Baggage From The Past

About the Book

This is the story of charles candy a mislabelled ‘prodigy’ who suffers the agonies of rejction for being tagged ‘different’ but is saved by the loving intervention of an angel incarnate. Later, on getting lost he finds himself and abandons the security of his well planned life to experience the ups and downs of the real world, alone. Along the way he is helped by a variety of souls both living and dead, each on their own unique journey to find meaning in the spiritual wasterland of modern society and reconnect with love and life. He encounters the bliss of heaven and the heat of hell, life death and resurection but is saved from the abyss by the mediation of a compassionate doctor who finally persuades him that in order to be free of all that holds him back spiritually he must return and relive it. Due to the brutal conditions prevelant on earth many fall by the wayside, overpowerd by the daily struggle to survive while others end it by their own hand, yet despite the dispair a new light dawning as humanity, no longer satisfied with the distractions of bread and circuses and crass materialism, searchs for a more spiritually fulfilling existance, seek and ye shall find.

About the Author

Born in Scotland from his earliest days he has been the consummate observer witness and recorder of all that happened to him and around him. In his teens, while dabbling with yoga he had an out of body experience which was so scary it put an end to to any further interest in the subject but later, another spontaneous repeat rekindled his interest sparking a life long fascination with what is commonly called the 'occult ' then when a friend was murdered he went looking for answers and found them at the Spiritualist church where he received irrefutable proof of the continuance of life after death by very down to earth mediums. Taking up Kendo, primarily to lose weight, he soon became such an enthusiast that he decided to go to Japan for three years where, during Kendo practice he experienced states of altered consciousness that would have been ridiculed in the west but were openly accepted in the east, it was also in Japan that some very vivid prophetic dreams he'd experienced years before became reality. When he met his wife Hideko, an experienced yoga practitioner, she was able to explain and clarify the various stages of altered consciousness which are the natural effects of the different stages of meditation. Five minutes experience is better than a lifetime of academic or philosophical ponderings and from the years of cumulative study and actual experience he has come to 'know' without a doubt we are not in our essence human beings but immortal spiritual beings who inhabit a human body for a certain period of time in order to experience physical reality.