Comments on: Review: Journey Of Souls By Michael Newton

By: How Not To Find Your Soulmate | Real Life Spirituality

How Not To Find Your Soulmate | Real Life Spirituality — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:26:07 +0000

[...] like to call “soul friends”. Dr Michael Newton calls them “soul cluster groups” in Journey of Souls. These souls know each other, may have some agreements, but not a binding contracts like soulmate [...]

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:34:30 +0000

Thank you Lesley, I will certainly seek out the books you mention. After many years of looking, and not finding, anyone who had the remotest idea of what I was talking about – and that includes the Spiritualist Association of Great Britain (!) – I am very glad to have discovered that you are all out there. My best wishes to you all.

By: Lesley

Lesley — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:43:42 +0000

Dear Jan,
May I recommend a book that might help you to bridge the gap between what you saw in your teens and what Michael Newton PhD has written in his? The book is called ” Life after Death” by Neville Randall. Corgi Press.
It was published in 1975, and to our modern views – the methods used to obtain the tapes that make up the book, might seem antiquated, however the content speaks volumes in it’s own humble way.
The lady called Rose who comes through and speaks from time to time, gradually comes to realise why it’s important to “move forward” when she is fully ready to. Other notable characters who come through to speak include Oscar Wilde and Lionel Barrymore. There are many plain simple folk who come through – all telling their story in their own way.
I would be remiss if I did not suggest that you read Dr Brian L. Weiss’ “Many Lives-Many Master”. He explains soul groups and their role in our re-incarnating lives. He has a gentle manner and speaks his truths quietly and yet maintains an optimism that stays with you long after you’ve read his books. He too, uses regression on his patients (He is a qualified psychiatrist – but does not feel the need to make himself seem self important). He is, in effect a Doctor of Medicine, usually with a Bachelor of Science, who has gone on to do further extensive training. He can prescribe drugs. It takes about 13 years to become a psychiatrist.
Michael Newton is a psychologist who has a Doctorate in Philosophy. For some reason he continually refers to himself throughout his books as Dr Newton. He is perfectly entitled to…but I feel that by doing do – he is trying to give the illusion that he is of greater importance than he is. It takes about 5 years to become a psychologist.
But I digress…. I really hope that you can locate this book, Jan – it’s a little gem!

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:28:37 +0000

Hello, from England. I was pleased to come across your discussion of Journey of Souls. I am now nearly 60 but many years ago, in my teens, I was woken in the night by a presence I could not see and was told that I was to be shown something. A small screen materialized before me, then a landscape appeared on it and I was taken into it and given a message – I am happy to elaborate on this if anyone is interested.

For decades afterwards I felt perplexed by this experience and largely put it to the back of my mind until the 1990′s when I bought an old book in a village sale. It was called Spirit Intercourse by J. Hewat McKenzie and was first published in 1916 in London. Flicking through it I suddenly came across a picture of a valley such as I was shown that night in the 1960′s, not identical but with many similar features.

I pored over this book for weeks – McKenzie claimed to have travelled through the ‘spiritual realms’ and wrote in some detail about the different levels of existence. What stunned me, however, was that he spoke of scenes projected upon an astral screen. This was the first mention of such an object that I had ever come across and I began to realise that there were other people out there who had also seen such things, many of them decades before myself.

And then, last year, I bought Michael Newton’s two books ( Journey of souls and Destiny of Souls ) and the world, for me, changed for ever. I struggled with some concepts – for example, in the glimpse of the afterlife I saw there was a definite landscape with earthly contours and I initially felt very alienated from Michael’s description of twinkling lights of energy moving through a vast space, linking up with clusters of souls but I assume that I will feel at home there when I finally leave this earth.

I want to say to anyone such as Anthony who, naturally and sensibly, has doubts about all this that I am a very down-to-earth person, a mother and grandmother and that I worked for some years in the mental health field. I have seen many manifestations, bizarre and otherwise, of the human mind and I have no intention of letting anyone ‘pull the wool over my eyes’. I only really believe what I personally know to be true through experience and, however strange Michael’s books may seem to some readers they speak of a reality that, for me, is now an inescapable truth.

By: akemi

akemi — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:16:32 +0000

Thomas,

I think what you are trying to say is that you have an inner knowing that this life is not the first time and the death of this life is not the end all. We all have this innate knowing — if only we are willing to listen! I’m glad you are listening and this book worked as a reminder.

Lesley,

Interesting. I agree with many points you make. There is such an energetic difference between Brian Weiss and Michael Newton. I’ve wondered why no one seem to point it out. Thank you.