Biography
ROGER
J. WOOLGER, PH.D, is a Jungian analyst, regression
therapist and professional lecturer with degrees in
psychology, religion and philosophy from Oxford and
London Universities. He trained as an analyst at the
C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich. Born a British citizen,
Roger has lived and taught Jungian and transpersonal
psychology and comparative religion in North America
and England. He has been a Guest Professor at Vassar
College, where he gave the Mary Mellon Memorial lectures
in 1988. He has also been a Visiting Professor at
the University of Vermont (1975) and Concordia University,
Montreal (1979-80). He has led workshops at the New
York Open Center, Esalen Institute and Omega Institute,
and speaks at a broad range of conferences internationally.
Roger
Woolger's first book, Other Lives Other Selves, (Doubleday,
1987) is an innovative synthesis of Jungian depth
psychology, bodywork, yoga psychology, psychodrama
and eastern meditation principles. It has been translated
into German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and French.
Widely regarded as the definitive work in the field
of regression therapy, this and his later works such
as Eternal Return (tape set) and Healing You Past
Lives (2004) integrates aspects of Tibetan Buddhism
and shamanism. The work has evolved in the last decade
into the highly original therapeutic tool which is
called Deep Memory Process. He has discussed
and demonstrated this work on American, Canadian and
Italian network television, recently appearing in
a PBS special in the States. Currently he is focusing
on applying DMPª in the healing of trauma and
researching a a grant to work in US military medical
facilites.
He
runs training programs for therapists in North America
and Britain, also teaching professionals in Holland
and Germany . He has also run a series of training
programs throughout Brazil where in 1996 he was a
keynote speaker at the International Transpersonal
Psychology Conference in Manaus hosted by Stanislav
Grof. He was also an acclaimed keynote speaker at
first Brazilian International Transpersonal Psychology
Conference in Lindoya the following year and at the
Third international Conference in Lisbon in 2003.
He also presented at the First World Congress for
Regression Therapy in Holland in 2003. He has published
numerous articles and reviews in the field of Jungian,
Transpersonal and religious psychology.
Roger
Woolger is a well known teacher in Britain, having
appeared in 1966 in the Channel 4 television series
Transformations and in various other television programs.
In 1997 he gave a much noted talk "The Presence
of Other Worlds in Psychotherapy and Healing"
at the Beyond the Brain Conference co-sponsored by
the British Scientific and Medical Network and the
Institute for Noetic Sciences (California) at Cambridge
University. His talk was the fruit of a lifelong study
of the perennial philosophy and the mystical traditions
of Christianity and Sufism, just as his practice of
psychotherapy was early on shaped by the practice
of Buddhist vipassana meditation and the mysticism
of Simone Weil. The talk in question was later published
in Thinking Beyond the Brain, edited by his colleague
David Lorimer. In 2004 he presented at a Conference
sponsored by the Royal College of Psychiatrists called
Beyond Death: Does Consciousness Survive? This paper
can also be downloaded here.
Roger
has also taught literature, published articles on
dreamwork and meditation and has given film seminars
on Fellini, Bergman and Cocteau. He has been an amateur
Shakespeare actor and teacher. His popular second
book, The Goddess Within (Ballantine, 1989) written
with Jennifer Barker, is an in depth exploration of
feminine psychology as mirrored in the myths, conflicts
and wounding of the Greek goddesses; it draws upon
Rogers scholarly knowledge of Jungian writing, the
history of religion and feminist revisionist history.
This very entertaining book has had much success in
the US, Germany and Brazil.
A
lifelong interest in the Grail legend and the esoteric
spirituality of medieval Europe has inspired Roger
to lead several extraordinary tours to sacred sites
in the South of France, to troubadour and Cathar country;
sites of Black Madonnas and the Magdalene. Future
tours are planned to the Italy of St. Francis, Celtic
Britain, Sites of the Greek Gods and Goddesses, Healers
of Brazil, the Andes and Tantric Sites of India. See
Magdalene Tours.
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