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"They handed me a Golden Flower. ‘This will be the image of Truth for you. Keep it in your heart.’

I took the Golden Flower and looked into it and saw such beauty and joy that no words could describe. Then, plucking up my courage and taking the Golden Flower in my hands, I walked into the mists of my conception."

— Dr. Winafred Blake Lucas, Through My Looking Glass

Dr. Winafred Blake LucaS

1911 — 2006

Her Book Is Here

Through My Looking Glass: A Personal Journey into Vaster States of Consciousness is the memoir the field of depth psychology has been waiting for — a soul’s autobiography spanning nearly a century of living, seeking, and discovering.

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A Life at the Frontier

She began her journey long before Munich. As a child of four and five, she would wander the shores of Puget Sound alone, already slipping into altered states of consciousness, already living in that other world. The inner life was never something she discovered — it was always her native country.

In 1938, as the Nazi shadow was descending over Munich, this same woman — now a young American seeker — was in analysis seven days a week with Joachim von Specht, a direct disciple of Carl Jung. It was von Specht who gave her the image she would carry for the rest of her life: the Golden Flower as the symbol of Truth. While she was in analysis with him, he was seized by the Nazis and lost to a concentration camp.

She never stopped carrying what he had given her. More than seventy years later, she dedicated her memoir to him — “who taught me to go consciously through the Looking Glass.” His words became her title. He never left her side.

That woman was Dr. Winafred Blake Lucas. And that is the kind of life this book contains.

She went on to have both Carl Rogers and Rollo May as her own therapists. She participated in LSD research at UCLA before its prohibition, placing her at the frontier of consciousness exploration decades before the current psychedelic renaissance. She pioneered past-life regression as a recognized therapeutic modality, co-founded a training institute, and authored Regression Therapy: A Handbook for Professionals — the definitive textbook in the field, still in use today.

She was also a founder of the American Saluki Association, a pioneering voice in animal consciousness, and the creator of the world-renowned Srinagar Saluki Kennels — a legacy her daughter lovingly continues.

She died on Christmas Day, 2006, at 95, at her beloved Lake Arrowhead. She was still seeking.

A Daughter Completes the Circle

This memoir was two decades in the making. Winafred was still writing and exploring when she passed. Her daughter, Dr. Afton Blake — herself a Jungian depth psychotherapist with fifty years of practice — carried the manuscript the rest of the way home. She edited and modernized it, wrote the introduction and opening chapter, and added a final chapter demonstrating regression therapy as a living tool for healing their own mother-daughter relationship — across time, and across the threshold of death.

The transmission that began on the shores of Puget Sound, and deepened in a Munich consulting room in 1938, found its way at last into the world.