Books on Deep Memory Process

 by Roger Woolger

    Healing Your Past Lives: Exploring the Many Lives of the Soul. (with CD. 2004).

If we really want to know who we are, we must first know who we were. In this integrated book-and-CD learning experience, I want to invite you to explore a specific, highly effective path to self-knowledge and the freedom it brings. This path, which I call Deep Memory Process™, is a practice I’ve developed over the past twenty years by blending past-life regression therapy with the active imagination techniques of Jungian psychotherapy, but it has its roots in a much more ancient tradition of remembering “who we were” and understanding “what we have become.” It offers a set of tools for delving into the deep recesses of your unconscious mind—what we call the soul—to discover where memories of past existence are stored and bring them to light. The exercises and practices you will work through here are surprisingly simple and easy to learn, but they can open you to a profound new self-awareness, help you heal old wounds, and show you your precise place in the scheme of the universe. They can open to you, in short, the transcendent reality of the soul. (from Chapter 1)      

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Other Lives, Other Selves: A Jungian Psychotherapist Discovers Past Lives (1987)

When I graduated from Oxford University in the mid sixties with a joint degree in behavioral psychology and analytic philosophy, my mind had been put into a carefully tailored straitjacket, though I hardly knew it at the time. If anyone had suggested something like remembering past lives to me then, I would have dismissed the very idea as self-contradictory. Remembering entails a rememberer, I would have said, and only one person has access to my memories, namely me. Logically "I" can no more remember the memories of another life than the memories of the man sitting opposite me on the bus.

  With a few more linguistic cuts and logical thrusts, I would have had my reincarnationalist friend fumbling for a satisfactory definition that would stand up to my philosophical swordsmanship. Behind me stood the great voices of rationalism and empiricism. "Metaphysics is dead," Professor A. J. Ayer had said, and that was the end of it. Rest in peace, Plato, Aristotle, and Hegel.  (from Chapter 1)         

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The Story of the Heart: Poetry for the spirit, Inspiration for Soul.

A personal anthology (2008).

I can think of no better and simpler form of practicing a “spiritual” life than to read poetry. It is a meditation, an evocation and an invocation of all that is rich and harmonious that can nourish our souls. Moreover, reading poetry requires no adherence to any religion or creed.  

I believe that readings such as those gathered here help put us more fully in contact with the greater powers, seen or unseen that guide and inform our lives. I have included many passages about birth and death as well as accounts by many who have seen or envisioned of the life of soul beyond death. These form the core of my teaching about “the Eternal Return,” to be found in my other books.

Having studied and taught comparative religion over several decades I love to draw upon many spiritual and mystical traditions from around the world.  But among the selections from poets, mystic and sages from many epochs of history you will also find many fresh contemporary voices from the modern world. (from the Preface)           

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Other Books of Interest by Roger Woolger

The Goddess Within:  A Guide to the Eternal Myths that Shape Women’s Lives (1991)

Suppressed long ago by patriarchal societies and Christianity, the idea of the feminine played a powerful role in ancient mythology and religion. The notion that these goddesses—Athena, Aphrodite, Demeter, Artemis, Hera and Persephone—are also symbolic of characteristics that are found in individual women is once again gaining popularity. The goddess archetypes validate women for what they are, not what society has told them they should be and, as such, are a source of freedom and understanding that can be tapped by any woman, no matter what life path she has chosen.

Wonderfully affirming, profound in its implications, The Goddess Within helps restore the feminine to its rightful place in the modern consciousness and offers every woman the unique opportunity to learn more about her own power to transform herself       

Read Chapter 7:  “Demeter, the Mother of Us All”

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King Lear's Madness: A Study of Shakespeare's Symbols of Transformation

(1975/2010)

The following essay is an attempt to examine some of the major archetypal themes from Shakespeare's tragic period as they occur particularly in King Lear, possibly the last and the most complete version of the death of the hero.  From the psychological standpoint that I am proposing, the decline and death of the king will be seen as an ego-death which takes the form of a psychic disintegration that Shakespeare represented as madness.  In Shakespeare, it seems to me that the tragic agon or contest with the gods which constituted the mainspring of Greek tragedy, begins when the tension between the hero's self-conscious ego and the social persona results in an inner split or division of consciousness.  This division of consciousness leads to an influx of contents from the collective unconscious, either in the form of the super-natural or human figures, which threatens the hero's ego with dissolution.  In varying degrees the tragedies trace the hero's success in facing these dark contents as a from of Night Sea Journey, or descent into hell in which he undergoes a figurative death resulting in a new and transformed consciousness, most frequently represented as the renewal of the kingdom.  (from Chapter 1)                      

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