Reviewed by the Editor
In JRT Issue 21, 2007

Whether you are teaching others the skill of PLRT or want to expand your skill base and knowledge in your own practice, this new book by Andy Tomlinson is a great teaching and learning tool.

Andy does a great job of covering the whole spectrum of soul healing through both past life regression and in-between life regression. Unlike some books on the subject that restrict their approach to healing only the energetic or spiritual bodies, Andy also addresses the physical body and its role in releasing and healing both current and past lifetime physical trauma.

He builds a case of validity of these healing techniques through a step by step approach. He begins by presenting the current scientific knowledge concerning evidence of past lives, near death experiences (NDE), and subtle energy fields. From there he explores the current theory concerning regression, both past-life and spiritual, how subtle energy fields hold memories of these past lives, the recurrence of past life patterns and complexes, and of karma and reincarnation.

Now that we have the theory and building blocks in place to support the work Andy proceeds to outline in a very clear and understandable way how a typical past life session or in-between life session would flow, incorporating many of the basic pieces and parts of the process such as how to guide the client to embody the past life body and character, building the initial scene and all of its dimensions, how to move successfully through time, catharsis and what/how to do it, the various types of death and how to deal with it. In an easy progression we go to the spiritual realms where we meet spiritual guides, work to forgiveness of antagonists from the just lived lifetime, and how to get past being stuck in the earth plane after death.

He seamlessly guides us on to the spiritual regression work and how to successfully conduct a spiritual regression using deep hypnosis, meeting the Wise Ones, encountering soul groups, the delicacy of merging the soul with the physical body when incarnating, and other spiritual work or activities in that realm.

He returns to the subject of the physical body and its role in releasing trauma and past memories stored in the musculature, how to position the body to help it more easily release the stored traumatic energy. Also addressed is the subject of invasive or intrusive energies that have “attached” or influenced the client and how to easily and effectively release these energies.

Throughout the book Andy offers segments of actual case dialog between therapist and client; positioning these many segments to greatly enhance, support, or illustrate the various ideas, theories, and approaches he offers.

He finishes, as a good teacher often does, with full examples of how to conduct past-life regression or spiritual regression sessions. He does this through the use of detailed outlines of each type of session. His coverage is so thorough that one would be tempted to skip any formalized training and use only his outlines, which would be a foolish approach in any case.

As the testimonials on the book jacket attest, Andy is positioning himself as a leading expert and authority in the field of regression therapy. I’m sure we will see more great work from this talented teacher and therapist.