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About the Authors

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Dick Sutphen is called “America's foremost psychic researcher” by Simon & Schuster Pocket Books, and “America's leading past-life therapist” by the Mind Body Spirit Festivals in London, England, and Sydney, Australia. In addition to writing the million-copy best-seller You Were Borni Again to Be Together, he has authored 19 additional metaphysical books—seven for Pocket Books—and three multi-CD albums for Nightingale Conant.

Dick is primarily known for his books and seminars on reincarnation and mind programming. Through his Valley of the Sun Publishing, he created the first hypnosis tapes in 1976. Today there are more than 300 Sutphen self-help and metaphysical CDs in worldwide release.

Since 1976, more than 175,000 people have attended a Sutphen seminar, retreat, or expo workshop. Dick and his wife, Tara, appear regularly at the Mind Body Spirit Fes^^ in London, England, and Sydney, Australia, and at dozens of New Age expos and fes^^ in the United States. He's often a featured speaker at professional hypnotist conventions.

The Sutphens live with their children, dogs, cats, and horses in Malibu, California. For more information, write Dick at Box 38, Malibu, 90265 or visit www.dicksutphen.coin.

Tara Sutphen is the author of Blame It on Your Past Lives and three series of audio CDs, which include guided meditations and mind programming. She has written many articles about the psychic sciences for national women's magazines such as American Woman and Women's Own. Tara is a talented psychic and specialist in the psychic sciences, including automatic writing, palmistry, and esoteric astrology.

Tara's meditation CDs are among the most popular in the Valley of the Sun line. “Destiny of Peace,” a video meditation, was her personal response to the Iraq War. She recently interviewed Native American shamans in Montana and Utah for a forthcoming video to be titled “Whispers on the Wind.”

Tara has often used automatic writing to assist her husband in his research, as is evidenced in Dick's books Earthly Purpose (Pocket Books) and With Your Spirit Guide's Help (Valley of the Sun). Her “Cause & Effect” column is a regular feature in Soaring Spirit magazine and on the couple's website.

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Northumberland Dreaming
A Past Life Remembered
Mary Rhees Mercker

High drama from an exciting era in English history, this is the past-life biography of a Crusader knight who fought under Richard Lionheart in the Holy Land, and later witnessed the signing of the Magna Carta.

Paperback • 424 pages
ISBN 1-57174-086-4 • $14.95

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Under the Inquisition
Linda Tarazi, Ph.D.
Foreword by Jess Stearn

When a therapy patient undergoes regression therapy, her detailed description of life in Spain during the. Inquisition becomes one of the most vivid and historically accurate past-life accounts on record.

Paperback • 680 pages
1-57174-058-9 • $14.95

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Dear Companion
The Inner Life of Martha Jefferson
Kelly Joyce Neff

Relive the early days of American life as Neff recalls her past life as Thomas Jefferson's wife Martha; complete with her recollections of their days at their Virginia home, Monticello.

Paperback • 632 pages
ISBN 1-57174-075 • $14.95

The Red Snake trilogy

By George McMullen

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Red Snake

Red Snake is a seventeenth-century Huron Indian with whom psychic McMullen converses. Walk with him as he hunts, fights his tribe's enemies, and courts his wife. This is a fascinating portrait of a now-vanished culture before the coming of the Europeans.

Paperback • 160 pages
ISBN 1-878901-58-3 • $9.95

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Running Bear

Grandson of Red Snake

McMullen's trilogy continues with a still thriving Native American culture. As we watch through Running Bear's eyes, however, the Europeans are largely supplanting that culture, starting a cycle of devastation we're still feeling the effects of today.

Paperback • 168 pages
ISBN 1-57174-037-6 • $10.95

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Two Faces

Walking in Two Worlds

Two Faces, a half-breed, is raised by his Huron family before going out into the white man's world of the early 1700s. Combining a native's feel for the land with a white man's mentality, Two Faces adapts to his new world and forges a life for himself.

Paperback • 232 pages
ISBN 1-57174-071-6 • $11.95

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Born Many Times
George McMullen

Psychic McMullen brings the spirit of a Native American shaman to life, weaving a fascinating tale of his journey through a multitude of lives. Share in his journey through Atlantis to Ancient Egypt and beyond.

Paperback • 224 pages
ISBN 1-57174-131-3 • $12.95

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Return of the Revolutinaries

The Case for Reincarnation
and Soul (Groups Reunited
Walter Semkiw, M.D.

Presenting evidence that facial structure, personalities, and peer groups stay the same lifetime after lifetime, Semkiw shows how America's revolutionary heroes are reemerging today as the force behind America's spiritual rebirth. Semkiw even includes hundreds of startling photos and clues to tracking your own past lives.

Paperback • 464 pages
ISBN 1-57174-342-1 • $16.95

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Tantra of Sound

How to Enhance Intimacy with Sound
Jonathan Goldman and Andi Goldman

Celebrated musicianjonathan Goldman teams with his wife, Andi, a holistic psychotherapist, to create an innovative approach to developing self-awareness. The result is a first-of-its-kind book that introduces the healing power of sound to the realm of intimate relationships and personal growth.

Paperback with Bonus Audio CD • 208 pages
ISBN 1-57174-432-0 • $15.95

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Naked Relationships

Sharing Your Authentic Self to Find the Partner of Your Dreams
Jan Denise

A newspaper columnist dispensing self-help and relationship advice gives you the keys to ending the cycle of bad relationships by focusing on the most important relationship of all: your love and full acceptance of yourself.

Paperback • 160 pages
ISBN 1-57174-306-5 • $12.95

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Tune into Love

Attract Romance through the Power of Vibrational Matching
Margaret McCraw Foreword by Alan Cohen

Using Vibrational Matching in her counseling practice, McCraw helps singles and couples find and maintain the relationship they desire. You will learn how to attract the partner of your dreams, and how to keep that relationship strong, loving, and vital.

Paperback • 256 pages
ISBN 1-57174-430-4 • $14.95

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Linda Goodman's Star Cards

A Divination Set Inspired by the Astrological and Numerological Teachings of Linda Goodman
Compiled and written by Crystal Bush Illustrated by Frank Riccio

Compiled by Goodman's trusted friend and former business partner, this beautiful set represents a completely new divination system that stays true to the Goodman ethic of making cosmic concepts easy for anyone to grasp and use for daily guidance. Consult the cards anytime for answers to your most pressing questions on love, work, and life.

Set includes: 33 full-color cards, 96-page hardcover book
ISBN 1-57174-185-2 • $24.95

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A Changed New York Skyline

“Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.”

—Napoleon Bonaparte

Explorations of destiny are often part of the seminars and workshops Tara and I conduct around the world. “A changed New York skyline” was the primary millennium vision perceived by the participants in the “New Day Seminar”—conducted in six California cities in 1997 and a five-day seminar in Missoula, Montana, April 1998. One hundred forty attendees at the Los Angeles Whole Life Expo workshop, November 1997, also reported their visions, in addition to those who participated in the January 1998 “Millennium Projection Research Project.” (For a nominal fee, readers of our newsletter were sent a Hypnotic Progression tape, which instructed them to psychically perceive the future.)

I believe we view the future clairvoyantly by stepping outside of time and space, or by tapping into the collective unconscious and perceiving how present potentials are destined to manifest. In seminars, I have also directed participants to perceive the future with remote viewing techniques, but even the most renowned remote viewers now use the words clairvoyant and remote viewing interchangeably.

In the seminars, workshops, and research project, the hypnotized subjects mentally projected forward to New York City in time increments from 2000 to 2012. In each jump forward in time, they were to explore New York, then scan the rest of the world, before returning to explore conditions in the area in which they each lived. Each participant then filled out a report about the future they envisioned. The results of these explorations were reported in Soaring Spirit magazine #70, September 1998.

Several hundred people participated, and the predominant psychic observation was a changed New York skyline. A typical response was, “I see the Manhattan skyline changed. Part of the island is no longer there because of terrorist attacks and explosions.” At least 10 percent of the respondents reported terrorism to come. Several people reported specifically on “Muslim terrorist attacks.” Others talked about people walking through the streets of the city in snow that wasn't cold. This seems to be a clear reference to the ashes.

Was the attack on the World Trade Center a fated event?

Michael Drosnin, author of The Bible Code and Bible Code II: The Countdown, thinks so. Renowned Israeli mathematician Dr. Eliyahu Rips broke a code in the earliest edition of the Hebrew Bible and presented his work in a major science journal. The code, dating back 3,000 years, was confirmed by mathematicians around the world, including a senior code-breaker at the top secret U.S. National Security Agency. Upon hearing about the code, Drosnin, a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, began a five-year investigation. The code predicted both Kennedy assassinations, the Oklahoma City bombing, the moon landing, and everything from World War II to Watergate, and from the Holocaust to Hiroshima.

Drosnin discovered that the Bible code even predicted the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. He personally warned the prime minister of the conditions surrounding the slaying. The warning was disregarded, and the assassination happened, as predicted, when predicted.

On September 11, 2001, Drosnin was awakened by the sound of the first jumbo jet exploding into the World Trade Center. He ran up to the roof of his Lower Manhattan apartment building just in time to see the second plane fly into the second tower. He watched as the towers collapsed. “My mind could not take in the scale of the destruction my eyes had seen. It was on a scale only captured in biblical prophecy.

“I ran down from the roof and immediately searched the ancient code on my computer, the Bible code. It was the one place I might find confirmation of the full danger and a revelation of what was yet to come.”

Drosnin quickly found that “twin towers” was encoded by the word “airplane.” Crossing those words in the text was the message, “It caused to fall, knocked down.” These were coded words from 3,000 years before. The author discovered other related encryption including, “Sin, crime of Bin Laden,” “They saw smoke rising above the land like the smoke of a furnace,” “Terrorist Atta,” and “Egyptian man.”

Mohammed Atta was the pilot of the first plane to hit the towers.

Moving from fact to fiction, in his book Illusions, Richard Bach talks about life as a movie. Reluctant Messiah Donald Shimoda says, “…the world's best movie is still an illusion, is it not? The pictures aren't even moving, they only appear to move.” A movie is like a lifetime, but Richard wonders why anyone would attend a horror film. Shimoda explains that those attending feel they deserve to be horrified—to be unhappy.

“You can hold a reel of film in your hands, and it's all finished and complete—beginning, middle, end are all there that same second, the same millionths of a second. The film exists beyond the time that it records, and if you know what the movie is, you know generally what's going to happen before you walk into the theater; there's going to be battles and excitement, winners and losers, romance, disaster; you know that's all going to be there. But in order to get caught up and swept away in it, in order to enjoy it to its most, you have to put it in a projector and let it go through the lens minute by minute…any illusion requires space and time to be experienced. So you pay your nickel and you get your ticket and you settle down and forget what's going on outside the theater and the movie begins for you.”

Maybe we're all watching a movie that was written, produced, directed, and filmed a long time ago. Maybe in the instant our source created the spark that created the universe, everything was destined to be.

Maybe.

When Einstein came up with the equation E=mc², he informed the world that matter is energy. The scientific community quickly verified his findings. This means that all the metal, plastic, and wood surrounding you is not solid. What appears solid is actually made up of swirling molecules temporarily molded in their current patterns and vibrating at the rates of metal, plastic, and wood.

Everything on Earth, including the Earth itself, breaks down into subatomic particles, which means matter is energy. Our world and everything in it is not what it appears to be. Nothing is solid. Everything is energy. Your body is energy…and energy is nonphysical in nature.

Cutting-edge physicists are now saying our reality appears to be more like a “thought form” than anything else. This fact does not surprise the mystics who always said we live in a world of illusion.

Here we are vibrating within a particular range. Imagine a radio dial. We're at 99.5 but there may be another reality at 101.2 and another at 103.6. Think of how many audio programs are flowing through your room right now. With a radio, you can listen to one after another. Einstein and many other scientists believe different realities coexist in the same space on different frequencies, just as the different stations play in the same space at the same time.

In the early 1970s, I studied informally with Navajo shaman David Paladin. David was an acclaimed artist and a student of all things mystical. He said that depending upon the circumstances, we can exist in more than one frequency at one time. “I died last night,” he once told me. “I had a heart attack in another reality, and Lynda and the children are mourning me. But I'm still here interacting with them in this reality.”

Maybe the World Trade Center is still standing in another frequency of time and space? Maybe the people who died in the airplanes crashed by terrorists are still alive in another reality?

The idea of a group of people being drawn together for a rendezvous with death captivated me as a teenager upon reading a 1957 book titled Many Wonderful Things by Robert W. Huffman and Irene Specht. The book described a series of hypnotic experiments carried out over a period of two years. The authors felt they had uncovered evidence that man has a “third” mind—a God mind—a part of God within the self. Much of the book consists of questions asked of a deeply hypnotized subject who responds with enlightened answers.

When asked if an airline crash is destined, the subject says, “The passengers have created this situation, this learning, this understanding, through their own learning and mistakes. But we make death a horror, a fear, a punishment…no, no! It is a true and joyous release…and resting time.”

The hypnotized subject goes on to explain, “They [the passengers] would be drawn together to learn together. But God does not predetermine these things. We have done so by our mistakes, our errors, our learning.”

If this is so, were the events, mistakes, or learning requirements that caused people to board the September 11 airplanes actually set in motion thousands of years ago?

Fate is a destiny created by oneself, which is inevitable and unavoidable, due to one's own karma. Karma is the principle that makes you the cause of all your life circumstances, resulting from your past activities, thoughts, and emotions throughout all your incarnations.

In looking at karma, Dharma, and destiny, Mahatma Gandhi used the analogy of a card game. Your karma is the hand of cards you're dealt. Your Dharma is how you play the cards. Dharma is commonly considered to be your duty to self and to society. One set of cards appears to be luckier than another set. This would be determined by the karma the person has earned and wants to work on.

A common view of predestination says the river of life is carrying us in a particular direction. We can swim over to the left bank, or to the right, or we can catch the swifter current in the middle of the river. We can even decide to fight the flow and swim back upstream for awhile. But eventually, we're going to end up in the sea.

Another view states that the free will of today is the determinism of tomorrow. Let's say you go to the airport and hundreds of destinations are available to you. You have the free will to choose where you want to go. Once you decide on Los Angeles, buy your ticket, and board the plane, you'll end up in Los Angeles. You'll then have to accept the consequences of your decision.

More than one astrologer has told me, “We live our lives day to day as if we had choices. We choose to do this or do that, while all the time, the outcome has already been determined. Fate will intervene to assure we end up where we are destined to be, doing what we're destined to be doing, with whom we're destined to be with.”

And the purpose of reincarnating over and over again, playing this game of life over and over again, is to attain a higher state of consciousness. With that goal in mind, I will share the story of a reporter who once asked Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, “How does the world look in the highest state of consciousness?”

“You see that everything is exactly as it should be,” said Maharishi.

The reporter hesitated before asking, “But why then are you working so hard to improve the situation?”

Maharishi smiled. “Because that is exactly as it should be.”