Pianist Khatia Buniatishvili is Inspired by Composer and Virtuoso Franz Liszt
A fan of our website wrote to me about a child prodigy pianist named Khatia Buniatishvili, who was born in the country of Georgia, which was once a part of the Soviet Union. This fan shared the following quote from Khatia regarding the first commercial recording of a her playing the piano, which occurred in 2011:
Buniatishvili: “I was always aware that my first recording had to be a portrait of Liszt. Only he would enable me to present as a unity the many aspects of my soul.”
This led to the hypothesis or theory that Khatia may be the reincarnation of Franz Liszt.
Khatia Buniatishvili as the Reincarnation of Franz Liszt
Subsequently, in a session with trance medium Kevin Ryerson, who channels a spirit guide named Ahtun Re who has demonstrated the ability to make past life matches with a high degree of accuracy. Ahtun Re affirmed that Khatia Buniatishvili is the reincarnation of Franz Liszt.
Past Lives for Ellen DeGeneres and Comedian Louis Anderson
In a session with trance medium Kevin Ryerson, I asked Ahtun Re, the spirit guide that Kevin channels who has demonstrated the ability to make reincarnation identifications with a high degree of accuracy, for a past life for media figure Ellen DeGeneres. Ahtun Re told me that she was a silent movie actress who was featured in movies produced by the comedic actor Fatty Arbuckle.
Past Lives for Oprah Winfrey And Gayle King
A past life for Ellen as the actress Virginia Vance was later confirmed in a session with Kevin Ryerson | Ahtun Re. To view this case, as well as past lives for Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King, please go to:
Louis Anderson as the Reincarnation of Fatty Arbuckle
At the time, a past life for Arbuckle in the silent movie era was not identified, but a supporter of ReincarnationResearch.com provided the hypothesis that Fatty Arbuckle had reincarnated as the contemporary comedian Louis Anderson.
A physical resemblance between Arbuckle and Anderson was obvious and in a subsequent session with Kevin Ryerson, Ahtun Re concurred that Louis Anderson was Fatty Arbuckle in a past lifetime.
Physical Resemblance in Reincarnation Cases: The facial features of Fatty Arbuckle and Louis Anderson are very similar. Also the facial features of Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King are consistent with their past life personas.
Past Life Talent: Fatty Arbuckle was one of the most successful comedians of the silent movie era. Similarly, Louis Anderson has been a very successful comedian in contemporary times.
Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King also demonstrate talents from their past lives.
Please note that there is no political motive in this article.
Lin-Manuel Miranda as the Reincarnation of Aaron Burr and Past Life Karma
When the musical Hamilton became a sensation in the United States and I learned that it was written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, a composer and lyricist of Puerto Rican descent, I wondered why Miranda was motivated to create a musical celebrating the life of Alexander Hamilton.
I suspected that there was a past life and karmic connection. My immediate intuition was that Miranda was Aaron Burr in a past incarnation, as Burr had killed Hamilton in a duel fought with pistols. It made sense that if Burr ended Hamilton’s life and political career, from a karmic point of view, the soul of Burr would have the desire to resurrect Hamilton in public consciousness.
Though at the time, I did not know the appearance of Miranda, I found that the facial features of Burr and Miranda did match.
In researching Burr, the only reference I could find regarding any interest in theatre or music revealed that Burr financed his daughter, Theodosia, to be trained in music and dance.
In a session with Kevin Ryerson, Ahtun Re, the spirit guide that the Kevin channels, who has demonstrated the ability to make past life matches with a high degree of accuracy, affirmed that Lin-Manuel Miranda is the reincarnation of Aaron Burr.
Of interest, the prime narrator in the the musical Hamilton is Aaron Burr. As such, Miranda, as the reincarnation of Burr, speaks in his own voice regarding his portrayal of the protagonist of his musical, Alexander Hamilton.
Past Life Talents
Usually, souls show the same abilities and interests from lifetime to lifetime. To review reincarnation cases that demonstrate this principle, please go to:
As such, Aaron Burr’s career as a military and political figure is not consistent with Miranda’s career as a theatre figure. People can have secondary traits relative to their primary interests. For example, Thomas Jefferson, who was a nemesis to Burr, was a musician as well as a political figure.
On the other hand, Lin-Manuel Miranda has demonstrated political activism, meeting with United States’ politicians to urge financial relief for Puerto Rico.
Burr may have had past lives focused on music and theatre. One must keep in mind that during the American Revolution, there were few careers available in music and theater. The founding of the American nation had a Puritan heritage, in which theater was considered the “work of the devil.”
Past Life Karma
In portraying the life of Alexander Hamilton, whose image is provided to the right, in contemporary times as a hero of the American Revolution, Miranda has resurrected the persona he killed in a past lifetime, Hamilton.
There is another karmic connection involved in these cases, as President John Adams was one of Aaron Burr’s few public advocates. In addition, Adams was not a supporter of Hamilton, who wanted to start a war between the United States and France. Adams quashed Hamilton’s wish to become the Commander-In-Chief of this proposed war, as Adams perceived that financially and politically, the fledging American nation could not survive this proposed conflict.
Historians agree that John Adams’ analysis was correct, though his decision to avoid war with France led to his reelection defeat, as Hamilton, who was a member of the same political party, the Federalists, worked against Adams in an effort to elect his own political ally.
Elon Musk, Who has been Identified as the Reincarnation of Thomas Edison, Also Neutralizes Karma with Nikola Tesla
As Lin-Manuel Miranda | Aaron Burr seems to have made amends with the soul of Alexander Hamilton, the same situation has happened regarding the reincarnation of Thomas Edison. Edison was in fierce competition with Nikola Tesla regarding how to delivery electricity to the emerging, American, industrial nation.
Edison favored a system involving Direct Electrical Current (DC), while Tesla promoted his invention of Alternating Current (AC). Edison fought a bitter battle, but ultimately Tesla’s system won out.
Edison was a wealthy man at the end of his life, while Tesla died poor in a room of the New Yorker hotel.
I believe that Thomas Edison | Elon Musk named his electric car company Tesla in a karmic nod to his past life adversary.
To review the reincarnation cases of Thomas Edison | Elon Musk and past life associates such as J.P Morgan, please go to:
Physical Resemblance in Reincarnation Cases: The facial architecture of Aaron Burr and Lin-Manuel Miranda is consistent. The facial features of Alexander Hamilton and Alexander Haig are also similar.
Past Life and Karmic Relationships: Alexander Hamilton was killed by Aaron Burr, who reincarnated as Lin-Manuel Miranda, who has equalized that karma by resurrecting Hamilton’s image in contemporary times.
In addition, there seem to be a past life and karmic relationships between President John Adams, Aaron Burr | Lin-Manuel Miranda and Alexander Hamilton.
After Veiwing Bohemian Rhapsody, Freddie Mercury’s Past Life as Rabindranath Tagore is Revealed in an Intuition
A friend and collaborator of mine, Terry Olesen of Australia, viewed the movie Bohemian Rhapsody, which is about the rock band Queen. Afterwards, Terry had the spontaneous intuition that Freddie Mercury, the songwriter and lead singer of Queen, was the “reincarnation of Tagore.” At the time Terry knew little about Rabindranath Tagore, only that he had been a poet from the country of Bengal.
Further evaluation revealed that the facial features of Tagore and Mercury are consistent, talents are similar and that this appeared to be a plausible reincarnation match.
In a subsequent session with Kevin Ryerson, Ahtun Re, the Egyptian spirit guide channeled through Kevin who has demonstrated the ability to make past life matches with a high degree of accuracy, affirmed that Freddie Mercury is indeed the reincarnation of Rabindranath Tagore.
The Life of Rabindranath Tagore and his Nobel Prize and the Bard of Bengal
Bengal is a country located just northeast of India. Rabindranath Tagore was born there in the city of Kolkata (previously known as Calcutta) in 1861. He was a poet, musician and artist. Tagore started writing poetry when he was 8 years of age and a book of his poems was published when he was 16. In 1913, when he was 52 years of age, Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. His accomplishments led to him being known as “The Bard of Bengal.”
Rabindranath Tagore’s National Anthems Reflect Freddie Mercury’s Songs
In addition, Tagore was a prolific composer and wrote over 2000 songs. Two of his songs were selected to be national anthems, those of Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Tagore died in 1941, in the city of his birth, Kolkata.
Freddie Mercury was born in 1946, 5 years after Tagore died. Though Mercury is known as a British singer-songwriter, he was actually born in Africa to parents of Persian (Iranian) ancestry who had been born in India.
Upon his birth, Freddie Mercury was given the name of Farrokh Bulsara. He grew up in Africa and then, when his parents returned to their country of birth, he lived in India.
When Farrokh was in his late teens, his family moved to England. When he was 24 years of age, he formed the rock band Queen, along with guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor. Farrokh Bulsara, at this time, took on the stage name Freddie Mercury.
Freddie Mercury wrote Musical Anthems, like Rabindranath Tagore: Bohemian Rhapsody
Freddie Mercury, like Tagore, was a prolific songwriter and wrote the majority of Queen’s hits. Also, like Tagore, Mercury’s songs, such as We Are the Champions, have an anthem-like quality. The movie about Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody, was released in November 2018 and became the highest-grossing musical biographical film of all time.
Freddie Mercury was bisexual and died of AIDS in November 1991. Tagore had been married to a woman and had several children.
Classical Musicians have Reincarnated a Rock Stars
Many musicians of past gone days, including classical composers, have reincarnated as rock stars, showing how musical talent adapts to the musical style of an era. To review these cases, please go to:
Past Life Talent: Rabindranath Tagore’s talents as a songwriter and singer appear in the career of Freddie Mercury.
Change of Nationality and Ethnic Affiliation: Rabindranath Tagore was Bengali, while Freddie Mercury was born in Africa to parents of Persian ancestry, who had been born in India. Freddie moved to England as a teenager and is know to the world as a British rock star.
Bryce Dudal as the Reincarnation of Ludwig Von Beethoven
A friend of mine, who has followed my work in reincarnation research, brought to my attention the musical performance of a teenage pizza delivery guy named Bryce Dudal, who, after delivering a pizza to a family who owns a baby grand piano, performed a flawless performance of a composition by Ludwig Von Beethoven.
A video of this performance was posted on social media, which led to Bryce Dudal being featured on an episode of the EllenDeGeneres Show. In comments made on social media regarding this DeGeneres episode, people noted that not only did Bryce Dudal perform Beethoven passionately, they noted that Bryce has an uncanny physical resemblance to Ludvig Van Beethoven.
Ellen DeGeneres Gifts a Piano to Bryce Dudal, Who Aspires to be a Beethoven Concert Pianist
As part of the Ellen DeGeneres show, Bryce Dudal was gifted a Yamaha piano. Bryce told Ellen that his dream is to play piano, particularly the compositions of Ludwig Von Beethoven, to audiences around the world.
In a session that I had with Kevin Ryerson, who channels a spirit guide named Ahtun Re who has demonstrated the ability to make past life matches with a high degree of accuracy, it was confirmed that Bryce Dudal is an incarnation of Ludwig Von Beethoven.
Gustavo Dudame, Los Angeles Philharmonic Conductor, as Another Incarnation of Beethoven
Of interest, I posted another incarnation of Beethoven years ago, in which the conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustavo Dudame, was also identified as a reincarnation of Beethoven. An image of Dudame in a tuxedo is provided to the right.
Facial features of Beethoven, Gustavo Dudame and Bryce Dudal are consistent. Click on images to enlarge them.
Split Reincarnation Cases or Parallel Lives
The reincarnation cases involving Bryce and Gustavo represent cases of Split Incarnation, in which a soul can animate two bodies at a time.
Ian Stevenson, MD of the University of Virginia also documented Split Incarnation cases. Stevenson termed these as “Cases with Anomalous Dates,” as lifetimes in these cases overlapped in time.
Ellen DeGeneres as the Reincarnation of Comedic Actress Virginia Vance
In addition, a past life of Ellen DeGeneres has been established. To learn more, please go to:
Physical Resemblance in Reincarnation Cases: The facial features of Ludwig Von Beethoven, Bryce Dudal and Gustavo Dudame are consistent. Ellen DeGeneres also has the same facial features as Virginia Vance. Click on images to enlarge them.
Past Life Talent and Reincarnation Prodigies: The musical talent of Ludwig Von Beethoven appears in the lives of Bryce Dudal and Gustavo Dudame. The comedic abilities of Virginia Vance are observed in the career of Ellen DeGeneres.
Split Incarnation or Parallel Lives: Beethoven has reincarnated in the personas of Bryce Dudal and Gustavo Dudame, who are incarnate at the same time.
Grace VanderWaal became a sensation in the United States when she won the eleventh season of America’s Got Talent at the age of 12 in 2016. A unique part of her musical act is that she accompanies her singing by playing the ukulele.
In 2018, a supporter of ReincarnationResearch.com, who identifies himself as Mike W. from Florida, wrote to me forwarding the hypothesis that Grace may be the reincarnation of George Harrison, the lead guitarist of the legendary band, The Beatles.
Grace VanderWaal as the Reincarnation of George Harrison
Mike pointed out that Grace, as a songwriter, is very advanced for her age. He also pointed out something that I didn’t know, that George Harrison loved the ukulele and carried a “uke” wherever he went. A hand written note that Harrison wrote about his beloved instrument is provided below and link to a video of Harrison playing the ukulele is provided a the bottom of this article. Click on images to enlarge them.
Mike also pointed out that George Harrison once created the soundtrack for a movie entitled Wonderwall and as George had a great sense of humor, the soul of Harrison may have decided to incarnate into a family with the name VanderWaal. There is ample evidence that souls plan lifetimes. To review this evidence, please go to:
There is also evidence that individuals can have the same or similar facial features from one lifetime to another. I did observe that Grace and George Harrison do have consistent facial architecture.
In a session that I had with trace medium Kevin Ryerson, the spirit guide Ahtun Re, who has demonstrated the ability to make past life matches with a high degree of accuracy, affirmed that Grace VanderWaal is the reincarnation of George Harrison. Harrison, by the way, was very interested in the culture India, in which reincarnation is a fundamental belief. As such, it is likely that Harrison believed in reincarnation.
George H. W. Bush as the Reincarnation of Admiral Richard Howe
In doing research for my book, Return of the Revolutionaries, involving reincarnated figures from the American Revolutionary War, a past life for George H.W. Bush was revealed. He was a British Admiral, Richard Howe, who was in command of the British fleet assigned to put down the American Revolution, which had its start in Boston, Massachusetts.
Though the facial resemblance is not the best in this reincarnation case, the overall bone structure is similar. Facial bone structure is what seems to stay the most consistent from one lifetime to another, though soft tissue features can be modified by genetic factors. Click on images to enlarge them.
Richard Howe placed his ships in the Boston Harbor, with the ships’ many cannons poised to destroy the city of Boston.
Though at the time Britain was the greatest military power in the world, George Washington, who was nominated to be the leader of the US Patriot Army by John Adams, drove the British naval fleet from the Boston Harbor by placing artillery captured at the Battle of Ticonderoga on the hills overlooking Boston. Howe understood that if the artillery cannons were fired, his fleet would be destroyed.
To avoid disaster for the British Navy, Howe ordered his ships to evacuate the Boston Harbor. It was the first military victory for the infant nation of the United States.
Note that George H. W. Bush was a US Naval aviator who was shot down during World War II. As such, he was an American war hero in contemporary times, but as Richard Howe he was a British military hero during the time of the American Revolution.
In trying to understand this course of events, I asked about this situation to the spirit guide Ahtun Re, who I have been working with through the mediumship of Kevin Ryerson since 2001. Ahtun Re has demonstrated the ability to make accurate past life matches. I asked Ahtun Re how a British Admiral in the American Revolutionary War became a President of the United States, a nation that was Howe’s former foe.
Ahtun Re told me that though Admiral Howe was a devoted servant to his nation, Great Britain, he had great sympathy for the concept of a country governed by its citizens, rather than by a royalty installed by hereditary birth. Though Howe was loyal to his country, he was fascinated and supportive of the ideals of the new American nation. Indeed, history books have affirmed Richard Howe’s sympathy to the American ideals.
As a soul, Richard Howe planned to be reborn into the United States to become one of its advocates and leaders.
George W. Bush as the Reincarnation of Patriot Daniel Morgan and Al Gore as Horatio Gates Reborn
In a related case, George H. W. Bush’s son, President George W. Bush, has been identified as the US Patriot military officer Daniel Morgan, who was a hero in the Battle of Ticonderoga. The Patriot General in charge of that battle was Horatio Gates. Gates lauded the heroism of Morgan in the Battle of Ticonderoga.
Horatio Gates in contemporary times has been identified as Al Gore, who was George W. Bush’s opponent in the US Presidential election of 2000. I did a radio interview by the psychic and physical medium Uri Geller in the year 2000 shortly before George W. Bush defeated Al Gore in a hotly contested election. I discussed the past lives of Al Gore and George W. Bush during the American Revolution in that interview.
Though I didn’t know it at the time, Uri is a friend of Al Gore. After the interview, Uri told me he would telephone Al Gore, who was in the White House at the time as Vice President to Bill Clinton, to advise him of this information.
These reincarnation cases show how adversaries in one war, such as Howe | Goerge W. H. Bush, Morgan | George W. Bush and Gates | Gore, can reincarnate to promote a shared ideal.
I had the pleasure of meeting George W. Bush’s Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, at an event in Washington, DC, in which I told her of the Daniel Morgan | George W. Bush reincarnation case. She surprised me by acknowledging that she knew of Daniel Morgan of the American Revolutionary War. I hope she told her boss of this past life connection.
Bill Clinton as the Reincarnation of Continental Congress President Peyton Randolph
The emotional friendship that evolved between George H. W. Bush and the person who defeated him in his bid for reelection, President Bill Clinton, has been much publicized. In my book, Return of the Revolutionaries, Clinton, in a past life, has been identified as a leader of the American Revolution named Peyton Randolph.
Peyton was the President of the First Continental Congress of the United States, but died before the Second Continental Congress, in which the Declaration of Independence, was signed. Though Peyton Randolph did not live long enough to witness the creation of the United States, he reincarnated to be its President in the election of 1992.
I sent a copy of my Revolutionaries book to President Clinton after it was published in 2003. I was very surprised and thankful when I received a card from him thanking me for the book, noting that my book looked “fascinating.” Click on the letter to enlarge it.
These reincarnation cases show how enemies in a prior war can become allies in a greater cause, in this case, the cause of freedom and democracy.
Other political reincarnation cases of contemporary times include those of:
Past Life Physical Resemblance: The facial features of Admiral Richard Howe and George H. W. Bush are roughly consistent, as are those in the other reincarnation cases cited.
Past Life Talents: Richard Howe was a military leader of the British Empire, just as George H. W. Bush was a US naval aviator and the Commander of Chief of the United States.
Change in Nationality: Richard Howe was a British military leader in the war between England and the fledgling United States. Howe reincarnated into the United States as a George H. W. Bush, a leader of democracy, a concept that was dear to Richard Howe.
If people understood that souls can change nationality, religion and ethnic affiliation from one lifetime to another, the world would become more peaceful place, as most wars are based on differences in these cultural markers of identity. A case in point is the:
Relationships Renewed through Reincarnation: It has been noted that George W. H. Bush, in his past lifetime as Admiral Howe, was a contemporary of Daniel Morgan, a US Patriot Colonel and then General in the American Revolutionary War. Morgan reincarnated as George W. Bush, the son of Admiral Howe | George H. W. Bush. As such, enemies in one lifetime can become family in another.
Similarly, the Patriot General of the Battle of Fort Ticonderoga, Horatio Gates, reincarnated as Al Gore. Gates was the officer in charge of Colonel Daniel Morgan. Gates lauded the heroism of Morgan in the Battle of Ticonderoga, but they reincarnated as political foes in the personas of Al Gore and George W. Bush.
In addition, a military figure during George H. W. Bush’s service as US President became the future US commander of the war in Afghanistan under his son, President George W. Bush. This US General, Tommy Franks, has been identified as the reincarnation of George Washington.
Reincarnation Case of George Washington | Tommy Franks
Washington, recall, forced the navy of Admiral Richard Howe to evacuate the Boston Harbor by the cannons captured at Ticonderoga. Again, past life foes, in the personas of Richard Howe | George H. W. Bush and George Washington | Tommy Franks, have reincarnated to become allies.
The bottom line is that leaders of humanity must strive to secure ideals for a more peaceful and compassionate world, a vision that I am sure that the soul of Admiral Richard Howe | President George H. W. Bush would endorse. God bless their soul.
Source: Communication from the deceased in this case was facilitated through the direct voice mediumship of Leslie Flint. George Woods and Betty Greene were present during tape recordings of Flint’s mediumship sessions and they asked questions of the deceased, who spoke in their own natural voices. Neville Randall reviewed these recordings and summarized the dialogues in his book, Life After Death. Dialogue in the article provided below has been slightly edited to make it more concise.
Lionel Barrymore describes his Arrival in the Spirit World
In a session that occurred on February 9, 1957, a voice with an American accent came through. Betty Greene recognized the voice as that of the actor Lionel Barrymore, who had died two years before of a heart attack while watching television in his Hollywood home.
(Barrymore is best known for his role as the nasty banker, Mr. Potter, in the classic movie, It’s a Wonderful Life, whose star was Jimmy Stewart. In the photo provided to the above, Barrymore is seated and Stewart is standing with finger pointed at Barrymore).
Betty Greene asked, “You are Lionel Barrymore, aren’t you?”
“Yes, how did you know that?”
George Woods: “When you first passed over, how did you find things? Did you find a world similar to this one?”
“Well, I would say similar. In certain respects, similar as far as nature is concerned. But I certainly didn’t see any streetcars and automobiles, and all that kind of thing. But then again, I understand on the lower spheres nearer to Earth, those things exist. Everything is a matter of the state of mind of the people who inhabit that particular place.
When I first came here, I remember quite well waking up in a beautiful garden. Not unlike a garden I had been very fond of in my youth. And my father and mother were there. When I open my eyes, there was my mother just as I have remembered her when she was a much younger woman. It was a wonderful experience.
Then a crowd of friends came and made themselves known to me. People that I had known in my earlier years.
It seemed in my first experience that I was meeting people that I had known way back when I was quite a young lad. As you know, when I became older, I had a crotchety leg, and trouble one way and another, and I often used to daydream back into my youth. I guess that as I passed over, my last Earthly thoughts were to do with my earlier years.
Pets in Heaven
I have a dog here that I was very fond of. If anyone had told me years ago on Earth that animals existed after death, I would not have believed it.
I never really believed that dogs and cats and horses had a soul. I realize now that we are very much responsible for the animal kingdom and that they depend a great deal more on us than we realize.
I also have my brother John with me. We did not always hit it off on Earth, but we get on very well here.”
Theatre in Afterlife features Morality Plays
Woods: “How do you spend your life on that side? What do you do?”
“Well, I’m still interested in the theater. We do have entertainment, I suppose you would call it, although it is not exactly that. Everything we do here has a motive, has a purpose. Every play that is produced, and everything that is achieved and done here has a real purpose, not only just to give people pleasure and entertainment.
For instance, we put on plays that you’d call morality plays into the lower spheres and we reproduce the lives of certain individuals that we see in the audience. It helps them to see themselves as they really are. In consequence, they begin to think more deeply and it helps them to sort themselves out and desire a better existence.
I have met Florenz Ziegfield and a crowd of others here who still produce what you’d call kind of extravaganzas.
(In the photo provided to the right, Ziegfield is standing in the middle, surrounded by his showgirls.}
Here we treat nature in the true sense, and in the right way. Here we are very conscious of the great gifts that have been bestowed on us in every sense and every way. All types of people here find all sort of interesting work to do. There are some that create beautiful clothes, others who design beautiful pictures, or perhaps scenery for our plays. There are others who compose great music.
Music in the Afterlife
Music here which is far removed from anything you’ve heard on Earth–orchestras numbering several hundreds of people and each one an artist. Here some of the great composers have composed new works, so magnificent that I couldn’t begin to tell you. As they are playing you can see the atmosphere changing lights and colors. It is a most magnificent sight. Oh, I could go on telling you all kinds of things.”
Woods: “What sort of theaters are there? What are they like? Are they like theaters on Earth?”
“Yes. Some are very like theaters on Earth, and some are very far removed. We have the kind of theater very much like what you see on Earth, with beautiful ceiling and carpeting, and the auditorium beautifully appointed and all that sort of thing. Also, we have great open amphitheaters in natural surroundings. Here are produced all kinds of plays. Great plays from the earliest times, and by men and women who’ve made an art of writing and producing and acting.”
Shakespeare in Heaven
All the great plays of Shakespeare are produced here, and what is more interesting still newer plays, greater plays, much greater plays than you know on Earth. And Shakespeare is still writing and producing and acting too.”
Woods: “Do they still write plays in the same style as they did?”
“No. As one gains more experience in a new existence, naturally your style changes. If Shakespeare were living today, he would write great plays as he does on this side, but of course they would be in the modern idiom. Sometimes I come back to Earth and go to your theaters, watch the acting and plays. With a few exceptions, most of it is pretty bad.”
(Note from Walter Semkiw: In contemporary times, Shakespeare reincarnated as the African-America playwright August Wilson, who the press has dubbed an “American Shakespeare.” This reincarnation case is featured in my book Born Again.)
Woods: “Have you met Shakespeare?”
“I have met Shakespeare, and I can settle the argument once and for all. There is no doubt about it. He wrote his own plays. It doesn’t mean to say he didn’t sometimes use old plays and refurbish them. But you can take it from me that when you have a Shakespeare play, it’s Shakespeare’s”
Singers in the Afterlife
Woods: “Have you met any famous singers on your side?”
“Sure, I have met many a famous singer here.”
Woods: “Kathleen Farron. Have you met her?”
“Kathleen Ferrier, you mean. The young English lady who passed over some years ago. Yes, I met her. She’s a magnificent soul and she has a wonderful voice. You know half her charm was not only her voice, but her wonderful personality and character. It came out in her voice. I’ve listened to many a great artists on Earth, but I have known them to be like wild cats backstage, quite different to their voice. But this one you are talking about is quite different.”
Barrymore paused and then returned.
“Sorry to have to break away like that, but it is quite an effort to talk at length. I’ll come and speak to you again some other time.”
Playwright Oscar Wilde describes his Life in Heaven
Five years later on August 20, 1962, a rich and fruity male voice came through.
Betty Greene: “Mr. Wilde, can you tell us something of your life on the other side? What are you doing?”
“I must admit, it’s a relief to be asked to discuss one’s life over here in preference to one’s own life on Earth. Because in any case my life on Earth is pretty well-known among gossip mongers. If I were to say to you that my life here is not unlike my life on Earth, you would probably be horrified. But it happens to be perfectly true. And I’ve no regrets about it whatsoever!
I’m perfectly happy and perfectly contented, and I live a life of delicious sin. It is no longer sin here to be human and to be natural. But on Earth to be natural is to be sinful. Over here one can be sinful because it is natural. The world has strange ideas of sin. I live a natural existence here, and I’m perfectly happy.”
Woods: “What are you doing?”
“Actually, seriously, I’m still writing and I’m still having my plays performed, and I’m often called on to go down into the lower spheres to help.
Strange, no doubt, you may think, that I should be called to the lower spheres to help!
Probably, I’m more suitable to help people on the lower spheres because I haven’t progressed very much myself! But actually, I’m very much in tune with all peoples. My mind, I trust, gives me entry even if my reputation does not! My reputation does not worry me, but it seems to worry a hell of a lot of people on your side!
More money has been made out of my reputation since my death than ever I was able to make out with my plays, which goes to say that sin is very successful.”
Betty Greene: “You always had a very open mind, didn’t you?”
“I was always ready to receive inspiration. Indeed, I might say that my most successful works were due to the fact that I had an open mind, and in consequence much was poured through it of inspiration-which was highly successful.
I feel sure that if it were not for the fact that I was high-minded, you wouldn’t have had perhaps some of the successful works that I was able to perform. But, of course, all this is a matter of dispute among many people. One man’s rat poison is another man’s meat.
So many people when on Earth were so serious that they couldn’t to fail to be utterly boring. I refuse to join such a gathering. This I do deliberately because there will always be people who will say, how do we know that this was Oscar Wilde?
And so I am expected to come back very much the same, with the sort of things that would be expected of me. For your sakes I do this because I know, poor dears, you’re struggling so desperately hard to convince. And if I can assist you to convince, then I shall be doing some good work, and it may wipe out some of my blots!”
Betty Greene” “Mr. Wilde since you been on the other side, have you learnt anything?”
“I’d be a strange person if I hadn’t learned something after being here so long. We all learn whether we like it or not. Whether we are apt pupils or not we all learn, no matter how bad the teacher.”
Betty Greene: “Can you describe your actual passing?”
“Oh, I died like everybody else. Actually, seriously, I was met by my mother.”
Woods: “And how did you find things there?”
People are the Same in the Afterlife, including in Appearance
“Well, naturally, you do can’t go to a strange country without finding it vastly different. But the extraordinary and interesting thing is, the people were the same. Situations may be different, but the people, thank God, were the same.
They still looked the same. They still are the same. And in consequence one felt at home. I’ve met many people that I had admired and many I didn’t admire and have learned to admire for different reasons.
Oscar Wilde travels to Multiple Spheres in the Spirit World
And I have traveled a great deal, went to many places, many spheres, many countries if you would like to call them such, because in a sense they are.
There are no barriers, only barriers of oneself within oneself, and one’s own mind. The barriers between human relationships and peoples are within oneself. They are man-made. One learns to discard them.
When one has been here even for a short time, one realizes very much we are all part of the other. All God’s children eventually begin to merge, although they retain their individuality and separate personality. We all begin to merge until we are harmonious and in consequence we live in a condition of peace, and quietude in harmony, where all and each can have his or her interest, such as it may be.
Some feel the urge and need to work in various ways. Others do not. I prefer to continue to write, because writing was, to a great extent, my life.
Betty Greene: “Your trial it has been enacted several times.”
“Yes, yes I know. It has been the most highly successful part of my career.”
Betty Greene: “I expect, everybody has regrets when they pass over. Do you had some regrets, perhaps something you didn’t do while you were on Earth?”
“My first regret was that I didn’t stay longer on your side! I still had desires. I still wanted to write further. I wanted to reinstate myself, and strange as it may seem, in human society. Not that I ever felt completely outside it. But I was sufficiently vain to assume that I could recapture my old place in the world. But that was such a long time ago. Since then I’ve changed”
Betty Greene: “Have you met Bernard Shaw on that side?”
“Oh, I have met Shaw. What a man! Extraordinary character.”
Nature Exists in the Afterlife, but Without Pests
Betty Greene: “What’s it like on your side. The plane you are on. Could you tell us something about that? You’ve got theaters, haven’t you? You still write plays on that side?”
“Oh, one still writes. One still continues. Our world, in some senses, as no doubt you’ve heard, is very similar to your Earth. We have all manner of scenery, which you are accustomed to, even more beautiful. As you know, nature exists here, but the more irritating aspects of nature are nonexistent to us.
For instance, we don’t have the pests, such as flies, and all the irritating things that nature concocts to annoy man. These things seem to have disappeared, fortunately. We seem to have all the beauty and loveliness of nature without all the petty irritants. No more swatting flies!”
Cities and Animals in Heaven
George Woods: “What are the buildings like on your side?”
“There are all manner of buildings, but on the sphere on which I live they are all elegant, of great beauty.”
George Woods: “Are there towns or cities?”
“Yes, you can call them cities. There are cities in which untold thousands of people live and have their habitat, but so different, and yet, in some ways, so like old. We don’t have cars, but horses we still have.
I sometimes think that animals are more advanced than humans. At least they follow their natural instincts and they are not, in consequence, considered to be doing anything wrong.”
Betty Greene: “Do you have a house yourself where you can write?”
One Creates One’s Own Dwelling in Heaven
“Yes, I do. A very beautiful house. A house after my own heart. But then again in a sense I suppose it is because I myself created it. Without even realizing it, I was creating it before I came here by my thoughts.”
Betty Green: “Have you a garden?”
“I have a garden. Not too large, but sufficient. I was never one for outdoor life. I appreciated nature, but I preferred to watch nature from a distance rather than to always be underneath her glaring light.
I must go. May God bless you.”
Stephen Fry as the Reincarnation of Oscar Wilde
Of interest, Oscar Wilde has been identified as in contemporary times as the British actor, writer and activist, Stephen Fry. Click on the image to enlarge it.
Trance Medium Kevin Ryerson and the Spirit Being Ahtun Re
A medium is an individual who has the God-given gift of being able to communicate and work with spirits. Most founders of major religions were mediums.
I have been blessed to work with Kevin Ryerson, a world-famous trance medium, who has been featured in the four of Shirley MacLaine’s books. The way that Kevin works is that he goes into a meditative state or a trance, much like sleep, and he allows spirit beings to use his vocal cords to speak to human beings. I have worked with Kevin monthly since 2001.
Kevin channels a spirit guide named Ahtun Re who has demonstrated the ability to make past life matches with a high degree of accuracy. When Ahtun Re communicates though Kevin, Kevin’s voice, accent, facial expressions and mannerisms change. Ahtun Re has an engaging sense of humor. Though Kevin is well read, Ahtun Re has an encyclopedic fund of information, which neither Kevin nor I possess.
Ahtun Re not only can control Kevin’s vocal cords, he can control Kevin’s entire body. When Kevin has led transformational travel tours to the Peruvian archaeological site of Machu Picchu, Ahtun Re would have Kevin put on a blindfold and then lead Kevin’s tour group on narrow cliff paths.
Ahtun Re has shared that he is a product of human evolution and that his last incarnation was about 3500 years ago in ancient Egypt, where he was a military general under the Pharaoh Akhenaten. Ahtun Re has related that when his family was killed by an enemy force, he renounced violence and became a priest in the temples of Egypt.
The Physical Mediumship of Daniel Dunglas Home | Uri Geller
A different kind of medium is a physical medium, who facilitates the ability of spirit people to manipulate energy and matter. One of the most famous physical mediums in history is Daniel Dunglas Home (pronounced Hume), who produced the movement and levitation of physical objects, including levitating himself.
In my work, it has been revealed that Home reincarnated as Uri Geller, who is the most famous physical medium of contemporary times. Uri is perhaps best known for spoon bending. Both Home and Geller were studied by the eminent scientists of their day. These scientists observed the movement of physical objects of Home | Geller under laboratory conditions and these scientists concluded that the phenomena that Home and Geller produced were genuine.
When I asked Ahtun Re why Home and Geller were able to produce these incredible phenomena while the vast majority of people cannot, Ahtun Re told me that it was because of the high-level energy field that the soul of Home | Geller possesses. Both Home and Geller have claimed that they had no knowledge or understanding of how the phenomena they produced occurred. Home and Geller concluded that these phenomena were orchestrated by spirit beings, though they did not know who these entities were.
The reincarnation case of Daniel Douglas Home | Uri Geller, which is supported by Uri Geller, is featured in my book Born Again.
Uri Geller: “The Hair Just Went Up on the Back of my Neck”
I am proud to share that when I telephoned Uri to inform him that through my work with Kevin, he had been identified as the reincarnation of D. D. Home, he told me: “The hair went just went up on the back of my neck.” After a couple weeks of considering the past life match, Uri accepted that he is the reincarnation of Home and Uri gave me permission to include the Home | Geller case in my Born Again book. It gives me great pleasure to be able to relate that I made the hair go up on the back of the neck of one of the world’s greatest and most famous psychic mediums.
The Physical and Direct Voice Mediumship Leslie Flint
As such, I was particularly interested when I found out about the work of Leslie Flint, who has been proclaimed as the most gifted direct voice medium in history. In contrast to a trance medium, like Kevin Ryerson, where spirits utilize the medium’s vocal cords to communicate with human beings, a direct voice medium is able to use his or her life energy to allow spirit beings to communicate in their own natural voices through an energetic device, an energetic voice box or amplifier, a device that allows spirits to speak to human beings directly.
Physical mediums generally do not work alone. They work with a group of people who are harmonized in intent and purpose who share their own life energy to augment the physical medium’s life energy. It is like a sports team that supports their star player to accomplish a goal. This group of people interested in supporting the medium meet in what are called séances or circles. They sit in a circle to help spirits communicate through the person in the circle who has the greatest gift, or energy, as a medium.
Most people who have been involved in séances or in these circles have identified themselves as Spiritualists, as they are motivated to allow the spirits of deceased people to communicate with the living. Ectoplasm is a term Spiritualists use to describe the life energy produced by a physical medium.
Danish Physical Medium Einer Nielsen Produces Ectoplasm, which is Photographed
The photograph provided to the right features the physical medium Einer Nielsen (1894-1965). The white mesh-like material around Nielsen’s neck and draped over his lap is identified as ectoplasm. Academic professors researching Nielsen are seen holding his arms to ensure that Nielson was not using a sleight of hand, or trick, to produce his phenomena. Click on the image to enlarge it.
Leslie Flint’s Childhood and the Emergence of Psychic Gifts
Leslie Flint’s development as a physical medium was not smooth. In his autobiography, Voices in the Dark: My Life as aMedium, Flint, who grew up in poverty in England during World W I, describes how he unexpectedly and naively developed his powers as a physical medium. He tells his story in an extremely humorous fashion. There are not many books that I have read that have made me laugh out loud, but this is one of them.
Let me share an experience that Flint had when he was sitting in the circle of a Spiritualist named Ms. Cook, who had reason to believe that Leslie Flint had the potential to become a world-class medium, though Flint himself found this hard to believe. Ms. Cook told her circle that she was guided by a highly advanced spirit named Shu-Shu, who was once incarnate as a very high priestess in an ancient Egyptian temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis.
After Leslie, at a height of 5 foot and 2 inches, was sitting in Ms. Cook’s circle for over a year, unexpectantly, Ms. Cook herself fell into a trance. Her spirit guide Shu-Shu then spoke through Ms. Cook and said that she would demonstrate a sacred dance ritual that she, Shu-Shu, had performed as a high priestess in ancient Egypt.
The Egyptian Spirit Guide Shu-Shu Performs a Dance through Ms. Cook
In his autobiography, Leslie Flint describes the scene:
“Ms. Cook was far from being a sylph, she was broad in the beam and her bosoms were of Earth Mother proportions.
In trance, this substantial figure rose from her chair and moved to the center of the circle where she began to dance.
She gyrated her hips and weaved her arms, the while chanting what sounded gibberish to me but was acclaimed enthusiastically by the others as ancient Egyptian. The bounteous bosoms flopped alarmingly as the dance grew more energetic, first to one side and then to the other, and the arms kept weaving like tentacles of a busy octopus.
I wanted to look away, I was embarrassed for Ms. Cook, but try as I might my eyes were glued to the spectacle.
I knew it would happen, I tried desperately to stop it, but I started to giggle, at first subdued by sheer will power to a series of choked hiccups, but as the gyrating and weaving and the flopping went on I completely lost control of myself and I laughed and laughed until the tears streamed down my face.
The more shocked and angry the other members of the circle looked, the more I laughed until at last Ms. Cook came out of her trance and with a look which withered me to ashes sat down in her chair again.
Later, when Ms. Cook saw me to the front door to bid me good night it was no surprise to me that she said, quite kindly, under the circumstances, ‘I really think, dear, you are still too young and perhaps too excitable to continue your development at present. It would be best if you didn’t come here again.’ She opened the door and I saw it was raining heavily outside…
But kind, forgiving Mrs. Cook, to soften the blow she had dealt me, put her arms around me with the obvious intention of giving me an affectionate farewell kiss. I was touched by her generosity but, reluctant to be pressed to that bounteous bosom, I stepped aside and with all the gaucherie of my 17 years trod heavily on her foot.
‘Right on my corn, you clumsy oaf!’ she cried in agony, and mumbling apologies I went out into the night in the rain…
I had made my decision. I would give up the whole business of trying to be a medium.”
Leslie Flint’s Parents Abandon Him and Young Leslie Spontaneously Experiences Clairvoyance
Leslie at 4 Years of Age with his Mother and Father
Let us start from the beginning regarding the development of Leslie Flint’s physical mediumship. Flint was born in 1911 in England. His father left the family when he was a young child and his mother, who preferred partying with male companions, left Leslie to live with her mother. As such, Leslie was raised by his maternal grandmother in conditions of poverty.
His first psychic experience occurred when he was 7 years old, during World War I. Leslie was in his grandmother’s kitchen when his aunt walked in crying, sharing that her husband Alf had been killed in the war. Leslie had never met Alf. A soldier accompanied Nell carrying Alf’s possessions. Leslie then saw a second soldier walk in who appeared very sad, who started pulling on Aunt Nell’s sleeve to get her attention, though Nell seemed to be completely unaware of this man. Suddenly, the man completely disappeared. Later, when Nell showed Leslie a photograph of Alf, Leslie recognized him as the sad soldier who was tugging at Nell’s sleeve. When Alf revealed this to Nell and his grandmother, both told Leslie that he was lying. When Leslie persisted in saying this is who he saw, his grandmother gave him a “clout” to punish him for telling untruths.
In another incident, when Leslie came home from school, he heard voices in the kitchen. One voice was that of his grandmother and the other was a woman’s voice who he did not recognize. When Leslie went into the kitchen he saw his grandmother silently sewing and standing by her side was a woman with a large mole on her chin. This woman with the mole then vanished.
When Leslie asked his grandmother what happened to the woman she was talking to, she replied that she had been all alone that afternoon and that Leslie was imagining things. When Leslie mentioned that the woman had a large mole on her chin, his grandmother clouted him again. She then revealed that the woman Leslie was describing was Ms. Pugh, who had been buried a month before. Leslie learned not to talk about vanishing people. The psychic gift of being able to see spirit people is called clairvoyance.
Leslie Flint Enjoys Praise from his Teacher, Mr. Lewis
In his autobiography, Flint admitted that he was a poor student, but one class in which he excelled in was art. His schoolmaster, Mr. Edwin Lewis, recognized Leslie’s talent and encouraged his development as an artist. Mr. Lewis had served in the trenches of World War I where he suffered a poison gas attack that caused lung injury which resulted in him to having a hacking cough for the rest of his life. When he died, Mr. Lewis was given a military funeral.
Leslie becomes a Fan of Silent Movie Star Rudolph Valentino
When Leslie was 12 years old, he found a job doing housework. With the money he earned, he and his grandmother would go to the movies, which Leslie loved. Rudolph Valentino was one of their favorite silent movie stars. In two of Valentino’s most famous movies, The Sheik and The Son of Sheik, he played the part of an Arab. A colorized photograph of Valentino in his sheik costume is provided to the right.
At age 13, when unemployment was high in post-war England, Leslie Flint was fortunate to find a regular job as a groundskeeper in a cemetery. His supervisor, Mr. Hobbs, was a very thin, elderly man who was a know-it-all who Leslie reported wagged his “boney finger” to emphasize the wisdom of his statements.
When Leslie was 15 years old, three important events happened in his life. One was the death of his hero Rudolph Valentino, who died at the age of 31 due to complications from perforated stomach ulcers.
The second incident occurred while Leslie was doing his work chores at the cemetery. Unexpectedly, he found the grave of his dear teacher, Mr. Edwin Lewis. Leslie saw that the grave was neglected, so he trimmed the plants around the headstone and placed flowers on the grave. Later that day, his supervisor was discussing Spiritualists. Mr. Hobbs dismissed Spiritualists, noting that their endeavors were a waste of time. He shared that his own wife was planning to attend a Spiritualist meeting that very night at the Quakers Friends’ Meeting Place. Hobbs told his wife: “Them Spiritualists are after your money, you silly cow!”
Leslie had heard about Spiritualists, but he never had the opportunity encounter any of them. He decided to attend the meeting that night.
At Age 15, Leslie Flint attends his First Spiritualist Meeting, Where Mr. Lewis and Rudolph Valentino sends Him Messages
Ms. Anne Johnson was a well-known trance medium who was the headliner at the gathering. Leslie sat in the back of the room near the door, so that he could quickly escape the Spiritualists if he found the proceedings bizarre.
Ms. Johnson, on the stage, appeared to have fallen asleep in her chair. Leslie was astonished when this sleeping woman stood up and started speaking in a deep male voice. Leslie wondered if Ms. Johnson was a man masquerading as a woman. In actuality, Ms. Johnson was in a trance and she was channeling a deceased man who gave a discourse on Life Eternal.
Next, Ms. Johnson came out of trance and spoke in her own, natural, pleasant feminine voice. She told a woman in the audience that her deceased husband was standing next to her and that he wanted to convey that he no longer had the terrible pain in his chest that occurred just before he passed away. Ms. Johnson gave a detailed description of this woman’s husband, which the woman indicated was accurate.
Next, Ms. Johnson pointed straight to Leslie and said: “I want to speak to the young man in the back row.” Leslie was “petrified” by this and hoped she was referring to some other young man, but looking around, he realized he was the only young man in the vicinity.
Ms. Johnson then told Leslie: “There is a man here who wants to thank you for the flowers you put on his grave this morning. He tells me he was a schoolmaster and his name was Edwin Lewis. Do you understand this? He was given a military funeral.” Ms. Johnson also gave an accurate physical description of Mr. Lewis.
Ms. Johnson then said that in addition to Mr. Lewis, there was an Arab standing next to Leslie, who, she said, was serving as a spirit guide to Leslie. She added that this spirit guide was not really an Arab, but rather someone who dressed as an Arab. Ms. Johnson revealed that this Arab fellow wanted Leslie to develop as a medium to be of service to humanity. Ms. Johnson concluded by saying: “In the not too distant future, you will be doing the same kind of work as I am doing and you will become a very famous medium.” This was the third important thing that happened when Leslie was 15 years of age.
Leslie was impressed by Ms. Johnson’s knowledge of his tending to the grave of Mr. Lewis, but he was baffled by her statement that he would become a famous medium, as he was not aware of having psychic gifts, other than the two instances when he saw vanishing people as a child. Still, he became a regular at the Spiritualists meetings. One evening, a woman, who witnessed Ms. Johnson’s proclamation that Leslie was to become a famous medium, asked what he was going to do about it. Leslie replied: “Nothing, I’m not psychic, so what can I do about it.?”
The woman responded that she hosted a circle, that is seances, at her home. She invited Leslie to join her group. This woman was Ms. Cook, who previously stated that she was guided by the exalted spirit named Shu-Shu, who was described above.
Rudolph Valentino sends a Message to Leslie through an Woman in Germany
That night, after meeting Ms. Cook, Leslie went home to find a letter addressed to him sitting on his grandmother’s kitchen mantelpiece. The letter had a German postage stamp on it. Leslie knew no one in Germany.
Reading the letter, Leslie found that it was from a woman in Munich who had been sitting in a Spiritualist circle for some years. In a recent session, the resident medium said that a spirit was present who identified himself as Rudolph Valentino. This spirit gave the woman Leslie’s name and address in England and asked her to write to Leslie to convey the message that Leslie must develop his mediumship to be of service to mankind. Leslie then realized that it must have been Rudolph Valentino who Ms. Johnson was referring to when describing the spirit who was dressed as an Arab.
Leslie reflected that how could this woman in Germany know his name and address, since he was an unknown, poor boy in post war Britain. In the end, Leslie concluded that the dead could indeed speak through mediums.
Leslie’s Spirit Helpers Upend a Heavy Table to Demonstrate Leslie’s Psychic Powers
This letter strengthened Leslie’s resolve to attend Ms. Cook’s home circle. After he arrived, the six attendees were seated around a large, heavy table. The lights were dimmed and after ten minutes a loud rap was heard from the center of the table. Ms. Cook said the rap meant that the spirits were ready to communicate. The procedure for spirit communication in this circle was done by one member of the circle going through the alphabet and the spirits would rap on the table to indicate when a letter was pronounced that they wanted to use. By doing this repetitively, the spirits could spell their messages.
One message was a question, asking the circle members if they would like to see how much greater the power of the circle had become due to Leslie’s presence. Everyone indicated that they would. Suddenly, the large, heavy table reared up and stood on one end. Leslie couldn’t believe his eyes. The spirits then communicated that they would be working with Leslie to help him develop as a direct voice medium.
Leslie Flint becomes a Famous Direct Voice Medium and is Tested by Researchers
Leslie Flint Demonstrates his Mediumship with Colored Water in his Mouth, Tape Over his Lips and Arms Held
In the end, Leslie Flint became the most famous direct voice medium of all time, giving demonstrations of his mediumship in the largest halls in England. Flint encouraged serious investigators to test his direct voice mediumship. For example, he demonstrated his mediumship with colored water in his mouth and with adhesive tape covering his lips to exclude that the voices he produced came from his own, physical vocal cords. In addition, at the same time, his arms were either tied to a chair or held by associates, to exclude that he was manipulating any type of device.
Further, an infrared telescope or sensor was used by investigators to observe Flint while he was producing the direct voice phenomenon. Infrared radiation is produced by heat or energy sources. The infrared telescope showed the energetic or ectoplasmic voice box that spirits use to communicate. It was about two feet above and slightly to the left of Leslie’s head. This corresponds to Flint’s own perception of where the ectoplasmic voice box is located during his mediumship. Click on the images of researchers testing Flint to enlarge them.
At 60 years of age, Leslie Flint reflected that after 35 years of direct voice mediumship, he still did not understand how this phenomenon occurred. Some insight was provided during a mediumship session by a spirit who identified himself as the deceased French Physiology Professor Charles Richet, who served as the President of the Society for Psychical Research in London starting in 1905. Richet stated:
“Every living being has a substance known as ectoplasm which is a life force, and a physical medium has a great deal more of it than most people. During a séance this substance, which is sometimes referred to as the ‘power’ is drawn from the medium and fashioned by spirits who understand such matters into a replica of the physical vocal organs which is known as the ‘voice box’ or sometimes the ‘mask.’ The communicating spirit then concentrates his or her thoughts into this voice box and creates a frequency or vibration which reaches the sitters on Earth as objective sound.”
Leslie Flint Demonstrates his Mediumship while Scientists Observe the Ectoplasmic Voice Box Above his Head Using an Infrared Sensor
Professor Richet also pointed out that the communicating spirit must lower his or her own frequency to the lower one of the Earth and remember what his voice sounded like during its lifetime and recapture memories of happenings which will give proof of his or her identity to the person with whom the spirit wishes to communicate. If the communicating spirit is successful, the voice will sound like the voice it had while it was living on earth.
Light Interferes with the Use of Ectoplasm, hence Voices in the Dark
Most physical mediums must be in dark room for their mediumship to manifest. For reasons that are unclear, bright light interferes with the use of the medium’s life energy or ectoplasm. Perhaps darkness allows spirit beings to more easily perceive and thus use ectoplasm. This is why Flint’s autobiography is entitled, Voices in the Dark.
First Hand Descriptions of Heaven or the Afterlife
500 tape recordings were made of Leslie Flint’s direct voice mediumship in which deceased relatives spoke to their living loved ones in their own, recognizable voices. In addition to sharing memories with their living loved ones, these spirits also described, in detail, what their life in the spirit world is like. These tapes were reviewed by Neville Randall, who compiled descriptions of the spirit realms in his book Life After Death. These accounts are the most vivid descriptions of the spirit world that I have encountered and will be shared in subsequent articles.
Rudolph Valentino as a Past Life of John Travolta
By the way, in my work with Kevin Ryerson, it has been affirmed that Rudolph Valentino has reincarnated as the actor John Travolta. To learn more, please go to:
“The proclamation of heaven has come, that the bird of the soul may rise in flight.” Rumi
Kundalini: God’s Mechanism of Redemption
I would like to start with a small, self-invented mythology, that contains a great truth. When God created the soul and sent it on its highly enriching, but agonizing journey of human incarnations, He knew that it would only be fair to equip it with some device that could enable it to salvage itself and return to Him one day. He was fully aware that the Earthly forces of gravity would overwhelm it, that the physical perils would imprint in it a deep clinging to the body and its survival instinct, and that the pleasures of the senses would ingrain in it a deep attachment to the bodily experience. He realized that He was taking a chance by sending it to the valley of endless forgetfulness called “Earth,” and that the distance separating the limited body and the infinitehood of cosmic consciousness was simply unbridgeable.
So, what could he do? In His wise mind, He envisioned a mechanism that could be implanted at the subtlest core of the human body. This would be a mechanism that could be powerful enough to overcome gravity and to disengage the soul from all mental, emotional and physical shackles. It should be able to signal to the soul that it is on the right path by imbuing it with the greatest form of unEarthly bliss. And it would be able to serve the soul as its ethereal aircraft with which it could fly all the way back to the heavens and be pulled to its original home; its true nature as infinite being.
As God was considering the options of an energetic structure that could perform such a miracle within the limited human body, one of the more creative archangels approached with the symbol of the caduceus, which one day would surface from the subconscious human mind in the form of the staff of Hermes and the symbol of medicine. It resembled the DNA strand, the inner encoding out of which all living beings were made. This structure, the angel advised God, would pull up all the Earthly energies through a single line and would spread and reactivate the soul’s wings so that it would remember it could fly.
God consented and ordered to construct this subtle body. He formed a complex net of energetic tubes with one central tube in their midst, which started at the base of the spine and culminated at the crown of the head. Within the base of this tube, He planted the seed of divine consciousness, a spark from His own mind. He knew that this spark would remain dormant as long as the soul would not be mature enough to achieve full self-awareness and to conduct the light of infinity while in the body.
With His boundless patience and love, He would wait for the moment in which the soul would awaken to the longing to return to its source. When that has happened, the spark He planted would be ignited at once and start its tireless mission to spiritualize the individual’s entire being, from dense matter into a self-revelation of one’s own hidden divinity.
Kundalini
Is this story a mere mythology? Perhaps there was no angel consulting God. Besides it is not a mythology at all. In fact, for the ripe soul that sincerely yearns for the divine, this subtle device is a living reality, which is not less tangible than the physical body and the experience of the senses. In the Yogic tradition, this device has been referred to as “Kundalini.” The experience itself, which is known to all esoteric traditions, is one and the same: the awakening of the spark of divine consciousness which gathers with it all the base energies and pushes them all the way upward, until it powerfully shatters the thin barrier that distinguishes man from infinity.
Short-term kundalini experiences can happen many times and to many people. Indeed, kundalini rises upward whenever we contemplate and meditate on spirit; whenever we are filled with spiritual longing and seek transcendence. Nevertheless, for the cosmic spark to attain complete satisfaction-and complete satisfaction can only mean that the spark has reunited with the undivided divine consciousness-a long and persistent process of increasing awakening is required, all the way to full illumination.
The Kundalini Awakening of Shai Tubali
When I was 20 years old, I experienced the initial urge for spiritual search. I did not truly understand what it was that I was seeking. It was more an intuitive attraction to the strange magic I had found in the aphorisms of Zen-Buddhism, as well as a hope to somehow overcome my social fears. My first significant step was taking a Transcendental Meditation course, in which I heard for the first time about Enlightenment as a union of the individual consciousness with the consciousness of the universe. Merely hearing that triggered an ancient pain of separation in my heart and I felt called to move toward that elusive state.
Shortly after, I traveled to India to abide in an ashram and to seek out those for whom the truth was not second-hand knowledge but a direct experience. Luckily, I encountered there my first teacher who, like me, was an Israeli. In India I learned for the first time-by reading a biography of Jiddu Krishnamurti, who had undergone an immense kundalini awakening at the age of 29-that enlightenment was not some mental insight but a profound and dramatic energetic transformation. With this understanding, extraordinary states-such as watching my body lying in bed from ceiling level and being awoken up at night to mysterious cosmic messages and energetic transmissions-began to convince me that I was entering the gates of the unknowable.
The Bliss of Kundalini Awakening
When I returned to Israel, I remained in contact with my first teacher and for two years I was constantly shifting from lonesome self-inquiry to spending time with him, and the other way around. Near the end of this period of two years, I attended a silent retreat held by one of his awakened student. As the silence grew more and more intense, I became overwhelmingly immersed in the bliss of the unified consciousness.
I would walk on my way to breakfast or to my cabin and, uncontrollably, would bump into this bubble-like, all-encompassing energy field of liberation and endless joy. My senses would withdraw, as if I became blinded to the world and capable of seeing and recognizing only this purity of oneness. This continued also after the retreat ended: Even on a busy street, I could be stopped by this mesmerizing beauty while the entire world would completely vanish into thin air. My mantra back then was the continuous sentence which seemed to run in my mind by itself: “Only consciousness is real and nothing else matters…”
These brief, yet immense awakenings were repeated more frequently by the time I joined a silent retreat of my first teacher. There, two days before my 23rd birthday, I attended my teacher’s birthday celebration. I was sitting somewhat distant, outside the circle of celebrators, and remained silent and still.
All of a sudden, I was struck by the clearest perception of what I used to consider “myself.” Looking within, there was no substantial center of identity. At that instance, I knew that the separate and individual consciousness was a mere illusion, and not even a very sophisticated one. Individual consciousness was just a bundle of memories that were artificially glued to one another in a way that they could create a phantom of psychological and continuous entity.
With this perception, kundalini awoke and began to rush throughout my spine. The dormant divine spark leaped to my third eye and the crown of my head. Kundalini broke free through the top of my head, out to the vast expanses of the cosmic mind. With great difficulty I dragged my astounded body away from the party and towards a narrow shoreline, and there kundalini graced me with a vision of my true nature.
Whatever I was looking at, was myself: the open sky, the rocks, the sea and the young men who played soccer on the beach, the universe as a whole existed solely as one, a limitless entity, and I was the universe and nothing besides. Waves of tears and laughter of recognition shook my body for some timeless long hours.
Two days later, on my birthday, I received from my teacher shaktipat, which is an energetic transmission of spiritual energy from a master. The purpose of shaktipat is to help the practitioner’s kundalini to rise.
This only deepened my already intoxicated state of self-forgetfulness. From this retreat onward, long months of tears and laughter began. A gushing universal love overwhelmed my chest, while kundalini was tirelessly emptying my being from familiar and personal feelings.
For hours on end I would sit immovable in an effortless and uninvited meditation. Holiness encompassed my small room. The divine element awoke to recognize itself, and all that was left of “me” was an awestricken witness. Nothing from what I read in books could prepare me for that; the reality of kundalini is endlessly far from mental constructs. For a full year, until the age of 24, I trod this path of indescribable silence where only truth could speak.
The Death of the Ego through Kundalini
Between the ages 24 to 26, the kundalini process, almost unbearably intense, took place. With a very young and unprepared nervous system and in the absence of sufficient guidance, this process turned into what is commonly known as a “kundalini crisis.” Put simply, for two years I felt that I was going to die. I repeatedly experienced my soul abandoning the body through the crown of my head. I went through many sleepless nights that were filled with unexplained phenomena. I experienced severe nausea and an extraordinary energetic vulnerability, in which I felt that no barrier remained to distinguish my own body from the rest of the world. Supernatural capacities came and left.
Nobody-no healer and no teacher-could grasp this process. My own teacher was dumbfounded, since he wasn’t a kundalini master. Fortunately, fate led me to meet my second teacher, a true American yogi, who generously took me under his wings. He consistently treated me with shaktipat, gave me Ayurvedic herbs and homeopathic essences, and calmly guided my exhausted being.
Being an initiate of a kundalini tradition (the Siddha Yoga tradition) himself, he finally made me conscious of this sophisticated divine device within. Through him, I also learned that even the powerful and clearly irreversible awakening that was shaking me to the root of my being was not enough. For liberation to be complete and the merging of the divine spark into the Godhead to be final, kundalini needed to remove many different types of blockages, including significant imprints from past-lives as well as the present life. Kundalini had to literally rewind the entire process of karmic becoming-to unravel deep-seated attachments, desires, angers and fears-until one’s being, from body to spirit, becomes sufficiently purified. Along the way, the evolution of my soul gradually revealed itself; the fundamental themes and lessons with which I had to meet from many lifetimes. At the same time, important learning and acquired capacities re-surfaced from my deepest past.
This process lasted, from the day of my awakening at the age of 23, onwards, for a period of ten years. By the age of 33 I could finally behold this divine mechanism fully awake within me, in ways that were as tangible as my physical reality. I could wholly and directly acknowledge the stream of subtle cosmic force throughout my spine; a stream that often felt like a gushing wild river. The correlation between this river-like flow and a complete unity consciousness and the dissolution of even the subtlest form of self, was undeniable.
When I reported this to my teacher, he surprised me by announcing that finally, my soul was approaching full liberation. In the yogic tradition, this is regarded as “Jivamukti,” which means that liberated soul exists while in a human body. I honestly could not grasp what he was talking about, but at the same time I could notice this river of eternal life surging inside me day and night, relentlessly melting away any sense of separation and individuality.
Time disappeared. Experience ceased. The thirst for life died out. There was no more personal story. My biography was interrupted like a book that ended in a middle of a sentence.
Kundalini as the Holy Spirit
Kundalini is not necessarily woken up directly and intentionally. It can awaken by itself, as a natural outcome of any expression of spiritual longing and a substantial ripening of the soul. That said, there are a variety of practices that can arouse this subtle force and lead it through our energetic spine.
Indirect kundalini awakenings can occur as a result of spending time in the presence of a true spiritual master (satsang); silent retreats and dark-room retreats as well as retreats of spiritual fasting and intense forms of self-inquiry or contemplation on spiritual truths. Direct kundalini awakenings may occur through the grace of shaktipat from a spiritual master or the practices of forest bathing (thanks to the unique kundalini-evoking power of trees) and meditative methods that work directly with this energy, such as the “Expansion Method,” which I have developed and taught for many years.
Spinal breathing-repeatedly breathing into the base of the spine, then throughout the spine and finally throughout the crown of the head-can be particularly effective. Practices that support the flow of kundalini are eating raw foods, forms of stretching like yoga postures, meditation in general, chiropractic and any other bodywork that correct and improve posture. It is strongly recommended to steer clear of any technique that attempts to force kundalini into an unnaturally quick and intense arousal.
When kundalini is aroused without coercion and within a conscious and supportive context, it is never violent or destructive. Its aim is one: creating the inconceivable-an awakened soul, which fully remembers its eternal and infinite nature while still within the confines of a limited and mortal body.
In such a state, there seems to be no difference between the hindu concepts of Shiva (the divine consciousness) and Shakti (the spark of kundalini within the individual human being)-or, as Jesus boldly declared as soon as his own kundalini was fully awakened, no real difference between the Father and the son, for the Holy Spirit, kundalini, brought them together into an eternally unbreakable oneness.
Addendum by Walter Semkiw, MD
I would like to share my own experiences with kundalini. When I was in college I had a desire to pursue meditation, though I cannot really say why. Like in Shai’s story, I took classes in Transcendental Meditation and was given a mantra to use in meditation. I did this regularly throughout my college years.
When I started medical school, I met an individual who stated that he had expertise in meditation and the awakening of kundalini. He taught me to do Chi Gong, which is a Chinese meditative practice in which one stands in a particular posture to activate kundalini. Each day, before I went to my medical school classes, I did this standing meditation for an hour. When I was doing this meditation, I would experience jolts in my spinal column. I wear glasses, and the more violent spinal jolts resulted in my glasses flying off my head and landing several feet behind me.
I did not have a significant spiritual experience until many years later. I have always had a love of music, but I do not have the fine finger coordination to play an instrument well. Instead, since I have always been a pretty good athlete, I expressed my love of music through dancing ballet. This hobby was enhanced by the fact that the majority of my fellow dance students were very fit and attractive women. My ballet career culminated in a performance with the full orchestra of the Denver Symphony. I still cherish that memory. Click on the image comparisons to enlarge them.
Years later, I became affiliated with a ballet company in San Francisco led by the choreographer Enrico Labayen. Though I was not a good enough ballet dancer to be in his troop, Enrico invited me to his dance company’s rehearsals. I loved watching talented dancers perform Enrico’s choreography. At rehearsals, I would have a book in my hand and as is my practice, I had a red felt marker or pen that I used to make notes in the books that I would read.
Enrico’s ballet company was rehearsing a dance that featured a female dancer who was lifted by male ballet dancers over their heads. The female dancer positioned her body in the shape of a cross. While I was watching this performance the red felt pen that I was holding suddenly and unexpectedly was juggled in my hands and as a result, I had to red marks on the inside aspects of both of my wrists, creating what seemed to be stigmata on my wrists. This event happened to occur on Easter Sunday in 1996.
I found this strange and baffling and when I stood up from a seated position I realized that my consciousness had been changed. I experienced complete bliss which lasted for about six weeks. I continued my work as a corporate medical director with no diminishing of function, but I was a changed person. I felt love for everything and everyone. At the time, I was going through a divorce which had become contentious, but in this state of consciousness, I wanted to do everything I could possibly do for the woman I was about to divorce. Though I was not in a financial position to do so, I even wanted to gift her the house that we had lived in.
As mentioned, this state of bliss lasted for six weeks and then it faded. I remember that at the time I was disappointed that this state of consciousness had disappeared and I wished that it would have lasted forever.
I believe this experience was prompted by my engagement in researching a past life of my own, in which Enrico Labayen was my son in a past lifetime during the period of the American Revolution. Further, a number of the dancers in Enrico’s company I determined were my relatives in that lifetime. This story is presented in detail in my book, Return of the Revolutionaries: The Case for Reincarnation and Soul Groups Reunited.
A brief overview of this past lifetime of mine is presented on the following page:
Temporary versus Permanent Results of Kundalini Awakening
As Shai Tubali described above, I believe that I had a manifestation of kundalini awakening. When I became acquainted with Shai, I wondered if his experience with kundalini was temporary or permanent. He replied with this statement:
“As a spiritual teacher, it is a part of my integrity to teach only that which is based on the permanent effects of the kundalini awakening. What started 19 years ago has only increased and deepened with time. The permanent effect is a continuous state of self-dissolution and an absorption in universal consciousness. This means that there is no experience as an independent ego, since the mind, heart and body function as a part of the whole. My self-identity is: “I am the universe”.
As such, I believe I had a temporary kundalini awakening which lasted six weeks. In contrast, Shai’s kundalini experience has been much more intense and has resulted in a permanent, rather than a temporary, change in consciousness.
Shai Tubali is the author of numerous books and he is a spiritual teacher based in Berlin, Germany. To learn more about Shai’s work, please go to:
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