Part 2 with Jim on Diane Goldner’s Energy Medicine podcast explores Jim’s recent books the memoir of a past-life and how he discovered it. Click for Spotify Click for Apple Diane Goldner explores the tantalizing question of past lives with Gestalt therapist Jim Kepner, who shares vivid memories of another life in his memoir About Time. His story of […]
I know you’ll enjoy the podcast discussion I had with Diane Goldner, a journalist-turned-healer, inspirational interviewer, and teacher. I met Diane during those early retreat years with Rev. Rosalyn Bruyere in Williamstown, Mass. We reconnected recently about my recent books, and she invited me to join her for one of her podcasts. Yes, yes, please! […]
What makes About Time different- Jim Kepner’s About Time stands out as a spiritual memoir that weaves a detailed recollection of a past life in 15th-century France (as Etienne, taken in by the alchemist, Édouard) with Kepner’s decades of work in Gestalt therapy and subtle energy healing. It blends personal storytelling with themes of reincarnation, […]
The things I have to say, and the audience I wish to speak to, cover a wide range, from the psychotherapeutic to the mystical. It’s not easy for me to say things that appeal to such a wide range. Sometimes it’s better to speak to one subset of this range and let the others off […]
One of my teachers says that each life is like a thread weaving its contribution to the tapestry of creation. In each incarnation, we are like a multi-colored thread that comes through the backing with birth, we weave our contribution to the greater picture, and disappear back through the backing upon death. I’ve been reflecting […]
What follows is an edited excerpt from my recent book, Past the Past. Perhaps it will speak to folks who know me from my professional side and who are a bit disturbed by my insistence on writing of that weird spiritual stuff! “I had enough experience in the intuitive and spiritual realms to understand that […]
“Grounding” can be a bit of a buzzword these days. It’s not always clear what the term means. I define grounding as the ability to maintain a sensory connection from one’s head to the feet and ground, especially in the face of difficult emotions or situations. One addition: grounding is even better when you feel […]
Apparently, I’ve Gone Full Weird If you’re reading this, chances are you’re arriving from one of two directions. You may know me from my early professional work—as a Gestalt therapist and author of Body Process and Healing Tasks, books that argued (somewhat insistently) that the body belongs at the center of psychotherapy and trauma therapy. […]
I’ve been diligently working on Book II, titled“Past The Past,” of the series ever since I published Book I, About Time. “Past The Past,” takes up the story as Étienne makes the physical and spiritual journey back to the Château from Brittany and his time with the Old Man. I’ll be blogging some teasers about […]