Thursday, 10 April 2008

Looking for Carroll Beckwith - a review

In a nutshell, the book is about a Captain in the Indianapolis Police Department called Bob Snow, a very down to earth, no-silly type of person, for whom anything 'spiritual' is something not to spend or waste time on.

Due to some strange circumstances, he ended up one day making an appointment with a past live regression therapist. Highly skeptical, he kept putting off this appointment until eventually he went for it.

I found his account of the regression really funny and entertaining, how his sobering thoughts kept coming in between the regressionist's attempt at 'getting him under', until eventually it all clicked and he got the surprise of his life!

Although the whole book was very interesting, I found this part to be the most relevant and important for me, as I have never experienced a past live (or this life) regression and was always curious what the person actually feels and thinks in the process.
I have read many accounts written by regressionists, but haven't read so far a book written by somebody sitting on the couch and experiencing it.

Once the regression was over, he was shocked to realise that he had indeed experienced past lives. But still, not convinced that the memories weren't really pieces of good old imagination, he went ahead to find proof that the lifetimes (particularly one lifetime as a painter) he recalled were just memories of some paintings he has seen somewhere before, and his mind simply put a story together of him painting them.

Next we go along with him on his journey to find the proof that past lives do NOT exist.
And much to his total surprise, what he found was exactly the opposite: not just clues, but proof that he was, indeed that not so famous, actually quite obscure painter, that hardly anyone knew in his time or after.

Not to give away any further storyline, all I can say is the book is worth reading, as much for the strong proof of reincarnation, as for his style of humorous writing, which left me chuckling several times.

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