"...I see [past life] regression therapy at the very heart of the healing tools that we are being given. It has the potential and is developing into a fully and truly holistic therapy, which can encompass the transformation and the purification of fixed thoughts, our mental residues that we carry as well as purification of negative emotional and physical residues that derive from their repression. I have adopted the term "Integral Regression Therapy" because it is more all inclusive than "Past Life Regression." Integral Regression Therapy is the only regression therapy to transform all the subtle, or energy bodies in one process, and by doing that, it is very different from other types of past life regression. I am currently at work on a new book that will more fully expand my concept of the human energy body as it relates to Integral Regression Therapy...

The Importance of the Body and the Breath
"...Personally, I have worked to integrate several therapeutic disciplines that I was trained in. After training as a Jungian, I received a great deal of practice, if not direct training, in working with the body. To help with release of blocked emotions, I have incrasingly turned to the body-centered therapy of Wilhelm Reich, an extremely important approach which I now have integrated in my own work. Many therapists today practice breathwork, either rebirthing, yoga, Holotropic breathing or focused breathing. Conscious breathing accesses the input of subtle energies that incorporate as our energy fields where trauma is often stored. Breathing can release and purify various organic systems in the body. Hypnosis, NLP and trance work have also increased our understanding of the importance of the breath in healing....

The Trance State in Healing
"...More and more people are studying the way shamans use trance and the way shamans work with spirits to heal the body. The technique of soul retrieval is based upon the old shamanic idea that parts of the soul get lost, become fragmented and have to be rescued and brought back to be integrated into the whole person. This has contributed an extemely valuable addition to our conception of regression therapy, for we do, in fact, retrieve pieces of the soul that were lost in other lifetimes and integrate them into our lives today in a healthy way, thus making our life choices more spontaneous and present-focused...

Visionary Time
"...The essence of regression therapy is that it takes us instantly away from the stuckness of material reality, the rigidity of today's world, the solidity of "my tumor" or "my backache" or "my impossible life." By turning inwards we may go directly into visionary time. Very quickly in regression therapy we move from talking about our symptoms or our problems into the broader context of history, actually having immediate access to all of history. Instantly, by means of a good induction, we may go "back" without using a linear picture of time. We may go back to birth instantly. We may go back 6,000 years. We may go to the Roman Empire. We may go to Atlantis, to before life on earth, to the cellular consciousness of an amoeba. In visionary time, all of historical time and space is available to us in an instant...

The Heart Center
"...The heart center holds together the higher and the lower centers. Working with the heart, means listening. It means tolerance. It means a loving detachment. The language of the heart is often passionate, full of unfulfilled longings, rage, grief, guilt, shame, both feelings and emotions; there is a difference between feeling and emotion. Feeling connects us more to spirit, emotion more to the body. But there is an overlap and this is the heart. What teachers from traditional religions have taught us is that a realized being is someone who does not go beyond or above the passions but lives with them and somehow lives through them and yet is not centered in them. He or she finds a higher center but nevertheless allows those feelings, those expressions of karma, of the self that is still not purified, to be there. To allow the horror stores that we see from Roman lives, concentration camps and so on to be brought to awareness, to be worked through and released, brings subtle moments of insight or what the Buddhists call vipassana.

..."The heart is the spiritual uterus. This is where we transform the feelings that have become so deeply entrenched, and start to cook them into a new form of consciousness. We have to, as Rumi puts in, "Stay in the spiritual fire, let it cook you." We have to stay with, to listen to, to feel, to express, in one form or another, those feelings. These are the materials out of which the new consciousness, the new babe will come. Crying is the natural expression of the heart, one of the feelings that we need to work with. As we go through the rage and the pain, such feelings touch us deeply but they can nevertheless pass through us. It's as though the psychic organ we call he heart grows bigger. It can bear more, it can carrry more, hear more, judge less, be triggered less. Feelings that begin with rage will eventually change into something else. They may become the energy to start a new organization. Fear may develop into a courage that helps fight oppression, that campaigns for some new political sutuation. Grief may devlop into a compassion that can work with the homeless, or work with AIDS...

..."A poem by Antonio Machado, translated beautifully by Robert Bly, evokes the spirit of what I offer to you, both as a therapist and as a teacher of Integral Regression Therapy..."

Last night, as I was sleeping
I dreamt -- marvelous error! --
that a spring was breaking
out in my heart.
I said: along which secret aqueduct
Oh water, are you coming to me,
water of a new life
that I have never drunk?

Last night, as I was sleeping,
I dreamt -- marvelous error! --
that I had a beehive
here inside my heart
And the golden bees
were making white combs
and sweet honey
from my old failures.

Last night, as I was sleeping,
I dreamt -- marvelous error! --
that a fiery sun was giving
light inside my heart.
It was fiery because I felt
warmth as from a hearth
and sun becaus it gave light
and brought tears to my eyes.

Last night as I slept
I dreamt -- marvelous error! --
that it was God I had
here inside my heart.