For the past thirty-fi ve years, Dr. Barbara Pomar has guided her clients on journeys into their past lives. Confessions of a Regressionist presents both her personal account of her work with clients working to reverse past decisions to change the present and future and the theories behind the practice. For some, the very existence of past lives, let alone the ability to reconnect with them, is a point of spirited debate. Even so, Dr. Pomar has helped many to come to their own conclusions about the validity of this technique. Now, she guides readers on using her techniques to live more fully or mold their destinies. She also discusses theories on why and how past-life regression is possible. If you've ever struggled with how the possibility of past-life regression fits within your faith, Dr. Pomar off ers advice on how to evaluate your conflict. If you are a regressionist, Dr. Pomar's work can help you realize that by helping your client, you also help past and future generations as well. If you've ever considered meeting with a regressionist, Dr. Pomar explains how this sort of experience can help you live more fully in the present, with joy, confi dence, and prosperity-by releasing or neutralizing memories of harmful events.

CONFESSIONS —of a— REGRESSIONIST

Is There a Life or Time Other than the Present?By Barbara H. Pomar

iUniverse, Inc.

Copyright © 2011 Barbara H. Pomar
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ISBN: 978-1-4759-0740-7

Contents

Preface..............................................................ixAcknowledgments......................................................xiIntroduction.........................................................xiiiChapter 1: When the Questions Started................................1Chapter 2: In the Beginning There Was Meditation.....................11Chapter 3: Memory: What Is Recalled?.................................29Chapter 4: History of Regression.....................................50Chapter 5: Regression as Therapy.....................................62Chapter 6: Between Death and Life....................................102Chapter 7: Time: Absolute to Relative................................123Chapter 8: Quantum Theories of Time..................................132Chapter 9: Putting the Research Together.............................162Chapter 10: Questions Answered.......................................179Chapter 11: Regression for a Better World............................191Appendix A: History of Hypnosis: Highlights..........................203Appendix B: Spirit Releasement.......................................209Appendix C: Past-Life Recall.........................................217Notes................................................................223Bibliography.........................................................241About the Author.....................................................257

Chapter One

When the Questions Started

"I don't believe in past lives!" My client was adamant. What had just happened had occurred in response to a question I had asked her unconscious mind. We were in the midst of a timeline regression session. She had traveled along both her mother's genetic line and her father's genetic line to neutralize a current problem, and some of her symptoms had subsided. I had just asked her unconscious mind if there was another event that had resulted in the current problem. Immediately she had responded, "It is in a past life." It was then that her conscious mind responded firmly, "I don't believe in past lives." She quickly came back to the present and terminated the session.

I have had other clients who, because of a strong religious belief, have stated they didn't believe in past lives. Usually, after I explain genetic memory à la Bruce Lipton and provide other possible explanations for the existence of past lives, they will go along with a trial explanation.

Having talked with many people, my own family included, I feel there is a reason why so many are strongly against any notion of previous lives. Indeed, mathematically, no proof exists of a past or a future. If there is no past or no future, then how can there be past or future lifetimes? But then, what happens when regressionists lead a client to another lifetime and the current situation changes—sometimes in the same session, sometimes later? Those whom mainstream medical practitioners have not helped often benefit by regression. This transformation happens on a regular basis, and many therapists count on it to make a reasonable living.

Pam was on the telephone. She was in town with a medical problem that was chronic and had no current solution. Pam knew I was not a medical practitioner and did not request healing of any sort. She wanted to know only the origin of her situation and why she was having certain problems. She was comfortable with the prospects her doctors had explained. It seemed she had fallen after tripping over a threshold. Twisting her legs, she had hit her knees and fallen on her elbows. The doctors had found blood clots from her hips all the way down to her ankles. She was on medication not only to prevent a stroke but also for pain.

Because she would be in town only for a few days, we agreed to an extended session, so I could obtain background information as well as do a regular session with her. It is standard practice that before a regression the therapist elicits a history from the client, which includes contact information, past and current family members, the current environment (which may or may not have direct impact on the client's issues), and a brief medical history, including the history of the symptom. With this information, the regressionist can decide which technique would be the best to use for the specific client. Once I have this information, I can better assist clients in retrieving information, so they can answer their own questions.

Once Pam was in my office, I took a more complete history. Then I explained timeline therapy, as developed by Tad James. We would go above her own timeline and see if the cause was genetic, either in her mother's or father's genetic line. As memory is contained in each cell, and as we are a combination of our mother's and father's genes, we also have their memories. We have our father's memory until conception and our mother's memory until our birth or shortly thereafter. One benefit of the timeline therapy (TLT) is that the client does not have to reveal the content of memories to the regressionist for full therapeutic benefit. However, Pam was insistent: She wanted to know the cause, the why, of her condition.

I decided to use her timeline as a bridge into her past. Pam was familiar with past-life regression work, so we quickly got started. With TLT, no formal induction is required, and the client's conscious mind is active while allowing the unconscious to guide the session.

The following is a transcription of my notes with Pam.

Pomar: Go above your timeline. Turn toward the past, looking to the root cause of the deep clots, blood clots in the left leg. Was it before, during, or after birth?

Client: Before.

Pomar: Was it while you were inside Mother?

Client: No.

Pomar: Go to conception. Look down Father's genetic line. Was it Father's?

Client: No.

Pomar: Continue back above your timeline to the root cause of the deep clots, blood clots in the left leg. (pause) What are you wearing?

Client: The dress appears to be Egyptian.

Pomar: Where are you?

Client: On a slab of stone.

Pomar: What is happening?

Client: Something is being done to my legs. A cutting or mutilation, cutting off of circulation ... a tourniquet. (grimacing and turning her head away)

Pomar: What is the next thing that happens?

Client: They move the tourniquet up my leg, causing limbs to die one part at a time. I have great pain.

Pomar: Go above. What are you learning?

Client: (shakes her head no)

(I am wondering what is in her mind. With TLT, clients are directed that they don't have to share or reveal details to the regressionist. My curiosity has to be kept in check.)

Pomar: Is this the first time? The beginning?

Client: (a long pause and then in another voice, similar but more directive than Pam's) Have to go back further.

Pomar: Go to the beginning of the root cause.

Client: I see cave drawings on cave walls. It is not like in North America, not like the book. [She was referring to a recent series of books on ancient North American Indian culture] There are skins are on the floor.

Pomar: What else are you aware of?

Client: Ceremonial lines drawn in a triangle. I am in a shelter made of skins. There is a crack in the walls. Someone is lying there.

Pomar: Who is it?

Client: Me. It is birth and death. I see a separation of colors....