Andy is a psychotherapist, lecturer, author, and has been referred to as one of Britain’s leading practitioners in hypnotic past life regression. He was educated at the Open University in psychology and began his practice with psychotherapy, but discovered the therapeutic power of regression and working with past lives. Since then he has worked with many of the international pioneers in regression therapy and dedicated his practice in this area over the last decade. His book Healing the Eternal Soul, is recognized as an extremely valuable contribution and advancement to the field of Regression Therapy. His second book Exploring the Eternal Soul takes this further and is seen as an important contribution to the new field of life between lives regression. He lectures and writes widely and is also a co-founder of the European Association of Regression Therapy. He runs training programs internationally and is introducing regression therapy training into Singapore in February 2008.

Andy Tomlinson with his students and assistant trainers during a life between life regression training event at Gaunts House in the UK.

As a leading European regression expert, is there any special insight that you have gained regarding Past Life Regression Therapy?

Spiritual insights really opened up for me after I started working with what is called life between lives regression. This goes further than past life regression and uses very deep trance to take clients into their soul memories between lives following a past life death. Clients describe leaving their body in a similar way as near death experiences. If the past life death has been traumatic such as from a battle, execution or accident, many of these harsh memories are still present so healing and rest is available.

At some point a review of the past life takes place, often with a spirit guide. This is an evolved soul that has been overseeing the past life. At some point the narrative moves to meeting a soul group. These are souls that work together and often jointly reincarnate on some meaningful work. The highlight during this regression is to meet the ‘elders’ who are souls who have attained a level of experience and wisdom that not does require them to physically reincarnate. They review the progress of the soul before them and can discuss aspects of their past lives until an understanding is reached about what is expected for the next life. Achieved with love, compassion and the participation of the soul, it leads to the next physical incarnation having a purpose.

I found this information of such a special importance that I have written a book on the subject called Exploring the Eternal Soul that is available from Amazon.

Can you share with us the most interesting session you have had with a client?

All past life sessions are different and interesting in some way. One case is worth mentioning because it demonstrates how going to the source of a problem from a past life can quickly resolve a current life chronic issue. A client I’ll call Helen was a 35-year-old intelligent and confident single woman. She worked in industry as an accountant and was responsible for managing the business accounts of her company. All through her life she found certain men very difficult to deal with. She had re-occurring thoughts of, ‘They are taking away my children’, which was strange because she had never had children herself. She would get extremely angry, and often tears would roll down her cheeks. Some days she was unable to go to work and this had been going on for about 15 years.

Helen was regressed into a past life of a middle-aged mother with no husband, living in a cottage with two children in the woods. She healed people from the nearby village with herbs in return for food. One day a group of men looking like ‘Quakers’ burst into her house and accused her of being a witch. She was taken to a river and forced to lie face down on a plank by the bank, with her hands tied under it. At the death point Helen found it difficult to breathe and so was quickly taken through it. She found it peaceful as she left her body and was able to look down at her body still tied to the plank floating on the water with the Quaker men standing watching The healer woman had died a traumatic death by drowning tied to the plank and her dying thoughts were, ‘I’m so sorry for the children. They have taken my children from me’.