Deep Memory Process (DMP) can be described as using one’s imagination in a different, more intentional way. The imagination is often dismissed, ignored, or perceived as simply fantasy. Instead of using the imagination to daydream or fantasize, DMP uses the imagination to access critical subconscious memories which reside in the Energetic Chain of Events (ECE). With the memories recovered in DMP, clients can apply this information to their current life and effectively erase karmic patterns which are attached to their ECE and are still plaguing them today. “When I talk about imagination here, this is what I mean: not made-up fantasy, but the visionary capacity that is in us all. This capacity is both the language of and the gateway to the soul, transcending time and space to let us access eternal realities only dimly known to our reasoning minds” (Woolger, p. 7).

Dr. Woolger explains how DMP allows us to tap into an old story that is still playing in the background of our consciousness; the story behind the story. He references Freud’s important notion of repetition compulsion, defined as an “uncontrollable urge to replay old behaviors or stories we are no longer conscious of” (Woolger, p. 12). If there are things we failed to do in a past life, setbacks we encountered, or unfinished business, it all gets passed on to the next incarnation of the soul and perceived as work that needs to be done. 

As Dr. Woolger points out, not only are we using the imagination to stimulate unconscious memories, but we are in fact traveling to a different, alternate reality during DMP. “This is precisely what happens in past-life journeying. When we tap into the vast memory store that is both our and all humankind’s, we can move anywhere in human history instantly. It is not a slow, laborious process at all; it is no different from remembering events in this life” (Woolger, p. 22). 

The problem with unfinished business of the soul is that sometimes it becomes stuck in repetition compulsion. As hard as someone may try in psychotherapy to rid themselves of a current life phobia, the initial sensitizing event (ISE) may reside in a traumatic memory from a past life, and it will keep playing in the background of present-day consciousness until the memory is brought into conscious awareness. All the while, attached to this unconscious memory are feelings, images, scripts, sensations, and behaviors which are all related to the circumstances of the ISE. In particular, one’s dying thoughts from a past life often determine the karmic challenges and circumstances of the subsequent life. 

DMP focuses on the death in past lives, centering around three basic questions: (1) What am I thinking at the moment of death? (2) What am I feeling at the moment of death? (3) Do I have strong physical sensations or pain at the moment of death? (Woolger, p. 46). The answers to these questions can often shed light on the reason behind repetition compulsion, essentially freeing the client from negative behavior patterns because these behaviors can be reframed as a reaction to something that happened a long time ago in a former life. 

By Casey Allard, 2022

References:

Woolger, R. (2010). Healing Your Past Lives: Exploring the Many Lives of the Soul. 

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