Welcome to the website for Soul-Centered Healing.

My name is Tom Zinser. I live in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where I have a practice in spiritual counseling and hypnotherapy.

A Model of Healing

The purpose of this website is twofold. First, it is about an original method of healing, developed over the last twenty years, that recognizes the psychic and spirit dimensions of the self and reality.

Soul-Centered Healing recognizes that we are not only physical, psychological, and emotional beings, but we are psychic and spirit beings as well. We live and interact in these dimensions of consciousness just as surely as we live in the physical reality.

Soul-Centered Healing also recognizes that there are phenomena, conditions, entities, and forces operating at these levels that can cause a person conflict, pain and confusion. It is not unusual, for example, during the healing process, for a person to find parts of the self who were created during an experience of trauma and who continue to carry that trauma at an unconscious level. It is not unusual to find that a person is being harassed by a spirit, or is under psychic attack by another person, or is entangled with someone where there has been a past-life conflict or unresolved issue. It is also not unusual to find people who feel blocked or disconnected from their own soul-source energy, who feel hopeless and unlovable, or are falling into despair.

Soul-Centered Healing is a method, using hypnosis, that helps a person access and work at these levels for healing and resolution. I have posted a number of essays about Soul-Centered Healing. You can find them here.

For those who are new to the site, I recommend you begin with the Introduction. This will give you a brief account of how Soul-Centered Healing developed, what it's about, and how it works. Whether you are seeking healing or a deeper understanding about yourself, these essays might help you explore these inner realities in a new way.

If you already know something is happening at these levels and need more immediate assistance, you can contact me here.

Our Shifting Paradigm

The second purpose of this site is to acknowledge that we are, as a culture, undergoing a profound shift in our paradigm of reality.

A paradigm is an abstract term referring to a people's shared worldview, a kind of collective consciousness. A paradigm is formed by a people's basic beliefs, assumptions, values, and rules.

"Paradigm" is a slippery word because there are different levels of community, from tribe to nation to the world.

A paradigm is a worldview, a framework of perception. I would compare it in magnitude to the 16th century Copernican revolution when the general populace eventually came to accept that they were standing, not on flat ground, but on a spinning sphere circling round the sun. This change in perspective had a profound impact on our Western culture. The shift we are facing today is of equal, if not greater magnitude. It will radically alter how we see ourselves and how we think about reality. It will be a change in consciousness.

I believe that one of the central truths of this new paradigm will be the recognition that every person is a soul incarnate, a spiritual being. Before we are Catholic, Protestant, Buddhist, Jew, or Muslim, we are souls. The phrase I've heard – attributed to Teihard de Chardin – says this perfectly:

We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a physical experience.

I believe the truth of this is beginning to dawn upon us as a culture and a peoples. We are more than our physical bodies; we are spiritual beings. There are other levels of consciousness and being beyond our physical senses and ordinary consciousness. Spirits exist and there are realms of spirit. As souls, we are all brothers and sisters. We all come from the same God-stuff, even though, while incarnate, we've agreed to a temporary forgetting. There is nothing in the agreement, however, that says we cannot be conscious of these realities if we choose to. It is a choice for each one of us.

On this site, you'll find essays and articles, book recommendations, and links to others who are exploring and writing about our changing paradigm and our awakening to a new consciousness. I believe the better we understand that the shift is happening, the less frightening it will be, and the easier the transformation will be for our society.

I will be adding new material to the different sections of the site as time permits. When I do, I'll announce it on the News link. Besides what's new, the News link is also a blog. I'll make my own comments from time to time and would like to hear your comments and thoughts as well.

Housekeeping Chores (very easy)

- For those who are not aware, you can adjust the size of the printing on any page by pressing ctrl + / - in Windows and cmd + / - for Macs. Find the size most comfortable for you.

-This website was designed as a place to revisit. It's not the kind of website you can do in a day. I invite you, though, when you have time to revisit and explore different facets of the inner world; peruse the many articles for one that catches your interest at the moment, or fits exactly what you're looking for.

I will also be posting new essays on the site from time to time about Soul-Centered Healing, the paradigm shift, and the psychic and spirit realities. I hope it is a site that you can use as a resource, where your visit leaves you feeling more connected and energized as a soul.

- Finally, I would like to hear from you as well. I invite you to share your thoughts, comments, or questions. You can do that in the Guestbook, or in reply to one of the postings in News.

On a different note:

I am not an expert in web design. I am self taught and very aware that there is so much more to learn. So, you are bound to run into broken links and mis-formatted pages. I apologize in advance. Please pardon my dust wherever you might find it. I will be working to correct any problems and mistakes. It is a work in progress. If you have suggestions about the content or design of this site, or to report a problem, click on Contact or Comment at anytime.