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

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)      

Other Lives, Other Selves: A Jungian Psychotherapist Discovers Past Lives (1987) by Roger Woolger PhD

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)