Flesh Off the Bone: Dream Descent Through Past Life Trauma

Every night our dreams speak to us in the long forgotten language of our souls. They carry lifetimes of experiences and feelings that can lead to our deepest healing and a powerful connection to the divine realm. If we listen and can understand, they tell us all things are possible even love that bridges lifetimes.

Flesh Off the Bone: Dream Descent through Past Life Trauma chronicles the story of two spiritual seekers willing to face into the deepest pain and fear to reclaim a powerful and abiding love. Archetypal Dreamwork founders Marc Bregman and Christa Lancaster invite us to journey with them through their dreams into the caverns of hidden trauma experienced in past lives where they rediscovered the deep love they once knew together.

Inspired by the work of Carl Jung, Marc Bregman began working with his own dreams and those of his clients in the early 1970s. In 2004, he founded North of Eden with his then business partner, Christa Lancaster. They shared a powerful dynamic as teachers and have since traveled the world presenting at conferences and centers including Kripalu, the International Association for the Study of Dreams conference, and next year, Esalen Institute. Archetypal Dreamwork has been discussed on Oprah Winfrey s Soul Series, on the New York Times website, and on the National Public Radio show On Point.

Over the years, as their own personal work and that of their clients began to deepen, Bregman and Lancaster discovered that the healing intention of the dream goes beyond the present lifetime. Once the issues of this lifetime resolve, deeper issues of past lives emerge to be felt and transformed. Having worked together as colleagues for over twenty years, they shared a deep friendship and an unshakable commitment to bringing Archetypal Dreamwork into the world.

After failed marriages for each of them, they suddenly found themselves dreaming of a more intimate relationship together. What they could not have imagined was the intensity with which their past lives would rise to meet them in their dreams as they surrendered to the passionate feelings they had for each other.

Flesh Off the Bone addresses the phenomenon of regressive dreaming through the lens of the journey Bregman and Lancaster took together. Their dreams clearly led them back to the 1200s and a lifetime in Southern France where they lived together as spouses and teachers but ultimately were killed for their Gnostic faith. This path required them to face into the terror and trauma of their persecution lifetimes ago, as well as open themselves wholly to the incredible love and support of the divine world which has safely held their souls for hundreds of years. After lifetimes apart, they reclaimed not only their souls, but their life together, united in love and a deep commitment to bring God s work, as they once lived it, back to the world.

Since their own transformative journeys, Bregman and Lancaster have been helping others recognize and work with regressive dreams going beyond the realm of psychological healing and into the descent of the soul where the human spirit can be made whole again. The healing work of the dream is nothing short of the complete resolution and reclamation of the soul s capacity to evolve, they write.

This important book opens new territory in the fields of both psychological and spiritual healing, territory open to all who have the courage to take the journey offered by their dreams.