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Other lives, past selves [A Jungian Psychotherapist discovers Past Lives] – Dr Roger Woolger

Working with a woman client in her early forties named Jane,  I helped her relive an unfulfilled life as a woman in pioneer days which ended tragically when a horse and trap overturned and she broke her back and died. In the regression I had not thought to ask her age until our session was almost completed.

"How old were you?" I asked.

"Twenty-seven," she said with certainty.

"Does twenty-seven remind you of anything in this life?" I queried.

Suddenly a look of astonishment came over her.

"My goodness," she exclaimed, "it was at twenty-seven that I was in the hospital with a very serious kidney infection they couldn't properly diagnose. I nearly died."

She reached down the left side of her back. "The pain was terrible, just here, exactly in the place where I broke my back as that pioneer woman."

As we talked further it was clear that twenty-seven was a crisis point both in this life and the past life. Gnawing self-doubt about the direction of her life and her failure to marry had surfaced at this juncture in the past life and it had taken a fatal turn.

When similar issues emerged in her current life it was as though her body had started to repeat and re-enact the old story.