Roger Woolger

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Roger Woolger is an internationally renowned therapist, lecturer and author specialising in past life regression.

He was educated at Oxford University and London University, where he gained degrees in psychology, religion and philosophy. He then trained as an analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich.

He began his practice with conventional Jungian therapy methods, including dreamwork, but through this began to discover images which seemed to be past life memories. He found a therapeutic value in this method which led him to concentrate wholly on it.

His book on the subject, Other Lives, Other Selves (1987), is recognised as a seminal and definitive work in the field. His second book, The Goddess Within (1989), co-written with Jennifer Barker, examines feminine psychology in terms of Greek goddesses.

He has lectured widely. Presentations include the International Transpersonal Psychology Conference (1996), Beyond the Brain Conference (co-sponsored by the British Scientific and Medical Network and the Institute for Noetic Sciences, 1997), the First World Congress for Regression Therapy in Holland (2003), Beyond Death (sponsored by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2004).

He has been a Professor at Vassar College, the University of Vermont and Concordia University, Montreal, as well as leading workshops at the New York Open Center, Omega Institute and Esalen Institute. He runs training programmes in the US, UK, Holland and Germany.