This is the past lives podcast episode 223 and I'm your host Simon Bown.

My mission here at the past lives podcast is to investigate evidence that demonstrate survival of the human soul.

We will look at past life memories, near-death experiences, spirit communication and other

incredible phenomena.

And look out for the past lives podcast episodes called Paranormal Stories and they're

released every Thursday.

And this week I'm talking to Paul Williamson about his book, Past Lives, The Evolution of the Soul.

Paul has been practicing past life progression professionally for 33 years.

He is a qualified hypnotherapist and a member of the UK GHE.

In the early 1990s he completed a three-year practitioner course in past life therapy with Dr. Roger Woolgar.

He's also qualified as a healer, member of the National Federation of Speechual Healers,

and in 2012 he became a registered practitioner of Life Between Lives Therapy with the Newton Institute.

Hi, Paul, thanks a lot of coming on the podcast.

Thank you very much, Simon, for having me. And it's a pleasure. Looking forward to it.

So we're going to be talking about your book, which is past lives, the evolution of the soul.

And this is all to do with past life regression, hypnosis and all sorts of things about reincarnation.

But can you tell us, how did it start for you?

Oh, well, this particular book, I mean, I've written actually, I'm onto my 11th book at the moment,

which I'm busy finishing at the moment, I'm here in Australia.

This book came about because I was regularly giving talks at the big mind-body-spirit festivals in Australia.

And the publishers of the book, Animal Dreaming, they had a stall at all of these festivals,

and where I was giving these talks, they used to listen in to what I was saying. They were very impressed, and they said to me that they thought that I should write a book, which would

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