Turning Past-Life Memories Into Novels

I have had many clients whose past-life memories are so rich with visual  detail, coupled with a compelling story, that they could easily be mistaken for a plot in an intriguing historic novel. Some have indicated to me that they intended to research their past lives further and then write what they will claim is historic fiction. And indeed, that has happened. Even I did that– although I never published it.

There is precedence for this among famous writers. Joan Grant was one such writer that I was drawn to when I first began to seriously look into my past lives. Joan, who passed in 1989, was an English writer of historical novels and an avowed reincarnationist. Her first and most famous novel, Winged Pharoah, was published in 1937 While the book was acclaimed by The New York Times as “A book of the idealism, deep compassion and spiritual quality pure and bright as flame,” what few understood at the time was that book was anything but fiction. Joan claimed to have recalled the events she wrote about in the book while in a trance-like state, dictating the details of a lifetime she believed she had lived. This book was followed by many other “historical fantasies” or as Joan called them, “Far Memory books” or “previous life autobiographies.”