Other Lives, Other Selves A Jungian

Written for the same market as the multi-million-copy bestselling Life After Life, this book is a provocative look at the revolutionary technique of past life regression--with compelling case histories and personal testimonies of physical, mental and spiritual healing.

Roger J. Woolger, PhD, (1944–2011) was a British-born Jungian analyst, regression therapist, and lecturer. Woolger held degrees from Oxford University and the University of London, as well as the C. G. Jung Institute in Switzerland. He is the author of Other Lives, Other Selves, a definitive work on past life therapy.

Foreword

xiii

Ronald Wong Jue

Preface

xvii

PART I INTRODUCTORY

A Skeptic Encounters Past Lives

3

(20)

From Behaviorism to Jung

3

(6)

A Very Unglamorous Past Life

9

(6)

Unfinished Dramas of the Soul

15

(4)

From Death to Rebirthing

19

(4)

Past Life Therapy: How It Works

23

(24)

Peter's Story: A Nineteenth-century Migrant Worker

23

(5)

A Typical Past Life Session in Therapy

28

(2)

Past Lives: Memory or Fantasy?

30

(4)

Past Lives: Romance or Reality? The Cases of Helen and Alice

34

(5)

Three Explanations of the Past Life Phenomenon

39

(4)

The Influence of Theosophy

43

(4)

Terra Incognita: Exploring Unknown Psychic Realms

47

(34)

The Stigma of the Occult

47

(5)

The Psychic Approach

52

(3)

Reincarnation in Spiritualism, Occultism, and Theosophy

55

(8)

The Parapsychological Approach

63

(7)

The Religious Approach

70

(11)

PART II THE EMERGING SYNTHESIS

The Fourth Way: A Psychotherapist's Approach to Past Lives

81

(24)

Psychotherapy and the Unconscious Mind

81

(6)

Hypnotic Regression, Active Imagination, and Trance States

87

(7)

How I Work: The Case of Elizabeth's Cats

94

(3)

Authentic and Inauthentic Suffering

97

(2)

The Body Tells Its Story Too

99

(6)

The Multidimensional Psyche

105

(30)

A New Refutation of Time

105

(5)

The Case of Susan: A Dutch Artist's Residual Guilt

110

(6)

Complex, Coex, and the Lotus Wheel

116

(5)

Symbolic Resonance: Cases of Loss and Separation

121

(6)

The Case of Sol: At the Wailing Wall of Jerusalem

127

(5)

The Archetype of Abandonment: All Things Are But Loss

132

(3)

Unfinished Soul Business: The Psychology of Karma

135

(26)

New Light on Childhood Trauma

135

(2)

The Cases of Melinda and Cindy

137

(5)

The Compulsion to Repeat

142

(5)

Toward a Karmic View of the Complex

147

(5)

Residual Shame: The Case of Leonard

152

(9)

PART III KEY ASPECTS OF PAST LIFE THERAPY

Subtle Body, Dense Mind: Past Lives and Physical Ills

161

(28)

The Body Remembers

161

(5)

The Varieties of Somatic Inheritance

166

(5)

The Case of Edith: A Russian Anarchist's Untimely Death

171

(6)

The Case of Arlette: An Opera Singer with Stage Fright

177

(8)

Subtle Body Language

185

(4)

Eros Abused: The Past Life Roots of Sexual and Reproductive Problems

189

(24)

Our Bodies, Our Past Life Selves

189

(6)

The Case of Eliza

195

(8)

Rape, Revenge, and the Karma of Violence

203

(4)

Reowning Power: The Case of Hildegard

207

(6)

The Many Lives of the Soul

213

(32)

Other Lives, Other Selves

214

(4)

The Drama of Psychic Opposites

218

(2)

The Sins of the Fathers---and Mothers: Wendy and Paula

220

(7)

The Hell of Sadomasochism: The Case of Wayne

227

(18)

PART IV THE LARGER PERSPECTIVE

The Great Wheel: Birth and Before

245

(35)

At the Hour of Our Birth

245

(5)

Life Before Birth: Recent Scientific Findings

250

(8)

The Past Life/Perinatal Interface

258

(6)

Deaths and Entrances: The Case of Chris

264

(7)

The Cosmic Loop: The Tibetan Picture of Rebirth

271

(9)

The Great Wheel: Death and Beyond

280

(27)

Dramas of Death: The Cases of Michael and Burton

280

(8)

Dying to Self: The Practice of Non-attachment

288

(5)

Spontaneous After Death Visions

293

(4)

Learning From Dying

297

(10)

Beyond Therapy: Some Conclusions

307

(30)

The Limitations of Past Life Therapy

307

(4)

The Uniqueness of Past Life Therapy

311

(4)

The Three Levels of Past Life Therapy: An Overview

315

(19)

Envoi: No Man Is an Island

334

(3)

Appendix 1 The Legacy of Depth Psychology

337

(6)

Appendix 2 Did Jung Believe in Reincarnation?

343

(7)

Past Life Therapy Organizations

350

(1)

Glossary

351

(6)

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Other Lives, Other Selves A Jungian Psychotherapist Discovers Past Lives

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