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Through My Looking Glass: A Personal Journey into Vaster States of Consciousness
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Through My Looking Glass: A Personal Journey into Vaster States of Consciousness
What is consciousness — and how far can it reach?
Dr. Winafred Blake Lucas spent a lifetime exploring this question, moving through themajor schools of 20th-century psychology — from Jungian analysis in Munich with a direct colleague of Jung, to Carl Rogers and Rollo May as her own therapists, to pioneering LSD research at UCLA, and ultimately into groundbreaking work in past life regression therapy.
This is not simply a memoir. It is a map of consciousness exploration — tracing Dr.Lucas's journey from prenatal memories through her dying years at 95, and into insights from other lifetimes. Her work anticipated what mainstream psychology is only now beginning to embrace: that consciousness is vaster than we have been taught, and that healing can reach across lifetimes.
Edited and completed by her daughter, Dr. Afton Blake — herself a Jungian depth psychotherapist with fifty years of practice — the book culminates in a living demonstration of regression therapy healing their own mother-daughter relationship.
Learn more: www.drwinafredlucas.com
Testimonials
A Luminous Journey of Consciousness and Courage. Dr. Winafred Blake Lucas has gifted us with an extraordinary memoir that transcends the boundaries of autobiography to become a profound guide for anyone seeking deeper meaning in life. Writing with the warmth, emotional eloquence, and spiritual insight that defined her pioneering work in psychology, Lucas chronicles a remarkable journey from childhood trauma to spiritual awakening—from the limitations of conventional thinking to the expansive awareness she calls "the Golden Flower." What makes this memoir truly exceptional is Lucas's fearless integration of the personal and the universal. Her candid exploration of sexual trauma, chronic illness, relationship struggles, and professional challenges becomes a mirror for our own healing journey. Yet her greatest gift lies in showing us how to move "through the Looking Glass" —beyond the surface of ordinary consciousness into the deeper realms where true transformation occurs. Lucas's pioneering insights into the mind-body connection, energy healing, and past-life therapy feel both ahead of their time and utterly relevant to our current understanding of consciousness. Her dialogues with her own body, her communication with animals, and her encounters with guides and teachers offer practical wisdom for anyone seeking to live with greater awareness and authenticity. This is more than a memoir—it's a masterclass in conscious living, written by a woman who spent nearly a century learning to love fully, heal deeply, and contribute meaningfully to our collective awakening. Essential reading for seekers, healers, and anyone ready to step through their own Looking Glass.
-Diana von Welanetz Wentworth
New York Times bestselling author of numerous books, Founder of the Inside Edge Foundation
for Education (www.InsideEdge.org).
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I woke up from a dream at 3:00AM. I had been reading “Through My Looking Glass” before going to sleep. Dr. Winfred Lucas had been sharing her extraordinary life with a view to her past lives, ethereal numinous Guides, huge life challenges, and her Divine Purpose. All of a sudden my view of who I was magically began changing. I saw my narrow view of who "I took myself to be" to
instantly expand to include my past lives. Then the view expanded to include all lives. Somehow I was connected at all levels to all people. It was as though this new consciousness pervaded everything and all actions and thoughts I had affected all others in a connected web of energies. There was a knowing and also felt sense about the truth of this experience. I had to get up from my bed and quickly capture this because it was so profound. I am writing this our days later and the view and feeling has even gotten stronger. It was as though Winfred had reached through her looking glass into my/our looking glass to create this universal
experience. I believe that is one of her main missions in her multiple lives. Thanks to Afton her daughter for carrying the torch and helping make these writings available. I have had the good fortune over the years to watch Afton grow into her power and even go so far as to say she is standing on her mothers shoulders to carry her work to new levels. We really don’t know our true power and this book provides the keys to accessing our power to heal and transform ourselves, the collective, and all humanity. This book will expand the view of who we think we are empowering us to have real impact in the world at a time when it is sorely needed. Even though Winfred lived in a generation before ours, her insights are timeless because the Truth is always the Truth. She was truly a visionary ahead of her time combining psychology and spirituality long before it became widely accepted. Imagine if your guides and influencers included, Krisna, a Radiant Palestinian Master, Mala a Tibetan Priestess, Sai Baba, Carl Rogers, Carl Jung, Edgar Cayce, Hermann Hesse, Valerie Hunt, Bernie Siegel, Annie Besant, and Deepak Chopra. With that lineup of guides only the highest wisdom can pour forth. And let us not forget Winfred had many dark nights and challenges which are an inspiration for us to carry forward and hold the highest energy possible in the face of great difficulties. The Buddhists say that every sentient being has been your mother, father, sister, brother, son and daughter in an endless web of connection. Obviously, Winifred’s experience of past lives is a direct manifestation of this belief. And breakthroughs in Quantum Physics prove that all that exists is energy waveforms trained as an interconnected holographic field. This is Indra’s Web which was witnessed by Spiritual Masters eons ago before being recently verified by Quantum Physics. And this was my experience of waking from the dream after reading “Though My Looking Glass” to watch myself expand from my point of view through my life to all lives. Wow! What a totally transforming and expansive experience. Thanks to Winfred and Afton for sharing and continuing this Divine Work of helping humanity transform into vaster states of awareness.
-Tim Piering
Author of Mastery - A Technology for Excellence and Personal Evolution
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In Through My Looking Glass, Dr. Winafred Lucas shares her extraordinary journey of spiritual awakening and psychological exploration across nine decades. From her childhood encounters with mystical experiences to her pioneering work in regression therapy and energy healing, Lucas weaves together personal transformation with professional innovation. She documents her quest to find "The Golden Flower” —a metaphor for ultimate spiritual truth—while navigating relationships, illness, and aging. This memoir offers profound insights about the connectionbetween body and mind, the nature of consciousness, and how our energy patterns shape physical reality. Lucas's life exemplifies how one can travel beyond conventional boundaries to discover deeper meaning and achieve healing through awareness and intention. It is the story of a remarkable life worth living and worth reading about.
-Salyer, Ph.D.,
President Emeritus, Philosophical Research Society
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Through the Looking Glass is somehow both already a classic and a contemporary timely piece—reaching into the depths of the roots of psychology from decades past to practices and journeys that are uniquely relevant to the issues of today. Written in a first-
person narrative that readily keeps your attention, Lucas outlines her journey, focusing on the wide range of topics she had encountered, from her pets, her body, her enduring spiritual self over many lifetimes, and her role as a mother, wife, and scholar of
psychology in this one. Lucas’ unique approach to framing each topic provides insight on how one might approach these issues as they persist in the world today. I am appreciative that Lucas documented her journey so beautifully for us and that her daughter, Dr. Blake, resurrected it in such a readable fashion. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in their own journey of finding their golden flower—their distinctive selves and spiritual truth—as material reality inevitably interferes in this tricky and amazing world in which we find ourselves. Lucas so adeptly portrays her journey that she allows us the privilege of seeing her spiritual truth through her own exceptional looking glass.
-Dr. Kristin Cornelius Way
Author and scholar, Archives of California (sci-fi book series) forthcoming
About Me
About Me
I look forward to introducing myself and sharing the richness of depth psychology with you...
Many people come to therapy because they are lost in unfamiliar territory...
...The signposts they once relied on have disappeared, mountains block their path, or traveling companions suddenly become strangers.
As a therapist, I act as your guide through a landscape that may seem unnavigable. As we walk side by side, I provide new perspectives on familiar people and situations, gentle redirection away from toxic patterns, and encouragement as you learn to trust your natural wisdom.
Like life, therapy is a journey in which there are peaks and valleys, joys and sorrows. Each of us will stumble, and this too will be part of the process by which you work toward self-actualization. As we move into our mature years, our perspective broadens - we reflect on how we have contributed to the collective and how we are shaping our legacy in the present moment.
I am committed to being by your side wherever your journey takes you
I focus on helping you manifest your best self. Working together, we use the rich resources of your unconscious to support you in creating deeply meaningful changes in your life. I have over thirty years of experience helping clients develop relationships, heal childhood traumas, let go of toxic patterns, and discover meaning in their lives. I conduct individual, couples', parent & child, and group therapy virtually, by phone, or outdoors.
Selected Areas of Specialization
Spiritual evolution
Creative blocks
LGBTQ issues
Mindful dying
Techniques of Depth Psychology
Depth psychology mines the wealth and creativity of your unconscious to improve the quality of your outer life. Using talk therapy, guided imagery, and dreamwork, we will explore the symbols and archetypal themes that are unique to your life. Through this process, we will tailor therapy to what you're seeking from life and from our time together. The benefits of this work include increased feelings of well-being, greater understanding of self, comfort with challenging feelings, clarified sense of purpose and meaning, greater satisfaction in relationships, and a stronger sense of connection to others and to the natural world.
Psychosynthesis
Psychosynthesis describes an approach to therapy that seeks, in the words of its founder, Roberto Assagioli, "the harmonious integration of the individual into ever larger groups up to the 'one humanity'" (Psychosynthesis, 5). Psychosynthesis represents the culmination of therapy, which moves through four major phases:
Thorough knowledge of one's own personality
Control of its various elements
Realization of one's true Self - the discovery or creation of a unifying center
Psychosynthesis: the formation or reconstruction of the personality around a new center
(Assagioli, Psychosynthesis, 21)
The goal of inner work is to help clients unblock their bottlenecks and learn how to live in partnership with the unconscious rather than at its mercy. -Robert Johnson
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. - Marcel Proust
In my early professionals years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth? -Carl Rogers
My Approach
Humanistic
The humanistic method takes a positive view of human nature and emphasizes the uniqueness of the individual. Therapists in this tradition, who are interested in exploring the nature of creativity, love, and self-actualization, help clients realize their potential through change and self-directed growth. Humanistic therapy is also an umbrella term for gestalt, client-centered therapy, and existential therapy.
Psychodynamic
Psychodynamic therapy, also known as insight-oriented therapy, evolved from Freudian psychoanalysis. Like adherents of psychoanalysis, psychodynamic therapists believe that bringing the unconscious into conscious awareness promotes insight and resolves conflict. But psychodynamic therapy is briefer and less intensive than psychoanalysis and also focuses on the relationship between the therapist and the client, as a way to learn about how the client relates to everyone in their life.
Transpersonal
Transpersonal therapy emphasizes the transcendent or spiritual aspects of a client's development. A transpersonal therapist may help the client cultivate a greater sense of connectedness with others, with nature, and with a higher spirit.
Holistic
Holistic psychology explores not only the physical and mental dimensions of life, but also the spiritual, ecological, relational, somatic, mythological, and transpersonal aspects of the psyche. The separation of these dimensions of the whole person can be seen as contributing to the personal, cultural, and planetary crises and pathologies of our time. The therapy journey offers a path out of division and alienation into healing and regeneration. “Holistic” shares word origins with “heal,” “holy,” and “whole.” A holistic psychology is therefore one that respects the complexity, integrity, and multi-dimensionality of the human being.
Values
In my work, I am guided by the seven principles affirmed and promoted by Unitarian Universalist congregations:
The inherent worth and dignity of every person
Justice, equity, and compassion in human relations
Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth
A free and responsible search for truth and meaning
The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our relationship and in society at large
The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all
Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part
I also draw inspiration from sources acknowledged by Unitarian Universalism:
Direct experience of that transcending mystery and wonder, affirmed in all cultures, which moves us to a renewal of the spirit and an openness to the forces which create and uphold life
Words and deeds of prophetic women and men which challenge us to confront powers and structures of evil with justice, compassion, and the transforming power of love
Wisdom from the world's religions which inspires us in our ethical and spiritual life
Religious teachings which call us to respond to God's love by loving our neighbors as ourselves
Humanist teachings which counsel us to heed the guidance of reason and the results of science, and warn us against idolatries of the mind and spirit
Spiritual teachings of earth-centered traditions which celebrate the sacred circle of life and instruct us to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature
Mentors
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Educational Background
I received my Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Alliant International University, where I was trained in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. I have been practicing psychotherapy in my Los Angeles private practice since 1980.
My work in past life regression therapy was strongly influenced by my mother, Winafred Lucas, Ph.D., who was a pioneer theorist, researcher, and practitioner in that field. I have collaborated with Ron Jue, Ph.D. and Hazel Denning, Ph.D. in their pioneering research and training institutes, which offered intensive regression training to licensed mental health professionals. Other significant influences on my approach to therapy include training with Psychosynthesis Institute, transformation energy training with Brugh Joy, M.D. and Caroline Conger, Ph.D., and Jungian dream group work with Douglas Thomas, Ph.D.
State Licenses
Board Certified Marriage & Family Therapist (MFT), CA (1975-present)
Memberships
CA Association for Marriage & Family Therapists (CAMFT), (1976-present)
International Association for Regression Research & Therapies (formerly Assoc. for Past Life Research & Therapies), (1980-present)
Association for the Advancement of Psychosynthesis (1980-1982)
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