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. PomariUniverse, Inc.
Copyright © 2011 Barbara H. Pomar
All right reserved.ISBN: 978-1-4759-0740-7Contents
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. The baby is dark and covered with something. Mother has dark hair and is pale, like she has no blood left. She is bleeding to death. But there is joy in life.
Pomar: Where are you? What is the name of the nearest city, village? Go above the timeline, look down.
Client: Somewhere in the Middle East.
Pomar: What are you learning?
Client: Don't want to say ...
[In timeline techniques, it is not necessary for the client to vocalize what she is learning.]
Pomar: Keep them in a safe place where you have other important lessons, so you may have access to them in case you might need them.
Client: (Another voice, similar to Pam's conscious voice) Have to go back. It has to do with Mother's genealogy. Father was a cousin. Bloodlines were not compatible.
[Her conscious mind is directing the action. As she is a meditator, she is accustomed to communicating with her unconscious and conscious minds. I wish all my clients had that faculty. It makes my job much easier. At this time, we start following her mother's genetic line.]
Pomar: Go above the timeline, following Mother's genetic line.
Client: We are by the river. We are being attacked by another species. Mating was forcedon us. (grimacing) Violence resulted in the mating. We were incompatible. I felt horror—profanity—at the rape.
(Was the DNA incompatible? I wonder. I really did want to go into this in more detail. A glance at the clock and the intuition that we are not even halfway through the story prompts me to move on.
If there is time later, we could go back to this story and get the details.)
Pomar: Stay above the timeline. What are the positive lessons?
Client: You can choose. I can choose. I have a right to choose my mate. Some decisions are difficult. Some choices are difficult. Sometimes it might seem as if either choice is impossible or difficult. You can still choose.
Pomar: What could you do different?
Client: Choose another mate.
Pomar: Do it!
(I rarely tell a client what to do. I don't know what to expect when I do so. I immediately wonder why I did it and what the outcome will be. The timeline is an imaginary line of time that connects us with a past event. It is used as a bridge to a specific event. It stretches to an unlimited past as well as an unlimited future, as far as I can tell.)
Pomar: As you are above your timeline, go back to the cave. Look in the cave. What do you see?
Client: Mother is different, lighter color. Baby is lighter. Both live in joy.
Pomar: Go above to your higher self and ask what happened.
(The higher self is often considered to be the highest part of the nonphysical part of a person—the highest part of the soul and in constant contact with the Higher Self. At this point, I feel I need another opinion of what was going on.)
Client: It seemed that mother chose a different mate at the time of violence, closer to her own kind. The resultant DNA produced a more compatible mating and child.
Pomar: Go to the end of that life.
Client: I died young—an accident. An animal killed both me and my child.
(Did we jump timelines into a parallel timeline? Did it happen when she rechose her mate? I refocus my attention on the client's needs. We retrace our steps forward.)
Pomar: Go above your timeline, continue forward to the present. Go to Egypt when you were on the slab.
Client: I am still there.
Pomar: Ask why they are doing that to your legs.
Client: They are afraid of the light. If they give me a horrible death, it will carry over to other lifetimes. They are evil. I didn't believe there was evil in the world. I didn't want to acknowledge it the first time. They want to make me afraid of death, the light. I am not the only one they are doing this to.
(This seems to be the event that caused her current problem and is a good place to change the current situation.)
Pomar: Take a saber sword in your hands and cut the ties, starting at the ankles.
Client: Why?
(The client's conscious is active. It is unusual for the client to question directions. It lets me know that regressions can be successful even when the client is conscious versus being in a deep hypnotic state.)
Pomar: If the blood is let go all at once, it might cause more damage as it hits the blockages, as the blood starts flowing down and up. Letting the blood flow gradually will be less damaging and more beneficial.
(I intuitively follow internal directions. I had learned it is important that the hypnotherapist project and think positive thoughts, never doubting a positive outcome. Often I feel I am guided while in this state. This time I saw the red eyes and had a very brief shot of fear. I surround myself with white light, saying a quiet prayer for protection and assistance. Then I follow the internal directions.)
Pomar: Feel the blood start flowing easily and effortlessly. Now cut the ties at the knees. (pause) The groin.
(I start feeling their eyes—small, red eyes. Not bloodshot. Red. They are communicating to me that they did not like my interference.)
Pomar: Feel the body, the unconscious mind, releasing what is needed to dissolve the blockages, the clots, easily and effortlessly. (pause) Go forward to just before death. Is there anything you want to say to the men who tied your legs?
Client: You knew what you were doing. You were following directions from someone else.
Pomar: Can you forgive them?
Client: Yes, I forgive them.
Pomar: What are you learning?
Client: There is evil in the world. I need to trust spirit. The first time, I felt the evil, but I didn't want to say it. I felt by saying it I was giving it power and acknowledging it.
Pomar: Go forward along your timeline to each time you had problems with circulation in your legs. Pick up what you are learning and collapse the event back to now.
Client: In the 1800s, I was a young tomboy. My sister was very feminine and did all the girl things. I loved to ride and play around the horses. This was a lifetime I didn't want to see. Later she pushed me in front of a wagon. My legs got crushed. She was sent away. She is my twin in this lifetime.
[Sometimes, clients need to relate what is going through their mind, but not necessarily in answer to my questions or directions. The client's unconscious is directing the session and will take the story where it needs to go. Earlier in the session, she had spoken of another partial regression about a life with her twin. This event was in her conscious mind. Also, during the intake interview, Pam had mentioned she suspected that her problem stemmed from a previous lifetime with her sister.]
Pomar: Go to the end of that lifetime. (pause) Is there anything you would like to say to your sister? (pause) See her in front of you? (pause) Let me know when you are done.
Client: (silence) It is done.
Pomar: Is there anyone else?
Client: No.
(This had taken more time than we had allowed. I quickly finished.)
Pomar: Process that lifetime and come forward. Collapse all other events to come back to now.
Pomar: Know that if you need to have more details about any of the lifetimes we touched on, all you need to do is to go into a meditative or self-hypnotic state and go above your timeline to that time.
I talked to Pam the next day, and she said she had had the best meditation in a long time. Although she was walking without her cane, with greatly diminished pain, she still had some discomfort. She felt the clots being released. Swelling had diminished in her legs. She was planning to resume her massage-healing practice. She felt that the reason for the blocks was to prevent her from doing what she knew she needed to accomplish in this life. If we had had more time, we would have processed the time before her current birth to find the reason for her entry into Earth at this particular time.
This experience verified to me the powerful benefits of regression work. But, how can these benefits be proven? The physical changes are evident, but why and how do they occur? Bruce Lipton, a cellular biologist who wrote Biology of Belief (2007), researched cellular memory. He came to the conclusion that memory lies not only in each and every cell of the person but within one's entire genetic line as well. Lipton goes on to say that memories are created by emotional impacts of an event, either witnessed or experienced, whether heard or read about. When the emotional impact of the memory of the event is neutralized, the event returns to a nonevent status.
Was this an instance of cryptoamnesia, when memories of forgotten passages from books or conversations are recalled? Pam answered that question without my asking. She said that the tent she saw in her earlier life was different from the tents in the Native American books popular at that time. I did not ask her to explain, for that was outside our current interest.
If time is linear, then how can a client travel back in time, change the impact of an event, and have her current life change? What does physics say about all this?
Chapter Two
In the Beginning There Was Meditation
To address the questions raised in the introduction, let us go back to the start of the session. Regression starts with a change in the state of awareness, such as hypnosis, a process tempered by the perception of time. "My session is over? It can't be. We just got started," my clients often complain when I start winding up the session. Meanwhile, the clock in my office says we have been working for over two hours.
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