just what defines past-life therapy today is both historical and
analytical. Based on her thorough review of the current literature in the field, she delves into
theory and often unresolved issues such as Are past lives real?; What is the effect of the
therapists expectations in past-life therapy?; and Does imagery play an essential role in
healing? Eschewing facile conclusions, she identifies and presents leading arguments on each
side of these questions. As she aptly states, (Past-life therapy) is a rapidly evolving type of
therapy, and is creating its (own) identity and (because) it deals with a world of images and
emotions, (it) is more like art or drama than science.
Each of the 136 APRT therapists who completed Dr. Clarks questionnaire had a minimum of
five years professional experience with past-life therapy. They answered her questions on such
subjects as their philosophical beliefs about reincarnation, interview techniques, induction
methods, use of past-life and other imagery, and what types of problems they have successfully
treated by past-life therapy or by a mix of past-life therapy and other related therapies.
Unsurprisingly, 99% felt that past lives affect the present and 93% accept reincarnation as fact.
While 75% felt some past-life images are real but others are merely symbolic, only 60% agreed
that spirit releasement is an integral past of past-life therapy and just 31% said they routinely
release birth traumas when doing past-life therapy. Personal relationships, phobias, and finding
(lifes) meaning and purpose were the conditions most successfully treated with past-life
therapy; addictions, weight problems, and depression were cited as the least successful.
Often an area ignored by readers, Dr. Clarks appendices are some of her books unique
treasures. I particularly recommend Appendix F, New PLT Techniques, where over sixty
leading practitioners share ideas theyve developed but not yet discussed in standard past-life
therapy literature. As most of them graciously allowed Dr. Clark to identify their responses, it is
a rare treat to see the concepts ones own mentors are currently exploring. Other useful
appendices include Describing PLT to Clients, Other Ways of Dealing with Resistance, and
Changes Recommended in PLT. The References section is probably the most complete
listing of English-language sources on PLT available today and includes books, articles, and
tapes from APRTs extensive collection of conference lectures and workshops.
In short, both Dr. Clark and the APRT Board of Directors, who cosponsored the study, have
provided both interested lay readers and professional therapists and researchers a sound, well-
documented, and very readable overview of past-life therapy as it is practiced in English-
speaking countries today.
Although many different points of view are discussed in Past-Life Therapy: The State of the Art,
I am ultimately struck by the unanimity expressed that our field is fundamentally spiritual.
Ninety-eight percent of Dr. Clarks respondents stated that having a spiritual focus was an
important parameter in past-life therapys success, while 62% felt it was the major factor. This
was the highest always response in that part of the questionnaire and possibly more than any
other single factor distinguishes past-life therapy from other contemporary psychotherapies. In a
time of increasing doubt and uncertainty about common human values, it is refreshing to
discover that spirituality and science can and do cooperate within our past-life therapy
community, healing the past, enlightening the present and improving the future.
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THE SEARCH FOR GRACE: A DOCUMENTED CASE OF MURDER AND

REINCARNATION BY BRUCE GOLDBERG
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/THE SEARCH FOR GRACE: A DOCUMENTED CASE OF MURDER AND REINCARNATION BY BRUCE GOLDBERG
(as included in the The Journal of Regression Therapy Volume ViII, No. 1, Fall 1994)
It may be reasonably assumed that Dr. Goldberg, through his

writings, TV appearances, and conference presentations, is no stranger to our readers. In The
Search for Grace, he presents a fascinating case study involving a patient whom Goldberg
eventually regressed to a total of 46 past lifetimes. In an amazing example of karmic reoccurring
connections, it was discovered that she (a female in her present life) had been murdered in 20 of
these past lives by the same man with whom she presently found herself involved in yet another
abusive relationship.
While cases involving the connectedness of two individuals in multiple lifetimes are a
phenomenon well-known to past-life therapists, the scope of this patients repetitive pattern
spanning 46 lifetimes is both unusual and significant. What is even more significant for those for
whom validation and proof are important is the rather extensive documentation which
Goldberg presents to the reader. This is particularly true of the most recent past lifetime of the
patient, whom he calls Ivy, in which she, as Grace Doze, was murdered in 1927. The historical
accuracy of the information presented by Goldbergs patient during the regression to her life as
Grace Doze was well-documented by researching newspapers as well as other public and police
records of the time.
Much of the book is a collection of transcriptions of regression sessions of Ivy to previous

lifetimes and the common pattern of abusive and deadly associations with the same man over
and over again. Interspersed in the transcripts are Goldbergs comments and psychological
interpretations of the events (in addition to his doctorate in dentistry, he also has a Masters in
psychology), as well as references to the works of historians writing about the times in which
these past lives were occurring. Goldberg also makes extensive reference to the theories of Wolf,
Toben, and others concerning quantum physics, which he sees as a logical frame of reference
from which to view the past life experience. Indeed, Goldberg devotes quite a bit of space to
explaining these theories. He also presents the reader with some of the concepts of transpersonal
psychology (Wilber, Bugental, et al) and, laudably, devotes an appendix to the topics of self-
hypnosis and seeking a hypnotherapist for regression work. Lamentably, he fails to mention
APRT as a resource for this purpose.
The book, because of its scope and the manner in which it was written, should be considered as
appropriate for both the interested lay person and the professional alike. It must also be stated
that, as one who in the past has been somewhat critical of Goldbergs tendency to present
material with a this-is-what-I-think-and-therefore-thats-the-way-it-is tone, I now note with
pleasure that in this book he has demonstrated a greater effort to substantiate his own ideas and
opinions with documentation and references to the works of others. And it is perhaps in
providing the reader with this kind of material that he not only strengthens his case, but also
makes a valuable contribution to our ongoing efforts to validate PLT/PLR as a legitimate field.
DEATH & PERSONAL SURVIVAL: THE EVIDENCE FOR LIFE

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Reviewed by Daniel Kealey, Ph.D.
Dr. Robert Almeder, a specialist in the philosophy of science and a
professor at Georgia State University, has written a sustained and rigorous defense of the belief
in the souls survival of bodily death based on the empirical evidence. A chapter each is devoted
to five kinds of empirical sources: reincarnation, apparitions of the dead, possession, out-of-body
experiences, and communication from the dead. His careful analysis of the facts and thorough
critiques of skeptical objections bring him to the conclusion that, while an analysis of a few
particular cases or even of the whole field of only one of the empirical kinds of evidence
mentioned above do leave a sliver of doubt on which the skeptics can hang their unbelief, a
comprehensive study of the whole body of evidence provides the believers in survival a much
more sound and rational basis for their belief than the skeptics have for theirs.
The chapter on reincarnation receives by far the most extensive treatment (95 pages). Although
each of the chapters makes for worthwhile reading, for purposes of a brief review I will confine
my comments to the one on reincarnation. Focusing on Ian Stevensons research, Prof. Almeder
defends Stevensons arguments for the reincarnation hypothesis, particularly against subsequent
critiques of his work by skeptical humanists and parapsychologists. This chapter is required
reading for reincarnationists interested in keeping up with the rational defense of their belief. The
only shortcoming to be found here concerns the restricted focus on Stevensons research, to the
detriment of the other kinds of research pursuits, such as hypnotic regression. There is,
moreover, one noticeable omission in Almeders analysis of Stevensons work, namely the
damaging critique of the research made by D. Scott Rogo in The Search for Yesterday (1985).
Nevertheless, the case for reincarnation has perhaps never enjoyed such an exquisitely rigorous
defense as is to be found in these pages. Noting Stevensons conclusion that it is not
unreasonable to believe in reincarnation, Almeder finds it deserves to be strengthened to it is
unreasonable to reject belief in reincarnation. Other parts of this chapter include a summary and
defense of MacGregors arguments for the compatibility of reincarnation with Christianity, and
reflections on the problem reincarnation poses to the concept of personal identity.
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REINCARNATION THERAPY BY INGRID VALLIERES

HOME/BOOK REVIEW/REINCARNATION THERAPY BY INGRID VALLIERES
Reviewed by Anastra L. Madden, Psy.D.
Originally published in German, Reincarnation Therapy is an important

contribution to the mounting literature on past-life therapy. Ingrid Vallieres work offers a
brilliant and clear immersion in the finer points of therapeutically assisting a client toward
liberation from traumatic dilemmas encapsulated in present and past lives. According to
Vallieres, this liberation is achieved by consciously experiencing and crossing the painful
boundaries of events, and of time, of an individuals thinking, intentions, and actions. A unique
feature of Vallieress method is that, from the onset of therapy, clients are connected to a
biofeedback apparatus that registers both conscious and unconscious areas of traumatic material.
The biofeedback readings offer the therapist and client unerring identification of unresolved
issues.
Vallieres presents reincarnation therapy as working in three distinct yet interrelated areas of
experience: (1) present life back to birth; (2) from birth back to conception; and (3) time before
conception. Vallieres strongly emphasizes the importance of working through the traumas of the
present life, most notably from conception to birth, before embarking upon former lives. And it
is here in the penetrating exploration of the pre-birth or womb matrix that constitutes what I
believe to be Vallieres most significant contribution in Reincarnation Therapy. Through her
years of experience in the field, Vallieres has honed a solid basis for proceeding in this fashion.
She states:
We work through the pregnancy back to conception, which is the first concrete life situation
connecting the incarnating soul with its new body. Already it reflects the childs life work. The
thoughts, attitudes and feelings of the parents towards one another do stamp their character on
the course of the childs life, although the child has already established a tendency in that
direction (p. 40).
Vallieres points out that along the continuum of lifes experience, including the womb, an
individual cannot be influenced without some measure of consent. Each of us bears
responsibility for our own level of consciousness; thus, we cannot be coerced or manipulated
without there being a part of us that is in agreement with the influx of a particular energy,
positive or negative. For example, Vallieres goes on to say:
What is said during the prenatal phase is of utmost importance for the baby. And it is not only
the words spokenthe thoughts of the mother will become the babys thoughts (p. 45the
unconscious recording apparatus of the fetus activates every experience from former lives and
applies these thoughts of the mother to itself (p. 42).
The tone reverberating throughout the content of Reincarnation Therapy is this echo of self
responsibility. Although an individual may experience, in current or past lives, events of
victimization, one is essentially never a true victim. The problems and difficulties that beset a
person today are areas in which they were, at one time, also harmful to others. According to
Vallieres, the law of Karma works within the dynamics of this mirroring principle. Causing harm
is the opposite trauma pole of receiving harm. The unconscious, unable to distinguish between
past and present, between time and place, will inevitably respond to a life situation that even
fleetingly offers an opportunity to re-experience, and thus integrate, the consequences of thought
and of behavior that brought harm to another.
In Chapter 5 Vallieres briefly summarizes 18 different psychotherapeutic modalities and how

these therapies contrast with the in-depth exploration offered by reincarnation therapy. Not all,
but the majority of therapeutic endeavors attempt to grasp a selective aspect of the subconscious
nature which each one respectively views to be the core of the individuals current painful
dilemma. The value of reincarnation therapy is that it is not limited to an established theory;
rather, it moves freely with the clients process, marking and tracing traumatic points beyond the
boundaries of time and space.
With clear simplicity, Vallieres highlights four prerequisites a person should bring with him
should he choose the path of reincarnation therapy. First is a genuine desire for change, while the
second comprises a trust of reincarnation therapy. The third prerequisite is that one be honest
with oneselfan honesty that will help one to relinquish devaluing self perceptions, and pave
the way for new, more realistic values of self and of ones purpose in the world. The fourth and
last point is endurance and perseverance in the therapeutic process.
Vallieres is similarly clear about the role of the reincarnation therapist. In addition to embodying
a compassionate understanding and attention to detail, Vallieres underscores the essential
component that makes the reincarnation therapist a profound catalyst for healing. She states:
Many people believe that because they can make people experience a former life, they would be
able to practice reincarnation therapy. That is not true. There is no art in making someone
experience a former life. Any non-therapist can do it with a few simple questions, but the
important thing is to work at the traumas thoroughly for long enough for them no longer to be a
problem (p.102).
Vallieres goes on to describe, step by step, how she helps the client to fully process and integrate
the traumatic residues of the present life as well as the past. Working through is the key, and it
is hard work for client and therapist alike.
In the final analysis, Vallieres has written a valuable resource book that will be exceedingly
helpful for reincarnation therapists at all levels of training and development. She writes with
confidence and conviction born of years of personal and professional experience. The concepts
are threaded with the quality of groundedness and clarity; a style that never belies the profound
truths that distinctly emerge. If anything were to be added to this important work, I would
recommend including a bibliography with a list of suggested readings. Vallieres did not hesitate
to note other authors when drawing on their work; however, due to the lack of appropriate
references, the reader is not able to further research or study in-depth the salient points made. A
bibliographical appendix would have served to enhance the usefulness of Reincarnation
Therapy for seriously interested persons. Nevertheless, Vallieres work is a valuable contribution
to the therapeutic field of present and past-life influences, and how to move this vast, diverse,
unconscious memory into a creatively holistic and liberated consciousness. In Vallieres own
words:
For once to become conscious of the whole content of our souls, to descend to the deepest levels,
to reintegrate parts which have become separated, that is the principle of RT. We do not need to
do anything for our development, first of all we must find out who we are (p.133).
VOICES FROM THE WOMB BY MICHAEL GABRIEL, M.A.

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(as included in the The Journal of Regression Therapy Volume VII, No. 1, Fall 1993)
Voices From the Womb presents case studies from Michael
Gabriels fifteen years of practicing prenatal and perinatal therapy and the conclusions he has
drawn from this experience. Since Vernys pioneering work, The Secret Life of the Unborn
Child, was published in 1981, a more or less steady stream of evidence has developed that
demonstrates the importance of pre- and perinatal experiences on the infant. The Gabriels book
extends this evidence and is what I consider the most useful book for therapists on the subject.
The book is well organized. In his Introduction, Gabriel gives us an excellent overview of the
field and of his methods of working with pre- and perinatal material. In this section he refers the
reader to his three Appendices, which describe in detail his findings about possible prenatal
conditions, the infants choices of responses to those conditions and Gabriels therapeutic
processes for releasing the negative responses. Although these Appendices are at the back of the
book, as a therapist I turned to them immediately and read them straight through; they are
invaluable for a deeper understanding of the cases Gabriel presents.
The cases in this book are not merely magic cures briefly presented. They have been chosen to
illustrate specific points or problems, and a full chapter is given to most. All are carefully
analyzed and the course of treatment explained. Gabriels conclusions are thoughtful and drawn
from what his clients tell him, a major strength of the book; he does not superimpose any other
ideas on his clients reports.
In addition to the pre- and perinatal experiences of his clients, Gabriel discusses the impact of the
spiritual dimension in which his clients report existing before they join the fetus in the womb.
This spiritual dimension is, of course, familiar to most past-life therapists, although the pre- and
perinatal experiences may not be. Thus, Gabriel presents a continuum of experience as formative
of the person: the spiritual dimension, the prenatal experiences, and the birth and neonatal
experiences.
This is where I have a caveat with this book. Although Gabriel mentions past-life experiences
once or twice, he seems to me to give them much less than their due. One could conclude that
Gabriel considers that all personality characteristics are formed in the pre- and perinatal states.
Reading his cases carefully, however, I can generalize that the style of approach to life is
learned in the womb and during the birth experience, the sense of self-worth and confidence or,
alternatively, of self-doubt and low self-esteem. These elements of personality seem strongly
connected with the experiences Gabriel discusses.
Other personality characteristics, however, such as likes and dislikes, goals, fears, skills,
tendencies, and all the other intangible elements of what we call personality, seem much less
connected with the pre- or perinatal experience. Nor are the physical problems that past-life
therapists so frequently see. These elements continue to seem based on past-life experiences
more than on the pre- or perinatal experiences.
This is not an argument against what Gabriel presents. On the contrary, his findings suggest that
past-life therapists should probably expand past-life therapy to include the pre- and perinatal
states and the spiritual dimension before the joining with the fetal body, if they do not already
do so. Gabriel does not discuss doing this, but as life is a continuum, all parts of that continuum
are important.
As a therapists guide to using these states in therapy, the Gabriels book is invaluable and the
best I know of. They describe specific techniques and demonstrate their uses through the
numerous cases presented. In addition to the three Appendices, which are of special interest to
therapists, the book contains an excellent bibliography, useful to therapists and the general public
alike.
For the interested lay reader, the book is jargon-free and should be fascinating and perhaps
helpful as well. And, of course, for expectant parents, this book is a necessity (and contains a
chapter especially for them). If you know any, give it to them instantly!
ISBN-13: 978-0944031094
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PAST LIVES, FUTURE LIVES BY BRUCE GOLDBERG, D.D.S., M.S.
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/PAST LIVES, FUTURE LIVES BY BRUCE GOLDBERG, D.D.S., M.S.

This book has been in print and available to the general reader for over
a decade. In an era of todays best seller and tomorrows marked down budget book this, of
itself, is no small accomplishment. In the opening lines in the introduction the author states:
The purpose of Past Lives, Future Lives is to present the idea of reincarnation and karma to the reader in an
attempt to explain why we are here and how we can all better ourselves.
However, when reading this book, one quickly gains the understanding that Goldberg is
askingno, actually tellingreaders to extend and expand their concepts of reincarnation, other
times and other lives, and similar phenomena (already a stretch for many readers) well beyond
those generally accepted. This is not to say that Goldberg is wrong, only that he presents as
truths a number of ideas which need to be thought about.
The authors presentation of material and case studies dealing with past lives and reincarnation is
pretty straightforward and would probably find little argument among practitioners of PLT.
Goldberg devotes a chapter to document the proof of reincarnation and cites examples of many
well-known researchers and writers including Edgar Cayce and Ian Stevenson, among others. He
also presents some of his own case studies as examples. In reviewing this material one must keep
in mind that this book was written for the general public, not specialists in the field. Therefore,
the proof and documentation, while sparse by academic standards, is probably adequate to
satisfy the needs of the general reader. Indeed, despite the focus on some controversial and
difficult-to-understand concepts, the book is quite readable.
Dr. Goldberg is a frequent guest on talk shows where he presents his arguments in a rapid and
forceful manner which is reflected in his writing. Indeed, reading the text one can hear his voice.
Unfortunatelyat least for this reviewerthis dynamic tone was sometimes a bit irritating. The
author seemed to have a tendency to present his materials in an I am the expert and what I say is
absolute gospel manner. This, in turn, may tempt the general reader to accept the authors
theories and speculations as facts. Laudably, however, in chapter six, he admits that he doesnt
have all the answers: Until this field is thoroughly documented, I, myself, have more questions
than answers.
It is, however, when Goldberg begins to move the reader into the area of quantum physics and
the concept of progression that one needs to take the materials in small bites and chew
thoroughly. Not that the concept of I am living now, I have lived before, and I will live again is
so startling, but when it is coupled with the quantum physics theory that all timepast, present,
and futureexists simultaneously, then it presents something new. For most readers, this may be
a difficult concept to understand.
Goldberg bases much of his argument upon the quantum physic theories and writings of Fred
Wolf and others. He then gives some examples of case studies in which he has used progression
to support the theory. Transcripts and summaries of several of these sessions are presented in the
book. Of particular interest to the reviewer was chapter 15. In 1981, Goldberg was asked to
conduct a series of progressions. The subject, a TV newsman, was asked to move forward in
time one week and read either the newsroom assignment board or the actual script of the days
news. Transcripts of the sessions and a summary chart of the results seem to lend support to
Goldbergs theories but as he, himself, writes These hits (correct predictions of events)
dont prove (Goldbergs emphasis) progression but, in my opinion, they lend significant
credence to the theory.
Taken in total, this book should be considered a must read for those interested in our field. Not
because one will agree with everything which has been presented or because it was so scholarly
or brilliantly written or that the author has all the answers, but rather because he has looked at
some things and has started to ask some questionsand, perhaps most of all, because he was one
of the first to do so. It is only by questioning and being willing to consider the implications of the
answers received that we expand our knowledge and understanding.
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Regression Therapy; Spirit Releasement Therapy: A Technique Manual by William Baldwin,
D.D.S., Ph.D.
REGRESSION THERAPY; SPIRIT RELEASEMENT THERAPY: A TECHNIQUE

MANUAL BY WILLIAM BALDWIN, D.D.S., PH.D.
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Reviewed by Roger J. Woolger, Ph.D.
William Baldwins eagerly awaited manual Regression Therapy;
Spirit Releasement Therapy is a brilliant, daring tour de force whose appearance I am delighted
to celebrate. What Dr Baldwin has done in this manual is to painstakingly integrate an enormous
range of techniques as well as much accumulated wisdom gleaned from Past-Life Therapy,
spiritual possession syndrome, soul retrieval, inner child work, multiple personality disorder, and
traditional psychotherapy.
The introduction offers a very useful and concise overview of spirit possession syndrome
throughout history. Then he traces the development of early dynamic psychiatry and its concerns
with multiple personality and the splitting of the psyche as it interfaces with spiritualism from
the eighteenth century onward.
In section two he presents an up to date survey of the principles and techniques currently used in
present life and past-life regression by hypnotherapists and psychotherapists working in the field;
outlining induction techniques, ways of working through the life, the death transition and many
other techniques, and giving lots of useful examples of how to use them. This section alone could
be a book in itself.
Section III Recovery of Soul-Mind Fragmentationalthough relatively short, is in many

ways the pivotal section of the book, theoretically speaking. Here Dr Baldwin outlines and
integrates the shamanic concept of soul loss in reaction to trauma with psychiatric views of
personality splitting and the kind of dissociation to be found in extremis in multiple personality
disorder. The key concept here is the idea of subpersonalities or fragmentary souls. This notion
figured quite prominently in the early psychiatric work of Jung, Janet, and Assagioli, and later
came to form the basis of those techniques for the psychotherapeutic integration of the
personality developed by Psychosynthesis, Jungian analytical psychology, psychodrama, Gestalt
therapy, Voice Dialogue and, most recently, Inner Child work.
The longest section in the book is IV Spirit Releasement Therapy. This describes the highly
original battery of techniques William and Judith Baldwin have developed during their years of
research and therapeutic practice. Like the second section it is virtually a book in itself because
of its extraordinary comprehensiveness and mass of technical detail. The Baldwins describe and
illustrate therapeutic strategies for working with a huge range of possessing entities or psycho-
spiritual formations (to try to coin a phenomenologically neutral term). Most importantly, they
provide careful batteries that enable the therapist to make a differential diagnosis in difficult
cases (e.g. spirit possession syndrome versus multiple personality disorder). It is precisely such
crystal clear differentiation between the different orders and types of attachment, along with an
abundance of clearly illustrated case examples that makes this section so valuable and quite
unique.
The final section is more by way of an appendix to the main text. It outlines the clinical research
project Dr Baldwin conducted to test the effectiveness of Spirit Releasement Therapy. Readers of
this Journal will have seen this material summarized in a different form (Vol. VI, 1, Dec. 1992,
pp. 48-61).
It hardly needs to be said that the whole idea of attributing numerous varieties of
psychopathology to the intrusion of non-resident spirits or entities is one that has been
assiduously resisted and ridiculed by mainstream psychologists and psychiatrists for most of the
century. If the straight psychological world scoffs at past lives and reincarnation, it is openly
contemptuous about practices that go by the name of exorcism, depossession, or spirit
releasement (Baldwins own user-friendly coinage). Even within APRT an underground debate
has been going on since the very inception as to whether past-life therapy belongs to the
psychically inclined or the clinically trained and whether we should allow the cathartic
expression of feelings or rise above and transform them in the lightultimately the same
antagonism between soul versus spirit.
The very fact that Dr Baldwin does not publish separate books on past-life therapy and spirit
releasement is of crucial significance in and of itself. First of all he refuses to separate the
endeavors of psychiatry and spiritual healing, and, secondly, he implicitly recognizes that
regression therapy and spirit releasement therapy complement, in the sense of complete each
other. As he describes it:
The purpose of regression therapy is to heal the scars of the soul. Nothing is left out, no human
experience is denied; the aim is uncovering the truth. No amount of narrowly defined
professional training, no restrictive religious training, no arbitrary limits of any kind can be
allowed to interfere with the exploration of the spiritual reality (p. 38).
This long overdue reintegration of the spiritualist/shamanic perspective back into psychotherapy
and spiritual healing is, I believe, the next and essential stage in the development of
psychologya kind of return to the source. And right at the vanguard of this reunion we have
William Baldwins remarkable book. It is a milestone we will all look back to. I predict it will be
referred to and argued about for years.
BEYOND THE ASHES: CASES OF REINCARNATION FROM THE
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Reviewed by Amy Shapiro, M.Ed.
This book is an anecdotal account of personal stories told to Rabbi

Gershom during his work as a spiritual director over a ten year period by hundreds of persons
who described to him flashbacks, visions, dreams, and memories that appeared to stem from
previous lives. What he found particularly interesting was that many of these recollections were
made by persons who, in their present life, are not Jewish but were, nonetheless, able to provide
detailed information concerning both the holocaust and Eastern European Jewish life and
customsinformation generally not known in the non-Jewish world.
The author has assembled a collection of these cases and has combined them with some
observations and Jewish teachings about such topics as the soul, the concept of afterlife, and
Judaic thoughts on reincarnationsubjects about which Rabbi Gershom has studied and taught,
and about which he has written extensively.
Rabbi Gershom is a man who truly fathoms the beyond and whose life is dedicated to helping
others in their quest for similar understanding. There are many good reasons to read this book.
Among them are: gaining valuable background information on the multifaceted dimensions of
Judaism spanning from ancient to contemporary realities; a unique and spiritually fortified
perspective on the specific event of the Holocaust and its continuing ripple effects on our
collective and individual psyches; and the gift of faith, that as we move beyond denial or anger
toward those evils we must never forget, we can follow a path to forgiveness which heals ones
own soul, thus releasing us from the need to perpetuate any further karmic bondage on that score.
Rabbi Gershoms candid, self-disclosing style allows the reader to feel the generous warmth of a
person on his own continuing journey. Readers of all backgrounds are taken into consideration,
as are potential biases toward the subjects of reincarnation, Judaism, and the Holocaust. It is this
thoughtfulness that most captivates and engages one in the larger moral questions that inherently
beg for attention as we face so ugly a chapter of history, especially in the light of the recent
emergence of a movement toward revisionist history which tries to deny the very reality of the
Holocaust.
Several compelling case studies flesh out the authors theories in a way that is familiar to
metaphysically oriented readers who are experienced with past-life therapy. For those not so
inclined, Beyond the Ashes opens new doors of insight and meaning and may validate otherwise
unexplained intuitions, dreams, or anxieties they may carry within themselves pertaining to Nazi
atrocities and the injustices that are still suffered as a result.
Beyond the Ashes fills an important literary void, as it builds bridges among secular, religious,
political, and metaphysical realms. The seemingly effortless way in which Rabbi Gershom
accomplishes so monumental a task pays tribute to his depth of knowledge and the heights of a
wisdom that was borne of having transcended the very ashes of which he writes.
A splendidly useful glossary of Jewish terms found in the book guides us through the richness of
a language to which few non-Jews are exposed.
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REGRESSION THERAPY: A HANDBOOK FOR PROFESSIONALS BY

WINAFRED BLAKE LUCAS, PH.D.
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To say that this two-volume compendium is a major
contribution to our field is to ridiculously undervalue it. It is, in this reviewers opinion, probably
the most important single contribution to our field to date. More than ten years in the making, it
reflects the precision, thoughtfulness, and thoroughness that one would expect from Lucas.
Both volumes are elegantly organized. The first ten chapters of the first volume, written very
sensitively by Lucas, constitute an overview of the field as it has grown and stands today. The
first chapter is exactly what it should be: an excellent history of past-life therapy. In the next nine
chapters, Lucas discusses the theories, assumptions, and techniques of our field, including our
many controversies and dilemmas. These chapters pull together the various (and sometimes
conflicting) views of the 13 contributors whose papers comprise the remaining 12 chapters of
Volume I.
These papers have been written by 13 of the earliest and leading practitioners of past-life
therapy. The chapters all follow the same basic format; in the first section we learn the writers
background and by what stages he or she came independently to past-life therapy. These
biographical sections are, to me, fascinating. Cumulatively, they convey the effect of what some
Eastern philosophies call a karass: a group of people whose karma is to find each other to
accomplish some great goal together. Perhaps to other working therapists, who may already have
acquaintance with some of the theories and techniques discussed in the rest of these chapters, this
human, biographical material will also be of special interest. Here we see 13 highly respected
therapists and independent thinkers on their lonely, years-long journeys and quests.
This first, biographical, section is followed in each chapter by more pragmatic material. The
second section of each paper gives us the writers theories, including his or her philosophical
hypotheses, therapeutic assumptions, and beliefs about the indications and contraindications for
the use of past-life therapy. The third and fourth sections of each paper cover each writers
techniques for induction and processing material, all described in great and useful detail; also
included here is a discussion of failures, thoughtfully analyzed by each writer. These sections are
followed by case descriptions illustrating the theories and techniques discussed. Taken as a
whole, we see in these chapters a tremendous diversity of ideas and techniques, a richness of
imagination in developing techniques that work, theories drawn from them, and new questions to
ask.
This first volume focuses on past-life therapy. The second volume, as its subtitle indicates,
moves into related areas. These include regression to prenatal, perinatal, birth, and childhood
experiences, death and interlife experiences, progression to future lives, and releasement therapy.
Chapters and sections are written by over 20 major practitioners and therapists in the various
areas; each consists of a detailed introduction and one or more case analyses. Again, we see the
diversity of opinion and techniques that marks our fields development.
Klimo, in his Forward to this second volume, points out that it is not Lucas intent in these
volumes to convince the skeptical, but rather to provide a comprehensive handbook and guide
for therapists of past-life therapy and its related areas. Although Lucas has succeeded
handsomely in this goal, she has also produced two volumes that may well (and should) shake
some skeptics preconceptions, as well.
One major skeptics preconception that is challenged by these volumes is that these therapies are
of little value and can be easily dismissed. This massive collection of papers by thoughtful,
experienced therapists demolishes that preconception. The sheer intellectual weight of this
collection demands attention. One may disagree with some points made, some assumptions and
interpretations, or one may think that one technique is more useful than another. Indeed, it is
impossible to agree with everything in these volumes. But it is also impossible to ignore the
overall effectiveness of the therapies discussed, or the care with which they have been developed
and are still being nurtured.
If I have a complaint about these volumes, it is that there is scant attention given to some of the
research that has been done. The focus is on therapy, and this is in itself appropriate, given
Lucas intent to create a handbook for professionals. Nevertheless, professionals need to know
the research in their fields. Although Appendix C of Volume I describes Lucas fascinating
Mind Mirror study, and some references to other research are embedded within Lucas first ten
chapters, no separate chapter is devoted to research nor is all of the research that has been done
mentioned. Although our field cannot boast very much research, what has been done is exciting.
I would have liked to see such a chapter included, one in which the research done was described
and critically analyzed.
I do like the discussions of contraindications and failures that are included, both by Lucas in her
first ten chapters and by each contributor. Every field is defined by its failures, its limitations, as
much as by its successes, and it is essential for professionals to know what doesnt work as well
as what does. A word of warning is in order, however. In a field such as ours, these
contraindications and failures should not be taken as gospel because some new and creative
technique may turn a failure into a success. This has been the story of our field as some therapist,
faced perhaps with a failure, created a new technique that worked.
Lucas has indeed produced a handbook for professionals, but she has also produced an excellent
training guide. Those teaching past-life therapy will, from now on, find these volumes essential;
since they now exist, they immediately constitute the heart and soul, the absolute foundation
stone, of all good courses.
It is this reviewers opinion that all past-life therapists and teachers should own this handbook. It
is a source book for ideas, novel approaches, and different ways to use past-life therapy. These
volumes are not meant to be read once and put on a shelf; they are meant to be an everyday
resource for practicing therapists who want to expand their own techniques and approaches, and
for teachers who want to cover the field responsibly. Such a collection is rare in any field of
therapy, and we are fortunate that Lucas and her many honored contributors have given us this
one.
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(as included in the The Journal of Regression Therapy Volume VI, No. 1, Fall 1992)
As the title states, Markham, a British therapist, has written a no-

nonsense book about hypnosis regression therapy, and she sticks to the point. She defines that
phrase as regression to forgotten events in the present life as well as in a past life. There is no
mention of spirit releasement therapy, spirit guides, or protective light circles, although she may
use the last two. She is not specific about her regression techniques themselves. The book is
written for the lay reader as an information manual, and for a practicing therapist there is
probably no new knowledge. But it is a book that therapists might well recommend to others,
knowing that the information contained is straightforward, well-organized, and reassuring.
Some therapists will surely quibble about some of the processes Markham describes. However,
most of these quibbles would represent minor differences of opinion. There is, however, a
serious difference between Markham and many therapists, at least American therapists. It is in
her use of regression itself.
Markham uses regression almost entirely as a diagnostic method; the treatment itself comes
later, over several sessions, and does not involve regression. She states frequently that regression
itself will not heal a client, but can only illuminate the causes of the problem. A possible reason
for this attitude is that Markham regresses her clients to one past life only: that is the cause and
no more regressions are attempted. Treatment sessions begin at that point, and involve an
assortment of behavioral homework assignments that are monitored during subsequent office
visits.
Some therapists will argue with this approach, since many have found that several past lives
contribute to a clients problems, that all need to be scrutinized, and that if this is done, little or
no homework is required. This may be a more important issue than some other technique issues
in the book, because Markham is refreshingly honest and tells us her failures and her partial
successes. Her methods seem rarely to eliminate the clients problems completely. Instead, many
of the client case studies she gives report that the client is still working on the problem, but doing
well. This outcome is not one that many past-life therapists are familiar with, and the difference
may lie in Markhams limited use of regression.
Another criticism some therapists may have is the omission of spirit releasement therapy.
Some will doubtless feel that this omission is responsible for her lack of complete success in
some cases. Whether or not this idea has merit is impossible to say. However, Markhams book
is very focused, and she does not mention this form of therapy in any context, so to judge the
book itself by this omission seems inappropriate to this reviewer.
Despite these possible disagreements with therapists, Markhams book could be very useful to
the general reader. She starts with a brief history of hypnosis and of regression, describes What
happens during regression therapy? in a nice question-and-answer format, gives a successful
case history of a water-phobic client, and then describes her ideas about present-life and past-life
regression, giving case histories for each. Her manner is comfortable, open, and de-mystifying.
She also clearly states her personal bias; she has come to believe that past-life reports are true
reincarnation memories, and uses the schoolroom metaphor: When we have finally learned all
our lessons, we wont have to reincarnate on earth again. What will happen to us then she does
not say.
Markham deserves our thanks for trying to reach the general public with a simple, non-
threatening book about our field. It is probably too basic for therapists, but ideal for a person
newly curious about regression therapy.
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Reviewed by Karl Schlotterbeck, M.A., C.A.S.
Out of this World is an impressive exposition of the variety of otherworldly

experiences in and conceptualizations about the netherworld. Although of tangential interest to
past-life therapists, as a survey of world cultures and their beliefs about the world outside of time
and space, this history is of central importance to anyone interested in the life of the soul.
Couliano concerns himself with ecstatic experiences of a shamanic nature, whether designated as
such or not. His survey covers Egyptian texts, Tibetan bardo writings, legends of gods and
goddesses in their otherworldly activities, Taiwanese ghost brides, Taoist priests, Islamic
journeys and visions, along with Jewish, Greek, Chinese, and Hindu conceptualizations, to name
just a few.
Since most past-life regressions involve taking the client through a death experience, some of the
after-death concepts will be of direct interest in their own right, such as the two paths after
cremation described by the Upanishadsgoing the way of the godsor the way of the
fathers (thereby returning to earth through rebirth). Further importance for past-life workers is
in the way local cultural beliefs may influence the after-death experience of a client we have just
taken through a regression death.
In addition, Couliano notes how differences in reports of near-death experiences depend on the
researchers who study them (another case of the observers impact on reality). Thus, we find
the possibility of preconceptions of the therapist/researcher distorting some of the clients
experience.
One of the books strengths is also to its detriment: in its comprehensiveness, all cultures could
not be treated equally without making the volume unwieldy. Hence, Couliano only mentions
some practices (like skeletal visualization) while, at other times, he goes into more satisfying
depth. Greek otherworldly travelers, for example, are treated more completely. In addition, some
concepts are used (e.g., witchcraft) without clearly defining them, leaving the reader unclear
whether he is referring to sorcery or nature religions. He also defines shaman as meaning
sorcerer, which I have seen elsewhere translated as one who sees in the dark.
Although mention is given to Pythagoras and Empedocles having recollection of their previous
lives, past-life therapy is mentioned only in passing in the next to last paragraph (in which he
labels Senoi dream interpretation a therapeutic hoax without explanation).
In summary, although Out of this World has its limitations, it is, nevertheless, a useful and mind-
altering experience in itself. Coulianos survey of after-death beliefs of world cultures should
widen the perspectives of any reader, especially those of us who have firm beliefs about what
happens after death.
ISBN 13: 9780877734888
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LIFECYCLES: REINCARNATION AND THE WEB OF LIFE BY CHRISTOPHER

M. BACHE, PH.D.
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/LIFECYCLES: REINCARNATION AND THE WEB OF LIFE BY CHRISTOPHER M. BACHE, PH.D.
Reviewed by Daniel Kealey, Ph.D.
Dr. Bache, a member of the Department of Philosophy and
Religious Studies at Youngstown State University, has written a much needed book full of
stimulating insights into the contemporary philosophical implications of reincarnation. He
correctly states that the belief in the theory of reincarnation is no longer just a religious question,
for the impressive accumulation of evidence that has become part of the contemporary
intellectual environment makes it essentially an empirical question. Bache backs up this claim
with an overview of the research, focusing primarily on the work of Stevenson and the findings
of past-life regression. But this is not his main purpose. He notes that as a teacher he often finds
that while students are impressed by the evidence for reincarnation on a case-by-case basis, they
are unable to embrace the theory of reincarnation because they lack a comprehensive philosophy
that can make sense of the data. It is when he begins to explore the larger philosophical aspects
of reincarnation in the third chapter that readers of this journal will find themselves most
engaged.
There he explains different interpretations of karma and draws heavily from past-life therapy. He
criticizes such simplistic notions of karma as that of mechanistic cause and effect, noting that:
the creativity and wisdom of karmas translation of past choices into future lives was far too great to be
suitably described by the metaphor of a machine. The dynamics of karma showed an intelligence that was not
merely thorough but also exceptionally creative (p. 80).
He confesses that when he first came to accept reincarnation, karma took on many of the duties
traditionally ascribed to God, but that later he was forced to conclude that karma, rather than
being managed by a single mega-being, was, instead, managed by a hierarchy of intelligences.
In his illuminating chapter on the Oversoul, Bache reveals a little about his own several years
experience in past-life therapy under the direction of his colleague, Dr. David Cliness of the
Counseling Department at Youngstown State University. The deep psyche responds according to
the intention by which it is approached. Most past-life therapists approach their work with the
intention of healing the present life. Dr. Cliness found, however, that when the psyche is
approached in an open-ended way, ones past lives come forward not only as past but as living
realities that can and need to enter into dialogue with us. The therapeutic work, therefore, is not
only one-way, but mutual. When one helps past-life personalities through their blocks, they then
move on into the bosom of the Oversoul from which they can return as beings of light when
needed by the present life personality in subsequent regression sessions. The Oversoul, it
appears, is a We.
Whether reincarnation is compatible with Christianity or not is another theme pursued by Bache.
He disagrees with various reincarnationists who argue that certain biblical passages refer to
reincarnation. Bache, who earned his masters degree in New Testament and Early Christian
Origins from Cambridge University, takes a conservative view in the interpretation of the
passages in question, finding that they can be satisfactorily interpreted along non-reincarnationist
lines. But reincarnation is far from incompatible with Christian teaching. He identifies what he
perceives as the core principles of Christianity and finds that they do not exclude belief in
reincarnation. Reincarnation enlarges the size of the stage on which the spiritual drama of
humankind is performed, but it does not change what Christianity has considered the essential
elements of the script. (p. 162) The Nag Hammadi literature is evidence that at least some early
Christians, the Gnostics, believed in reincarnation.
Several chapters are devoted to the explication of a post-existentialist philosophy that draws out
the implications of accepting the reincarnation framework. Here the reader is treated not only to
the big picture, but also to practical guidelines on how to play the game of life.
There are at least four reasons why I am happy to see this book in print: First, Bache packages
the wide-ranging phenomena of reincarnation into an elegant but sophisticated philosophical
overview. Second, he provides the teachers amongst us with wonderful explanations and
diagrams that will make our pedagogical efforts more effective. Third, he introduces us to the
pioneering past-life therapy work of Dr. David Cliness. And, finally, that this book is written by
an academic is, I hope, a sign that holistic and transpersonal-oriented academics can begin to
come out of the closet and express their views more forthrightly.
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BY HELENE ROTHSCHILD
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Reviewed by Marilyn J. Wulff, M.S.W.
Helene Rothschilds book, Past Lives, Present Decisions, would be an

excellent resource for beginning past-life therapists and I believe is designed to serve as a self-
help guide to individuals who are ready to learn more about and experience their past lives, as a
pathway to transformation.
Rothschild, who has a Masters Degree in Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling, and is in
private practice in California, describes her approach as being based upon what she calls
Creative Therapy, saying we all make decisions based on our experiences. These decisions
or thoughts control our lives, and adds that another principle of her therapy is we are all totally
responsible for our lives. There are no victims. There are only volunteers.
Helene Rothschild describes how she utilizes past-life exploration to help her clients free their
Scared Inner Child. Utilizing Creative Visualization techniques, she assists her clients to reach a
level of relaxation and then guides them to meet a Wise Person (their intuitive or Higher Self)
who acts as an assistant to answer questions, guide, and protect the past-life participant.
The author begins the book by describing her own experiences with past lives. In her current life
she had felt held back from helping others. In these explorations she found herself in many
past-life situations in which she helped others to fight social injustice and, as a result, she was
persecuted or killedthus leaving her with a powerful internal message to be careful to not be
too powerful or helpful. It seems apparent that despite the authors past-life fears, she has
claimed her power in this incarnation, and is utilizing her skills to lead people to freedom and
help them heal themselves.
After offering her own personal story and explanation of her Creative Therapy process, the
author goes on to give twelve case examples from her private practice. Throughout these case
examples, Ms. Rothschild not only assists her clients in observing and rediscovering past-life
occurrences, but she also helps them release negative perceptions from past-life events and create
new positive experiences. She explains that since you make decisions based upon your
experiences, you can easily make new positive decisions based upon imagined experiences. Even
if the experience isnt real, your inner mind will respond as if it were. The author adds, You
can literally rewrite your past and change your feelings and behavior in the future. The
technique of creating a more positive image of an experience, rather than just focusing on
remembering the disturbing past-life events and feelings seems to be a helpful therapeutic tool,
according to the author. One example given is the story of Kate, who finds herself in a past life
in Massachusetts during the witch hunts (circa 1692). She is imprisoned with many other
women, and then finds herself in a courtroom. She reports:
Lots of men were staring at me with angry faces and were accusing me of witchcraft. They said I
was evil. Terrified, I put my hands over my face and sobbed uncontrollably. They showed no
mercy. The angry mob dragged me outside and hanged me alongside three other condemned
witches.
Kate reported that this past-life regression helped her understand why, in her present life, she
cant wear anything close to her neck, and why she avoids crowds and lives in the country, away
from people. In her current life, Kate has been a loner and a perpetual student. She says she has
felt safer being a follower. Ive always avoided being a leader at all costs, even though Im
capable of leadership. As a result of this session with Rothschild, Kate decided that she was
ready to come out of hiding and express herself. With Rothschilds assistance Kate was able to
face her accusers, by visualizing the witch hunters, and then expressed her feelings to them.
I yelled and screamed at them because I was furious and terrified. I cried to release my hurt and
sadness. As soon as I felt relaxed I changed the scene. My new image was of the same men in
front of me, but this time they were listening with respect and admiration. They appreciated my
healing abilities and thanked me for all my help. My body relaxed even more and I felt safe.
From that new experience I was able to make a new decision: I am beginning to believe that it is
safe for me to be me.
Rothschild uses case examples to demonstrate the personal and interpersonal benefits of past-life
therapy for her clients. The scenarios described, all having positive outcomes, are affirming and
encouraging to the readergiving a feeling of hope, out of seemingly emotionally disabling
past-life circumstances. According to the author, forgiving and letting go is an important part of
the past-life experience.
It might be noted that Rothschild does not give any examples of clients who had either negative
or neutral experiences with her techniques. It is not clear whether all her clients benefited from
their past-life experiences or whether she chose not to include a discussion of clients who may
not have been helped from past-life therapy.
Overall, Past Lives, Present Decisions, is an easy-to-read book, filled with case examples of
personal and spiritual growth, with an overall message of hope. This book would be a good
resource to share with clients who are questioning what past-life experiences are like, and it
gives reassurance to prospective past-life participants that remembering and releasing emotions
and experiences from past lives can have beneficial and long-lasting outcome.
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RAYMOND A. MOODY, JR., M.D., WITH PAUL PERRY
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PAUL PERRY
Reviewed by Rabia Clark, M.A.
Past-life therapists often recommend books on PLT to their clients.

I have been looking for a book which explains how past-life therapy is done in a simple and non-
technical way. Dr. Raymond Moodys book, Coming Back: A Psychiatrist Explores Past-Life
Journeys is my current favorite.
Dr. Moody uses interesting and brief case histories as illustrations throughout the book which
makes it very easy to read. Some of the case histories come from the APRT Journal of
Regression Therapy, some come from his own past-life recollections, and others from his clients
or other books. APRT members Dree Miller Dunlap, George Schwimmer, and Paul Hansens
past-life recollections are mentioned, as is the history of the founding of APRT as told by Hazel
Denning and Irene Hickman in the APRT Journal. Chet Snows rescripting case from the Spring
1988 Journal is also included.
Moody describes his own nine past lives briefly. He also has a short chapter on uses of PLT,
including instances of healing. He outlines various theories about the truth of past lives, and
contrasts reincarnation beliefs with those of hidden memories, metaphors for the present, and
personal myths. He concludes with a chapter on exploring your own past lives and a script for
self hypnosis. Moody gives advice to those seeking past-life regressionists: he says to avoid
people who channel past lives for clients and suggests checking the credentials of past-life
therapists.
Moody is clear that his own vantage-point is that it doesnt matter whether or not past lives are
real. As a Christian, he says he can neither support nor refute regressions as proof of
reincarnation, and that recall of past lives seems to be evidence of an altered state of mind which
is reached through hypnosis. He gives a number of good examples of regressions as metaphors
for the present or as personal myths. He also describes a few cases which may be real past lives,
and he has examples of forgotten childhood memories which seemed at first to be past lives. I
like the way he explains all the various possibilities in a clear and simple way.
This is an easy book to read, and a lot of learning about the field of past-life therapy is offered in
bite size doses with interesting and non-threatening case histories, which will not frighten a new
client. (For an example of that, see Roger Woolgers book, Other Lives, Other Selves, which I
would recommend to therapists, but only with reservations to clients because of so many violent
case histories). I heartily recommend Moodys book to you, especially for new clients.
If your vantage-point is one which posits that past lives are true, and you use a lot of
reincarnation and karma models in your therapy, then you might want to also recommend
additional books which take that point of view. Moodys book does present a variety of ways to
interpret past-life recall, including the possibility that some may be real, but definitely leans
towards the skeptical end of the spectrum. He is very positive in his recommendation of PLT as a
therapeutic modality which benefits clients.
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HOME/BOOK REVIEW/ELVIS AFTER LIFE BY RAYMOND MOODY, PH.D., M.D.

Reviewed by Fleur Greene, M.A.
Elvis Presley was a phenomenon in his life. He may single-handedly
have aroused the sleeping eroticism of the entire Western world. (He was known, you may recall,
as Elvis the Pelvis). For good or ill, it is obvious that rock-and-roll has liberated us from our
Victorian moorings forever!
A legend never dies. It only becomes more magnified with time. We humans love the very idea
of one of us unbounded by conventions. And given to magnificence, the legend of Elvis will,
without doubt, become more fantastic with time.
As that happens, accurate descriptions of events that took place at the time of his death will
become more and more difficult to find. The legend, fulfilling a collective need, will become
inflated with falsehood and imaginings. And here, then, is the value of Raymond Moodys book.
Moody has written a documentary covering various kinds of physical events that did occur.
These events vary from precognition to strange movements of physical objects. And there is one
very poignant account of a father who, with Elviss help, found his runaway son.
Moody is, first of all, a scientist. He asks questions with the open mind of a genuine explorer,
and he reports his findings with exactitude. Because Elvis was a phenomenon in his life, and
because he will grow as a legend, it is valuable to have these unusual psychic experiences
documented now, in the time in which they occurred.
In large measure, the books importance has nothing to do with Elvis per se. As we continue to
explore the wide variety of human events beyond our current understanding, we learn again of
our own mysteriousness. A hundred years from now, this little book may well serve to inform
and illuminate the psychic field that surrounds such a personage in death.
Thus, the value of Raymond Moodys book is likely to be greater in the future. Today, it is a
well-written series of vignettes of psychic experiences. But tomorrow it may assist humans in
knowing more deeply the forces that move in and around us.
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UNCONDITIONAL LOVE AND FORGIVENESS BY EDITH STAUFFER
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Reviewed by Errol Schubot, Ph.D.
Unconditional love and forgiveness is the central theme of Edith

Stauffers approach to healing. She bases her principles and practices on Psychosynthesis and on
the concepts of the Essenes, an ancient sect whose beliefs are recorded in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Their practices integrated spiritual principles into everyday living, creating an atmosphere of
peace, cooperation, and harmony within the group. Psychosynthesis, developed by Dr. Roberto
Assagioli, carries a similar goal of bringing transpersonal concepts and awareness into practical
application.
Stauffer understands the original purpose of spirituality, which is to create experiences and
guidelines to bring the highest qualities into every aspect of daily life. She teaches the Essene
concept of Napsha, an Aramaic word for our connection with God. She considers this connection
to be with the Source of life, with that higher intelligence that directs the orderly flow of all
life. The goal is to reach Rukha, a place of transpersonal energy beyond personal concerns.
Rukha is the universal home, a place to rest, relax, and rejuvenate the mind. The purpose is to
receive the love, wisdom and healing energy of the Source.
Stauffer typically uses a workshop format to teach these practices, because she believes that
Napsha is more easily reached in supportive groups when group solidarity is present. She guides
the seeker through many practices that are pathways for returning to an intimate and personal
relationship with the Source. After establishing a relaxed state of mind and body, she uses
visualizations that gently open doors to the Highest. Participants imagine moving into a center of
light above the head where they allow the energy of the Source to flow through them. Stauffer
reports that entering this place of rest creates a feeling in her participants of peace, security, love,
and gratitude toward the Creator.
There is a controversy in healing practice between those who emphasize experiencing the most
painful human emotions, bringing them to a cathartic release, versus those who advocate taking
time to focus on the most positive aspects of the universal experience. All practitioners agree that
both are essential, but the balance in favor of one polarity or the other shifts with the belief
system of the healer. Stauffer acknowledges the importance of accepting and experiencing
painful emotions, but she believes that positive experiences are the heart of the healing process.
She maintains that physical symptoms and psychological conflict are a result of being cut off
from, or being in conflict with, our Higher Self. She specifically states that a problem is never
solved on the level where it is created; it has to be taken to a higher level to be solved or healed.
Stauffer creates specific exercises to instill the transpersonal values that underlie the Laws of
Attitudes which make up the Essene Code of Conduct. The primary law of the Essenes states:
One who wishes to be whole (healthy) must love the Source of life with ones whole being,
must love oneself and all others of whom one is physically and mentally aware. Workshop
participants are first guided through relaxation and visualization to connect with their Napsha.
Then they are instructed to contemplate specific transpersonal qualities, such as fairness, justice,
forgiveness, humility, and unconditional love. For example, she instructs her participants to
Become aware of the quality of peace. Let that peace flow into your mind, your emotions, and
into your body. Imagine a quiet peaceful lake. Be aware of the calm surface of the water. Now
imagine your body, mind and emotions being calm like this beautiful peaceful lake. Let that
peace pervade your consciousness. Rest in that peace. Then Stauffer uses affirmations as a
bridge to bring these qualities into practical purpose and use in everyday life. She conveys the
importance of using affirmations to strengthen the established connection. The power of this
approach is reflected in the experience of reported healing experiences of several workshop
participants. For example, one participant shared the relief of an agonizing back pain that had
been present for several years, another experienced the disappearance of many body lumps, and a
third felt total release from stress during a lawsuit.
An excellent aspect of Stauffers book is her effective guidance on the importance of

forgiveness. In accordance with the Essene philosophy, When we block our love from another
person, our energy shuts down. When harmony is restored, the healing energy starts flowing into
the self from the Napsha and out to the other person. A distinction is made between forgiving
and pardoning the wrong. The process does not wipe out the wrong of another, but rather
removes the demand that the other person perform in a certain way in order to be loved. After
encouraging the emotional release of resentful feelings, Stauffer focuses on canceling the
expectations, demands, and conditions which are perceived as causing the loss of love; and re-
establishing unconditional love. Again, the essential aspect of all of these experiences is that the
healing is made possible first by establishing direct contact with the Napsha and the light of the
Source. Several examples from Stauffers workshops are given, including one in which a young
woman named Pearl was able to feel compassion and love for her father, who had molested her,
first by reliving past incidents with a supportive group and then by connecting with the love of
the Highest.
This practice of acceptance and forgiveness is extended to the participant himself, and the inner
child of the past. After merging into Napsha, the wrong is expressed, the forgiveness is received,
and the participant appreciates the Highest for the release and freedom from guilt. In developing
a relationship with the Source, Stauffer guides clients into identification with the position of the
Higher Self. From this place of the Highest, she encourages workshop participants to send out
your love and forgiveness in abundance to your personal self. Cancel all the conditions and
expectations the personal self is holding against itself. Assure your personal self that there is no
expectation, demand, or condition the personal self has put upon itself that can separate your
love from it. Stauffer is emphasizing that after repeated experiences the Source becomes more
than an energy of light and peace, but rather an intimate relationship, a tangible friendship that
touches the place within the person that has always been yearning for love.
For many of her participants, Stauffer reports, this process opens the door to a transformed view
of reality. There is increased intuitive wisdom available to guide daily decisions and a greater
peace that pervades challenging situations. Stauffer also demonstrates how prayer is a useful
form of communication with the divine; at the same time it is a lifting up and calling down from
the Source. Stauffer affirms that prayer can help to create harmony with the Source as well as
achieve practical results in daily life.
Another way of creating the connection with the Source is through the practice of meditation,
Stauffer gives directions on how to practice three forms of mediation; reflective, receptive, and
creative. In reflective meditation, the mind concentrates on a transpersonal quality, such as
courage, compassion, patience, or beauty. In this form of meditation the mind is like a mirror,
allowing thoughts and ideas to reflect upon its surface, bringing insight and knowledge.
In receptive meditation, the mind becomes silent and the connection with the Higher Self that has
been practiced throughout the training is invoked. The meditator brings the seed thoughts of the
reflective meditation to the Higher Self to receive messages, intuitions, answers, energy, and
urges action. Receptive meditation is a way to receive guidance, direction, ideas, and
information from higher sources than your own mind and personality.
Creative meditation is the bridge to bring the experiences of the previous meditations into form
in everyday life. The meditator actively visualizes new projects, goals, solutions, and changes
manifesting in everyday life.
Stauffers book is more than an excellent integration of spiritual principles and practices. It
reflects the deep love and honor that she has for the human spirit, as well as her experience of the
expanded potential that can emerge with an ongoing and intimate relationship with the Higher
Self. The one limitation of her book is that she does not present any specific experiences of the
participants in actually contacting the Highest. Yet her book will satisfy those who are looking
for practical guidelines to integrate spiritual practices into their lives. Stauffer demonstrates the
advantages of combining psychological practices with the energy, love, and wisdom that flow
from a connection with the Source.
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HENRY LEO BOLDUC
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/THE JOURNEY WITHIN: PAST-LIFE REGRESSION AND CHANNELING BY HENRY LEO BOLDUC
Reviewed by Jon Klimo, Ph.D.
In The Journey Within, Henry Leo Bolduc provides some easy-to-

read glimpses into his personal search for answers and, in particular, his exploration of the
possibilities of hypnosis. Readers of The Journal of Regression Therapy should be able to
identify with many of the experiences he presents in this informal, anecdotal odyssey. As Bolduc
puts it, the first five chapters are mainly about my years of research into past-life regression,
and chapters six and seven are about what I have learned about hypnosis and past-life
regression. In the second half of the book, chapters eight through seventeen, Bolduc turns to
focus on how some individuals, who have been hypnotized by him, became channels. As part of
this, he includes generous samplings of their channeled material Some may find the shift from
past-life to channeling phenomena a bit hard to follow, though Bolducs use of hypnosis in
working with others seem to be the through-line.
Bolduc tells us that he first became interested in past-life work after reading The Search for
Bridey Murphy. Shortly thereafter, in the early 1960s, he began experimenting with friends.
Becoming ever more committed to this work, he showed up on the doorstep of Edgar Cayces
brother Hugh Lynn, in Virginia Beach, soon moving into the A.R.E. headquarters to live on a
steady diet of Cayce Readings and related books.
He then jumps ten years in his story to the extended past-life regressions he did with his friend
Chuck and others. During what he calls his adventure years of the 1970s, he supported
himself with an antique business in Ashby, Massachusetts, while turning his house into a center
where the sheer number of people passing through gave me an opportunity to conduct countless
past-life regressions and to fine tune my skills as a hypnotist. He also began work as a hypnotist
at the Providence Hypnosis Center in neighboring Rhode Island, and wrote a booklet on self-
hypnosis. During this period, he came to realize that Hypnosis makes past-life recall easier by
bypassing the critical conscious mind to give access to the subconscious memory banks, but all
the while he was wrestling with key issue familiar to Journal readers:
This is the great question of lives and the cyclic pattern of lives: How much can we change and
write a new script and how much must we act out verbatim on the eternal stage of life?I was to
gain more insight into a larger picture of lives; karma; the way we change scripts; and the use of
forgiveness as one of the important healing processes.
Although he claimed that In those years of research and experience I saw few set rules
concerning past lives, Bolduc was able to observe that people always seem to have choices,
that patterns can be changed, that hearts can be healed, that when we study and learn we
pass our tests and we progress, and that the earth school is usually a merciful institution. In
addition, he came to realize that The purpose of past-life work is to understand, to learn, and to
grow. I sometimes call it healing the past.
Moving back to Virginia Beach and marrying, he began hypnotic work with Daniel Clay in
1983. Daniels psychic channels, or chakras, were bursting like floodgates, he writes. As he
voyaged through the layered seas of his subconscious, and as Daniel tapped a different level of
consciousness, sources apparently from beyond began to communicate through him, This
material came to be known as the teachings of The Eternals. In a second, extended series of
hypnotic sessions with Bolduc, the entity Pretty Flower is channeled through Eileen Rota, with
dozens of pages of her channeled material included.
With regard to the first half of the book, Bolducs brand of past-life hypnotic inductions appears
to be much the same as that used by many others working in this field, though he does add some
variations of his own that are new to me. While I have no problem with the definition and
understanding of channeling that Bolduc provides as the focus for the second half of his book, I
do find the distinction he makes between the terms channeling and mediumship idiosyncratic and
confusing:
Channeling is definitely of the New Age and recognizes little or no resemblance to its ancient
ancestor (mediumship). Mediumship is a process wherein a person can inadvertently open his or
her body to possession. Channeling is a process wherein a person seeks high levels of awareness
while seeking inner truth.
And yet, Bolduc also defines channeling as the process by which a person becomes a vessel or
channel for his or her own Higher Self to come through or for the spirit and voice of an entity or
entities from another dimension (italics mine). The term mediumship can still apply to this
latter realm, I think. Still, it sounds as if he is making channeling out to be the more spiritual,
diffuse (universal mind), or self-generated (higher-self) enterprise; while mediumship, for him, is
a faculty connecting us only to discarnate human spirits and other relative low-lifes in the
cosmological hierarchy. This smacks of J. B. Rhines creation of parapsychology to distance
himself from psychical research, the latter being viewed by him as too much associated with
the suspect activity of Spiritualist era mediumship. However, I think that we are just going to
have to admit, as the term settles ever further into our shared lexicon, that
channeling is becoming an alternate term for mediumship. The only difference seems to be that
channeling, as well as connecting us to supposed surviving human spiritsthe primary but not
exclusive domain of earlier mediumshipnow is also being used to include contact with a range
of trans-human or higher-human sources as well.
I realize that Bolducs forte is personal experience and helping others, not playing scientist or
philosopher. Whether these visions are always actual past lives or whether they are
metaphorical or symbolic doesnt really matter to me, he writes. What matters is that the
person experiences new insight and self-understanding. At another point he asks rhetorically if
it matters whether the entities reached through channeling are real and separate. I think it does
not, he replies, so long as it guides a person to other sources of information. And still later he
admits, Long ago I stopped trying to prove anything.
I know that many who are involved in New Age activities today share Bolducs attitude, and I do
not want to criticize them for taking this tack. Their way is more in the direction of trying out
and perfecting the possibilities of what might be called consciousness engineering. At the same
time, however, in the face of books such as Bolducs, I am re-inspired to continue along my own,
complementary path, which is to try to best understand what is going on with regard to our
human nature, our cosmos, and our God, in light of past-life work, channeling, and other
anomalies, and to provide, in the process, an explanatory bridge of a sufficiently specific and
convincing nature that will reach enough of todays scientists, academics, and media. Like it or
not, they are by default the leadership that maintains through too-limited paradigms our highly
constrained consensus reality at present. I believe that they can be reached, and as a result our
consensus reality can be changed, but not by books such as Bolducs.
If you like reading ad hoc first-person accounts about experiences similar to your own, or those
that reflect your interests, then this book should be good reading for you. However, if you want a
careful, in-depth critical study of the nature of either past-life regression work or channeling that
moves our shared understanding of either of them any further than what we already know from
existing sources, then you will probably be disappointed, Still, the how-to-do-it material,
especially as embodied in the appendix, will be especially useful to fellow practitioners. It
includes a detailed transcript of an entire present and past-life regression session for your
personal use, a set of Channeling Guidelines, a list of Periodicals and Books on Hypnotic
Regression, and a 14-step chronological guide to the regression process.
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THE CHILDREN THAT TIME FORGOT BY PETER AND MARY HARRISON
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/THE CHILDREN THAT TIME FORGOT BY PETER AND MARY HARRISON
Reviewed by Carol Bowman, B.A.
(as included in the The Journal of Regression Therapy Volume V, No. 1, Fall 1991)
The Children That Time Forgot is one of the few collections of

documented incidents of spontaneous past-life recall in children. Peter and Mary Harrison, of
England, collected 29 cases of spontaneous past-life recall derived from interviews with the
parents of British children. This book can be compared to the work of Dr. Ian Stevenson, who
has done extensive research and writes about past-life memories in children. The Harrisons
book is significant because the cases are exclusively from a Judeo-Christian culture where
reincarnation is a less well accepted idea; Dr. Stevenson finds most of his cases in Eastern
cultures where the concept of reincarnation is more prevalent.
At the time of their childrens recall, none of the parents interviewed by the Harrisons believed
in reincarnation. In almost all cases, the parents were bewildered or amused when their barely
verbal children began relating stories of their past lives, and dismissed their attempts at
communication as babbling and fantasy. Yet, in every case, the children persisted in telling their
stories and adhered to the same details. Their persistence and conviction caused their skeptical
parents to listen.
Several of the young children claimed to be deceased relatives. They shocked their parents with
details about these former lives, details that they could not possibly have learned in their present
lives. They knew exact locations of streets and buildings that no longer existed, gave accounts of
conversations and events from their former lifetimes that were later confirmed by surviving
relatives, and exhibited mannerisms and behavior that matched those of the deceased relative.
The evidence convinced the surviving relatives that these children could only be the
reincarnation of the deceased relatives.
Most of the book is devoted to descriptive accounts of the childrens experiences. One boy,
named Carl, began making accurate drawings of German army badges when he was first learning
to draw. He told his parents about his life as a German pilot in World War II and his death when
his airplane crashed into a building. More details emerged as he became more verbal, and by the
age of five he had drawn the control panel of the cockpit of his plane in correct detail. Carl is
described by his parents as being a perfectionist to an unusual extent for a child of his age. He is
precise in his manner and is particular about his appearance. His amused parents believe that
these traits were carried over from his life as a disciplined German soldier.
One of the most interesting accounts is that of a young girl, Nicola, who remembers being a
small boy killed while playing on railway tracks. Nicola remembered family names and the
location of her former life. Her parents took her to the site and validated the names and locations
from historical records. A little later, Nicola was watching a television movie and saw a train
thundering down the tracks. She became hysterical, gasped for air and threw her arms wildly in
the air. Her parents were not able to console her, and the hysteria stopped only after they turned
off the television. The parents were convinced that the television images caused Nicola to re-live
the event and re-experience the emotions. After this catharsis, the child was left with only
pleasant memories of a pet dog in that former life.
Another case, that of two-year-old Dominic, demonstrates how reincarnational memory can be
expressed through the physical body, emotions, and behavior. Dominic was born with a mark on
his thigh that resembled a stab scar. He was also terrified of water and had such a dread of
bathing that his mother resorted to sponge baths. When he was two years old, he pointed to the
birthmark and told his astonished parents that when he was a sailor he had been stabbed at that
point on his leg and had fallen into the water and drowned. Unfortunately, the Harrisons give no
follow-up to that story, which left this reviewer wondering if Dominics fear of water diminished
after he was able to tell his story.
These fascinating accounts in The Children That Time Forgot conform to what past-life
therapists have found to be true of reincarnational patterns and the states between lives. Several
children explained to their parents what it is like to be between lives and described the process of
selecting parents and situations in which to be incarnated. The children describe the place
between lives as paradisiacal, a place of all-encompassing love and higher learning. They
experienced their sojourn there as children who were tended by adult guardians and radiant
beings, and believed that they would return to this place after their earthly life.
Common elements in these stories also support Dr. Stevensons findings, as in the case of
Dominic, above, who had a birthmark on his leg in the same spot where he was injured in a past
life. Most spontaneous recall occurs when a child is one to three years of age. By the time
children reach school age, at about five to eight, the memories fade. As one two-year-old in the
book put it, Of course you remembered [your past lives] when you were a baby, but youve
forgotten it all now youre old.
In this book, as well as Dr. Stevensons works, the children were able to identify locations and
the names of their former personalities. The Harrisons and the parents of the children were able
to substantiate the childrens claims by checking documents and actually taking the children to
the sites they remembered. In some cases, the children found their way around streets and towns
they had never been to before. In some instances, the childrens memories were triggered when
the child saw a familiar landmark. Some of the children reincarnated in the vicinity of their
previous life.
The Harrisons tell these stories as if you were joining them for afternoon tea in their parlor. The
conversational style, sprinkled generously with English idioms, makes enjoyable reading. As
with parlor chat, however, they get carried away and digress into superfluous, irrelevant
discussions of British history. This style may make the information more accessible to the
general British public, but the reviewer wonders if it may have the effect of somewhat
undermining the credibility of the material for more serious readers.
The book has other weaknesses, too. The authors present confusing and contradictory arguments
on the value of hypnotherapy in accessing past-life material. Their opinion is that the results of
hypnosis are unreliable and may be contrived by the subject. Yet they go on to quote doctors and
other professionals who have had success using these very techniques therapeutically. They also
digress to discuss the implications of reincarnation on the subject of abortion. The book would
have been stronger if they had left these sections out.
The real strength of the book is in the accounts themselves the childrens words and the
reactions of their parents. The Harrisons present a convincing case that young children do
remember their previous lives and that we should listen carefully to them. Children, they explain,
offer us a wonderful opportunity to examine reincarnational memory because they have little
experience and exposure to information that could adulterate the memories.
As parents and past-life therapists, if we understand that young children do access these
memories, we can look to them for insight into the workings of reincarnational imprinting and its
effect on behavioral, emotional, and physical patterns. If childrens memories are met with
acceptance and understanding, rather than disbelief and denial, how much more can they teach
us?
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REINCARNATION BY IAN STEVENSON, M.D.
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/CHILDREN WHO REMEMBER PREVIOUS LIVES: A QUESTION OF REINCARNATION BY IAN STEVENSON, M.D.
Review by Jon Klimo, Ph.D.
Readers of The Journal of Regression Therapy should consider Dr.

Ian Stevensons book, Children Who Remember Previous Lives, from two perspectives. First, the
book is a thoroughly professional, even-handed treatment of its subject, and the information it
contains will be helpful to anyone seeking personal and professional support in the way of
careful research evidence on behalf of reincarnation in general and on behalf of the reality of the
previous lives of certain currently living people in particular. Second, and problematic
for Journal readers, the book takes a decidedly negative tone with regard to the use of hypnosis
in order to bring to light authentic past-life memories. I will briefly deal with each of these two
perspectives in turn.
We are slowly building a body of conceptual coherence and empirical evidence on behalf of an
ever more widespread acceptance of reincarnation and the fact that at least some currently living
people are able to retrieve memories of their own previous lifetimes. Dr. Stevensons newest
book is a rich and welcomed addition to this body of work, with its strong emphases on rigorous
research methodology, precision of thought, and careful use of terminology.
The research represented in this book provides evidence that appears to make a convincing case
for a traceable continuity between what Dr. Stevenson calls a previous personality and the
personality of a currently living individual. I use the phrase previous Personality, he writes, to
designate some aspects of the deceased person of whom the child having memories of a previous
life is presumed to be the reincarnation. He then goes on to state The cases I have investigated
suggest that something of the person may have persisted after his death and later become
associated with a new physical body.
The book is full of fine examples of how Stevenson tries to bring analytical clarity and depth to
his treatment of reincarnation. For example, he doesnt just deal with past-life memories in
general, but makes the further distinction among what he calls imaged memories, behavioral
memories, and subliminal cognitive memories. Imaged memories are like the visual
representations of ordinary memories that we all have of earlier events in this life; behavioral
memory refers to habits and other types of more or less automatic behavior of a whole person,
such as a phobia; while subliminal cognitive memories are information a person has but cannot
remember learning. He distinguishes between what he terms primary and secondary beliefs in
reincarnation. Primary ones focus on whether the personality (or soul or mind) of a person may,
after the persons death, become associated with a new physical body. Secondary beliefs deal
with different aspects of reincarnation and karma. For example, in some cultures there is belief in
reincarnation but not in karma, while in other cultures there may be a value-laden attitude toward
current-life behavior without any karmic carry-over from past lives.
Dr. Stevenson provides detailed descriptions of the nine types of evidence he finds for a past-to-
current-life connection. Betraying a conservative streak (to which I will return shortly),
Stevenson describes the first type, past-life readings, which provide as good an example as we
can find of beliefs sustained in the absence of evidence. Without their almost invariable
commercial exploitation, he continues, past-life readings would evoke more laughter than
sadness. The other types of evidence include hypnotic regression (to which I shall also return
shortly), deja vu, dreams and nightmares, illnesses and drugs, meditation, strong emotion, and
miscellaneous waking experiences.
He then proceeds to describe twelve types of cases of children who remember previous lives,
together with the characteristics indicative of these types. In most of these cases, he received his
information from parents, family members, and neighbors, since he finds children tend to forget
their past-life experiences as they grow older. He devotes a chapter to the various methods of
research: interviews with multiple first-hand informants, recording and evaluation techniques,
repeated interviews with the same informant, independent verification, and location of pertinent
documents. His cases are drawn from Turkey, Italy, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, Burma, Lebanon,
England, Germany, Brazil, Greece, Syria, and the U.S.
He considers both normal and paranormal ways to account for his research data. Among the
normal, he includes fraud, gross self-deception, unobserved transmission of information,
paramnesia (distortions and inaccuracies in the informants memories), and cryptomnesia
(extraordinary peripheral and subliminal information perception that is then stored in memory).
Possible paranormal explanations include ESP (primarily telepathy), possession, and when all
other interpretations, both normal and paranormal, have failed reincarnation itself, as
traditionally defined.
Dr. Stevenson presents himself as a dualist, claiming that what we know of brains cannot
explain consciousness, and that minds are not brains but users of brains. He also allows
himself occasional unbridled flights of more-open speculation, which I especially appreciated.
For example: The phenomena of telepathy arenot an alternative to survival of death, but a
virtual guarantee of it. While concluding from his research that reincarnation is a universal
phenomenon, he is left with the question: What is it that reincarnates? The whole personality?
Only part of it? And why reincarnation? Lesson-learning? Soul growth? Karma? Not according
to Stevenson: In the cases I have investigated, I have found no evidence of the effects of moral
conduct in one life on the external circumstances of another. And he chooses to end this book
with an acknowledgement of our ignorance.
I have been dealing thus far with Stevensons book from the perspective of what it may
contribute to the growing body of evidence we have for reincarnation and for continuity between
past and present lives. I would now like to conclude with my second perspective on this book:
that of its special bearing on those of us who use hypnosis to recover past-life memories and who
use hypnotherapy to help our subjects or clients work with such material. While Stevenson may
write that Although I am skeptical about the results of most experiments with hypnotic
regression to ostensible previous lives, I do not reject them as worthless, he nevertheless
presents an overall impression that he believes that hypnotic regression does not provide much or
any evidence of previous lives, and he appears to convey a strongly negative view toward the use
of hypnosis either for gathering research evidence or for conducting therapy where past-life
material is being accepted as such without proof. He writes:
I wish also in this book to discourage a deliberate searching for memories of previous lives
whether through the use of drugs, meditation, or hypnosis. Unfortunately, some hypnotists have
stated that anyone can recover memories of previous lives by means of hypnosis, and great
therapeutic benefits from this are claimed or hinted at. I shall try to quench misguided and
sometimes shamefully exploited enthusiasm for hypnosis, especially when it is proposed as a
sure means of eliciting memories of previous lives.
I have conducted or initiated thirteen such experiments; in some I was the hypnotist myself, in
others I arranged for another hypnotist to conduct the experiment. Not a single one of the
experiments succeeded.
Promoters of hypnosis as a means of recovering memories of previous lives frequently cite

improvements in the patients following the hypnotic sessionsHowever, this exemplifies a
common fallacy of psychotherapists: The unwarranted belief that a patients improvement
vindicates the theory favored and the technique used.
For those of us who have personally used hypnotic regression and hypnotherapy in retrieving and
working with such past-life memories, and have done so in ways that have convinced us both of
the truth of the continuity between past and present lifetimes and of the tremendous healing
value such approaches offer, Ian Stevensons book will present a conflict. On the one hand, he is
our colleague and ally by providing careful and convincing research evidence for past-lives and
reincarnation, while, on the other hand, he is our critic and loyal opposition, if not our enemy,
with regard to the use of hypnosis in past-life research and therapy. I would hope that Dr.
Stevensons admittedly dualist thinking may eventually accommodate new kinds of knowledge
and understandings based on an emerging more-mental-type of science and technology, such as
hypnosis and other state-specific and altered-state consciousness research. Such is inevitably
accompanying our species gradual evolution into an ever more non-physically based (dare I say
psychospiritually monist?) experiential milieu.
ISBN-13: 978-0786409136
Editors Note: For those readers who might not be familiar with the writings of Ian Stevenson, it
is important to note that Stevenson has published numerous books and papers over the past 30
years detailing his extensive research into reincarnation and similar topics including xenoglossy,
the apparent ability of someone to speak a foreign language which was previously unknown. Dr.
Klimo refers to Stevenson as our critic and loyal opposition, if not our enemy which may
be considered by some readers as a diplomatic understatement. While Stevenson is hardly a
vigorous supporter of the use of hypnosis in PLT and research, he is an important researcher
and we should be aware of his contributions. We feel that this review of Stevensons latest work
is thoughtful and its inclusion in this publication well overdue.
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HOME/BOOK REVIEW/EXPLORING REINCARNATION BY HANS TEN DAM (PENGUIN GROUP, LONDON, 1990)
Reviewed by Rabia L. Clark, M.A.
Hans Ten Dam has written an exhaustive study about

reincarnation, its history in various religions, Theosophical and Anthroposophical views, and
karmic laws. There is quite a bit about both spontaneous and therapeutic recall of past lives, pre-
birth memories and after death experiences. The last part of the book describes counseling
techniques for past-life regressions, and effects and techniques of past-life therapy.
The author is honest about his biases, and he has a lot of them. He has read widely in the
reincarnation literature, and attempts to present a broad scope of that material. There is a
glossary of terms, an excellent and lengthy bibliography of books both in English and other
languages on reincarnation (though arranged strangely, as if some parts were an afterthought),
and a good index.
The book has been translated into English from the original Dutch, and I found no problems with
that, unlike Ten Dams earlier book, Regression and Past-Life Therapy Without Hypnosis (self-
published, 1989). The first book was very difficult to understand because of translation
problems, and needs a revision of its glossary and index. That book did detail many unique and
interesting techniques for past-life therapy, and includes a number of past-life therapy sessions
verbatim, to illustrate techniques. (I believe it costs $30, from Hans Ten Dam, Ten Dam
International B.V., Fransen van de Puttelaan 36, 3703 EH Zeist, Holland.)
If I were asked which book would be more informative about past-life therapy techniques, Id
pick Regression and Past-Life Therapy, instead of the Exploring Reincarnation book. The new
book is more useful for the lay person who is interested in a comparative and thorough study of
worldwide reincarnation beliefs. It is also difficult and tedious to read, with too much detail and
too many opinions.
Ten Dam has extensive experience teaching and presenting past-life therapy in both Holland and
Brazil. He is a management consultant and writer, and trains psychotherapists to do past-life
therapy. Some of Ten Dams students have founded the Foundation Reincarnation Therapy
Netherlands, which gives a two-year training program in past-life therapy.
Some of the techniques he describes in the Regression and Past-Life Therapy book are unique
and deserve further exposure. (That book is one of the first on a wide range of past-life therapy
techniques.) A few of these techniques are discussed in Exploring Reincarnation, such as: the
Cristos experiment, techniques for triggering off past lives, working with phobias, progressive
relaxation methods, problems in working with spirit guides, anchoring, and elaboration
techniques. Although the past-life therapy part of the book is not extensive, it is well done.
Ten Dam does use a lot of unfamiliar terms (traumas, hangovers, pseudo-obsessions, postulates,
for example) in both books, which seems to be a useful attempt to categorize inner states. A
hangover, he says, is a repercussion of emotions from a past life upon the present one. Once
these emotions are relived, the subtle message (Everything is dangerous, Im not safe) which
has been haunting the present is released (p.343 ff.) These terms make reading difficult, but so
does the vocabulary of other psychological schools.
Neither of these books is a coffee table display book. They are for serious study by people
willing to find new approaches for their work in past-life therapy, or to extend their
understanding about reincarnation. The techniques would undoubtedly be best learned by
experience, with the books as reinforcement. It is hoped that Ten Dam will continue to provide
APRT conference attendees with training seminars. Week-long training sessions with him would
be a valuable addition to our work.
NOTE: A new revised and enlarged edition was published in 2013. You can look at it here.
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LIFE THERAPIST BY GARRETT OPPENHEIM, PH.D.
HOME/BOOK REVIEW/WHO WERE YOU BEFORE YOU WERE YOU? THE CASEBOOK OF A PAST-LIFE THERAPIST BY GARRETT
OPPENHEIM, PH.D.
Reviewed by Evelyn Fuqua, Ph.D. M.F.C.C. and Hypnotherapist
(as included in the The Journal of Regression Therapy Volume IV, No. 2, Fall 1990)
Dr. Oppenheims book is short (162 pages), is written in an

informal style and is easy readingall of which, hopefully, will make it appeal to the general
public. Its humorous title, Who Were You Before You Were You?, should attract not only those
who are seriously curious about past-life therapy, but perhaps even the total skeptics, who may
pick it up initially simply because it promises to be entertaining. It will give them much food for
thought.
The book covers all of the important basic concepts of PLT. It also gives many of the authors
personal insights as a result of his own PLT experiences. Oppenheim is never dogmatic in his
comments although he clearly states his own belief system.
The authors first professional experience with PLT was the result of his leaving out the words
in your life when asking a client to go back to the first time he had feelings of depression and
defeat. Oppenheim listened in astonishment as his client began describing a battlefield with
legions of men in armor fighting against each other He soon learned that his client was a
Carthaginian commander under Hannibal. This commander had won many battles but was
haunted by the depressing realization that the Romans were winning the war and there was really
nothing he could do about it.
That one session proved to be more effective than all his previous sessions together in relieving
the clients depression. As always, the author states that he did not know whether the experience
was authentic or his clients symbolic fantasy, but it was certainly a very helpful therapeutic tool.
Oppenheim discusses case histories of a number of his clients whose symptoms improved
remarkably through PLT. But he also devotes one whole chapter to one of my failureswhich
therapists will appreciate, since we all have a certain number of these intractable cases. In one
life this man was a wealthy Oriental merchant surrounded by women. He indulged heavily in
numerous kinds of sexual activities. In another life he drank excessively. This was followed by
yet another lifetime in which both drinking and sexual activities were indulged to extremes.
Finally, there was a drastic change when he became a revered priest of a church in Mexico. In
this incarnation he was sorely tempted by fantasies of concubines, but he enjoyed his power as a
priest too much to indulge these fantasies. Instead of viewing that life as the beginning of the
upward path, however, he told Oppenheim, I was trapped in respectability.
He eventually terminated therapy, and later Oppenheim learned that he was still smoking,
overeating, gambling, and drinkinga repeat pattern of his past lives. No amount of therapy of
any kind seems likely to help this man.
The chapter titled Why Do They Want to Change Their Sex? is especially interesting, since
little has previously been written about transsexuals. Evaluating and treating people who want to
undergo a sex change is one of Dr. Oppenheims specialties. In addition to taking a thorough
case history and asking many questions, he usually regresses sex-change candidates to early
childhood, to infancy, and into the mothers womb. He then suggests going back to a past
lifetime. As an example, he discusses Steve, a 32-year-old, scholarly teacher who had been
married to a charming woman for nearly 10 years when he came to Dr. Oppenheim. Steve went
back to a series of past lives, in three of which he was a female who suffered violence at the
hands of males.
Perhaps the most interesting parts of the book are about the authors own past-life experiences.
The chapter A Karmic Case of Polio describes his own insights through PLT. Oppenheim had
polio when he was 14 months old. It affected both legs and his lower spine. At first he had to use
two leg braces and a pair of crutches to get around. In describing his early life experiences he
states that he never wanted to be identified as being in a group distinguished by limps and
hobbles. He asked a friend, Tully, who is a hypnotherapist, to regress him to a life that was
relevant to his polio.
He went back to ancient Greece, where he seemed to be a man of means, occupying an official
position of importance. He had an attractive wife and a charming little girl, whom he loved
dearly. When his daughter, Daphne, was about 7 years old, she became friendly with a boy who
lived next door. The boy, Neleus, walked with a severe limp because one of his legs had been
shrunk by disease. The father was not disturbed by the relationship until Daphne announced, at
age 17, that Neleus had proposed to her and that she had accepted his proposal.
Her fathers reaction was one of shock and outrage. He told his daughter that under no
circumstances was a child of his going to be married to a cripple! At her protests that Neleus was
a wonderful man, he stated, No cripple can be a wonderful man. They are all alikecowardly,
dependent, sponging on others, useless appendages on the body of society.
That night Daphne stabbed herself to death. Her father spent the rest of that lifetime trying to
convince himself that he was blameless in the tragedy, but the feelings of guilt and grief stayed
with him until the end of his days. Oppenheim goes on to discuss the deep insights he gained as a
result of that regression.
It was disappointing that there was not more follow-up on the case of Chris, who was poisoned
in his most immediate past life by uranium ore. After guiding Chris back to that lifetime, in an
effort to relieve his persistent headaches, Dr. Oppenheim took his client through hypnosis to the
present-day living room of the man who had poisoned him in his past life. There was an
envelope on the table addressed to the man. Although the address was blurred, Chris was able to
make out Lenox, Massachusetts, on the envelope. The mans name (which we assumed Chris
also remembered) is in the Lennox telephone book. Chris planned to see him and then changed
his mind. The headaches dissipated, which was the prime objective, but this would have been
fascinating from a research point of view.
Dr. Oppenheim offers some interesting PLT techniques. In a number of cases he saw clients who
came from faraway places to see him for several hours a day on several consecutive days.
Although this would require a bit of advance scheduling, it would seem to be an effective
approach.
Oppenheim uses guided imagery techniques in hypnosis, such as a walk through the Enchanted
Forest, progressing finally to a carnival with a Hall of Mirrors where the client is asked to see
herself as she was in a past life. He also uses the great Tree, the oldest living thing on earth. He
asks the patient to communicate silently with the Tree, and then to touch the trunk of the Tree
with her fingertips. She instantly finds herself leaving the ground, and presently coming down
somewhere else on earth in an earlier time period. Readers who are therapists will find the details
of these techniques useful.
The authors use of the term patients rather than clients bothered me. I found myself
repeatedly substituting the word clients when I read patients, since the author is a
psychotherapist rather than a physician. But when I looked up both words in my dictionary. I
discovered that patient actually seems to fit better than client if one is a doctor (not
necessarily an M.D.). Thus, Oppenheims use of patient is correct, since he does have a
doctorate. Therapists without doctoral degrees, it would seem, have no term to accurately
describe those who seek their help.
In any event, the terminology is unimportant, since Dr. Oppenheim dedicates his book to all
those wonderful patients who gave their past lives that others might understand. His sincerity
and caring are strongly evident throughout the book.
Reviewed by Evelyn Fuqua, Ph.D.
M.F.C.C. and Hypnotherapist
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Reviewed by Hazel M. Denning Executive Director Emeritus of APRT
(as included in the The Journal of Regression Therapy Volume IV, No. 2, Fall 1990)
Dr. Edith Fiores latest book, Encounters, is a superb report on a

highly controversial subject. Coming from a background of traditional psychotherapy, she
discovered past-life therapy only a few years ago and wrote You Have Been Here Before, an
excellent volume delineating the value of PLT as a therapeutic tool. Next, confronted by
evidence of psychic attack in many of her clients, she wrote The Unquiet Dead, a fascinating and
altogether plausible account of this universal phenomenon.
One might almost believe that Destiny had a hand on this courageous ladys shoulder, knowing
that she would share these discoveries regardless of how unorthodox or debatable they might be.
When Dr. Fiore discovered that some of her clients were apparently having encounters with
extraterrestrial beings, she again accepted the challenge, first investigating and then reporting her
findings.
Encounters is a verbatim account, in dialogue, of 14 of the cases the author worked with in her
office. Her selection is varied enough to give the reader a broad overview of the characteristics
and purposes of the extraterrestrials. Her cases also represent a good cross section of the client
population, with a balance of men and women, and for the most part, individuals with quite
diversified emotional problems resulting from their encounters.
Dr. Fiore introduces the service-oriented aspect of the ETs, providing examples of clients with
serious physical problems that were healed by the abductorswith complete success in some
cases and improved health in others. There are also indications that ETs are interested in the role
sex plays among humans, and strong evidence that they are experimenting with crossbreeding.
Two common patterns emerge from these case reports: All abductees were given instructions to
forget everything that had happened to them during the encounters, and all felt irresistibly drawn
up into some sort of light energy which they could neither describe nor explain, but which totally
controlled them.
One of the primary values of hypnosis is demonstrated here: Whatever has been put into the
mind apparently remains thereand can be recalled under hypnosis. Dr. Fiore used hypnosis to
tap into the purported experiences of her clients.
Her probing questions elicited considerable information about the physical characteristics of
ETs, which seem to show considerable diversity. Some have four digits, rather than the usual
five on humans. Some have only holes for nostrils. Most of them have ears that are very small
and close to the head. The eyes vary in size and color; they are round or slanting and come to a
point on both sides. The face is egg-shaped, with the lower half very narrow.
Size varies considerably; a few are very tall, but most of them are rather small and some are very
small and petite. Both sexes were encountered by Dr. Fiores clients.
While a few of the encounters were physically painful, and the ETs involved might be termed
unfeeling, for the most part the captors were reassuring and considerate. They continually stated
that they would not harm their subjects and that everything would be all right. In most cases they
answered questions and explained what they were doing. However, communication was usually
telepathic; their lips seldom seemed to move in speech.
Dr. Fiore lists the 10 most common signs of abductions. If you have experienced one or more of
these symptoms, the chances are that you have buried memories of a close encounter with an ET:
(1) inability to account for a period of time; (2) persistent nightmares and/or dreams of UFOs or
ETs; (3) sleep disorders; (4) unusual body sensations on waking; (5) mysterious marks on your
body; (6) feelings of being monitored, watched and/or communicated with; (7) repeated
sightings of UFOs; (8) vague recollections of a close encounter; (9) unexplained healing of
ailments or afflictions, and (10) feelings of fear or anxiety about UFOs or ETs.
Apparently many people are suffering vague and unidentifiable fears and emotional disturbances
which traditional psychotherapy cannot alleviate. Dr. Fiore has opened a door through which we
may all pass to help many of our clients who cannot respond to orthodox therapy. Her pioneering
work is certainly a major step in expanding the psychological services available to a public
seeking help for emotional problems.
As one reads this book, the desire for information about the modus operandi of the abductors
grows stronger and persists to the end. But that is no fault of the authors; continually, with client
after client, she asked for just that information. It was not forthcoming, except in a vague sort of
way.
The ETs seem to have the mind power to manipulate energy, so that what seems miraculous to
us is common knowledge and practice for them. Manipulating time, for example. An earthling
might be missing from a bedroom for a few minutes, yet have an experience that would consume
a number of hours of earth time. Is the physical body teleported to another space and place, or is
it just the astral form that is transported? This is discussed and in some cases specified, but the
reader would like to have more clarification.
At the end of the book Dr. Fiore lists 50 questions for anyone who believes he or she may have
had an encounter with ETs. These can be answered without help from anyone and can relieve
vague fears or uncertainties.
The appendix lists organizations to which one can write for more information on conferences,
channeling space people, available literature, and journals. There is also a list of hypnotherapists
who work with abductees or contactees. A two-page bibliography completes this comprehensive
and truly fascinating book.
Dr. Fiore points out that before lasers came into use on earth, the space people were using them
for healing on abductees. Wouldnt it be interesting, she speculates, if many of our modern
developments in medicine, technology, and space exploration prove to be the result of direct help
from the space people through our top scientists?
I am sure many readers will concur with her closing statement: I feel that the discovery of visits
to our planet Earth by beings from other worlds and their interactions with humans is the most
exciting and significant happening of the 20th century.
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CHANNELING BY JON KLIMO, PH.D.

HOME/BOOK REVIEW/CHANNELING BY JON KLIMO, PH.D.
Reviewed by Chet B. Snow, Ph.D.
(as included in the The Journal of Regression Therapy Volume IV, No. 1, Spring 1989)
Dr. Jon Klimos book Channeling tells us what weve always

wanted to know about channeling but didnt know where to go to find out! It is a welcome, well-
researched look at this popular psychic phenomenon. An educational and counseling
psychologist, Klimo presents a wealth of material in an organized and reasoned manner, thereby
making his book especially valuable for teachers, therapists, and other professionals who may
remain skeptical about the validity of information coming from self-styled psychic channels.
At the same time, his easy-to-read style and frequent use of interviews and excerpts from
channeled sources makes Channeling accessible to anyone interested in knowing more about
this fascinating subject.
Dr. Klimo begins with a very broad-based definition of his subject:
Channeling is the communication of information to or through a physically embodied human being from a
source that is said to exist on some other level or dimension of reality than the physical as we know it, and that
is not from the normal mind (or self) of the channel. (p. 2)
Thus defined, it is clear that Klimo considers channeling to be a human ability that has appeared
throughout history from the utterances of the Oracle at Delphi and the Biblical prophets to the
latest predictions of todays psychic superstars like Ramtha or Lazaris. Concentrating at first
on the personalities of the channels themselves, Klimo intrigues us with thumbnail sketches of
historys best-known psychics, prophets, and seers. His outstanding footnotes and well-culled
bibliography make the book an extraordinary research tool. Even though at times one wishes for
more details about the contexts in which some of these famous channels have operated, the scope
of this subject is such that no single book could hope to include everything. It is a tribute to his
editorial skill that Klimo leaves us hungry to know more about these unusual people. His chapter
on Who Does it? where he presents a psychological portrait of the kind of individual who
seeks to channel is especially noteworthy.
In the second section of Channeling, Dr. Klimo delves into the reams of channeled material that
are currently available either in print or on cassettes. Although he carefully avoids judging
specific channeled sources, he offers succinct guidelines by which one can interpret these
messages and their significance. He also provides the most-complete listing of the various types
of channeling techniques, sources, and uses I have ever seen. I was fascinated to read his
catalogue of channeled sources (i.e., the kinds of entities purporting to speak through human
mediums) and discover that everyone from God and Jesus Christ to extraterrestrials, group souls,
and the elementals from plants and minerals have thus voiced their opinion at one time or
another. Methods of channeling described include full-trance sleep and dream channeling,
waking-trance, intuition or inspiration, and physical channeling (table tipping etc.).
After thoroughly describing the many kinds of channeled material available, Dr. Klimo
investigates potential explanations for channeling. He focuses first on what psychologists have
said and then summarizes recent discoveries in physics and biology. These, he feels, tend to
support a holistic view of our universe and how the human brain/mind functions. His section on
psychological explanations is a useful summary of both traditional interpretations such as
compensation or delusion to more recent transpersonal views that concentrate on evaluating
the experience by the value of the information received, both to the channel and to his or her
audience. I noted that on page 224 be even mentions APRT when discussing Hypnotic Age
Regression and Reincarnation.
Dr. Klimo also touches on the LSD research of Stan Grof, Karl Pribrams theory of the
holographic brain, and biologist Rupert Sheldrakes revolutionary concept of morphogenetic
fields. He ends this section with a personal metaphor defining our individual selves as
interdependent parts of an overall single Universal Mind or Being. Channeling then becomes
the growing awareness of any part of the one Being that it can access any of the rest of itself
(p. 296). It is thus part of a spectrum of abilities we all may possess (p. 320).
Having concluded that everyone possesses at least rudimentary channeling capabilities, Klimo
ends his 343-page study with a chapter, appropriately entitled Your Turn. In it he invites
readers to explore their own channeling potential further. Within his rather broad definition, he
makes it clear that opening to channel does not necessarily mean falling into full trance or
becoming another public figure like Mafu or Lazaris. It may simply mean getting in touch
with ones own inner wisdom, listening more to that still, small voice that everyone has
experienced at one time or another. He also presents a few of the standard warnings about
insuring proper personal preparation before attempting contact with other levels of reality. In one
of the few criticisms I have of this book, I do think this section could have been somewhat more
thorough, drawing, for example, on Hugh Lynn Cayces book Venture Inward, which gives
explicit advice about how and when to use meditation, hypnosis, automatic writing, Ouija, and
mediumship or channeling. Having a clear spiritual purpose and guidance is essential to avoiding
psychological pitfalls.
Dr. Klimo ends by stating that the ultimate benefit of channeling is self empowerment. Far from
representing an abdication of self-responsibility, as some critics assert, if properly used it can
open one to more self-awareness, both as a spiritual being and as part of a greater, living Whole.
Looked at in this light, Channeling follows in the same tradition as the man from Galilee who
told his followers to Seek first the kingdom of Heaven within, and everything else will be
added. Still, when applying this advice, we must not forget the additional injunction to use such
powers wisely, remembering that the true fruits of the Spirit are unconditional love, patience,
and humility.
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Reviewed by Edward N. Reynolds, Ph.D.
The late philosopher and mythologist Joseph Campbell (1904-87)
drew public attention to the concept of the heros journey through his scholarly writings and
his widely praised public television interviews with journalist Bill Moyers (published as The
Power of Myth, Doubleday, 1988).
As described by Campbell, the heros journey is the drama of any individual male or female,
who leaves the security of familiar people and surroundings for trials and adventures in some
unknown realm. With the insights gained from these experiences, the hero returns to his
normal life as someone transformed, deepened, and enriched. He is now able to add a new level
of understanding to the lives of all who come into contact with him.
By Campbells definition, Dr. Brian L. Weiss Many Lives, Many Masters (Simon & Schuster,
1988) describes a heros journey of transformation pursued by a respected and accomplished
psychiatrist. Much of its popular appeal comes from this quality with which even skeptical
readers find it easy to identify.
When Dr. Weiss met Catherine, the patient with whom he shared his journey, he was a Phi Beta
Kappa graduate of Columbia University and had received an M.D. from Yale Medical School. In
addition he was an associate professor of psychiatry at the Miami (Florida) University School of
Medicine and chief of psychiatry at a large university-affiliated hospital. Adding further to his
stature was the fact that he had already published 37 scientific papers and book chapters in his
field and was widely sought as a speaker at professional meetings. At that time he was a
successful, rather conservative physician and scientist hardly anticipating that this new patient
would lead him on a journey of self-discovery and transformation. As he comments near the
beginning of the book.
At the time of my first session with Catherine I had no idea that my life was about to turn upside
down, that the frightened, confused woman across the desk from me would be the catalyst, and
that I would never be the same again. (p. 20)
At the time of that first interview, Catherine was a twenty-seven year old unmarried laboratory
technician at the hospital. Her complaints were not much different from those of thousands of
other young women who seek therapy. Her life was burdened with fears, including fear of dying,
fear of the dark, fear of water, and fear of airplanes. She was also plagued by insomnia, and often
suffered from nightmares when she was able to sleep. Perhaps most upsetting of all, she was
involved in a highly painful, dead-end relationship with a married man.
For 18 months, Dr. Weiss treated her with traditional psychodynamic psychotherapy. They
explored her painful early life as the child of an alcoholic father and depressed mother.
Eventually she was able to recall the horror of child sexual abuse, which she had suffered at the
hands of her father when she was three years old. However, despite care, skill, and hard work,
the conventional psychodynamic approach did not relieve her symptoms. Even reliving her
childhood sexual trauma had no apparent effect.
At this point Dr. Weiss, a skilled hypnotist, resolved to begin a course of hypnotherapy, hoping
that this might bring Catherine some relief. In their first hypnosis session, once satisfied she had
reached a deep level of trance, he instructed her to go back to the time from which your
symptoms arise. (p. 27) To his astonishment, she reported finding herself in a market place in
1863 B.C., probably in Greece. Her name, she said, was Aronda and apparently a flood or tidal
wave was destroying her village. Obviously distressed, she cried,
There are big waves knocking down trees. Theres no place to run. Its cold. I have to save my baby, but I
cannotjust have to hold her tight. I drown; the water chokes meMy baby is torn out of my arms. (p. 28)
This dramatic episode began an exploration of many different lifetimes in many different
cultures and social circumstances. In addition to the life as Aronda, Catherine described being
Luisa, a prostitute in 18th Century Spain, a black freed slave called Abby in Virginia, and a
British sailor named Christian, among others.
At one point she told her startled therapist that she had had a total of 86 past lives. Moreover,
within a week of her first regression, her longstanding phobias, such as fear of drowning, began
to disappear.
Dr. Weiss initial amazement and skepticism about this unforeseen development is
understandable and well described. He first considered the possibility that she might be psychotic
or, due to the child abuse, suffer from multiple personality disorder. As an experienced
psychiatrist he was very familiar with these mental illnesses. But Catherines profile simply
didnt fit known psychotic or multiple-personality models. Satisfied that she was neither faking
nor clinically disturbed, he went on to consider extra sensory perception (ESP) and Carl Jungs
concept of the collective unconscious as the source of her remarkable recall. These explanations
he also dismissed. What he could not ignore as an intellectually honest therapist was the fact that
all of her major psychological problems were progressively resolved following the past-life
sessions until she was eventually symptom-free.
Equally significant for Dr. Weiss was Catherines contact with master spirits who
communicated spiritual wisdom and advice when she entered a between lives state. Through
them, she was able to demonstrate a very high level of psychic ability, including knowledge of
Weiss intimate personal life, which she couldnt have gotten through normal means.
As he struggled to understand and accept his experiences with this most-unusual patient and her
master spirit guides, Brian Weiss undertook a heros journey in every sense of the word. It is
our good fortune that he had been willing to share it with us in this well-written and often
dramatic book, one without any hint of the dime-store novel quality so often displayed by
books of this kind.
Many Lives, Many Masters would be a stronger, more convincing study of survival after death
and reincarnation had some effort been made to verify the historical reality of Catherines past
lives, at least in those cases where documentation was possible, for example any lives lived in
the recent past. There is no evidence that this was ever explored or even contemplated. Further, it
should be noted that, while Dr. Weiss was impressed by the accuracy of Catherines knowledge
of ancient cultures, little real proof of this is provided to the reader.
I would also have liked a bit more theoretizing on the part of this brilliant and experienced
psychiatrist as to how the therapeutic process behind past-life regression really works. It appears
evident that recall and catharsis are the major curative factors, but the reader is never completely
sure of this. Dr. Weiss professional detachment sometimes seems to be somewhat
overshadowed by his enthusiasm for the transformation he is witnessing and experiencing.
Nonetheless, despite these minor flaws, the book is superb reading. The sincerity and simplicity
of its message is probably its greatest strength. Furthermore, the courage shown by Brian Weiss
in jeopardizing his professional reputation by writing such an unconventional work attests to the
depth of the transformation of this wise and just man. He deserves the rewards reserved for the
successful hero.
Toward the end of the book, he expresses it this way:
I still write scientific papers, lecture at professional meetings, and run the Department of Psychiatry. But now
I straddle two worlds: the phenomenal world of the five senses, represented by our bodies and physical needs;
and the greater world of the nonphysical planes, represented by our souls and spiritsMy job is to connect
two worlds (p. 208).
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Reviewed by Hazel Denning, Ph.D
In Mass Dreams of the Future, Dr. Chet Snow has
accomplished the nearly-impossible feat of making the incredible sound credible. If you are
concerned about the global problems facing mankind today: ecological conditions, political
unrest, a society riddled with crime while physical and mental illness cripple millions, you will
find this book challenging, fascinating reading, as well as philosophically satisfying. The gloom
and doom criers over the past few centuries, including some New Age psychics with their
perennial predictions of disaster are all compared and given due recognition. Nonetheless, this
350-page book, published by McGraw-Hill, goes beyond popular doomsayers to present positive
alternative views of what the Age of Aquarius may bring, even if it isnt portrayed as pie in the
sky or Heaven on earth.
This monumental work began with the research of Dr. Helen Wambach, whose books on past-
life research are well known. Having accumulated remarkable statistics on large numbers of
subjects regressed into the past, she became obsessed with the idea of projecting subjects into
future time periods to explore life on planet earth. This venture proved highly informative.
Subjects apparently had no trouble finding themselves in future centuries. Dr. Wambach,
however, had a problem with what they reported, for it hardly matched the popular picture of a
New Age of spiritual enlightenment. She suspended her research for many months as she
struggled with her own moral and ethical responsibility regarding the sharing of what she had
discovered. In a private conversation with this reviewer, Helen Wambach said she felt she had
been given this information for a purpose and that it must be shared. She reasoned that if she
were supposed to do this, the way would be opened for its dissemination.
Shortly after this, as the books Prologue explains, Chet Snow came to Dr. Wambach seeking
help for a personal problem. Mass Dreams first two chapters describe their work together and
how Dr. Snows vivid personal projections into the period around 1998 to 2000 A.D. supported
the reports of Helen Wambachs earlier subjects. He soon became so caught up in her future-life
research that sharing these findings for the benefit of mankind became a driving force for him as
well. Thus, when Dr. Wambach made her transition in 1985, he assumed the responsibility for
carrying on and completing the research she had so courageously begun.
In 1985 Chet Snow moved to France, thereby adding subjects from another culture to the
research. Even there he found his results matched the patterns which had first emerged in earlier
American groups. Another therapist, Dr. Leo Sprinkle of Laramie, Wyoming, had already been
collaborating with Dr. Wambach and had produced similar findings. These were also included in
the final analysis.
Chapter 2 describes the meticulous details of Helen Wambachs procedure. For example, she
discovered that the predictions of forecasters were not as reliable as those made by psychics.
This encouraged her to explore what her subjects might foresee under hypnosis, in the belief that
the unconscious mind has access to knowledge, including future events, unknown to the
conscious mind. The early revelation that only 5.5 percent of her subjects reported being alive in
physical bodies in 2100 A.D., and 11 percent in 2300 A.D., puzzled her because nearly 90
percent of her subjects were able to report on their past lives. She enlisted Dr. Sprinkle to run
identical but independent workshops to test these startling results. He confirmed them, reporting
just 6 percent alive in 2100 and 13 percent in 2300. Why were so few people on the planet in the
future?
Having so few subjects finding lifetimes in her two future time periods posed a serious problem
in the research. If these small percentages continued, Dr. Wambach and her associates would
have to hypnotize 10,000 people under identical conditions to come up with enough cases for a
valid comparison. Time and resources didnt permit this kind of operation but, between 1980 and
her transition in 1985, she held numerous workshops from California to Chicago and on the
Atlantic Coast. Combined with those run by Dr. Sprinkle and Dr. Snow, she collected data from
over 2,500 subjects, enough to provide several hundred reports on the two future time periods
under study. Everywhere the evidence was the same: a decline of up to 95 percent of the worlds
population within a couple of generations, followed by renewed growth thereafter.
Mass Dreams of the Future analyzes this data, taken from subjects who reported a life in either
the 2100-2200 A.D. or 2300-2500 A.D. time periods. The details of these reports are dealt with
in Chapters 5 to 8. Chapter 2 further gives the reader a glimpse of possible in-between
conditions, where a few individuals who were progressed just several decades ahead report
finding a bleak, barren land with few modern conveniences. For most the emphasis is on
physical survival.
Having described Dr. Wambachs research procedure and discussed how the reports of several of
her subjects progressed to the near-future basically coincided with his own personal visions, Dr.
Snow begins Chapter 3 with the following sentence: A burning desire to understand, predict,
and control the future has inspired the human race since historys dawn. This all-encompassing
statement launches a two-chapter encounter with age-old traditions of prophecy and their
consequences on the cultures of the past. Chapters 3, Hunting for the Future, an Age-Old
Tradition, and 4, Channeling the Future: Ageless Wisdom and Edgar Cayce, contain a wealth
of information for the historian as Dr. Snow weaves an intricate tapestry of mans efforts to
know and control his destiny.
Using the astrological concept of the Great Tropical Year as a model of historical Time cycles,
Dr. Snow argues that part of our current Apocalyptic thinking may spring from mans
subconscious memories of the Great Flood which sank Atlantis around 12,500 years ago. Is the
planet preparing for a repeat performance of that or some similar cataclysm as we pass from the
Age of Pisces into that of Aquarius? This look at the repeated failures of human culture that
resulted in the annihilations of ancient civilizations has a powerful impact on the reader for it
points only too clearly to the conditions of our own world today. Lord Actions statement that
those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it is a clear warning, which it is
hopefully not too late to heed.
In Chapters 5 through 8, Dr. Snow returns to the future-life research begun by Dr. Wambach. He
reports in detail the division of their several-hundred subjects into major social and
environmental groups both on earth and in space between 2100 and 2500 A.D. Several basic
future lifestyles are portrayed using information about food, clothing, occupations, and family
relationships gleaned from the progressed subjects. Environments pictured include life aboard
orbiting space stations, small New Age-style communities, ultra-modern artificial underground
cities, and small, isolated rural communities. Personal vignettes highlight the analysis. An
overview comparison indicates a fractured world culture in 2100 and in two to three centuries a
civilization that has grown spiritually and is living in harmony with its environment.
Dr. Snow courageously explores New Age concepts in Chapters 9 and 10, titled Is the Future
Already Past? and Spaceship Earth, respectively. Not only is this fascinating reading but also
his clear literary style is superbly exemplified in these and the books concluding chapter. In
these three chapters, Dr. Snow makes logical sense out of subjects many people consider too
abstract to understand or simply nonsense Readers who have a problem with the new physics and
the notion of a holographic universe or with the concept that all Time is a projection of a single
reality will find this book an invaluable addition to their library. As an added bonus for space age
buffs, an entire chapter deals with UFOs, Star People, Walk-ins, and out-of-body experiences.
The closing chapter, In His Presence, will be a spiritual experience for many readers. In it Dr.
Snow shares himself and his own awakened consciousness to the greater reality of lifes goals.
The purpose of the book is made clear in this concluding chapter. Man holds his destiny in his
own hands. Rarely before have the alternatives facing us been so clear as today. Whether we fall
into another catastrophic Apocalypse or are able to handle the challenge of a world-wide
awakening to our true nature as spiritual beings is truly up to each and every one of us now alive.
Crammed with facts and figures as well as entertaining tales, Mass Dreams of the Future is an
important book, one you will refer to again and again. In presenting the choices we face so
clearly and decisively, Chet Snow is another prophetic voice pointing the way to changing
history and creating a future world of harmony and peaceful co-existence.
ISBN-13: 978-1882530106
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SEPARATING ONE INCARNATION FROM THE NEXT BY JOEL L. WHITTON
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THE NEXT BY JOEL L. WHITTON AND JOE FISHER
Reviewed by Valerie A. Winn, R.N., M.F.C.C.
(as included in the The Journal of Regression Therapy Volume III, No. 1, Spring 1988)
This book is not more fascinating than its two authors and the history
of their relationship. Joel Whitton immersed himself in medical training at the University of
Toronto while at the same time experimenting with hypnosis. Eventually he ventured into the
investigation of past lives, approaching with the objective caution of a trained scientist.
Meanwhile, his professional expertise led to his appointment as Chief Psychiatrist in the Toronto
School System. It was to protect this position and the research funding for investigating an array
of his career interests, among them the study of brain waves in children with learning disabilities,
that led him to refuse Joe Fishers request in 1982 for material for his book The Case for
Reincarnation.
Several years later, to Joe Fishers surprise, Dr. Whitton proposed collaboration on a book on
interim experiences. Swallowing his feeling of rebuff from the earlier experience, Fisher
enthusiastically took up the writing of the book, which is based on in-depth reporting of Dr.
Whittons research and experiences with patients while they are regressed to the space between
lives. Both authors feel that the interlife is educational, therapeutically valuable, and a source of
enlightenment.
The interlife period, which follows death and precedes birth and is called the bardo in
the Tibetan Book of the Dead, describes the human entity in disembodied residence between
incarnations. The authors define the bardo as the particular altered state of consciousness that
characterizes the awareness from one life to the next, and they provide a rich historical and
precedental background for this concept. Dr. Whittons original research had been concerned
with past lives and this had led accidentally into his search regarding the nature and dimensions
of this bardo. In order to explore this area he began to ask the question, What happens to us
between earthly incarnations?
The first segment of the book is a description of the bardo, including the review period, where
the primary focus is on the acquisition of knowledge to prepare the soul for the next incarnation.
The authors state that the very nature of the bardo requires each discarnate experience to be
flanked by earthly sojourns. In this planning state those souls most committed to their
evolutionary progress often lay out plans for several future lifetimes. Dr. Whittons clients affirm
the existence of a Board of Judgment, usually three older beings whose function it is to initiate
discussions of critical episodes in the last life, to offer retrospective counseling, and to instill
reassurance that each experience promotes personal development.
The second segment of the book gives several case presentations, with the intent of relating the
scientific exploration of the interlife to its therapeutic application. The case presentations are
excellent examples of past-life therapy and include appropriate bardo experiences. These latter
are more condensed than the past-life experiences, in part because of the difficulty that subjects
normally experience in finding adequate vocabulary to describe them.
The final third of the book continues with the case presentations and brings in more information
about the clients exploration of the bardo, the relevancy of this information to current physical
and psychological blockages, and their correlation. The last two chapters provide a guide to self-
exploration of the interlife and the meaning of that interim period. There is a verbatim
visualization process for those who would like to explore an interlife or past life. A bibliography
is included.
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Reviewed by Julianne Blake, Ph.D.
Spectacular Brazilian spirit mediums and Amer-Indian shamansare
they the bizarre fringe of psychic phenomena or the leading edge of spiritual healing? Villoldo
and Krippner guide the reader through an exploration of some of the least understood and most
intriguing forms of healing in the world today. As participant-observers of shamanic journeys
and spirit-incorporation by mediums, through interviews, photographs, and accounts of their
personal experiences, they bring us as close as possible to a direct experience of what has for
many people been inconceivable. They implement this experiential data with their scientific
expertise in documenting and validating and explaining the phenomena. In conclusion, they offer
thought-provoking theoretical formulation, which begin to form a basis for integration of the
principle of shamanic healing into modern Western medicine, including psychology.
The authors exploration suggests that spiritual issues are an important missing factor in the
current healing approaches of Western medicine and psychology. The healing states described
here, which are used by mediums and shamanic healers and are taught by these practitioners to
their healees, are even recommended as necessary antidotes to blocked spiritual growth, which is
seen as a causative agent in the disease process.
The first section of the book is like a new-age adventurefantasy through the bizarre and
chaotic world of Brazilian spirit mediumship. First we are introduced to Luiz Gasparetto, a
psychologist who, through a trance state, reportedly incorporates the departed spirits of well-
known artists like Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec, Modigliani, and Picasso and produces works of art
in their styles, complete with signature, within a few minutes. To make the process more
improbable, Luiz paints in a dark room, often blindfolded, and sometimes uses only his feet. This
kind of event is a challenge even to an open and curious mind, and the authors are sensitive to
this issue throughout the book and take care to present the occurrences as they saw or
experienced them and provide photographs when possible. They offer thoughtful comments and
pose perceptive questions without trying to force conclusions.
Second, we are given ringside seats at the psychic surgery performed by a Brazilian obstetrician,
Dr. Edson de Quieroz, who is said to incorporate the spirit of Dr. Adolf Fritz, a German
physician who died during World War I. Dr. de Quieroz claims to be assisted by over a thousand
other spirit guides, all of whom had medical training during their earthly lives. The spirit guides,
he says, enable him to diagnose and prescribe treatment within minutes and to perform painless
surgery rapidly, without anesthesia or instruments. (The authors point out that research data and
carefully structured follow-up will increase credibility). Observation by the research team and
interviews with patients immediately following surgery confirmed that no pain was experienced
by these patients. Rather, they reported a feeling of upliftment from the experience.
This feeling of fulfillment and peacefulness forms a thread throughout the book, as it reappears
in the experiences which many mediums describe. Even mediums who intentionally incorporate
disquieting spirit-entities, who are purportedly possessing disturbed psychiatric patients, claim to
be uplifted by their work. They see it as a healing service they offer as they pursue their own
psychic-spiritual development. (The issue of the potential danger that might come from
incorporating these disturbing entities is not addressed). Their confidence, dedication,
conviction, and apparent success encourage interest in further exploration.
Reports of first-hand experiences of members of the authors research group, who themselves
participated in the trance-dance-induction mediumship experience, while brief, help the reader to
move into the experience. The objectivity and discerning wisdom of the authors serve to bring
the experiences close on one hand and yet allow the maintenance of skepticism on the other. It is
difficult not to use circus terminology in reviewing the menu of Brazilian psychic medicine
because it is a collection of incredible events. The brilliantly daring intention of the book is to
challenge the incredulity which such events arouse, which until now had no place in the rational
mind-frame of Western culture. The authors seek to present and elucidate the power of these
occurrences which are penetrating the cultural mind-wall and pushing seekers of true holism and
healing to peer off the edge of our limited world view into a temporarily lost dimension which
the collective psyche of the western world is now considering reclaiming. Different parts of the
Western psyche bring forward different reactions to these incredible occurrences which are
currently in the process of becoming credible through such accounts as are contained in this
book.
Another of the spectacular experiences reported in the book is fire walking. I have had the
opportunity both scientifically to research and personally to experience fire walking, and I have
seen how capable the mind is of maintaining multiple and dissonant points of view about such an
experience A sub-personality often persists in holding onto a certain skepticism despite an
individuals direct experience. Situations such as those related in this book offer Rorschach
reflection of the balance of each persons openness and skepticism. They also bring up a
questioning of the assumptions that psychic phenomena are necessarily spiritual.
Villoldos presentation of the shamanic journey experienced by his group in Peru holds appeal
because it is an honest account of an inner spiritual quest, not surrounded by ritual fanfare, and
without attachment to results. Here we see the seeker coming to do his own spiritual work, rather
than to be done onto by spirit doctors and mediums. The shaman speaks of becoming a
person of knowledge, developing the inner knowing of harmony with all of nature. The
mediumistic healers speak of developing psychic faculties as an important vehicle for releasing
physical and psychological diseases.
This book goes beyond the merely descriptive level to offer an illuminating comparison of
similarities, both in procedure and intention, of the allopathic and shamanic models of healing. It
elucidates the common intention of the two models that would not be apparent to the uninitiated
observer. With great sensitivity the authors address the similarity between shamanic altered
states and psychopathological conditions, emphasizing the conscious control and purposeful,
goal-directed use of the shamanic altered states for growth and healing.
The reader can be appreciative of such a rich and inspiring adventure and question-provoking
experience as the two authors share with us!
ISBN-13: 978-0671632021
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Reviewed by Clyde H. Reid, Th.D.
This is an important and powerful book. Even as Shirley MacLaines

explorations into reincarnation are appealing to many people because of who she is, so this
seminal book by Roger Woolger deserves attention because of what he isa brilliant, original
thinker, classically trained, psychologically grounded, and widely respected.
Dr. Woolger has shared his extensive experience with the power of past-life therapy through
fascinating case studies, by setting PLT in the context of modern psychology and religious
traditions, and by using his own analytic powers to organize creative ways of looking at the data
and its patterns.
Roger becomes the first Jungian analyst to come out of the closet and systematically analyze
PLT as an important tool for healing. (Erlo van Waveren wrote of PL experiences and dreams
personally and poetically in Pilgrimage to the Rebirth). Roger relates PLT to Jungian thought
and goes beyond, studying it in relation to Tibetan Buddhism and other systems as well.
Woolger is a thinker, yet his writing and reflections come out of personal experience and data
from live cases, not theoretical propositions. In this respect he reminds us of Jung, who theorized
from data rather than creating a theory and then finding data to support it. Roger tells us of his
own journey into past-life experiences and shares his honest skepticism as well. This adds candor
and depth to the book. His appendix, Did Jung Believe in Reincarnation? is fascinating and
balanced.
Early in the book, Woolger reminds us of a reality I had discovered myself in dream workthat
of the guardians of the threshold. He says each of us has our own inner guardians that keep us
from going too deep, too fast. His warning is also important for us all: Past-life exploration
can be like taking the lid off Pandoras Box; it can unleash potent forces over which we may
have little control. For this reason, it is my firm belief that guiding regressions and research into
past lives should only be undertaken by those fully trained in psychotherapy. He reminds us that
past-life exploration is not a parlor game.
Throughout the book Dr. Woolger emphasizes the multiplicity of the human personality. We
carry many selves within us, and PLT helps us identify some of these many selves. He
documents some of the more common psychological issues which have responded to PL
regression, including insecurity, depression and low energy, phobias, sexual difficulties, and
others.
Woolger finds four basic approaches to past lives. The psychic approach includes mediumistic
work. The parapsychological approach emphasizes scientific data, and the religious approach
deals with reincarnation as a matter of faith. The psychotherapeutic approach stresses the healing
aspect. Says Woolger, If there is a dominant metaphor to my approach to the unconscious, and
especially past lives, that holds all these approaches together, it is probably the story. It seems to
me, from the many cases Ive treated, that the unconscious mind strongly resembles the figure of
the Ancient Marinerit wants to tell its story.
Among the major contributions of this rich and provocative book are the authors treatment of
the psychology of karma, his passages on the issue of death as raised by PL work, and the death
experiences of clients moving through and beyond a lifetime. I believe that past-life work has
enormously important insights to contribute to our understanding of death, especially when seen
as a psychological process.
Woolger relates a variety of cases in which bodily symptoms hold past-life memories, and where
healing is enhanced by PLT. The author reminds us that persons with schizophrenic tendencies
are not good candidates for PLT. He also claims that PL work is a thoroughly holistic approach,
dealing with body, mind, and spirit levels of the human being.
The drama of psychic opposites, or the discovery that lives tend to balance each other, is one
of Dr. Woolgers original contributions to the growing corpus of past-life literature. Once we
begin to explore a whole series of past lives, a very prominent feature stands out: there is a
constant process of reversal from one kind of personality type to its opposite. There is also a
reversal of moral perspective and major themes in the various stories we encounter. So we meet
cycles that swing in personality type from concubine to celibate, spendthrift to miser, lord to serf,
stay-at-home to adventurer, and so on.
The ancient Greek philosopher-mystic, Heraclitus, called this the dynamic of enantiodrama
movement between the opposites. Resolving these swings of the pendulum to find middle
ground is the work of karma, the work of the enduring soul.
For Jungians, Woolger has done an immeasurable service, extending the concept of individuation
and complexes back in time, releasing these powerful ideas from their imprisonment in time.
I found this book highly provocative, well-written, sound in scholarship, original in presentation,
and impressive in scope. I strongly recommend it for anyone interested in reincarnation and
psychology.
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Reviewed by Barbara Peterson Lamb, M. A., M.F.C.C.
(as included in the Journal of Regression Therapy, Volume II, Issue 1, Spring 1987)
This is the fascinating story of a man called Henry and his first four months after death, related
in a conversational manner in his after-death diary. The narrative begins with Henrys suddenly
dying from a heart attack, then being met and guided to Post Mortemia in the astral realm by his
departed wife. Here, as he adjusts to his new life, he continues to lean about the true nature of
reality and gradually reevaluates his previous life on earth. This increase in understanding is
the first step he must take in order to enter the next, more spiritual realm.
Henry discovers that there is life after death for everyone. Each person is greeted and helped by
loved ones, guides, and teachers. The quality and character of that life is determined by what
each person believed while still in physical life on earth. The limitations of his thought limit his
experience in the afterlife, and, correspondingly, openness to life and spiritual realities enables
him to move more rapidly in his adjustment. What we think is what we get!
The author disputes the idea that we instantly experience being different after leaving our
physical bodies. Rather, we tend to experience ourselves in our astral bodies as much the same as
we were on earth. What we were accustomed to on earth, what we expected, what our thought
forms were, determine our astral reality. Thought forms are usually slow to change as a person
adapts to new realms of being. Each person holds himself back with the limitations of his
thought.
The first big challenge is the realization and acceptance of the reality of being dead. Then comes
the gradual recognition that each person brings his problems and characteristics with him.
Eventually he discovers, with guidance and encouragement, that he can experience new ways of
being through the use of mind and imagination. As he lets go of his old idea of what he really is,
he can enter the more spiritual heaven in which he is pure light and spirit, fully conscious and
free of his former physical form.
The author weaves an endearing love story through his narrative. Henry is reunited with the
long-time love of his life, his wife Gertrude, his twin soul. Their love presents the possibility of
two close souls being reunited after death and suggests that love out-of-the-body may be even
more fulfilling than love in the body. Two souls can share their spiritual journey together in
mutual stimulation and support.
Although Henry thinks within the Christian frame work, it is clear that any conceptual approach
is equally valid, and, also, equally limiting. Life after death is recognized as a fundamental truth
of mans nature. The soul lives and learns and grows in the astral realm. Familiar New Testament
quotes are presented in a new, more meaningful light not generally espoused by the Christianity
of our day, and Jesus and other spiritual guides are seen as approachable and personable and
available to anyone at any time.
Diary After Death is an easily digested introduction for people who have not thought much about
what happens after death or who doubt that we have any continuing existence. For those who
guide others into past and future and interim lives, it contains surprising and profound insights.
ISBN-13: 978-0915151042
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RENEE WEBER
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Reviewed by Edward N. Reynolds, Ph.D.
(as included in the Journal of Regression Therapy, Volume II, Issue 1, Spring 1987)
Renee Weber says in her book, Dialogues With Scientists And Sages:
The Search For Unity, They have tried to talk me out of it repeatedly and over many years and
from both sides of the spectrum scientists and mystics but it will not take root. What will
not take root for Weber is the accepted belief that there is a dichotomy between science and
spirituality, between the life of objective investigation and the life of mysticism. Inspired in her
youth by the work of the late Fritz Kunz and his journal Main Currents In Modern
Thought, published between 1940 and 1975, Weber dedicates this volume to his memory, and he
would be proud of her effort.
In this book Weber interviews contemporary scientists and mystics regarding their views on
space, time, matter, energy, and life itself. She selects some of the greatest thinkers of our time,
including quantum physicist David Bohm, whom she interviewed initially in 1978 in Ojai
California, and subsequently in New York City, Princeton, London (with Rupert Sheldrake), and
Switzerland (with his Holiness, the Dalai Lama). Others interviewed include Lama Govida,
Father Bede Griffiths, Ilya Prigogine, Stephen Hawking, and Krishnamurti. Sheldrake and the
Dalai Lama were both interviewed alone as well as with David Bohm. The interviews were
conducted at various locations around the world between the late 1970s and the mid 1980s.
Weber introduces the book with a superb essay on her own personal search for unity in life. She
also offers brief introductory comments in which she gives biographical and contextual material
for each of the dialogues. Her sensitivity and depth of understanding are perhaps best illustrated
in her introduction to her interview with the British physicist Stephen Hawking. Suffering from a
progressive motor neuron disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Hawking is so
disabled that he is barely able to move. Furthermore his speech is so distorted that he must use a
translator. Weber did not dwell on his physical condition when interviewing him in England in
mid-July 1985, yet she notes following their interview:
In a sense more real than metaphorical Hawkins lives in the immensity of a space where magnitudes of 10QT
are common, which his consciousness expands to explore and where his genius is energized and comes alive.
In that subtler sense, his environment is far less confined than that of most of the people who run about on two
legs. (207)
The men interviewed in the book have not only differing, but in some cases conflicting, views of
reality. Weber is firm, however, in her desire to explore great minds, rather than to support a
specific dogma or orthodoxy She asks powerful, insightful, even brilliant questions, whether
talking to David Bohm about the implicate order, Bohms term for the all-encompassing
physical, psychological, and spiritual background of all experience, or talking with Father Bede
Griffith about the power of darkness as a metaphor for God. (According to Father Griffith, God
is hidden in the darkness of the unconscious.) While the interview style loses somewhat in terms
of clarity and development of ideas, with it Weber brings to the reader a living sense of the
person, which more than makes up for the loss. One question which emerges is why only men
were interviewed for the book. Mother Theresa, for example, would have made a wonderful
addition. Weber does not answer this question directly but notes in the epilogue that she wishes
she had known earlier of the work of George Wald and Barbara McClintock, both biologists and
Nobel laureates. Weber discovered their writings just as the volume went to press.
This is a difficult book because of its scope and because of the complexity of much of the
material, but Renee Weber as scholar and writer, as scientist and mystic, makes it fascinating and
rich. The reader is left in the final analysis with the feeling so well expressed by Webers friend
and mentor Fritz Kunz, The whole universe is one mathematical and harmonic expression,
made up of finite representations of the infinite.
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LEWIS MEHL, M.D., PH.D.
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Reviewed by Winafred E. Lucas, Ph.D.
(as included in the The Journal of Regression Therapy Volume II, No. 1, Spring 1987)
This is a book by an established physician and psychologist that defines and grounds the
concepts of holistic medicine. It delineates in a quiet and simple way approaches to healing that
have the impact of an earthquake with extensive tremors. The first of these is the conviction,
implied throughout the book, that healing occurs in the context of a relationship and not through
techniques, which only provide the healer with a vehicle for relationship. Therapy is involved
with moving into wholeness on the part of both the patient and the physician.
Mehls second principle of medicine is that disease is always a creative attempt to solve a
problem. Only when we can understand in what way this is true can we be open to other more
productive ways to solve the problem which the disease is addressing. The patient himself
understands best how this is to be done, and the task of the physician is to facilitate his
understanding. Pursuit of health follows the path of wholeness rather than the avoidance of
disease.
Every person is a part of a larger system, such as family and community. Disease seems to
concern the individual, but culture, family, and belief systems must all be examined to
understand the disease. Each person is the sum of many factors and influences: environmental,
nutritional, socio-cultural and family systems; childhood learning, and experiences in past lives;
relationships and beliefs, to mention some of these. The healer catalyzes changes in this system
so that the client has more resources to move toward wellness. Such an existential approach to
health promotes multilevel well-being in a personal accountable context that contraindicates the
search for specific structural causes which currently obsesses medicine.
An impactful part of the book is the discussion of body-mind interaction. In many holistic
theories the interaction whereby the mind influences the body is left to inference, but Mehls
extensive medical background and knowledge of research propose and document specific
pathways. These may seem technical to the non-medical reader, but I for one appreciated that
they were documented, just as in the thirties I was reassured by the new research on glandular-
autonomic nervous system interaction (which would seem simplistic today). This section
grounds the assumptions in the book and opens up understanding of how the techniques
delineated can be effective.
Mehl explores modalities for his multidimensional approach by describing individual techniques
in detail, such as visualization, applied kinesiology, various forms of non-directive
hypnotherapy, and psycho physiological integration. He does not limit himself to a didactic
presentation: the book contains extensive verbatim dialogues illustrating how these modalities
work. Included are detailed transcripts of various relaxation techniques and methods of
combining visualization with applied kinesiology. No sudden miracles of healing are described,
but rather a process of careful exploration of a case of diabetes, one of asthma, and a
gynecological disorder, where slowly and steadily the diseases yielded to reconstellation of the
belief systems and of the phenomenological worlds of the patients.
Mehls personal background has contributed to the rich fabric of his conceptualization. To a
childhood foundation based on Cherokee mysticism and Kentucky mountain spirituality he
added doctoral degrees from Stanford in both medicine and psychology. To me, the psychologist
seems to emerge most powerfully in this book, but it is a psychologist grounded by and infused
with the most current medical knowledge. Surrounding everything is Mehls compelling respect
for the healing power of relationship and for the ability of the patient to tune into his own
answers about distortions in his phenomenological world. Only in this way can there be a
movement out of illness and forward on the journey toward wholeness.
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HOME/BOOK REVIEW/THE UNQUIET DEAD BY EDITH FIORE, PH.D.

Reviewed by George Schwimmer, Ph.D.
(as included in the The Journal of Regression Therapy Volume II, No. 1, Spring 1987)
Edith Fiore, Ph.D., a traditionally trained clinical psychotherapist
and hypnotherapist, has a tendency to venture into uncharted psycho-spiritual waters and then
make the enterprise seem like the most proper and conservative thing to do. As if that were not
enough, she then turns around and publishes accounts of her forays into the unknown. She first
broke literary ground in past-life therapy with her book You Have Been Here Before and now
returns in print with The Unquiet Dead, an unusual record of her experiences in dealing with
what are apparently the spirits of deceased individuals who cause psychological and sometimes
physical problems when they attach themselves to living persons.
The book is very well organized, lucid, rational, devoid of any superstition or religious dogma,
and thankfully easy for anyone to read. Dr. Fiore has also smoothly integrated metaphysical
concepts and techniques with standard psychological practices. Yet the work is not easy to
review comprehensively because although its pages number only 177, Dr. Fiore has packed so
much usable information into the book that I had to read it twice to absorb everything she had to
say. So this review can only touch on the many important areas about which Dr. Fiore has
written.
We are first tantalized by a four-page introduction that allows us a glimpse of two of Dr. Fiores
possessed clients The next short chapter depicts how Dr. Fiore became a psychotherapist, a
hypnotist, a past-life regressionist, and finally, a depossessor. This is followed by a brief
historical account of spirits, possession, mans non-physical bodies, and then descriptions of
what happens when one dies.
Even in these lightly sketched chapters, we find thought-provoking material: that the spirit of the
host and the entity fight over the hosts body and mind; that some individuals like having an
attached spirit and know it is present: that a seemingly overlapping past life may be that of a
spirit, not of the host; and what a person feels like when freed of spirits: Now its possible to be
me. I didnt know I was me all these years that there was a me that could be free. We are
also told that the real patient is the spirit and that a therapist is not to try to brutally kick out a
possessing spirit. Probably the most explosive fact that Dr. Fiore brings to our attention is the
percentage of her clients whom she has found with attached spirits: 70 percent, a truly
astonishing number, but one which closely matches my own experience with clients.
An important chapter follows, dealing with why spirits remain with us: ignorance, confusion,
fear, obsessive attachments, addictions, and so on. These, of course, are the ego-based reasons,
not the metaphysical ones. Another critical chapter details the effects of possession: physical
symptoms of all kinds, as the spirits energy pattern impinges on the physical body of the host;
mental problems such as concentration, deteriorating memory; emotional problems, as blanking
out (This cant be me), phobias, depression, suicidal urges. These originate from the character
of the entity. Addicted spirits can cause addiction to drugs, alcohol, smoking, and over-eating.
When the spirit dies old, it can cause symptoms of aging. When a spirit of the opposite sex
attaches itself to a person, there can be thrusts in the host toward homosexuality and
transvestism.
The central portion of the book is taken up with five chapters, each of which details one case
study: the problems of Tony, Anne, Peter, Barbara, and Paolo, who come with issues in
relationships, concentration, memory, multiple possession, and so on. These are fascinating
accounts, but should be read, not reviewed. The most interesting single phenomenon in this
section is Dr. Fiores finding that in relationship problems the resolution of her clients issue
telepathically resonates into the subconscious mind of the person with whom the client has the
issue, changing the attitude of the other person without his/her conscious knowledge of what has
occurred.
From here we are led to probably the most important areas for therapist and layman alike: the
methods of spirit entry, ways to detect spirit possession, and most critically how to do a
depossession. As in her previous work, Dr. Fiore generously shares her techniques with the
reader and then gives a complete script for depossession, which an individual can tape for
himself/herself and use at home to remove the average attached spirit. Having covered these
important subjects, Dr. Fiore then advises on how to protect oneself from spirit invasion and
even how to detect and remove spirits from ones home. She concludes with answers to typical
questions, an acknowledgment that much is yet to be learned, and an excellent bibliography.
After viewing all of the unusual topics of Dr. Fiores book, it would be easy to dismiss her
account as a product of the imaginations of Dr. Fiore and her clients, except for the fact that
everything Dr. Fiore has written about has been replicated by other therapists around the world,
myself included. Whether one is comfortable with the concept of spirit attachment or not, it is the
responsibility of every therapist to investigate and deal with this phenomenon. Dr. Fiores book
is the first of its kind and is mandatory reading for all therapists, as well as any person suffering
from seemingly irresolvable mental or physical symptoms. This work unquestionably belongs in
everyones library, and Dr. Fiore must be commended for her courage and foresight in writing
and publishing this book. The value and importance of The Unquiet Dead cannot be
overemphasized.
ISBN: 978-0345460875
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Reviewed by Winafred Lucas
From the vantage point of a past-life therapist, Grofs impactful

book needs to be evaluated on three parameters. The first of these addresses his breathtaking
perception and integration of the multi-dimensional aspects of our changing paradigm. For those
of us who have suffered lack of credibility because we felt forced to fit our thinking and
therapeutic modalities into the Newtonian-Cartesian paradigm which could not contain them, it
is a relief to understand that it is no longer necessary to apologize because we have moved into a
different way of conceptualizing the universe. Grof, drawing heavily on new trends in physics
and biology, demonstrates in what way we are leaving this Newtonian-Cartesian model, which
has no room for transpersonal material, and moving into the quantum-relativity model in which
transpersonal happenings and spiritual seeking are at home.
Synthesizing the contributions of such innovative thinkers as David Bohm, Prigogene, Karl
Pribram, and Rupert Sheldrake, Grof demonstrates that we are steadily moving into a paradigm
where the world is seen in terms of energy patterns instead of solid matter, a conception which
opens up unlimited possibilities for transpersonal conceptualization. This shift from substance
and object to form, pattern, and process gives credibility to experiential insights from unusual
states of consciousness. These, in turn, suggest the existence of intangible and unfathomable
creative intelligence, aware of itself and permeating all realms of reality. Extending Bohms
concept of the implicate order, from which our space-time world is unfolded, Grof suggests a
creative matrix for our transpersonal experiences.
The second area in which Grof has demonstrated an impressive capacity for analysis and
synthesis is that of psychotherapy and psychiatry, both in their assumptions and their modalities.
He traces the impact and the limitations of the Newtonian-Cartesian paradigm, searching out the
lines of development psychotherapy and psychiatry have taken, carefully honoring their gains
but showing the dead-end at which they have arrived because of the severe limitations of the
world-view under which they were conceptualized. Not only are these areas limited by the
solid conception of matter and the linear conception of time, which leave no room or
explanation for transpersonal phenomena, but their basic postulate of cause and effect itself runs
into a barrier because of the focus on verbalizations beginning in early childhood. The omission
of the birth process and of body experiences in general leaves a truncated and incomplete picture
of the personality. This section summarizes succinctly and brilliantly the trends and limitations
demonstrated in the history of psychotherapy and assists the reader in evaluating different
modalities so that positive approaches can be appreciated and unproductive ones shunted off.
For a past-life therapist, the disconcerting part of the book and the third major area of evaluation
is its emphasis on the physical birth process as the origin of basic patterns of emotional
perception and response, which Grof calls the COEX systems (systems of condensed
experience). All major patterns, including anger, guilt, phobias and obsessions, and the spectrum
of sexuality and aggression, are considered to originate in one of the four matrices of birth.
Though Grof in a subtle way honors past-life experience, he does not make room for it in his
understanding of the etiology of the COEX systems. The one exception is guilt, which he has
difficulty integrating into any of the birth matrices. He is finally led to conclude that the
traumatic aspects of birth can be identified as the working of condensed bad karma. The
suffering involved is then seen not as absurd or capricious, but as reflecting the individuals
karmic responsibility for action in previous incarnations.
This is the only time Grof clearly goes behind the birth process: he fits every other
psychopathological manifestation smoothly into one of the birth matrices. However, his
willingness to take the etiology of patterns back to the actual birth, with stress on its physical
concomitants, broke a long stalemate in psychotherapeutic conceptualization and opened the way
to take the basic patterns or COEX systems back into other lifetimes. The birth experiences then
emerge as one more manifestation congruent with established COEX systems. It is satisfying to
fit everything into a tight conceptual model, but such a model seldom holds indefinitely, and it is
important for those conceptualizing in the area of past lives to remember not to set limits but to
allow the possibility of etiology behind what we can now conceive.
So astute and perceptive is Grofs thinking that Beyond the Brain is recommended for
psychotherapists of all persuasions. The past-life therapist will find in it clear theoretical
grounding for his work as well as some innovative ways of deepening it.
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It is a jo y to welcome another book on regression therapy by a

soundly-based psychotherapist to the slowly growing but still slim collection currently available.
Karl Schlotterbecks careful exploration of the roots of past-life psychotherapy and his detailed
instruction of appropriate therapeutic processes extend the earlier contributions of
psychotherapists Edith Fiore, Morris Netherton, and Irene Hickman in the United States and
Thorwald Dethlefsen in Germany. Because at the time, even though it was not long ago, there
were so few regression therapists, these books were written largely for the general public. That
this book is slanted strongly toward the professional moving into regression work shows how
rapidly our group is growing.
The general scope of regression work is still largely obscure, and the author devotes several
chapters to restating his understanding of the parameters of this evolving modality, stressing its
potential for therapy and the type of patient most likely to benefit from it. Following this, he
summarizes the grounding in religion and myth. His presentation of the doctrine of Karma and
its implication for past-life work is especially clear, cohesive, and appropriate.
He stresses the development and impact of patterns which re-emerge from previous lifetimes,
extending the work of Stanislav Grof with the birth process and the deep patterns set in it. He
emphasizes that each persons psychological construction is already full of residues from past
lives at the moment of birth, pointing out that these patterns are reinforced through a
crystallization of the karmic patterns during the prenatal and perinatal processes.
Schlotterbeck makes an especially clear contribution to the concept that the family and social
climates merely act as triggers for unresolved karmic patterns to express themselves in an effort
toward completion. He feels that the internal pressure to actualize this inner programming also
causes each individual to seek and construct outer events that will allow their release. Images,
dreams, physical symptoms and behavior mechanisms are attempts of the soul to bridge current
experiences and past-life memories, thrusts which have as their goal the healing of the organism.
The section of the book dealing with regression therapy techniques recapitulates and extends
ideas set forth by other therapists, especially Netherton. Following Netherton, he feels that
formal hypnosis is not necessary: rather, focusing on a symptom will draw a trance state as a
natural by-product, and imposing too strong a relaxation state beforehand may actually interfere
with conscious connection to symptoms.
The author addresses the difficult question of why healing takes place by postulating that it is the
release of energy from karmic patterns through both the recall and reliving of them that promotes
the healing, a conception held by many, but not all, past-life therapists. It is an extension of the
assumption of forms of traditional humanistic therapy carried back to other lifetimes. He
emphasizes that in good regression work, the healing and clarity reside in the patients own
experience rather than in therapeutic interpretation.
Because of the dearth of substantive material on regression work in the psychotherapeutic field,
Schlotterbeck has attempted a comprehensive overview which can leave the reader feeling
somewhat overwhelmed. If a broader base of professional investigation currently existed, this
material would have comfortably divided itself into at least two books. Meanwhile, it serves as a
tantalizing taste of many ideas and therapeutic approaches. The integration of various regressions
dealing with the Mystery Schools and Initiation, and the chapter on past lives in the Christian
experience present an innovative method of synthesis. Those of us in the field of regression
therapy deeply appreciate such a rich smorgasbord.
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