When We Were Gods

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Fantastic! - Rated
When We Were Gods: Insights on Atlantis, Past Lives, Angelic Beings of Light, and Spiritual Awakening chronicles the remarkable spiritual journey taken by author Carole Chapman. The journey is initiated by Chapman's decision to live life according to God's will instead of her own. It is a lesson in the importance of humility.

By turning her will to work for the betterment of mankind, she is given a gift to share with the rest of humanity. After marrying the man she first met in a dream, an excessive weight gain caused by a miscarriage prompts Chapman to seek the help of renown hypnotherapist Lynn Sparrow. It is through these hypnotherapy sessions that Chapman discovers remarkable information about the human soul.

She learns our origin, why suffering and death is necessary for the development of our eternal soul, and what the next step will be in our soul's journey.

Carole Chapman offers hope, going beyond the simple doomsayer's description of the future. She sees that the earth changes, or earth cleansing, predicted by so many cultures is merely the path we must follow in order to welcome in the new world.

She not only gives us information from her hypnosis sessions but seeks confirmation of that information in the legends and visuals of many cultures. She even travels to the Yucatan, finding verification among the many Mayan sculptures and carvings.

This book is a joy to read. Chapman successfully paints us a picture with her words. This book is an example of how truth can be stranger and more fantastic than fiction.

An excerpt of the first chapter is available on Chapman's web site at carolechapman.

A reader in B.C.

Hypnotic Experiences - Rated
Imagine that you've just lost a baby . . . but your body still thinks you are pregnant. The weight just piles onto your tiny frame. Doctors are no help. In frustration, you try a hypno-therapist who is good at helping reverse weight gains.

Sounds pretty stressful, huh?

But that's just the beginning. During your hypnosis, you begin having memories of past lives, different beings and an unexpectedly positive future. You tell your husband, and he begins to wonder if you're all there. Fortunately, your daughters listen.

That's the backdrop for Carole Chapman's fascinating personal story of how she went to lose weight and ended up being directed by spiritual beings to write this book.

Ms. Chapman is a good storyteller. In the course of the book, she takes turns poking fun at her own experiences, describing her husband's comments about her fiction book that she thinks is non-fiction, sharing coincidences that she finds with material from other sources, and speculating about what it all means.

I remember reading about those who recalled former lives during hypnosis when I was a youngster in the 1950s. Bridey Murphy is the person I remember best. Whatever was happening with the woman who recalled Bridey Murphy, it was clear that she was experiencing something pretty gripping during hypnosis.

Ms. Chapman's book makes it equally convincing that she is sincere in describing her experiences. It's that sincerity that draws you into the narrative.

Ms. Chapman's past and future worlds are pretty impressive in their span. She meets Jesus, Michael and Gabriel. She remembers herself in three different life forms and sees a fifth that is coming. Her relationship with her husband actually spans living in different life forms. She has lived in and can explain a lot about Atlantis. Ms. Chapman also describes new forms of power used to rematerialize stone to build the pyramids like a transporter on Star Trek, what's missing from Einstein's Unified Field theory, rapid travel through flying snakes and how humans are about to evolve into more spiritual beings more closely related to their origin as light.

Whether or not you find her experiences to be ones that you believe have happened and her visions ones that will happen . . . or you just enjoy the story as a story, I think you'll find this book to be an entertaining read.

I enjoyed the parts where she is most skeptical of herself. It's a hard thing to do while relating one's own experiences, but she carries it off well.