Title: What’s Missing in Medicine: Unleashing the healing power of the subconscious mind.
Author: Charles Tramont
Publisher: Du Lac Publishing, 2016
ISBN: 9780996819527
Book review by Athanasios Komianos.
Dr Charles Tramont was a gynecologist and obstetrician for 32 years before he retired and turned into a hypnotherapist and regression therapist. He introduced a method he named Comprehensive Hypnoregression Therapy – a combination of Spirit Releasement and past-life therapy – which was practiced in Las Vegas, Nevada, until his death from Covid-19, in 2020.
To say the least I was taken by surprise when I read about his work in the latest issue of the Journal of Scientific Exploration whereas his work was presented by his widow and reviewed by five editors of the Journal. This is his second and last book the first being From Birth to Rebirth: Gnostic Healing for the 21st century. I never came across his work and I assume that if our former editor in chief Richard Stammler had run upon his work, he would have told me something, since both Richard and Charles had served the US Air Force and there was a slight possibility that they might have run into each other.
Back in 1990 Dr Tramont attended a course in medical hypnosis and right after that he studied the works of Roger Woolger, Dick Sutphen and Brian Weiss that literally blew him away. He also collaborated with Dr Raymond Moody in some of his workshops.
As most of us discovered by accident, Dr Tramont thought he was regressing a patient of his to a former life when he discovered that he was actually regressing an attached entity that was dominating him. As he put it, “by this time I had pretty much shed my conventionalism by carrying out past-life regression therapy, but this mind-blowing situation way really way out there”. He then followed the known channel and ran into the works of Edith Fiore and William Baldwin that opened new prospects on his work.
Dr Tramont adopted the concept of the Spirit Guide from the work of Dick Sutphen. He found this rather convenient in the course of the session. Sometimes when he had a hard time establishing communication with a valid Spirit Guide he asked for the help of a volunteer spirit guide that he employed several times and if that did not work, then he resorted to another technique of his, that of dual sessions whereas either an acquaintance of the patient or a helper of Tramont would join the session on a separate couch and conduct a dual session. In even more difficult cases he resorted to remote entity releasement. He also stressed throughout his book that “people may be affected by their future lifetimes and that time does not exist in the spiritual dimension, which means that the past, present, and future are all occurring simultaneously”.
Of course, he ran onto the dark forces and to quote him he says, “I know you are in there. Have the guts to talk to me!” or further on, “What is your purpose here?” “If I see the facial expression change dramatically to a smug, defiant look, often accompanied by uncontrollable, evil laughter, I know that the powerful dark force is reacting through the patient and feeling triumphant, and it’s time to call in reinforcements. This case brings out the fact that powerful dark forces will lie about anything. Testing Spirit Guides is all well and good, but when powerful dark forces are involved, all bets are off, and the therapist has to rely on his Higher Self and his intuition to figure things out.” [Emphasis by A.K.]
He also ran into the power of curses and their devastating effects on his clients.
Dr Tramont had a clearly Christian approach, and he used to employ the solemn exorcist rite every time he discovered Dark entities. He asked for the help of angels and mostly of Archangel Michael.
He then moved on to report his encounters with extra-terrestrials like the Grays who are hostile, the Reptilians who are primarily demonic, and further the Androids, the Lemurians and the Atlanteans.
He also went into the topic of soul fragments and how to integrate them back into the soul as well as the influence of future lives to the well-being of his patients.
Finally, he addressed the concept or Walk-throughs and he explained the concept as such, “Following physical death, they do not go to the Light form where they can carry out traditional reincarnation, but rather they choose to remain in the lower astral plane. Advanced souls arrange a Walk-in agreement soon after death, or as soon as possible, with another living human being. These advanced souls do this so they may complete their unfinished business and be able to continue the good work they have been doing.”
He mentioned all these in the context of famous people being reincarnated twice like his first such case where his patient Gerald was King Arthur’s mentor Merlin – who Tramont believes was an historical figure and not a mythical one – and then Edgar Cayce. As he says, “I am sure Edgar Cayce’s soul was as compulsive in the lower astral plane as it was when he was in his physical body, soon he could continue to help people, it would stand to reason that he could rather choose the preferable route, that of Walk-in as First Soul in an infant. This theory is a possibility, but it is a strong possibility since Edgar Cayce died on January 3, 1945, the same day my patient, Gerald was born, an ideal time for a newborn Walk-in.”
On the negative side I would say that Dr Tramont provides us with a rather poor bibliography and his work seems to be heavily tinted by New Age ideas that cannot withstand even well-intended criticism. Also, the vague definitions of Higher Selves and Spirit Guides and what is valid or not make the situation even more blurry. Another weak point is how does he assure – along with many other therapists, as he is not alone on this – that Archangel Michael and his Angels are always alert and ready to offer unconditionally their help?
I will close this review with a statement Dr Tramont made in his book, “Once again, I feel the need to step back and objectively look over everything that I am saying to the reader. Over twenty-three years ago, as a conventional physician I would have been shocked at what I am presenting here; however, at the same time, that conventional part of me is impressed with the fact that all the information that I have received has come from the subconscious minds of thousands of patients, and the consistency of content is overwhelming. More importantly, the therapeutic value is massive, and as a physician, I feel compelled to pass on what my research has taught me.”