Far Memory
About This Book
During the last twenty years, seven books of mine have been published as historical novels which to me are biographies of previous lives I have known. Far Memory is the autobiography of my ¬rst thirty years in the twentieth century. From early childhood, often to my extreme discomfort, I was sometimes aware beyond the usual range of the ¬ve senses. I tried to ignore the implications of this awareness, but it was too insistent; so in an attempt to understand what was happening I laboriously trained the faculty of far memory. This book describes, among other things, how I did so and what happened to me as the result. "Twenty years ago a book was published that electrified the world, a story set in ancient Egypt, entitled Winged Pharaoh. It was written by a young woman called Joan Grant. Now a book is published, Far Memory, which is Joan Grant's autobiography. It tells how Winged Pharaoh came to be written. It is the most touching, most amusing, most astonishing real life story I have ever read." - Nancy Spain, London Daily Express
What You'll Learn
• Understand how Joan Grant's 'far memory' faculty operated: the conditions that activated it, the quality of the memories it produced, and how it differed from ordinary imagination or the constructs of historical research
• Grasp the relationship between her past-life memories and her historical novels: why works like Winged Pharaoh contain not merely vivid detail but emotional truth and energetic quality that suggests genuine experiential rather than academic origin
• Recognise the psychological challenges of sustained multi-dimensional awareness: how the co-existence of multiple levels of reality within a single consciousness creates both gifts and difficulties in ordinary life
• Learn Grant's understanding of what she called 'emotional memory' — the way past-life experiences leave not just cognitive but somatic and emotional traces in subsequent incarnations — and its implications for understanding present-life responses
• Appreciate the portrait of a genuine psychic's life: the hard-won self-understanding, the social costs, the relationships shaped by the gift, and the ultimate orientation toward using the faculty in service to others
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